What is Calamity Ganon? - Zelda Theory
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- Опубликовано: 8 окт 2021
- What is Calamity Ganon? - Zelda Theory
Breath of the Wild leaves its players with quite a few questions by the time the credits roll, but something related to Calamity Ganon, I'm sure, tops many lists. Today we'll be talking about this version of Zelda's big bad and attempt to answer the question just what is Calamity Ganon?
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Calamity Ganon is the strongest puppet / blight that Ganondorf has made. Ganondorf was sealed under Hyrule Castle. Ganondorf circumvented the seal by leaking malice out his 10,000 year old body. Calamity Ganon is the biggest and most dangerous blight, but in the end, Calamity Ganon is identical to the blights. We haven’t seen Ganons true power during the BOTW era. Just his extremely powerful puppets.
Can confirm this in Totk
Wow dude bang on the money😊
Yup, and now we have Tears of the kingdom ❤
@@ryannixon4138yeah Dark beast hits harder now because it's just pure weak but still destructive malice
And oh Lord we have to fight dragon Ganon now. I wish calamity's final form was the dragon but that would have been hard to program
But now we have furry Zelda for dogfighting
This guy is a time traveler!
I like to imagine that the real Ganondorf CAN'T control the Calamity directly, instead only able to send it out there with a basic set of directions and hope for the best. Mainly because the mental image of Corpsedorf screaming to himself "No you buffoon! Not like that!" is hilarious to me.
Also "Ganon always pig but now...SPIDER???" should be on a t-shirt.
Spider-pig, spider-pig
@@damiesidian Spider-pig was one of the best Spider-People in Spider-Verse.
And ganon is also a dog according to zelda in the champions ballad Daruk memory
My personal theory is that Calamity Ganon wanted to be fully covered in technology. Like instead of having part pop out he wanted it to fully cover his body so he could hide inside it.
Basically he wanted to turn himself into a divine beast
@@Infernalisk that was pretty obvious if you just play the game
I like how you said “how does he return after being sealed away?” My understanding is that he will always have an apprentice that serves him and will find a way to release him, like Ghirahim or Astor.
Always two there are. No more, no less. A master... and an apprentice.
Darth ganon
But demise and skyward sword are long before Oot (ocarina of time) before Ganon was born as a gerudo boy before he got his triforce powers and Demise is the original demon king and when he was defeated by link demise stated that his hatred for the gods will live on through the years and demises red firey hair signifies that Ganon will become the new demon king
@@jacobguerena406 not sure the last bit makes sense, "demise's red hair signifies that ganon will become the new demon king". Firstly ganon already is the demon king, that's his title. Secondly, why would demises hair signify something for ganon?
@@rohangardiner because Ganon is demises hatred that lives on and the red hair ganon has in other games where he transforms it glows like demises and that signifies that ganon became the second demon king after demises fall
One thing to note is that 'reincarnation' and 'revival' actually have different meanings. Reincarnation is when an entity's soul or consciousness inhabits, or is born into, a new body or host after death. Revival is when a dead entity returns to life with it's original body. Calamity Ganon attempting to assume a different form throughout history is reincarnation, while Ganondorf returning to life in BotW 2 would be revival.
When the English version of the game states that "he has given up on reincarnation" it may just be saying that Ganondorf has given up on awaiting another Calamity Ganon, and instead awaits the imminent revival of his true body. Perhaps he pooled together most of his remaining Malice to create Dark Beast Ganon in an attempt to destroy the hero and ensure no one can prevent his return. Maybe a necessary result of creating DBG is that Ganondorf would no longer have the means to summon another Calamity. Thus he has 'given up on reincarnation' but is still stubbornly determined to 'revive' in his true form.
I'm inclined to agree.
Mind blow
And wouldn't that also mean that demise's curse is still there after we defeat Ganon In tears of the kingdom because he was trying to revive himself (and tried to kill link by giving up on the reincarnation of calamity ganon which is just his malice) so now he can't even try to reincarnate his malice because he gave up on that and we also killed him in tears of the kingdom after he had revived at the beginning of the game, (we didn't just pause /trap him like rauru did) he or another reincarnation of demise's evil and hatred will return eventually just like after every other Villain/ganon/ganondorf .
I figured the malice just leaks out of the corpse until its strong enough the be calamity ganon. So even with the calamity destroyed, the source is not. Whether or not he has direct control over it might not be important since the malice could very well contain his will disembodied.
This is what I think will be most likely be the case.
Can confirm this with totk
TOTK - no spoilers - pretty much confirms a lot of people's 'this isn't the TRUE Ganon' theories.
