Cultural misunderstanding
April 17, 2016
7:34 pm
Man, my computer crashed on me when I was almost done with this one and I found I hadn’t saved since like the first 15 minutes of working on it so boo, had to keep this simple to get it out with this ridiculous weekend.
Anyway, yeah, I just like Ganondorf’s “BEHOLD! THE POWER OF A GERUDO WARRIOR” taunt in Hyrule Warriors, because when you think about it, he’s not saying “Behold the power of me, Ganondorf” (he has another taunt like that anyway). It’s some home town pride, he’s basically saying “Hahahaha I fight like a girl and I’m gonna fuck you up!” And that’s delightful.
I have to admit, I had never before considered the kind of ingrained cultural idioms Ganondorf would have.
He definitely has no idea what a urinal is. On the flip side, it took me 27 years to discover the hair iron. “Where has this been all my life?”
22 years to figure out that a basic skin creme will help with the RIDICULOUS ekzema I get around my nose.
“I can rub around my nose now! There is a god! And his name is Awesome, the Mighty!”
I had good skin up until I was 19 or 20. The occasional zit, but I didn’t need to give it any special attention. Suddenly, it was like my nose had contracted a flaky brand of leprosy, and my fiance was like “how do you not know to moisturize?”
You guys might want to check if you have the same fungus problem me and my brother have, we gotta use a medicinal shampoo once or twice per week to avoid facial skin issues. Moisturizing helps but not as much as using both.
Firstly… dammit you are a machine and I am still very impressed with your work ethic…
Secondly is that Little Mac fighting Franz Rayner? Apologies for my awful grasp of pop culture.
It could be Super Macho Man, and that would be super appropriate for the idiom in question.
As lineart, I’m seeing Sten as the opponent for whatever reason…
I assumed Sten at first glance too, but his hair’s too loose, and I don’t recall Coela drawing him with quite that much chin.
we’ll know if thats Little Mac when the colorings done. (GREEEEEEN)
Yes.
Wait, is that Little Mac in the last panel? The other guy is definitely Super Macho Man.
He ain’t so little, anymore.
Definitely a Big Mac. Or Le Big Mac, in France.
Maybe he is finally fighting in his own weight class.
Little Mac from Wii Punch Out.
Also Super Smash Brothers, now.
Yeah, fight like a women! Now tear his throat out and mount his head on a wall as a warning to all his kin!
Well… having A LOT of sisters may have a small effect on you…
Not just sisters but warrior sisters.
well they are his underlings since he’s the king of thieves
To be fair, I’ve seen women fight and it’s some nasty shit. I’ve seen them do things that guys would never try to do in a fair fight.
That’s because us guys still have a (admittedly very culturally-ingrained) sense of ‘honor’ or ‘warrior pride’ during a fight. Women don’t have that. They have “I’m gonna fuck you up so badly you won’t even THINK of touching my family again.”
Women have 4 settings for fighting. “Full Stop” (nothing), “Catty Remarks” (obvious), “Starting a Fight” (dude, this is your one and only warning), and “Murderbeast” (which covers anything beyond ‘starting a fight’, because nobody is brave enough to take better measurements).
I’ve personally only witnessed up to the ‘catty’ stage. I don’t wanna see the next two.
(And for those who can’t tell, this is meant rather tongue-in-cheek.)
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BloodUpgrade
There is a paragraph in here which briefly discusses male vs female “fighting settings”, though they do comment it is only SOMEWHAT Truth in Television.
Those settings only apply to those 5’4″ and above.
The small ones? Forget full stops and warnings. You hit the fight trigger? We go straight into a berserker rage, blast your shins, and start face ripping.
Um. In . . . in theory.
lol this is beyond true
It seems like, as a broad generalization, more women than men recognize ‘fair fight’ as meaning ‘I win.’ If my side walks away with everyone still standing, the fight was ‘fair.’
This is amazing <3 I hadn't even thought of it this way but it makes sense….
Ganondorf. Evil sorcerer, but still a gentlemen.
Gotta ask, what does he do in the MGDMT universe? I’m picturing him as a used car salesman, for some reason.
