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Princess Peach

Princess Peach in her usual pink dress and crown.
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Game series Mario series
First game Super Mario Bros. (1985)
Created by Shigeru Miyamoto
Voiced by Jeannie Elias (TV) (1989-1990)
Tracey Moore (TV) (1990-1991)
Jocelyn Benford (Hotel Mario)
Leslie Swan (VG) (1996-1999; 2004; 2007)
Asako Kozuki (Mario Party and Mario Party 2)
Jen Taylor (VG) (1999-2005; 2006)
Nicole Mills (VG) (2005-present)

Princess Peach (ピーチ姫 Pīchi-hime?) is a video game character in Nintendo's Mario video games series, often playing the "damsel in distress" role in the adventure series.[1][2] Peach is the human princess of the fictitious Mushroom Kingdom, where many of the games are set. Outside Japan, she was known as Princess Toadstool until late 1996.

Peach first appeared in Super Mario Bros. and has since appeared in most subsequent games, in which she is usually kidnapped by the villainous turtle-like creature, Bowser. She has also shown her fighting abilities in Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario RPG, Super Paper Mario, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Peach's first game as the main character, Super Princess Peach, was released worldwide on February 27th, 2006.[3]

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Mario and Princess Peach.
Mario and Princess Peach.

Peach is portrayed as the beautiful princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. No larger reigning monarchy appears to exist. In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, the princess has a grandmother, and the Mushroom Kingdom government is ruled by a chancellor and the mushroom retainers. In Mario Superstar Baseball, Lakitu mistakenly calls Toadsworth her grandfather likely due to a translation error. Like most characters from the Mario franchise, her backstory is purposefully left vague and undeveloped (nothing is known about her age, her height, and the royal family which she belongs to), though at the beginning of Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, it was revealed that she has been kidnapped repeatedly by Bowser since childhood. A mushroom king was a common character in the Nintendo Comics System stories, in which he was portrayed as a forgetful person; however he has never appeared in the games. Her mother and father are unknown but presumed alive.

Princess Peach's Classic Look
Princess Peach's Classic Look

While the instruction manual for the original Super Mario Bros. indicates more about that he is related to Peach, [4] he has never appeared in any game and was never mentioned again. In Super Mario Bros. 3, it is revealed that the Mushroom Kingdom is part of a larger "Mushroom World" composed of seven neighboring countries, excluding the Mushroom Kingdom. Each of these are ruled by a different King, however, none of these monarchs seem to be related to her. Peach lives in a beautiful palace surrounded by Toad guards, which also appears in kart and sports games. Eight of these guards are among the "Elite", including the most prominent of all, Toad.

According to the American instruction booklet for Super Mario Bros., Peach is the only one who could undo the evil magic that Bowser had cast upon the Mushroom Kingdom; Bowser kidnapped her for this reason. However, upon her rescue, this prophecy is not mentioned in the game itself, nor any other game, nor in the cartoons. Oddly enough, in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Peach (known as "Princess Toadstool" or simply "Princess" at the time) was depicted as constantly being in search of someone who could defeat Bowser's (known as "Koopa" at the time) forces, despite the fact that Mario and Luigi could do just that (and also the fact that most of the people they were looking for turned out to be of little to no help whatsoever).

Peach is generally depicted as kind, well-mannered, and noble. Her trophy description in Super Smash Bros. Melee describes her as magnanimous and willing to even play a tennis match with Bowser, despite all of the trouble he has caused her. Although in Mario Party 4 and Mario Superstar Baseball she is described as secretly mischeivious

According to the Paper Mario and the Mario & Luigi series, she possesses a pure heart and a pure voice. Another trait in her personality is her eagerness to help out whenever possible. In Super Mario Bros. 3, she would send Mario special items and give tips via letter whenever the player completed an area (except at the end of World 7 where she is kidnapped by Bowser and Mario gets a nasty letter from Bowser instead). She also occasionally sends Mario letters in Super Mario Galaxy, which hold five one-up mushrooms. When Mario does battle with Bowser in Super Mario World, she assists him in battle by giving him a Super Mushroom. When she is kidnapped (which some crows in Twilight Town say is every weekend), Peach will do what she can to help Mario in his quests (as seen in all games in the Paper Mario series). When the Mario Bros. have to escort her through the desert in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, simply getting too far away would cause Peach to be automatically kidnapped.

In Super Smash Bros. Melee, she is shown to be somewhat cheeky (when she wins a match, she is sometimes heard asking, "Oh, did I win?"). Lately, though, Peach has been demonstrating a stronger personality and attitude, particularly in the role playing games she appears in.

