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Non-playable fighters that serve either as minor allies or Elite Mooks while on the battlefield.
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Hylian Captain
- Adaptational Badass: Most portrayals of Hylian soldiers have them easily defeated by even common monsters (when they appear at all), with Twilight Princess in particular showing them as putting up a brave front until monsters are mentioned. Here, they may be Red Shirts, but they're Red Shirts who can take down enemies, and will try their damnedest anyways; as useless as they are against character officers, they can easily claim a keep or two while you're contending with the mission objectives.
- Big Damn Heroes: Even these guys get the opportunity for this one. In the last Scenario of Linkle's Tale, they start the battle with Moblins bearing down on them while they're still weak and wounded. Linkle has to save them, whereupon they drop refills and leave. After King Dodongo shows up, more and more hordes of monsters keep spawning... and all the Hylian Captains that Linkle saved return to block the biggest horde, letting Linkle and Impa focus on the Giant Boss. Even one Captain can hold them off long enough to make a difference; save the entire army, and they'll stave off the horde long enough to take out King Dodongo with no sweat.
- Can't Catch Up: The second most common line you'll hear from them, which they say almost verbatim whenever they flee the battle or are defeated.
- Cool Sword: They wield swords.
- Cool Helmet: Captains' helmets are a little more extravagant than common soldiers'
- Death from Above: Their strongest attack (which reveals their weak point) is a jumping slash.
- Knight in Shining Armor: They have the look down pat, and they try their best to protect the kingdom of Hyrule. They're just not very good at it.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: They can block using shields, and it's the easiest way to identify a captain from a soldier. It's even their rare Silver material for defeating them.
- The Millstone: If Princess Zelda is the keystone of the Hyrulean Forces, then her Captains are the millstone. Do not expect them to help you win the battle, except maybe by distracting enemy captains from their advance for a few seconds. On the other hand, letting them be defeated by said captains in Adventure Mode often saddles your entire army with nasty debuffs.
- Non-Elemental: They have no elemental weakness.
- Red Shirt Army: They're mostly on your side, but they often request for help and if you don't oblige, they flee rather easily.
- If one turns into a Vengeful Ghost, he may make a chunk of your forces flee the battle. Said chunk may contain the Allied Commander, netting you an instant defeat.
- Luckily, the same goes for Hylian Captains who appear on or join the enemy team. Knock out the captain, and their entire squad will usually vanish.
- Turncoat: In the Skyward Sword section of Legend Mode, they turn on the allied forces due to being Brainwashed and Crazy. In certain Adventure Mode missions in DLC, they lead mobs of turncoat soldiers against the allied forces and inspire other allied forces to go rogue as well.
Goron Captain
- Bare-Fisted Monk: Along with the regular Goron Red Shirts, they fight bare-handed.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: Alongside Darunia when Sheik and Impa go to the Era of the Hero of Time.
- Cool Helmet: They wear a helmet Horny Vikings-style, which helps differentiate them from common Goron grunts. It's their rare Silver material for defeating them.
- Kill It with Water: Goron Captains are weak to Water-based attacks.
- Red Shirt Army: They don't fare too much better than their Hylian allies.
- Rolling Attack: They prepare their weak point-exposing attack by doing this.
Lizalfos and Dinolfos
- Breath Weapon: They can breathe fire either in long-range fireballs or a short-ranged stream.
- Composite Character: While they are primarily based on their designs from the N64 games, they wield shields much like their counterparts in Twilight Princess, and said shields are mounted to large gauntlets like those worn by their counterparts in Skyward Sword.
- Ground Punch: Their super attack involves setting a wave of fire on the ground, then sending it forward by leaping and punching down. It can be interrupted with arrows in Hyrule Warriors, or bombs in Legends.
- Kill It with Water: Lizalfos are weak to Water-based attacks.
- King Mook: In Cia's Tale, two chieftains of the Lizalfos and Dinolfos appear. They are considerably larger than their underlings, and they serve as lieutenants to Volga. They also show up in a few missions with Volga in Legends.
- Lizard Folk: They're a savage race of lizard men.
- Our Dragons Are Different: They are reptilian humanoids who breathe fire and serve under the Dragon Knight Volga. In the last stage of Cia's Tale, the chieftains say they are "dragonkind".
- Sssssnaketalk: Sometimes their dialogue is written like this.