He’s a television infomercial marketer. Obviously.
“Behold the power of the Eastinghouse machine clothes washer! Complete with triple phase induction motor, cutting edge detergent integrating technology, and for a limited time price of only $1339.99!!! That’s 20% off; and if you call within the next three hours, we’ll provide you with free one month worth of Eastinghouse marketed hospital grade detergent…”
Continue for another hour and chuck some manly grunts in.
He seems like he would be involved in local politics somehow. But maybe that’s because politics where I live is corrupt as hell.
There are places where politics aren’t corrupt as Hell?
Hell, oddly enough. No money in politics down there.
Plenty of Soul, though.
And fire. No shortage of fire.
Some locales are more corrupt and grifty than others, even within the US, yes.
I think he’s a businessman – someone who has managed to successfully integrate himself into society despite his background and past… Link has yet to do so.
I wonder if he’s reformed in the sense that he’s a “Good Guy” now, or if corporate villainy called to him.
The impression I get is that he’s tired of the whole run around and limits his “evil” to trolling Link every once in a while
I feel he’s adapted into the “and believe it or not, it was completely legal! Ha!” brand of corporate villainy.
Ever seen ‘There Will Be Brawl’?
He has a speech about how despite the efforts of people like him to defeat Hyrule, in the end it was bureaucracy, pencil-pushers that brought it low.
Omigosh I need to rewatch that sometime!
Such spectacle! Such feels!
Also, TwbB Ganondorf was… really attractive ^.^
Ganondorf in the games only enjoys two things: power, in as much quantity as can be amassed, and watching people squirm and suffer.
Corporate boss seems about right.
Except in Wind Waker, which is probably Ganondorf’s last incarnation before he comes back as Kelly’s Ganondorf.
Seriously, Wind Waker Ganondorf is the best Ganondorf. It’s like they decided to bother to give him a personality outside of Super-Evil Warlord Guy just for a change of pace.
I wanted to just hug Wind Waker Ganondorf and tell him it would all be okay.
I stabbed him in the face instead. I think the message got through.
To be fair, he is still the rightful king of the Gerudo. It’s possible he’s with the agency for diplomatic reasons, or is under asylum as a deposed head of state. Which does make his tense relationship with Link, his probable deposer (deposalist? Guy who deposes?) all the funnier.
Depo Man.
c:/> slow_clap.exe
Given that he works at the MGDMT agency, I’d guess he’s a temp. Though he seems to be among the most rehabilitated(?) of the people who work there, as he’s the only one I’ve seen in a suit.
One of my uncles had 3 older sisters (my mother was the oldest). I’m given to understand he got beat up by a girl more than a few times (which I can definitely believe of my mother and aunts).
At the moment I’m kind of glad that I’m the oldest of three brothers and delivered most of the beatings rather than taking them.
Okay….you lost me with that wording. “One of my uncles”. So, he wasnt last born on that side or just referencing your mothers side. Also, “Oldest of three brothers”. I get what is intended but it seems like taking the stairs with words where there is a perfectly good elevator; and its 15 floors.
Just my mother’s side for the uncles, yes. My mother had two younger sisters and a brother that was the youngest of the lot.
But what the hell is wrong with “Oldest of three brothers”? There’s me and my two younger brothers, that one’s not a hard concept.
You know, I never thought of it like that, but now that I do, it makes perfect sense.
Have you read Patrick Rothfuss’ Kingkiller Chronicle? In book 2 there’s a situation very like this, a male warrior from a matriarchal society is told he fights like a woman, and he is flattered by the compliment.
I love your Ganondorf strips.
I seem to remember one a group of mercenaries got pissy with him and decided to pick a fight, and when he saw one of them was a woman, he asked “You sure you don’t want to get another woman?”
And she got so freakin’ pissed.
No. Just no. Never bring up that book in passing until the series actually gets finished. >_>
Funnily enough, I have to thank you for this post, because it reminded me I have the book sitting on a shelf somewhere half-finished, because a specific scene bored me so much I had to drop it. And sadly, what I drop even for a little while, tends to stay dropped far longer than intended.
