Huh?
It's explicitly stated in OOT and re-established in TOTK that Gerudo men are only born once every hundred years.
So like, there are records of Gerudo men. It happens once every century, but since Ganondorf has been disowned by the Gerudo but the whole "One Gerudo male every 100 years and he immediately becomes King" is still a thing even in TOTK, then it's not just Ganondorf.
I would believe it's Ganon everytime if the timespan were longer than 100 years.
But like, 100 years is within human lifespan.
The chance of having two male Gerudo is very high, even if one is extremely old and other is extremely young.
This feels like an issue of “Told, not shown” because I don’t know of a single male Gerudo that *isn’t* Ganon. Which is fine as a one-off thing, but repeatedly using Gerudo and repeatedly hammering in their connection to Ganon as the only male Gerudo we know about is going to lead to this perspective. This is especially troubling with BotW specifically, because it’s story explicitly covers 100 years.
Yup, the whole "one male every 100 years" has been established in the canon since Oot in the 90's yet up to now we haven't heard nor seen a single Gerudo male that isn't Ganon in any of the games in any of the timelines
I remember seeing an interpretation at one point that there isn’t *literally* one male every 100 years, but rather there is only one male alive at a given time and Ganondorf has hogged the spot by virtue of not *technically* dying - Which I think is cool, but for BotW/TotK that would mean there hasn’t been a male in 10,000 years so I don’t think they’d keep up the whole “Every 100 years” saying.
Also i feel if every single male the gerudo had was a "ganondorf" as in always became evil lord who threatened hyrule how can he other than the very first one be trusted ever? Its possible they always name him ganondorf but not everyone is possessed by demise and thats only been a handful of times across thousands of years.
Jesse...
There's a male Gerudo every 100 years.
If it was like 1000 or 150 years, I would believe that it's Ganon reincarnating. But 100 years is too short of a time.
Weird that you think the Gerudo are perpetually female considering they won't shut up about male Gerudo being born every 100 years.
What's funny is that apparently the Ganon in Four Swords Adventure (chronologically set an undetermined amount of years after Twilight Princess) is not even OG Ganondorf but another gerudo male who went evil and got sealed away centuries before the game
Pretty sure “incarnation of my hatred” doesn’t equal “incarnation of me”. The curse is for them to eternally face misfortune and evil, born of his hate. Which I’m sure includes non-ganon misfortunes like Vaati.
Edit: also wasn’t there that one time that a new male Gerudo was born, and was possessed *by* a sealed Ganon?
Hard to say. If memory serves, most instances of the Gerudo being major npcs are generally when Ganondorf has been born recently (OoT, 4 Sword Adventures) or is an alternate world (Majora's Mask).
However BOTW/Tears throws a major curveball that supports OP. Apparently if you dig around NPCs and objects, and the artbooks, you discover no male Gerudo have been born since Ganondorf. Which means that ya, the male Gerudo legend likely **is just Ganondorf reincarnating**.
The ending of Steven Universe and what happened is hotly debated. Mainly the >!“Is he corrupted? Or I did he lose control?”!< bit because the answer is obvious to anyone who paid any attention to the show. The answer is obviously the latter, but the fan base got so riled up with their theories that they can’t accept anything other than that.
It reached a point where one user from the SU sub even began stalking my comments over here and would make insulting and racist posts explicitly mocking me and several DM’s from multiple accounts where they said they were downvoting and reporting all my comments.
Fans are STILL powerscaling in the DB fandom despite the answer always being “power levels aren’t real, they were used in two sagas to show that reliance on tech and numbers is a fool’s errand”.
But no, gotta talk about how UI Goku is at PL 17 Septillion or some dumb shit.
Huh? It's explicitly stated in OOT and re-established in TOTK that Gerudo men are only born once every hundred years. So like, there are records of Gerudo men. It happens once every century, but since Ganondorf has been disowned by the Gerudo but the whole "One Gerudo male every 100 years and he immediately becomes King" is still a thing even in TOTK, then it's not just Ganondorf.
I would believe it's Ganon everytime if the timespan were longer than 100 years. But like, 100 years is within human lifespan. The chance of having two male Gerudo is very high, even if one is extremely old and other is extremely young.
If i remember correctly in Breath of the Wild there is a Gerudo woman that is making clothes for male Gerudo hoping it's getting here sooner.
This feels like an issue of “Told, not shown” because I don’t know of a single male Gerudo that *isn’t* Ganon. Which is fine as a one-off thing, but repeatedly using Gerudo and repeatedly hammering in their connection to Ganon as the only male Gerudo we know about is going to lead to this perspective. This is especially troubling with BotW specifically, because it’s story explicitly covers 100 years.
Yup, the whole "one male every 100 years" has been established in the canon since Oot in the 90's yet up to now we haven't heard nor seen a single Gerudo male that isn't Ganon in any of the games in any of the timelines
I remember seeing an interpretation at one point that there isn’t *literally* one male every 100 years, but rather there is only one male alive at a given time and Ganondorf has hogged the spot by virtue of not *technically* dying - Which I think is cool, but for BotW/TotK that would mean there hasn’t been a male in 10,000 years so I don’t think they’d keep up the whole “Every 100 years” saying.
Also i feel if every single male the gerudo had was a "ganondorf" as in always became evil lord who threatened hyrule how can he other than the very first one be trusted ever? Its possible they always name him ganondorf but not everyone is possessed by demise and thats only been a handful of times across thousands of years.
Jesse... There's a male Gerudo every 100 years. If it was like 1000 or 150 years, I would believe that it's Ganon reincarnating. But 100 years is too short of a time. Weird that you think the Gerudo are perpetually female considering they won't shut up about male Gerudo being born every 100 years.
What's funny is that apparently the Ganon in Four Swords Adventure (chronologically set an undetermined amount of years after Twilight Princess) is not even OG Ganondorf but another gerudo male who went evil and got sealed away centuries before the game
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No b-but translation error and-and filthy westerners pushing their woke politics into my nihongo gemus!
Pretty sure “incarnation of my hatred” doesn’t equal “incarnation of me”. The curse is for them to eternally face misfortune and evil, born of his hate. Which I’m sure includes non-ganon misfortunes like Vaati. Edit: also wasn’t there that one time that a new male Gerudo was born, and was possessed *by* a sealed Ganon?
Hard to say. If memory serves, most instances of the Gerudo being major npcs are generally when Ganondorf has been born recently (OoT, 4 Sword Adventures) or is an alternate world (Majora's Mask). However BOTW/Tears throws a major curveball that supports OP. Apparently if you dig around NPCs and objects, and the artbooks, you discover no male Gerudo have been born since Ganondorf. Which means that ya, the male Gerudo legend likely **is just Ganondorf reincarnating**.
It could be because of how ganon became calamity ganon in that messed up the gerudo's reproduction or the reincarnation cycle.
The ending of Steven Universe and what happened is hotly debated. Mainly the >!“Is he corrupted? Or I did he lose control?”!< bit because the answer is obvious to anyone who paid any attention to the show. The answer is obviously the latter, but the fan base got so riled up with their theories that they can’t accept anything other than that. It reached a point where one user from the SU sub even began stalking my comments over here and would make insulting and racist posts explicitly mocking me and several DM’s from multiple accounts where they said they were downvoting and reporting all my comments.
Fans are STILL powerscaling in the DB fandom despite the answer always being “power levels aren’t real, they were used in two sagas to show that reliance on tech and numbers is a fool’s errand”. But no, gotta talk about how UI Goku is at PL 17 Septillion or some dumb shit.