Princess Peach also has an affinity for the colors pink and peach. Almost everything in her wardrobe (most notably her dresses) is these colors. She wears a pink-peach princess dress, although she wore a white princess dress in Super Mario Bros.. She is nearly always portrayed in her traditional pink gown.

Her eye color is sky blue. She also wears sapphire earrings, a sapphire pendant, and a gold crown adorned with sapphires and rubies, also added to wear arm-length gloves to her ensemble in Super Mario World. She wears red high heeled shoes with 4 inch heels (in Super Mario Bros. Deluxe she wore orange-red shoes with 6 inch heels). She made the transition from her classic look (as seen above) to her modern look (shown at the top) in the game Mario Party 4.

In Super Mario Sunshine, she wore a sleeveless gown with no gloves and, eventually, had her hair tied back. In the Mario sports series (excluding the Mario Kart games), Princess Peach opts to wear a mini-skirt version of her dress and red tennis shoes (instead of her red high heels as they are not suitable for sports games). Starting with Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, Peach has been depicted with her hair tied back in the sports series as well. In Mario Superstar Baseball Peach has traded in her mini-skirt for pink-peach shorts. In Super Mario Strikers, Peach wears a two piece soccer uniform, which received both positive and negative reactions.

As a baby, Peach's hair is much shorter, and of course, her all around appearance is much smaller. She wears a pink, baby outfit, supporting a bib with a sapphire in the middle of it, what looks like a white under-suit that covers her legs, and a pink pacifier. However, in Yoshi's Island DS, she is only in a diaper. (although she still retains her crown and pacifier)

Peach is often confused with Pauline in the game Donkey Kong. Peach is also confused with a receptionist in Mario is Missing!. In the SNES version of Mario is Missing!, one of Peach's Super Mario World sprites was reused for the information booth receptionists encountered in the game, depicted in a blue dress. The receptionists do not look like Peach at all in other versions (NES and PC) of the game,and it was said to be Daisy.

A Peach Doll is a doll that looks precisely like Peach. These first appeared in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. One such Doll belongs to Gaz, who likes to recreate Mario's various adventures with dolls. The second doll belongs to Booster. He used it to plan his wedding to the real Princess Peach. A Peach Doll also appears in Paper Mario. The doll belongs to Goombaria (who calls the toy "Dolly"). Mario and Goompa find the doll in Jr. Troopa's territory, implying Jr. Troopa stole the doll from Goombaria. After Mario returns the doll to Goombaria, he receives a Star Piece and a kiss. In Paper Mario:The Thousand-Year Door, a koopa in Petalburg has several kinds of Peach merchandise, including a life-size poster of her. This poster fools Bowser, who addresses it as the real Peach.

The Mini-Peachs are cute Peach toys sold by the Mario Toy Company. They appear in Mario vs. Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis. The success of the Mini-Mario toys from the Mario Toy Company was so good that it allowed them to expand to sell other Mini-toys, including the aforementioned Mini-Peach, Mini-Toad, and Mini-Donkey Kong toys as well. Mini-Peachs can be playable in the Construction Zone but Special Kit 2 has to be unlocked first. There are also Fire Mini-Peachs.

In the Super Mario animated series, this version of her is referred to as Princess Toadstool in all three shows, as that was the name American audiences were familiar with. She was also drawn differently than her game counterpart; while the color and style of her dress was the same, she wore a plain gold crown (instead of her usual gold crown laced with ruby and sapphire jewels), her hair color was red instead of blonde (this was probably a reference to the fact that she was shown with red hair in the original Super Mario Bros. video game), lacked her usual arm-length gloves, and she had unusually large forearms. This design was carried over (with some modifications) in the rest of the animated Mario series. In The Super Mario Bros. Super Show where she is credited as Princess Peach Toadstool, she (along with Toad) accompanied Mario and Luigi on their adventures. As most of the episodes in this series were pop culture parodies, she usually played a passive role, or sometimes the damsel-in-distress, like the games. However, when occasion called, she demonstrated heroic capabilities, rescuing even her friends and standing up to King Koopa.

In The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, the Princess took a more active role. Though she had her own castle (one she rarely used), she spent most of her time in Toad's house, or at least in the company of the Mario Bros.. Princess Toadstool was also more directly involved in the storylines, saving her kingdom herself. She even assisted in saving the "real world" from Koopa on a number of occasions: in several episodes she helped the Mario Bros. thwart Koopa invasions in New York City, the White House, Paris, and even the seven continents. As in the previous series, she made bold use of power-up items. She was a big fan of the now-disgraced pop duo Milli Vanilli. According to the DVD Box Set Writer's Bible, the Princess is only 17 years old during this series.

