Evolution of Great Fairy in Zelda Games (1986-2024)

[@thetruebiggestdon]

2D great fairies: Beautiful, goddess-like beings who are very tall and shiny 3D great fairies: **Sexy laughter**

[@MrBigbreasts-i7e]

I like poligonal things that the ocarina of time Fairy has

[@supersonic4863]

Except link to the past lol she beeg sometimes

[@walkmanJuice]

I can agree with you, Wind Waker's Great Fairy is pretty hot

[@littlejunkettes4122]

​@supersonic4863So? Ain't her fault you're shallow.

[@Bman32x]

@supersonic4863BEAUTIFUL, GODDESS-LIKE THICC, NOT BEEG 😂

[@KokonutOil]

Other Great faries: "I will lend you my power" Twilight Princess: "N A K E D"

[@hbrandon947]

Pretty good motivation to keep on fighting

[@Goofiestgobbler]

💀

[@myboatforacar]

Breath of the Wild: whatever the hell Breath of the Wild is

[@bigboi4414]

​@@myboatforacar M I L F

[@cranburrey]

​@@myboatforacarThat's my wife, please be nice

[@Baka_Mop]

Every other Great Fairy: Here is some of my power to help you on your quest. Echoes of Wisdom Great Fairy: Girl, you need to learn how to accessorize.

[@emm._.]

In other words. "Girl you look fucked up put on a necklace or two."

[@DominicDiStefano-wf3rb]

✨️style✨️

[@nicholaskling2425]

I love EoW Great Fairy. The attitude cracks me up every time I see her

[@ezanawright7971]

I feel like if it was link the fairy from echoes of wisdom might give him her power cause he's hot

[@Stars_Aligned76]

@@emm._.😂

[@leipzigergnom]

The freaking scream-laugh of the OoT one. So weirdly aggressive.

[@jessicayoung3656]

She's my fav, almost like a drag queen

[@DREAMGUYX]

Use to scare the crap out me as a kid

[@cl8804]

groomer

[@PhewzGlory]

@@jessicayoung3656very drag inspired, unintentionally so probably too 😂

[@kirabate]

​@@jessicayoung3656 Lol no 🤣

[@davisbowe8668]

I feel like the Great Fairy design in Twilight Princess was one of the main reasons that game got a T rating lol.

[@shark_girl]

Considering MM is also,hella dark yet still E, probably that and not the creepy dark shit

[@jameeees_o]

Also the fact that there’s use of alcohol lol

[@xenosora6412]

Ocarina of Time Great Fairys Have Daggers staring you right in the face 😂

[@maxmvtzll7069]

Slow down my boy you’re talking about my girlfriend

[@quietfox157]

@@xenosora6412 I don’t know what it is but somehow they never did anything with me. The TP fairy is somehow different for me. 🤷‍♂️

[@johntumahab323]

This may just be headcanon, but my personal take is the reason that the "Echoes" Great Fairy has a look of disdain on her face is because once she gets summoned she's like: "...Oh. You aren't a cute boy this time."

[@laura121684]

You know what, that makes a lot of sense.

[@The_three_best_friends]

hmm...

[@alexandertkachenko1432]

“No, but I am a cute girl.”

[@Blazing_Emblem_Natsumi]

“yes. It’s unfortunate I don’t swing that way.”

[@laura121684]

@@Blazing_Emblem_Natsumi It would've been a fun little Easter Egg if she perked up if Zelda was wearing one of Link's outfits when she was speaking to her.

[@Darkminer86]

Twilight Princess Great Fairies: Pretty much the entire reason the game got rated T (Teen 13+) OOT & Majora's Mask: Probably gave some kids nightmares (Mostly due to the low poly graphics of N64) BOTW & TOTK (2 of the 4 encounters to be specific): Ｌｉｎｋ ｇｅｔｓ ｖｉｏｌａｔｅｄ

[@johnjohnson60]

Sex sex full!😍

[@connoryung6045]

lol I’m ur first reply

[@JudithSeward]

The Ocarina Fairy's graphics have improved greatly in Hyrule Warriors, that didn't freak me out at all. Also, yeah, trying to use B^$ graphics to portray an attractive woman isn't a good idea.

