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While keeping close to most of the key points, their manga adaptations can run between fairly loose, CompressedAdaptation to PragmaticAdaptation. Sometimes certain events are condensed down into one or two (usually dungeons); omitting them because the authors weren't able to work it into the story, expanding backstories, and set canonical/original events as side-stories at the end of a volume. Similarly to Ishinomori's comic, CanonForeigner are occasionally included in some of the titles that don't appear in the original games.
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While keeping close to most of the key points, their manga adaptations can run between fairly loose, CompressedAdaptation to PragmaticAdaptation. Sometimes certain events are condensed down into one or two (usually dungeons); omitting them because the authors weren't able to work it into the story, expanding backstories, and set canonical/original events as side-stories at the end of a volume. Similarly to Ishinomori's comic, CanonForeigner [[CanonForeigner Canon Foreigners]] are occasionally included in some of the titles that don't appear in the original games.
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* CompressedAdaptation: Given how much ''Majora's Mask'' puts emphasis on side quests, it was perhaps inevitable. The manga adaptation only covers the main dungeons and the Kafei and Anju side quest, with everything else mostly pushed to the wayside.
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[[folder:''A Link to the Past'']]
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A fourth adaptation of ''A Link to the Past''. This manga was created as a tie-in to the Game Boy Advance release of ''A Link to the Past'' in 2005.
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* AboveGoodAndEvil: Sahasrahla describes The Triforce as a pure power that will grant the wish of anyone who touches it, good or evil, but Ganon’s awful personality and goals are too much for even it.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Vitreous is a friendly {{Cyclops}} girl as opposed to the game where it was a mass of eyeballs acting as a boss without any real background.
* AdaptationalWealth: In the game, Link and his uncle lived in a small house. Here, they have enough resources to run an apple orchard.
* AdaptationOriginConnection:
** In this version, the Seven Sages are credited with creating the Master Sword.
** Agahnim has a new storyline that intersects with Link's. He is the one who kills Link's uncle, as opposed to the random brainwashed soldiers in Hyrule Castle. He also is the one who banished Link's CanonForeigner parents to the Dark World.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange:
** Just like Ishinomori's comic, the guards are actually AnimatedArmor rather than real people.
** Link's Dark World form is a wolf instead of a rabbit.
* AdaptedOut: Arrghus is the only Dark World boss not shown in the manga.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Several of Zelda’s retainers question whether or not someone like Link can really be the prophesied hero. When Zelda asks them how they could judge someone’s character when Agahnim was able to scheme right under their noses, they fall silent.
%%* BadassAdorable: Ghanti, and to a certain extent, Link himself.
* BadassCape: Played with. Link spends his time before becoming the hero wearing an unflattering cloak. He gets to wear a much better cape after the final battle with Ganon.
* BettyAndVeronica: Ghanti, who is a hot-blooded and dangerous bandit girl in a revealing outfit, is jealous of Link's feelings for Zelda, who is a kind, wise, and modestly dressed princess.
* CanonForeigner: Ghanti the bandit. [[spoiler:Subverted in that [[CanonCharacterAllAlong she is transformed into the monster Trinexx.]]]] The author's notes at the end state their hope that Ghanti [[CanonImmigrant would be present in a future game]].
* ChekhovsGun: While on his way to Hyrule Castle in the middle of a storm, Link finds an apple coming from his farm. He cleans it and picks it up, then a priest in the Sanctuary blesses it, rendering it able to heal any injuries. It comes into play several times afterwards, culminating in [[spoiler:Link giving it to Ghanti to heal her after she was mortally wounded as Trinexx]].
* ClippedWingAngel: All the monsters Link fights in the Dark World turn back into humans afterwards.
* ContinuityDrift: This manga came out over a decade after the other three ''Link to the Past'' mangas and incorporated elements from the later games released in the series that didn't exist when the earlier mangas were created. Ganondorf's human form uses his design from ''Ocarina of Time'' and the Armos Knight uses the ''Ocarina of Time'' design for Armos rather than the original ''A Link to the Past'' design.