This is, basically, a puppet. The real Ganon was taking a super long nap.
Considering that Calamity Ganon couldn't absorb Zelda like it did with Astor, and was subsequently imprisoned in the sanctum by her power, it makes sense that it wouldn't be able to generate a humanoid physical form and was forced to slowly eat away at Guardians to generate a new body, but when Link arrived, its body was unfinished, and its hate for the hero overwhelms Zelda's power and it breaks free prematurely to battle with Link in its incomplete form. Had Link arrived too late (which never happens in game) Ganon may have been able to consume Zelda and generate an unstoppable humanoid form to unleash a living hell upon Hyrule.
Edit: Also, it's highly implied that Harbinger Ganon merged with Calamity Ganon of the past as well, which is why it was invincible until Terrako's sacrifice weakened it.
What of calamity Ganon was the Ganondorf introduced in 4 swords adventure and the one in the botw2 trailer is the ORIGINAL Ganondorf who couldn't reawaken until his reincarnation was sealed or destroyed
OH... Now that would quite be a twist!!!
Interestingly, If you look at the head on Calamity Ganon's physical form in the Hyrule Castle fight, its head doesn't resemble TotK's Ganondorf, but _Twilight Princess'_ Ganondorf, AKA the original one from Ocarina of Time, instead. So perhaps TotK's Ganondorf spews out malice from his imprisoned body and the original one swoops in and manifests as the calamity once he's able to gather up enough of it? It would also explain why Dark Beast Ganon looks so like TP's beast Ganon even down to sharing the same name?
It turned out that calamity Ganon was a projection rather than a force of nature. Just ganondorfs power seeping out and concentrating into pure hatred.
my therory is that calamity gannon is the cause of the hateful malice coming from gannondorf's corpse and that it carries out his hatred as just a small extentsion of gannondorf's power
In the Japanese version of a link to the past Ganon describes Agahnim not as his alter ego but as his "bunshin" a word that depending on the context could mean something like copy, clone or soul split
This implies that Ganondorf is capable of creating sentient phantoms that have a copy of The demon king's mind inside of them
Since the first teaser for the sequel to breath of the wild I have speculated that Ganondorf was controlling Calamity Ganon during the second great calamity until Zelda sealed it within Hyrule castle weakening Ganondorf's control over it and putting the blight Ganon's into a 100 year slumber until Link awakened the dormant sheikah towers
Awesome theory. I also avoided Ganon till the end of the game, and wasn't expecting the cyborg spider thing. And I agree about Calamity Ganon being a separation or segment of Ganondorf's soul or hatred in the form of a force of nature that needs a host. I hope we learn more in BotW II next year, if not, that's okay too.
Well the eyes on malice are his eyes. He is like slime.. even when it separates... It's still one. From what I see his power oozes out to do his bidding. So his conscience is still with his body but he send out shards. Like how he was still in botw and, traveled back with Terrako and, attempt to dominate there... A piece of malice is also a piece of Gannon. The many are one kinda thing So, when you fight the blights.. you are fighting Gannon... A piece of him. So Calamity is Gannon. He keeps the Hero's busy until the Host Ganon the man gets free. He will attempt to dominate one way or another.
Exactly! I see it as Malice = Calamity Ganon. So any instance of malice we see is technically a part of the Calamity Ganon hivemind. So for Ganon to take a physical form outside of malice he needs some kind of host.
@@Xenogamer Yep... He is all over Hyrule. Every eye around that country is him watching. Interestingly enough perhaps fighting him as the blights taught him how to fight Link when he arrives.
@@THEKINGOFGAYMUSIC Reminds me of Sauron from LOTR, an all seeing eye, wreathed in malice.
I hope we find out what the king meant when he said that the king of evil was born into this kingdom but his transformation into malice created the horror you see now. There’s a lot of mystery hidden in that line.
I think he ment that Ganondorf was a Gerudo man born in the Hyrule that became pure hatred and evil after many defeats
Hi totk just released and i can confirm that this is true being ganondorf is the gerudo chief that is sealed beneath the castle for thousand of years and his accumulated hatred and malice form what is called calamity ganon
My favourite video of yours to date! Your voice over is strong and the theory great
Calamity ganon always reminded me of skulltulas. Spider legs and his face looks like a skull🧐
So...what is the Blood Moon? We know what it _does_ but not what it _is_ or _how_ it is.
Now no longer a slave to demise a sane Gannon battles with link and Zelda to put down demise for the last time.
I went straight there as soon as I got off the Great Plateau with a minor detour of 1 shrine along the way and then died to Windblight.
