History WebVideo / TheHeroOfTime

* AdaptedOut: All of the Zora are left out, presumably for time and the difficulty in the effects for them. There are no named Korkiri besides Saria, no Gorons from the game (the only one who appears is named Dariu), and there are no Gerudo besides Ganondorf.

* PinnedToTheWall: Link somehow does this with a non-pointed stick on fire, finishing the last enemy at Talon's farm by throwing it at him.

* ResetButton: In-universe and like with the game, [[spoiler:after defeating Ganondorf and near death, Link manages to put the Master Sword back in the Temple of Time and goes back to prevent Ganondorf's rise to power.]]

** When walking through Hyrule Castle Town, Link sees a man running a card game and asking a potential customer, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda "Want to play a money-making game?"]]

* {{Chickification}}: After spending the movie helping Link defeat monsters, Sheik joins Link in the final battle against Ganondorf's minions [[spoiler:and is caught from behind and held with a sword to her throat, to get leverage over Link.]]

* KilledByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Poor Malon, in the BadFuture, was killed by Ganondorf's soldiers shortly after he took over Hyrule.]]

* KilledByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Poor Malon was killed by Ganondorf's soldiers shortly after he took over Hyrule.]]

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Malon is killed by Gabon’s forces here, while she is fortunately still very much alive in the canon games]].

* DeathByAdaptation: [[Spoiler: Malon is killed by Gabon’s forces here, while she is fortunately still very much alive in the canon games]].

* AdaptationDistillation: Because a movie can't go on for as long as a video game can, a lot of the FetchQuest parts of the game are removed or toned down (most notably, the entirety of the Spiritual Stones quest is removed) as well as some of the puzzles that require going forward and backward in time (instead, Link doesn't go back in time at all [[spoiler:until after Ganondorf is defeated]]). Because there also isn't enough time to introduce the Sages as characters and have Link meet and bond with all of them (as in the game), the Sages are instead portrayed as nameless people (like in ''A Link to the Past'' or ''Four Swords''). Also, there's no attempt to hide that Sheik is a woman, presumably because, like with [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Eowyn]], it's not too easy to pass an adult woman off as a man on film.

See also ''WebVideo/TheLegendOfZeldaTheSageOfDarkness'' for another ''Zelda'' FanFilm.

See also WebVideo/TheLegendOfZeldaTheSageOfDarkness for another ''Zelda'' FanFilm

* AdaptationDistillation: Because a movie can't go on for as long as a video game can, a lot of the FetchQuest parts of the game are removed or toned down (most notably, the entirety of the Spiritual Stones quest is removed) as well as some of the puzzles that require going forward and backward in time (instead, Link doesn't go back in time at all [[spoiler:until after Ganondorf is defeated]]). Because there also isn't enough time to introduce the Sages as characters and have Link meet and bond with all of them (as in the game), the Sages are instead portrayed as nameless people (like in ''A Link to the Past'' or ''Four Sword''). Also, there's no attempt to hide that Sheik is a woman, presumably because, like with [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Eowyn]], it's not too easy to pass an adult woman off as a man on film.

* Chickification: After spending the movie helping Link defeat monsters, Sheik joins Link in the final battle against Ganondorf's minions [[spoiler:and is caught from behind and held with a sword to her throat, to get leverage over Link.]]

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Link's journey out of the Lost Woods. He gets briefly lost, then finds a...random guard who tries to steal his sword while Link sleeps. Link ties him up, implies in their conversation that the guard is one of a few who swore to protect the forest, and forces the guard to tell him how to get out of the woods. This scene, including the fact that Link left someone tied up in a dangerous forest, is completely forgotten after Link leaves.

* DawsonCasting: While the actors for Link and Zelda are perfectly fine [[spoiler:after five years passed]], the fact that several characters describe them as "children" indicates that they were meant to be considerably younger at the start of the film than Blane and Fischer were.

* ItWasHisSled: Zelda is Sheik. The film doesn't even bother with some of the game's ways of hiding it. For example, no one ever wonders about Sheik's sex (Link calls her "Lady Sheik" from the start).
* KilledByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Poor Malon...]]

* ResetButton: In-universe and like with the game, [[spoiler:after defeating Ganondorf and near death, Link manages to put the Master Sword back in the Temple of Time and goes back to prevent Ganondorf's rise to power.

The story, which [[VideoGame/LegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime may sound a bit familiar]], tells of a boy named Link, raised amongst a race of forest people called the Kokiri. Sent out by the Great Deku Tree to save the land, Link meets the beautiful Princess Zelda, who is unable to convince her father of the evil nature of their new Gerudo ally, Ganondorf. Forced to flee after the king is assassinated, Zelda gives Link the Ocarina of Time and instructs him to get the Master Sword so he can slay Ganondorf. Unfortunately, [[ForegoneConclusion as any fans of the game can tell you]], this does not go at all as planned.

See also WebVideo/TheLegendOfZeldaSageOfDarkness for another ''Zelda'' FanFilm

* AdaptationalAngst: Talon is a lot more serious about things than his carefree self and Malon is considerably more shy and nervous when she first meets Link, although both are explained as a result of them recently moving to Hyrule Castle Town and being unused to living in a populated area (which obviously never happened in the game). [[spoiler:Five years in the future, Talon has become even more depressed and bitter, due to the fact that Malon ''died''.]]