Calamity Ganon: Difference between revisions

|image= File:BotW Calamity Ganon Artwork.png

|caption=Artwork of Calamity Ganon's incorporeal form

|title= Scourge of Hyrule Castle {{Exp Game|BotW}}<ref name="Scourge">{{Cite|Scourge of Hyrule Castle<br>{{Big|Calamity Ganon}}|N/A|BotW}}</ref><br>Calamity Enveloped in Malice {{Exp Game|BotW}}<ref>{{Cite Book|quote= {{Big|Ganon|2}}<br>{{Big|A Calamity Enveloped in Malice}} |book= CaC |publisher= |page= 75 }}</ref><br>Hatred and Malice Incarnate {{Exp Game|HWAoC}}

|gender= Male<ref>{{Cite|Ganon was cunning, and he responded with a plan beyond our imagining. He appeared from deep below Hyrule Castle, seized control of the Guardians and the Divine Beasts, and turned them against us.|King Rhoam|BotW}}</ref>

|game= {{BotW}}

|other= {{SSBU}}<br>{{HWAoC}}

|dungeon= [[Hyrule Castle (Breath of the Wild)|Hyrule Castle]]

|health=  

|weakness= [[Master Sword]]

|voice actor=  

{{Term/Store|Calamity Ganon||Series, BotW, SSBU}} is a recurring major antagonist in {{TLoZ|Series}}.<ref name="Scourge"/>

{{Term|BotW|Calamity Ganon}} is known as a primal evil that has appeared throughout Hyrule's history.<ref>{{Cite|The history of the royal family of Hyrule is also the history of Calamity Ganon, a primal evil that has endured over the ages.|Impa|BotW}}</ref> Ten thousand years before the events of {{BotW}}, it appeared to ravage the world.<ref>{{Cite|Upon Ganon's inevitable return to Hyrule, the princess and the hero fought alongside these four Champions against this ancient evil.|Impa|BotW}}</ref> In preparation for this, the [[Sheikah]] built a massive army of mechanical protectors called [[Guardian#Breath of the Wild|Guardian]]s to aid the Hero and the Princess.<ref>{{Cite|The people thought it wise to utilize their technological prowess to ensure the safety of the land, should Calamity Ganon ever return. They constructed four mechanical wonders that came to be known as the Divine Beasts. They also built a legion of autonomous weapons called Guardians.|Impa|BotW}}</ref> Four massive mobile fortresses known as [[Divine Beast]]s served as the centerpieces of this army. With this collaboration between the Sheikah and the Hylians, Ganon was sealed beneath Hyrule Castle where it lay dormant for several millennia.

One hundred years prior to the game, a prophecy warned of the return of {{Term|BotW|Calamity Ganon}}.<ref>{{Cite|The return of Ganon looms—a dark force taunting us from afar. I must learn all I can about the relics so we can stop him. If the fortune-teller's prophecy is to be believed, there isn't much time left...|Zelda|BotW}}</ref><ref>{{Cite|Stories of Ganon were passed from generation to generation in the form of legends and fairy tales. But there was also...a prophecy. "The signs of a resurrection of Calamity Ganon are clear. And the power to oppose it lies dormant beneath the ground."|King Rhoam|BotW}}</ref> Hoping to prepare in the same fashion as their ancestors, the people of Hyrule began working to locate and excavate the Divine Beasts and Guardians.<ref>{{Cite|We decided to heed the prophecy and began excavating large areas of land. It wasn't long before we discovered several ancient relics made by the hands of our distant ancestors. These relics, the Divine Beats, were giant machines piloted by warriors. We also found the Guardians, an army of mechanical soldiers that fought autonomously.|King Rhoam|BotW}}</ref> Four [[Champion]]s from each of Hyrule's races were chosen to pilot the Divine Beast of their people<ref>{{Cite|We selected four skilled individuals from across Hyrule and tasked them with the duty of piloting the Divine Beasts.|King Rhoam|BotW}}</ref> and the restoration of the mechanical army seemed to be a phenomenal success.<ref>{{Cite|The princess, her appointed knight, and the rest of the Champions were on the brink of sealing away Ganon...|King Rhoam|BotW}}</ref> Meanwhile, Princess Zelda worked to awaken her sealing powers alongside a young knight, Link, who had been appointed as her protector.<ref>{{Cite|One hundred years ago, there was a princess set to inherit a sacred power and a skilled knight at her side.|King Rhoam|BotW}}</ref> Zelda was determined to awaken her power and prayed at the three springs of the goddesses in Hyrule, but her efforts were met with failure.<ref>{{Cite|So you didn't feel anything? No power at all?|Revali|BotW}}<br>{{Cite|I'm sorry, no.|Zelda|BotW}}</ref> Minutes after she had finished praying at the [[Spring of Wisdom]], the Calamity broke its seal and rose up around the castle. In a move that surprised everyone, however, it managed to corrupt the entire Guardian army with its Malice and turned them against Hyrule.<ref>{{Cite|Ganon was cunning, and he responded with a plan beyond our imagining. He appeared from deep below Hyrule Castle, seized control of the Guardians and the Divine Beasts, and turned them against us.|King Rhoam|BotW}}</ref> Even the Divine Beasts, with their pilots slain, fell under the control of incarnations of Ganon's [[Malice]].<ref>{{Cite|That...thing is one of Ganon's creations.|Mipha|BotW}}</ref><ref>{{Cite|You're here to wrest control of Medoh away from Ganon, correct?|Revali|BotW}}</ref> With their strongest weapons turned against them, Hyrule was laid to ruin and Link grievously wounded, requiring him to sleep in the [[Shrine of Resurrection]] for 100 years.<ref>{{Cite|The appointed knight, gravely wounded, collapsed while defending the princess...And thus, the kingdom of Hyrule was devastated absolutely by Calamity Ganon.|King Rhoam|BotW}}</ref><ref>{{Cite|I spoke with Purah about the Shrine of Resurrection we discovered earlier. As we speculated, this particular shrine is, in fact, a medical facility with the power to heal. It also has a long-term stasis function that can be activated and maintained until healing is complete.|Zelda|BotW}}</ref><ref>{{Cite|You have been asleep for the past 100 years.|Zelda|BotW}}</ref> Princess Zelda went to confront the {{Term|BotW|Calamity Ganon}} on her own and managed to seal it once more, though this required her to also become its prisoner to maintain the seal.<ref name="Old Man">{{Cite|I assume you caught sight of that atrocity enshrouding the castle. That...is {{Color|BotW Red|Calamity Ganon}}. One hundred years ago, that vile entity brought the kingdom of {{Color|BotW Blue|Hyrule}} to ruin. It appeared suddenly and destroyed everything in its path. So many innocent lives were lost in its wake. For a century, the very symbol of our kingdom, Hyrule Castle, has managed to contain that evil. But just barely. There it festers, building its strength for the moment it will unleash its blight upon the land once again. It would appear that moment is fast approaching...|Old Man|BotW}}</ref>

