The Desert Colossus

What do think of Tingle?

Tingle is unfairly hated in the Western world just because he dresses differently and thinks differently than everyone else.  He provides invaluable help in MM and OoA.  He is comic relief in an otherwise gloomy game (MM).  And I'm tired of people complaining he charges too much money in TWW.  First off, it's a game, and games are supposed to be challenging.  Go find some monster to slay or go bushwhacking to get the rupees; they're practically everywhere.  Second, it's not real money; it's not like you can take it out of the game and spend it.  We are all different, and if you hate everyone because of that, then you're pretty sad.  I mean, so what if he wants to be a faerie.  Haven't you ever wanted to be something other than a human at one point in your life?  I know I have (several times).  And the underwear on the outside thing; superheroes do this all the time, but no one calls them freaks.  And stop saying Tingle is gay; we have no evidence to prove so.  And on the tights; no one hates Link because he wears tights.  Stop being so critical of Tingle, Western world.  I hereby renounce modern society and replace it with my own.

realy, comic releaf, hey, magmar taught me how and why to hate him :)

No offense, but like I said, you think too critically of people who are a tad bit different.  Why don't you hate me?  I have no desire to be a faerie, nor do I wear tights, but I'm just like Tingle:  different.  He's a character I can relate to.

Quote from: Sora on July 21, 2006, 04:35:41 PM
realy, comic releaf, hey, magmar taught me how and why to hate him

Sora, why must you drag me into all this? :-\

Besides, thanks to Hi no Seijin, I think I'm seeing the good in him now.

Because its true, and now you'll have to teach me to like him :)

Honestly IMO it's hardly difficult to fund the chart decipherings in WW seeing as how many ways there are to get money (light rings, treasure charts, fish man game, etc.) Also tingle is hardly evil just a little... out there.

tingle is completely evil!

Asides from the whole "kidnapping David Jr." deal, how is Tingle evil?

I learned my Tingle hating techniques from the master, oh great Ezlo.

I'm going to have a word with him.

The Great Ezlo has been notified of your blasphemy to him, his justice shall be great and powerful.

I fear no Minish, even one of great sorcery.  I shall crush him beneath my feet if he tries to harm me.

Here how i think of tingle now, thanks to Hi no Seijin:

Windwaker tingle is evil cause he kiddnapped someone and he looks plain freaky.

Majoras mask and OoT tingle is cool, he gives you maps and advice and he is sometimes quite funny.

Quote from: MasterKey on July 23, 2006, 08:03:44 AM
Windwaker tingle is evil cause he ... looks plain freaky.

That is no reason to call someone evil.  Otherwise, much better.

should burn in da deepest pits of h***(sry)

is this a better eason? he charges a hero 398 ruppes to decode ONE chart >:(

TIngle is the only person who can decode a sea chart.  He has a monoply, and he can charge what he wants.  Also, it's a game, and a game wouldn't be a game without a challenge.  It's not real money, for crying out loud.  It's not like you can take the rupees you earn in the game and spend them in real life.

but i worked hard for those ruppes :'(

Maybe im just going insane :o

What hard work?  You just cut down some bushes and slay some monsters.  Aryll even sends you some rupees.

point made. as i said, im just going insane.

I like rupees.It sucks in MM when you can only hold 500rupees.(And every othere game.) >:(
Anyways,I think Tingle is in between. ;)Mostly annoying.It's like,Tingle I hate to burst your bubble,but,what am I saying!? :PI love poppin'his big red bubbley balloon! ;DI pop it at Ikana canyon when I'm up really high,then,pop!he falls 20 feet and lands with a thud. ;DIn SSB,In the Great Bay place,I like to stand on his ballon and watch other people fight. :)

i pop his ballloon i ssb for fun ;D

Oh come on, look at him, how can this not be scary?


(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8e/Tingle.jpg)

he is scary, very. But in Majoras Mask, he looks different and hes actually helpful, so give him some slack.

You mean this Tingle?


(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/Normal_tingle3.jpg/140px-Normal_tingle3.jpg)

At least he's not wearing a Speedo.

