I’ve seen a few people try to claim Ganondorf is justified because of what he said in the Wind Waker:
"My country lay within a vast desert. When the sun rose into the sky, a burning wind punished my lands, searing the world. And when the moon climbed into the dark of night, a frigid gale pierced our homes. No matter when it came, the wind carried the same thing... Death. But the winds that blew across the green fields of Hyrule brought something other than suffering and ruin. I coveted that wind, I suppose." -Ganondorf
While he’s absolutely right in everything he says here, the issue is when you look at his actions in OoT. He essentially commits genocide against the Hylian people and leaves the refugees huddled in Kakariko Village. His villainy is not because of his ideals of a peaceful life for the Gerudo (if that’s even what he believes), but from his actions. Ganondorf attacked the innocent people of Hyrule instead of just the Royal Family, who created the problem.
Wind Waker takes place in the Adult Timeline, where the Hero of Time beat Ganondorf and didn’t go back to stop his plot. Ganondorf has clearly changed after this defeat. He even promised not to kill Link and Tetra while he was taking the Triforce from them, something any other Ganondorf would not do. He is the only version of Ganondorf to do this. Yet, his wish for the Triforce was to unflood Hyrule and give the kingdom to him. It’s questionable on whether or not he would revert to being a force of evil like in OoT. He’s a better person, but I don’t think he’s a good person.
In ALL versions of Ganondorf aside from Wind Waker, he is shown to be completely self-centered and willing to do anything to achieve personal power. It doesn’t matter what his justification for it was, his actions show he’s purified evil who only understands power, which is fitting as the holder of the Triforce of Power.