[@Sakanamoto]

@@JudithSeward Personally I think it’s not so much the graphics as that fairy was just a weird design imo. Adult Zelda and Malon are both pretty in that game.

[@Inuke_haro]

The fairy ain’t got clothes on bro💀

[@daiki2455]

I don't know. The minish cap fairies just hit different for me. So elegant and majestic.

[@BannanaOnFloor]

I really wish they would rerelease minish cap one of these days

[@lpfan4491]

​@@BannanaOnFloorThey did.

[@BannanaOnFloor]

@@lpfan4491 whaaaaaat

[@C4NDYV0M1T]

The Minish Cap fairies have always been my absolute faves ever since I first played the game. None of the great fairies from the later games have ever been able to compare to them in my eyes. 😭

[@ivanlol7825]

Best out of all 2d fairies for sure!

[@Alba.92]

Echoes of wisdom Great fairy: Hello again, Link....... Wait a minute.... You are not Link

[@hizzy808]

She swings both ways

[@CreeFalcon-219]

@@hizzy808canon and real

[@Achronelius]

The wind waker one happens to be my favorite, especially the queen. There is so much lore behind them what makes them truly special. Besides that they’re look is that worthy of a ethereal being… One of the more obvious ones is that the queen holds the great fairy as its just a puppet symbolizing how powerful she is and that they are nothing more than mere puppets to her. Funnily enough she herself is also a puppet to the great goddess of Hylia herself. You may notice how she moves like she is controlled like a puppeteer would move a dummy. Especially in the end you notice it. One other point is that she looks like Phai from Skyward Sword. There Phai is the hero’s guide and sword provided by Hylia, nothing more than a mere puppet and AI with the destiny to aid the hero like the fairy queen here…

[@Maluuh]

Do you know why she's different from the other games fairies? She also looks like the one from four swords adventures 11:22

[@ivanlol7825]

Calling Phai an AI is wild💀. She is a spirit created by a goddes, but like isn't all life also a creation of goddesses? So are all hylians AI now or what😭

[@piece26047]

@@ivanlol7825she was based on digital assistants in anime from the 80s tbf

[@bobbyexplains390]

Bruh it’s Fi

[@valeriaisabelaguirrechavar7523]

Great fairy is always beautiful and weird in every Zelda game

[@martinheredia5076]

You thing because in twilight princess she wasent wearing any clothes she’s naked like you do realize that the legend of Zelda games are pg for family kids tennagers and adults 😅like wow Nintendo you did with the girls from xenoblade Chronicles

[@valeriaisabelaguirrechavar7523]

@@martinheredia5076 I know

[@Flufux]

...I have my doubts about the Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask version, that one mainly looked horrifying.

[@ktwenter77]

Except the fat one in the dark world in ALTTP. The wind waker ones were kinda weird too.

[@shark_girl]

I beg to differ some of them are nightmare fuel

[@MarcelynCyprès]

Wind Waker Great Fairies were the best. I liked how they didn't have the look of a typical gorgeous looking fairy, like the Great Fairies in TP or OoT/Majora for example. They looked more like creatures, especially with the four arms. They the most unique design

[@halallink2003]

A botw/Totk mod to replace those fairies with the Wind Waker's will be very golden!

[@chocco-man]

nintendo:i don't know where i am...i don't who am i...all i know,is that i must *make the great fairies hot*

[@cl8804]

i guess, if you're into "trans" "women"

[@cl8804]

i guess, if you're into "trans" "women"

[@cl8804]

i guess, if you're into "trans" "women"...

[@cl8804]

nt

[@chocco-man]

super mario 64 likes

[@seaurchinayano6140]

Some of those are straight up terrifying. Fitting tho considering the fairy queen archetype in folklore

[@Ninjaananas]

Wind Waker's are my favorite. They really look like ethereal beings there. Second is the one from Echoes of Wisdom.

[@TomNookWillHauntYou]

Echoes one my fav

[@orpheus0108]

I love when link catches fairies in bottles in the wind waker. Such a goofy animation

[@flayron5514]

An edelgard fan with great taste 🫡

[@Ninjaananas]

@@flayron5514 Being an Edelgard fan is already the first sign of great taste!

