Talk:Iron Knuckle

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[edit] Darknut?

This needs a bit of editing for factual accuracy. Darknuts came before Iron Knuckles and although similar are pretty much unrelated.

I thought that the developers of Zelda changed the name to Ironknuckle because they liked it better. McJeff 07:08, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
I always assumed they were totally separate enemies. Adam Marx Squared 06:54, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
In Adventure of Link, they both exist seperately even. And yes, they are totally seperate enemies, so I removed the TWW part. Hyrule 00:27, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
Did you move it to the Darknut article? Is there one? Should there be? Adam Marx Squared 23:40, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Confusion with Darknuts in articles

In Twilight Princess the armored enemies are iron knuckles, because they arent doglike and are animated suits of armor. Also this article calls enemies from loz2 iron knuckles, and the darknut one calls the same enemies darknuts.Superway25 05:56, 30 December 2006 (UTC)


They're two kinds of the same enemy: 'nakku'. one's aian nakku and the other's taato nakku... but they're clearly the same family of magical creature.

Superway 25, that is wrong. In Twilight princess, a darknut dies like a human dealt a mortal blow, not as a machine. Also, there is nothing to say that all iron knuckles are machines, e.g. Nabooru in the Spirit temple, and perhaps Flat's spirit in MM. I agree with the above comment about aiannaku and taatonakku. Laurellien 00:05, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alternate Tactic

Since the page already mentions the standard tactic for fighting them, it might be worth mentioning that OoT/MM Iron Knuckles are pretty easy to defeat if you just use Bombchus... any opinions? 144.124.16.28 14:36, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a game guide. Neither method should have much detail here.KrytenKoro 20:15, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merge

This sub-boss only appears in 3 games, and the information here could easily be compressed to a few paragraphs - a lot of it is trivia.KrytenKoro 20:15, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

Technically, Iron Knuckles are not boss characters. They are seen several times as a sub-boss, but they are also seen in dungeons playing different roles. I think the article should remain, but if it absolutely must merge, I don't think the Boss Characters article is what it should be merged into. --Superneoking 20:26, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
They serve as a sub-boss in their appearances in the Spirit Temple, and since that is their first appearance in that game, they are treated as sub-bosses (it is common for games to introduce, in ending levels, prior sub-bosses as more difficult enemies that, though rare, are no longer unique - though Master Quest upped this, it is only testament to this phenom). Then, when they appeared in Majora's Mask, they were also treated as sub-bosses the 2(?) times they appeared: they had their own arena, only appeared in that arena once per 3-day cycle, and, if I remember correctly, had the correct boss music.
Though, I guess the fact that they appeared as non-bosses in AoL would be evidence towards putting them on the enemies page.KrytenKoro 06:33, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Well, with only three appearances, I support the merge. My suggestion is putting its enemy role on the enemies page, and its boss roles on the boss page, and mentioning both at... both. Its what we do with others, like Mothula. Gurko 14:43, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
I support the merge as well. There are plenty of sub-bosses in the List of Bosses in the Legend of Zelda series as well, so if you don't think it's a boss, it still should merge into that article. And my supporting statement: there is no other enemy in the Legend of Zelda series that gets its very own page. Why don't we just write an entire article for each and every enemy in the entire Zelda line, no matter how unworthy of notability. An enemy should only get its own page if it makes appearances in multiple different series, in which this one doesn't. It's exclusive to the Legend of Zelda, so it should go directly into either the List of Bosses from the Legend of Zelda or into the List of Enemies from the Legend of Zelda. It's a waste of space to create an entire article for something when everything else is organized enough to list it all in one article.DallasOConner 03:14, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
Merge per above. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 16:41, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The armored knights in Zelda II are Dark Nuts...

Iron Knuckles were not created until Legend of Zelda: OOT. The Knuckles strictly stick to axes, while Dark Nuts use swords (or other items), and in AoL the Dark Nuts use swords and shields. I might edit this after looking further at the pages, but I'm 100 percent sure that the AoL knights are Dark Nuts. 204.248.58.83 23:09, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, the manual for the game specifically calls them Iron Knuckles. Here's a scan:[1] DurinsBane87 04:18, 9 August 2007 (UTC)