Carock

Carock
ArtworkSprite TAoL TAoL
Game(s)	The Adventure of Link
Dungeon(s)	Maze Island Palace
Weakness(es)	Reflect Spell

Carock is a boss featured in The Adventure of Link.^[1]^[2]

Essentially a large Wizard, this boss guards the Maze Island Palace, and can be defeated only by using the Reflect Spell to turn his own magic attacks against him. Carock throws his attacks and warps at a very high rate, so Link must defeat him quickly before it is too late.

Trivia

Carock is the first boss in the series whose defeat requires turning his own magic against him, later expanded upon with Agahnim before becoming common in later games.
Carock bears a resemblance to the Magician who tricked the Prince and placed Princess Zelda under a sleeping spell. Despite the similarity, they cannot be one and the same, as Carock is one of the guardians of the temples that protect the Triforce of Courage, created by the King of Hyrule himself, while the Magician not only was responsible for Zelda's current situation, but had died as a result of casting the curse.
Carock is referred to as a Wizzrobe in the NES Game Atlas^[1] and The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition: The Official Nintendo Player's Guide^[3] despite the smaller wizard enemies in the palace never being referred to as Wizzrobes.

Nomenclature

Names in Other Regions
Language		Name	Meaning
	Japanese	カロック (Karokku)	Carock
	German	Carock

Gallery

Carock warping around the room
Carock's sprite from the Japanese version of the game

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "To defeat the sly and quick Wizzrobe, Carock, Link must use Reflect. After activating the spell, crouch at the left of the screen and wait for the magic to give the Wiz some of his own medicine." (NES Game Atlas (Nintendo), pg. 68)
↑ "Carock was the guardian of the Maze Palace, where Link recovered one of the six Magic Crystal shards necessary to rouse Princess Zelda from her unnatural slumber." — The Great Hyrule Encyclopedia, Zelda.com (archive), retrieved November 21, 2016.
↑ "Carock is an over-grown Wizzrobe who appears, fires a beam at you and disappears. Cast the Reflect spell and keep your Life spell handy. His attacks are powerful." (The Legend of Zelda: Collector's Edition: The Official Nintendo Player's Guide (Nintendo), pg. 35)