Princess Peach: Difference between revisions
From Mariopedia, a wiki on Mario, Yoshi, Wario, Donkey Kong, Super Smash Bros., and more!
Jump to navigationJump to search
→General information: HMfan I hope you don't mind this but loads of info was removed lately, so I'm copying over pre-trim info (i can compare paragraphs as I go along)
(add) Tag: Disambiguation links |
(→General information: HMfan I hope you don't mind this but loads of info was removed lately, so I'm copying over pre-trim info (i can compare paragraphs as I go along)) |
||
Line 514:
==General information==
===
{{multiple image
|align=right
|direction=horizontal
|footer=Peach's original appearance (left); Peach's current appearance (right).
|image1=SMB_Peach2.png
|width1=120
|image2=Peach_front_vector_art.svg
|width2=120
}}
Peach is a young, fair-skinned woman with an average build. She is taller than most human characters, exceeded only by [[Rosalina]], [[Pauline]], and Waluigi. It is to be noted that in the original and ''[[Super Mario Bros. Deluxe]]'' versions of ''Super Mario Bros.'' and ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'', she is depicted as being shorter than [[Super Mario (form)|Super Mario/Super Luigi]] (with the difference in size being enough that she has to stand on her tip-toes to kiss Mario/Luigi if they are in Super/Fire form in the ''Deluxe'' version). She has a soft, oval face with large eyes with blue irises framed by six lashes (three or four in other artwork), and thin, dark blonde eyebrows. She has long, flowing, golden-blonde hair that reach past her waist, with both V-shaped and fringed bangs, and two thin sideburns with v-shaped ends framing her face. She sometimes wears her hair tied up in a ponytail with a blue scrunchie for certain installments which involve more activity including, but not limited to, sports events and kart racing, starting with ''[[Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour]]''.
The DIC cartoons' version of the princess has been officially stated to be seventeen years old.<ref>''Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3'' writer's bible bio for Princess Toadstool: ''Chronologically, a seventeen-year-old...''</ref> As for the video game version of Peach, though no fixed age has been revealed, her overall physical appearance and appearing as a baby alongside Baby Mario (Mario is revealed to be around 24-26 years old) suggests that she is in her early 20's.
Peach usually wears a floor-length pink dress with puffy sleeves, as well as a high collar, panniers at the waist, and a ruffle at the hem, all colored deep pink; this design debuted in ''Super Mario Sunshine'' before being finalized in ''Mario Party 4''. From ''Super Mario Bros.'' to ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit'', her dress had a thin deep pink band around her waist rather than panniers, the collar was the same pink as the chest and sleeves, and the lower half of the dress skirt was a deep pink; this particular dress design was reused in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door''. The dress has a sapphire brooch, set in gold on Peach's chest, and she wears round earrings of the same color. Her crown is golden, with two rubies and two sapphires; these gems also became set in gold. She wears white evening gloves beyond elbow-length (these have a v-shaped opening, but were formerly straight), deep pink or red high heels, and in some games, has a white petticoat under her gown. In the Nintendo 64 ''[[Mario Party (series)|Mario Party]]'' games and the ''[[Paper Mario (series)|Paper Mario]]'' series, she wears white tights underneath. Her dress is far more elaborately designed in recent ''Super Smash Bros.'' titles, but is otherwise the same; because of the ''Super Smash Bros.'' games using more realistic dimensions for the various characters, Peach is also given slightly more realistic dimensions in these games, including a slightly smaller head and a slightly larger bust.
====Alternate outfits====
The earliest alternate outfit Peach had was in ''[[All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros.]]'', where she was dressed up in a kimono and had her hair in a geisha style complete with chopsticks. This was because of it being released during a Japanese holiday. Although this particular outfit has not appeared in any games since, Peach wore similar kimono outfits in an advertisement for Nintendo's involvement in the Kyoto Cross Media Experience 2009, a Club Nintendo calendar award, a New Year 2017 wallpaper (which was reused from artwork from the Kyoto Cross Media Experience 2009), in Bowser's Kingdom in ''Super Mario Odyssey'', and as a driver variant in ''[[Mario Kart Tour]]'' (as well as a pink yukata partly derived from her Bowser's Kingdom attire).
[[File:Mario Pachinko Flyer.jpg|thumb|150px]]
A promotional flyer for a Japanese pachinko machine was created in Mario's earlier years, depicting Peach wearing bunny ears and tail, a one-piece, fishnets, and high heels.
In ''NES Open Tournament Golf'', she wears a sundress with ballet flats due to the golfing aspect of the game. Although in the artwork and during actual gameplay it was colored pink, the in-game sprite for the title screen depicts her with a green dress, presumably due to the graphics limitations of the NES.
Although not seen wearing this outfit in-game, one of her character arts for ''Super Mario World'' depicted her with sunglasses, heart earrings, as well as a purple-pink two-piece bikini, with her crown featuring three points as well as a red bottom with at least four diamonds. She wore a similar outfit in the [[KC Deluxe]] ''Super Mario Kart'' gag manga, only the bikini was slightly more skimpy, it lacked the crown, sunglasses, and earrings, and she was wearing a sash that said "Racingqu" (presumably meant to say "Racing queen"), as well as carrying a parasol, due to her implied role as one of the racehands. On a related note, the Japanese advertisement for ''Super Mario All-Stars'', owing to the basis being events like the Oscars, depicted Peach wearing a sparkling lavender sequined dress as well as matching heels and opera gloves, as well as a fluffy white scarf.