* CooldownHug: Zelda delivers one to Link when [[spoiler:his hate for Agahnim makes susceptible to the Dark World's corruption and starts to transform him]].
* CurbStompBattle: Compared to how much trouble he had fighting other monsters, Link pretty much owned Trinexx. Aside from parrying its fire breath with his sword, he didn't have to do anything other than to hit it. Once. Even he noticed how Trinexx wasn't that strong.
* DamselOutOfDistress: In the game, Zelda remains in the crystal until the end of the game. Here, however, [[spoiler:as Link is starting to transform, Zelda breaks herself free out of the CrystalPrison she's in in order to calm Link down from the corruption!]]
* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Agahnim is killed by Ganon when the Demon King decides that his servant has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]]. In the original game, [[spoiler:Agahnim is just an avatar of Ganon that gets killed by Link with the Master Sword]].
* EmpathicWeapon: The Master Sword has some intelligence to it.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While Ghanti and her teammates are bandits, they think that letting Ganon run amok with the Triforce is too dangerous and are willing to help Link stop him.
* EvilFormerFriend: Agahnim was a friend of [[spoiler:Link's father]] before his research into the Sacred Realm and deal with Ganon turned him into an evil sorcerer.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Agahnim was genuinely good-hearted until Ganon's power affected his mind.]]
* ForcedTransformation: People who wander in the Dark World for too long end up turning into beasts because of Ganon's power. More actively, Agahnim transforms [[spoiler:Ghanti into Trinexx as part of his plan to get Link to succumb to his hatred]]. It's implied that after the story's end, the transformed people turn back to normal, with Ganon's power disappearing after his defeat and Link's wish for Hyrule to be at peace.
* GreenEyedMonster: Mothula is described in the manga as originally being [[FairestOfThemAll a beautiful girl]] who turned jealous of a prettier girl. No such backstory is given to Mothula in the game.
* HealingHerb: Link gets an apple blessed with healing powers.
* HeroicLineage: Link is descended from the Knights. [[spoiler:So is Ghanti; it turns out she wasn't descended from thieves.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Ghanti, who started off as a bandit before becoming Link's friend.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Agahnim indulges in a bit of this in the original print once he's captured Zelda, saying how he's wanted her for a slave since the moment he first saw her.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Link manages to defeat the Ball & Chain Trooper by throwing a jar at it. Since the Trooper is actually a suit of AnimatedArmor, the enemy falls apart when the helmet is knocked off.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Subverted -- [[spoiler:Link is set up to be this, but Agahnim takes great pleasure in showing him that he's not as incorruptible as he thinks]].
* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: Ghanti was raised by bandits who told her Knights of Hyrule murdered her parents. She becomes an enemy after learning that Link is a Knight's son, until Zelda reveals that [[spoiler:the Silver Arrows Ghanti wears as earrings are proof she is descended from Knights and the bandits lied to her, as they instead killed her parents and raised her to be one of their own]].
* LoveRedeems: Ghanti starts off as a self-serving bandit who declares that she will kill Link one day, but not only protects him from Agahnim, but becomes his full-fledged companion in the Dark World.
* LoveTriangle: Ghanti the bandit cites this as the reason for her reluctance to help Link rescue Zelda, since she has feelings for Link but recognizes that Link also has feelings for Zelda.
* MagicalAccessory: [[spoiler:Ghanti]]'s earrings turn out to be the weapon they need to defeat their enemy.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Link selflessly uses the Triforce to wish for peace in Hyrule rather than wising his uncle or parents back to life.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: In his youth, Agahnim reasoned to Link’s father that doing whatever was necessary to get the Triforce was the only way to end all of Hyrule’s troubles. When Link’s father continued to interfere, Agahnim banished him to the Dark World. In the present, Agahnim does not bother to pretend that he wants power for anything except the sake of having it.
