Characters / Super Mario Bros.: The Princesses

Super Mario Bros. Main Character Index
Main characters: The Mario Brothers | Allies (The Princesses) | The Koopa Kingdom (Bowser — Bowser Jr. — The Koopalings — Other High-Ranking Subordinates — Bosses) | Assorted Nasties
RPG characters: Super Mario RPG | Paper Mario (64 — The Thousand-Year Door — Super — Sticker Star — Color Splash — The Origami King) | Mario & Luigi (Minion Quest: The Search for Bowser)
Spinoff series: Yoshi's Island | Luigi's Mansion | Mario Golf | Mario Tennis | Super Mario Maker | Donkey Kong series (Kongs) | Wario series (Wario and Waluigi)
Crossovers: Punch-Out!! | Super Smash Bros. | Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games | Skylanders | Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle | Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope
Other media: The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach! | Super Mario Bros. (DiC) | Super Mario Bros. (1993) | The Super Mario Bros. Movie

The Princesses

Damsels In Success.

The (at times, implied) love interests of Mario and Luigi. Peach is the gentle, kind-hearted Princess Classic and perennial Damsel in Distress. Daisy is the loud, energetic Tomboy Princess who typically acts as Peach's sister-in-arms/BFF/clone for the many Spin-Off games.

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General

Tropes that apply to both of the Princesses:

• Action Girl: Whenever they get the chance to show it, they prove to be very formidable fighters in their own right.
• Ambiguously Human: This was the case back when backstory of the Bros. finding their way to the MK from Earth was still acknowledged in a source like Mario 64's Player's Guide, Peach and presumably Daisy had the distinction of being from all signs human yet ruling over the Toads. The Super Crown from New Super Mario Bros. U complicates things further, since Toadette can grab it to transform into a mini version of Peach called "Peachette".
• Ambiguously Related: Peach and Daisy have a passing resemblance and it's not unknown for real-world royal families to mingle. The official Prima Games guide for Mario Kart: Double Dash!! has described them as being cousins, but it's not a canonical source.^note As confirmed by the following disclaimer: "However, the publisher makes no warranty, either expressed or implied, as to the accuracy, effectiveness, or completeness of the material in this book; nor does the publisher assume liability for damages, either incidental or consequential, that may result from using the information in this book. The publisher cannot provide information regarding game play, hints and strategies, or problems with hardware or software."
• Ass Kicks You: In the Super Smash Bros. series, some of their attacks have them bashing their opponents with their hips and butt. They also use their hips as their Quick Melee attack in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, if their hands are occupied with an item. In Super Princess Peach, Peach slides down hills butt first.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Aside from their iconic dresses, The Princess's very distinct hairstyles that show off exactly who they are.
  • Peach's blonde hair, with her distinctive bangs and sideburns is styled in the shape of a mushroom, and if that weren't enough, the front of her hair is in the shape of a heart-shaped peach (the actual fruit).
  • Daisy's haircut has similar bangs to Peach, but the front of her red hair are styled in the shape of large flower petals. The back of her hair is shorter, but styled in the shape of a flower.
• Badass Adorable: In their playable appearances, they're both cute and capable. Games like Super Mario Run and Super Mario Bros. Wonder showcase this, featuring the pair as playable characters.
• Ballet: Anyone as good at rhythmic gymnastics as they are (as seen in the Mario and Sonic Summer Olympics titles and Mario Golf: Super Rush) have got to have some serious training.
• Balance, Speed, Strength Trio: The Princesses have this set up when playable with Rosalina in the Sports titles. Peach is the Weak, but Skilled Technical-Type, Daisy is the Jack of All Stats, while Rosalina is the powerful Glacier Waif.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Some of their sports attire, notably in some of the Mario Strikers titles. Their standard athletic uniforms were changed to feature their midriffs in the Tokyo Olympic games.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: Two adorable girls and one of the kindest and sweetest characters in the series:
  • Princess Peach is very beautiful, complete with golden hair, and lovely blue eyes. She has many admirers, especially Mario and Bowser. On top of all that, she's as sweet as can be.
  • Daisy is a very beautiful princess just like Peach with pretty Auburn hair and blue eyes like her counterpart. Princess Daisy has quite a few admirers, especially Luigi and Waluigi. On top of that she's quite kind and sweet.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Despite partaking in a lot of action and fighting, the Princesses never lose their cute looks.
• Best Friend: Peach and Daisy are regularly portrayed as being each other's besties, and are often paired together in sports events.
• Beware the Nice Ones: They don't get many opportunities to show it often, but whenever they get the chance, Peach and Daisy are quite competent individually and even more dangerous when working together, as evident in games like Mario Tennis Aces, where the girls take down the Lucien-possessed Wario and Waluigi.
• Butt-Monkey: Applies to them both and Rosalina:
  • Despite being prim and properly dressed, they participate in the same kind of cartoonish violence and silliness as the guys do. Special mention goes to Peach and Daisy in the Mario Strikers games, where they get crushed, set on fire, and electrocuted. All three also suffer the same abuse as everyone else in the various Mario Party and Mario Kart games as well. Peach's case reaches an extreme in Super Mario Bros. Manga Mania where she (along with Luigi and Toad) gets flattened by Giant Mario◊ and later during the Paper Mario adaptation is roped into a Big Ball of Violence against Kammy Koopa◊. As well as in KC Mario, where she falls head first onto solid ground after Mario drops her◊ in Super Mario Land's adaptation and smashes into the canyon wall◊ during the Mario Kart arc.
  • Both of them also get made fun of for various reasons too, like Peach being a Damsel in Distress and Daisy "being an orange Peach". This is most prominently seen in their various character bios in the spinoffs and Palutena's Guidance in Smash Bros.
• Chromatic Arrangement: Peach, Daisy, and Rosalina are color-coded to the three subtractive colors of light (CMYK Color Model): Rosalina is Cyan, Daisy is Yellow, and Peach is Pink/Magenta.
• Combat Stilettos: A non-fanservice example. In some of their appearances (namely the Mario Party series and Super Smash Bros. series), they don't have a change of outfit for the more practical activities, meaning they actually kick butt in their high heels.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: Both the Elephant and Balloon Wonder Effect forms in Super Mario Bros. Wonder leave Peach and Daisy with their underwear constantly exposed.
• Cool Crown: Their signature item, used in most of their character logos. The princesses are almost never seen without their shiny golden crowns. Aside from being pretty, it also functions as a powerful melee weapon. The Expanded Universe in the 90's Mario comics even had a story where Peach actually loses her crown, and she must find it to be re-coronated. If she doesn't, she isn't allowed to be Princess for a year, and the Mushroom Kingdom will be in complete control of her father. Needless to say, the entire situation went from mildly inconvenient to rather dire.
• Costume Evolution: The two of them have updated their looks over the years:
  • Peach has always had her pink dress with the big puff sleeves and bell skirt. Just graphical increases allowed more details to be shown, and then added. In the Super Smash Bros. games since Brawl, her outfit is a full Pimped-Out Dress with extra overskirts and lace trimmings. That said, her outfit has had two distinct looks over the years; The Modern look has her pink dress with dark pink panniers at the waist and a matching ruffle at the bottom. Her older look (Which last up to late N64 era) had her with a pink belt instead, and the bottom half of her dress's skirt was a darker shade of pink.
  • Daisy's dress was originally colored yellow with a white waistband, had a white dollop pattern on it, and was also white below her knees. The jewels on her earrings and chest were blue, her crown was colored red and the jewels on the crown were yellow and blue, with the yellow one being surrounded by a flower. (Peach herself can wear this outfit in Super Smash Bros. Melee.) Mario Party 4 introduced her modern dress, still colored yellow but now has orange panniers around her waist and is also covered by orange accents. The jewels on her earrings, chest, the front and back of her crown are now aqua green, the remaining jewels on the crown are red, and the crown itself is now golden. Her finalized modern look was established the same time as Peach's, while her old look went though minor changes.
• Cute Bruiser: An inevitable result of most of their playable appearances. Like every other playable character in the Mario Party series, they participate in several mini-games involve the characters beating the snot out of each other. Their appearances in Super Smash Bros. in particular let them kick even more butt, all while being as cheery and cute as ever.
• Damsel in Distress:
  • This happens to Peach a lot, from the very first Super Mario Bros., but it can also be averted, usually if she's also a playable character... or she can start out as a damsel and still become playable. Let's just say in the party, sports, and racing spin-offs, she's safe from kidnapping. Otherwise, she's more than likely going to get captured (usually by Bowser).
  • By contrast, Daisy has been this only twice: her debut in Super Mario Land, and again in Super Mario Run. Granted, between each of those appearances there are real-life decades.
• Dance Battler: They have a distinctly balletic fighting style in Super Smash Bros., particularly on show with their Forward Tilt and Up Smash (officially known as the "Can-Can Kick" and the "Pirouette", respectively, in case it wasn't obvious enough).
• Dude Magnet: Both of them have attracted a fair amount of men across the franchise:
  • Bowser is explicitly in love with Peach, and Mario is confirmed in Super Mario Odyssey to have a romantic interest in her as well. Luigi was also implied to have been an admirer until Daisy returned to the scene. Certain spin-off games feature characters that fall for her such as Francis, Booster, and the Phantom.
  • Luigi is confirmed to be in love with Daisy (with the feeling seeming mutual), while Waluigi is more of an abhorrent admirer of her. She also has a fair share of people that fall for her in the spinoffs, prominently the hosts for Mario Party 3 whom she nearly charms after she acknowledges her own beauty.
• Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: Daisy's raspy and boisterous voice makes her the "Energetic" in this dynamic while Peach's gentle and dainty voice makes her the "Soft-Spoken".
• Ermine Cape Effect: In most spinoffs. In the sports games, such as when driving a bike or an ATV in Mario Kart, they will wear more practical outfits, or they may wear their dresses, no matter how it doesn't fit, such as in all the crazy activities in the Mario Party games.
• Face: In the story mode of Mario Tennis Aces, the girls take on Wario and Waluigi in a doubles match and are clearly favored and cheered by the crowd.
• Freudian Trio: When paired up with Rosalina, the three girls form this dynamic. Daisy is energetic and excitable, Rosalina is elegant, serene and wise, while Princess Peach strikes a balance of the two personalities.
• Giant Poofy Sleeves: Their dresses typically feature these.
• Hartman Hips: It isn't as obvious◊ as some of the other examples of this trope, but they still have them. They are more noticeable when the princesses aren't wearing her dress, like their biker suit◊, winter outfit◊, leotard◊, minidress◊, soccer uniform◊, and tank top and shorts combo◊.
• High-Class Gloves:
  • Peach's character design always had long, white gloves, even though it took a few games to render them in sprites. She doesn't wear them in Super Mario Sunshine and the sports games.
  • Though shorter than Peach's, Daisy's have a flowery trim on the wrists, matching the edging on her puff sleeves.
• High-Heel Power: Both of them (along with Rosalina and Pauline) wear a nice pair of matching high heels while in their royal attire (Peach's are Pink/Red while Daisy's are Orange). They're normally not seen due to their dresses obscuring them, though. And they don't seem to slow them down, either. Peach and Daisy also wear heels while in their doctors' outfits in Dr. Mario World (white versions of their normal high heels, which due to their shorter skirts are actually visible).
• Honorary True Companion:
  • Rosalina is sometimes grouped as a third member, despite not officially being a princess. She is the ruler of the Comet Observatory, holding a similarly vague cosmic authority position. In fact, by design she wears a similar Princess Classic ballroom gown and crown attire (complete with high heels), but in light blue/cyan forming a Chromatic Arrangement trio with Peach's pink/magenta and Daisys orange/yellow. She even looks like a larger and even more elegant Peach. However where Daisy's appearances are mostly confined to spinoffs as Peach's counterpart, Rosalina appears in the plot of main series games like Galaxy, as a special unlockable in games like 3D World, and even got into Smash Bros. as a unique fighter before Daisy got in as Peach's echo fighter.
  • Less frequently, Pauline is grouped with the princesses as another Statuesque Stunner Implied Love Interest authority figure and sometimes damsel of the Mario series. As of Odyssey instead of being a princess proper, or a cosmic protector, she's the mayor of New Donk City. While she started out as a precursor to Peach as the Damsel, she's now a Recurring Element to Rosalina.
• Hospital Hottie: In some of the artwork for the Dr. Mario games, Peach trades her fancy dress and high heels for a cute nurse outfit and sandals; although it would take until Dr. Mario World, Peach and Daisy are portrayed wearing full doctor's outfits◊.
• Hotter and Sexier: They started taking a turn in this direction in the games during the GameCube era thanks to technological advancements, while Peach had previously appeared this way in other prior media such as the Super Mario All-Stars Japanese commercial. In Super Mario Strikers and its sequel Strikers Charged! both were given skin-tight sport wear that show their legs and navel with the official art emphasizing their busts and backsides, and in the Super Smash Bros series Peach and Daisy are taller and bustier in comparison to the Mario Party and the earlier Camelot-developed sports games. Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour and Mario Hoops 3-on-3 introduced for Peach and Daisy respectively a very short minidress that they usually wear during sport games instead of their usual Pimped-Out Dress. Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash and Mario Tennis Aces also give them prominent busts and an Impossible Hourglass Figure for Peach.
• Implied Love Interest: The two of them have this relationship with the Mario Bros:
