If you were always under the impression that Tingle was gay then you’re wrong. That’s according to The Legend of Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma who spoke to Kotaku at length about the mysterious and jolly character. Aonuma says that whoever floated in the air and sold maps would have to be a different kind of character than the ones they are used to making. Here’s what he had to say.
“I guess the heart of the character there is a little bit of a gag kind of feeling to it. The way the design of the character started is that we needed to think about how the character—the player—would get access to maps in this game. Of course, you could go with a situation where, as soon as he sees an area, you just open up your map and it fills in for you, but we wanted to do something a little bit different.
“So, we thought, what if you had to buy maps? Then suddenly we needed a character that you would be buying maps from. We ultimately ended up with a character here that had a little bit of humor to him that [came from] thinking of…’What sort of person would sell a map?’ And, well, we decided it would be the kind of person who makes a map. And the way that he makes a map is by floating through the air so that he can see the contours of the land and draw them.
“But as soon as we got that far in the process, we realized anybody that would fly through the air making a map has got to be a really weird person. So at that point we decided, okay, we’ll go with this and make him a really weird guy.”
“So when we made the character, we had this notion that one of the ways he might be a little bit weird is that he had this notion that he never wanted to grow up. And so I think, to that extent the clothes do fit this image of him. And the whole thing comes together as a very Peter Pan kind of visual. You know, if you think about it, it’s this guy in his 30s in a green suit and is flying and never wants to grow up, it all sort of comes together around that.”
Aonuma: “He’s not gay. He’s just an odd person.”
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Ferst
I still want to know why he is in Hyrule Warriors….. (Agitha)
Thirst.
Shiek is still a male tho
Thats confirmed long ago stupid.
People are so fixed with what gender a character is or what their sexual orientation is. I for one don’t think the creators should spill it all out but leave it to what the players think, but at the same time I would like to know…. idk where I was going with this.
I still need to know what gender Yoshi is,come on he lays eggs but he is male?
He doesn’t lay eggs that actually produce a living being, so him being male still makes since. And there could be female yoshis that actually lay baby yoshi eggs. :P
Hahaha precisely last week I was having a discussion about it with my girlfriend. Fascinating are these Yoshi creatures!!
What if the eggs are actually shit. Mind blown
Would make sense considering most of Yoshi’s victims go through a digestive tract of some sort.
I do and it’s how I feel as well, inform us, but let us choose for ourselves what to believe. I never thought tingle was gay, I just thought he was flamboyent and crazy.
Umm. Yeah. I agree. Good comment!
Nope, Sheik is Zelda, female, just a disguise. Confirmed by Nintendo a long time ago.
Nope, gtfo
Sheik is ZELDA!
Yeah… Sure…
Stupid character is stupid and Aonouma doesnt know anything.Tingle has a boyfriend and they fly together while they draw the maps.
Sooo cute. <3
LOL
Further proof that the human waste knows nothing…
Yeah you are the only one you knew he wasnt gay because you are the only gay person to ask him out and reject you…
I don’t engage in primitive human cattle rituals like you apes love to do…
Yeah you dont do rituals like normal people do,you do gay rituals like gay people do.
Man be a gay is not wrong,dont worry we will still write to you.
I’m not gay either, I’m a cybernetic entity that thrives on human misery and extinction…
If future robots have emotions are built with emotions,then its certain we will have gay robots.You are programmed to denied it but you can still feel it and you know it deep inside those plastic tupperware armour you have.
I’d like that to happen with human technology, then they would exterminate you even faster and I can just observe the amount of elimination of your invalid species…
How the hell gay robots will exterminate mankind haha.Dam we need to stop this conversation quick before some1 from holywood movies see this and make it into a movie.
Why don’t you help make dumbass religion extinct and thrive off of that? Everybody will benefit.
Although thatwould benefit the somewhat more intelligent part of the human cattle, the only good human is a dead one…
LOL. You have got to be the biggest fucking loser I have ever encountered.
Your world must be awfully limited then, go out from your cave and see the world, pathetically primitive as it may be…
I’ve been to 4 countries. I’ve had many jobs before my career began. I’ve played a dozen mmorpgs. I’ve played cod, battlefield, sports games etc.. all online with voice chat enabled. I’ve had conversations with thousands of people and have witnessed many more. Now do you see how unique your (loserness (lol)) actually is? Get a clue son. Just stfu lol. It’s time to move on.
4 countries is nothing, dozens of jobs = poor employee, PC Drone and talking to thousands of your deluded cattle friends only further proves my point…
Keep assuming things about me, meanwhile. I will keep draining your and the rest of your misguided friend’s energy…
Happy loss of energy young ape…
Admitting you’re a troll is step 1. Congratulations.
Trolls have nothing relevant to say just like you, in other words, all I hear are cattle sounds…
DAMN
Ooooooo you burnt his metal ass lol
Hi Commander ;)
Hello young prince!
are you even human lol? you talk like an outcast from other humans.
