The Legend of Zelda: The Light of Courage

The Legend of Zelda: The Light of Courage, also referred to as The Light of Courage or abbreviated as TLOC, was a concept for a movie largely based on the 1989 Legend of Zelda animated series. Originally conceived by fanboy Robert C. McGee (who went by Joe_Cracker on the IGN Boards) in 2002, the script written for the movie and a series of events surrounding it on the IGN Boards eventually lead to the creation of an animated parody trilogy headed by forum users sexualburgerking, Cellius_18 and orquiox. Joe_Cracker also planned to make a fifteen minute Mario short titled "The Super Mario Brothers Mini Movie!" that would come before the movie.

Before the script was sent to "John Grusd".[]

According to Joe, he started writing the story around Christmas 2002. However, it wasn't until August 2003 where he began to post about his movie on the IGN Boards. He said after he was finished with the script that he would send it to both DiC Entertainment and Nintendo to make the movie happen. However, unbeknownst to him, DiC Entertainment was struggling financially at the time after many flops in the past and Nintendo would not accept someone on the internets ideas, both of these facts being cited by detractors in the thread promoting the film. Among one of these detractors was THE_SPOTLIGHT, who Joe_Cracker would get to act as a temporary director and writer for the script.

The Spotlight defended harsh comments directed towards Joe for a while. In December 2003, sexualburgerking would make his first post on the thread, and would later became a notable user in the TLOC saga along with Cellius_18 and orquiox, both of whom would join in on May and September 2004.

In October 2004, The Spotlight disappears after many arguments with Joe. This causes Joe to start slacking on the project. Something had to be done to keep the project alive, so in November 2004, Cellius reported a user by the name of Glen Judicus was stealing Joe's work. To make Joe believe this, Cellius posted the website to Glens work (known as The Beacon of Courage or TBOC). In reality, Glen Judicus was just SBK, Cellius, and Orquiox. However, Joe believed it and started to finish his script so he could send it to John Grusd on his blog.

Wait, John Grusd has a blog? Well, back in September 2004, SBK, Cellius, and Orquiox created a blog claiming that it was John Grusd's. Joe sent the script to "John" at the end of November and was then given updates about casting.

After sending "John Grusd" the script.[]

Later, in February 2005, the thread was finally locked due to going off-topic and into spam. A new thread was started but deleted shortly after. Also, in February, the first animation test was sent to Joe, who showed it on the second thread. A 3rd and 4th thread was created in March and April, but those didn't last long either. The next thread was started in late May. In early June, Joe was sent the next animation test and showed it to everyone on the thread. This time, everyone had negative reactions about it and not long after Joe was told that John Grusd was NOT John Grusd...

Joe had found out that John Grusd was really SBK, Cellius, and Orquiox in disguise, obviously he wasn't pleased about this. Realizing that your script was sent to a fake? The thread was locked and a new one was made in October, despite Joe originally saying the May thread would be the last thread on IGN. SBK posted storyboards for the third animation which got Joe realizing a new animation was coming. He started having arguments with Cellius about the final animation and that it shouldn't be done. However, it was released on May 29, 2006.

More Information[]

Before you see the 3 videos in the aftermath section, I will post these 2 links for now if you would like to see more information.

http://herbalcell.com/the-light-of-courage (Also features all the threads discussing the movie.)

http://www.platypuscomix.net/people/joecracker.html (Just a tad more information in this one.)

http://www.htloz.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1618 (This page doesn't include more information about the subject, but it does contain the script that was sent to "John Grusd". However, Joe also sent the script to The Spotlight. "John Grusd" posted the script in January 2006, not September 2005. This means it could have possibly been The Spotlight who had left in October 2004.)

Aftermath[]

The three videos can be seen on Youtube on the channel "grusd". The three videos combined have a total of 200,000 views!