  • How "implied" it is between Peach and Mario varies, with some sources (particularly the latter ones) outright confirming◊ them to be the Official Couple, while others don't address the relationship at all. Prior to Super Mario World, which is the first game to portray some sort of romantic interest between them during the ending (though The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach! predates it if counting other media), the relationship was seemingly platonic. The two are shown to have been close friends since childhood in the Yoshi's Island series and Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. In Super Mario RPG, Peach calls Mario her "knight in shining armor". Later, in Paper Mario, one of the Toads tells Mario to take Peach on a date to Shooting Star Summit. The relationship status by then, was lampshaded in Super Paper Mario — Nobody knows what to make of Mario and Peach's relationship, not even Mario himself (complete with one character, Luvbi, suggesting Mario is smitten with Peach but it's actually one-sided). During her own game, where Peach and Mario swap roles, after Peach rescues Mario she enthusiastically calls for him, dances and spins around with him for a bit (after slapping Luigi out of the way), finishing with a Bridal Carry complete with Mario taking out flowers for Peach out of his hat while Peach blows some kisses and hearts. In Mario Power Tennis, during Peach's victory scene, Mario outright tells Peach that "he loves her so much" to which she responds to with a smile and a blown kiss. In Super Mario Galaxy, Rosalina refers to Peach as Mario's "Special One" and the two are seen Holding Hands toward the ending of the game. And finally, in Super Mario Odyssey, Mario is fully confirmed to have romantic feelings for her and that he completely sees her as his Love Interest, as his main goal in the game is to stop Bowser from marrying her and stealing her away from him. Also, when his prior girlfriend/love interest Pauline appears, they are shown to remain good friends, helps him a bit during his stay in New Donk City, and wishes and cheers for Mario to be successful in rescuing Peach from the Forced Wedding. During the ending, Mario seems to want a definite Relationship Upgrade with Peach, but because he gets caught up with one-upping Bowser while proposing and starts shoving flowers in her face, she puts her foot down and her feelings towards Mario aren't addressed, though the post-game shows that she forgave Mario for the earlier incident and remain as close as ever. All in all, Mario is shown to be clearly in love with her and, while Peach's feelings aren't fully confirmed, she is seen to really enjoy Mario's company, appreciate all the times he's rescued/helped her (and vice-versa), and (if told under the right circumstances) she's shown to not mind at all being told by Mario that he loves her, ultimately making this a case where Everyone Can See It.
  • Originally Luigi and Daisy's first appearance together was a case of Pair the Spares in NES Open Tournament Golf, where she acts as Luigi's caddie just like Peach does for Mario. This carried over to the Mario Golf and Mario Tennis games where she acts as Luigi's doubles partner. Super Smash Bros. Melee further stated that "After her appearance in Mario Golf, some gossips started portraying her as Luigi's answer to Mario's Peach". In Mario Power Tennis, Daisy calls Luigi sweetie during her Victory Scene. References to the pairing continued to be made often in instruction manuals and their written bios, until it was officially acknowledged in Mario Kart Wii with her course having two golden statues of her dancing with Luigi as adults and as babies. In Mario Tennis Aces, Daisy is shown to be incredibly concerned about Luigi after he disappears and tells Mario to bring him back safely during the game's story mode. The pairing is also acknowledged in the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: The both of them have large blue eyes and are very cheery, optimistic, sweet and kind.
• Leg Focus:
  • The princesses tend to show off their shapely legs pretty well, particularly with their sports outfits. This reached its peak when the leotard was introduced in the Mario & Sonic series, as seen in their art◊work◊ for London 2012. The fact that they're really flexible certainly helps.
  • Peach's bikini artwork◊ from the first part of the official Japanese Super Mario World strategy guide, meant to be how she was last seen on vacation before going missing. There's also a bikini with a sarong she wears in the water-themed worlds when she starts traveling after the end of Super Mario Odyssey.
  • The dress that Peach wears in this Super Mario All-Stars Japanese commercial show her legs very well.
• Leotard of Power: The two of them wear leotards in their signature colors when participating in Gymnastics and Swimming events in the London and Rio Olympic Games.
• Lovely Angels: In Super Mario Bros. Wonder, two players can go through the entire game as Peach and Daisy. This marks the first mainline Mario game in which the two princesses can adventure and kick butt together as a duo.
• Meaningful Name:
  • "Peach" or rather "to be a peach" is an idiom for an attractive, likable, admirable, or good person. Her last name, Toadstool, is another name for Mushroom, pertaining to the kingdom she rules over.
  • Daisy's name matches her Flower Motifs. In addition, Daisy's the ruler of Sarasaland. Sarasas are a kind of textile that are often decorated with flower patterns.
• Male Gaze: Mario Strikers Charged, in one of their goal animations have their backside right at the camera.
• Ms. Fanservice: The princesses' various sport outfits show off some very alluring figures, with their most notable looks being their biker suits, leotards, tennis/golf minidresses, and soccer uniforms. Because of this, they also get a lot of Male Gaze and Leg Focus shots in the games. Peach in particular wears a glamorous dress to the Super Mario All-Stars premiere (in this Japanese commercial), displays a more flirty demeanor in Smash Bros., and in Super Mario Odyssey has a swimsuit◊ that's noticeably revealing. They also both have Adaptational Curves along with Rosalina and Pauline. The Mario Tennis and Mario Golf games (as well as Mario Hoops 3-on-3 and Mario Sports Mix, where they appear as bonus costumes) also give her an Impossible Hourglass Figure when she's seen wearing her (very short) sports minidress instead of her usual Pimped-Out Dress. The Tennis, Golf, and Smash Bros. games even have Panty Shots.
• Nice Girl: Both of them are very cheery and kind-hearted and deeply care for their friends and subjects.
• Pimped-Out Dress: The two are almost always known for their fancy and floofy gowns. Starting around the Gamecube era, their dresses got more and more detailed, such as having lace trim on the overskirt.
• Pretty in Mink: In the winter Mario & Sonic at the Olympics games, they each sport a mini dress trimmed with white fur. They also wear it in the London and Rio games for the equestrian events. Peach also wears a mink scarf in a Japanese commercial for Super Mario All Stars.
• Pretties Princesses Powerhouse: They play an active role in various games such as 'Super Mario Run', 'Super Mario Bros. Wonder, 'Super Smash Bros. and 'Super Mario Party''.
• Princesses Rule:
  • They rule over the Mushroom Kingdom and Sarasaland, respectively, despite being princesses. Early English game manuals and the comics mention that Peach is the daughter of the Mushroom King, but he has not been seen or even mentioned in the games ever. Likewise, Mario Party 3 and Fortune Street mentions that Daisy has a father, though he is never seen. It's justified in Peach's case in the comics however, as her father is incompetent, so she may as well be the true and responsible ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom anyway.
  • In the German versions of the games, they're both called Prinzessin and not Fürstin (the latter being the term for "princess" as the head of a principality), again highlighting that they rule kingdoms instead of principalities while still (somehow) not being queens.
• Recruitment by Rescue: Once you save Peach in Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition, she will join your team as a helper (as does Rosalina). This also applies to Super Mario Run, where she and Daisy become playable when you save them.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Peach is the serene, gentle, traditionally feminine Blue Oni to Daisy's rowdy, enthusiastic, tomboyish Red Oni. This is exemplified in their behaviors during sporting events. Where Daisy makes it VERY apparent that she’s having the time of her life, Peach plays and behaves with grace and poise. If Rosalina is involved in the proceedings, she becomes the Blue Oni and Peach becomes a Purple Oni while Daisy remains the Red Oni.
• Requisite Royal Regalia: The two are frequently seen in a Cool Crown, Pimped-Out Dress, high heels, and White High-Class Gloves, all meant to show their station.
  • In the role-playing games, Peach's Cool Chair is also often seen; however, as she's an active monarch, she doesn't spend much time in it.
  • To show her Tomboy nature, Daisy's crown is made less prominent than Peach's, and her gloves are frequently shorter than those Peach wears.
• The Rival: Daisy might give Peach much-needed female companionship, but just as the most likely reason they are even friends, the same reasoning is applied to any moments the two rival one another in spinoff games.
• Spoiled Brat:
  • Strikers portrayed Peach as more of a diva than in other games. One of her animations has the opposing team scores a goal, where she goes ballistic on one of her teammates before hopping up and down in anger and bawling into her hands.
  • Daisy's bratty side also shows up in Fortune Street, like these comments:
    Daisy: [after landing on an expensive shop] What is the meaning of these unbelievable prices!? I'm not above throwing a tantrum, you know!
    Daisy: [to the Player when he/she lacks money] That's not worth getting upset over, (Player's name). Just ask your daddy to front you some cash!
• Spoiled Sweet: The Princesses each have a castle, kingdom, and several lovely dresses to their name. However they are not the Alpha Bitch, far from it. Peach is very sweet and very gentle. So much so, that she will do anything for her friends, and despite being so pretty and rich, she loves Mario, a chubby, short plumber. She's even willing to be nice to Bowser fairly often despite the numerous times he has kidnapped her. Daisy is also very sweet and friendly to her friends, especially Luigi whom she is in love with. However, Daisy is more assertive than Peach is, as she rejects Waluigi and openly dislikes Bowser. She's also very competitive. Nevertheless she's very sweet, cheerful, and friendly to others.
• Sweet Tooth: Peach's Achilles' Heel is cake. In Mario Kart Wii, there's a billboard for Daisy Candy. In Mario Kart 8, they both run the "Royal Patisserie", and the Sweet Sweet Canyon track (which is a world of dessert) is under their shared banner.
• Tank-Top Tomboy: Peach debuted this look in her guest appearance in NBA Street V3. The princesses zigzag this trope depending on the sports game. If they doesn't wear this look, they will most likely sport a Minidress of Power instead. Daisy actually wears her tank top and shorts even more than her iconic dress.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: You have to admit, it's really nice when Nintendo gives either of them a break from their usual positions.
  • Peach gets to show what she's capable of in games where she isn't kidnapped, like Super Mario Bros. 2 (which marked the debut of her trademark Floaty Jump), Super Mario 3D World and Super Princess Peach. She's also been playable in the Super Smash Bros. games from Melee onward.
  • After spending years appearing in nearly every Mario sports and party games, Princess Daisy appeared as a playable disguise as an unlockable Mystery Mushroom costume for Mario in Super Mario Maker, and as a playable character in Super Mario Run marking the first time ever Daisy is made playable in a Mario platform game and her first appearance in a mainline Mario game since Super Mario Land. She has since been playable more recurringly: in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (as Peach's Moveset Clone), and Super Mario Bros. Wonder (as her first playable appearance in a traditional console mainline Mario game).
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Peach is the Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak, and Daisy is the Tomboy with a Girly Streak. While they are both active royalty, Princess Peach is certainly a more dainty and feminine princess, from having a Parasol of Prettiness to wearing her trademark pretty pink Pimped-Out Dress. While Daisy has yet to fight any major villains like Peach has, she's more proactive and less dainty when it comes to sports.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: Mostly in the sports spinoffs. Whereas the Mario Bros. are content to wear their overalls almost to any outing, the girls (including Rosalina and Pauline) typically come with a sportier look (largely for the justifiable reason of their normal long dresses and high heels being considered impractical for the specific sports spinoff's activity, which doesn't apply to the Mario Bros.' overalls). In later games, the guys have started to change their clothes too.
• Wealthy Yacht Owner:
  • Peach owns the MSS Sea Star from Mario Party 7. The cruise ship is big enough to hold a castle on its deck.
  • The Daisy Cruiser has appeared as a race course in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Mario Kart 7 and can also be seen in the background of other courses from Double Dash!! and onwards. It also appears as an unlockable baseball stadium in Mario Super Sluggers.
• What's Up, King Dude?: Commoners around the Mushroom Kingdom have no problem getting in touch with the Princesses, and both of them are of equal importance to everyone else when they attend gatherings. In Peach's case, its because she is extremely courteous and regards everyone as her friend, and makes time for anyone who wishes to see her. Daisy is also very courteous to an extent.

