Favorite Recurring Character (Where Majora's Mask Count!)

[darkphantomime]

*innocent bystander walks by*

Hmm, SOMEONE loves to rip off people, 'm i rite?

And besides, with Majora's Mask a lot of the characters got the chance to flesh out more, as a result, many, MANY favorites are from Majora's Mask or originated there.

[Mysterious F.]

No, I mean guys like the absoveratory owner. Are they really recurring? That is the question I'd like answered, for the minor ones like him and the Bombers. Are THEY recurring, not every character in MM?

[darkphantomime]

Potentionally, anyone in the bomber's notebook and others are reoccuring. Give it up; you  can't force people to make a decision on what can and can't be their favorite. Example: Many people love the Happy Mask Salesman even though he's allegedly a 'clone' of his OoT self and appears only in OoT and MM.

[Mysterious F.]

He isn't a clone, it was directly mentioned in the game he owns the happy mask store in Hyrule Castle Town, making him one of the only characters in the game to not be a parallel version of an OOT character.

By recurring, I mean are in multiple games. Unless every time I've played a game is wrong, then they are not recurring.

[darkphantomime]

Then your argument for characters in Majora's Mask appearing in OoT is defeated by your own logic. Whocares if they're basically 'clones' if they look the same? I mean, isn't a recurring character SUPPOSED to look the same, and by that logic, a 'clone'?

Even though some are given different names from their OoT counterparts, the very nature of the game was meant to be a parallel, and by that extension, filled with strange characters that are somehow familiar. So I rule that they are recurring, no matter how you think otherwise. To make a point that characters in OoT that appear in Majora's Mask is to diss Nintendo on points that are inconcievable.

And think about this for a moment, over many games, the same model is used for certain characters, sometimes with unique characters. What then, seperates a 'clone' from a 'recurring' character if they appear more than once?

[Mysterious F.]

Touche.  :)

Well then, if so, than every. single. character. in either game would be considered recurring, even if all they do to count as recurring is be there. There are many more characters that deserve the name recurring more (Anju, Skullkid, Ganon, Link, Zelda, etc.) rather than someone who is only considered recurring because of how they have a parallel clone. Scratch that, than in fact every character in the game would count as recurring, because in Termina they have a parallel twin. Even if they only make an appearance of simply being there (like just about all of the people in TP's Castle Town).

And the only thing they have in common with their OOT counterpart is simply being a parallel clone, they have no other relationship from their counterpart and no real significance at all for their clone. Even if they die, then their counterpart won't feel anything and just continue their lives. Some of them are distinctively different from their counterpart (King Zora, for example) in every way besides looks and personality, but those only count because they are parallel counterparts.

[darkphantomime]

Except almost none of the 'clones' of Majora's Mask are 'simply being there', because many, MANY of them become more fluid, with some more human development. Even the swordsman in the dojo isn't 'simply there', because right when the moon is falling, you can find him shaking behind a false wall, coward

That's what I (and many others) love about Majora's Mask.

Oh yeah, and you mentioned Anju as 'recurring', but according to your logic, seeing as how she appeared solely in OoT and Majora's Mask, she should be considered a 'clone'.

That's what's great about the Zelda series (for the most part), even small characters can be interesting. Who cares if they use the same model? Nintendo uses the same model for some characters many times.

The NPC's of OoT served primarily to tell you little things, little hints, with the exception of a few more prominant ones. But in Majora's Mask, they're given character and the chance to develop beyond someone that is 'simply there', as was with the case of MANY NPC's of OoT.

[Fishalicious]

Oh yeah, and you mentioned Anju as 'recurring', but according to your logic, seeing as how she appeared solely in OoT and Majora's Mask, she should be considered a 'clone'.

Actually, she was in Minish Cap, too.

[Mysterious F.]

I was about to make that point, but thank you, Fisk.

[darkphantomime]

What about the points in the rest of my post?

[Hi no Seijin]

What about that fact that this is my thread and I said that MM characters count even though they're not on some unofficial list on Wikipedia?  There is nothing to argue about here.  I don't care what you have to say about recurring characters, Whocares.  If you want to mention a recurring character from MM here, then you can.  I don't care about the technical crap you keep on spouting.

[Mysterious F.]

Fine Kaepora Gaebora. I'll choose him. (Not a pun on Pokemon)

[darkphantomime]

What other games did he appear in besides OoT and (parallel-y) Majora's Mask? We don't even know if the owl in MM is Kaepora; in your words, he's little more than a 'clone'.

[Mysterious F.]

You apparently haven't played alot of Zelda games, have you? He appears in FSA too. The owl statues in TP could be a reference to him, along with the ones in MM and the Oracles.

[darkphantomime]

Only Zelda game I haven't played is FSA. A 'reference' isn't the only good it should be.

The statues were symbols. So many, many recurring symbols.