Quote from: Hi no Seijin on July 21, 2006, 04:24:11 PM
Tingle is unfairly hated in the Western world just because he dresses differently and thinks differently than everyone else.  He provides invaluable help in MM and OoA.  He is comic relief in an otherwise gloomy game (MM).  And I'm tired of people complaining he charges too much money in TWW.  First off, it's a game, and games are supposed to be challenging.  Go find some monster to slay or go bushwhacking to get the rupees; they're practically everywhere.  Second, it's not real money; it's not like you can take it out of the game and spend it.  We are all different, and if you hate everyone because of that, then you're pretty sad.  I mean, so what if he wants to be a faerie.  Haven't you ever wanted to be something other than a human at one point in your life?  I know I have (several times).  And the underwear on the outside thing; superheroes do this all the time, but no one calls them freaks.  And stop saying Tingle is gay; we have no evidence to prove so.  And on the tights; no one hates Link because he wears tights.  Stop being so critical of Tingle, Western world.  I hereby renounce modern society and replace it with my own.

i dont hate him , i just think he an annoying
and in tww he enslaves david jr  >:(

Read this quote from ZV:

Quote from: Zelda Veteran on July 23, 2006, 11:38:43 PM
Tingle didnt kidnap him. David jr. was a sailor who was sailing on a stormy night, his boat got wrecked, and he drifted onto tingle island shoreline. Tingle took him in, and saved him. Then David jr. woke up in those clothes, and began spinning the tower. Also, in the Minish Cap, it says that they dont know why, but david jr hangs around.

And how is Tingle annoying?  It's not like Link hasn't been called a faerie before.  Malon called him faerie boy in OoT, and no one seems to be complaining about it.  Instead of looking at all of the "bad" things about Tingle, how about you start looking at all of the invaluable help he gives you.

ur right tingle is helpful when he sells maps and decodes the  triforce maps...

and i have a confession to make, i wanted to be a  half demon like inuyasha or a kokiriri kid :(
i know im kinda weird too
:'(

he does give you great maps and comic releif...and its fun to pop him...and he decodes charts,, helping you beat TWW. Point made, hes very useful.

i never thought that this arguement would be so amuseing.. i think tingle is evil. :-X

 >:(tingle is just misunderstood.
i too suffer from tingle sydrome

people at my school think imweird and i eat worms. :(
people say im  gay (which im not) because im slightly mascluline , Just slightly and i play video game :( :( >:( >:( stupid zombies >:(

wow 8) ummmm..yeah :o

well that's not nice >:(

People are cruel!

no... i just didnt know how to respond...i mean what do you say to that?

Tingle is a good-for-nothing piece of lard that tries to bomb people, and is Micheal Jackson's Boyfriend!  >:( He wears tights in public, tortures his brothers AND some kid who washed ashore to serve in his evil deminion of Tingle Tower. I swear to god, that's worse than the Flying Dutchman. I think Tingle and Davy Jones are related!

wtf how can guests post? :o

I dont know. Ill PM Jack. Thanks for the heads up sora

No prob ZV, anyway Tingle is pure evile >:( speaking of tingle, when is opperation seagul starting?

Quote from: Gamefreak on July 28, 2006, 07:59:12 AM
You mean this Tingle?


(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/ca/Normal_tingle3.jpg/140px-Normal_tingle3.jpg)

OMG!Delete it!My eyes! ???

I think my glasses broke ;D

Tingle owes you his map money for new ones! ;D

Hey, everyone, lean close to me.  Closer.  Closer.  Now listen well to what I have to say:

[size=10]THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH TINGLE![/size]

In another thread on this topic, you Tingle haters admitted to being weird, and you said you like it.  Tingle is not evil, nor is he gay.  So what if he wears tights; Link and a whole bunch of superheroes wear tights, but no one's damning them for it.