Throughout Link's journey during the events of {{BotW|-}}, the Calamity can be seen swarming around Hyrule Castle,<ref name="Old Man"/> where Zelda is using her power to keep him tethered there.<ref>{{Cite|The words of guidance you have been hearing since your awakening are from Princess Zelda herself. Even now, as she works to restrain Ganon from within Hyrule Castle, as she calls out for your help.|King Rhoam|BotW}}</ref> When Link arrives at the [[Sanctum]] of [[Hyrule Castle]], Ganon is found hibernating within a cocoon, attempting to regenerate a physical form.<ref>{{Cite|Hibernating within a cocoon, it attempted to regenerate a physical form after Link awoke but was forced to confront him in an incomplete state.|Hyrule Compendium|BotW}}</ref> Link awakes Ganon from this process prematurely, confronting it in an incomplete form resembling a grotesque mixture of Ganondorf, Malice and Guardian parts. {{Term|BotW|Calamity Ganon}} fights with a mixture of attacks used by its four incarnations of Malice.

|fighters= Giant {{Stock|SSBU|Ganondorf|5}}<br> Ally {{Stock|SSBU|Zelda|2}}

|conditions= {{·}} You lose if your CPU ally is KO'd<br>{{·}} You'll occasionally take sudden damage after a little while<br>{{·}}The enemy is giant}}

==={{HWAoC|-}}===

Calamity Ganon retroactively debuts during the second Great Calamity. In an attempt to ensure that its manifestation cannot be averted, it sends a piece of itself through the time warp used by the [[Diminutive Guardian]] to stop it from changing the future. Soon afterward, it tries to use a possessed Guardian to try and kill Zelda as she, Link, and Impa are on their way to the Ancient Tech Lab. It eventually gained a more complete form after having its [[Harbinger Ganon]] form absorb [[Astor]] after the two were brought to a corner by the Champions of Hyrule, which resembled a gigantic, Malice and Shekiah technology fused version of his human form, albeit with a slightly piggish snout. It was also invincible in this form, forcing the Champions to their knees until Terrako, reactivated after being forced to fight the Champions due to Calamity Ganon, proceeded to take Ganon's blast towards Zelda, weakening him enough to ultimately seal him away.

File:BotW Calamity Ganon Model.png|{{Term|BotW|Calamity Ganon}} as seen in-game from {{BotW|-}}

File:Calamity Ganon Concept art.png|alt=Calamity Ganon Concept|Concept art of Calamity Ganon's corporeal form.

* [[Dark Beast Ganon]]

* [[Fireblight Ganon]]

* [[Ganon]]

* [[Ganon's Cocoon]]

* [[Great Calamity]]

* [[Malice]]

* [[Thunderblight Ganon]]

* [[Waterblight Ganon]]

* [[Windblight Ganon]]

* [[Harbinger Ganon]]

  |Demons, Ganon, Primary Spirits

  |bosses= BotW

  |characters= BotW, SSBU