In the Super Mario World cartoon, Princess Toadstool's role was slightly diminished due to the addition of Yoshi. However, she still participated in the group's adventures periodically, and as the resident female character, adopted a motherly attitude towards the child-like Yoshi and Oogtar the caveboy. She was also shown running a primary school for the cavepeople's children, which was once attended by Koopa's youngest children, Hip and Hop Koopa.

Princess Peach in the comic Super Mario Adventures
Princess Peach in the comic Super Mario Adventures

By far, the most dynamic version of the Princess is in Nintendo Power's Super Mario Adventures comic serial (published throughout 1992 and later reprinted in a graphic novel). There, Bowser proposes marriage to Peach (then identified as "Princess Toadstool"), but she rejects him, even when he briefly turns Mario to stone. Over the course of the comic, she also beats up the Koopalings, attacks several Koopa Troopas, and even threatens to blow up a tower while wearing Luigi's clothes, to the point that at the end of one installment, the Mario Bros. break the fourth wall to comment that "she sure stole the spotlight this month!" This version of Peach is so violent that Bowser has to hire a hypnotist to get her to marry him, leaving the Mario Bros. and the Yoshis to save the day in the final installment.

Peach was also featured in her comic series, Dear Princess Toadstool. She would give humorous advice to writers such as Luigi, or even Bowser.

In Super Mario RPG, Princess Toadstool is kidnapped by Bowser early in the game, but is rescued by Mario. However, Mario, Bowser, and Princess Toadstool are sent flying out of the castle by a large sword named Exor. After collecting three of the seven Star Pieces, Mario finds Princess Toadstool in captivity in Booster Tower, from which Mario and Bowser try to save her, but Booster rushes her off at the last minute to get married. They save her from getting married to Booster, and she soon joins the party. In battle, her abilities include various forms of healing and the ability to revive KO'd party members, as well as cause a storm of bombs to drop on an enemy (Psych Bomb). Her weapons include a Parasol, War Fan, Frying Pan, and a Special Glove to slap enemies with.

Princess Peach as she appears in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.
Princess Peach as she appears in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door.

In Paper Mario, she is captured by Bowser yet again. Bowser somehow managed to place his own castle unnoticeably beneath her own, to lift Princess Peach's castle into the air during a party, and uses his newly acquired Star Rod to kidnap the revelers (except for Luigi, who happens to walk out at the last minute), become invulnerable, and launch Mario out of the window, putting him near death. After Peach wishes for help, a Star Kid named Twink comes along, but he is too weak to save her, and so he offers assistance to Mario by providing hints about where to go next. In each Chapter, Peach sneaks around the castle gathering information to help Mario in his quest, utilizing different characters like Gourmet Guy and different items like the Parasol that she can use to help thwart Bowser. During the end battle, Peach plays an integral role. Once again Mario rescues her, this time with the help of the seven Star Spirits and party members Goombario, Kooper, Bombette, Bow, Parakarry, Sushie, Watt and Lakilester. Peach actually helped Mario save the Mushroom Kingdom. She sabotaged Bowser's plots by supplying Mario with a relatively constant stream of information, using Twink as her messenger.

This game marks the second time (after Super Mario RPG) Peach is playable in a battle, and even then, she only has one move, while fighting against Kammy Koopa with the help of Twink.

In the sequel to Paper Mario, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Peach is kidnapped by Sir Grodus' X-Nauts, much to the jealousy of Bowser, to use her to unlock the Thousand-Year Door.[5] She is often called down into TEC-XX's computer room, where he often asks her for a favor, and in return, lets her email Mario to help him in his quest. Peach teaches TEC about love and sneaks around the X-Naut Fortress for him. Princess Peach learns the truth behind the X-Naut's plans seconds late. She tries to e-mail Mario to reveal their plot involving the Shadow Queen, but is ultimately unable to stop them herself. She is then possessed by the Shadow Queen. However, upon being temporarily freed from the grasp of the Shadow Queen, she sends Mario all of "her power" that she can, supporting the theory that Peach has special powers (besides in Super Mario RPG).

Peach is a playable character in Super Paper Mario. After being forced to marry Bowser by Count Bleck and Nastasia, The Void opens up threatening all of existence. She joins Mario in his quest to close The Void shortly after the end of Chapter 1. Peach has the ability to use her parasol to float down slowly over large distances, enabling her to reach far-off places the other characters could never reach, and use it as a shield to protect herself from enemies.