Quote from: Hi no Seijin on July 29, 2006, 07:37:37 PM
Hey, everyone, lean close to me.  Closer.  Closer.  Now listen well to what I have to say:

[size=10]THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH TINGLE![/size]

In another thread on this topic, you Tingle haters admitted to being weird, and you said you like it.  Tingle is not evil, nor is he gay.  So what if he wears tights; Link and a whole bunch of superheroes wear tights, but no one's damning them for it.

i dont mind tingle in majora's mask,  he was helpful and fun to pop his baloon.  ;D and  in tww if you have the tingle tuner u can annoy him  ;D ;D

im glad i dont wear tights.  ;D

Tingle is just a map seller and decoder, not a gay man, or a weirdo.

Thank you, Masterkey.  I could use some support.

once you get to know tingle he isnt all that bad.

he is just an eccentric map seller.
in tww he helps you alot if you have the tingle tuner...
i have a confession to make
im weird too :'( :'(
i love nature but i despise bugs >:(

Theres nothing wrong with being weird, TINGLE EVIL, I WANT OPPERATION SEGAULE NOW >:( >:(

Tingle isn't evil or gay. He's just a con-artist. And a good one at that.  :)

Okay, con-artist, maybe.

Look on the bright side, though. It's not like he's going to join forces with Ganondorf or anything! :)

That would make us feel sick and ashamed...

Quote from: Aero on July 31, 2006, 05:10:03 AM
Tingle isn't evil or gay. He's just a con-artist. And a good one at that.  :)

Who says a con-artist isn't evil?

But tingle is pure evil, are you saying he's not evil?

hes just misunderstood overcharging fairyboy ;D

The thing is, is that in this society, we make fun of people different than us.

Which is why I rejected society.

It's society that is the source of many stereotypes in the world, which are for lazy people.

Besides, if there's anything to make fun of, it's XBox! ;D

Disney is fun to make fun of.  Why don't we pick on Disney?  They take something good and completely destroy it.

bbut i liked the old classic , such as the lion king, the little mermaid and anastasia.
but most of the new disney stuff is crap.
boring  childish crap. :'(

Quote from: Saria  returns. on August 05, 2006, 07:17:57 AM
...the little mermaid and anastasia.

Anastasia wasn't a Disney movie, was it? I thought it was MGM.

Anyway, back on topic. On Wikipedia, I read (with no disrespect to Koji Kondo) that Tingle bears a close resemblance to Koji Kondo.

i like disney only cauieof their old movies and Kingdom Hearts.

Anyway, who is Koji Kondo?

Koji Kondo is the man who composes the music for the Zelda series.

oh. maybe tingle was designed to look like him...? Howvere, he does an excellent job with the music. ;D

yep...

http://www.foon.co.uk/extern/comparison.png

i never though poorly of tingle, infact i was relieved to see him floating around in MM... but the WW tingle just...scared me... he overpriced his stuff and i dunno... i thought 3 tingles was pushing it

Tingle is really annoying .He won't get it in his head that a fairy will NEVER come to him .If you look at him really closley he is sort of an old man .

he's 35.his father is the guy runnin' the pictograph contest in the Southern Swamp.His father looks younger than him! :PTingle's face is all red and blotchy. :-*(But,Tingle's nasty and obviously has no idea about personal hygein. ::))

maybe he was so busy looking for fairies he forgot to take a shower ;D

Maybe he forgot on purpose. :P ;D

Tingle is a 35 year old virgin with no sign of growing up or intelligence ever since the age of two, and sometimes I'm ashamed to call him a Zelda character. >:( Wow, that was a mouthfull! :-*

MM's Tingle is okay. A bit weird (the guys'everywhere....is he stalking Link?), but okay

TWW's Tingle is plain evil. I don't care about the money. Most of the time, I was actually thinking: "Jeey, and then I can go to Tingle so it won't be a complete waste of my time to dig up treasures". Getting rupees in that game was way too easy. I'm happy Tingle charged that much.
However, we have three victims/witnesses to prove he's evil.
Knuckle - created "Tingle Tower", which was stolen from him by Tingle
Ankle - is being forced to satisfy Tingle's ego by helping rotating the head of Tingle Tower. Apparently, Tingle also is mean to him usual.
David Jr. - We don't know what happened at sea. Tingle might have saved David's life, he possibly hasn't. What we do know however is that he is kept against his will on the island and that Tingle forces him to do stupid manual labour.

Hmmm... You have a point there. :-\