* OnlyThePureOfHeart: The Dark World transforms those with greed or hate in their hearts, so someone like Link [[spoiler:or Link's parents]] can travel through there without fear of a ForcedTransformation. [[spoiler:That isn't to say Link can't be corrupted...]]
* PiggybackCute: At one point, Link has to carry Ghanti up the mountainside on his back.
* RejectedByTheEmpathicWeapon: Agahnim turns Ghanti into the hydra Trinexx and sets her on Link. When Link gives Trinexx a near-mortal wound with the Master Sword and realizes too late what it really is, he gives into his hate for Agahnim, something that causes the sword to reject him [[spoiler:until Zelda breaks free from her CrystalPrison and gives him a CoolDownHug]].
* SecretKeeper: The barkeeper and bar patrons in Kakariko Village doesn't turn Link in after his wanted posters go up, and help him out by telling him to leave via the back door and handing over a map.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Sahasrahla is willing to set Link against an Armos to test his worthiness as a hero.
* StabTheSky: The Master Sword actually ''tells'' Link to do this after he draws it from its pedestal.
* VillainousBSOD: Agahnim experiences a breakdown when [[spoiler:Zelda foils his attempt to corrupt Link, and Ganon refuses to share the Triforce with him]].
* WasOnceAMan: All the Dark World bosses are here revealed to be Hylians cursed into monster forms when they entered the Dark World:
** Helmasaur King was a scaredy cat who went around wearing a large suit of armor to look more intimidating.
** Mothula was a pretty girl who was jealous of another girl prettier than her.
** Blind the Thief was actually three brothers who bickered all the time.
** Kholdstare was a very rich man that was left alone because he cared more about his money than anything else.
** Vitreous was a woman who loved spying other people to listen to their secrets.
** Trinexx was [[spoiler:Ghanti, transformed by Aghanim to trick Link into succumbing to hatred and turning into a monster]].
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When Agahnim is about to kill Link in the desert, Ghanti throws a sword at him to send him away. Despite having a good chance to finish off Link, she is unable to go through with it.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:Ghanti hates the Hylian knights so much that she used to want to kill Link because he's descended from them. It turns out that she's also descended from the Hylian knights, and the thieves killed her real parents. Learning that leads her to get over her hatred.]]
* YouDontLookLikeYou:
** The designs for Kholdstare and Vitreous are completely different from the original ones. While Game!Kholdstare is a spikeless Franchise/{{K|irby}}racko and Game!Vitreous is a genderless giant poison-oozing eye surrounded by other eyes, Manga!Kholdstare is a Franchise/{{P|okemon}}iloswine-like creature and Manga!Vitreous is a female giant one-eyed swamp-creature.
** Whenever Ganon makes an appearance in the story, he is often shown as a silhouette of his appearance in Ocarina of Time. During the final battle however, he has coarse black fur present only in this version despite not having such in previous and later appearances.
* YouKilledMyFather: Ghanti the bandit declares Link her enemy because he's the last of the Hylian knights, whom she has been raised to believe killed her parents. She's, therefore, surprised to find that [[spoiler:her guardian lied to her and she herself is, in fact, also descended from the Hylian knights]].
* YouMustBeCold: Link wraps Zelda in his cloak to protect her from the rain when they escape from Hyrule Castle. She smiles and tells him that it's warm, prompting the first appearance of his recurring LuminescentBlush.
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A fourth adaptation of ''A Link to the Past''. This manga was created as a tie-in to the Game Boy Advance release of ''A Link to the Past'' in 2005.
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* AboveGoodAndEvil: Sahasrahla describes The Triforce as a pure power that will grant the wish of anyone who touches it, good or evil, but Ganon’s awful personality and goals are too much for even it.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Vitreous is a friendly {{Cyclops}} girl as opposed to the game where it was a mass of eyeballs acting as a boss without any real background.
* AdaptationalWealth: In the game, Link and his uncle lived in a small house. Here, they have enough resources to run an apple orchard.