[@ShadTS]

the fairy that gives you the power of 5% common sense, enough to know how to use like, 5 accesories at once

[@SailorSerenitySaturn]

Twilight Princess’s Great Fairy is the prettiest of them all. She’s so ethereal.

[@cl8804]

kinda gay

[@cl8804]

kinda gay

[@Brendanowl]

I wonder why you think she's pretty. Oh wait I know why

[@diaphonis]

Pues a mí también me gusta, es mi favorita, lastima que solo estan en el laberinto 😢

[@cl8804]

kinda gay

[@amaira4651]

I'm guessing the OoT/MM great fairies sound like they're screaming because of the technology at time and not because they intended on giving kids nightmares.

[@DREAMGUYX]

Nope, they where made like that to give kids nightmares

[@Shayschillin]

As a kid my sisters and I acc loved it and tried to scream laugh with her everytime LOL

[@austingunnerson5706]

Bottom of the Well has entered the chat

[@amaira4651]

@@austingunnerson5706 true, but that's besides the point.

[@DREAMGUYX]

@@austingunnerson5706i would prefer it left the chat😅

[@waynemidnight7454]

I never realized that Legend of Zelda 2, and Skyward Sword didn't have Great Fairies...

[@solaris9426]

Neither did Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks.

[@skins4thewin]

​@solaris9426 So basically all the worst Zelda games didn't have them. Interesting fact.

[@danielmoravia1049]

​@@skins4thewin apparently according to the video Four Swords Adventures and Triforce Heroes didn't have them either.

[@lucamagmousseux4470]

@@skins4thewin for you

[@skins4thewin]

@@lucamagmousseux4470 For most

[@ruelie]

I love twilight princess great fairy sm shes just so ethereal and reminds me of a forest nymph 🥺

[@sroth2021]

oot fairies most iconic those vocalisations are everything can't top that scream-laugh

[@ravioli-oo9ku]

the wind waker's design is honestly unmatched, for me. Truly feels like an entity of some magical kind

[@specialnewb9821]

The animation of the Echoes Great Fairy is mesmerizing. That beautifully animated leg kick.

[@Ctrooper2011]

The Great Fairy from _Twilight Princess_ will always be my favorite Great Fairy!

[@haroohusky]

I love the design of the Four Swords / Minish Cap fairies, especially the way their dresses appear to blend with the water. They LOOK and BREATHE mystical.

[@lpfan4491]

Four Swords gave us so much, but nobody appreciates it at all.

[@civilwildman]

The first game is my dad’s favorite game of all time. I played that game too but took over with the second game. Amazing what parents and their children can bond over. 🙂

[@suddenllybah]

man, Link's Awakening has a lot of return to the first game in there.

[@KenadianKenough]

Echoes fairy gives me fairy godmother vibes. “Oh we can’t have you wearing THAT. Let’s fix you up”

[@hopefulsemblance]

In my head canon the Queen of the Fairies is Navi, in repayment for helping the Hero of Time

[@hello_somebody_here]

nah, fairy queen is 100% phai

[@lpfan4491]

So er...she traveled with Link to the past just to travel back to the now split Adult timeline? Something is not adding up here.

[@russia4biden221]

head canon? that is pure cringe

[@Slippy_Toad]

Her laugh in the 64 is iconic.

[@megapokesonicx]

I didn’t even know there was a great fairy in Twilight Princess

[@WeeG-bwc77]

I believe she appears in every spring that you ""unlock"" via completing the Cave of Ordeals. It makes the springs an extra vibe with all the health fairies at night time.

[@mr.mystere4999]

It was funny how Twilight Princess's Great Fairy was trying to urge Link to just leave every time he cleared a floorset on his 2nd visit to the Cave of Ordeals. Apparently she has a thing going on with The Postman and didn't want anyone knowing about.

[@MHrrs78]

Always really liked the gameboy designs for the great fairies. Cute little bug ladies.🧚‍♀️

[@kb_Loggie]

When I was a little girl, I would go to the fairy fountain in Ocarina of Time and just listen to the music and talk to the fairy. She's so pretty, I had a huge crush lol

[@moxty2795]

G

[@braziliantsar]

A

[@Dispencerhere]

Y

[@atlantic85]

the three replies perfectly describe me

[@MasonBryant]

​@@atlantic85 Don't be gay.

