Princess Peach

Princess Peach Toadstool (ピーチ姫, Pīchi-hime?, Princess Peach) is the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom, making her debut in Super Mario Bros., and the tritagonist of the Mario franchise.

Summary: Since her debut, Peach has appeared in most subsequent Mario games, often serving as the damsel-in-distress in the Super Mario series. She is the main female character within the Mario franchise. Peach has a love for the color pink, as almost all of her dresses have a shade of the color. She is named after a fruit in the real world, and also one that occasionally appears in RPGs, the Peachy Peach. Her love interest is Mario. Princess Peach is occasionally a key supporting character of the plot, and sometimes a playable character. Her most notable appearance is as the protagonist of Super Princess Peach. She has also shown her fighting abilities in Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Super Paper Mario and Super Smash Bros. series. Princess Peach's first game as the main character, Super Princess Peach, has been released worldwide on February 27, 2006. (released 2005 in Japan) She has an affinity for the color pink and is a ladylike and kind monarch. Princess Peach resides in her castle along with many Toads who tend to her. Her kingdom is often attacked by the Koopa Army, led by Bowser, leading to her abduction. Princess Peach is Mario's love interest. She also has a close relationship with Princess Daisy, and is a good friend of Luigi, Yoshi, Toad, and Toadette. Bowser has also shown to be in love with her in several games. Some of his attempts to kidnap her are so that he can marry her and make her his queen, one such example of this is Super Mario Odyssey. Peach has appeared in many sports titles as well as other spin-offs. She is almost always playable in spin-off tournaments, such as Mario Hoops 3-on-3.

Appearance: Like most human characters in the Mario franchise, Peach has blue eyes. She has blonde hair which reaches her waist in length (initially brown in NES games, resulting in the DiC cartoons depicting her as a redhead) with two sideburns and a heart‐shaped bang covering her forehead. She usually puts it into a ponytail for most of her more active appearances. She also wears a pair of sapphire earrings, peach‐colored lipstick, and mascara. In terms of height, the only human characters taller than her are Pauline, Waluigi, and Rosalina (though Pauline may be slightly shorter as she wore higher heels).

Her primary outfit consists of a floor-length pink dress with short puffy sleeves, a dark pink raised collar, hem, and panniers, and a sapphire brooch set in gold. Accompanying it are a golden crown with four jewels set in gold—one ruby at each of the front and back and one sapphire at each side (as a matter of fact, Peach's emblem is her crown), white evening gloves with scalloped openings, and red high heel pumps, and, in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a pair of pink bloomers. This look replaces her original dress, which was darker pink from much closer to her waist. She usually wears red or dark pink high heels, however in the The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "Mind Your Mummy Mommy, Mario," she wore blue high heels as seen when running to a stolen mummy case.

Due to her normal outfit consisting of a long dress and high heels, Peach has some alternate outfits for a variety of situations. Her primary two are a pink athletic minidress or a pink tank top and shorts (the latter based on Princess Daisy's primary sportswear). Both are paired with white bobby socks and primarily pink tennis shoes along with her usual jewelry and a blue hair tie keeping her hair in a ponytail.

Other, more specifically-oriented outfits include a pink nurse outfit with matching sandals (Dr. Mario), a pink and white biker suit (Mario Kart Wii and both versions of Mario Kart 8), a sleeveless, lighter pink version of her normal dress (Super Mario Sunshine, the sleevelessness along with a lack of her usual gloves being due to Isle Delfino's tropical setting), a pink leotard doubling as a one-piece swimsuit (summer editions of the Mario & Sonic series), a pink long form fit top with dark pink long sleeve under top and form fit pants along with white gloves and ankle boots (winter editions of the Mario & Sonic series), and a pink midriff-baring crop top (with a white number 10 on each side, small in front under her emblem and large on the back under her name in white) and shorts (Super Mario Strikers, the sequel adding protective pink battle armor over it).

In her first three Mario Kart appearances, Peach's dress was half light pink and half dark pink, it had a dark pink sash, and her hair was straight. In Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and later Mario Kart games, she wears her current dress, and she also ties her hair in a ponytail with a blue hairtie. In Mario Kart Tour, she has been given several costumes. The first costume is a Kimono in which she wears her hair in a bun (for the first time), the second is her Summer outfit from Super Mario Odyssey which has her with her hair down, the second is her Winter outfit (also from Odyssey) with her hair down as well, and lastly is her Wedding dress from Odyssey featuring the same exact hairstyle in that game.

