Fairy", and forces his brothers-and one random guy who's in debt slavery to him-to dress exactly like him and perform slave labor. He is at his weirdest in The Wind Waker, wherein he refers to Link, a nine/twelve-year-old child, as "Mr.
Tingle's role in the main series has been largely reduced he doesn't appear in Twilight Princess (Purlo's appearance was based on him, but they have vastly different personalities, and there are portraits of him in Snowpeak Ruins they're blurry, but just try and say they're not him) and gets only non-speaking cameos in Phantom Hourglass, Spirit Tracks, and Skyward Sword (on a "Wanted!" Poster, a statue/portrait, and a doll respectively).Note that that still gives him way more appearances than nearly anyone not named Link, Zelda, Ganon, or Impa. He's popular enough in Japan and parts of Europe to get his own games, but loathed enough in the Americas for those games to never reach their shores and to have only four other roles in main games following his first appearance in Majora's Mask: Oracle of Ages, The Wind Waker, Four Swords Adventures, and The Minish Cap.In the States, his design and his mannerisms make people think he's an annoying Memetic Molester due to Values Dissonance. In Japan, people think of him as a hilarious character and a nice Fandom Nod to Otakus. odd, to say the least (it is believed to be based on Koji Kondo). He's obsessed with hunting for fairies and rupees, dances a lot, flies around using balloons tied to his butt, is incredibly eccentric, and his face is. Tingle is a short, chubby Manchild from The Legend of Zelda series.