The Zelda character Nintendo forgot about

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Nobody is ever truly forgotten once they've appeared in the manual for an NES game.

I think it can be argued that the Zelda from Skyward Sword wasn't a princess, she was just the daughter of an academy headmaster. Her descendants would eventually become the royal family, so she can be the first Zelda, while the one from Zelda 2 being the first Princess Zelda.

It makes sense that the "legend" changed over time. Real life legends change as well

The Zelda timeline is intentionally vague. It's possible that the royal name tradition started in Zelda 2, but that princess just happened to be named after Skyward Sword Zelda without the tradition being made official. It's never said she explicitly WASN'T named after a previous generation.

It should be mentioned that Zelda in Skyward Sword, is not actually a Princess. She is the daughter of the Headmaster of the Knight's Academy. And we learn that she is the re-incarnated motal form of the Goddess Hylia - a lesser goddess to the ones who created the land and the Triforce. Also whatever timeline Tears of the Kingdom is part of, has the founding monarchs called King Rauru and Queen Sonya - so that doesn't contradict either.

The prince saying that every princess shall be named Zelda doesn't have to contradict the timeline with other princesses named Zelda earlier. It is possible that before this moment at the end of the Defeat timeline and in the other timelines there were other princesses NOT named Zelda. Popular names tend come back every few generations, especially among royalty. This will still make this Zelda the 1st gen Zelda of that naming tradition.

If I had a nickle for every brother character Nintendo forgot over time, I'll have two.

Skyward Sword was the game I remember thinking “Damn, Nintendo just said screw the timeline”. BOTW was when they said “What timeline?”

This kinda shows how messy Hyrule Historia's timeline is in actuality and why all the games don't need to be connected into one timeline.

I still find it interesting that Zelda 2 has two princesses, and we don't know where the second one comes from. Thought I guess it kinda ties into TotK's story since it...uh...spoilers. The problem with some of the Zelda games is it spawned theories about Hyrule resetting every so often and no one remembering the old kingdoms. Which works for some entries, but not so much for others. I know people want the same for BotW and TotK, but I'm wholly convinced it takes place during a split sometime around Skyward Sword's era and sits in a 4th timeline. There's just way too many paradoxes with the other timelines for it to fit.

I think its interesting that supplimentary material (mainly the Ran Maru manga) reveals that the prince WAS the wizard, as well as Ganon, having some sort of weird split personality (it's not explained very well to my knowledge), making Zelda's brother our first instance of Ganondorf before Ocarina of Time.

I'd really like Zelda to get her own spinoff game. Peach gets her own games, why not Zelda? Her plotline in TotK (in the optional flashbacks) is way more interesting than the main plot.

Could the pink hair that Link had in the comic have been the inspiration for the pink hair Link has in A Link to the Past?

Technically, each character in each LOZ had been forgotten, since they only appeared once, except those with official sequels, like Ocarina of Time and Breath of the Wild. All characters with similar names to other games (Link, Zelda, Ganon, Impa) are not the same characters and each game is separated by at least a century with the endless cycle of rebirth.

First Bowser had a brother who was forgotten but now Zelda.

What a coïncidence. I'm actually playing Zelda 2 for the first time. Right on point! Thanks

I'm going to call Zelda brother Bentham

I don't think Skyward Sword really contradicts the whole "first" Zelda thing. She wasn't a princess, just the daughter of the school headmaster. So when Hyrule got a royal family, they could've named their daughter after "the goddess reborn" Adventure of Link Zelda would still be the first PRINCESS Zelda, but Skyward Sword Zelda lives before her. Just not as royalty But amazing video over all. I had no idea that Zelda had a brother!

This might add up that somewhere in Breath of the Wild's timeline, where it is mentioned that every female born into the royal family shall be called Zelda.