Gohma
Gohma is a fictional monster and a recurring boss character in the Legend of Zelda series of video games. Although Gohma's appearance is different in every game, it is always a giant cyclopic arachnid, and its eye is always its weak point. Template:Spoiler
In the first game Gohma is a boss creature, appearing as a large, one-eyed arachnid that shoots fireballs at Link. Gohma could be harmed only by shooting arrows at its eye when it opens.
In The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, multiple Gohmas appeared as a sub-boss in the Catfish's Maw.
In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Gohma is the very first boss the player battles. In this game she is referred to as Parasitic Armored Arachnid: Queen Gohma, and is a giant spider-like enemy used by Ganondorf to curse the Great Deku Tree in when he was denied the Kokiri Emerald. Link was requested by the Great Deku Tree to rid him of Gohma. While inside, Link found that there were several Deku Scrubs who swore allegiance to the Queen Gohma but they revealed her weakness to him when he defeated them.
Eventually Link reaches Gohma's lair deep inside the Great Deku Tree. The battle does not commence until Link, the player, enters first person view and spots her glowing red eye high on the ceiling. The creature itself manipulates its legs to look like a mutated hand with an eye ball in the center, but upon further inspection one can see it does still in fact have its arachnid appearance. During the battle Link is meant to attack her eye with the Slingshot and the Kokiri sword, since the bow is not yet available.
She will eventually retreat to the ceiling to spawn eggs that drop and, soon after, hatch into Gohma larvae, small Gohmas that were encountered as enemies earlier in the level. Each newborn has only two legs (no arms or additional legs), one eye, and appears to be sprouting something atop of their head. These creatures can be killed with ordinary sword attacks. It is also possible to destroy the eggs with a sword strike before they hatch, although they can still hurt you if you touch them.
Link battles and destroys, but the Great Deku Tree reveals that Gohma had done too much damage to him already, and soon dies.
In The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, Gohma returns with a spider-like appearance and a large pincer. Link must hack away at the pincer to get a clear shot at Gohma's eye. This version will also summon Gohma larvae to attack Link.
Gohma serves as the boss of Dragon Roost Cavern in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, where it had been harrassing the dragon Valoo, which disturbed the order on Dragon Roost Island. In this game, Gohma appeared more like a cross between a centipede and scorpion with a hard carapace. It appeared that this version of Gohma was a larger and more powerful version of an enemy from that game, namely the Magtail, a species of scorpion/centipede hybrids that resided in lava and also had one eye. Gohma attacks by trying to crush Link with its body, or breathing fire at him. Link fights back by using his Grappling Hook on Valoo's tail, which in turn makes a part of the rocky ceiling fall down on Gohma, crushing some of its carapace and letting Link slash away at its exposed eye. It is later fought again (in black and white) in Ganon's Fortress.
The sixth boss in Twilight Princess goes by the name of Twilit Arachnid Armagohma, and appears as a giant spider with an eyeball located in its back. It is found in the Temple of Time, the sixth dungeon in the game. This version of Gohma is hairy and has eight legs, heavily resembling a huntsman spider. Its classic single eye can shoot a fiery laser, and of course, to stun it, Link must shoot the eye with an arrow. To further damage it, the player must fire the Dominion Rod at one of the massive statues; doing so causes the statue to swing its hammer onto Armogohma's carapace. Armagohma can also lay dozens of eggs, which hatch to reveal small spider-like enemies, known as Baby Gohma. Upon getting its body destroyed, Armagohma's eyeball reveals itself to be a small spider on its own, and humourously tries to escape along with some of its spawn. It is killed after a single sword strike, and releases the third shard of the Twilight Mirror. Along with many Baby Gohma throughout this dungeon, there are also Young Gohma: small, four-legged, spider-like creatures that closely resemble Tektites .
TV series
Gohma made at least one minor appearance on the television series adaptation of The Legend of Zelda series. On the tv show, however, Gohma was a large, blue crab-like creature, very similar to the Tektites. Like its other incarnations, its eye was its main weakness. Ganon attempted to feed Zelda and Link to Gohma, which behaved a lot like a tamed pet, but Link managed to trick Ganon into destroying Gohma by dodging a fire attack meant for him and causing it to hit Gohma in the eye, destroying it. Template:Endspoiler
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