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[Kater]

I thought Tetra just had a bit of tan...

Also, shouldn't there be a spoiler warning in the title?

 

[Tookay]

When you're asking if certain works "can be considered racist," I feel like that's a sign you're looking for problems that aren't there.

Also Ganon clearly isn't "black."

 

[Holy Order Sol]

Dude she hada tan. She was not a different race. And if you want to accuse a Zelda game of racism it's going to be Orcarina. There is a race of brown-skin people who are thieves. It's probably why Ganondorf in later appearances has such an inhuman skin-color of like onyx.

Even in OoT itself Ganondorf's skin is something like olive green.

 

[Silky]

Pirates spend their days in the sun.

Princesses are fair and pale.

Nothing to be concerned about.

Yep.

There's also the theory of Tetra being a Sheikah descendent.

 

[Portugeezer]

... Spoilers.

 

[Seiru]

She was TAN FROM BEING A PIRATE

What is this topic?!

 

[gerg]

I think it's skin colour within a race. Traditionally the princess ideal is pale and fair, and the 'working class' is tanned.

Personally I'd say that that traditional imagery (of the upper classes being more fair skinned than lower classes) is troubling in its own right.

 

[Skelter]

srsly tho why isn't WW Zelda vaguely brown like Tetra rather than super pale? It's odd.

One's a pirate and one isn't.

Spoiler

Ignore the other two movies!