Zol

The Zol is a monster found throughout various Legend of Zelda games. A zol is a larger version of a gel, and can often be distinguished by its red color. When cut with a sword, a zol will split into two gels. Otherwise, zols behave in pretty much the same way as gels.

Gels are simple green blob-like enemies with two eyes. Gels often hide between the tiles of dungeon floors, waiting to pop out and jump at adventurers. However, they are rather weak, usually dying to a single attack, and hardly causing even a full heart of damage. Gels first appeared in The Legend of Zelda, and continued to appear in A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening. A pair of similar enemies called "bit" and "bot" appeared in Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.

In Link's Awakening, the two different types of Gels behaved differently. The green Gels hid in the floor and attacked when Link got close to them. These moved in a jumping manner. The red Gels however, were different in that they were always visible and considerably slower than the green. If hit with the sword, the red Gels would divide into two small Gels. These could cause no damage, but attach to Link and slow him down so that other enemies would be able to hurt him.