The more I read and really think about it? The more I'm like "technically yeah" than an actual hard yeah because while I get it's a meme and stuff the things presented can be half truths:
Doom Guy yes 100% in green (except for optional skins in the modern games that doesn't really count) Link 99% green 1% being blue in botw/totk (who also has costumes in those games and therefore also doesn't count)
"Never talks" isn't correct as both have canonically talked, with Doom Guy it's much more explicit and you hear him in Doom Eternal and TDA, with Link you don't outright hear him but he does speak through dialog prompts since ocarina of time and more modern games have given a canonical explanations why recent iterations are selectivity mute like this. So it's not "Never talks" but rarely talks or what I like to interpret as only talks when it's important.
"Intended to symbolize the player" used to be the case for Link in the very older games, Doom Guy has had an established backstory since 1993 but it did I guess have some wiggle room to insert yourself in but 2016 came and wiped that potential insertion away. They've had their own unique identities for years now. They are not self inserts.
This is where they're different, Link is different a different person each time, only rarely getting more than one initial adventure through direct sequels - Doom Guy is the Doom Slayer and Doom Slayer is the Doom Guy, with the exception of Doom 3 (people can fight me on that idc) he has basically been the same person in the games since 1993. With Link it's reincarnation of stepping to your destiny over and over again while with Doom Guy it's: "I punched my CO once and now I'm fighting Cthulhu."
Most monsters are considered "demons" in Zelda I guess but not all of them, some things are clearly just plain nature in natural habitats defending itself and its territory. In Doom they are explicitly just demons or things equally in the realm of fucked.
No. Besides some finishing moves on bosses (mostly Ganon/dorf) Link has nothing on Doom's glory kills.
In Zelda things just poof into smoke so no blood baths. Rip and Tear is Doom's mantra.
I mean, Link is in a Nintendo game so I don't know what you're expecting anything actually sexual there but Link is very respectful of every woman he meets, especially Zelda (π₯° ) and is always at her defense no matter what and which in skyward sword and botw/totk is very very clear in your face that they have something romantic going on through context clues than being outright stated (because Nintendo are cowards) In Doom given its a M rated franchise its different because they could've gone there (be a Duke Nukem) and given he's such a badass had him have many love interests and have him having sex all of the time but they haven't which is based, in The Dark Ages they could've easily done that with Commander Thira but Hugo Martin confirmed that things between her and the Slayer are pure platonic meaning their interactions in the game are nothing but just pure respect and honestly? I like that approach more with them than a tacked on romance it would've been with the series first woman that isn't in a antagonist role who has her own arc learning how to control her abilities and the Slayer respects her. Being respectful to women and more focused on slaughtering demons is coolπ
Everyone is legally obligated to play ocarina of time and Doom 2 Right now.
Either way they are cool and based π£
Thank you for the ask π«Ά
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