In ''Mario Party 2'', aside from her traditional pink dress that she wears on Rules Land and Bowser Land, as well as the opening and ending of the game, she also wore five distinct outfits fitting into the five themes for Mario Land (pirate, cowgirl, space cadet, explorer, and witch versions of her dress for Pirate Land, Western Land, Space Land, Mystery Land and Horror Land, respectively).
In ''Super Mario Sunshine'', Peach wears a lighter, sleeveless version of her dress, and wears a gold bracelet in place of gloves, due to the tropical setting of the game. She also wears her hair in a ponytail for the first time. In addition, similar to in ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'', she also wore a ring, only it was ruby and placed on her right middle finger.
In the ''Dr. Mario'' series, she wears a pink nurse's uniform with matching hat and sandals. Upon becoming a doctor in ''[[Dr. Mario World]]'', she instead wears a light pink lab coat, a pink skirt, and a white shirt and shoes. She also wears her ponytail hairstyle and does not wear her crown, similar to the other doctors.
Although technically not an alternate outfit, her original standard dress was slightly modified in ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' to feature gold, flame-like designs as well as silk extensions near the bottom of her skirt, plus similar flame-like designs near her brooch and a deep pink corset below it; she also wears a sapphire ring on her left middle finger. In ''Brawl'', said dress is radically altered to be based on her modern appearance, and as such possesses frills at the front of her skirt that split down the legs, flame-like designs near these frills, as well as pink and red portions of the bottom portions of the skirt and a silk front near the brooch, which is given a slightly more realistic appearance. The dress in ''for 3DS'' / ''Wii U'' is largely similar to the one in ''Brawl'', although it is slightly less detailed due to her returning to a more cartoon-like design. Her design in ''Ultimate'' likewise is a mixture of its depiction in both ''for 3DS'' / ''Wii U'' and ''Brawl'', being overall more cartoonish in design, yet having slightly more realistic details, including woven lines on the dress like in ''Brawl''. Aside from the standard dress, she also has several alternate costumes in each of the games (four in ''Melee'', five in ''Brawl'', and seven in ''for 3DS'' / ''Wii U''). Her blue and green dresses were based on similar palette swaps used in the ''Mario Golf'' and ''Mario Tennis'' series (and to a lesser extent on Daisy and Peach's respective sprites in ''NES Open Tournament Golf'' in ''Melee'' and ''for 3DS'' / ''Wii U'', respectively). Her white dress, depending on the game, is either based to a certain extent on her NES appearance (''Melee'') or otherwise on the wedding dress she wore in ''Super Paper Mario'' (''Brawl'' as well as ''for 3DS'' / ''Wii U''). Her white dress in ''Melee'' is notably the only one of her dress options in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series that has her wearing different undergarments. Her yellow dress is obviously based on that of Princess Daisy. Likewise, her red dress option in ''Brawl'' as well as ''for 3DS'' / ''Wii U'' is based on Pauline's dress, and she also possessed a black and yellow dress, as well as a dress based directly on her Fire form in ''Super Mario 3D World''. She retains most of her outfits from ''for 3DS'' / ''Wii U'' in ''Ultimate'', although her orange alternate color is replaced with a gold dress and matching parasol that resembled her [[Gold Mario|Gold form]] from ''Super Mario Party'', most likely due to Daisy becoming her Echo Fighter in the game.
[[File:Princess Peach Artwork - Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games.png|thumb|upright=0.55|left|Peach wearing one of her traditional athletic outfits.]]
When the dedicated Mario sports installments started with ''Mario Golf'' and ''Mario Tennis'' for the Nintendo 64, Peach's sports uniform was simply a shorter, sleeveless version of her usual dress, with white knee-high socks and orange-and-beige tennis shoes. In ''Mario Golf'', her animation when doing a hole-in-one has her dress transform from her sports uniform to her usual dress in her excitement. Starting with the GameCube ''Mario'' sports games, however, she started to have more variety in what she wears. In many earlier games like ''[[Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour]]'' and ''[[Mario Power Tennis]]'', the standard outfit that she wears is a sporty sleeveless pink miniskirt colored deep pink at the bottom, separated by a white wave design. In ''World Tour'', while otherwise similar to her uniform from ''Toadstool Tour'', Peach's miniskirt, in a similar manner to ''Mario Golf'' as noted above, will transform at the wave of her parasol into her trademark dress whenever she gets an Eagle or a Birdie. In other general sports installments which require Peach to be more active, her standard outfit for those games is a pink tank top and shorts with white accents, similar to Princess Daisy's usual sports uniform; in both cases, she wears white bobby socks and red-and-pink tennis shoes, and retains her characteristic blue brooch, earrings, and her crown.
In ''[[Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020]]'', where every character's attire varies depending on the sport being played, Peach is given a whole slew of new outfits that are exclusive to the game. In most events, she wears an outfit similar to her regular athletic outfit, though the tank top sports white accents on the sides and bares her midriff, while the shorts have the colors reversed. Additionally, the look is complete with pink and white sneakers adorned with magenta laces. This outfit receives some minor additions depending on the event, such as a brown harness belt in the Sport Climbing and Archery events, or magenta knee-high socks in Football and Rugby Sevens. Other outfits include a red and white Equestrian uniform, a white karate gi with a blue (or red) belt, a pink and white Fencing uniform, and a pink and black wetsuit for Shortboard Surfing.
For the soccer-themed ''Mario Strikers'' games, Peach wears two-piece, midriff-baring soccer outfits and cleats. In the case of ''[[Mario Strikers Charged]]'', armor is added to the ensemble due to the increased intensity of the game. Her color scheme is still pink, with blue accents and yellow accents. Along with her nurse and doctor outfits in the ''Dr. Mario'' series, these are her only clothes that lack her signature blue brooch, although unlike in ''Dr. Mario'' (and ''NES Open Tournament Golf''), she still has her crown here. In ''Mario Strikers: Battle League'', like Daisy, her uniform no longer bares her midriff and now consists of a normal jersey with shorts that can now be customized with or without armor.
