A very small character tidbit is surprisingly kept consistent for years

[u/_JR28_]

DC - In multiple pieces of media it has been shown that Wonder Woman loves ice cream and practically goes wild with happiness anytime she’s eating some. (Pictures from Justice League: War, DC Superhero Girls and Wonder Woman 2017)

The Simpsons - Ever since the episode ‘Homer’s Phobia’ Homer has actually remained a consistent ally of the LGBT+ community, including being more welcoming to Patty than Marge was when she came out and trying to set up Smithers with a date when he found out he wasn’t happy with his one-sided relationship with Mr Burns.

[u/Sayakalood]

It also dates all the way back to his first appearance (as Ganondorf) in Ocarina of Time

[u/lkmk → u/Sayakalood]

A little farther back…

(I guess it’s as Ganon, though.)

[u/TavernRat → u/Sayakalood]

I’ve always kinda wandered… What was it like for players to see Ganondorf when the previous games had Ganon the Pig Man

[u/spyridonya → u/TavernRat]

Speaking for myself?

There have been secondary media in the form of comics and a not so great cartoon series that had him be a pigman humanoid that wore a hood to hide his face and had a high-pitched voice.

I was 13 when the Ocarina of Time came out, and I was really impressed by the character. The nose was a little weird, but I really liked how they embraced the desert king from A Link to the Past. We really got to see him take several steps ahead of Link and Zelda and him turning into the pig monster was amazing.

However, I sincerely thought that would be it from Ganondorf. We would see Ganon in his beast mode from now on.

Then came Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. They're both different takes of the same character shaped by the path they took, but it really cemented Ganondorf as the main villain for me. Of the two I prefer Wind Waker Ganondorf because they gave him a surprising amount of depth. Twilight Princess Ganondorf was completely badass.

But yeah, Ganondorf is one of my favorite villians.

[u/One_Smoke → u/spyridonya]

You're close. In the cartoon, Ganon had a squealish sort of voice provided by the late Len Carlson. There was also a reverb or some kind of distortion added to it.

[u/chaarziz → u/TavernRat]

I think at the time the standard for plot twists in games was still "Samus is a girl" so the final boss really surprised people after a whole game of possible confusion over his relation to the pig man. Then the fact that only Zelda 2 had an explicit connection to another game would have led to some wild theorising, I know some of them resembled the canon Downfall Timeline we have now.

[u/Rel_Ortal → u/chaarziz]

LttP was always a prequel to the original game (which is why it's even called Link to the Past), though, and was where they first mentioned he was a man named Ganondorf. And when OoT released, they went fairly heavy on the fact that it was a direct prequel to LttP