Princess Peach Toadstool (Illumination)

* Adult
* Bride
* Fire
* Ice
* Biker
* Pre-Coronation
* Baby

Find a male human being she would love, instad of Bowser (succeeded; the first human turns out to be Mario).
Defeat Bowser.
Help Mario save his brother Luigi (both succeeded).

## Performers

### Voice

Anya-Taylor Joy

They're all counting on us. No pressure.—Peach to Mario about her people, *The Super Mario Bros. Movie*.

**Princess Peach Toadstool** is the deuteragonist of Illumination's thirteenth feature film The Super Mario Bros. Movie. She is a human of unknown origin who stumbled into the Mushroom Kingdom and became its ruler, as well as the love interest of Mario and an friend of Luigi, Donkey Kong, and Toad.

## Biography

### Early life

Princess Peach was a little girl, who found herself lost in the Mushroom World, after walking through the Mysterious Warp Pipe, but felt lucky she was raised by Toads. When she grew up, during lots of tries on her training, she became princess and ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom once she was ready. At some point she has a serious hartred of an evil monster turtle, Bowser, which makes him love her all the more.

### Role in the Film

With Bowser having taken over the Penguin Kingdom and having imprisoned its inhabitants, and stolen the Super Star, Princess Peach learns from the Toads that Bowser will be attacking her kingdom next and vows to never let it happen and plans to recruit the Jungle Kingdom to help her fight against Bowser. As she leaves the throne room, she comes across Mario, who walked in without authorization and was tackled by Toads.

She implores them to stop and expresses surprise that another human besides herself has wandered into the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario explains what happened to his younger brother, Luigi who has landed in the Dark Lands, the home of Bowser and his army. She notices Mario's determination to find his brother and she takes him to an obstacle course where she shows him the ropes by expertly making it through without a scratch. Mario tries it out and failed repeatedly to complete it and came very close in the end. Although he didn't finish, Princess Peach still allows Mario to go with her, as she praised him for his improvement, and Toad comes along with them, stating that he fears nothing and refuses to leave her unprotected.

After an expedition, the trio set camp in the Fire Flower Fields where the princess uses a Fire Flower to light the fire, and a worried Mario tells being separated from Luigi longer than he was used to and worries about him very much, but the Princess assures him that they will save Luigi. She tells of her backstory of her earliest memory where she remembers wandering into the Mushroom Kingdom where the Toads found and raised her to be the princess she is today.

The next day, Princess Peach, Mario, and Toad journey to the Jungle Kingdom, where they are escorted by a large white ape. Upon arrival, Princess Peach inquires Cranky Kong's help in having his Great Kong Army help support her in the fight against Bowser, but Cranky Kong refused assistance while Princess Peach tells him that once the Mushroom Kingdom is down, his kingdom will be as well and Mario insists that his help is desperately needed. Despite Cranky Kong being dismissive of him, he agrees on the condition that he must first defeat his son, which shocks Princess Peach. She watches as Mario is pitted in a fight against Donkey Kong. At first, Mario was fighting a losing battle against him, but this doesn't deter him and he kept on fighting despite injuries, and as Donkey Kong sends him flying, Peach informs Mario about the ? Block which he used to become Cat Mario to his initial chagrin before noticing the advantages it gave him, particularly the increased agility and claws, which by utilizing, he was able to defeat Donkey Kong.

It was then that Cranky Kong accepts her proposition and suggests that they create their karts to get back to the Mushroom Kingdom through Rainbow Road. However, Bowser was told what was happening and has his army ambush the heroes, during which one of the Koopas made Toad fall off the road, which upon noticing, Princess Peach deactivates the gravitational feature on her motorcycle wheels to save him from falling to his death. However, this doesn't stop disaster from striking when Mario and Donkey Kong fall off the road completely and into the sea below as the Kongs are captured, much to her and Toad's dismay. They returned to the Mushroom Kingdom.

Princess Peach rides through the town, ordering her subjects to evacuate to the forest to ensure that they don't suffer a horrific fate and returns to the castle where she retrieves an ax-spear and stands firm as Bowser arrives with his castle. Bowser proposed to Princess Peach in marriage though she refused, prompting him to have Kamek torture Toad causing her to unwillingly accept on the condition that he doesn't harm her subjects, which Bowser obliges and has Kamek release Toad as they are escorted to his castle. At the wedding reception, Bowser intends to incinerate the prisoners which includes Luigi, the Penguins, the Kongs, and Luma, in honor of his queen to be.

Meanwhile, Toad managed to successfully smuggle an Ice Flower in her bouquet. She reaches the alter where Kamek was about to unite them, only for Princess Peach, who saw what Bowser was doing to the prisoners, to punch him and proceeds to defy Bowser before using the Ice Flower to become Ice Peach. She proceeds to freeze Bowser in place when he tries to attack her and momentarily prevents the prisoners' cages from sinking into the lava before taking the fight to the wedding guests, who try to attack her. The ice effects on the chain wheel wears off once Princess Peach loses the Ice power up, which lowers them nearly to their deaths, but Mario and Donkey Kong are revealed to have survived the fall and the latter proceeds to raise the cages in the nick of time, which Luigi, having the bottom of his cage destroyed by the lava, escaped and ending up nearly falling to his death only to be saved by Mario in a Tanooki Suit, and the two are reunited at long last. Meanwhile, Donkey Kong was able to free Cranky Kong, who was proud of him, giving him the recognition that Donkey Kong longed for.