[[File:Peach MK8 alt artwork.png|thumb|upright=0.9|Peach wearing her jumpsuit outfit while riding her [[Standard Bike]] from ''Mario Kart 8'']]
In ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]'' and ''[[Mario Kart 8]]'' / ''[[Mario Kart 8 Deluxe]]'', Peach wears a primarily white jumpsuit with pink stripes when riding [[Bike|motorbikes]], as well as [[ATV]]s in the latter two titles, with a pink scarf, belt, boots, gloves, and other detailing, including a heart-shaped pattern on her back. The gloves are styled similarly to her typical ones and are pink with a white trim to match the boots, which have white soles. She keeps her regular crown, earrings, and brooch.
For the ''[[Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games]]'' and ''[[Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games]]'' installments, Peach wears a pink sleeveless mini dress with a white trim around the bottom, and darker pink leggings and sleeves, and white gloves and ankle boots.
For ''[[Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games]]'', ''[[Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games]]'', and ''[[Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020]]'', Peach wears a light pink leotard with dark pink stripes on the sides for the gymnastics events, which is additionally used as swimwear for the swimming events.
A Super Mario Relaxing Life digital sticker briefly depicted Peach wearing a faint pink nightcap as well as a matching nightgown with no sleeves, before she quickly reverted to her formal attire. Likewise, a Halloween-themed HOME menu key art depicted Peach wearing a Halloween outfit which was later reused for her "Peach (Halloween)" skin in ''Mario Kart Tour''. It overall resembles her default outfit, only with the addition of a magenta witch's hat, a matching mantle, and her carrying a wand with a sapphire stone on it. Her earrings are also of a slightly darker shade of blue in this outfit.
In ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'', aside from her traditional pink dress (which only appears in the prologue and when encountering her at Mushroom Kingdom in the post-game), she has a wide variety of outfits, such as the wedding dress she wore for most of the game (later revealed to be the [[Lochlady Dress]]), as well as various outfits she wore in the post-game, with the specific type depending on the world visited. For the [[Cascade Kingdom]], [[Wooded Kingdom]], and [[Lost Kingdom]], she wears an explorer type outfit with short beige shorts, white knee-length socks, brown hiking boots, a brown shirt with rolled-up sleeves, a roll-up backpack, white gloves, and an explorer's helmet. For the [[Sand Kingdom]], [[Ruined Kingdom]], [[Cloud Kingdom]], and [[Metro Kingdom]] (and to a certain extent the Mushroom Kingdom), Peach wears a knee-length pink dress with a white blouse, white Mary Kane heels, a purple mini-scarf, and a white and pink sunhat. For the [[Cap Kingdom]], [[Snow Kingdom]], and [[Moon Kingdom]], she wears largely black attire: a black wool coat reaching her knees, black gloves, a black beret, and black tights. For the [[Luncheon Kingdom]], she wears a pink shirt, blue overalls, pink rain boots, and a pink sunhat. For the [[Seaside Kingdom]] and [[Lake Kingdom]], she wears a pink pearl necklace, a pink bikini with a blue brooch similar to the one on her trademark dress, pink flip-flops, a pair of sunglasses, and a sarong with pink crescent moon patterns. For [[Bowser's Kingdom]], she wears a [[Fire Flower]]-patterned blue kimono and wears her hair in a ponytail with a [[Boo]] mask on the left side of her head, as well as having a blue uchiwa fan with a [[Blooper]] on it on her back (this particular outfit also had two planned variations, specifically a pink yukata with a school of Cheep-Cheep on it as well as a [[Super Leaf]]-style mask and green uchiwa fan, and a dark blue yukata with mushrooms on it and a mushroom-style mask and red uchiwa fan<ref>mario_odysseyJP (August 12, 2018). [https://twitter.com/mario_odysseyJP/status/1028770604294524929 おはようございます。 こちらは浴衣姿のピーチのラフスケッチです！浴衣に合わせたアップスタイルの髪型、ピーチらしさを意識した柄や飾り紐、夏祭りの遊び心を感じさせる小物をポイントにデザインしていきました。] ''Twitter''. Retrieved November 10, 2018.</ref>). The outfits listed here can also be accessed by using the [[Capture]] on a pole at the top of Peach's Castle after gaining all 999 Power Moons. The Sand/Ruined/Cloud/Metro Kingdom, Cap/Snow/Moon Kingdom, and Cascade/Wooded/Lost Kingdom outfits, the wedding dress, and to a lesser extent the Bowser's Kingdom outfit, were later reused as alternate versions of Peach in ''Mario Kart Tour'', labeled "Vacation", "Wintertime", "Explorer", "Wedding", and "Yukata", respectively.
In ''Mario Kart Tour'', aside from the outfits that appeared in other sources that were utilized in the game, Peach also wore a Happi attire generally used for Japanese celebrations. It overall resembled Mario's Happi outfit from ''Super Mario Odyssey'', only colored primarily pink and red and having white shorts instead of black. The Yukata from ''Super Mario Odyssey'' was also redesigned slightly to be pink-white with hearts on it.
With the exception of the attire she wore while possessed by the Shadow Queen in ''The Thousand-Year Door'' or the two disguises she wore in the first two ''Paper Mario'' games, Peach, or rather, Paper Peach, has worn a white wedding dress in ''Super Paper Mario'', due to Count Bleck forcing her and Bowser to marry in order to create the Chaos Heart in his agenda to destroy all worlds. Aside from this, she also briefly wore a brown cloak at the beginning of ''Paper Mario: Color Splash'', due to her traversing to Mario's Pad during a thunderstorm.
