Curiosity killed the cat Koopa.
I remember liking Peach in the Subspace emissary cut scenes. The first appearance of the villains and everyone is jumping dramatically onto the arena? She floats daintily down with her umbrella. People unexpectedly meeting up on the Halberd and tensions are high? Suddenly she's throwing a tea party. And it works!
I mostly attribute her captures to being the formula for platforming Mario games. She's pretty good in Super Mario RPG and any other games I've played where she's a playable character and not the end goal.
My personal headcanon is that Peach/Mario and Bowser used to be enemies, but now they're all friends and the continued kidnapping is just tradition at this point. Bowser "kidnaps" Peach, they hang out while Mario goes on an adventurer, Mario "beats" Bowser and "saves" Peach, and then they go golfing or go-karting or Smashing. It's all in good fun.
"We're home, Chewie."Paper Mario is also generally pretty good with giving her actual characterization to work with as well, regardless of her given situation.
"Tell them to shut up and have some faith in me." - dead flashback guyAccording to Bowsers Inside Story, they're pretty okay with sacrificing themselves.
Plus they just get squished and disappear; who knows if they're even dead?
"We're home, Chewie."The dozens of Dry Bones that litter their castles?
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"Weren't you the one who got hijacked by an inter-dimensional mosquito?"
The Chaos Kin in Kid Icarus: Uprising. It comes out of another dimension and takes over Palutena and Pit gets put into a ring so he doesn't remember what happened.
A bit weird as a plot goes, but it shows that Palutena isn't free from capture either.
You gotta believe me when I scare you away, all that I wish for is that you would stayIt's not even a first, either, considering the events of the first game.
Thus, with 2/2 (100%) of her canon appearances involving her getting compromised in some form, she doesn't have much of a pedestal to stand on in this particular argument.
edited 16th Mar '15 2:35:11 PM by Demonfly
"Tell them to shut up and have some faith in me." - dead flashback guy
Apparently she's captured in that Game Boy game no one remembers
as well. Or is that game non-canon?
Out of all the clones and semi-clones, Toon Link seems to slip under the radar. Characters like Ganondorf, Roy, Dr. Mario, and even his predecessor Young Link receive a lot of flak, but Toon Link isn't talked about that much. Why?
Also, what would female!Villager say about Peach?
edited 16th Mar '15 3:12:48 PM by BurntMario
Call me Willy Whistle 'cause I can't speak, baby. Something in TV Tropes really drove me crazy.![]()
Of Myths and Monsters never came out in Japan until it got an eShop release on 3DS, hence why Smash Bros doesn't draw any music from it.
Now I'm curious to know how other Nintendo females (Lyn, Paula, Krystal, Dixie Kong, Viridi, and Phosphora) would react if they ever met Peach.
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...That hasn't stopped anything from seeing representation in Smash. Aaand there I go misreading stuff again.
Aside from that, M&M is indeed considered non-canon as it's never brought up in Uprising (contrast with the many allusions to the first game that it constantly tries to build off of) and in fact is outright contradicted by at least one scene in it. Meanwhile in Smash, it evidently is just part of the very long list of first-party games that Sakurai is consciously choosing to ignore.
edited 16th Mar '15 4:54:32 PM by Demonfly
"Tell them to shut up and have some faith in me." - dead flashback guy
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Smash tends to cater to the Japanese fanbase over the American one. That explains the content from both Sticker Star (3DS version when Mario and Luigi: Dream Team could've gotten a stage in that version) and Other M (Wii U version when Prime 3 should've gotten some music representation). Also explains why Smash has content from the japanese-only FE games, MOTHER 3, and Panel de Pon.
However, I don't get why some Amiibos are so rare in America while Japan and Europe have those "rare" and "Unicorn" Amiibos in plentiful stock. Is gaming really that niche in the US compared to Japan that we can't get an equal amount of Amiibos that Japan receives?
AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!/*Villager captures Peach in net*
"I caught a Peach!
Well that's just peachy-keen!"
"We're home, Chewie."If I recall, the GB Kid Icarus game has Silver Armor instead of the Mirror Shield, but Uprising has both, and just never brings any attention to Pit's Three Sacred Treasures form suddenly having armor.
I think it's the best they could do to nod to it without having to stop and explain an irrelevant game the target audience never heard of.
Aside from that, I think Of Myths and Monsters is just kinda generally ignorable. I haven't heard of it contradicted anywhere.
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I actually like that Peach uses traits that are considered traditionally feminine to kick ass. There's a lot of attempts to make "strong female characters" in recent fiction which lead to the "Man With Boobs" trope, which is a name I utterly hate and despise for multiple reasons, but the problem it identifies is an important one: there's an idea that traditional femininity is weak. Peach (in Smash, SPP, and a few Mario games, anyway) stands in stark contrast to that idea.
Oh good, we don't actually have a "Man With Boobs" page.
edited 16th Mar '15 11:45:35 AM by Zarek
"We're home, Chewie."