sneaselfish wrote:
Isn't the Ganondorf from Windwaker a reincarnation? I mean, adult Link killed him, and he came back later when there was no hero to stop him. But didn't he go on about the plight of the Gerudo people during his boss battle? Was he just born Gerudo again or something?
Ganondorf is born in OoT, sealed at the end of the game, escapes somehow in Wind Waker's backstory, is sealed again by the gods, escapes again somehow, and then is stabbed in the head (which makes him turn into stone for some reason?) at the end of Wind Waker.
Or maybe a time travelling Link warned the Royal Family so they tried to execute Ganondorf, failed, sealed him somewhere else, then he came back and got killed by Link? Or maybe that could be some other Ganondorf.
Then you have a different Ganondorf in ALttP's backstory, who is the leader of a gang of thieves, stumbles into the Sacred Realm, finds the triforce, tries to take over all of Hyrule, gets sealed in the Sacred Realm by the seven sages, tries to escape using Agahnim and the sage's descendants, and gets killed by Link in ALttP. Well, nearly killed; he tries to come back again, but gets finished off for good by a hero from Earth (our planet).
Then you have another Ganon who attacks the small kingdom in the larger land of Hyrule, steals the triforce of power, kidnaps Zelda, and gets killed by Link at the end of Legend of Zelda. His minions seek Link's blood to resurrect him in AoL but presumably fail.
Twinrova (some version of) attempts to resurrect one of the Ganons or Ganondorfs at some point; not entirely clear which, but it doesn't matter too much.
Then there's another Ganondorf who is one of the male Gerudos born into the tribe, takes in the darkness from a sealed trident (presumably belonging to one of the other Ganons) which causes his darkness to awaken, and gets sealed into the Four Sword.
And there's Calamity Ganon, who in the distant past was defeated by an army of Guardians and four giant robots, but came back and corrupted the Guardians and robots, but then was sealed by Zelda and got killed by Link and the robots.
And Demise, who seems to be the progenitor of the line, a demon king who gets killed but curses peoples' descendants yada yada yada.