Although Peach is playable in the first two Paper Mario games in cameo appearances and certain scenes, Super Paper Mario marks the first time she is playable throughout most of the game, even through levels, and fighting enemies.

While possessed by the Shadow Queen in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, she wears a black cape and dress, and instead of blue spheres, her earrings and the jewel on her chest are red diamonds. She also wears lavender eyeshadow, and her hair is shortened so that only the top part of her hair is visible.

In the Game Boy Advance game Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Peach's voice is stolen by the evil witch Cackletta and her assistant, Fawful. Mario and Luigi venture out to the Beanbean Kingdom to reclaim her lost voice. Eventually, it is learned that they did not actually steal her voice, but the voice of a Birdo, who they used to impersonate Peach to avoid losing her voice. She was later captured by Cackletta, who had now possessed Bowser's body and is known as Bowletta, but the Mario Bros. later rescued her at Joke's End (by having Luigi wear Princess Peach's spare dress and pretend to be the real Peach while Mario taunted them for having kidnapped a decoy.) While retreating from the scene with the Beanstar on the Koopa Cruiser (which she now owned) Bowletta and Fawful realized that they had kidnapped a decoy, Luigi then abandoned ship with the Beanstar, but, rather than giving chase, Bowletta went back to the Mushroom Kingdom to take over Bowser's Castle.

In Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Peach becomes the first person to use E. Gadd's newest invention: a time machine.[6] With the time machine, she travels to the past when she, Mario, Luigi, and Bowser were toddlers.[6] However, the point of time she picked happened to be the time when the Mushroom Kingdom was being invaded by aliens known as Shroobs.[6] Because of this, she ends up stuck in the past, supposedly abducted by the aliens, where the player must rescue her, and as the game progresses, learns that she yet again plays an integral role through the game.

Baby Peach as seen  in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.
Baby Peach as seen in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time.

Baby Peach, or sometimes called Baby Princess, appears in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time for the Nintendo DS. In the beginning of the game's story, Baby Bowser attempts to kidnap her, only for Baby Mario and Baby Luigi to come to her rescue in the end. This reveals that Bowser has been constantly kidnapping her long before even Super Mario Bros. However, they all end up fleeing from the invading Shroob forces by leaving on Baby Bowser's Koopa Cruiser. Throughout the rest of the game, Toadsworth and his younger self have to keep her entertained to keep her from crying.

Baby Peach also appears in Yoshi's Island DS as a helper to Yoshi, Baby Mario, Baby Bowser, Baby Wario and Baby Donkey Kong to find out why a bunch of children had gone missing and why a mysterious floating castle appeared right on top of the peaceful Yoshi's Island. Her special ability is that she can use her umbrella to pull Yoshi in updrafts. In the game, she is found by going over certain 'baby points' were you can also pick up other babies.

In Japan, the Princess's name has always been Peach, but when Super Mario Bros was released in the United States, Nintendo of America decided to rename her Princess Toadstool.[7] She kept this name throughout the 8-bit and 16-bit video game eras. Often, however, in-game text only referred to her as "Princess" or "The Princess," most likely a result of space constraints. In Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars she was referred to in menus as just "Toadstool." However, if Princess Toadstool gets eaten by Belome, he mentions that she tastes "peachy".

In Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode The Trojan Koopa after gaining 'super powers' from a Starman she says "Princess P to the Rescue", most likely a hint that somewhere in her formal name, after "Princess" there is another "P".

The English translation of Yoshi's Safari (1993) was the first usage of the name "Peach" outside of Japan; however, the name did not catch on at that time. When Super Mario 64 was released in North America, she signed a letter to Mario as "Princess Toadstool" and then hand-wrote "Peach" (thus "Princess Toadstool, Peach"). Throughout most of the game, she is still referred to as Princess Toadstool. In subsequent sequels and spinoffs, however, she has come to be known only as Princess Peach.[7] The only exceptions to this are certain ports which retain the name. In the official Mario Megasite, her full name is given as "Peach Toadstool". It should be noted that in Japan, the re-releases of Super Mario 64 (both the Nintendo 64 Rumble Pak version and DS remake) feature the same voice-work, and the Princess still signs her letter as "Princess Toadstool, Peach" in the Japanese version.

Princess Peach has appeared in nearly all of the Mario spin-off titles. It can be assumed that some of these games, though a mario product, may not be considered canon.