[@ewanherbert3402]

I love how the Wind Waker fairy queen is just this weird creepy ghost child who Link is clearly somewhat freaked out by. It's that constant pinch of edginess that keeps Nintendo's games so fresh.

[@albertwayne2323]

I mean the TP design might be the better, but I can't help it: The OoT / MM with that weird design and her laugh is almost iconic to me, that's my real queen of the fairies.

[@kelseyjaffer]

oh 100%. she’s a freak and i love her

[@Splatboy0612]

The real horror of Zelda is when your parents walk into your room when a fairy appears in OOT or MM

[@BelleJackovich]

They always have had some of the most amazing personalities.

[@OmnicidalClown1992]

First time I saw the Great Fairy in Twilight Princess, I had to do a double take. I mean, I knew that Twilight Princess was a T-Rated game, so of course it would have darker or older themes. But I'd never assume that they would give the Great Fairies a design like that. I'm proud of them.

[@DJPhantasmagloria]

Those Great Fairies from BotW are really....really... Flamboyant.

[@sledger867]

My type of gals 😅

[@AltereggoLol1]

they look like men, like every woman character in games after 2014 lol

[@toniakathieleon9990]

@@AltereggoLol1 you could say those great fairies look like drag queens.

[@Big_Bulli]

Nah, just plump. Its a geisha design. I do agree that they arent that attractive​@AltereggoLol1

[@nvcomics]

@@AltereggoLol1 stop being weird bro

[@skins4thewin]

Am quite shocked that Nintendo would ever do a design in their game like the Twilight Princess one. You just don't see stuff like that in their games.

[@jerotoro2021]

It's not uncommon on the Japanese side (remember Misty's Tears pokemon card), but it's usually censored/modified in the Western localizations. For some reason the censors didn't do anything about this one.

[@Yiga_0]

Totk one:

[@skins4thewin]

@@jerotoro2021 I'm afraid I'm not very familiar w Pokémon stuff.

[@skins4thewin]

@@Yiga_0 huh?

[@cl8804]

j4pz r fknNzane

[@lllppeverywhere]

Great Fairy in Wind Waker looks ethereal and horrifying at the same time. Good thing WW have Toon style, imagine how it looks like in Twilight Princess maybe or Majora's Mask

[@fancyshoes002]

The Great Fairies come in 4 types, cute, elegant, yikes and ara ara.

[@javierrodriguez-by4zf]

Sure the BOTW/TOTK and OoT ones are the Ara Ara type?

[@fancyshoes002]

@@javierrodriguez-by4zf OoT ones are yikes, at least until they got more updated models.

[@Ultimatebluefusion1836]

​@@javierrodriguez-by4zf Ara Ara is clearly Twilight Princess

[@ezrawyvern6795]

21:01 - 21:05 Those creatures met with a terrible fate, haven't they?

[@TheOriginalJphyper]

25:17 I see the Great Fairies operate using Diglett logic. Good to know.

[@MissPoplarLeaf]

The way that the Great Fairy just DEMOLISHED the soldiers in Four Swords Adventures was unexpectedly hilarious lol.

[@keithcastillo5434]

Twilight Princess is the best.

[@RouieGutierrez]

Worst more like

[@keithcastillo5434]

@@RouieGutierrez Why is this your perspective?

[@Brendanowl]

​@@keithcastillo5434she is literally naked bro.

[@RouieGutierrez]

@@keithcastillo5434 and why is everyone agreeing with me(no, it was someone else) that tp's great fairy is thw Worst?

[@Brendanowl]

@@RouieGutierrez I personally have a small problem with the fact that she is practically naked

[@Eleanor-e9w]

Playing wind waker as a small child and coming across the fairy was surreal. I always had a crush on her a a kid lmao 😭🙏

[@raggzrush6250]

8:10 I always had a theory that the Queen and Great Fairies in Windwaker are either "dead" from the flood that sealed Hyrule, or trapped and they are projecting their spirit to the surface to help Link. That would explain why they look like ghosts or puppets and so different from other Great Fairies in the franchise. I also believe that the "bottle fairies" are a new race of fairy that were born on the surface from the Queen's power explaining their new look too. 🧚

[@curtisashby768]

Great Fairy is ALWAYS helpful in EVERY Zelda game!

