Birdphone

The Birdphone is a primary antagonist of Link's Awakening, second only to the Annoying Owl. It appears frequently throughout Marty's adventure, always seeking to delay him in waking the Wind Fish or even to destroy him completely.

In addition to running a shop full of overpriced items, the Birdphone is also a genetic engineer; many of his mutated creations can be found throughout the game's dungeons, including the Stirbys, the Styguys, and the Stoldladies. If confronted directly, he unleashes a deadly and unavoidable x-beam. Although it is malevolent and ruthless, the Birdphone actually holds the key to unlocking Marin's memory and waking her from her dream. This is why many birds appear in the eighth dungeon, and why the final Instrument of the Sirens plays a song with the power of birds and phones.

In the final dungeon, he appears as the Bird Knightphone, having mutated his own body in a last-ditch attempt to stop Marty. When this fails and Marty defeats him repeatedly, he is eventually revealed to have become a skeleton and collapses to pieces.