Princess Peach Toadstool

Debut: Super Mario Bros.
Voiced in English by: Kathy Fitzgerald (Mario is Missing; PC version), Jocelyn Benford (Hotel Mario), Leslie Swan (Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and Super Paper Mario), Jen Taylor (1999-2009), Asako Kozuki (Mario Party, Mario Party 2, Mario Kart: Super Circuit) Nicole Mills (Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time), Samantha Kelly (2007 — current), Anya Taylor-Joy (2023 animated movie)
Voiced in Japanese by: Hiroko Taniyama (GO GO Mario!!), Mami Yamase (The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach!), Maria Kawamura (Super Mario Bros. Vocal Special drama tracks), Miyako Endo (original video animations), Yuriko Yamamoto (Super Mario World: Mario and Yoshi's Adventure Land), Mariko Mukai (Satellaview games), Leslie Swan (Super Mario 64 Shindou Pak Taiou version), Asako Kozuki (Mario Kart 64), Arisa Shida (dub of animated movie)

"Thank you, Mario!"

"Listen, everybody, let's bake a delicious cake... ...for Mario..."

Princess Peach Toadstool is the crown princess of the Mushroom Kingdom and Mario's main love interest. She gets kidnapped frequently by Bowser in the main Super Mario Bros. games, but proves herself to be very skilled in sports. Though she's usually the Damsel in Distress, there are times she will get up and do something herself (such as in Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario RPG, Super Paper Mario, both Mario + Rabbids games, Super Mario Run, Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Bros. Wonder and her own games, Super Princess Peach and Princess Peach: Showtime!.

Worthy of note: She is the most recognizable female character in all of gaming with more appearances than any other female character.