===Personality
[[File:
[[File:Peach Heart - Super Mario Sticker.gif|thumb|left|150px|LINE sticker of Peach showing off her personality]]
Princess Peach is shown to be a sweet, kind, and optimistic person, while also being classy and sociable, with more and more portrayals further displaying her as clever and adventurous. She has a warm heart and often acts unselfishly, putting her friends, loved ones, and citizens ahead of herself, and apologizes excessively for getting into trouble and requiring Mario to rescue her. She even shows concern and compassion towards her enemies frequently; she saves [[Mimi]] in ''Super Paper Mario'', despite the girl's constant antagonism of the princess, and in the same game and other games, her pure and noble characteristics are often shown in different ways, from being the only person who can activate certain powerful objects (including but not limited to the [[Beanstar]] and [[Dark Star]]) to landing in the Overthere, the ''Mario'' equivalent of heaven (after [[Dimentio]] seemingly "ends her game").
While gentle by nature, Peach is also strong-willed and can hold her own in sports competitions and battle, provided she is not already being held captive. Her strong-willed nature is best demonstrated at the beginning of ''Super Paper Mario'', where she managed to outright resist [[Nastasia]]'s mind control abilities during the "wedding", which Nastasia indicated was unprecedented. A similar demonstration of her strong will was also shown in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'', where she managed to fight off the Shadow Queen's possession long enough to not only offer words of encouragement to Mario and his party, but also heal them (with the Shadow Queen, due to possessing Peach's body, being forced to go along with it). At the end of ''Super Mario Odyssey'', when Mario and Bowser start squabbling for her hand-in-marriage while shoving their flower proposals in her face, Peach puts an end to the conflict with firm assertiveness, showing she will not put up with immaturity and nonsense. Largely because of her frequently being kidnapped, she has frequently been the subject of a running gag in the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series where several characters refer to the frequency of her abductions and infer she is useless for it, such as [[Solid Snake|Snake]] in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'' and Pit (and to a certain extent, Viridi) in ''Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U''. But while Peach is often considered the archetypal video game damsel in distress, she is often shown actively working against her captors, such as sneaking around searching for power-ups and/or information to send to Mario in games such as ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' and the ''Paper Mario'' series, and even attempting to escape her confinement in ''Super Mario 3D Land''.
[[File:SuperPrincessPeachJPCommercial.png|thumb|upright=0.9|Peach as shown in an advertisement for ''Super Princess Peach'']]
While Peach occasionally seems naive, she is generally level-headed, knows when to take charge, and shows more common sense and observance than those around her, such as noticing [[Shadow Mario|a Mario doppleganger]] in the Isle Delfino vacation guide video's background in ''Super Mario Sunshine'', insisting that an emergency meeting continues even after it is briefly interrupted by Bowser and deducing what Fawful was [[Dark Star|planning]] regarding her in ''Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story'', and talking a stubborn Bowser into joining her and Mario in ''Super Paper Mario''. She often acts as a peacemaker; for example, in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''{{'}}s story mode, she offers tea to [[Fox McCloud|Fox]] and [[Sheik]] in order to calm them down, and later converts [[Mr. Game & Watch]] to their cause. In the ''Super Mario World'' cartoon, she is a motherly figure to the young Yoshi and [[Oogtar]], and in the cartoons overall, she is practical and generous to a fault, such as trying to convince the Mario Bros. to return home, despite the fact that Koopa is still after her. She also has a feisty side, which shines through particularly well in her comic appearances. Besides sports, Peach is also into ballroom dancing, video games, and gardening, and seems to enjoy exploring and trying new things. In the Japanese version of ''Super Mario Kart'', she is also implied to get drunk easily from champagne, as she was seen blushing while drinking from the champagne bottle.
Although she is generally depicted as kind, sociable, and generous in most games, the ''Mario Strikers'' games do show a slightly more arrogant and petulant side to Peach, including her pitching a fit to one of her teammates and eventually jumping up and down in an apparent tantrum if the opposing team scores. A similar temperamental nature can be observed if the player fails to flip food in time and have it land on the floor in the Modern versions of ''Chef'', where Peach will either stomp her foot in anger (''Game & Watch Gallery 2'') or otherwise put her hand over her head and scream repeatedly in frustration before proceeding to wince (''Game & Watch Gallery 4''), in either case causing Yoshi to crouch down in fear. In the accompanying audio drama for the Japan-exclusive [[Satellaview]] game ''[[BS Super Mario USA]]'', she is depicted as being high-strung. On two occasions, she gets so angry that her speech has to be {{wp|bleep censor}}ed.
Although most games emphasize her innocent nature, the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series tended to depict Peach as having a slightly more flirty, mischievous, and confident attitude, including having one of her taunts depicting her as making a flirtatious wink; some of her victory remarks directly taunt her opponents, such as asking if she won a match in a condescending tone, or saying their match was fun. In ''Brawl'', she is also shown to be slightly eccentric, such as casually strolling across the Halberd's deck while Fox and Falco do a bombing run on the ship in their Arwings, and offering a stalemate between Sheik and Fox by offering them tea while still aboard said ship. In [[Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō|one issue]] of a Satellaview virtual magazine where she and other ''Mario'' characters appear, this is exaggerated as a form of adult humor; Mario catches Peach cheating on him with Toad, which gets her in trouble with Mario.