* AdaptationOriginConnection:
** In this version, the Seven Sages are credited with creating the Master Sword.
** Agahnim has a new storyline that intersects with Link's. He is the one who kills Link's uncle, as opposed to the random brainwashed soldiers in Hyrule Castle. He also is the one who banished Link's CanonForeigner parents to the Dark World.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange:
** Just like Ishinomori's comic, the guards are actually AnimatedArmor rather than real people.
** Link's Dark World form is a wolf instead of a rabbit.
* AdaptedOut: Arrghus is the only Dark World boss not shown in the manga.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Several of Zelda’s retainers question whether or not someone like Link can really be the prophesied hero. When Zelda asks them how they could judge someone’s character when Agahnim was able to scheme right under their noses, they fall silent.
%%* BadassAdorable: Ghanti, and to a certain extent, Link himself.
* BadassCape: Played with. Link spends his time before becoming the hero wearing an unflattering cloak. He gets to wear a much better cape after the final battle with Ganon.
* BettyAndVeronica: Ghanti, who is a hot-blooded and dangerous bandit girl in a revealing outfit, is jealous of Link's feelings for Zelda, who is a kind, wise, and modestly dressed princess.
* CanonForeigner: Ghanti the bandit. [[spoiler:Subverted in that [[CanonCharacterAllAlong she is transformed into the monster Trinexx.]]]] The author's notes at the end state their hope that Ghanti [[CanonImmigrant would be present in a future game]].
* ChekhovsGun: While on his way to Hyrule Castle in the middle of a storm, Link finds an apple coming from his farm. He cleans it and picks it up, then a priest in the Sanctuary blesses it, rendering it able to heal any injuries. It comes into play several times afterwards, culminating in [[spoiler:Link giving it to Ghanti to heal her after she was mortally wounded as Trinexx]].
* ClippedWingAngel: All the monsters Link fights in the Dark World turn back into humans afterwards.
* ContinuityDrift: This manga came out over a decade after the other three ''Link to the Past'' mangas and incorporated elements from the later games released in the series that didn't exist when the earlier mangas were created. Ganondorf's human form uses his design from ''Ocarina of Time'' and the Armos Knight uses the ''Ocarina of Time'' design for Armos rather than the original ''A Link to the Past'' design.
* CooldownHug: Zelda delivers one to Link when [[spoiler:his hate for Agahnim makes susceptible to the Dark World's corruption and starts to transform him]].
* CurbStompBattle: Compared to how much trouble he had fighting other monsters, Link pretty much owned Trinexx. Aside from parrying its fire breath with his sword, he didn't have to do anything other than to hit it. Once. Even he noticed how Trinexx wasn't that strong.
* DamselOutOfDistress: In the game, Zelda remains in the crystal until the end of the game. Here, however, [[spoiler:as Link is starting to transform, Zelda breaks herself free out of the CrystalPrison she's in in order to calm Link down from the corruption!]]
* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Agahnim is killed by Ganon when the Demon King decides that his servant has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]]. In the original game, [[spoiler:Agahnim is just an avatar of Ganon that gets killed by Link with the Master Sword]].
* EmpathicWeapon: The Master Sword has some intelligence to it.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While Ghanti and her teammates are bandits, they think that letting Ganon run amok with the Triforce is too dangerous and are willing to help Link stop him.
* EvilFormerFriend: Agahnim was a friend of [[spoiler:Link's father]] before his research into the Sacred Realm and deal with Ganon turned him into an evil sorcerer.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Agahnim was genuinely good-hearted until Ganon's power affected his mind.]]
* ForcedTransformation: People who wander in the Dark World for too long end up turning into beasts because of Ganon's power. More actively, Agahnim transforms [[spoiler:Ghanti into Trinexx as part of his plan to get Link to succumb to his hatred]]. It's implied that after the story's end, the transformed people turn back to normal, with Ganon's power disappearing after his defeat and Link's wish for Hyrule to be at peace.
* GreenEyedMonster: Mothula is described in the manga as originally being [[FairestOfThemAll a beautiful girl]] who turned jealous of a prettier girl. No such backstory is given to Mothula in the game.