[@Snofey1]

Twilight princess was my first touch of videogames after my childhood when I played mostly Super Mario with my cousins. I think it was some kind of turning point for me. Twilight princess was so mysterious and beautiful and it gave me similiar feeling when I first saw Lord of the rings movies years earlier. Like I had found back home or something. I had found something I really liked, impressed me and made me experience new things. That’s why Twilight princess will always have my heart ❤

[@EddieAyala-st9cs]

I have been waiting for a video like this forever

[@TomNookWillHauntYou]

28:51 ECHOES HAS GREAT FAIRY THEME😱😱😱THIS IS SO GONNA BE MY FAV GAME❤❤❤❤❤

[@daisukes_gameboy]

Ofc they’re gonna have the theme, it’s the great fairy 😭

[@TomNookWillHauntYou]

@ Yahhhh

[@GabrielRolland-l4n]

19:15 Don't even _try_ to hide what you're trying to do, Nintendo.

[@daedricwinters2979]

Not that the Zelda series was always low-key horny This was technically the Samurai Warriors devs at work here

[@TheDoomsdayzoner]

Twillight had the best artstyle. Very mythical and fairytale-like.

[@ElFastasXD]

8:11 Great fairy: Thanks to yo-..where did he went? **link swam away of fear**

[@toyahsalter4037]

The Ocarina of Time Great Fairy sounds like she's screaming when she laughs, and I got scared the first time I heard it.

[@RouieGutierrez]

23:42 well THATS something to take note of when i play that game again

[@NathanielStobbs]

😂

[@RouieGutierrez]

@@NathanielStobbs what? Its true

[@Vyhox2000]

You did cadence of Hyrule dirty. You could have at least gotten footage of the game where they appeared somewhere other than Hyrule field, so that their actual theme played. It's the best song on the game

[@mray4784]

Is the year 2024 of our Lord and I still think OoT Great Fairy is absolutely beautiful and I love everything about it. It doesn't baffles me that everyone, everyone in this world, would choose to bring that woman back as a weapon in Hyrule Warriors.

[@SamuIise]

I remember as a kid the shift in design of the OOT/MM great fairy to the Wind Waker one’s was so jarring and creep 😆 but memorable in an awesome way.

[@psilotus8576]

I kinda like Ocarina of times great fairy because it’s design is really attractive and beautiful to look at and I like it that it has three pigtails.

[@medeaagapishvili7313]

Her laugh is so iconic. And all the Fairies in Breath of the Wild are so beautiful! & You cannot forget the iconic Fairy of OOT. & She was even more prettier in Hyrule Warriors

[@sledger867]

Exactly 💯

[@papacu321]

nah the fairies in botw are ugly

[@GabrielRolland-l4n]

26:57 How Link reacts to this. Just how Link reacts to this.

[@phuckerpower]

I was 15 years old when Ocarina of Time came out, the Great Fairy was obviously my favorite character in the game after adult Princess Ruto 😂

[@loboguarana205]

I'm just here to listen to some of my favorite game songs

[@TheRealMycanthrope]

Me, who never played TP: "EXCUSE ME?"

[@CaptainCaliansAdventures]

GBA designs will always be my favourite of all the versions. It wasn’t just the design itself, but the scenery and music that defined them as well.

[@EarthboundKumatora]

one word to describe botw great fairies: majesthicc

[@Beadlesstorh]

Its crazy that Daphness was the only king of hyrule to actually accompany the hero in his journey, meeting the world’s magical entities with link and so and what he did at the end of wind waker, best king ever 🫶🏼

[@meg9599]

god I forgot how unsettling the great fairy laugh in OOT and MM was

[@marvintg2002]

Interesting that there's basically 3 styles of great fairy: 1. Fairy-tale, reminiscent of Tinkerbell, usually with antennae 2. Otherworldly, faelike 3. Big fruity auntie

[@ramiel555]

TP Great Fairy be hittin different, especially when you aren't expecting something like that from a Zelda game, lmao

[@Hurdle885hu8bu]

Oot and Majora fairies taught a lot of kids what “scaroused” means.