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• Achilles' Heel: Getting kidnapped of course. Word of God also says it's cake. invoked
• Action Girl: Princess Peach is infamous as a Damsel in Distress, but there are a few games where she really gets to shine. The levels in badass she takes in these games don't generally tend to stick in subsequent games, but it's happening much more frequently in the present. Games where she becomes a proactive hero include Super Mario 3D World, Super Princess Peach, Super Mario RPG, Super Paper Mario, Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario Run, both Mario + Rabbids games, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and Princess Peach: Showtime!. And that's not even going into Mario Kart, Mario Party, Super Smash Bros., all of the Mario Sports games (especially Mario Strikers), and her contributions in the other RPGs.
• Action Heroine: She is one in many of the games where she is playable, such as the Super Smash Bros. series, Super Princess Peach, Super Mario 3D World, and Princess Peach: Showtime!. Peach herself lampshades this in Super Mario Party.
  Peach: I can play the hero when I need to, you know.
• Adaptational Badass: In Super Mario Adventures, to the point where it ultimately takes a hypnotist for Bowser to lock her down.
• Adaptational Curves: Over time, Peach has been portrayed with varied levels of curviness. In particular, the Super Smash Bros. series and some of the sports titles tends to give her much more generous curves than the main Mario games do.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the games, Peach is a sweet and kind individual. In the Super Mario Adventures manga, she is fiery-tempered and fairly quick to violence. Her counterpart in The Super Mario Bros. Movie also is very different due to Xenafication.
• All-Loving Hero: Princess Peach shows no ill will to anyone—even villains. She continues to be very friendly and cordial with Bowser despite his antics. Also shown in Super Paper Mario when she even helps Mimi out, even after she made fun of her royalty.
• Animal Lover: The opening of Super Mario RPG shows her playing and having fun with a bunch of animals. In the Mario Kart Arcade games, one of her special items is the Peach's Bird which she uses to attack her opponents.
• Badass in Distress: As mentioned before and shown in her various playable appearances, she is quite the formidable fighter who is very much capable of fighting alongside the Bros and defeating Bowser and various other powerful threats on her own. Despite this, her usual role is being a helpless Damsel in Distress and Neutral Female.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: Peach is the girly and dainty Princess Classic compared to Daisy, and through the series has wore outfits that show off her midriff, the most common examples being her soccer outfit in the first two Strikers games, her bikini in Odyssey post-game, and her mermaid transformation in Showtime. By comparison, Daisy doesn't show that much skin very often, with the only notable times including said Strikers games (to contrast the males wearing covering soccer clothing, which Peach and Daisy then start wearing alongside debutants Rosalina and Pauline in Battle League).
• Barrier Maiden:
  • In the original Super Mario Bros., Princess Peach's magic was the only thing that could undo the Koopas' curse on the Mushroom Kingdom. The Barrier Maiden thing was abandoned for a while, with Bowser's motives for capturing Peach varying from game to game, but it was never the original reason. However, more recent games have restored her Barrier Maiden status, though in a different form each time.
  • In Yoshi's Island DS, Baby Peach is one of the seven star children who are born with great power. Bowser attempts to steal the children to take over the universe (this would include kidnapping himself, which would result in a few time-related issues...) Peach is actually one of the children who escapes capture, and assists Yoshi and Baby Mario in saving the others.
  • In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Peach's voice is the only thing that can awaken the Beanstar, which grants wishes. She avoids capture through clever use of a Birdo (thanks in large part to Prince Peasley alerting her of the plot in advance), and again by having Luigi crossdress as her.
  • In Super Paper Mario, Peach and Bowser are a Barrier Couple. If they ever got married, the Chaos Heart would be formed and begin to destroy the world. Naturally, this is the first thing the Big Bad does in the first part of the game. Peach is so easily kidnapped...
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: According to the Nintendo Character Guide, Peach's white magic is what keeps her and her gown looking fresh at all times, even in Bowser's dank dungeons. She also almost always looks pretty even when she takes a lot of damage in her playable apperances.
• Benevolent Mage Ruler: Rules over the Mushroom Kingdom and possesses powerful White Magic as well as a large variety of other magic powers. This is often the reason why she gets targeted by the various villians of the series, as her magic poses a great threat towards them and their plans.
• Berserk Button: Do not mock her chronic damsel syndrome or she will destroy you. Bowser and Mimi both made this mistake; Mimi's instance even had Peach angrily ordering the Mario Bros. to leave her to her.
  Mimi: You're the one that's always having to get rescued by boys. THAT'S embarrassing! Golly, you sure are a lot of talk when you have your little boyfriends to protect you!
  Peach: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very well. If you insist, I'll give you what you so richly deserve.
  Luigi: P-Princess Peach! You're not really going to...
  Peach: Stay out of this! I am a PRINCESS, and she has thrown mud at my dignity! You two leave me be! Understood?!
  [Mario and Luigi nod obediently and back out of the room]
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's generally sweet, but don't push your luck.
  • One of the first hints to ever drop about how much you wouldn't like her when she's angry is in Super Mario 64 DS, when a Toad in the Rec Room worries about facing her wrath over the keys to her secret drawer being lost. The Icicle Golem got a sample of her wrath when it froze Mario; she nearly toppled a giant fridge after kicking its severed dome.
  • Peach is also not pleased with those who take advantage of her kindness and mercy. Bowser and Grape each try to pull a Victory Fakeout on Peach and get back up to fight once more in their encounters, with zero concern for collateral damage. Peach proceeds to show them no mercy and delivers a finishing blow to both of them.
• Big Good: Forms a Big Good Duumvirate with Mario. As ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, she is the leader of the most powerful heroic faction in the setting.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Peach is the Blonde along with Rosalina to Pauline's Brunette and Daisy's Redhead. She herself has been all three due to technical limitations before she became blonde full-time.
  • Adaptation Dye-Job: In the original "Super Mario Bros." game, Peach's in-game graphics have her as a redhead. The game's outer art had her as a brunette, and for the US cartoons, her hair was a red-brown/brunette depending on the graphics. It wasn't until the "Super Mario World" game that she was first a blonde and stayed blonde since.
• Blow You Away: Her Joy vibe in Super Princess Peach, which allows her to fly and perform a Tornado Move.
• Borrowed Catchphrase: Peach often borrows Mario's "Mamma mia!" catchphrase. She can be heard using it in games such as Mario Golf, Mario Party 4, Mario Party 5, and Super Mario Advance. Another line she borrows in Mario Party 4 and Mario Party 5 is what a line of Wario's is often misheard as ("Aw, I missed!").
• Boobs-and-Butt Pose: Some of her animations in Mario Strikers Charged, like one of her animations after scoring a goal, has her blatantly flaunting her butt towards the camera.
• Bound and Gagged: Surprisingly, given her usual role, this seldom happens outside Super Mario RPG and the cartoons. Then again, what kind of suitor would Bowser be tying up his love?
• Breakout Character: Mario actually had an Implied Love Interest/lady friend beforehand in Pauline, before Peach appeared in the franchise's signature game. The success of Super Mario Bros. would guarantee that Princess Peach would be Mario's signature heroine and Love Interest from now on. She is the single most prolific Nintendo starlet in all of gaming, even becoming Promoted to Playable in the American sequel, and eventually starring in her own games.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: If she places first overall in the Japanese version of Super Mario Kart, she will actually drink the champagne during the award ceremony (as will Bowser), though it's clear that she's a lightweight in more than one sense of the word.
• Cloudcuckoolander: She shows this at times, most especially during The Subspace Emissary, where she stops an impromptu squabble with a tea party.
• Compressed Hair: When she wears a Tanooki Suit or a Cat Suit in Super Mario 3D World.
• Coup de Grâce: Peach is very kind and merciful person but even she has her limits. Bowser and Grape both make this mistake by pulling a Victory Fakeout on Peach and keep on fighting. Peach, after defeating them again, puts them down for good with a finisher.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Peach possesses extreme femininity, has plenty of cute looks, and doesn't seem to be all there, but this only hides her true power. Once the princess decides to take charge and fight, all bets are off and you better bring your best.
• Dainty Combat: She often makes use of weapons that are associated with traditional feminity like a Frying Pan of Doom, Parasol of Pain, Combat Hand Fan and Glove Slap.
• A Day in the Limelight: Two for one for Peach.
  • The first one was Super Princess Peach. Which has the roles of hero and captive reversed, with the princess rescuing the captured Mario Bros.
  • Her second one is Princess Peach: Showtime!, a 3D game released in 2024 for the Nintendo Switch. Also in a literal sense as the theme of Showtime is based on a magical stage play.
• Damsel in Distress: One of the most well-known examples in fiction, since the plot of most Mario games is to save her from Bowser or whatever other evil force is attacking the Mushroom Kingdom that week. While Daisy is this sometimes as well, Peach deserves special mention for practically being the queen of this trope. It would be easier to list the games (that aren't spinoffs or RPGs) that don't have her kidnapped. That being said...
• Damsel out of Distress: Depending on the plot of a game, she can most certainly get herself out of captivity instead of just waiting for someone like Mario to rescue her. Happens more often in non-game media.
• Deadpan Snarker: In Super Paper Mario, in stark contrast to her more normal portrayals as The Ditz and the Cloudcuckoolander. She unloads on Bowser quite a bit, even calling him a giant baby at one point (Bowser was going through the nadir of his Villain Decay in this game).
• Demonic Possession: Suffers this in the endgame of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door courtesy of the Shadow Queen, who uses her as a vessel and gives her an Evil Costume Switch.
• Ditching the Dub Names: Downplayed. For her first two console generations, Peach was known as Princess Toadstool outside of Japan, before abruptly switching to Peach for all regions. "Toadstool" however wasn't completely ditched and instead became Peach's last name, rendering her full name as Peach Toadstool.
• The Ditz: Heavily Downplayed. While she's far from stupid, there are times where she's portrayed as being rather naive and air-headed most especially in Super Mario Sunshine and Subspace Emissary story mode in Super Smash Bros Brawl.
• Doom Magnet: This poor princess just can't catch a break. She'll always be kidnapped by Bowser, as he always finds some way to revive himself no matter how he dies. Her Barrier Maiden status in a lot of games makes her a prime target for various Eldritch Abominations and Ax-Crazy villains. She can't even take proper vacations like in Super Mario World or Super Mario Sunshine as she gets captured in them too (both mentioned times were by Bowser, the latter largely through his newly-introduced son Bowser Jr). This is even lampshaded in The Thousand-Year Door (where for once, Bowser has nothing to do with it).
  "I can't believe I'm kidnapped... again. Mario and Toadsworth must be worried sick. Again."
• Dub Name Change: She was originally referred to as Princess Toadstool outside Japan, but would almost exclusively be known as Princess Peach worldwide after the release of Super Mario 64, with the exception of certain re-released material. Her full name is occasionally given as "Princess Peach Toadstool" to make up for the discrepancy. Oddly enough, one episode of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! has her exclaim "Princess P. to the rescue!"
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In-game, she was a redhead in Super Mario Bros. 1 and The Lost Levels, then brunette in Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3, and finally blonde in Super Mario World and onward. Character artwork has depicted her as a blond since the beginning, though.
• Elemental Powers: The vibes from Super Princess Peach give her this.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: She has an immense amount of admirers and she also has the goldest locks.
• Expy: She is the second damsel in distress that Mario must save, just after Pauline.
• Failure Is the Only Option: She tries to escape from Bowser by herself in Super Mario 3D Land and does a pretty good job at it, too, as she takes down enough Goombas with her Parasol of Pain to receive a 1-UP. However, Bowser then unleashes the wrath of his entire army (including himself) to chase her. She tries her best to run away, but they prove to be too much for her to handle, and she gets captured by them again. Points for trying, though.
• Fairytale Wedding Dress: Peach actually has two beautiful wedding dresses.
  • In Super Paper Mario, Peach's wedding dress when she was forced to marry Bowser was basically a white version of her usual dress, but that was already a fairytale dress on its own.
  • Peach's wedding dress◊ in Super Mario Odyssey looks more like a modern wedding dress. She also has matching high heels along with a slightly-altered version of her usual gloves.
• Fire-Forged Friends: With Tiara following their rescue at the end of Odyssey. In the post-game, the two embark on their own journey through the kingdoms, always appearing together.
• First-Name Basis: She is usually referred to by her first name, Peach. In the West, she was referred to a different name, "Toadstool", before her first name supplanted it in all regions, with "Toadstool" instead becoming her surname.
• Fragile Speedster: In Mario Kart, she tends to be a light-weight character with high acceleration. In Mario Strikers Charged, she is a Playmaker captain, having maxed-out speed and passing, but poor shooting and tackling.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: Phlegmatic
• Frying Pan of Doom: Wields a frying pan as her main weapon in Super Smash Bros. and Super Mario RPG
• The Gadfly: She has shown a mischievous side on several occasions:
  • She shows this in her interactions with Luigi, probably due to his Butt-Monkey status. In the intro for Mario Kart Wii, where her, Mario, and Luigi are driving using the new steering wheel controller, she bumps him with her hips, causing him to spin out and get left behind. Then after she rescues him in Super Princess Peach, instead of holding hands and twirling around in a circle and posing together at the end, like she does with the Toads and Mario, she lifts him off the ground, spins him around by his hands and chucks him to the far side of the screen.
  • In Super Mario Bros. 3, when Mario comes to save her at the end of the game she tells him Your Princess Is in Another Castle! before admitting she was just kidding.