* HealingHerb: Link gets an apple blessed with healing powers.
* HeroicLineage: Link is descended from the Knights. [[spoiler:So is Ghanti; it turns out she wasn't descended from thieves.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Ghanti, who started off as a bandit before becoming Link's friend.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Agahnim indulges in a bit of this in the original print once he's captured Zelda, saying how he's wanted her for a slave since the moment he first saw her.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Link manages to defeat the Ball & Chain Trooper by throwing a jar at it. Since the Trooper is actually a suit of AnimatedArmor, the enemy falls apart when the helmet is knocked off.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Subverted -- [[spoiler:Link is set up to be this, but Agahnim takes great pleasure in showing him that he's not as incorruptible as he thinks]].
* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: Ghanti was raised by bandits who told her Knights of Hyrule murdered her parents. She becomes an enemy after learning that Link is a Knight's son, until Zelda reveals that [[spoiler:the Silver Arrows Ghanti wears as earrings are proof she is descended from Knights and the bandits lied to her, as they instead killed her parents and raised her to be one of their own]].
* LoveRedeems: Ghanti starts off as a self-serving bandit who declares that she will kill Link one day, but not only protects him from Agahnim, but becomes his full-fledged companion in the Dark World.
* LoveTriangle: Ghanti the bandit cites this as the reason for her reluctance to help Link rescue Zelda, since she has feelings for Link but recognizes that Link also has feelings for Zelda.
* MagicalAccessory: [[spoiler:Ghanti]]'s earrings turn out to be the weapon they need to defeat their enemy.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Link selflessly uses the Triforce to wish for peace in Hyrule rather than wising his uncle or parents back to life.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: In his youth, Agahnim reasoned to Link’s father that doing whatever was necessary to get the Triforce was the only way to end all of Hyrule’s troubles. When Link’s father continued to interfere, Agahnim banished him to the Dark World. In the present, Agahnim does not bother to pretend that he wants power for anything except the sake of having it.
* OnlyThePureOfHeart: The Dark World transforms those with greed or hate in their hearts, so someone like Link [[spoiler:or Link's parents]] can travel through there without fear of a ForcedTransformation. [[spoiler:That isn't to say Link can't be corrupted...]]
* PiggybackCute: At one point, Link has to carry Ghanti up the mountainside on his back.
* RejectedByTheEmpathicWeapon: Agahnim turns Ghanti into the hydra Trinexx and sets her on Link. When Link gives Trinexx a near-mortal wound with the Master Sword and realizes too late what it really is, he gives into his hate for Agahnim, something that causes the sword to reject him [[spoiler:until Zelda breaks free from her CrystalPrison and gives him a CoolDownHug]].
* SecretKeeper: The barkeeper and bar patrons in Kakariko Village doesn't turn Link in after his wanted posters go up, and help him out by telling him to leave via the back door and handing over a map.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Sahasrahla is willing to set Link against an Armos to test his worthiness as a hero.
* StabTheSky: The Master Sword actually ''tells'' Link to do this after he draws it from its pedestal.
* VillainousBSOD: Agahnim experiences a breakdown when [[spoiler:Zelda foils his attempt to corrupt Link, and Ganon refuses to share the Triforce with him]].
* WasOnceAMan: All the Dark World bosses are here revealed to be Hylians cursed into monster forms when they entered the Dark World:
** Helmasaur King was a scaredy cat who went around wearing a large suit of armor to look more intimidating.
** Mothula was a pretty girl who was jealous of another girl prettier than her.
** Blind the Thief was actually three brothers who bickered all the time.
** Kholdstare was a very rich man that was left alone because he cared more about his money than anything else.
** Vitreous was a woman who loved spying other people to listen to their secrets.
** Trinexx was [[spoiler:Ghanti, transformed by Aghanim to trick Link into succumbing to hatred and turning into a monster]].
