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Originally Posted by Throbbing Mob  Even if I credit this argument, you understand that it's still pointless in that you would have to be insinuating that the goddesses had never created anything with the potential for "evil", which is outright disproven. I accept the LttP manual as supplemental print, the same as the comics - they are, yet that does not cause the comics to not exist. It also does not mean that the goddess story was acceptable - you are arguing on the grounds of canon, those games have been retconned. They can no longer be considered universal knowledge. Henceforth, it is not in your interest to contest validity based on contradictions of various media. |
Please. Don't try to play that card here. EVERY SINGLE SOURCE on the matter states that the Triforce is truely neutral. Including the essence of the Triforce itself at the end of LttP. It doesn't even matter if the Goddesses are concerned with good and evil, as it's not even part of the arguement.
On the matter of validity. The old canon and the new canon completely and total agree with eachother on this matter and there's no plausible reason to doubt it's validity. This is what's refered to as a reliable narration.
But are you honestly trying to compare a crappy third party comic that wasn't even made by nintendo, and conflicted with the two games that exisited at the time to the expertly crafted manual that came packaged with one of the actual games? They claimed the Triforces were pyramid shaped, the Link got the Triforce of courage at the begining of AoL, and that Zelda was a tomboy, amoung other things. It's hardly above the CDi games as a source of reliable information. It was made by the same people that wrote freaking Captain N. I could go on and on, listing the problems that were known with these comics
at the time they were written. The history in the manuel may have been rewritten in part since then, but the comics were never valid sources of information in the first place. The absurdity of saying that Majora's mask reused a concept from a bunch of old comics only becomes greater when you realize that in all likelyhood the people that made the games probably don't even know they exist. That's almost like writing a fanfiction and then claiming the games that followed "reused" your ideas when some of them kinda, sorta made it into the following games.
Except that it's not even the same thing in this case. As I already showed, the corruption in the comics comes from power corrupting, which isn't a fault of the Triforce itself.
Majora's mask, on the other hand, is an evil spirit that doesn't even corrupt so much as manipulate, control, and possess as it works towards it's own, clearly evil set of goals.
Those are totally different concepts.
What, exactly, are you even attemping to argue at this point?