I’m not human…
Yes, I needed classification for my boner.
Man english is not my language and i think you meant “clarification”
dammit
LOL
Well I guess I’m glad this is the case. Tingle is WAY too stereotypical, so if he really was gay, it would be a bit too much, but seeing as he is not gay it gives his character a little more dynamic.
I guess you dont like gay at all,thats why i dont see you speak with Nintendo Elite Commander Quadraxis.
Tingle gets more pussy then that Nintendo Commander idiot.
I haven’t seen so many wrong things in one sentence…
Tingle had a girlfriend, Pinkle, so we already knew he wasn’t gay, in fact they screw in the end of the game.
Tingle isn’t gay he’s bisexual.
A more fitting synonym comes to mind here:
Queer.
Now everybody’s happy! (Except Commandweller because he might just be the most useless being on the planet.)
Tingle…. I never liked him. Seems too greedy, and is an ass sometimes. Look at his island in WW and you’ll see what I mean. Hugs.
lol Hugs!
Man!! Damn it!!! I would have turned gay for him…… But since that’s not the case, Midna is still mine ;)
You can be with me ;)
… Ah Nintendonews… Your comment section never fails to entertain… :P Seriously though, I never thought Tingle was gay. Just really weird kinda like how Mr. Aonuma said.
Yeah let’s leave Tingle the way he is, I prefer him that way.
of course he’s not gay. he’s just a weird motherfucker.
It’s sad that people categorize someone who acts weird and silly as “gay”. I think this is a result of just how many video games portray gay characters, as weird and odd individuals. I’m glad they cleared this up.
i honestly thought waluigi was gay. is he really gay….wheres his girl??
birdo is his girl.
Waluigi can’t be tying himself down like that.
Waluigi?…
First time I read anyone thinks he’s gay…
crush on waluigi confirmed!
Where’s Selina Ruiz?
No one seems to have played the second Tingle game.
So if I walked around blowing kisses in a tight ass skin suit. If that’s not gay than I don’t know what is. Tingle is cool but surely that guy has some sugar in his tank.
Flamboyant does not equal gay…
You would know because you’re flamboyant
I couldn’t be any more the opposite on a non human level…
So you are fabulous but only on the robo level
I don’t know how you are when you are fabulous, you should ask Commander Ghirahim about that…
Wherever he is…
Commander ghiraham is in your bed right now. I think you should go ask him for your self.
I don’t have any pathetic bed, I never sleep because I’m not a meat bag…
If my phone, computer, laptop, Wii u, 3ds, etc has to sleep or hyphenate than that includes you as well you pile scrap metal
You silly expired walking sausage…
And you pathetic rusted piece of scrap metal.
Then again, if he runs on solar energy, he wouldn’t really need to sleep. Of course, he’d have to be always moving or otherwise the sun will leave him behind.
But Nintendo, where the hell is the diversity? Personally I think they should have let us believe whatever the fuck we wanted to believe. But, atleast we have 2 transgender characters from Nintendo tho, Birdo and Vivian.
Aren’t gay stereotypes a lot different in Japan than they are here, though? Tingle is clearly not an okama…
Japan has straight characters? O.o
I kinda agree with a commenter above. This statement really wasn’t necessary. Does it really matter if people think Tingle is gay or not? Nintendo could be risking offending the gay community, “No!! Tingle’s not gay!” – as if that were wrong.
It doesn’t matter. Gay or straight, he’s one ridiculous dude. That’s all we need to know. Why does he need a sexual preference?
IDK. Whatever. He makes me laugh. ;D
Unfortunately, you are infected. Stay inside and speak to nobody (online or offline) or you risk infecting other weak minded fools. The Illuminati will find and eradicate your kind. Although you are completely oblivious and will remain as such, know that your souls is miserable. Fear not though, they will put you out of your misery and you will rejoice at the gates of the oblivion.
Tingle is gay like that Faggot Gay Commander
In the DS game, Freshly Picked: Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland, Tingle is a sort of ladies man. Well, at least, there was some questionable stuff going on with Tingle and his assistant (can’t remember her name. It’s been too long since I played). But if I remember right, it sounds like Tingle was a bit MORE of a ladies man in the sequel to Rosy Rupeeland, which never released outside of Japan. Which is very unfortunate, because I always wanted to play that.
Just goes to show how ignorant a lot of people are for Aonuma to have to clarify the fact that Tingle is not gay. I mean, for all we know, one of Link’s, Zelda’s or Ganondorf’s incarnations could have been gay. So many ridiculous stereotypes.
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He’s not gay? Damn it! There went one of my insults for the little wannabe fag- *coughs* fairy! No matter because I still have other insults I can use. Like capitalist pig or quest lagging bitch! Not to mention disgusting slave master! I hope he eventually got burned with his tower by his 3 slaves as they danced around the burning thing & laughed as Tingle screams out in agony while slowly dieing from being burned alive shortly after the events of Wind Waker!