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When Agahnim is about to kill Link in the desert, Ghanti throws a sword at him to send him away. Despite having a good chance to finish off Link, she is unable to go through with it.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:Ghanti hates the Hylian knights so much that she used to want to kill Link because he's descended from them. It turns out that she's also descended from the Hylian knights, and the thieves killed her real parents. Learning that leads her to get over her hatred.]]
* YouDontLookLikeYou:
** The designs for Kholdstare and Vitreous are completely different from the original ones. While Game!Kholdstare is a spikeless Franchise/{{K|irby}}racko and Game!Vitreous is a genderless giant poison-oozing eye surrounded by other eyes, Manga!Kholdstare is a Franchise/{{P|okemon}}iloswine-like creature and Manga!Vitreous is a female giant one-eyed swamp-creature.
** Whenever Ganon makes an appearance in the story, he is often shown as a silhouette of his appearance in Ocarina of Time. During the final battle however, he has coarse black fur present only in this version despite not having such in previous and later appearances.
* YouKilledMyFather: Ghanti the bandit declares Link her enemy because he's the last of the Hylian knights, whom she has been raised to believe killed her parents. She's, therefore, surprised to find that [[spoiler:her guardian lied to her and she herself is, in fact, also descended from the Hylian knights]].
* YouMustBeCold: Link wraps Zelda in his cloak to protect her from the rain when they escape from Hyrule Castle. She smiles and tells him that it's warm, prompting the first appearance of his recurring LuminescentBlush.
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A fourth adaptation of ''A Link to the Past''. This manga was created as a tie-in to the Game Boy Advance release of ''A Link to the Past'' in 2005.
----
* AboveGoodAndEvil: Sahasrahla describes The Triforce as a pure power that will grant the wish of anyone who touches it, good or evil, but Ganon’s awful personality and goals are too much for even it.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Vitreous is a friendly {{Cyclops}} girl as opposed to the game where it was a mass of eyeballs acting as a boss without any real background.
* AdaptationalWealth: In the game, Link and his uncle lived in a small house. Here, they have enough resources to run an apple orchard.
* AdaptationOriginConnection:
** In this version, the Seven Sages are credited with creating the Master Sword.
** Agahnim has a new storyline that intersects with Link's. He is the one who kills Link's uncle, as opposed to the random brainwashed soldiers in Hyrule Castle. He also is the one who banished Link's CanonForeigner parents to the Dark World.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange:
** Just like Ishinomori's comic, the guards are actually AnimatedArmor rather than real people.
** Link's Dark World form is a wolf instead of a rabbit.
* AdaptedOut: Arrghus is the only Dark World boss not shown in the manga.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Several of Zelda’s retainers question whether or not someone like Link can really be the prophesied hero. When Zelda asks them how they could judge someone’s character when Agahnim was able to scheme right under their noses, they fall silent.
%%* BadassAdorable: Ghanti, and to a certain extent, Link himself.
* BadassCape: Played with. Link spends his time before becoming the hero wearing an unflattering cloak. He gets to wear a much better cape after the final battle with Ganon.
* BettyAndVeronica: Ghanti, who is a hot-blooded and dangerous bandit girl in a revealing outfit, is jealous of Link's feelings for Zelda, who is a kind, wise, and modestly dressed princess.
* CanonForeigner: Ghanti the bandit. [[spoiler:Subverted in that [[CanonCharacterAllAlong she is transformed into the monster Trinexx.]]]] The author's notes at the end state their hope that Ghanti [[CanonImmigrant would be present in a future game]].
* ChekhovsGun: While on his way to Hyrule Castle in the middle of a storm, Link finds an apple coming from his farm. He cleans it and picks it up, then a priest in the Sanctuary blesses it, rendering it able to heal any injuries. It comes into play several times afterwards, culminating in [[spoiler:Link giving it to Ghanti to heal her after she was mortally wounded as Trinexx]].
* ClippedWingAngel: All the monsters Link fights in the Dark World turn back into humans afterwards.