  • While never really emphasized, the Mario Party series likes to suggest Princess Peach is prone to ruthlessly messing with other players to advantage herself. Her favorite item in Mario Party 2 and 3 is the Plunder Chest, which steals an opponent's item^note She doesn't mind having to purchase them from the Baby Bowsers in 3, even.
    Peach's bio from Mario Party 3: Her surprising fondness over the Plunder Chest reveals her mischievous side.
  • In Mario Party 4, her favorite item is the Swap Card, which exchanges items between two players, the user and an opponent chosen through a roulette.
• Gamer Chick: Implied in the 09.13.2018 Nintendo Direct’s Nintendo Switch Online segment, where she’s shown as a Rank X sniper in Splatoon 2 who apparently carried her entire team.
• Genki Girl: Depending on the Writer, she can be just as energetic as Daisy. Probably the best example of this, is in Super Princess Peach, where whenever she uses the Joy and Calm Vibe she looks like she is having the time of her life.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Peach's femininity is always played up, and she's often contrasted with the tomboyish Daisy. But Peach has just as much interest in sports and parties as Daisy, or any of the guys, and doesn't hesitate to get rough and tumble with any of them.
• Girly Run: In Super Smash Bros. Brawl (and up) and the Mario Baseball series.
• Good Is Not Soft: One of the sweetest, kindest characters in the series, but will also destroy you should she ever be underestimated. Taking advantage of her kindness and mercy makes your situation even worse.
• Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Official artwork from Super Mario Bros. depicting her as a member of the Toad species showed her wearing a purple dress.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has the goldest locks and is one of the kindest characters in the series.
• Hartman Hips: It’s usually hard to see, due to her dress, but her hips are put on display in the sports games. Particularly in Super Mario Strikers, Mario Strikers Charged and whenever she wears her biker suit in Mario Kart.
• Healing Hands: Peach is frequently shown to have potent healing abilities. This is especially true in Super Mario RPG, where she can easily heal the entire party at once with little cost. She also heals Mario and his whole party during the final battle against the Shadow Queen in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door. In Paper Mario: Color Splash, Mario can come to her to recover his health. In Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, she can make use of her Healing Jump technique to heal her allies too.
• Heart Beat-Down: She literally fights by controlling the power of her emotions in Super Princess Peach after Bowser made everyone's emotions go crazy. Her magic often takes the form of heart symbols.
• Heroic Willpower: Her extreme femininity disguises her incredibly strong will. In Super Paper Mario, she's able to stand up to Nastasia's Mind Control longer than any other character (including Luigi), and the villain has to focus extremely hard to get the Princess to obey her commands. She also has enough willpower to briefly break out of the Shadow Queen's Demonic Possession in Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door and heal Mario and his party.
• Hidden Depths: According to the Nintendo Adventure Books, Peach is a talented surfer. In a slight Mythology Gag, Peach's surfing talents are in full display in Mario & Sonic Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
• High-Heel Power: Peach normally sports some nice pink/red pumps with her usual gown. Her Odyssey wedding dress comes with a white version of those same pumps. Her vacation outfit in Odyssey has another pair of white pumps similar to Pauline's, and her doctor outfit in Dr. Mario World also comes with white pumps.
• The High Queen: Technically a princess, but as she's the only one in the throne, is still almost always portrayed as a compassionate and just ruler.
• Hope Bringer: Peach is a pleasant person who wants to bring love and warmth to others. Peach becomes this to the Theets in Princess Peach Showtime!, where the Sparklas put their trust in her to save their theater, Grape even lampshades it before their final battle, praising Peach for making it to her lair, on grounds that defeating Peach in the final battle will he the ultimate Hope Crusher for all.
• Hypercompetent Sidekick: It's stated in a couple of side sources that she's not actually the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, her father is. He, however, is a blathering idiot, so she makes most of the actual decisions. This hasn't come up in years and never in the games.
  • As shown in other entries on this page, she is also a skilled combatant, driver, surfer, video gamer and so on.
• Iconic Outfit: Peach's normal attire consists of a pink gown (with a blue jewel on her chest), High-Class Gloves, gold crown, pink pumps, and large blue earrings. She does change outfits when the dress would be impractical (such as for the sports titles and when she's riding a motorcycle or an ATV in the Mario Kart games), though they usually keep the crown and earrings.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Princess Peach didn't appear until the (technically) fifth game in the series, but she proved popular enough to become Mario's main heroine and Love Interest ever since then.
• Important Hair Accessory: In Princess Peach: Showtime!, Peach's usual long hair is changed by Stella to her new ribbon and ponytail to make use of her new ribbon powers on her adventure.
• Inconsistent Coloring: The color of Peach's royal high heels tend to vary depending on the artist. Earlier games had them colored as pink or red, while the most consistent color for her modern design has them as red or a magenta color. They were notably blue for a scene in the second of the DiC cartoons.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Especially in the RPG games. In the first Paper Mario game, her love for her kingdom is enough to counter Bowser's defensive spell, and in the second one her purity is what makes her the chosen vessel for the Shadow Queen.
• Informed Attribute: Her ability to govern, as noted in the tropes below. May have something to do with Conservation of Detail, since she gets kidnapped often and talking is boring.
• The Ingenue: Peach is very kind, laid back, and relentlessly cheery and optimistic. Nothing appears to faze her at all to the point where some mistakenly assume she's an airhead (an image certainly not helped by her portrayal in Super Mario Sunshine). Underestimate the Princess at your own peril however, as she is very cunning, strong-willed, and dangerously competent when she decides to fight.
• Instant Costume Change: Some of her post-hole animations in the Mario Golf series have her change into her regular dress in place of her minidress she normally wears. If she gets a birdie or better in Mario Golf: World Tour, she will take out her parasol, twirl it, and magically change clothing.
• Jerkass Ball: In Mario Strikers Charged, she acts more like a diva, such as throwing a tantrum when the other team scores, and lashing out at her teammates when they mess up.
• Jumped at the Call: Peach is the first one into the pipe to give chase after Bowser when he captures the Green Sprixie Princess in Super Mario 3D World. A similar situation happened much earlier in the Super Mario Adventures comic.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Zigzagged. Peach still wears her traditional pink dress, high heels, and crown in the games when she's fighting, such as Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Princess Peach, Super Paper Mario, and the Super Smash Bros. games. In other games, most notably the sports ones, she'll change into something more suitable like an athletic top and shorts. Then there's Princess Peach: Showtime where several of her costumes reflect her elegance as well as her badassery (particularly the Swordfighter).
• King Incognito: Played for Laughs in Princess Peach: Showtime! - while just about everyone outside the Sparkle Theater knows who Peach is, only a few select Theets do, and the first such is encountered on the fourth floor of the Theater. Even Grape never figures it out, assuming she even cares.
• The Kirk: When in a Freudian Trio with Daisy and Rosalina, Peach strikes a balance among them, having Rosalina's soft-spoken elegance while possessing Daisy's cheerfulness.
• Lady and Knight: The Bright Lady to Mario's White Knight.
• Lady in Red: One of her alternate costumes in the Super Smash Bros. series is a red dress◊, which is a reference to Pauline.
• Leitmotif: Two very distinctive ones — The ending theme of Super Mario Bros., and Inside the Castle Walls from Super Mario 64.
• Lady of War: Counts as this whenever she is a playable character. Special mention goes to Super Princess Peach, where she solos Bowser and his army with nothing but her parasol and control of her emotions. Princess Peach Showtime expands on this with costumes such as Swordfighter Peach and Kung Fu Peach that add extra fighting ability without sacrificing any of her usual grace.
• Last-Name Basis: Prior to Ditching the Dub Names, there were occasional references, mainly in non-game materials, that Toadstool was her surname. The corresponding King Toadstool was a recurring character in the comics and children's books, and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! once featured Grandma Toadstool and had an incident where the princess referred to herself as "Princess P."
• Let's Get Dangerous!: Peach is kind, adorable, and the eternal Damsel in Distress, but every so often she'll come across a threat who doesn't care for kidnapping and actually pushes her to fight. Peach's real power and skill begins to shine through.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Light Feminine to Pauline's family-friendly Femme Fatale Dark Feminine.
• Limited Wardrobe: Paper Mario shows that she has an entire wardrobe of identical pink dresses. She insists that they aren't the same, and that there are minor differences between each dress, but this is strictly an Informed Attribute.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: Princess Peach has long blonde hair and is the girliest character in the entire franchise. It especially stands out when she's compared to Tomboy Princess Daisy, who has shorter hair post-redesign (though it's still medium length).
• Love Be a Lady: Aside from her role as Mario's Implied Love Interest and Bowser's crush, love in general is a theme associated with her. Her plots in RPGs tend to involve the feeling, with Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door even having her help someone understand what it is, and hearts often show up on her as a secondary visual motif in spin-offs. This goes with her being the girlier of the two princesses, as the tomboyish Daisy had love de-emphasized as she developed over the years.
• Made of Iron: Her dainty and feminine appearance hides her toughness. Princess Peach is shown to be rather tough and stubborn in most of her roles as a playable heroine, all while maintaining her cute looks.
  • She is very durable in Super Princess Peach, compared to most other heroes in the Mario series. While she can still die, from the onset Peach starts out with a large amount of Hit Points and nothing in the game is capable of killing her in one hit. She can take icicles, spikes, fire, lava, and even Bottomless Pits with only so much as a scratch, and if that weren't enough, Peach can patch herself up with the Calm Vibe if she's in trouble. The appropriately-named Tough Coffee from Toad's shop makes Peach even more tougher to take out.
  • Peach demonstrates her durability further in Super Paper Mario, where she stands up to Nastasia's mind control impressively, as well as during gameplay, where she also can take lots of damage from most anything (Fire, spikes, ice, and bottomless pits) and still able to come back for more. And if that weren't enough, Peach's umbrella effectively makes her invincible, with the cost of her not being able to move.
• Magical Girl: Becomes one in Showtime! with a ribbon-based Transformation Trinket infused with Sparkle energy. She uses her powers to bring hope to the Theets as she enters the plays of the Sparkle Theater and transforms into the various lead roles to purify the corrupted play environments of Big Bad Madame Grape's influence over them to eventually save the lead actors of the plays themselves.
• Making a Splash: Her Gloom Vibe in Super Princess Peach where she sprays Ocular Gushers and can run extremely fast while its activated.
• Male Gaze: In Mario Strikers Charged, one of the post goal animations has her flaunt her butt to the camera for a second.
• Master of Threads: She has shown the ability to manipulate magic ribbons in some games. There is the Spiral Stinger and Ribbon Dash technique in Mario Golf: Super Rush as well as her Ribbon Dance Up Smash in the Smash Bros games.
• Mind over Matter: She shows this in her defensive power shot in Mario Tennis: Power Tour. She blows a kiss and a storm of hearts appear to redirect the ball towards her. She shows this again in Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story where she uses her Heart Magic to send Bowser flying out of her castle with a simple hand gesture. It should be noted though that she was likely only able to do the latter with Starlow's help.
• Neutral Female: She often helplessly watches the fight between Mario and Bowser from a cage or from a platform. This is sometimes subverted, though; she does try and get herself out of the situations Bowser puts her in, but Mario generally arrives for the rescue before she's able to succeed.
• Nice Girl: 95% of the time, Peach is shown to be nothing but a kindhearted monarch who cares for her friends and subjects, even toward Bowser. Even the other 5%, is playful teasing at most.
• No-Sell: In Super Princess Peach, Peach is completely unaffected by the Vibe Scepter, an Artifact of Doom that Bowser got his hands on that easily plunged the Mushroom Kingdom into chaos and easily subdued Mario and Luigi. Not only is Peach unaffected by the vibes, she turns them around and makes them powers of her own, and can freely control them.
• Not Quite Flight: It appears to come from her dress at first, however, the fact that in 3D World she can float even when wearing the Boomerang Suit and not her dress proves that it's an ability she innately has.
• Not So Above It All: In the Japanese version of Super Mario Kart, sweet, demure Princess Peach is shown drinking straight from a bottle of champagne when she wins a cup, getting drunk in the process. In the English version, this was changed to her simply throwing and catching the bottle.
• Only One Name: She was simply "Princess Peach" in Japan, and simply "Princess Toadstool" in English versions until Super Mario 64 officially swapped her back to her Japanese name in all versions, though without completely abandoning "Toadstool". Since then, her full name has been implicitly "Princess Peach Toadstool".
• Only Sane Woman: Usually the most sensible, although it varies from work to work. Sometimes she can fit this and Cloudcuckoolander — a bit out of it sometimes, but willing to at least try to avoid any pointless fights.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Before the fight with Light Fang, Grape tells Peach of her disapproval of the latter rescuing the Swordfighter Sparkla the former "went to great pains to imprison"; while Peach doesn't talk in this game (canned quotes notwithstanding), her forward lean with fists clenched speak volumes about how Grape grazed the Damsel Button.
• Pals with Jesus: While she and Rosalina haven't interacted with each other much in the games, in the 38th issue of the Super Mario Bros. Manga Mania manga, the two quickly became good friends upon meeting each other.
• Parachute Petticoat: From Super Mario Bros. 2 all the way to Super Mario 3D World, she's had the ability to float with her billowing skirt, though in 3D World, she can use her hover regardless of what she's wearing. Super Smash Bros. changes her floating mechanic to used with gestures from her hands instead.