[@JayEverdeenValentine]

25:46 i never expected 2 faeries to have such deep voice meanwhile the other 2 has a bit lighter voices

[@denisemwoj]

I'm going to be an OoT Great Fairy for Halloween next year 🤔

[@Cody-5501]

I find it interesting that in the windwaker the great fairy’s feel more like fae while the others are more typical fairy’s

[@bigotato5155]

the great faries in majora' mask and ooc are terrifing gosh

[@kevinphoenix2007]

What are you? Gay?

[@TMX1138]

@@kevinphoenix2007Probably because of the laugh they do. It scared me, too.

[@DrMonkey1224]

I was just scared of visiting them when my parents were in the room, they were pretty nice otherwise👌

[@kevinphoenix2007]

@@TMX1138 Never phased me any. *shrugs*

[@robotnikkkk001]

....WELL,I GUESS THEY WERE ON CRACK .....SO....INDEED YOU'RE RIGHT,DOING DRUGS IS UNIMAGINABLY BAD

[@NordicDan]

OOT Great Fairies creeped me out even more than the bottom of the well in Kakariko Village.

[@BigStiffyJuice]

Can't actually believe I've finished every Zelda, I fkn love Zelda.

[@AnaëlleDurant]

just to tell you all the great fairies have a crush on every generations of link its been that way since ocarina of time

[@ILUV412]

Oh wow. I just remembered how angry I was in Twilight Princess, the cave of ordeals, when I realized the great fairy DOESN’T HEAL YOU. 😂

[@InsidiousOne]

The Four Swords fairies are all so beautiful and spiritual, and then they are "that's all you have? Go get me more money!"

[@h.a.6790]

3:13 The pervert Shigeru Miyamoto knew what he was doing It all make sense if you read the dialogue

[@POPP1NBERRYS]

I grew up playing wind waker but i never got that far. I always restarted my games. I didn't realize it had great faries as well lol

[@spacecat4099]

I am the only one who thinks that this is the best song ever ?? Like it’s so nostalgic

[@GabrielRolland-l4n]

8:08 This one's a ghost…

[@no_fishman9669]

Still full fills the same purpose

[@chuckthequail137]

Ummm... 18:04

[@AmnieKa]

not ghosts, those great fairies just look like that. If we're to assume based on what the queen of fairies is holding, they maybe resemble dolls?

[@nighthaunter2619]

@@AmnieKawouldn’t be the only puppet/doll/ect reference in Wind Waker

[@GwenaelEtcheverry]

The chinese fairy😭​@@AmnieKa

[@MrBallerinakaka]

15:04 Can't Believe Nintendo Actually Put This Which Caused This Game to Having T Rating 💀

[@nara97]

What is a "T" Rating?

[@VERRST4]

​@@nara97 teen

[@noahmichaud8096]

​@@nara97 For teens.

[@桜じ出久]

She looks gorgeous

[@Brendanowl]

​@@nara97teen

[@ethanol4695]

The Legend of Zelda when your mom walks in:

[@Golden_Ocelot]

BotW is my favorite! I love how jovial she is, and her design is so beautiful! Also I appreciate they made her a bit chubby, it's very cute ☺

[@Leafar0975Z]

For me, the ones from BOTW and TOTK are the ugliest, they look like drag queens!

[@lolsmileyy]

when your playing zelda and the only time your parents come in is when the great fairy shows up

[@reforgenarsil]

Twilight Princess fairy knew where true great fashion is at lol 😂

[@blastedpotato]

They all have their charms

[@quisshy]

So impressive that Nintendo’s 3d artists made the model for hyrule warriors with only 1 finger

[@AntiRiku]

Yet another W for Twilight Princess 🫡

[@aluwu6599]

The queen great fairy in wind waker is pretty spooky

[@Zeldakostv]

This just made me realize theres no Fairy in Skyward Sword

[@segaplaystation]

the ocarina of time and twilight princess ones are why i couldn't play zelda games in front of my parents 😭

[@handlesshouldntdefaulttonames]

Links face at 2:55 in the corner is very, very good.

[@pasqualembisceglia1989]

That's a very nice thumbnail picture.

[@mushymush6902]

First Great Fairy: the one that gives you tinnitus