===Speech===
Early in her history, while Peach did speak, it was largely done via text dialogue. It was not until ''Mario is Missing'' where Peach got some dialogue, and it would not be until ''Super Mario 64'' onward that she maintained having voiced dialogue. In ''Super Mario 64'' and the international versions of ''Mario Kart 64'', she largely spoke with a mature, feminine tone, though in the Japanese version of ''Mario Kart 64'' as well as all versions of ''Mario Party'', ''2'', and ''3'', and ''Super Mario Advance'', Peach spoke with a slightly higher-pitched, somewhat shrill tone, albeit one that exuded confidence, and also possessing a slight Italian accent in the case of the last game. Starting with ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'' and ''Super Mario Sunshine'', she was given a very soft, very girlish soprano voice that exuded innocence and simplicity, yet at times grew sharp when yelling, which was largely retained to her current appearances. Her laugh is a cheeky, girlish giggle. In the ''Super Smash Bros.'' games, other than her taunt and her victory animations, as well as once saying "Tea time" during Subspace Emissary, Peach doesn't say anything beyond grunts. In the Japanese versions of certain games, such as ''[[Itadaki Street DS]]'' and ''[[Fortune Street]]'', Princess Peach tends to end her sentences with "ですわ" (desu wa), a stereotypical trait in Japanese media reserved for females of high class such as princesses and noblewomen, and even women who were simply haughty and arrogant.
===Powers and abilities===
Like other ''Mario'' characters, Peach can [[Jump]] and [[Ground Pound]]; she also slaps opponents, which is her specialty, rather than [[punch]]ing. While not very strong physically, she makes up for it in technique and skill, and many games reveal her to be fast and agile as well. She is also shown to be very graceful, often embellishing attacks and victory scenes alike with elegant movements, twirls, and dances. With the release of ''Super Mario 3D World'', Peach is able to use power-ups, such as the [[Fire Flower]], [[Super Leaf]], [[Super Bell]], and [[Double Cherry]], among other power-ups and items. She also has the unique ability to [[Floating Jump|float in mid-air]] by means of her skirt, first seen in ''Super Mario Bros. 2'', and can also use [[Peach's Parasol|her parasol]] to achieve this same effect. This ability returns in ''Super Mario 3D World'' and the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series; in the former, it is also revealed that Peach can still glide even when she doesn't have a skirt on. In ''New Super Mario Bros.'', ''New Super Mario Bros. Wii'', and ''New Super Mario Bros. 2'', she is also shown to slow down her descent from a fairly large height.
[[File:Peach Royal Strike.png|thumb|upright=1.4|left|Peach's Super Strike, the "Royal Strike", in ''Super Mario Strikers'']]
In ''Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars'' Peach is shown to have impressive healing abilities like [[Therapy]] and [[Group Hug]], and this ability is seen again in ''Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door'' when she overcomes the Shadow Queen's mind control over her to heal Mario and his party. She has occasionally been shown to have telepathic powers, like in ''[[Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', when she calls out to Mario as a hologram in [[Dark Land]], or when she and Starlow combine powers to drain and then send Bowser flying in the beginning if ''Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story''. Additionally, in ''Super Smash Bros. Brawl'', her [[Final Smash]], [[Peach Blossom]], puts her opponents to sleep. In ''Super Smash Bros. Melee'', Peach has a powerful special attack called the [[Peach Bomber]], where hip-checking her opponents engulfs them in an explosion. Earlier, ''Super Mario RPG'' also linked her with explosions, as one of her attacks, [[Psych Bomb]], involved throwing bombs at her opponents, and a similar scene occurred in the ''Super Mario Adventures'' comic, when she used a barrage of bombs against the Koopalings. In ''Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story'', she was also shown to have enough strength to not just telekinetically throw Bowser out of her castle, but throw him far into [[Dimble Wood|the forest]] outside [[Toad Town]]. However, it's implied that she was only able to do this with [[Starlow]]'s help, largely because Starlow had weakened Bowser earlier. She also was powerful enough to counteract Bowser's magic, which was the initial reason why Bowser had abducted her in ''Super Mario Bros.''
In general, however, Peach's special abilities and powers usually involve hearts. They are mostly seen in the sports installments including, but not limited to, ''Mario Power Tennis'' ([[Sweet Kiss Return]]), ''Mario Hoops 3-on-3'' ([[Heart Shot]]), ''[[Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour]]'' and ''[[Super Mario Strikers]]'' (heart trails follow the balls after special hits). Her special item in ''[[Mario Kart: Double Dash!!]]'' is also a [[Heart (item)|heart]], and allows her to co-opt others' attacks. Besides hearts alone, Peach will sometimes use the power of love to combat her opponents in sports, such as her [[Super Peach Spin]] offensive shot in ''[[Mario Power Tennis]]'', or how her [[Heart Swing]] in ''Mario Super Sluggers'' dazes any male player who tries to catch it, while the other females are immune. In addition, many of her abilities in ''Super Mario RPG'' have a heart as her magic symbol. Additionally, the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series as of ''Brawl'' has generally given her moves more of an embellished feminine flair, such as replacing certain moves and adding details like ribbons, rainbows, sparkles, and hearts to others (including replacing the Peach Bomber's explosion with hearts).
Aside from her magical abilities, she is also shown in a few games to be a good chef, or at least a good baker, such as the Modern version of ''Chef'' in some of the ''Game & Watch Gallery'' games, as well as ''Paper Mario'', when she has to bake a cake for [[Gourmet Guy]] in exchange for information regarding Mario. In addition, incidental dialogue from Toad after getting a star on the [[Peach's Birthday Cake]] board from ''Mario Party'' revealed that she was responsible for the titular cake's creation. She also was shown to be good at chemistry, having created an invisibility potion with the help of [[TEC-XX]] in an attempt to retrieve vital information on the X-Nauts' plans from Grodus's office.