* ContinuityDrift: This manga came out over a decade after the other three ''Link to the Past'' mangas and incorporated elements from the later games released in the series that didn't exist when the earlier mangas were created. Ganondorf's human form uses his design from ''Ocarina of Time'' and the Armos Knight uses the ''Ocarina of Time'' design for Armos rather than the original ''A Link to the Past'' design.
* CooldownHug: Zelda delivers one to Link when [[spoiler:his hate for Agahnim makes susceptible to the Dark World's corruption and starts to transform him]].
* CurbStompBattle: Compared to how much trouble he had fighting other monsters, Link pretty much owned Trinexx. Aside from parrying its fire breath with his sword, he didn't have to do anything other than to hit it. Once. Even he noticed how Trinexx wasn't that strong.
* DamselOutOfDistress: In the game, Zelda remains in the crystal until the end of the game. Here, however, [[spoiler:as Link is starting to transform, Zelda breaks herself free out of the CrystalPrison she's in in order to calm Link down from the corruption!]]
* DiesDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: Agahnim is killed by Ganon when the Demon King decides that his servant has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outlived his usefulness]]. In the original game, [[spoiler:Agahnim is just an avatar of Ganon that gets killed by Link with the Master Sword]].
* EmpathicWeapon: The Master Sword has some intelligence to it.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While Ghanti and her teammates are bandits, they think that letting Ganon run amok with the Triforce is too dangerous and are willing to help Link stop him.
* EvilFormerFriend: Agahnim was a friend of [[spoiler:Link's father]] before his research into the Sacred Realm and deal with Ganon turned him into an evil sorcerer.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Agahnim was genuinely good-hearted until Ganon's power affected his mind.]]
* ForcedTransformation: People who wander in the Dark World for too long end up turning into beasts because of Ganon's power. More actively, Agahnim transforms [[spoiler:Ghanti into Trinexx as part of his plan to get Link to succumb to his hatred]]. It's implied that after the story's end, the transformed people turn back to normal, with Ganon's power disappearing after his defeat and Link's wish for Hyrule to be at peace.
* GreenEyedMonster: Mothula is described in the manga as originally being [[FairestOfThemAll a beautiful girl]] who turned jealous of a prettier girl. No such backstory is given to Mothula in the game.
* HealingHerb: Link gets an apple blessed with healing powers.
* HeroicLineage: Link is descended from the Knights. [[spoiler:So is Ghanti; it turns out she wasn't descended from thieves.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Ghanti, who started off as a bandit before becoming Link's friend.
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Agahnim indulges in a bit of this in the original print once he's captured Zelda, saying how he's wanted her for a slave since the moment he first saw her.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Link manages to defeat the Ball & Chain Trooper by throwing a jar at it. Since the Trooper is actually a suit of AnimatedArmor, the enemy falls apart when the helmet is knocked off.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Subverted -- [[spoiler:Link is set up to be this, but Agahnim takes great pleasure in showing him that he's not as incorruptible as he thinks]].
* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: Ghanti was raised by bandits who told her Knights of Hyrule murdered her parents. She becomes an enemy after learning that Link is a Knight's son, until Zelda reveals that [[spoiler:the Silver Arrows Ghanti wears as earrings are proof she is descended from Knights and the bandits lied to her, as they instead killed her parents and raised her to be one of their own]].
* LoveRedeems: Ghanti starts off as a self-serving bandit who declares that she will kill Link one day, but not only protects him from Agahnim, but becomes his full-fledged companion in the Dark World.
* LoveTriangle: Ghanti the bandit cites this as the reason for her reluctance to help Link rescue Zelda, since she has feelings for Link but recognizes that Link also has feelings for Zelda.
* MagicalAccessory: [[spoiler:Ghanti]]'s earrings turn out to be the weapon they need to defeat their enemy.
* TheNeedsOfTheMany: Link selflessly uses the Triforce to wish for peace in Hyrule rather than wising his uncle or parents back to life.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: In his youth, Agahnim reasoned to Link’s father that doing whatever was necessary to get the Triforce was the only way to end all of Hyrule’s troubles. When Link’s father continued to interfere, Agahnim banished him to the Dark World. In the present, Agahnim does not bother to pretend that he wants power for anything except the sake of having it.
