She represents femininity in both her demure appearance and nurturing behavior. Link and Ganon represent two forms of masculinity, with one using strength to achieve power while the other using it for nobility.
She is also the holder of the literal god power of Wisdom, which is what she is supposed to represent more than anything else. Despite this, her entire history has been constant and chronic retardation and idiocy on a level that, while normal for a damsel princess, rejects the very notion of any Wisdom.
Strong doesn't have to mean literally physically capable. It can in fact just be smart enough to not fall for the obvious traps of the guy who is supposed to represent Meatheadedness and his army of braindead minions. Strong of mind, to contrast Link's strong of heart and Ganon's strong of body.
Peach from Paper Mario 64 (and TYD) was captured nearly the entire game, yet still managed to both work her own angle and assist you from her cage while still needing to be rescued. Heck even Tetra was more than capable until she became Zelda in her mainline game.
There is a far gulf between "make her the real hero badass" like Twitter wants and "make her a useless idiot who sits in the background waiting for help everytime" like she keeps ending up. But, since most people kneejerk react to those Twitter people and feel the need to 180 whatever they say, we are now going to be stuck with people claiming the latter as their genuine opinion.
What? How was she presented as retarded? She still helped out a ton, its just that she doesn't possess the strength to fight back. In Zelda 1 she destroyed the triforce of wisdom and scattered it across eight dungeons to prevent Ganon from finding it, all while sending Impa to guide Link into finding them.
Ganon is also not a "meathead", he was a thief who ascended the throne while leading an army of monsters, all while managing to obtain the Triforce of power. Hyrules armies all fell before him, and even Link with the Triforce of courage and the master sword still needed some support to put him down, so it makes no sense to expect Zelda on her own to outdo him. Not to mention Ganon in some cases can even locate Zelda telepathically, so hiding isn't even an option.
She already does more than enough in the games as a supporting character. Making her more like Link just completely undermines her archetype of both being a damsel and a supporting character.
She is also the holder of the literal god power of Wisdom, which is what she is supposed to represent more than anything else. Despite this, her entire history has been constant and chronic retardation and idiocy on a level that, while normal for a damsel princess, rejects the very notion of any Wisdom.
Strong doesn't have to mean literally physically capable. It can in fact just be smart enough to not fall for the obvious traps of the guy who is supposed to represent Meatheadedness and his army of braindead minions. Strong of mind, to contrast Link's strong of heart and Ganon's strong of body.
Peach from Paper Mario 64 (and TYD) was captured nearly the entire game, yet still managed to both work her own angle and assist you from her cage while still needing to be rescued. Heck even Tetra was more than capable until she became Zelda in her mainline game.
There is a far gulf between "make her the real hero badass" like Twitter wants and "make her a useless idiot who sits in the background waiting for help everytime" like she keeps ending up. But, since most people kneejerk react to those Twitter people and feel the need to 180 whatever they say, we are now going to be stuck with people claiming the latter as their genuine opinion.
What? How was she presented as retarded? She still helped out a ton, its just that she doesn't possess the strength to fight back. In Zelda 1 she destroyed the triforce of wisdom and scattered it across eight dungeons to prevent Ganon from finding it, all while sending Impa to guide Link into finding them.
Ganon is also not a "meathead", he was a thief who ascended the throne while leading an army of monsters, all while managing to obtain the Triforce of power. Hyrules armies all fell before him, and even Link with the Triforce of courage and the master sword still needed some support to put him down, so it makes no sense to expect Zelda on her own to outdo him. Not to mention Ganon in some cases can even locate Zelda telepathically, so hiding isn't even an option.
She already does more than enough in the games as a supporting character. Making her more like Link just completely undermines her archetype of both being a damsel and a supporting character.