Former Canadian TV executive Paul Chato blasted the upcoming live-action The Legend of Zelda film for the way it depicted Link and Zelda.
Chato reacted to the main image that depicts Link sitting behind Zelda as she carries a bow looks out over the grassland. He wrote on X, “Huge Zelda fan. They look great but did they have to include an image of Link being subordinated by Zelda? They just can’t get off the crack or I have to get on it.”
Chato is not alone in his criticism. Fandom Pulse co-owner Jon Del Arroz had a similar reaction. In a YouTube upload, he said, “This first image actually kind of gives us a highlight of exactly what we can expect, which is just another kind of girlboss movie that’s not actually really a Zelda movie.”
“Now, the hallmark of Zelda is that Link is actually the protagonist and he’s actually rescuing Princess Zelda,” he added. “They’re trying to change that … because you’re not allowed to have the princess that gets rescued anymore.”
“That’s what I actually expect to come out of this is that we’re going to have Zelda leading Link around in some adventure where she’s just amazing and he’s going to fumble over himself a little bit.”
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It is just one picture, it's not the entire plot of the movie. We haven't seen any trailers to confirm that Zelda is going to subvert Link and save him. Or maybe it will be mutual, Zelda saves Link and vice-versa. Sort of like how Zaira gets saved by her friend in book one of The Adventures of Baron Von Monocle and she in turn saves him in book 2. Zelda always has had strong roles in the series from Sheik in Ocarina of Time, to Tetra in The Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass. Also, she has a main role in the more recent Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. Link has received aid from Zelda in a lot of the Zelda games but has never been subverted. We have 2 years to wait and I'm super excited.
Imagine it being your full time job to just scour the internet every morning looking for pop culture stuff to get triggered by. "Woke this." "Girlboss that." What a sad existence these guys have. By the way, there are mountains of studies that show how harmful it is for young girls to see themselves depicted as helpless damsels in everything they watch.