- Tail Slap: Much like their later counterparts in Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword, they can jump and strike you with their tail.
- You No Take Candle: For the few times they say anything, this is the manner in which they talk.Lizalfos Chieftain: Defeated... I HATES IT!
Big Poe and Icy Big Poe
- An Ice Person: Icy Big Poes use icy attacks instead of purple fire.
- Bedsheet Ghost: They wear the tattered robes standard of the look along with a crooked, pointy hood.
- Charged Attack: For their super attack, they charge their lanterns with energy, then send out a giant blast of ghostly fire/ice. This attack can be interrupted with the Bow.
- Flashy Teleportation: They fade in and out of existence as their dodge move.
- Kill It with Fire: Icy Big Poes are weak to Fire-based attacks.
- Kill It with Water: Regular Big Poes are weak to Water-based attacks.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: They're hostile and restless spirits that serve as enemies.
- Painfully Slow Projectile: One of their weak point-exposing attacks has them create a Spread Shot of fire/ice balls. This can actually make it difficult for certain mobile characters like Fi and Impa to break their weak points. This can be especially obnoxious if there are several of them close together and they all throw spreads at the same time.
- Playing with Fire: Big Poes attack with ghostly-looking purple fire from their lanterns.
Gibdo and ReDead Knight
- Adaptation Name Change: An odd case, as the regular enemies were known as "ReDead Knights" in Twilight Princess, but they were renamed to "Gibdos" in this game. This is because in the original Japanese script, the regular enemies were actually called "Gibdos". In this game, the name "ReDead Knight" is instead given to the stronger fiery variant that is later encountered.
- Immune to Flinching: They can't block attacks, but to compensate, they can't be flinched by any attack unless you're breaking its Weak Point Gauge or using a Special Attack.
- Incendiary Exponent: ReDead Knights are a stronger variant of Gibdos that are on fire and have charred bandages. They don't have any fiery attacks, though.
- Kill It with Fire: Gibdos are weak to Fire-based attacks.
- Kill It with Water: Redead Knights are weak to Water-based attacks.
- Mighty Glacier: They're slow movers and sluggish attackers, but they are very strong, have a lot of health, and are usually immune to flinching.
- Poisonous Person: They spit noxious balls as a ranged attack. For their super attack, they first do their paralyzing scream, then spew a Deku Baba-like field of poison around them. This attack can be interrupted with the Bow.
- Super-Scream: They use their iconic fear-inducing yell to freeze their opponents.
- Undead Mooks: They're shambling reanimated corpses that are surprisingly resilient and tough to deal with.
Darknut and Stalmaster
- Adaptational Species Change: The games flip-flop on whether Darknuts are organic beings underneath the armor, or simply Animated Armor. For the sake of VS Skills that make certain enemies go down easier, they are grouped with Undead.
- Adaptational Wimp: Both were minibosses and among the toughest enemies to deal with in their respective games. Here, they're arguably the easiest enemy captains to deal with in the game.
- Dem Bones: Stalmasters are reanimated skeletons in the vein of Stalfos and Stalchildren.
- Dual Wielding: Their super attack has them draw a second sword then send a barrage of Sword Beams everywhere. It can be interrupted with the boomerang.
- Glass Cannon: Capable of doing heavy damage if they connect with their swings, but they strongly telegraph said swings, and they have the most rapidly depleting weak points in the game (if a character has all three Stamina Fruit gauges, they can do it in one hit). They also take some of the largest damage from a weak point smash.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom/Red Eyes, Take Warning: Their eyes glow red right before they do their dash attack, however, this exposes their weak point.
- Informed Ability: One Adventure Mode 'quiz' refers to the Stalmaster as an axe wielder. If you haven't played Skyward Sword, the axe in question becomes this, as their fighting style has become identical to the Darknut's (you can see it on their back hip, but they never draw or use it).
- Kill It with Fire: Stalmasters are weak to Fire-based attacks.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Stalmasters have four arms, but the only way you'll see them is in their rarely-seen idle animation.
- Mythology Gag: Their weak-point is exposed when you manage to get behind them, referencing the fact that attacking a Darknut from behind is usually the optimal strategy across Zelda games.
- Shield Bash: They do this either to shake you off after beating on it too much, or right before they do their weak-point exposing attack.