• Parasol of Pain: She uses her small, trademark pink parasol to fight in the Super Smash Bros. series, and a sentient parasol named Perry in Super Princess Peach. A postcard Mario receives in Super Mario 3D Land shows Peach defending herself from a Goomba Tower with her parasol.
• Parasol of Prettiness: Whether Peach is weaponizing the parasol or just using it to block out the sun, it is very cute-looking. Especially Perry. One of the loading screen icons in Mario Super Sluggers even feature Peach sitting down and relaxing while holding a parasol.
• Parasol Parachute: She can also soften her falls with her parasol whenever it's a Parasol of Pain (as well as one time when it wasn't).
• Passionate Sports Girl: Not as much as Daisy, but she appears in many sports games and shows some fun in them.
• Physical Goddess: The "Empress Peach" Megastrike from the Darker and Edgier world of Mario Strikers Charged depicts Peach entering an angelic Super Mode, complete with Power Glows, Power Gives You Wings, and Light 'em Up.
• Pink Means Feminine: Almost always she wears her feminine pink clothes.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: We've infrequently seen her do actual acts of government in the past 25 years. She attends various meetings in the Role Playing Games, but some were either get interrupted or were trivial to begin with. Funnily enough, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga reveals a bit of the economic state of the Mushroom Kingdom... which is not good. Specifically, their coins are rather low value per coin compared to the Beanbean Kingdom's. Then again, this is a country where they have a university specifically for Tennis, go-kart races in the streets, many of their economic assets are probably regularly looted by the Koopas and the head of government is under almost constant threat.
• Playing with Fire:
  • In Super Princess Peach, one of her abilities is to literally start Burning with Anger, and set fire to the area around her as well as perform Shockwave Stomps.
  • In Super Mario 3D World, Peach uses the Fire Flower to transform into Fire Peach for the first time ever. She retains the ability in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, though her hair stays down instead of instantly shifting into a ponytail style.
• The Pollyanna: invoked According to Word of God, Peach is always cheery and optimistic, no matter how difficult the situation. Peach's unwavering optimism is played up to varying levels depending on the game.
• Power Creep, Power Seep: She ranges from a Damsel in Distress to an effective Lady of War depending on the game.
• The Power of Love: Often uses this in her special attacks in the sports games with the best examples being the Dance of Hearts Hyper Strike in Mario Strikers: Battle League, her Heart Swing move from Mario Super Sluggers and her Heart Stun technique in Mario Sports Mix.
• Precision F-Strike: In the anime, she says "hell" when rebuffing Bowser's advances. Mild under normal circumstances, but considering this is the Marioverse we're talking here, that's definitely strong language for a princess to use.
• Pretty Princess Powerhouse:
  • Princess Peach may be a damsel in distress most of the time but she can kick your ass if she needs to, and look like a fairytale princess while she doing it. She'll even use a pretty parasol as a weapon.
    • It may have been All Just a Dream (or not), but the first real example is Super Mario Bros. 2 where Peach is one of the four playable heroes who embark on a quest to free the dream world of Subcon. With her famous floating ability, she proves to be more than a match for Wart and his minions all while wearing her pretty pink dress while doing so.
    • In a Nintendo Power comic run in the days of the Super NES, until Bowser brainwashed her, Peach was the hero of the story. While the Mario Brothers were characterized as happy-go-lucky bumblers (though Mario was a serious happy-go-lucky bumbler), Peach was Hot-Blooded with a dash of Determinator. She charged down a warp pipe after Bowser when he attacked her kingdom and pursued him without the Mario Brothers, and once she got captured the first time, she escaped the Koopalings by tricking them into opening their cell, evading the guards, and ultimately flying out of the tower on a cape. Then when she found out Mario had gotten kidnapped in her place, she swapped clothes with Luigi to get him to sneak her and Yoshi back into the tower with a crate full of bombs, leading to the obvious conclusion of blowing up the tower and rescuing Mario. Even when Bowser captured her again, it took having her hypnotized for her to agree to marry him. And after she recovered from being hypnotized with the help of Luigi and Yoshi, she immediately untied Mario so he could finish off Bowser.
    • Super Paper Mario where Mimi foolishly mocked her usual Damsel in Distress role and her Princess Classic status. What follows is the first time in the franchise Peach ever loses her composure, she even yelled at the Mario Bros. to leave Mimi to her. And then gives Mimi herself a serious beatdown.
    • Super Princess Peach where Princess Peach goes one-on-one (or two-on-one if you include Perry) with Bowser and wins, freeing Mario, Luigi, and her entire kidnapped kingdom. Not bad for being the one who's typically kidnapped herself.
    • And then of course there is Super Mario 3D World, which marked her first playable appearance in a mainstream Mario platformer since Super Mario Bros.2. In it, she is the first one to take action to try save the Sprixies and is capable of using all of the power ups that the Bros and Toad use. Her float ability makes platforming a breeze and she is capable of beating Bowser on her own. The same applies to Super Mario Bros Wonder, but minus the float ability.
• Primary-Color Champion: Golden crown, long flowing blonde hair, blue earrings and brooch, and of course, her signature pink (a tint of red) dress, and deep pink/red shoes. Yes, Princess Peach is a good guy.
• Princess Classic: While Princess Peach is certainly a beautiful, sweet, princess, from having a beautiful parasol to wearing her trademark pretty in pink princess dress, her traditional princess status is parodied, especially in the Paper Mario series. Odyssey tones this down a bit in the postgame by giving her several different costumes that lack any princessy elements (even her golden crown) to be comparable to Mario's costumes and emphasize the hat theme again. It feels much more like modern royalty—dressed nicely, but not in ruling attire.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: Sports a pink dress since her debut. Or at least her artwork for the game did. Pink is still the color most associated with her.
• Promoted to Playable: Despite being more famous for being the Damsel in Distress, she's held her own in many games. She's playable in Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario RPG, Super Princess Peach, Super Paper Mario, Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Run, Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and Princess Peach: Showtime!. She's no slouch in Super Smash Bros. and just as much of an athlete as anyone else in the spinoffs. One wonders why she's so easy to kidnap when she can fend for herself so formidably.
• Proper Tights with a Skirt: She wears black tights with her Cap Kingdom outfit, which she also wears in the Snow Kingdom and the Moon Kingdom. Occasionally, she even wears this under her trademark gown, as seen in her N64-era Mario Party in-game model incidentally, yet another, more subtle, visual difference between her and Daisy in Mario Party 3and the Paper Mario games.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: She's the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom and ruler of the Toads, and by far, one of the most capable fighters in the entire kingdom.
• Roundhouse Kick: Lands one on the Koopalings when jumping them in the fourth chapter of Super Mario Adventures.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: In Super Mario Bros. 2 (sort of), Super Princess Peach (where all other heroes are captured by Bowser and she saved them and her own kingdom all by herself), and Super Mario 3D World, she is a playable heroine. And in Super Mario 3D Land, she actually tries to escape from Bowser on her own, though she's eventually recaptured. In Super Mario Run she starts off in her classic Damsel in Distress role but it's later subverted, once she's rescued she becomes playable and can take part in everything the other playable characters can, even fighting against Bowser (rescuing Toad this time in World Tour, or Daisy in the Remix 10 mode). She is a party member in Super Mario RPG and fights actively alongside the party against the Smithy Gang after she's recruited and she also helps out in each of the Paper Mario games and some of the Mario & Luigi games. The first Paper Mario has her actively trying to escape Bowser's clutches, the second has her sending information to Mario, and she's Promoted to Playable in the third.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She looks like a dainty, sweet, beautiful, cute and cartoonishly feminine Princess Classic. She can also be rather ditzy and is often considered to be The Ingenue. She is also THE Damsel in Distress. However, in games where she is a playable character she proves to be a dangerously competent Action Girl who fights just as hard as the Mario Bros and can take down entire armies by herself.
• The Smurfette Principle: Princess Peach was the prominent and in some cases, the only female playable character in some of the early multiplayer Mario Kart and Mario Party games. It wasn't until the Gamecube era and onward, when more female characters like Princess Daisy, Toadette, and Rosalina were introduced that this became averted.
• Spanner in the Works: When Peach is in captivity, she's thwarting the villains' plans right under their noses. Whether it be by sending letters to Mario, or even mounting her own escape attempts.
• Suddenly Blonde: Peach's incarnation in Super Mario Bros. has her in a white dress instead of the more recognized pink dress that came later due to hardware limitations. Super Mario 3D World uses her original white with red trim dress for Fire Peach. She's also a redhead in Super Mario Bros., and a brunette in Super Mario Bros. 2 and Super Mario Bros. 3. While Peach has always been blonde in official artwork, it wasn't until the 16-bit era that color palettes became complex enough for it to be shown in-game.
• Suddenly Speaking: Downplayed. While Peach has had occasional speaking roles over the years, they were few and far between. Peach's appearance as a mascot at Super Nintendo World gives the princess her most talkative and interactive role yet, as she speaks clear and full sentences when interacting with visitors.
• Super-Empowering: In Super Mario Bros. 3, after beating one of the Koopa Kids, she would send Mario or Luigi a letter with a rare power-up attached to it. In Super Mario World, she would throw a mushroom at Mario or Luigi during the showdown with Bowser.
• Super Mode: In Princess Peach: Showtime!, Before the showdown with Grape, Peach is empowered by all the Sparklas, gaining a new powerful transformation into Radiant Peach, gaining a shiny crown on her head, growing her hair longer and adorning her with a long white and cyan gown, then that Super Mode gets another with Super Radiant Peach, which she transforms into to fight Grape the Great.
• Supreme Chef: An oft-referenced ability of hers is her ability to bake cakes. In Game & Watch Gallery 2, she is played as in the Chef minigame were she juggles various types of food in the air with a frying pan and has to serve well-cooked food to a Yoshi. This minigame also came with official artwork◊.
• Sweet Baker: When she's not kidnapped, Peach often bakes cakes and invites Mario to eat some with her. In Princess Peach: Showtime!, this is showcased even more with her Patissiere Peach transformation, with which she can make cookies and decorate cakes and other sweets.
• Throw Down the Bomblet: Despite being one of the more level-headed characters in the franchise, Peach is seen wielding bombs somewhat often in a few of the games and at least one comic. One official artwork piece for Super Mario Party shows her tossing a Bob-Omb towards Luigi that's about to blow up. There also her most powerful magic attack from Super Mario RPG, the Psych Bomb, which creates a shower of bombs to blow up her opponents. One of the items that she can pluck from the ground with her Down Special in Smash Bros is also a Bob-Omb.
• Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: With Mario. Peach typically stands a full head taller than him. If she's in her usual gown the height difference might be due to her high heels, but its still present any time a spinoff shows her in flat shoes, as she is still taller than Mario.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Peach is the sweet girly girl to Daisy's sporty tomboy.
• Took a Level in Badass: Whenever she is Promoted to Playable and not the Damsel in Distress like she usually is , she gets to really prove herself and show what she is capable of.
• Town Girls: With Daisy and Rosalina, with Peach as the girly girl of the trio.
• Trademark Favorite Food: She is associated with cakes.
• Tranquil Fury: At the end of Odyssey, after Mario and Bowser end up fighting for her affections, she angrily shouts out "Enough!" and calmly storms off before returning to her usual cheery self.
• Underestimating Badassery: Due to her kind, overly courteous and unassuming nature, and status of being a Damsel in Distress, Princess Peach tends to be underestimated by her foes, only for her to leave them in pieces afterwards.
  • Bowser figured he was finally in the clear now that he has bested the Mario Bros., captured them and had them in helpless captivity, thinking Peach wouldn't be able to do anything. Peach certainly showed him that he would've been better off sticking with status quo and capturing her too.
  • In Super Paper Mario, Mimi makes the terrible mistake of mocking Peach for being kidnapped and rescued by the Mario Bros. Peach proceeds to smack her around and Mimi is left an emotional wreck afterwards.
  • Downplayed In Princess Peach: Showtime!, in that Grape understands perfectly that Peach can harness Sparkle power and intentionally cultivated that talent for the sake of her tragedy, but given how little the Theets recognized her in the Sparkle Theater, Grape likely failed to appreciate just how capable Peach actually was, and that was what sent her own performance off-script. Word to the wise: anyone who can power through the emotionally-overcharging Vibe Scepter is not to be trifled with. What's ultimately left of Grape is not pretty.
• Universally Beloved Leader: She's loved so dearly by her subjects that it's not uncommon for them to have sets of Princess Peach merchandise in their homes. Including posters. In Toad Harbor in Mario Kart 8, there is a statue of Princess Peach that is a reference to the Statue of Liberty.
• Vocal Evolution: Peach's first canon speaking role was in Super Mario 64, where she had a fittingly deep, intelligent-sounding voice to go with her Reasonable Authority Figure role. Later on, her voice became higher-pitched and more girly-sounding, and around Super Mario Galaxy, it became very feminine and ditzy-sounding. That said, some games tone down the high-pitched factor of her voice, with it ending up somewhere between Leslie Swan and Jen Taylor.
• Weak, but Skilled: Many sports games depict her as a Technique type, with low power. This can also play into the more plot-heavy games, like the RPGs, in a different way — she may not have Mario's raw power, but she's surprisingly cunning and can use her skills to make things difficult for the villains without being noticed. In Super Mario Bros. 2, Peach is the weakest and the slowest of the four heroes, but can float in mid air, allowing her better control and precision.
• What's Up, King Dude?: Enforced. Princess Peach regards everyone as her friend. She is very friendly and courteous and makes time for anyone who wishes to see her. Its part of the reason why Peach is such a Universally Beloved Leader.
• White Magician Girl: Various games have her showcasing competence with magic, usually either in the form of stars, hearts, or something pink. Naturally, Super Mario RPG provides the best example.

