As soon as the news of a movie adaptation of The Legend of Zelda broke, there was one question that swept the discourse: Should series protagonist Link speak? A lot of people are very passionate about the possibility of the movie putting a voice in the head of the perennially near-silent protagonist, with many claiming that he should not, in fact, say anything.

And one can't help but think of the "Well excuuuuse me, Princess!" cartoon adaptation from 1989 that filled the Link void with "attitude," making him more an obnoxious smart aleck than a noble knight, or the recent animated movie adaptation of Super Mario Bros., and agree Link shouldn't speak. Adding dialogue to Link means stamping him with a potentially annoying personality, as in the '80s, or with only the broadest, dullest strokes of one, as in the Mario movie.

Either way, everyone is wrong. It doesn't matter if Link talks, because who cares about Link? The series isn't called "The Legend of Link." The Legend of Zelda movie should be about the games' only real, interesting character, and her name is right there in the title.