Man, there’s slow burn and then there’s Patrick Rothfuss. I WANTED to like his books so much but…yeah, bored me and I dropped them.
I do the same thing. I tried to read the 1st Harry potter book when I was little, then like 5 years later came back and read the entire series in less than a week lol
Never thought about that before. Hmm. Now I’m wondering how Hyrule’s society might have changed following Gannon’s rule. Like, would he have implemented improvements in the level and social status of women given that Hyrule appears to be a feudal patriarchal society, with Zelda apparently only ruling by nature of her being the only heir?
Given Ganon is still a selfish jerk with a boner for world domination and vengeance, I’m pretty sure the primary way “society would change under Ganondorf’s rule” is by said society kind of dying a whole lot. And then probably being reanimated as mockeries of life. Ganondorf is a guy with kind of a grudge, s’all I’m saying. Improving the standards of Hyrule society is doubtful to be in the agenda.
I figure Ganondorf’s entire political manifesto consists of two rules.
Rule one is “Ganondorf is in charge”. Rule two is the same as rule one, only louder. Beyond that, I doubt he’s put too much thought into it.
I mean, we do know what happens
Because he pulls it off when Link is put into stasis for 7 years in Ocarina of Time
He sort of just kills off tons of people and raises them as ReDead while letting ancient monsters roam the lands, allowing non monster races to live only because their trembling in fear amuses him
Thought: Gerudo idioms probably include a woman/girl dichotomy with regards to maturity (‘separate the girls from the women’, etc). This in mind, a Gerudo might interpret “[do something] like a girl” as belittling, implying that someone is like a child.
This leads to the mental image of Ganondorf taunting Link: “You fight like a girl. Come here, and I’ll show you how to fight like a woman!”
Which sounds pretty cool as long as you’re primed for female-normative culture.
It also sound mildly sexual.
Male-oriented phrases like that are already homoerotic as hell, to be fair!
Nothing at all phallic about long, pointy objects, either.
Okay, this makes perfect sense. Ganondorf must be the one who made it so that the video games were named after Zelda, what with his healthy respect for powerful women and all. He probably didn’t even consider to call it The Legend of Link since that elf does nothing but perform house robberies and get his ass kicked by poultry.
Not that big on The Legend of Zelda but I think I read somewhere that Link was originally meant to die but he proved to popular of a protagonist. Don’t know why people like Link but then again, I don’t know why Kelly Turnbull like Ganondorf so much.
Depending on the game, he’s pretty badass. Ocarina has him as being cunning as well as physically imposing, and Twilight Princess has him pose as a straight-up god, and he has plenty of power to back that up with the Tri-Force of Power at his disposal. While he kind of yo-yos as far as his competence level, the newer games make him a very credible threat, and there could even be a justification for some of his actions (such as his wanting vengeance in Twilight Princess for being banished to the Sacred Realm for a crime he had, at that point in time, not actually committed, purely on the say-so of two children).
In my head canon the Legend of Zelda is a bedtime story being told by a father to his children every night. It first started off simple, a boy with a wooden sword fighting endless waves of monsters until he saves the girl. Then as the children got older, the story became more complex with Ganon going from a pig like comic relief villain to an outright god.
You could even say the Legend of Zelda is Nintendo’s bedtime story to us.
That’s amazing.
Oh! Maybe Wind Waker is the now grown-up child telling stories to their kid.
Don’t forget his sense of regret and loss in Wind Waker.
It made me powerfully desire an end to his cycle of death and rebirth.
On Link being popular: for a lot of the same reasons that Samus and Master Chief are. They’re pretty much blank slates, outside of the line ‘and they kick much ass.’ They allow the player to craft their own story within the narrative, which can be part of why fleshing out their backstories can often be a hindrance.
He’s often a silent protagonist so there’s really not much to like or dislike about him unless you craft a personality for him. Some iterations do define some sort of personality though.
At the least, he’s always seen as lazy. So that’s relatable. I would guess his other common trait would be bravery. He’s never seen to run or back down, even when the odds are against him, but usually he’s also the only one who can do anything about it, at least at the time, so it’s not necessarily stupid. I suppose the only other constant would be optimism, since he smiles so much. Obviously, these are fairly limited in use and really only apply in later games, but I guess you could say Link is optimistic and brave, if lazy. Which is why he’s popular with kids.
