Great Moblin

The Great Moblin as seen in the Oracle games.
Great Moblin
Species	Moblin (Pig)
Eye color	Purple
Base	Great Moblin's Keep
Debut	The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Oracle of Seasons

The Great Moblin is a ruler of the Moblin people who appears as a recurring minor antagonist within the Oracle games. The details of his story depend on the order in which Ages and Seasons is played.

Background

Great Moblin had two different schemes in two different lands, and the order in which he performed them depended on which order the two games were played in. In Oracle of Ages, he set his keep on Labrynna's Rolling Ridge and tried to form a monopoly on the local Bomb Flowers by stealing them from the local Gorons. In Oracle of Seasons, his keep was located near Sunken City in Holodrum, and he tried to collect tolls from passerby. All those who ignored him had bombs tossed at him. His minions also tried to capture Dimitri or steal Moosh's bananas. In both scenarios, Link can battle him directly. The Great Moblin tries tossing bombs at Link, and Link can defeat him by tossing the bombs back at him. Due to the stockpiles of bomb flowers or bombs he has in each game, Link's defeat of the Great Moblin causes a chain reaction that destroys the keep. This is part of the reason that the Great Moblin moves between games.

In a linked game, the Great Moblin has recently moved to the game's land and will recognize Link, but the Great Moblin only appears if Link had beaten the Great Moblin in the first game (requiring a password if the Great Moblin was beaten after the game's completion). In a linked Seasons game, he also waylaid Princess Zelda when she arrived in Holodrum in hopes of taking her valuables, and he did not seem to know who she was. Link arrived and defeated his minions, at which point he fled. While the Great Moblin did not appear again in Ages after his keep was destroyed, in Seasons (both normally and in a linked game) he wound up living in a previously vacant house at the Sunken City with two of his Moblin minions. They worked on building a new stockpile of bombs to make ends meet, with the Great Moblin looking very disheartened.

Trivia

• His Japanese name, "Bosuburin" (which could be translated as "Bossblin"), was also used to refer to the large club-wielding Moblin enemy that appeared near the Forest Temple in Ocarina of Time.
• According to one Moblin, he has a love of Spring Bananas.
• It is possible to blow up his house in the Sunken City by leaving a bomb which sets off the other bombs and leaving before it goes over. The Great Moblin and his minions will then flee the house's explosion. It only works like this the first two times, as if Link tries to do it a third time, the Moblins will catch him and leave him in the exploding house while they leave, which will result in a death.