You are so underrated dude. Your content is awesome!
I don't think the Calamity Ganon form had abandoned or was severed from its corpse. I think BotW2 is going to reveal that Ganondorf and his connection to the Triforce of Power became the power source for Sheikah tech, and this draining imprisonment amplified his malice and gave rise to the Calamity.
What I love most about this video is that it keeps going where most other similar videos stop. I can't tell you how many times I've heard, "Calamity Ganon is just a puppet of Ganondorf," and that's it. You actually explained what that meant, how it worked, and what it could mean for the future, and I can't tell you just how much I appreciate that.
4:32 Kinda like the eye of Sauron I guess.
Consider merging this theory with other ideas: 1) @Zeltik and someone else considering that Ganondorf is the power source of the Ancient Ovens (or whatever they're called); 2) your proposal here that Calamity Ganon was being forged from ancient Sheikah technology; 3) the idea that Princess Zelda is trapped inside Calamity Ganon, struggling to maintain the seal; 4) the absorption of Astor to make the Hyrule Warriors' version of Ganon; 5) the fact that Calamity Ganon was not yet finished; 6) the similarities between the cocooned Calamity and Cherry, both producing powerful tools through ancient oven-like tech; and 7) the possibility that Zelda was sealing herself too (which Astor could not do), to prevent the completion of Calamity Ganon despite 100 years of development. I think there's an interesting overarching approach here that shows that not only is Ganondorf not dead, and not fully "locked down" by the hand, but is quite aware that through the hand he's feeding ancient Sheikah technology, and found one of those outlets could be corrupted and fed in secret. He was simply unable to complete a usable form due to Zelda's ability to hold him off. Now that the hand is off, he doesn't need that corrupted outlet, he can step out as-is in BOTW 2.
My theory is ganondorf after the events of the imprisoning war after Gannon was partially stored away he wanted to have an attempt at coming back as early as possible and when knowing the technology there was he thought he could make the calamity as a puppet to takeover the technology and be able to have some way of keeping the kingdom bathed in evil so once he could make his grand revival as the demon king he couldn’t be stopped
But then of course link and HYAH!! Stopped him in his trace
i think calamity ganon is just an energy body created by ganondorf's corpse. now hear me out before you light your torches and unsheathe your farmers pitchforks! (see what i did there) i think that before the calamity happened, ganondorf did some ritual under hyrule to put his body into a comatose stasis. but before falling into said coma, he created the energy body calamity ganon. not another being, nor ganons soul; but like a shadow clone from naruto.
Calling something a "Force of Nature" requires it being something Natural in the First Place like an Earthquake or a Blizzard or a Volcanic Eruption.
He is the result of a summoning spell fueled by, and personifying, Ganondorfs rage. The only way he could attack Hyrule while sealed beneath the castle.
We wonder who would win in a fight between Calamity Spider Ganon and OoT/TP Ganondorf/ Ganon
Calamity ganon is like the weakest ganon as it's only a puppet.
Spider-Ganon, Spider-Ganon, Dose Whatever a Spider-Ganon Dose 🕷
I thought the final boss was, somehow, going to be the giant legless boar form that's always circling the castle.
Imagine, Link defeats this... Let's call it Ganonblight, and then, the spider dissipates into a whirlwind of malice, carrying Link into the air and out a window(or brick). Link falls and, via the paraglider, lands in Hyrule Field.
From there it's a struggle to survive. Ganon would fly up and dive, attempting to consume Link multiple times, as well as scatter shooting malice. Zelda gives Link the bow of light to deter Ganon while Link scales Hyrule Castle, this time devoid of enemies.
As Link climbs atop the highest tower, he gains the opportunity to climb onto the Calamity itself. Numerous Malice Eyes form to oppose Link's progress, testing both paragliding and climbing as Ganon attempts to shake Link off.
The Malice that makes up the Calamity is caustic, so Link has constantly attack as he makes his way to the head, like cutting grass except the grass is poison.
By the time Link gets the head, that third eye appears for Link to wail on, but it's not entirely safe as the "poison grass" regrows and the Calamity continues to flail.
As Link deals the finishing blow, the Calamity writhes and falls to Hyrule Field, Link using the Paraglider to land safely, and then the Calamity forms into Dark Beast Ganon. The difference here? The various eyes can fire malice to make up the Ganon's slow speed(though Ganon will get faster as the fight goes on), and second difference? Link has to fight on foot, without a horse to increase his agility.
