I get that, but I'm wondering if guys realize that Ganon actually isn't that big leech when compared to most gaming villains. It seems that you couldn't possibly care less, but I'm wondering all the same.
Your argument was somewhat mind-blowing to me, because it upset a well-established line of thinking I've had since the GOTD contest, which I believe has very solid reasoning. Which is that Zelda is the least dronish major fanbase on the site, where a drone is someone who blindly votes for anything from the fanbase because he is a fan of that fanbase.
Zelda has extremely large strength gaps between the strongest entries in it and weaker ones: Ocarina of Time is as far ahead of Majora's Mask as Chrono Trigger is ahead of Chrono Cross, a point that really needed to be ground home to the people saying that MM won by being an OOT proxy. (You don't want to see an OOT proxy, because it would crush everything except OOT and FFVII). On the character side, Zelda has a colossal dropoff from #1 to #2, and then another colossal dropoff from #3 to #4. This indicates that Zelda fans do not blindly vote for anything for Zelda: they are discerning and vote for what they actually like.
On reflection, it's true that other series also have extremely weak villains, but they still have much (relatively) stronger #2s than Ganon. Sonic has Knuckles, Mega Man has Zero, FFX has Tidus (#2 to Auron, while Sin and Seymour are nowhere in sight). Crono has Magus or Frog before we need to get to Lavos. So Ganondorf isn't a huge leech for a villain, but he is a huge leech for a series' #2 character.
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2002 Link, 2003 Cloud, 2004 Link, 2005 Link, 2006 Link, 2008 Link, 2010 Link, 2011 Cloud.
Link 6, Cloud 2