Talk:Ganondorf VS Dracula/@comment-39967096-20191003221101/@comment-4450205-20191006114438

No. It may be possible that Ganon's soul will persist in the body unless dealt a fatal injury from a holy weapon, but it is certainly not the only way of killing Ganon. Even taking the NLF at face value, abilities such as soul destruction or existence erasure should kill him just fine.

Whether Ganon can be ""killed"" by conventional means or not, however, is an intetesting question. In several games Link can land the finishing blow with non-holy weapons to put Ganon down, but the canonicity of the instances are questionable, as pretty much every Zelda storyline implies holy weapons are necessary to complete the process. However, against someone like, say, Bowser, whether Ganon's soul can persist in the body doesn't really matter. While Ganon can possibly technically "survive" conventional damage by non-holy weapons, he doesn't rapidly heal from them unlike someone like Ghost Rider, so anyone with sufficient strength can splatter Ganon intoa pile of goo so thoroughly that he's basically incapacitated even if he doesn't technically count as dead.