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I used to dream of an open-world RPG like the Witcher or Elder Scrolls games but set in Middle-Earth, this is amazing.

I can't be the only one that thinks the potion shop guy from the Hyrule castle town really looks like Matt Mercer lol.

Just re-watched season 3 of TLA recently and was really struck by just how sad Azula's story ended. That poor girl was manipulated and used by Ozai her entire life, and unlike Zuko, she had no love/support from the other people in her life. That last shot of her completely broken and just becoming a weeping child is haunting as hell.

Edit: Obviously I’m not saying Azula was innocent. She did many reprehensible things towards her enemies, and even her allies. A lot of the manipulation she used though was taught by Ozai, her father, so I think that goes into more nurture rather than nature. She couldn’t move past it like Zuko, because Ozai favored Azula, so she was out of reach from people like Ursa and Iroh that could’ve taught her a better way.

These are my two picks, Skingrad and Solitude. Skingrad because of the cool/unique layout of the city and the impressive castle, and Solitude because it's the one town in Skyrim that feels to me like an actual city.

1. Nikki Freeman and the One Wish Willow (Obsession) - Probably the most interesting version of this trope, as most of the time it's played for comedy (although the film does have comedic moments) but here it's mostly straight-up horror. Bear is a lonely guy who has unrequited love for Nikki, a girl in his peer group, who sees him as more like a best friend or brother than a romantic interest. He uses a wish spell to make her love him "more than anyone else in the world", which he obviously thinks would never work. Unfortunately for him and everyone around him, the spell indeed works, and carnage ensues as Nikki's forced magical obsession of Bear becomes something much worse.
2. Ron Drinks the Love Potion (Harry Potter) - In Harry Potter, love potions are usually very effective and popular, but in one instance during the events of The Half-Blood Prince, Ron accidentally eats snacks laced with a love potion meant for Harry, sent by a stalker fan. It's a bit funny at first, but there's unfortunately no easy way to reverse it, and Harry has to take him to the potion's professor in order to cure him.
3. Xander Makes Everyone Fall in Love with Him (BtVS) - In the early events of season 2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Xander's girlfriend Cordelia breaks up with him, so Xander goes to a witch and has her cast a spell to make her fall back in love with him. Unfortunately, the spell backfires, and every woman who sees Xander begins falling in love with him, including Buffy herself and her mother. This escalates until women at the school begin attacking each other viciously in their jealousy over Xander, and become violent to him as well to make him love them. Eventually, Giles, Buffy's mentor and magical expert, has to go to the witch (who is also affected by the spell) and convince her to reverse it. The irony is, the only woman not affected was Cordelia, as she only broke up with Xander to keep up appearances (he was a bit of a social outcast) and actually still loved him.
4. The Entirety of A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare) - In the tale of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Fairy King Oberon tries to get two young nobles, Helena and Demetrius, to fall in love, after seeing Helena's unrequited love for Demetrius. Unfortunately for the both of them, Oberon's servant Puck accidentally gives the love potion to the wrong man, and her best friend's lover, Lysander, becomes madly in love with Helena. Oberon later tries to fix that mistake by giving the potion to Demetrius, the original target, but that further aggravates matters, as both men become obsessed with Helena. Oberon also uses the potion on the Fairy Queen, Titania, who he wanted to get back at for a petty reason. She falls in love with a cursed donkey-man, and hilarity ensues.

Just went back and played Dead Money again recently, one of my favorite DLCs, and was struck by the horrifying tragedy that was Vera Keyes. She was a woman that had everything but also lost everything, betrayed and used by those closest to her.

1. Adam Smasher (Cyberpunk) - The ruthless enforcer employed by the evil corporation Arasaka, Smasher is the final boss of the game 2077 and in the tabletop he's literally unbeatable; encountering him means that everyone dies and the board clears.
2. Darth Vader (Star Wars) - The most famous example of this trope. Everyone knows who he is, but very few live to understand the full extent of his abilities. He's so feared by enemies of the Empire, that many simply think he's some sort of vengeful spirit or reaper.
3. Death (Puss in Boots) - Not much needs to be said here, he's simply another modern take on the Grim Reaper. The only reason why Puss ends up living is that Death is annoyed by him and wants to toy with him before finishing the job.
4. Conquest (Invincible) - Like Darth Vader, Conquest is the main enforcer of the Viltrum Empire, so feared that even other Viltrumites stay away from him. Unlike Vader and Smasher, Conquest enjoys wreaking havoc, so he's arguably more dangerous in that sense.
5. Myrddraal (Wheel of Time) - The Myrddraal are a species rather than one entity, but their presence in the Wheel of Time series serves a similar purpose, in the fact that anyone who encounters them is pretty much dead or worse. Their eyeless gaze induces fear, but they can see far better than any man.
6. The Witch King of Angmar (Lord of the Rings) - An extremely powerful immortal, the foremost servant of the Dark Lord Sauron, the One they said no living man could kill. He was the main reason why the northern kingdom of Arnor fell, and just his mere presence could induce fear into the heart of the bravest warrior.

Edit: Yes, I’m aware that Darth Vader loses sometimes, but that’s usually against powerful Jedi, like Ahsoka and Obi-Wan, or when there’s poor writing involved (plot armor). Against any non-force users or your average padawan/knight, Vader is gonna be terrifyingly effective.

Ocarina of Time’s storyline seems kinda basic at first glance, but it gets a lot deeper when you realize the whole story is about Link essentially missing his childhood and being forced to become hero. There’s a lot of themes involving nostalgia, the passing of time and what it means to sacrifice for the sake of duty. If written well, that classic story could hit hard.

Twilight Princess is already a very well written tale about a banished/cursed princess who is inherently selfish but learns humility, a young knight who moves heaven and earth to protect his home and the people he loves, and a terrifying yet somehow oddly pathetic antagonist that controls a mysterious shadow realm. There’s a lot of cool side characters that aid Link throughout the story that could be expanded upon in a film adaptation, like the Ordon village kids, Telma, Ilia, Prince Ralis and the yeti couple in Snowpeak.

Yeah, it’s much more likely that they’ll make an original story for the movie, but I doubt many fans would be upset if they took these stories already told and expanded on them in ways that work for a cinema audience.

Edit: I should clarify that I don’t think the writers should copy everything 1:1 as it is in these games, obviously the dungeons and other puzzles can’t be translated into a movie format. I just mean the story and characters can be used and expanded on to inform the narrative. Both OoT and TP have very tight, narrative elements along with the gameplay that makes for an engaging story if you change a few things here and there.

The fact that you help people die and then put their spirits into masks is just one of many messed-up things in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.