TP's darknuts are among the coolest enemies I've ever seen in the Zelda series.

I did some research on them:
I wanted to see if there was any difference between the different colored darknuts in TP. I found that there are 6 types of darknuts: black (miniboss in ToT) which has a broadsword and round shield, blue / red / purple / silver, which have a curved sword and regular shield, and gray, which has a regular shield and a mace. The mace might have less reach, but they all do the same damage as far as I can tell, and all of them take 11 hits to disarm. The cave of ordeals has 3 rooms with darknuts: the first has 2 gray and later a red, the second has a red and 2 aeralfos, and the third has a red, a blue, a silver, and later a purple. Hyrule castle has 1 purple, then when the paths split the right path has 2 gray, and finally before the final door there's 1 purple. As far as I can tell, the colors and different weapons are just for variety, unlike LoZ and AoL in which the colors of enemies signified their strength.

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