Darknuts are heavily armored knight enemies in The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, released for GameCube in 2002 in Japan and 2003 internationally. Fights with them focus on knocking off their armor and helmet before landing a hit, so their short attack cues became familiar to players who faced them in places like Hyrule Castle and Ganon's Tower. Short game effects like this later circulated on soundboards, where the isolated windup is reused apart from combat as a quick metallic alert for edits and memes.