- Stone Wall: Yes, they have their Weaksauce Weakness and become extremely easy to expose their WPGs due to the Mythology Gag, but their tendency to immediately put up their guard if you hit them even once or get too close to them means you practically have to abuse that or their elemental weakness in order to deal with them quickly, as they're extremely difficult to launch, and thus start a high-damaging combo on them for that reason. Failure to properly deal with these guys can quickly make them
Goddamned Bats due to their guarding tendencies. - Throwing Your Sword Always Works: They throw their weapons as a ranged attack. Naturally, they just pull out another one from Hammerspace.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Simply standing behind or running circles around them makes them enter weakpoint. While they will turn fairly quickly to try and avoid this, it's still not very hard to do.
Aeralfos and Fiery Aeralfos
- Airborne Mook: Once you attack them enough, they fly high enough that most attacks can't hit them, and they easily dodge the ones that can hit them. You can pull them down at any time using the Hookshot.
- Breath Weapon: Much like their Lizalfos relatives, but unlike in Twilight Princess, they can breathe fire.
- Fragile Speedster: They may be annoyingly quick, but they have low health unless boosted by a golden aura, and their weak point gauges break very easily.
- Ground Punch: Just like Lizalfos and Dinolfos, their super attack has them setting a wave of fire on the ground, then punching the ground to send it forward. The only difference is that they do it in midair, and the attack is instead interruptible with the Hookshot.
- Kill It with Water: Fiery Aeralfos are weak to Water-based attacks.
- Moveset Clone: They have a lot of the same moves as Lizalfos and Dinolfos, plus several moves on their own.
- Our Dragons Are Different: They're a race of dragon-men who can fly and breathe fire.
- Sssssnaketalk: They speak similarly to how Lizalfos and Dinolfos do.
- Sword Plant: One of their attacks has them strike the ground after flying. This leaves them vulnerable to a Weak Point Attack.
- You No Take Candle: Much like their wingless cousins, Aeralfos speak in very basic sentences.
Moblin and Shield Moblin
- Adaptational Badass: In the original The Legend of Zelda, they were one of the weakest enemy mooks around. In Skyward Sword, from which their design comes, they weren't pushovers, but they were pretty slow to react to attacks and easy to outmaneuver until they were dead. In this game, they're perhaps the toughest of the enemy captains, due to a combination of their defensive capabilities, the fact that they don't open their weak point gauge for very long, and their special attacks are difficult to interrupt (due to the slow speed of and difficulty aiming bombs).
- Adaptation Name Change: Even though both types of Moblins carry shields, Wooden Shield Moblins are renamed to simply "Moblins" while Metal Shield Moblins are "Shield Moblins". Justified due to the original length of their names likely exceeding character limits.
- Belly Flop Crushing: They often belly-flop on the ground to make a small shockwave to attack. This attack exposes their weak points.
- Javelin Thrower: As a ranged attack, they can throw their spears like a javelin.
- Kill It with Fire: Regular Moblins are weak to Fire-based attacks.
- Lightning Bruiser: They're already strong and resilient by themselves, but they also have surprisingly quick attacks that can catch you off-guard if you're not careful.
- Logical Weakness: Probably in reference to Skyward Sword, the regular wooden shield Moblins are weak to fire while the Metal Shield Moblins are weak to lightning.
- Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Just like in Skyward Sword, they carry massive shields. This time, even the Wooden Shield Moblins can't have their shields sliced up. It's also the rare drop for Shield Moblins.
- Our Goblins Are Different: They are one of the many "blin" enemy races in the game alongside the regular Bokoblin and Bulblin Mooks.
- Spin Attack: Their super attack has them twirl around with their spears outstretched, then ending in a belly flop. You can interrupt this attack with Bombs.
- Stout Strength: While no stronger offensively than any other captain would be, they're very good at resisting blows and have very large frames.
Big Blin and Stone Blin
- Bully Bulldog: Much like in their game of origin, they have this appearance as a throwback to the dog-like Moblins of the earlier games.
- Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Stone Blins are really just Big Blins with stone armor.
- Ground Pound: Can jump and land heavily as an attack.
- Kill It with Water: Stone Blin are weak to Water-based attacks.
- Shockwave Stomp: Their super attack has them hold their club up high, then bring it down with an immense amount of force. You can interrupt this attack with the Hammer.
- Sword Beam: Yeah, it's with a club, but the principle is still there.