I think he gets a bad rap on being lazy, honestly. In OoT, the establish it as he’s waking up for the day. I mean, what kid, particularly on what is an endless summer day, wouldn’t have issues getting up? TP same sort of set up, but at least this time he’s older and might be late for work. But I seem to recall it was really just his friends annoyed he was sleeping in after a trip out.
SS Link was the only one that really seemed to be initially lazy in nearly over sleeping the big day.
And one would hope that the bearer of Courage was brave! Lol.
But personality wise, OoT Link is the silent and steady Ranger, TP is the righteously angry Druid, and SS is the Paladin in training.
I’m also personally glad to see Little Mac kicking the crap out who seems to be Super Macho Man. I am very, very much down with that.
Also, noting that Little Mac is not all that little!
I figue Super Macho Man is in the process of crumpling.
Punchline Ganondorf is best Ganondorf.
Seconded!
I don’t know why, but I have this strange mental image of the Commander having a small plush version of himself just sitting on a shelf in his bedroom or nightstand. It seems strangely fitting.
He does own his own action figgure so why not ^.^
I wonder what movie they’re watching.
I would probably have a better idea if I actually knew what’s in theaters right now.
Unless they’re watching a boxing match or something, which would make more sense in the context of the last panel.
It’s a boxing match, between Little Mac and Super Macho Man from Punch-Out!! on the Nintendo Wii. It came out in 2009 but is still awesome and I wish they would make another one soon.
Both Little Mac and Super Macho Man have been in the series since the original arcade version in 1985.
Hey, so does this mean when Ganondorf fights he uses she-fu? Like, lots of backflips and high kicks in heels and that thing where they jump on a guy’s face and break their neck using their thighs? I mean, the gerudo in ocarina of time do a lot of jumping around and pretty much wear bikini battle armour, so wouldn’t Ganondorf have been trained in that?
And now I want to see Ganondorf wearing bikini battle armor and using she-fu on Link.
Ganondorf fights in a pretty elegant dual-blade style not unlike the Gerudos Link needs to beat in combat to prove his worth to the tribe.
On the subject of wardrobe, though, notice the women of the tribe all wear pretty loose, comfortable garments for dealing with the desert heat, then they dress their king up in a skintight leather catsuit with impractical sculpted muscle armour and thigh-high boots.
To be fair, the leather suit was probably chosen because he expected the areas outside of the desert to be significantly cooler than he was used to, and the boots for horse riding. As for the armor… uhh? To look intimidating I guess.
I hadn’t thought of his style of dress that way before. Well put.
Looking at this latest page immediately made me think of the comic Berds and Nerds… I had to go looking through their archive for these:
http://berdsandnerds.com/comic/2014/6/15/the-root-of-evil
http://berdsandnerds.com/comic/2015/11/23/trans-formed
Beautiful
Your Ganondorf gets more and more badass each time you draw him.
Now we reach a point in Ganondorf’s character that leads me to question the whole “angry at the world and wanting to take it over” vibe he has.
I mean, he’s the only male Gerudo right? You’d think he would be kinda occupied with other matters, and would probably sport a dumb, self-satisfied grin all the time. I have no clue how someone in his position could possibly think of triforces and shit.
I know the Gerudo lands are really inhospitable, but I think then it would make more sense if some of Ganondorf’s sisters would be leading the conquests.
Well, that’s part of the problem with retroactive continuity. Ganondorf existed before his backstory so the end result is him being the big Bad even if it would make for sense for him to be doing something else.
I can see it now:
Ganondorf “Hahah! The time has come! I shall seize all of the triforces and subjugate Hyrule!”
Gerudo “NO! We need you here!”
Ganondorf “But, think of all the riches and power that are there for the taking!”
Gerudo “You stay! For Snoosnoo!”
Eh…my headcanon concerning interbreeding within the Gerudo is that they don’t do it at all. If there is no King yet then they just steal men from other cultures to use as mates. From my perspective at least, Ganondorf would grow up treating ALL of his tribeswomen as family, depending on their age.
