"It's dangerous to go alone!" is a partial quotation and Internet meme from the 1986 video game The Legend of Zelda for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). The full quote reads: "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this." It is spoken by an unnamed old man who gives the player-character Link a sword to help him on his quest to defeat Ganon and rescue Princess Zelda.
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Reception
The quote has spawned a number of variations and has been a popular image macro. The most popular use as an image macro was an image of a kitten in someone's hand with the quote added to the image. The quote has also been used by a number of websites for titles to articles. IGN positioned it at #27 on their top 100 video game moments list and claimed that the scene was the best example of the exploration element found in The Legend of Zelda. GamesRadar featured it in its list of the 40 most repeated video game quotes as well as the top 100 best video games quote list. UGO Networks' Sal Basile included the quote in a list of "what we learned" from The Legend of Zelda.
Appearance in other works
The website Ludum Dare hosted a 48-hour contest, wherein game developers had to develop a video game in that span of time with the theme "It's Dangerous To Go Alone! Take This!". The contest had 352 entrants. A fan-made documentary was to be made with the title "It's dangerous to go alone!"; its Kickstarter campaign, however, was unsuccessful.
The video game Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!! featured the character Jake the Dog say to fellow protagonist Finn the Human, "Hey man! It's dangerous to go alone!" The game was developed in part as an homage to The Legend of Zelda series.
In 2013, the musical-comedy group Starbomb released a song called "It's Dangerous to Go Alone" as part of their self-titled album. The song and the music video featured two members of the group as Link and the old man.