Princess Daisy

Debut: Super Mario Land
Voiced by: Kate Fleming (Mario Tennis 64), Jen Taylor (Mario Party 3-5), Deanna Mustard (2003-2023), Giselle Fernandez (Super Mario Bros. Wonder)
Portrayed by: Samantha Mathis (1993 live-action movie)

"Hi, I'm Daisy!"

^{Click here to see her original design.}

"Fair warning, folks: try all you want, but I'm still gonna win. Princess Daisy always comes out on top!"

Princess Daisy made her first appearance in the Game Boy game Super Mario Land as Princess Peach's analogue in Sarasaland. Though she hasn't appeared much in the mainline entries since her debut, Daisy pops up frequently in Mario Party, sports titles, and other spinoffs. In contrast to Peach, she is a spunky, aggressive, and upbeat Tomboy Princess who tends to be very competitive in sports. As a fellow royal, she's best friends with Peach, and has been ship-teased with Luigi in any games where they interact.

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• Action Girl: Downplayed. She has playable appearances in two mainline games: Super Mario Run and Super Mario Bros Wonder where she can run, jump, and beat up enemies alongside the rest of the cast. However, she never saved anyone and she has never fought any major villains like Peach, Rosalina and Toadette have it.
• Ambiguously Brown: Back in the N64 days Daisy was shown with darker skin than Peach◊, assumedly to represent how she rules a desert kingdom. From Mario Party 4 onward her skin color was cemented as being the same as Peach's among the other changes to her design. However, starting with Mario Golf: Super Rush, her skin-tone has been slightly tanned and her hair darkened.
• Ascended Extra: Originally considered Peach's look-alike, she now has her own set of recognizable traits. She was also one of the main characters of the live-action film, whereas Peach was Adapted Out. She finally gets to be part of the mainline game limelight in Super Mario Run as a playable character in a mainline game for the first time overall, later reappearing Super Mario Bros. Wonder for the first time in a traditional console mainline game.
• Big "NO!": She will occasionally shout one of these when hit by an item in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! or the Baseball games.
• Bitch Slap: She strikes Bowser with such enormous force that he goes flying and becomes A Twinkle in the Sky. Her reason for doing this? Its because he was in her way.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Daisy is the Redhead to Peach and Rosalina's Blondes and Pauline's Brunette.
• Boobs-and-Butt Pose: In this◊ Super Mario Strikers promotional art and this◊ picture for the 2016 edition of Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games.
• Boyish Short Hair: Downplayed because her hair isn't actually that short but it is far shorter than Peach's, Rosalina's and Pauline's and she is also the resident tomboy.
• Breakout Character: Following her appearance in Mario Tennis for the 64, she had appeared in multiple spinoff games since the Gamecube era before eventually becoming playable in Super Mario Run and joining the cast of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. She and Waluigi are notably the first newcomers to the Mario Party series since they debuted in the third installment, and have been recurring characters since.
• Characterization Marches On: Her first voiced appearance in Mario Tennis for the N64 had her as clumsy, having a more obviously feminine voice akin to Peach's, and debatably come off as an Expy of Azalea from the earlier Mario Golf games. Starting from the Gamecube era, especially in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour and Super Mario Strikers, Daisy was portrayed as more boisterous, having a voice that both became deeper and more shrill (thanks to Deanna Mustard), and overall became the Tomboy Princess Peach (and also Rosalina) isn't.
• Cute, but Cacophonic: She scream a lot.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: The more demure iteration of Daisy featured in Mario Tennis (N64) falls off the stage during her trophy celebration and almost fails to catch her tennis racket once she wins a match. Shades of this tropes are still present in her character today, as she has to be rescued in Super Mario Run not due to being kidnapped, but because she got lost.
• Daddy's Girl: Implied in Mario Party 3, where she mentions her father during gameplay. She also mentions her father in Fortune Street.
• Deadpan Snarker: In Fortune Street, Daisy has made a bunch of sarcastic and sparky comments in the game, especially in some of the boards she is in.
  Daisy: Yeah, sure. Big castle. Woooo. I'm totally impressed. Could use a few more flowers though…
• Death Glare: Daisy will give this to her team players in Mario Strikers Charged, if the opposing team scores a few goals. Some team players will react to it with an Oh, Crap! look on their faces.
• Demoted to Extra: For a long time, Daisy hadn't appeared in a main series platformer since her debut in Super Mario Land, but she's a regular in spinoffs. However, she appeared again in the mainline mobile game Super Mario Run, as a playable character^note before that, she was featured as a costume in Super Mario Maker and debuted on Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as an Echo Fighter mirroring Peach, and would eventually make a return to console platforming games in 2023 with Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
• Disappointed in You: In Fortune Street, Daisy is shown to be highly respectful of Luigi's abilities and believes he can do better. This is sheer contrast to most other characters in the franchise who tend to not give Luigi his due, mock him, or downplay his abilities. Landing on a cheap or average shop disappoints Daisy, but landing on an expensive shop, pleases her.
• Dishing Out Dirt: She appears to have some level of control over crystals, as seen in Mario Strikers Charged.
• Divergent Character Evolution:
  • Used to look almost exactly like a recolored Peach and acted a lot like her too, to the point that in Super Mario Land, she even had the same plot role that Peach usually has in the platformers. She only started to truly diverge from Peach and become a Tomboy Princess years after her initial introduction.
  • The Mario Tennis series had her as a Technique type just like Peach, but Ultra Smash changed her to an All-Around type.
• Double Jump: In her playable appearance in Super Mario Run, Daisy's unique ability is a double jump.
• Dynamic Akimbo: Daisy adopted this as her signature pose with her hands turned inward rather than fists (just look at her page image!) She even does this in two of her taunts in Smash Ultimate. The pose effectively communicates Daisy's confidence, cheerfulness, and sassy flirtiness.
• Early Installment Character-Design Difference: Daisy had an incredibly different appearance◊ early on. Originally, she had long hair like Peach, a yellow and white dress, a red/pink crown and in the N64 titles, an Ambiguously Brown skintone. Daisy would later be redesigned into her current appearance starting in Mario Party 4, but her skin would become tanned again starting with Mario Golf: Super Rush.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: She also used to have very long hair that was nearly identical to Peach's. One of the first signs that she was beginning to become her own person was when her character design was overhauled and she got her trademark, shorter flipped hair.
• Expy: In her debut in Super Mario Land, she's essentially Princess Peach in a yellow dress.
• Fiery Redhead: Daisy’s hair is described as orange in a site bio for Mario Party 6, and her hair color is just as vivacious and vibrant as her personality.
• Flower Motifs: As a counterpart to Peach's heart motifs.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Sanguine. Daisy’s the most upbeat and enthusiastic of the four main ladies in the Mario series. She’s cheerful, loves playing sports, is occasionally clumsy, and can be hotheaded.
• Gemstone Assault: Her Super Ability in Mario Strikers Charged is Crystal Smash!, where she summons sharp orange crystals around her that protects her briefly and can also damage other players. During her Mega Strike, she encases one of her clenched fists in crystals before punching the ball towards the goal. Her hair and skin also turns dark teal, with Glowing Eyes of Doom to boot. While the Mega Strike has no English name, its Japanese name translates to Crystallized Daisy.
• Genki Girl: Daisy’s defining characteristic outside of being a Tomboy Princess. You can tell she’s absolutely thrilled to be at every event she attends through both her mannerisms and her voice. She definitely has a lot of energy to spare, especially once Deanna Mustard started voicing her.
• Girliness Upgrade: Around the Wii U era, Daisy's official artworks started taking a turn on emphasizing more of the "girly" side of Daisy's Tomboy with a Girly Streak. With her doing a lot more "princess-y" poses as well as smiling a lot more. Her voice underwent a little Vocal Evolution, while still very energetic, cut down a little on the "attitude" aspect as well.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Ironically, she can be as feminine as Peach and Rosalina. Indeed, it bears a Pimped Out Dress and its symbol is the flower. She is considered a Tomboy Princess only because Peach and Rosalina are generally more feminine than her.
• Green Thumb: Her special shots in Mario Power Tennis involve her causing flowers to bloom. Her Star Swing in Mario Super Sluggers causes a small flower garden to appear where the ball would land, and in Mario Party 7, her shared special Orb with Princess Peach is the Flower Orb.
• Hartman Hips: Much like Peach, she’s got wide hips. You can’t really tell in her usual dress, but it’s easier to tell in her sports attires.
• High-Heel Power: Her usual gown is paired with some nice orange pumps. She adopts a white pair as part of her nurse outfit in Dr. Mario World, plus similarly-colored heels alongside her Thai dress in Mario Kart Tour.
• Hot-Blooded: Once Deanna Mustard started voicing her, she became very easily excitable, and is extremely vocal with it. Just try playing as her in Mario Kart — she'll spend most of the race yelling.
• Informed Attribute: Daisy's tomboyishness can come off as this. While she is very energetic, Daisy at times possesses just as much femininity as Peach does, especially after her Girliness Upgrade. Daisy unironically wears a frilly dress with minimal to no complaints, and also tends to be vain and takes much pride in her fair looks. And that's not going into her strong affinity for flowers. You could say Daisy's femininity is pretty big, but is a tomboy in comparison to Peach, who almost always acts like a traditional Princess would.
• Invisible Parents: She mentions her father in both Mario Party 3 and Fortune Street. He presumably rules Sarasaland while she's away in the Mushroom Kingdom.
• Jack of All Stats: Interesting in that she is usually a specialty character; but her specialty is different for each activity. Notably she's a Speed character in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games. In Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash and Mario Tennis Aces, she actually is an All-Around character alongside Mario and Luigi.
• Jerkass Ball: Though Daisy is generally portrayed as an excitable but cordial princess, some games play up her arrogance and competitiveness, leading to this trope.
  • In the story mode of Mario Party 3, Daisy is an entitled and childish Proud Beauty who’s vain enough to believe that the Beauty Star Stamp should simply be given to her because she’s that gorgeous and flirts with the Millennium Star to get the stamp given to her. Once she loses the battle for the stamp, she cries and runs away.
  • Most of the Mario cast holds the Jerkass Ball in the Mario Strikers series, but Daisy’s extremely notable for being extraordinary braggadocios upon scoring a goal and having her entire team scared with the angry tapping of her foot if her opponent gets a goal.
• Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: Daisy wears her crown, yellow dress and high heels in games where she competes and fights, like Mario Party, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Super Mario Run and Super Mario Bros. Wonder. In Sports titles, Daisy fittingly switches to something more suitable like an athletic top and shorts.
• Large Ham: Courtesy of Deanna Mustard's bombastic voice acting.
• Lovable Jock: There's no doubt Daisy loves participating in the Mushroom Kingdom's sporting events and though she can be arrogant from time to time, Daisy is firmly on the side of good and has a positive relationship with almost all the main heroes of the Mario series.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: When paired with Luigi. In her Mario Kart Wii course; Daisy Circuit, there's a statue of both their baby selves on a podium with Baby Luigi swinging Baby Daisy around his head. Also in Mario Superstar Baseball, she has a higher batting stat than Luigi, while in Mario Super Sluggers, they have an equal batting stat.
• The McCoy: When paired up with Peach and Rosalina, Daisy is the vibrant and passionate one of the trio, being very energetic and excitable Tomboy Princess.
• Modesty Shorts: She wears white culottes with gold trim in Mario Golf Super Rush.
• Moveset Clone: Is effectively this to Peach in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Officially dubbed an Echo Fighter, Daisy has all the same moves as Peach, but hers have visual differences between them, mainly floral motifs and a blue Toad instead of a red one. Moreover, she is a sort of Peach’s clone.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Her batting stat in the Mario Baseball games is also not much lower than some Power type characters, albeit on the lower end.
• No Indoor Voice: Very rarely will you hear Daisy say anything without shouting it out loud ("HI, I'M DAISY" from Double Dash!! became a meme for a reason). It's an Exaggerated in later games, with Daisy practically screaming most of her lines. This can largely be attributed to Deanna Mustard becoming her voice actress; Jen Taylor was nowhere near as loud.
• Odd Friendship: Daisy is officially good friends with Mario. Although her friendship with Mario might not seem odd at first, when you consider her debut appearance showed her in a romantic situation with him, and then you remember now she is hinted to be his brother's love interest, as well as his current love interest's best friend, it feels a little weird when you put all this together. Her contrasting personality to Peach also makes their friendship interesting.
• Oddly Visible Eyebrows: Notable in most of her 2D artwork, with her eyebrows visible in front of her hair.
• Only Six Faces: One of the girls introduced in Camelot's Mario Golf titles is Azalea, an Identical Stranger who looks like she could be Separated at Birth.
• Pair the Spares: In her debut game, she was presented as a love interest for Mario. Nowadays, since Mario and Peach are considered a quasi-Official Couple, she's been teased with Luigi, although it hasn't been solidified.
• Passionate Sports Girl: Daisy never shows up to a sporting event without a smile and a confident attitude.
• Petal Power: In Mario Power Tennis, where her Limit Breaks produce lots of flowers. Her Star Swings and Pitches in the Mario Baseball series also produces lots of flowers. Her special Orb in Mario Party 7 produces big flowers that she uses to both gain coins and avoid traps.
• Playing with Fire: In Super Mario Bros. Wonder she gains the ability to use the same power-ups as the Bros, allowing her to become Fire Daisy for the first time ever.
• Plucky Girl: Daisy's a feisty competitor with a winning spirit and positive attitute.
• The Pollyanna: She has always a positive attitude.
• Pretty Princess Power House: In "Mario Party 3", she sends Bowser into the sky with a single slap. She is playable in "Super Mario Run" and "Super Mario Bros. Wonder". She is also playable in "Super Smash Bros." for the first time as a playable fighter in "Ultimate".
• Primp of Contempt: In one of Daisy’s strikeout animations in Mario Super Sluggers, she crosses her arms and does an annoyed Hair Flip, obviously displeased with how the game is going.
• Promoted to Playable: After only being playable in spin-offs, Daisy finally becomes a playable character in a mainline Mario platformer in Super Mario Run, where she can be unlocked after completing Remix 10. This was followed up by Super Mario Bros. Wonder making her playable as well, fitting for a game with a flower theme.
• Proud Beauty: Compared to Peach, Daisy is more open about her looks and being proud of them, though she doesn't (always) use it to her advantage.
• Puppy Love: In Mario Kart Wii, Daisy Circuit has a statue of Daisy and Luigi dancing together, but also features another set of statues depicting their infant selves doing the same thing, the implication being that mutual feelings between the two may have already existed even at that young of an age.
• Redheads Are Ravishing: Daisy is a fiery but very cute princess with pretty auburn hair, and she's rather proud of it.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: She plays an active role as a playable character primarily in spin-off games. She also appears in Super Mario Run and Super Mario Bros. Wonder, from mainline games. She is also featured in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. One of her trophies in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U represents a lampshade.
  Trophy Daisy: She may be the princess of Sarasaland, but she doesn't exactly have the poise you might expect from royalty. Daisy is more of a headstrong, active type. That's all part of her charm, though, and rumor has it Luigi is quite smitten with her. Unlike Peach, she's only really been kidnapped once—in Super Mario Land.
• Rump Roast: While Daisy is already a frequent victim of this, like all playable characters in spin-offs, Mario Strikers Battle League takes it further by making her one of only three playable captains, that get their butts burned by Mario's Hyper Strike.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: She is the energetic girl of Luigi’s savvy guy.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Beautiful!:
  • In Mario Party 3, she claims states that "when it comes to beauty, there's no denying Daisy is fairest of all! There's no need to battle." The Millennium Star agrees.
  • In Fortune Street, Daisy can have this conversation with Birdo: "Birdo! Are you charging me so much because you’re jealous of my good looks? I wouldn’t put it past you!".
• Secret Character: In a few Mario Kart games.
  • In DS, get gold on all four retro cups at 50cc.
  • In Wii, win the 150cc Special Cup or play 2,850 races.
  • In 7, win the 150cc Mushroom Cup.
• Ship Tease: It's been heavily implied in multiple games that Daisy has mutual feelings for Luigi, especially noticeable during the Wii era:
  • Some of their team names in the Mario Party series have romantic implications, such as "Steady Sweeties" and "Tango Tanglers."
  • In Daisy's trophy celebration in Mario Power Tennis Daisy skates towards Luigi and says "Hey Sweetie."
  • In Mario Kart Wii, the track Daisy Circuit features multiple large golden statues of Luigi and Daisy dancing together, as well as Baby Daisy and Baby Luigi doing the same thing. Said track is implied to be located in one of her kingdoms, Muda.
  • Daisy's dialogue with Luigi in Fortune Street slather on the teasing. Unlike the other players, she is overly critical and has higher expectations of him. The better Luigi does as an opponent, the better Daisy feels. For instance, if Daisy lands on a cheap shop Luigi owns, she's disappointed with him and thinks he can do better. An average-sized shop doesn't impress Daisy either, while she compliments/complains about the prices with other characters. Conversely, if she lands on an expensive shop, Daisy doesn't get upset with Luigi or complains like with the other characters, if anything, she's proud of him and tells him to take care of her gold. If Luigi is close to winning the game, she playfully pleads for him to let her win, "after all they have been though together".
  • In Mario Tennis Aces, Daisy is notably concerned after Luigi disappears and asks Mario to bring him back safely.
• Short Tank: In sports spinoffs, where's she's got a gruff and cheerful demeanor.
• So Proud of You: In Fortune Street if she lands on an expensive shop Luigi owns. Notably, this is the only opponent in the game that makes Daisy feel this way.
  Daisy: "You owe me one, Luigi! Take care of all my gold, ya big galoot!"
• Sore Loser: Says she wants to win so badly since she hates losing in Fortune Street. Her animations in Strikers Charged when the opposing team scores a goal hints at this, too (granted, the style of the game applies this to more or less the whole cast short of Mario and to a lesser extent Petey Piranha).
• Spirited Young Lady: Often falls into this trope in the games where she's wearing her dress. She's got a spirited and ambitious nature to herself but is dressed just as elegantly as her Proper Lady counterpart Peach.
• Super-Speed: According to some spinoffs, Daisy is outright the fastest Mario character.
• Taken for Granite: Is turned into a stone statue by Bowser Jr. in the story mode of Mario Super Sluggers. Once the spell is undone, she'll stay on the stone platform she was on until you can find a replacement stone statue that prevents Peach's Garden from flooding. Once that is done, she'll join your team.
• Teleportation: Daisy demonstrates this ability in the Mario Strikers series, being able to teleport short distances on the field.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Daisy is the sporty tomboy to Peach's sweet girly girl.
• Tomboyness Upgrade: Though she’s always been billed as a tomboy, Princess Daisy originally filled the same role as Princess Peach and in her first few appearances, she had a similarly demure and feminine personality. Around the time Deanna Mustard starting voicing her in Mario Tennis: Toadstool Tour is when her personality was developed further to be a contrast to Peach, having a boisterous voice, being much more expressive, and having a much more active interest in sports.
• Tomboy Princess: Daisy is described as a tomboy princess within the series. Her cheerful, sassy voice, tough-as-nails strength, hair to match, and of course, not pink colors, are all indications that she definitely isn't the girly princess. Although it can be difficult to recognize if you haven’t been told about it. She wears a dress that's nearly as girly as Peach's (and the only reason that it isn't is because the color's yellow rather than pink), she has a flower motif on all of her outfits, she has a passion for figure skating, and she prides herself as being "the fairest of them all". Her Mario Super Sluggers collectible card info defines this trope: "Daisy may be a tough girl, but she still likes to make things pretty." Her slight Girliness Upgrade around the Wii U era put a little more emphasis on her feminine side.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Daisy is usually the more tomboyish princess in comparison to Peach. However, as Peach can be a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak, due to her sweet personality and being into fashion and baking but also adventures and some of the sports her friends participate in, Daisy can be tomboyish but have a girly side as well. She wears surprisingly fashionable dresses, skirts, and high heels, such as in Mario Kart Tour, Mario Golf, and in Mario Tennis. She also has a soft side for gardening and flowers.
• Town Girls: With Peach and Rosalina, with Daisy being the tomboyish girl in the trio.
• Vibrant Orange: Starting with the fourth Mario Party game, Princess Daisy's color scheme has featured the color orange.
• Vocal Evolution: Daisy's first speaking role in Mario Tennis gave her a very soft and regal sounding voice not unlike Peach's, and in Mario Party 3 had a very similar voice to Peach, albeit a tad lower pitched. It wasn't until about halfway through the Gamecube era, after her tomboyish personality started to become more pronounced, that she gained a more cheerful, deeper-sounding voice which gradually became louder and more shrill with each appearance. Daisy's voice underwent a little more evolution in the Wii U era, cutting back on the shrillness while still maintaining her energy.
• What's Up, King Dude??: Being very friendly, everyone has no problem speaking with her, even if she is in a neighboring kingdom.
• Wrong Turn at Albuquerque: In Super Mario Run, Daisy got lost within the world and somehow wound up in Bowser's Castle, and now the player has to rescue her.

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