There's also the horror feeling, with Majora being a genuinely disturbing antagonist whose insanity, erraticness and dangerosity are real and grow as the game lasts, with it starting with bad and annoying but relatively harmless pranks to end up causing real calamities and then threaten to destroy all of Termina.
This fan film really captures the creepiness excellently
Perfectly said man! Majoras design, "voice acting" and sound design, writing etc were phenomenal, the most terrifying and disturbing Zelda villain and character easily! The final fight with it lives rent free in my head even now. Getting to use Fierce Deity vs it was the most catharthic experience ever at the time too!
Tobi kinda reminds me of Majora and its crazy how Majora took the mind of an innocent, tortured, lonely child and turned them into a genocidal, apocalyptical level threat and Majora has been around for centuries was it? It feels like the embodiment of chaos and maybe wrath/destruction and thus something that can not truly die, something lovecraftian, cosmic, beyond this world and thus physical realm and life and death?
In fact I was gonna make a joke about Madara and Majora but it feels too fitting a comparison in some ways with the last line you mention about causing real calamities and trying to destroy all of Termina, which he almost suceeds in twice and does suceed if time runs out ofc.
I still cant believe a Zelda and thus Nintendo game had mass genocide and destruction and showed an entire town being destroyed like that, that shit traumatised me a little lmao. I was a kid at the time when it came out tbf!
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It's also something One Piece really lacks, genuinely terrifying and disturbing villains that make the story tense and gives a real impression of mortal danger for the protagonists.
Other than Majora, another villain who did that was Orochimaru, I will never forget the first time I saw him in a Naruto episode, where he's disguised as a woman and with the skin coming off and his creepy snake eyes, and how he was able of terrorizing even Sasuke and of trashing Naruto and then Sasuke with ease.
The only One Piece villains who come close to this are Baron Omatsuri and Lily Carnation from the sixth movie, which is my favorite OP movie justly due to how dark, serious and horrifying it is.
Baron Omatsuri looks absolutely insane, the more I hear and see about it, the more incredible it looks, I need to stop being lazy and check it out! One Piece movie villains are something ELSE entirely! Zephyr my goat....
Orochimaru was so fucking insane too, absolutely unforgettable. The amount of INSANE psychological warfare from him, like a ninja version of Aizen mixed with Michael Jackson and a serious snake fetish lmfao. That scene you mentioned of him as a woman and the skin peeling off made me think of Paprika too, although I've not seen it.
In fact the latest The Boys episode had something similar, someone peeling their skin to shapeshift and it was fucking gruesome and horrific!
I expected Wano to be like the Baron Omatsuri movie in terms of tone and psychological horror and there were absolutely horrifying moments in Wano psychologically, some of it very subtle and easy to miss depending but tonally Wano was all over the place and had the worst ending I've ever seen to a story arc too.
We'll never get an arc like that in One Piece. The Gorosei were the perfect opportunity for this kind of thing and Oda baited us multiple times with Saturns true form, Saturn blowing heads up like hes a certain Supe from The Boys and paralysing people, then Saturn summoning the other Gorosei in their demonic forms too but alas....Oda dropped the ball so hard there, it went through the Earth to the actual core of it. And he also dropped it unlike dropping Onigashima like he was supposed to, sigh.