My theory, as it stands, is that Ganondorf made two wishes on the Triforce during Ocarina of Time. First, when he entered the sacred land to steal the Triforce After the Hero of Time drew the Master Sword, he wished for the power to rule over Hyrule. Later, when he overcame the Hero of Time to bring about the Downfall Timeline, he united the Triforce again, and wished to live forever.
The Triforce did its best to grant both of these wishes, but it is, at its best, a mere shadow of the power of the balanced power of the three Creator Goddesses, so its attempts to grant Ganondorf's wishes were less effective than Ganondorf expected.
First, at the wish for the Power to Rule Hyrule, the Triforce split itself and broke into three pieces, granting Ganon the Triforce of Power, but having its other two pieces forever tending to gravitate toward those who would oppose him. Second, at the wish to live forever, the Triforce created Ganon, a magical form, which would reform and regenerate over time when it was destroyed. Thus was the Reincarnation cycle of Demise's curse given up on, as Ganondorf would never fully die to allow the Curse to be reborn (as it is in the Spirit Tracks Villain, Cole).
I maintain that each time Ganon is defeated and sealed away, or destroyed and forced to reform itself, Ganondorf's anger and malice grows, and his mental state dimisnishes, increasing the overall raw power the next appearance of Ganon has when it arises, until it finally takes on the form of the raw, elemental malice that we see in Breath of the Wild. It isn't a thinking being anymore. It is just a Raw force of corruption that does what it can to fulfill Ganondorf's desire for dominion.
Very interesting take because i was always wondering why he looked so different as if he split his soul from his body due to hatred forming the malice
I've always interpreted the Calamity Ganon form floating above the castle as a spirit rather than a serpent
Calamity Ganon is just a super charged Phantom Ganon.
I have always been a fan of the Force-of-Nature category of villain. The thing that is threatening about them is not that they'll take over the world, that they'll kill everything, that they'll do something else completely absurd that involves destruction on a large scale, it is the fact that they merely exist.
The Corruption/Crimson from Terraria is threatening because they seem so... antithetical to everything else in the game.
Judgement from Hyper Light Drifter always sends a chill down your spine simply by the way it appears next to the protagonist.
And the Calamity is threatening because it is an ominous presence, forever watching you, spreading its plague.
Thank you for listening to my TAD-Telk
When I first seen the trailer for Breath of the wild I was so hyped because I thought that we’ll be able to fight the calamity in serpent form when he was hovering over Hyrule castle it would’ve made the final fight way more interesting and more epic if Nintendo would’ve did that
this is a good idea, I honestly thought that maybe someone try to stop ganondor cycle and that's why he is a corpse in the sequel but calamity was a result of trying that, but I can agree with this one too, the real question is will fight mummfied Ganondorf or someone he will restore his body and that's why he captures zelda.
I remember going into Hyrule castle to get the last memory and then fight Ganon, then I accidentally walked into the Ganon fight straight away, I was devastated
I think the sequel will fully explore how Ganondorf was able to Manipulate all of these despite being supposedly dead.
that calamity ganon is super cool
calamity Ganon is an extension of miyamotos ego
He's just Universal law. A necessary evil
3:27 Whoa! Not bad!
Demise will come back. He posses the body of Twilight Princess Ganon and uses Sheikah technology to enhance his powers. We still don’t know what happened to Link and Zelda after Skyward Sword ended.
Spider Pig, Spider Pig, does whatever a Spider Pig does
I remember hearing that gannon built the body when he leared that link woke up
Wait, are you telling me that you weren't supposed to go to Hyrule Castle after you get off the Great Plauteau. In order to collect the godlike weapons there?
Well if we look at Age of Calamity it seems this Calamity Ganon was attempting to make itself a body much like but the one in that game but link arrived before it was ready
In Age of calamity malice takes over astor's body transforming him into calamity ganon meaning it is just autonomous malice.
I like to think he would have been Super Saiyan Ganon if he'd completed himself.
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Wait if u fight the blights from divine beasts u don't have to fight them in the final BOSS?
Very interesting
I think the corpse is not ganondorf, but astor or someone even more evil, like tingle.
I think that either Ganon itself is the curse of Demise given form and after it’s defeat it retreats to the corpse of Ganondorf from Twilight Princess where it was sealed far away from where the monsters could retrieve him,
Or Ganondorf never died and instead he purposefully imprisoned himself far away from the eyes of the Royal Family and has to build up his malice for 10,000 years to form a New Calamity Ganon and Calamity Ganon is just malice that Ganondorf is in control of
can you pls make dark beast ganon?