Since the first Mario Party, Peach has appeared in every single installment, including Mario Party Advance. However, like all Mario Party games, she has nothing outside of appearance and voice to set her apart from other characters. An exception to this is Mario Party 7, in which both Peach and Daisy can use the Flower Orb as their special orb (that is, no other characters can receive it at orb spaces or shops).

In the Mario Kart series, she is in with the medium category characters with the fastest acceleration, the lowest top speed, and the best off-road ability to take the shortcuts on each course. In Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, her special move involves flying hearts surrounding her kart, and any item that hits them becoming hers to use. She shares her special with Princess Daisy.

Peach, in her recent appearance in the Mario Sports series
Peach, in her recent appearance in the Mario Sports series

In the Mario Tennis and Mario Golf series, she is labeled as a "Technique" character and has one of the lightest hits. Her appearance changes in Mario Golf and Mario Tennis, and she wears a skirt instead of a dress. She is a captain in the game Mario Superstar Baseball and specializes in pitching. She is also a playable character in Super Mario Strikers and its sequel, Mario Strikers Charged. Peach is fast, agile, and has good passing skills. Finally, she also appears in the first Mario basketball game, Mario Hoops 3-on-3, for the Nintendo DS, and is a technical type (good at shooting). She appears in the Mario and Sonic crossover sports game, Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games, where she is a skill type character.

Princess Peach, as shown in Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Princess Peach, as shown in Super Smash Bros. Brawl

In the Super Smash Bros. series, Peach first appears in Super Smash Bros. Melee, the second game of the series. She has the unique ability to float for a number of seconds, much as she can in Super Mario Bros. 2, an advantage which is balanced by the fact that she is one of the lighter fighters. Peach has been confirmed to be a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Some of her attacks include the Peach Bomber, her parasol, using Toad as a human shield, using golf clubs and Frying pan as mêlée weapons and pulling vegetables from the ground. In a recent trailer of Super Smash Bros. Brawl, it can be notified that her signature "Peach Bomber", has been modified from an explosion to a barrage of pink crystal hearts (as opposed to the original fiery explosion). Princess Peach's Final Smash is called the "Peach Blossom". Peach starts dancing, then a screen frame with screenshots of Peach appear on either side of the screen. Pink branches grow behind Peach, flowers bloom, and peaches fall from the branches. Peach blows a few kisses that deal around 35% damage to each opponent. Peach can then eat the peaches to regain health and, if the player chooses, launch her foes in their slumber.

Peach has also made cameo appearances in a few non-Mario games, she is a playable guest character in the GameCube ports of Electronic Arts games NBA Street V3 and SSX On Tour.[8][9] Peach also made a minor appearance in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, appearing in a painting within Hyrule Castle. A Princess Peach Kart toy can be found and driven in Nintendogs, although it is only found in the Labrador and Friends version, unless a player gives away a Peach Kart over "Bark Mode". Peach also made a cameo in The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, appearing in the picture sent to Mr. Write from the goat in the animal village. The photo is of Princess Peach with the name, "Christine", written underneath the picture.

In her first voiced appearance in the 1986 Japanese anime Sūpā Mario Burazāzu: Pīchi-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen! (Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission To Rescue Princess Peach) Peach was voiced by Mami Yamase, a pop singer. On the cartoon segments on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, Peach was usually voiced by Jeannie Elias, and on The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World cartoons, she was voiced by Tracey Moore.

In the CD-i game Hotel Mario, Peach was voiced by Jocelyn Benford.

In Super Mario 64 and the English version of Mario Kart 64, Peach was voiced by Leslie Swan, a localization manager for Nintendo of America. Swan voiced Peach again for the release of Super Mario 64 DS in 2004.[10] Also she voiced Peach for Mario Party 8.

In Mario Party, Mario Party 2, and the Japanese version of Mario Kart 64, Peach was voiced by Asako Kozuki.[11]

Starting with Mario Golf on the Nintendo 64, Peach has been voiced by Jen Taylor.[12]

In 2005, Nintendo assigned a new voice for Princess Peach. Although Super Princess Peach and Mario Hoops 3-on-3 still used Taylor's voice, other games, such as Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time and Super Mario Strikers have a new Peach voice, Nicole Mills.[13] The infant form of Princess Peach that appears in Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time and Yoshi's Island DS, called Baby Princess, is also voiced by Mills. However, in Super Paper Mario, Peach is once again voiced by Swan.[14]

In Super Mario Galaxy, Nintendo assigned a new voice for Peach whose voice actress is currently unknown.

Peach is playable in the following games:

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