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Heart Container
The Heart Container in every Smash Bros. game since Brawl, as well as The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.
Item Type Life extension, healing
Kind of Item Heart
First Appearance Zelda 1, Famicom Disk System, 1986 (Japan); NES, 1987 (international)
Latest Appearance Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Switch, 2018
Restores or extends HP.
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The Heart Container is a staple of the Zelda franchise. In those games, it generally adds an extra heart to Link's life meter. In some games, it may be split up into Pieces of Heart.

It's also a staple of the Smash Bros. franchise, present in every canon installment thus far. In those games, it reduces a fighter's damage percentage by 100, except in some games' All-Star modes and in Smash 64, where it instead healed all damage. They are generally a rare item.

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Heart Containers appear in Super Smash Stadium, unchanged from canon.