22nd January 2005, 11:18 PM
But that's MARIO. Like looney toons, you really aren't supposed to take that seriously.
Oh and Power gives him incredible power. Why would Courage or Wisdom grant immortality like Power would? Why would Link or Zelda wish for that from the triforce anyway? Well granted, Link only got the ENTIRE triforce under his control once in the series, the LTTP Link... That is, Courage, from what I can tell, doesn't give Link any real power except to resist the triforce of power. He never gets stronger from having it really... Just the ability to resist overwhelming power... That's generally what courage is all about, right?
Anyway, Ganon came back repeatedly, but in MOST cases it was explained very well. In LTTP he broke free of the Sacred realm because he wasn't killed, just imprisoned (though his form was warped by that time it seems). In Wind Waker he managed to break free, but really they didn't do a good job explaining how that occured, except my own little made up explanation that that was actually an avatar of Ganondorf, explaining why he turned to stone with the final blow to the... brain... rather than turning to dust like he normally does when he dies. His escape before that, after OOT but before WW, is completely unexplained, except I think he just broke free of the barrier with brute strength and that failed completely due to divine intervention, so he changed his strategy... or something...
Anyway, he was actually killed at the end of LTTP, not imprisoned, he was burninated to dust, and the triforce itself said as such, that's why it went under the control of Link, who then wished a whole bunch (hopefully wishing too much doesn't have world destroying consequences with that thing...)
So, honestly I have no idea how he came back in Zelda 1, except that that was the first game, except Zelda 2 offers the chance that a ritual can bring Ganon back from the dead. Anyway, he dies in Z1, then Z2 involves Link in a quest where Ganon is dead, completely dead, and Link never even fights Ganon. He only will appear when the Game Over screen shows up, because in the story, evil monsters seeking their master's return are all trying to kill Link to use his blood to revive Ganon from his ashes. So, as of Zelda 2, latest in the storyline, Ganon is dead and buried and was since Zelda 1. But, since he came back to life once before (every other time seems to just be him escaping from the Sacred Realm), I'd imagine if they ever went back to the present in the story, they could bring him back again. Ya know, I wonder if they will continue into some sort of era modeled after modern Earth with like, I dunno... Imagine this scenario...
You go into a scene covering major events of the past in the Zelda storyline, like Wind Waker style with the illustrations and such, and it goes on like that until "The hero's name was... Link... Link? Link!" because at this point Link, who is a lazy student dozing off in class, is woken up by his history teacher, and he has a very "ugh... " expression while being scolded about it.
Anyways, my point is that most of the time, Ganon came back with good reason.
As for Mario, as I said, that's a storyline you really aren't meant to take seriously so much as comedically. Even it's most serious is only about as much so as, say, the opera episode of Looney Toons, where Bugs Bunny died, with a spear and magic helmet? Lightning? Huwwicane? SMOOOOGG?!
Star Fox? Serious, but with cuddly animal people, at least as I see it. Andross can keep coming back forever as far as I'm concerned because he's like... living psychic power. He no longer seems to have a physical body most of the time, and when he does, Fox McCloud blows it up with lasers.
As for Star Wolf, he's only been in one game so far, so hard to call that a pattern just yet... I mean, most likely Star Wolf is back, but there's a chance it's actually a brand new Star Wolf team with like... I dunno... something cheesy like a Star Wolf clone, but like, he thinks he's the original, but then eventually when he jumps Fox when Fox is breaking into a lab (a land mission), he like, sees rows of test tubes filled with copies of him, and he's all "NOOOO'd! It can't be! What am I?" Then he holds his head and cowers and shakes with his eyes all spazzed out and making whimpering noises, then he gets a crazed look and does... I dunno something... haven't gotten that far.
Oh and Power gives him incredible power. Why would Courage or Wisdom grant immortality like Power would? Why would Link or Zelda wish for that from the triforce anyway? Well granted, Link only got the ENTIRE triforce under his control once in the series, the LTTP Link... That is, Courage, from what I can tell, doesn't give Link any real power except to resist the triforce of power. He never gets stronger from having it really... Just the ability to resist overwhelming power... That's generally what courage is all about, right?
Anyway, Ganon came back repeatedly, but in MOST cases it was explained very well. In LTTP he broke free of the Sacred realm because he wasn't killed, just imprisoned (though his form was warped by that time it seems). In Wind Waker he managed to break free, but really they didn't do a good job explaining how that occured, except my own little made up explanation that that was actually an avatar of Ganondorf, explaining why he turned to stone with the final blow to the... brain... rather than turning to dust like he normally does when he dies. His escape before that, after OOT but before WW, is completely unexplained, except I think he just broke free of the barrier with brute strength and that failed completely due to divine intervention, so he changed his strategy... or something...
Anyway, he was actually killed at the end of LTTP, not imprisoned, he was burninated to dust, and the triforce itself said as such, that's why it went under the control of Link, who then wished a whole bunch (hopefully wishing too much doesn't have world destroying consequences with that thing...)
So, honestly I have no idea how he came back in Zelda 1, except that that was the first game, except Zelda 2 offers the chance that a ritual can bring Ganon back from the dead. Anyway, he dies in Z1, then Z2 involves Link in a quest where Ganon is dead, completely dead, and Link never even fights Ganon. He only will appear when the Game Over screen shows up, because in the story, evil monsters seeking their master's return are all trying to kill Link to use his blood to revive Ganon from his ashes. So, as of Zelda 2, latest in the storyline, Ganon is dead and buried and was since Zelda 1. But, since he came back to life once before (every other time seems to just be him escaping from the Sacred Realm), I'd imagine if they ever went back to the present in the story, they could bring him back again. Ya know, I wonder if they will continue into some sort of era modeled after modern Earth with like, I dunno... Imagine this scenario...
You go into a scene covering major events of the past in the Zelda storyline, like Wind Waker style with the illustrations and such, and it goes on like that until "The hero's name was... Link... Link? Link!" because at this point Link, who is a lazy student dozing off in class, is woken up by his history teacher, and he has a very "ugh... " expression while being scolded about it.
Anyways, my point is that most of the time, Ganon came back with good reason.
As for Mario, as I said, that's a storyline you really aren't meant to take seriously so much as comedically. Even it's most serious is only about as much so as, say, the opera episode of Looney Toons, where Bugs Bunny died, with a spear and magic helmet? Lightning? Huwwicane? SMOOOOGG?!
Star Fox? Serious, but with cuddly animal people, at least as I see it. Andross can keep coming back forever as far as I'm concerned because he's like... living psychic power. He no longer seems to have a physical body most of the time, and when he does, Fox McCloud blows it up with lasers.
As for Star Wolf, he's only been in one game so far, so hard to call that a pattern just yet... I mean, most likely Star Wolf is back, but there's a chance it's actually a brand new Star Wolf team with like... I dunno... something cheesy like a Star Wolf clone, but like, he thinks he's the original, but then eventually when he jumps Fox when Fox is breaking into a lab (a land mission), he like, sees rows of test tubes filled with copies of him, and he's all "NOOOO'd! It can't be! What am I?" Then he holds his head and cowers and shakes with his eyes all spazzed out and making whimpering noises, then he gets a crazed look and does... I dunno something... haven't gotten that far.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)