* OnlyThePureOfHeart: The Dark World transforms those with greed or hate in their hearts, so someone like Link [[spoiler:or Link's parents]] can travel through there without fear of a ForcedTransformation. [[spoiler:That isn't to say Link can't be corrupted...]]
* PiggybackCute: At one point, Link has to carry Ghanti up the mountainside on his back.
* RejectedByTheEmpathicWeapon: Agahnim turns Ghanti into the hydra Trinexx and sets her on Link. When Link gives Trinexx a near-mortal wound with the Master Sword and realizes too late what it really is, he gives into his hate for Agahnim, something that causes the sword to reject him [[spoiler:until Zelda breaks free from her CrystalPrison and gives him a CoolDownHug]].
* SecretKeeper: The barkeeper and bar patrons in Kakariko Village doesn't turn Link in after his wanted posters go up, and help him out by telling him to leave via the back door and handing over a map.
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Sahasrahla is willing to set Link against an Armos to test his worthiness as a hero.
* StabTheSky: The Master Sword actually ''tells'' Link to do this after he draws it from its pedestal.
* VillainousBSOD: Agahnim experiences a breakdown when [[spoiler:Zelda foils his attempt to corrupt Link, and Ganon refuses to share the Triforce with him]].
* WasOnceAMan: All the Dark World bosses are here revealed to be Hylians cursed into monster forms when they entered the Dark World:
** Helmasaur King was a scaredy cat who went around wearing a large suit of armor to look more intimidating.
** Mothula was a pretty girl who was jealous of another girl prettier than her.
** Blind the Thief was actually three brothers who bickered all the time.
** Kholdstare was a very rich man that was left alone because he cared more about his money than anything else.
** Vitreous was a woman who loved spying other people to listen to their secrets.
** Trinexx was [[spoiler:Ghanti, transformed by Aghanim to trick Link into succumbing to hatred and turning into a monster]].
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When Agahnim is about to kill Link in the desert, Ghanti throws a sword at him to send him away. Despite having a good chance to finish off Link, she is unable to go through with it.
* YouAreWhatYouHate: [[spoiler:Ghanti hates the Hylian knights so much that she used to want to kill Link because he's descended from them. It turns out that she's also descended from the Hylian knights, and the thieves killed her real parents. Learning that leads her to get over her hatred.]]
* YouDontLookLikeYou:
** The designs for Kholdstare and Vitreous are completely different from the original ones. While Game!Kholdstare is a spikeless Franchise/{{K|irby}}racko and Game!Vitreous is a genderless giant poison-oozing eye surrounded by other eyes, Manga!Kholdstare is a Franchise/{{P|okemon}}iloswine-like creature and Manga!Vitreous is a female giant one-eyed swamp-creature.
** Whenever Ganon makes an appearance in the story, he is often shown as a silhouette of his appearance in Ocarina of Time. During the final battle however, he has coarse black fur present only in this version despite not having such in previous and later appearances.
* YouKilledMyFather: Ghanti the bandit declares Link her enemy because he's the last of the Hylian knights, whom she has been raised to believe killed her parents. She's, therefore, surprised to find that [[spoiler:her guardian lied to her and she herself is, in fact, also descended from the Hylian knights]].
* YouMustBeCold: Link wraps Zelda in his cloak to protect her from the rain when they escape from Hyrule Castle. She smiles and tells him that it's warm, prompting the first appearance of his recurring LuminescentBlush.
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* KillTheParentRaiseTheChild: Ghanti was raised by bandits who told her Knights of Hyrule murdered her parents. She becomes an enemy after learning that Link is a Knight's son, until Zelda reveals that [[spoiler:the Silver Arrows Ghanti wears as earrings are proof she is descended from Knights and the bandits lied to her, as they instead killed her parents and raised her to be one of their own]].
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Link has a massive crush on Din in ''Oracle of Seasons''.
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