Talk:Dark Beast Ganon

Translation Discrepancy
I'm fairly sure this is well known, but the wiki (and Zelda which is the source of the information) say Dark Beast was born when "Ganon gave up on reincarnation and assumed his pure, enraged form" which is actually a mistranslation: in Japanese (the original language) Zelda says that "Dark Beast is the result of Ganon's obsessive refusal to give up on reincarnation" or something like that. Kirby737 (talk) 07:41, 17 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Yes, we are aware of this. Here, we go off of the English canon and currently that is the latest canon information about Dark Beast Ganon, so the Japanese canon would not come into play here. However, we can make a note of it in Trivia. 20:49, 17 March 2021 (UTC)


 * I think I tried to address this when I wrote the article but this isn't actually a discrepancy. A lot of fans interpret it that way because it was phrased in a weirdly, but this has to do with his cocoon. The first indication is that Ganon is still very clearly trying to manifest in Hyrule, so he's not done with trying to come back. The second is that after he is defeated, Zelda says that he is gone, but only for now.
 * Even in the English text you can piece together that she doesn't mean he plans to never come back, so what Zelda is referring to is his plan to reincarnate as Calamity Ganon, which he has been attempting for a century. Zelda held him back from doing so for 100 years and Ganon has no choice but to use the imperfect body to fight Link when he enters the Sanctum. Link destroys this body and waiting another century to return via another cocoon isn't an option, so Ganon's best hope to continue to destroy Hyrule is to amass his remaining Malice to form a new and less ideal body. He no longer has the option to execute his century-long attempt to reincarnate as that physical form, and this is what Zelda is referring to when she says he has given up on reincarnation. TriforceTony (talk) 22:53, 13 January 2023 (UTC)