The Zelda Elimination Game (Updated! The Winner is...)

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sc94597 said:

How exactly would Zant get his power to overthrow Midna and why would he come to Hyrule if it weren't for Ganon's (a separate entities) motivations? Zant didn't come to want to conquer Hyrule for himself, he did it for Ganon.  Zant as a character needs a motive, and I'd rather it be Ganon directing him to do so than, "oh he just wants more power." Also Zant and Ganon's relationship was interesting. Zant being so jealous and resentful against Midna fueled Ganon and Ganon promised him power in return. For that reason I prefer them to be separate entities from one another. Zant then was loyal to Ganon until his betrayal. And I viewed Zant help with killing Ganondorf as a changing role in his character, that he realized how wrong he was to blindly follow and worhship Ganon as a god. It would've taken away from that changing and developing characterization to have him remain the big evil or change into Ganon (that is essentially what ALTTP did.) I prefer round, developing characters to flat, static ones, to be honest. Also I like how Ganon dies rather than being sealed away in TP. It has a sort of symmetry with the adult timeline where Ganon dies in Windwaker and A Link to the Past, where he also dies in the failed hero timeline. 

That would have made Zant a new reincarnation of Ganon rather than it's puppet. He would have been in the same level as Agahnim, Ganondorf, Vaati or Yuga. Even so, rather than Ganon, he could have used the Fused Shadows and became a more terrifying monster.