So… in other words Ganondorf going after Zelda, if what you say is true, would be his application of the Gerudo reproductive strategy (along with the political/magical power dynamics involved).
Kinda makes sense then: all of the hot warrior women around him are sisters to him, and he’s not a Lannister. And since said sisters apply the “smash and grab” method to finding mates he does the same (or tries to).
Then there’s the theory that “Gerudo” is a mutation that works like Calico cats, which is why the males are so rare and why Gerudo + non Gerudo Hylian = more Gerudo. Of course, that reasoning would also mean the males are sterile.
I’ve never heard that theory, and that’s quite amazing. I’m sitting on this as my new headcanon <3
or… headganon?
Dat plot doe. It thickens!
The Gerudo being a race of Hylian instead of a separate species (with the aforementioned reproductive problems/specifics) raises a whole bunch of questions more. How in the Sam Hill did they come to be that way? Is the low male count natural, or caused by some curse?
If so, who cursed them and why? Maybe it was Ganondorf who didn’t want to have any rivals to his kingship, or maybe the Gerudo got hit by it after they wrecked too much shit (like some kind of wannabe-Genophage meant to keep them down).
Then again, maybe it’s just natural and “BECAUSE REASONS!”.
We’ll probably never know.
It’s really not that confusing, it would just be a sex-linked recessive mutation that requires two affected X chromosomes to present. Males would be rare because the only males carrying it would have XXY chromosomes instead of the standard XY most males have. Saying “how did they come to be that way” is like asking how people can have blond hair or colour blindness, genetic mutations just happen sometimes.
I mean, if you want to subscribe to the Calico cat theory, that is.
I like this theory, though the whole “sterility” thing can actually be solved pretty easily. Skin tone genetics are kind of complicated but the short version is, it wouldn’t have to be the X or Y chromosome pair. In fact, it seems like skin tone isn’t carried on the sex chromosomes at all. He could have duplicate genes from chromosome 15 that cause a recessive gene to become dominant.
To make it even more confusing, since Ganondorf is the reincarnation of Demise’s hate… or something, and he is consistently reincarnated to commit the usual realm razing and princess stealing, does that mean that he is more often than not the one Gerudo male born every hundred years? So not only is he a Calico Cat, his reincarnation sequence is basically Groundhog Day on steroids. Does that make Ganondorf more a title, rather than a name?
Technically Ganondorf is never reincarnated.
He was twice: once in Four Swords Adventures, and once in the Downfall Timeline some time before the original game.
Was Ganon actually killed at the end of LttP? Or did he just vanish and get sealed away by whatever Link’s wish was?
Well he’s leader because it’s required by Gerudo tradition. Their law states that any male born is automatically king (and there’s only one born every few hundred years). And he’s evil as part of an ancient curse from the Demon King Demise (he and Ganon proper, though where their identities separate isn’t clear to me). Link and Zelda’s descendants are cursed to be in conflict with him/them for all of time (though presumably this doesn’t happen every generation). It’s notable that in one of the Four Swords games, there’s a Gerudo village that’s peaceful and the Gerudo aren’t thieves. Ganondorf is notably absent in this game, making it appear as if it might be his influence that turns the Gerudo evil. This might also imply that not every Gerudo male born is Ganondorf.
In fact, this almost *has* to be the case, because while the pattern of Gerudo male births every few hundred year is known, there’s only ever been one canonical Ganondorf. In the OG 2d Zelda games timeline, only Ganon the Demon King appears. In the Twilight Princess time line, Ganondorf is implied to be the same as in Ocarina, having lived hundreds of years trapped in the Twilight Realm. Wind Waker’s timeline, it straight up states that after Ganondorf/Ganon returns, he survives the flood the gods send to prevent him from claiming the Triforce and again, survives hundreds of years, waiting for the opportunity to strike. It’s notable that in the Wind Waker timeline, he knows his land is crappy and that’s part of why he wants Hyrule/The Triforce.