Even though she wears her gown in Mario Kart Wii, she also wears a pink jumpsuit with gloves and boots when riding motorbikes. The suit is white with pink vertical lines going down Princess Peach's arms and legs. Her accessories include a pink scarf, a pink belt with a white buckle and pink boots and gloves. Along with that accompanies her traditional jewelry, including her crown. There is also a heart-shaped pattern on her back. Daisy and Rosalina also have a similar outfit design like Princess Peach's, but with different color schemes as a result. She wears the same biker outfit in Mario Kart 8.

Theme Song: Ever from her debut, her musical theme was based on Super Mario Bros. For example, in her Super Smash Bros. Ultimate showcase video, it played the Super Smash Bros. Melee version of the Super Mario Bros. overworld theme. When Mario rescues Peach, it plays the ballet-style jingles.

Speech: Although Peach first spoke in Super Mario Bros. with one line, she was voiced by Leslie Swan for the first time in Super Mario 64, who would go on to voice her in Mario Kart 64 and Paper Mario. She had a mature and deep tone. In the early 21st century, Peach had new voice actresses: Jen Taylor, the former voice actress, Nicole Mills, who temporarily voiced her after Jen left the role. Samantha Kelly is the current voice actress. Peach speaks with an innocent and high-pitched soprano tone.

Relatives: Her father, the Mushroom King, though mentioned in the instruction manual to Super Mario Bros., has never made an appearance in the mainstream games. She also has a grandmother who is a Toad and a grandmother who is a human. In the Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Mario Kart Wii official guides published by Prima and licensed by Nintendo, Daisy's biographies state that Peach is her cousin, but that statement has yet to be proven in the games themselves. 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 why Rosalina and her mother have a similar physical appearance to Peach.

Personality: Princess Peach is sweet, kind, optimistic, friendly, and experienced. Despite people refusing for help like Mimi refusing from Peach, she is determined to help people in need. Peach has a lot of experience while she lacks learning from it. Bowser always kidnaps Peach due to her ability that she can undo the spell. Another theory is that Bowser loves Peach as seen in Super Paper Mario,[3] but Peach does not love him back. After Mario rescues her, she compliments him for saving her. Peach and Daisy are close friends and friendly rivals. The two people have similar behavior and abilities, but different traits and affiliation. Peach can cry easily when she's sad.

While Peach occasionally seems naïve, she is generally level-headed, knows when to take charge, and shows more common sense and observance than those around her, such as noticing a Mario doppelganger 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 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, such as in Super Smash Bros. Brawl's Adventure Mode: The Subspace Emissary, she offers tea to Fox and Sheik in order to stop them from fighting, 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. The DIC Entertainment cartoons in general show Peach to be practical and generous to a fault, such as trying to convince the Mario Bros. to return home, despite the fact that King 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.

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 in a tantrum if the opposing team scores; in Mario Strikers: Battle League, though, she will regain her composure. 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 frustration (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.

Peach is shown to have a brave side of her personality, most notably in her starring appearance, in Super Princess Peach, in which she is the sole heroine who saves the Mario Bros. and the Mushroom Kingdom. This trait is also shown in Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario 3D World, Super Mario Run, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Super Paper Mario, Mario + Rabbids: Kingdom Battle, and Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope, in which Peach is among the heroines.

Abilities and Powers: Princess Peach has shown in Super Mario Bros. that she can undo the spell. Since her first playable appearance, Princess Peach can hover and attack enemies. Like other characters, she can ground pound and run. She has unique powers that included pink hearts or fruit peaches. Peach can transform with the use of power-ups.

Tools Baseball bat: Peach uses the bat when attending baseball events. Tennis racket: She uses the tennis racket when attending tennis events. Transportation Toad Express: Peach rode the Toad Express once when travelling to Delfino Island. She also used it when travelling to the Beanbean Kingdom and returning to the Mushroom Kingdom. Hot air balloon: Peach flew onto the hot air balloon to Dinosaur Land. Weapons Peach's Parasol: Princess Peach used her parasol for support and weaponry. She uses it to glide and shade herself. Perry: Perry only appeared in Super Princess Peach, a talking parasol who helped Peach with his knowledge of Vibe Island. Perry uses some of the abilities similar to Peach's parasol, even including absorbing enemies.

Biography Not much is known about Princess Peach Toadstool's early life. Presumably she was born in the Mushroom Kingdom to her parents, the Mushroom King and Mushroom Queen.