Ganon himself is malice and as long as his malice exist, Hyrule will always be in danger. Even if his body is destroyed, his soul is immortal and he will reincarnate forever due to Demise's curse. The blood moon is how the curse is activated. We will see two things in BOTW Sequel. Either the complete eradication of Ganon's soul or his next proxy destroyed. He will no longer be a threat until his next reincarnation.
Yeah Xeno #ageofcalamityiscanon!!!! Take care Dude. Good video.
Do you think maybe Ganondorf was in the middle of ritual to absorb Ganon? Being a host himself?
I personally subscribe to the theory that Calamity Ganon was just a puppet, if only because of his weird connections to Puppet Ganon from Wind Waker. Both versions of Ganon feature the same forms: Serpent, Spider, and Boar. Given how specific these forms are, I highly doubt that's a coincidence.
i think calamity ganon, isn't just a force of nature, but also just a true monster. a being born out of pure hate and just destroys, it doesn't think, it can't think, it just destroys. also i think calamity ganon was always trying to become a humanoid form, even in breath of the wild because we see it have humanoid arms. In breath of the wild, zelda came in and stoped him, slowing his incarnation into a humanoid form substantially, an when link got to the castle, it frantically gathered all the tech around it and tried to make it fit into a complete form before link got there but it was too late, link was already there. realizing it might be destroyed, it popped out of the cacoon to kill link. in age of calamity calamity ganon was able to reincarnate much quicker, since zelda didn't put a seal on calamity ganon, and when link and the others got to the castle, ganon absorbed astor because it required more energy, finally being able to reach it's complete form. also i do think ganondorf's spirit is in calamity ganon because calamity ganon has to be sealed away instead of being destroyed like the blight ganons, and as to how ganondorf's spirit returned to it body, either zelda's sealing power is connected to the hand seal, so ganondorf's spirit returned to his body. or ganondorf's spirit didn't return at all, thats why ganondorf's eyes are eyes of malice, it's the malice possesing ganondorf's body to find his spirit to revive himself, and zelda has ganondorf's spirit, along with the rest of calamity ganon in a seal, that would be and interesting concept to explore in BOTW 2.
Or what if because the timelines have joined the reason why theres two versions of Ganon is because there's more than one Ganon from the child timeline and the fallen timeline lol
i dont completely believe age of calamaty is cannon but most of it is like besides the time travel and some other minor things but its pretty cannon.
Since when has Ganon been right inside the castle gate?
Because calamity Ganon is the rage of demise and Gannon for the first time an uncountable eons is finally free the triforce of power is finally purified it is no longer tainted by demise you see that red puffle light and then there is Golden light it shows the last of calamity demise exiting Gannon Ganon going freedom.
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The bit about breaking the cycle always felt a bit like wishful thinking to me. Ganondorf is about as likely to be retired as Bowser imo
True, even if the series ever ended up breaking Demise's Curse I'm sure Ganon would weasel his way back in somehow!
phantom Ganon
awww I spoiled the ganon fight in hyrule warriors
We do see calamity ganons real form in hyrule warriors age of calamity
in my personal theory and world because the legend of zelda series has always promoted using the games as a skeleton to write your own story and ideas i always thought ganon was an omnipotent being who is one of the peices of triforce always hating hylians as a sort of satan of the zelda universe as apposed to hylia existing solely for the purpose of hatred and power using any form he can such as ganon dorf who is but a devout follower of ganon and will take long to regain his power
Isn't it fairly obvious that calamity Ganon is malice combined with Sheikah technology?
Plus it's a metaphor giant robo Gannon inside the giant robo Gannon is a spider now Harkins back to Nintendo 64 the giant tree had a what inside of it that were slowly corrupting it and killing it what if eventually demise gets separated from Canon and Gannon matches to userp demises power leaving a heavenly weekend mortal demise and Gannon uses that power to restore himself.
Based spider Ganon???😳
Reincarnation and revival is not the same thing so both versions sre correct Demise gave up on being reborn in a new body every few hundred years and instead revives the calamity endlessly
Pokémon music subtly in the background
Man i missed breath of the wild 😢
I don't know that the ganondorf on botw 2 is not reincarnation it's more like reanimated of a old recarnation. I know it's confusion but it makes sense if you look at your video!!..
Oh One more than the English and Japanese text you ever thought that it was clever Easter egg or not?
How to stretch a 2 minute video to 11=
A big meanie. That's what
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Personally I think we should wait until the zelda team confirms age of calamity is canon before jumping to that conclusion. It was developed by a third party, so I will remain sceptical. However, that doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't make theories about age of calamity. The zelda team might be inspired by age of calamity regardless of whether it is canon or not.
First ig