Also, the Gerudo kidnap men from Hyrule for Snu Snu and consider each other sisters. He was raised in an environment where almost everyone around him would be considered a relative of some kind. And if that’s not enough, he is, again, part of Demise’s curse. He might not even have sexual or romantic urges, simply the bitter desire to crush Hyrule.
Ganon is Gandorf as a pig monster. There’s no real seperation there. Also it’s always the same dude. he just ends up immortal in all of the time lines for various reasons, or is resurrected (Which only tends to happen in the Downfall timeline, where he was banished by the sages in the pig monster form after link died in combat, hence why he’s a pig monster in all those games). ‘
Also on four swords adventures: Ganon’s presance make no sense. (This is the one with the Good Gerudo). The game is offically placed in the timeline after TP, but Ganondorf was left dead while this game explains he was kicked out of the tribe for breaking their rules and he was a desert nomad who stole the trident from their sacred pyramid and turned into a pig monster. This game is a mess from a timeline standpoint for a ton of reasons (which I will gladly go into if someone desires)
The Ganondorf/Ganon that appears in Four Swords Adventure is actually a reincarnation/new guy, rather than the same guy from before breaking a seal or escaping imprisonment.
The Gerudo steal men for breeding purposes, which is terrible if you think about it, but otherwise they keep to themselves. It’s not on the same order as Ganondorf killing off most of castletown, raising the bodies as redead, and chasing the survivors out, or freezing Zora’s domain, or trying to feed Gorons to Volvagia, or freeing a demon to kill off most of the Sheikah. The Gerudo are supposed to be his foot soldiers, but we never see them invade anything on his behalf, so it starts to seem like he went rogue and all but a few diehard followers distanced themselves from him.
The official word is they “go to castle town to find boyfriends”. Saying they “steal men for breeding purposes” is projecting about as much as this comic is. Which I mean, 99% of Zelda “canon” is projecting and trading headcanons based on tissue-paper-thin word-of-god, but to present that kind of thing as fact is like if I was trying to argue all these goofy petty old man Ganondorf comics were true canon as the games intended or something.
It was always my headcanon that gender wasn’t assigned to genitalia in Gerudo society, but to rank and that maybe “male” and “female” are just the closest equivalent concepts Hylians have to how Gerudo society is set up.
Maybe being in a position of power makes you a male to them, not having a penis. Maybe there’s never a queen of the Gerudo, and there’s only one man born every hundred years because “male” just means power, and there is no distinct word in the Gerudo language to signify a difference of biology for their ruler.
It would make their male seem more powerful, and the tribe seem more mystical, so in times of war, they let the image stick, and now they’re just saddled with it and accept it, and those who may have been in a military position in the time of war could even be encouraging it to keep up the mystique to save some face after losing the war.
Yes! Fight like a woman! Now take his stuff and lock him in an easily escaped cell!
My biggest complaint with Hyrule Warriors was that we didn’t get Nabooru as a character.
…
Actually, that’s my second biggest complaint. My biggest complaint is that the stages don’t have a “recommended level” on them or anything*, so once the DLC started coming out, there was really no way of knowing whether a stage was going to be a cake-walk or if it would kick my ass.
* Ideally with the option to lower your level to that.
I wonder if Nintendo considers the gender-based ramifications of that taunt, or if they meant it as more of a “check it out, I’m awesome”. Or maybe a “My people are superb fighters (but let’s not focus on the fact that I’m the first man in 100 years)”. I want it to be your interpretation, because that’s awesome, but I feel like it probably isn’t, because Nintendo never struck me as that progressive. Who knows?
Or, maybe he’s praising the fighting style and militant culture separate from the sex of the people in it. It’s not very logical from a realistic standpoint, but I just have a hard time picturing Nintendo being that “feminist” (even though it really wouldn’t be in this situation, but you know a lot of people would think it is)
Wow! That is one beefy Little Mac! … I likey. <3
Guess you could call him a Big Mac.
That joke was bad and I feel bad.
It’s OK. I laughed.
At least you didn’t call him a Big Macintosh.
… Right?