During her trek on Vibe Island in ''Super Princess Peach'', she also was shown to utilize various Vibe Powers, with [[Gloom]] making her run faster and use tears to grow plants, [[Rage]] making her shake the ground upon landing and burn hot enough to melt ice, [[Calm]] letting her heal herself, and [[Joy]] making her fly and spin foes and objects with a whirlwind.
===Relationships===
====Family====
[[File:Peach-mss-intro-1.png|thumb|upright=1.1|Peach and Toadsworth greeting their friends in the ''Mario Super Sluggers'' opening]]
The [[Mushroom King]] as well as [[List of implied characters#Princess Toadstool's mother|the Mushroom Queen]] are the only confirmed members of her family in the games, although very little is known about them. According to his depiction in the [[Nintendo Comics System]], while he does embarrass her with his general foolishness, she knows he has good intentions and loves him dearly. Other media have shed light on Peach's other relatives, such as [[Gramma Toadstool]] and [[List of implied characters#Princess Toadstool's mother|her mother]]. In ''Mario Superstar Baseball'', a Lakitu mistakenly refers to [[Toadsworth]] as Peach's grandpa, but in reality, while he is very protective of her and has cared for her ever since she was [[Baby Peach|a baby]], he is actually her steward and not a blood relation. Similar confusion surrounds an elderly chambermaid Toad referred to as [[Grandma]] by Peach in ''Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars'', however, it is most likely that this was a term of endearment carried over from the Japanese version, where it is more common to use familial terms for non-relatives. In the ''Mario Kart: Double Dash!!'' and ''Mario Kart Wii'' [[Prima Games]] guides, Daisy's biographies state that Peach is her cousin, which has also been has by Nintendo themselves in 2018. Similarly, according to the PRIMA Official Game Guide for ''Super Mario Galaxy'', Rosalina was initially intended to be a relative of Princess Peach's, hence her similar physical appearance to Peach, although this concept was dropped.<ref>"''In the early stages, we contemplated the idea that Rosalina was related to Princess Peach, so that is why their features are very similar. Her long bangs represent her outward strength and inner sorrow and loneliness.''" Black, Fletcher. ''Super Mario Galaxy'' [[Prima Games|PRIMA]] Official Game Guide, page 346.</ref> In the ''[[Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Bros.]]'' adaptation of [[Super Mario Momotarō|Momotarō]], Ojīsan and Obāsan are the parents of Princess Peach.
====Friends and love interests====
[[File:SMRL-Line-Mario-Sunset.gif|right|150px|thumb|[[LINE]] sticker of Mario and Peach]]
[[File:Peach Kissing Mario SMW.gif|thumb|left|100px|The first instance of Peach kissing Mario, in ''Super Mario World''.]]
[[File:PeachKissMario2.png|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Peach rewarding Mario with a kiss in ''Super Mario 64'']]
{{quote2|Oh Mario! You came to the party to see me! You're so sweet! Thank you!♥|Princess Peach|[[Paper Mario]]}}
Peach is the love interest of Mario. The two are shown to have been close companions since childhood in ''Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time'', and in the comic "[[Warios Weihnachtsmärchen]]", published in the German ''Club Nintendo'' magazine, it is revealed that they spent their graduation ball in school together. In adulthood, Mario tirelessly saves Peach's life quite often, usually being rewarded with a fresh-baked cake, and often a kiss on the nose or cheek. When Mario disappears in ''[[Luigi's Mansion]]'', she sends Toad to help Luigi search for him, and she herself rescues all three of them from Bowser in ''Super Princess Peach'', as well as saved Mario and one of his allies from the [[Icicle Golem]] in ''[[Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle]]''. They also share good chemistry together as "buddy players" in ''[[Mario Superstar Baseball]]'' and ''[[Mario Super Sluggers]]'', and in ''[[Mario Kart Wii]]'', while racing with the Wii Wheels, Peach and Mario playfully bump each other.
Numerous games, alternate media, and supplemental material depict Mario and Peach as having mutual romantic affection for each other as well as a friendship. In ''[[Mario Party 5]]'', Peach and Mario are called "Cutest Couple" and the official guide for ''Mario Party 8'' states that Peach is the apple of Mario's eye. In the official guide of ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]'', the description for [[Baby Mario and Baby Peach: Dynamic Duo]] mentions the "romantic entanglements" in their adult lives, while the official ''Mario Kart: Double Dash!!'' guide reads "''Aw, isn’t that cute? Mario and Peach are together again''". In the first ''Paper Mario'', one of the Toads tells Mario to take Peach on a date to [[Shooting Star Summit]], and [[Rosalina]] refers to Peach as Mario's "Special One" in ''Super Mario Galaxy'', with the two seen holding hands toward the ending of the game. ''[[Mario Power Tennis]]'' even goes as far as showing Mario himself telling Peach of his love for her in Peach's victory scene, which she responds to with a smile and a blown kiss. Also, in Mario's victory scene in ''Mario Power Tennis'', Peach gives him a small kiss on his cheek. While she does care for Mario, there are times where she gets annoyed if Mario misbehaves. A notable example of this was in the ending to ''[[Super Mario Odyssey]]'', where, after Mario attempts to prevent Bowser from getting her hand in marriage by behaving in a similar manner, she shouts "enough" and storms off in a huff, although she nonetheless calms down enough to tell Mario and Bowser that they should all go back home, and the post-game shows she forgave Mario for the earlier incident.
