Zelda Guest Appearances

ZELDA GUEST APPEARANCES

Today, let's go over all the major guest appearances of Legend of Zelda characters in other properties. We'll start with the most obvious: Super Smash Bros. Naturally, Legend of Zelda has had a major presence in the series from the beginning, starting with Link in the first game, with a recreation of Zelda's castle from Ocarina as a stage. From there, Zelda, Ganondorf, and Young Link were added in Melee, Zelda coming with a gimmick of transforming into Sheik, alongside Great Bay from Majora's Mask and a generic ruins-style stage called Temple. In Brawl, all returned except for Young Link, who was replaced by Toon Link. Tetra's ship from Wind Waker and the Bridge of Eldin from Twilight Princess appeared as the stages. The same returned again in 4, with no new additions, and Gerudo Valley from Ocarina, a train from Spirit Tracks, and Skyloft from Skyward Sword all became new stages. Finally, Ultimate brought back Young Link, and added in the Great Plateau Tower from Breath of the Wild. Also Tingle, Midna, Ghirahim, Skull Kid, and the moon from Majora's Mask all acted as assist trophies at different points.

Another prominent guest appearance came from Namco-Bandai's Soul Calibur II, where Link appeared as a version exclusive guest fighter, with Heihachi Mishima taking his place in the PS2 version, and Spawn taking his place in the Xbox version. Link's moveset there was mostly built on various sword attacks, but it did incorporate his bombs, bow and arrows, and boomerangs as well. In general, basically built on stuff we've already covered.

Across Nintendo, Link has appeared as a guest in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, riding a motorcycle based on Epona, and with a racetrack built around Hyrule, featuring Deku Babas in place of Piranha Plants, Keese in place of Swoops, and Rupees in place of coins. Several of 9-Volt's minigames have also featured the Legend of Zelda in the Wario Ware series, a minigame based on Legend of Zelda appeared in Nintendo Land, and the character Crazy Tracy from Link's Awakening played a part in Captain Rainbow. Finally, the Wii U version of the game Scribblenauts Unlimited featured several cameos from Legend of Zelda characters.

And I think that's about it! Here's what we've got:

I guess quite a bit, but nothing truly new brought to the table.

Thanks for reading! I guess there's not much need for any character updates, so I guess we can move on to . . . the television cartoon. If you'll excuuuuuuuuse me, I'd better go get that started.

Guest Appearances

GUEST APPEARANCES

Today, let's do a quick go over of most of Mario's major extra-Mario-series appearances. Within Nintendo itself, we obviously have the entire Super Smash Bros. series, with Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi appearing in the first game, Peach, Bowser, and Dr. Mario joining in the second, Wario and Diddy Kong in the third, Rosalina and Bowser Jr. in the fourth game, and lastly Daisy, King K. Rool, and Piranha Plant in the fifth. Nintendo Land also has several games based on the Mario, Donkey Kong, and Yoshi series, Captain Rainbow featured cameos here and there, and one of the Punch-Out!! games featured Donkey Kong as the final boss. Outside of Nintendo, Mario guest starred weirdly in two games you . . . probably wouldn't expect him in. One is NBA Street V3, a basketball game starring lots of real-world players, and the other is SSX on Tour, a snowboarding game seemingly more or less in the same vein, both produced by EA Sports. Why those two specifically, I may never know, but there it is.

Let's see what we've got:

Characters:

Mario: handstand, jump, crouch, spin, spin on bar, hammer, spring, key, pick up and throw, giant, float, fly

Cat Mario: glide, swipe, climb, evil cats, throw blocks, butt bash, Giga Cat Mode

Luigi: invisible

Wario: metal, Wario Man

Yoshi: fire breath, tongue

Donkey Kong: punch, barrel, stomp, jack, grow giant, throw enemies

Donkey Kong Jr.: hop, throw switches

Pauline

Birdo: Robirdo

Bowser Jr.: paintbrush, Klown Kar, hammer

All characters appearing in SMB2, SMW, SMW2, and SMB3

All characters appearing in the DKC series

All characters appearing in SM64

Diddy Kong

Dixie Kong

Tiny Kong

Wizpig

Taj

Timber and the other racers

Team Captains: deny, rally, bonus block, play dead, lightning, parry, bob-omb, thwomp, face off, backup, sneak attack, shell strike, aerial, melee, long range

Best Fitness Friends: rubber bands, malatone formula, doppelganger, fire punch, barrel, spin, divebomb, screech, fire, lightning, combine, laser beam, charge, cyclone, mystery box

Poochy: run, bash through objects, spin, Poochy pups, sliding, crouching, biting a hand, eating cake, catching a ball, carrying things, catching a frisbee, pulling on a rubber band, licking things, pushing a button with his tail, rolling.

Kat & Ana

Dribble & Spitz

I8-Volt

Nabbit

Peachette

Funky Kong: surfboard

King Boo

Dry Bones

Inklings

Bosses:

King Bob-Omb

Goomboss

King Boo

Chief Chilly

Stages:

Construction Site

Big City

Forest

Ship

Jungle

Desert

Airplane

Iceberg

Rocky-Valley

All stages appearing in SMB2, SMW, SMW2, and SMB3

All stages appearing in DKC series

Palm Beach

Poison Swamp

Secret Factory

Ice Area

All locations in Diddy Kong Racing

Minions Battlefield

Dribble & Spitz Rally

Kat & Ana's Sky Patrol

Jet 18Volt

World-9 Cloud

Battle Stadium

Sweet Sweet Kingdom

Dragon Palace

Lunar Colony

Wuhu Town

Luigi's Mansion

Battle Course 1

Urchin Underpass

Lake Lapcat

Mount Magmeow

Thanks for reading! Next week, I expect I'll be finished with the Mario Golf: Super Rush walkthrough I've just started, so probably that. If not, we'll get started on our handful of character sheets.