I love how good friends Ganondorf and the Commander are. Though it’s interesting that Ganondorf is sort of this big, lovable, put-together guy and Link is something of a plucky, little antagonist in your comic. Is there a reason that Ganondorf is more well-adjusted than, say, Kratos or Duke Nukem in MGDMT? Or is that just the way it turned out? Also, it seems like Ganondorf has done an okay job of reintegrating into society; does he just hang out around the agency still because all his friends are there?
To be fair, even in the games Link is a bit of a rascal that runs around breaking stuff and doing what others tell him to (Quick, you have to go to Death Mountain because I said so!).
On the other hand, Ganondorf is a man with a plan. Although he prefers strength above all, he wouldn’t make a bad holder of the Triforce of Wisdom, in my opinion. He has plans, takes his time, and more than once has fooled many to rise to power. In OoT he fools the kid and the princess into opening the door he doesn’t have access to; in WW he manages to assemble the triforce -even if King Daphnes beats him to the punch-; in TP he fools and uses Zant to his own revenge. Heck, even in Hyrule Warriors he manages to build an army from the shadows and conquers Hyrule for a short time.
And he owns and manages large groups of minions and keeps/castles. He’s gotta know his administration and delegation.
Well, the first time you see Ganondorf is when he’s being welcomed by the king of Hyrule and swearing allegiance to him, so naturally you gotta think he knows how to behave in society.
That, and if you follow Coelasquid on social media, she has a soft spot for Ganondorf, and wants him to have more depth like his Wind Waker speech. So, what better way to give him depth than in your own video game crossover comic?
I feel like Ganondorf has been through this rodeo so many times he’s just getting weary of the whole mess. and maybe once every decade or so he’ll swipe a paw at Hyrule for old time’s sake but mostly he’s just tired.
Thus, the curse of Demise is finally leaving him alone, letting someone else harass Hyrule this generation.
Have you read the fanfic Zelda Don’t Be Racist
https://archiveofourown.org/works/2379302
The personality of Ganondorf is well done, and quite similar to the way you write him :)
I like how Ganondorf’s fangs are more visible here. I’ll admit, when they introduced them in Wind Waker, I thought they made him look goofy, but they’ve since grown on me.
Not as much as they’ve grown on him.
I’d forgotten how much I wanted a joke like this.
Damn, the way you draw Ganondorf is still my favorite thing in the world. He’s gorgeous.
Wow, Little Mac got Big.
Little Mac’s pretty cool with taking jibes, intentional or not, being called a manlet can only sting for so long when you regularly fight men who are built like gorrilas, or you know, actual gorrilas.
I can never say how much i like Coelasquid’s version of Gano. If there is ever a LoZ set in a modern Hyrule, Nintendo is gonna have to pay her royalties. Simply because they have to use her version, its just the best.
I know im replying to myself but just to drive the point home: I’d buy a dakimakura of that Ganon, no homo (heh maybe a little but i don’t care.)
Having King Killer Chronicles flashbacks.
Damn, Little Mac has been hitting the gym. And had a really late growth spurt.
Squid said it’s because Macho’s crumpling. Mac’s 5′ 7″ anyway, which is short but not THAT short.
I find its often the case that what women may lack in power, they more than make up for in ferocity and cunning.
So, why are Little Mac’s lips green?
Mouth guard.
I have to say, I love how the color version is so dramatically lit :)
Not gonna lie, I thought he was wearing lipstick….
Took me a few moments to parse that properly, too.
‘Wait…does Mac have a green tongue? Is this some sort of weird palette issue from one of the games? … … Wait, that’s his mouth guard. Duh.’
Admittedly, I’ve had the same reaction when seeing some fighters/football players in real life. “Dude, what’s up with your teet…oh”
Yeah…I mostly do that if it’s a red guard, IRL, though. ‘Holy shit, how hard did you get hit?’
Sincerely thought that was Gaston in the last panel, before it was coloured.
Hmm, Gaston does seem like the sort of overly macho guy that would need help integrating into normal society.
Damn, Business Suit Ganondorf is so damn sexy!
This is probably, without question, my favorite Ganon strip and I have a LOT of those in the running.
RELEASE THE- BOGUS!
CRUNCH- DUDE!