[[File:Peachdaisy-hrc-mss.png|thumb|upright=1.4|Peach and Daisy celebrating with their friends at Mario Stadium in ''Mario Super Sluggers'']]
Daisy and Peach have been portrayed to be best friends since Daisy's big comeback appearance in ''Mario Tennis'' for the Nintendo 64. If something involves partners in the ''Mario'' spin-offs, the two will usually be a team, from various sports games to ''Mario Kart: Double Dash!!''. By contrast, they face off as rivals in the ''Strikers'' games and are also depicted as having a friendly rivalry in the ''Super Mario'' manga series. ''Mario Super Sluggers'' is the first game to show the two sharing dialog, wherein Peach reveals that she has a lot of concern for Daisy's welfare. Nintendo's ''Mario Power Tennis'' website says that Daisy is Peach's "sister in arms", a term used to describe a close friendship, and while the Prima guides for ''Mario Kart: Double Dash!!'' and ''Mario Kart Wii'' say they are cousins, no known first-party material has confirmed this. Prior to Daisy's comeback appearance in the games and by extension the establishment of their being best friends, however, a 4 Koma segment of the ''Super Mario Kun'' manga depicted Peach as being jealous of Daisy getting attention from Mario to the extent that she threw a mushroom at the latter in anger.
Luigi is portrayed to be another one of Peach's closest friends and often helps Mario rescue her. Cutscenes do not differ if it is Mario or Luigi saving her; however, individual interaction shows that there are no romantic feelings between them. The lone exception is ''Mario Power Tennis'', where Luigi is seen swooning over Peach in her victory scene. The two share good chemistry in ''Mario Superstar Baseball'' but not in its sequel, ''Mario Super Sluggers''.
Toad is Princess Peach's obedient servant who dotes upon and attempts to protect her despite his fear of Bowser, often getting himself kidnapped along with her in the process. Toad's collectible card from ''Super Mario Galaxy'' states that he even formed the [[Toad Brigade]] and followed Peach and Bowser to space in order to try and save her, while in numerous other games, he is the one to go and alert Mario about Peach's disappearance. They have good chemistry in the ''Mario Baseball'' games, and their team names in the ''Mario Party'' series include "Royal Family" and "Loyal Friends". In the ''Super Smash Bros.'' games, Peach holds Toad in front of herself for protection, though the latter is shown to be reluctant, and attacks out of fear. In ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' however, Toad acts like a proper bodyguard and blocks opponents off from Peach. In [[Shitamachi Ninjō Gekijō]], however, both Toad and Peach enter an illicit affair, which gets them both attacked by an outraged Mario.
Yoshi is another one of Peach's closest friends, who saved her as a baby alongside the other babies in ''[[Yoshi's Island DS]]''. The two share good chemistry is most games and he has also helped Mario save her in a number of games, including ''[[Super Mario 64 DS]]''. He also helps Mario save Peach's friends at her request in ''[[Yoshi's Safari]]''.
[[File:Super Mario Kun Peach and Rosalina.jpg|thumb|upright=0.55|Rosalina and Peach talking]]
Peach is on friendly terms with numerous other characters. In the baseball games, she shares good chemistry with [[Toadette]], who is on her starting team, and in ''Mario Party DS'', she gives Toadette a set of touching trumpets. While Peach and Rosalina did not speak in the ''Super Mario Galaxy'' games, the two were shown to become fast friends upon meeting in issue 38 of the ''Super Mario-Kun'' manga, and were also shown to work together in ''Super Mario 3D World''. While Wario has sometimes shown antagonism towards Peach, such as in ''Mario Power Tennis'', he helped save her in ''Super Mario 64 DS'' and was invited to have cake as thanks. He also attempted to retrieve a stolen statue of Princess Peach in ''[[Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3]]'' (albeit with the selfish motivation of trying to hold it for ransom to gain [[Wario Castle|his own castle]]), and appeared to have a crush on her in the ''Mario & Wario'' arc of ''Super Mario Adventures'' comic, seeing as he tried to outdo Mario and buy Peach's prize item, a Samus Doll, for her birthday. Furthermore, the comic "[[Warios Weihnachtsmärchen]]" also revealed that Peach turned Wario down and instead accompanied Mario to their high school graduation ball.
Initially, Peach was unable to get along with [[Rabbid Peach|her Rabbid counterpart]], due to the latter feeling jealousy towards the former's relationship with Mario. Rabbid Peach has tried to get Mario's attention several times and got angry when Peach approached them. When Mario and co. came to the revamped [[Mushroom Kingdom]], Rabbid Peach looked at Peach with disgust, to the point of touching her dress and then looking away. Peach herself does not show animosity towards her Rabbid counterpart, and she is willing to cooperate with her to stop the [[Megabug]]. Although not fond of her counterpart, Rabbid Peach nonetheless has some respect for her, such as placing the [[Icicle Golem]]'s head in place before stepping aside while making a gesture indicating that the Rabbid's counterpart is free to kick it back into the freezer. After defeating the said villain, Peach constructs a new statue of Rabbid Peach holding a [[Power Star]], much to the latter's delight. Then, Rabbid Peach invites all of her teammates ''including'' Peach to take a group [[Wikipedia:Selfie|selfie]]. Outside of ''Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle'', artwork shows Peach and Rabbid Peach taking a selfie together, with the former winking and putting up a [[Wikipedia:V-sign|V-sign]].
