what a wierd name. are those the same guys that were in a link to the past? i just always called them green or blue or whatever soldiers. anyone know this is really bothering me!

Maybe Nintendo was just trying to be creative with their names?

They have dark skin...and some have dark armor. Maybe that's why. As to the nut part...maybe the guy making them was hungry.

or they were trying to think of a name so they started looking around the room and they saw nuts so darknuts

It's a stretch but maybe it's a play on the words "Dark Knights".

Has anyone else done a helm splitter on them? Normally when I combat them, their helmet stays on all the time. But I got Link to do a helm splitter and the helmet came off revealing that the Darknut had a sort of dog head. It had tall pointy ears like a doberman. Weird.

i never thought of that and i did notice that they had sort of a dog like head and if you cut off their armor it looks like they are wearing like an apron weird

The actual Darknuts look like what are those things called... oh yeah! Jackals those weird dog/beast things in Egypt.

Wrong, those are anubis and anubis is he egyptian god of death.

You are both right. Anubis' head is a jackal. I don't see the resemblance though...

quote Catboy14

You are both right. Anubis' head is a jackal. I don't see the resemblance though...

they have the same head, and a tip for DKN, just trow bombs at them, in order to quickly kill them, then make them sepparate and parry them individually and quicly.

I think it looks similar, and it would make sense considering the death part of it.

What dead part?, if im not misunderstood, those darknuts were once humans, but they sold their souls to ganandorf.

quote Duncan Idaho

those darknuts were once humans, but they sold their souls to ganandorf.

if thats so then how did he take controll of that giant bird the helmaroc king?

If i remember the teory says that it was a ganons pet.

The death part being the god of death, wouldn't you be a bit cautious goin' near the god of death???