Another day, another delicious nugget of Breath of the Wild-dom to nourish us while we wait for the sequel. Recently, we learned that you can swim in lava, use a Blizzard Rod to safely run through flames (while naked), and even head into space. Today, however we've seen perhaps the most exciting discovery made in the game yet: BOTW contains not one, but all four Beatles and it's possible to reunite them!...
What's that? Beedles, you say? Oh. Well, that's admittedly less exciting. But still!
No, BOTW might be many things but it's not the venue for the greatest reunion event in the history of modern pop music and, as far as we know, it doesn't have the power to summon real human beings back from the dead. At least no-one's discovered that glitch just yet.
Rather, ThornyFox on Reddit has discovered that every time you see Beedle the travelling merchant throughout Hyrule, he is actually a separate instance of the character, meaning multiple Beedles exist and, with patience, can even be brought together. This actually applies to various characters you meet across the kingdom, but they don't have a name which sounds like a '60s beat band, do they?
As noted by Kotaku, ThornyFox painstakingly (and rather rudely) pushed four Beedles together into a stable for a historic meeting, a feat which took them a whopping 10 hours. 10 well-spent hours, we might add.
We've discussed duplicates and doppelgangers in the Zelda series before, but this takes things to a new level. Let us know below if you'd have the patience to reunite this fab four.
[source reddit.com, via kotaku.com]
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hahaha I had no idea you could shove Beedle like that. Good stuff
I’m seeing double here. Eight Beedles!
Four of them...
Like the four blights unleashed by Ganon.
I always knew that the haircut was a primal evil, but I am glad that Aonuma and company have realized this too... albeit decades too late. Is this the force that attempts to revive Ganondorf in BOTW2?
Beedle must be destroyed.
"THERE ARE FOUR BEEDLES!!"
-Captain Picard
You know, there have been many incarnations of Beedle.
A bloodline or spirit, cursed to peddle wares to the spirit of the hero perhaps?
@OldManHermit I don't know you but I love you.
A bloodline or spirit, cursed to peddle wares to the spirit of the hero perhaps?
@RupeeClock I'm beginning to think that this eternal recurrence is a punishment, akin to the failure to attain nirvana. Think of your favourite characters (Link and Zelda aside) - do they ever appear more than once in the series?
Oh, good. I was planning on doing this myself this weekend, but now I won't have to.
@CANOEberry
There's Impa, Tingle, and Dampé.
Impa has sometimes been a motherly nanny figure or a wise and skilled warrior of secret arts, but always an attendant to Princess Zelda.
Tingle is a strange 35 year old man with an obsession for fairies and rupees, and a penchant for map-making. He also sometimes has siblings being Ankle, Knuckle, and David Jr.
Dampé has consistently been a gravekeeper in each game he's appeared in, sometimes having an additional supporting role.
Of the characters mentioned though, Beedle is the only character aside from Zelda or Link who had an incarnation from the beginning up in Skyloft.
Actually, there would also be the original Zelda's father, Gaepora, who possibly has an incarnation as the sage Rauru and his owl form, Kaepora Gaebora.
The more you examine recurring characters under a theme of incarnation, the more interesting it gets.
You better watch out, Beddles about. 😂
Only the old in UK will get that.
That takes dedication.
@Dezzy70 Was just about to post the same thing =0p
My favourite Beedles songs are....
A Daisy in the Life
Drive my Kirby
Luigi in the Sky with Diamonds
Ob-La-Dedede Ob-La-Da
The Long and Winding Toad
Sadly, the article ruins the punch-line. When I first saw the video, it landed really well.
@OorWullie Are they all featured on General Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club?
This comment section.
*chefs kiss
Majora Maskson is there to buy the rights to all their songs! >:V
@Rosalinho That's the album with Yoshi's Leaving Home and Happy Xmas, Wario is Over you're thinking of.
I bet the sleeping Beedle's name is John
They are back performing for you to buy wares.
Greatest hits!
PokeRap
DK Rap
Legend of Zelda theme (lyrics version)
I just realised how stupid my original comment was.
What I should have said was...
I'm seeing quadruple here. Sixteen Beedles!
Curse my slow wit.
Why would you ever do thiiiiiiis 10 hours? People literally do anything on the internet I don't understand
Love it when wacky little details like this are uncovered.
@NintonicGamer for science!
@OldManHermit You win, the comment section can now be closed.
I remember when people ignorantly criticized GF for doing the exact same thing in SuMo...smh
@CANOEberry this gave me a good laugh!! 😂😆
Can you imagine the last thing link thinks before being sacrificed is: I shouldn't have sold him all those relics!
(while he heard one last "ooooooohhhhh" )
@OorWullie
I'm rather a fan of:
@OorWullie love that one! 😂
@OorWullie and seriously the long and winding Toad! I can hear a Toad singing that! 😂🤣
This is absolutely great lol
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