If Peach is saved in the Subspace Emissary, she willingly teams up with Kirby to ward off the Subspace Army's forces. Peach also gets along with [[Princess Zelda|Zelda]], as the two characters interact in a friendly and even playful manner. When Zelda transforms into [[Sheik]] to investigate what's happening in the Halberd, Peach giggles, and chooses to follow her. When Peach is about to get injured by the Arwing's blasts to the Halberd, Zelda (as Sheik) goes out of her way to assault the Arwing (and Fox McCloud) to ensure Peach's safety, only refraining from attacking Fox when Peach breaks up the argument for tea.
The opening of ''[[Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games]]'' and the story mode for the [[Nintendo 3DS]] version of ''Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games'' show Peach, alongside Daisy, being great friends with [[Amy Rose]] (having a special victory animation in the sequels) and [[Blaze the Cat]].
====Foes====
[[File:Wedding4.png|thumb|upright=1.1|left|Bowser and Peach's "wedding" in the prologue of ''Super Paper Mario'']]
{{quote2|I'll tell you what: I'll smile if [[Bowser|you]] make everything as it was before you showed up!|Princess Peach|[[Paper Mario]]}}
Bowser has repeatedly kidnapped Peach and invaded her kingdom, both out of a megalomaniac desire to rule the world, but also because he has fallen in love with her. While Peach initially discovered his feelings by reading his diary in ''Paper Mario'', he has since become quite upfront about his crush, such as attempting to get her to kiss him in public in ''Mario Power Tennis'' and becoming enraged whenever other villains kidnap her. He even told his son that Peach was his mother, and while it was later revealed that [[Bowser Jr.]] knew it was a lie all along, he went along with it anyway, and even continued to refer to her as "mama" in ''Mario Superstar Baseball'' out of his own affection for her. Likewise, Peach, when Bowser Jr. revealed their "relationship" to both Mario and her, expressed shock and confusion at her being his mother. She does not seem to mind playing online games with Bowser Jr. in the ''Nintendo Switch Online'' trailer. In ''Super Paper Mario'', Nastasia uses mind control to force Peach to marry the willing Bowser in order to fulfill an ancient prophesy, but while Peach considers the wedding a sham and refuses to acknowledge it, Bowser insists on calling her his wife throughout the game, even as they team up to defeat Count Bleck. Bowser also attempted to marry the unwilling Peach in the ''Super Mario Adventures'' comic and ''Super Mario Odyssey'', and his feelings are depicted in numerous other media as well.
[[File:PeachTriesToSaveMimi.png|250px|right|thumb|Peach tries to save Mimi.]]
While Peach does not return Bowser's feelings and is exasperated with his repeated abductions of her, she is not above sweet-talking him into teaming up with her and Mario in ''Super Paper Mario'', and occasionally shows him goodwill, such as baking him a thank-you cake at the end of ''Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story'', and hesitating when she had to leave him to his presumed death in ''Super Paper Mario''. However, other games and media depict her as being frightened or apprehensive of Bowser, such as how she jumps higher than Mario upon seeing Bowser on his side in ''Super Mario RPG'', and how she cries over her captivity in the ''Mario'' anime movie. In the baseball games, the two have bad chemistry, and they face off as rivals in ''Mario Strikers Charged''. In ''Super Mario Party'', all characters are shown to get along well, including Peach and Bowser. Although mostly on friendly terms, Peach says "I'll help you... this time. Shall we be off, then?" to Bowser when joining him as an ally, alluding to the latter's habit of kidnapping her and being on bad terms with the Mushroom Kingdom.
She also held some animosity towards [[Mimi]], especially after the latter implied that Peach was only good for getting herself kidnapped. This resulted in her being outraged enough at her insult that she insisted on fighting her alone, even snapping at Mario and Luigi to leave before fighting her. Nonetheless, despite her animosity, she risked her life to save Mimi when they were in danger of falling due to the Void's increasing power.
While not an actual foe, after Mr. Game & Watch was restored to life after his clones' merged form Duon was defeated, Peach proceeded to scold him for his (albeit unwitting) role in the events of the game, though after he bowed his head in shame, she did supply him with her umbrella and expressed amusement at his curiosity towards the object.
{{br}}
====The public====
[[File:The Koopa fan of Peach in Petalburg PMTTYD.png|thumb|left|Peach posters and pictures in a Koopa's house]]
Peach is widely respected in the [[Mushroom Kingdom]] and beyond. Her [[Toad (species)|Toads]] are very loyal, and her citizens adore her. Many people in the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond buy and even collect merchandise of her. In ''[[Paper Mario]]'', there is a "[[Secret Sale]]" that offers "beautiful photos of Princess Peach", and a Peach doll named [[Dolly]] is owned by [[Goombaria]] and longed for by [[Jr. Troopa]]. In ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'', there is a Koopa Troopa Peach fan in [[Petalburg]] who collects Peach merchandise, including pictures, photos, and even a life-sized print he keeps at his window, which he claims he would risk life and limb to protect.
===Leitmotif===
Since her debut, she had as her theme a [[Ending BGM|repetitive 4-bar musical theme]], with it being expanded in ''[[VS. Super Mario Bros.]]'', ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'' (Japanese version) or ''Super Mario Bros. 3'' (overseas) to feature chimes nearing the end before it loops. The ''Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels'' version was what Koji Kondo envisioned, but had to cut it short due to memory limits for the original game.<ref>[http://shmuplations.com/kojikondo/ Koji Kondo – 2001 Composer Interview]. ''Schmuplations''. Retrieved December 12, 2018.</ref> In later games, the music varied between either something akin to {{wp|Richard Wagner}}'s ''Bridal Chorus'' (''Paper Mario'') or ballet-style music (''New Super Mario Bros.'' series and ''Paper Mario: Color Splash'').
{{br|left}}
==Relationships==
| |||
