Diababa

Diababa is the Boss of the Forest Temple in Twilight Princess.^[2]

Characteristics

To think that there was a monster lurking deep inside the temple...

These things will gobble up a little guy like you in one bite! If you don't want that to happen, you'd better keep your guard up!

When asked again

Those things look like idiots with their mouths open like that...

Put something in those things' mouths to shut them up!

After Link bombs one head

Eee hee! One more!

After Link bombs both heads

It...didn't like that...

I don't think it will be as easy this time around. Don't get eaten!

Once Ook appears

Hey, that guy... Isn't that the boss monkey?!

He brought an exploding bug! Maybe he's trying to help?

After Link uses the Gale Boomerang to retrieve a Bombling from Ook

Hey! Take that bug the monkey's holding and hit that thing in the head! Hurry or it'll snack on you!

Once Link uses one of Ook's Bomblings on a head

I think we have a chance...

That monkey's a good guy! Use his help and destroy this thing!

Diababa is a colossal, three-headed Deku Baba. The main head has thick, segmented neck and a narrow snout with a bottom jaw that is able to split into two. It has a pink mouth and an eyestalk with a yellow eyeball. The two lesser heads have slimmer, longer necks and blue mouths with long tongues.

Diababa's Boss Room is a vaulting tree hollow with four waterfalls feeding into a Poison Pool. Three Bomblings stand perched on floating logs in the pool. When Link enters the chamber, the Water in the pool begins to bubble and Diababa's two lesser heads emerge.

The battle thus commences with the two lesser heads, which will periodically lunge at Link to bite him. To defeat them, Link must use the Gale Boomerang to blow one of the three Bomblings into their mouths. A single hit causes a head to sink back into the water.

After seemingly defeating the two heads, the water begins to bubble again. Diababa's main head emerges alongside with both lesser heads and roars at Link. With the Bomblings blown away in the process, the hero is briefly left without a way to defeat Diababa. Ook then appears on a balcony and swings back and forth across the room with a Bombling between his feet. Link must Target this Bombling with the Gale Boomerang and blow it towards Diababa's main head or, optionally, its lesser heads. Hitting the main head stuns Diababa and causes it fall open-mouthed on the ground, leaving its eyestalk vulnerable to attack. When Diababa recovers, it will spray noxious purple liquid that Link must avoid. Ook reappears soon after with another Bombling, allowing Link to repeat the process.

Upon defeat, Diababa thrashes around then dries out. The eyeball detaches from its eyestalk, darkens, then explodes, leaving behind a Heart Container. Diababa's body also darkens and explodes, then coalesces into the first of the three Fused Shadows. The Boss Room lightens and the pool of water is purified.^{[note 1]}^{[note 2]}

Trivia

Diababa is one of three Bosses to have a unique fanfare that plays upon their defeat in Twilight Princess, with the other two Bosses being Blizzeta and Armogohma.

Nomenclature

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Gallery

Diababa's first form
Diababa revealing its true form
Diababa's central head and its tongue-like eye appendage

Notes

↑ Link can Swim in the pool. Descending into the pool causes him to fade back to the entrance of the Boss Room.^{[clarification needed]}
↑ If Link returns to Boss Room afterwards, the Water reverts to poison.

References

↑ Link encounters the Twilit Parasite Diababa, a three-headed Deku Baba corrupted by one of the four Fused Shadow shards Link must collect to stop Zant. (Encyclopedia, Dark Horse Books, pg. 155)
↑ Encyclopedia, Dark Horse Books, pg. 175