Princess Peach later happily reunites with Mario and briefly holds hands with him before Bowser managed to break out of the ice and sends a giant Bullet Bill to obliterate the Mushroom Kingdom to spite Mario and Princess Peach, though Mario managed to get its full attention on him and sends it to the Warp Pipe where he first emerged. The Bullet Bill's explosion caused a shock wave that brings Mario's allies into Brooklyn where both the Mario Bros. originated from. It was there that the final battle takes place as Bowser prevents Mario from taking the Super Star before he mercilessly beats him down. As Mario retreats into a pizza parlor before Bowser could kill him, Princess Peach manages to give him a mighty kick, with Donkey Kong and Toad also getting involved. Mario sees his and Luigi's commercial reminding him that he needs to save Brooklyn, which he resolves to face Bowser head on just as he was about to kill Donkey Kong.

Bowser is angered to see that Mario still hasn't given up, which the latter laughs it off that he's been told that before. Princess Peach then uses a Koopa shell to knock the Power Star away from Bowser and advises Mario to use it, which Bowser tries to prevent through attempting to burn him, but Luigi blocks it with a sewer lid and they make it to the Power Star before they were burned alive, which Bowser believed to have finished them off, only for the brothers to become invincible as a result. They proceed to overpower the Koopa army, with the Koopa King trying to fight them himself, but he was no match for them this time as they gave him the beatdown of his life.

After the battle and the Super Star's effects wear off, Bowser can only plead with the princess for another chance, but Princess Peach, having enough of Bowser's cruel actions against innocent lives, makes him swallow a Mini-Mushroom, shrinking him with Toad trapping him in a bottle (later contained in Princess Peach's dungeon) and they were hailed as heroes.

Princess Peach makes her return to the Mushroom Kingdom, but she provides a pipe for Mario and Luigi, so they can travel between Brooklyn and the Mushroom World.

## Personality

Peach is a charismatic, capable and a confident leader. When a threat to her kingdom such as Bowser arrives, she will stop at nothing to defend it. Despite her qualities of a leader, she relies and helps her allies such as giving Mario the access to Super Bell to beat Donkey Kong. In return, her allies help Peach when needed such as Toad giving Peach the Ice Flower to freeze Bowser. She's also shown to be very alluring to others, mainly toward her friends.

## Powers and Abilites

I'm taking you to see the princess. She can help you. She can do **anything!**—Toad to Mario, *The Super Mario Bros. Movie*.

Peach's desire to protect her beloved kingdom from threats inspired her to train herself up into a formidable warrior as much as its monarch, be it in armed or hand-to-hand combat. Her gymnastic skills greatly improved her agility. She is also shown to be a very capable combat instructor, being the one who trained Mario his skills.

Using either ice flower or fire flower, she can assume elemental form said flowers provide thus allowing her to manipulate their respective element.

## Relationships

### Bowser

Of **course** she hates me. But that makes me love her all the more. Her heart-shaped bangs. The way she floats in the breeze. Her immovable tiara. And when she sees this Star, (chuckles) WEDDING BELLS!—Bowser to his army about Peach.

Peach and Bowser had a one-sided relationship, Bowser loves Peach as he expresses his love for her in "Peaches" but she does not love him back.

Peach had a goal to stop Bowser as she also has a cardboard cut-out that looks like Bowser in her obstacle course as a target.

Despite Peach not loving him back, Bowser intervened the Mushroom Kingdom forcing a proposal to Peach. Knowing Toad was tortured, Peach reluctantly agreed to be his "wife" in his wedding. Aware that he was planning to publicly burn the prisoners in the lava, she confronted Bowser telling him that she will not marry a "monster" like him.

Before Peach shrank Bowser with a Mini Mushroom, Bowser begged Peach to give him a chance which she refused. Toad then followed up with putting Bowser inside the jar.

### Mario

First meeting each other in Princess Peach's Castle, Peach was amazed to see another human. Knowing he is new to the Mushroom World, she acts as a mentor and ally of Mario being supportive of him in his struggles.

Struggling to complete her obstacle course. Despite Mario nearly reaching the end after many attempts, Peach focused on his improvements and rewarded him. In the Jungle Kingdom, Mario struggled to fight Donkey; Peach helped him by giving him a Super Bell to transform into Cat Mario helping him defeat Donkey Kong.

While Peach was forced in a wedding with Bowser, Mario came to her aid crashing the wedding.

### Toad General

Good luck, princess. For ALL our sakes.—Toad General.

When the time was right, Toad General crowned Peach as the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. Toad General informed Princess Peach through an interactive 3D map to that Bowser and his army have taken over the Snow Kingdom. Toad General wished Peach luck before she headed off to her journey.

### Toad

I said "I wouldn't let anyone hurt you."—Toad

Peach has known Toad since she was a princess of the Mushroom Kingdom. She took him to their travels to the Jungle Kingdom. When Bowser forced a marriage on Peach while torturing Toad, Peach reluctantly agreed to Bowser's proposal for Kamek to stop torturing Toad. Before Bowser's wedding started, Toad helped Peach smuggle an Ice Flower in a boquet to surprise Bowser when she transforms into her ice form.

### Luigi

Peach cared about Mario's brother, Luigi, because Mario needed Peach's help on rescueing him. Luigi told the princess that bravery is his thing, after defeating Bowser and saving Broklyn with the help of his brother together.

### King Cranky Kong

Before Cranky Kong agreed to Peach's request, he wanted Mario to defeat his son, Donkey Kong. Seeing Mario was in trouble, she assisted him defeating Donkey Kong.

Donkey Kong came to Peach's aid and assisted sabotaging the wedding and rescuing the prisoners.

### Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong is one of Peach's friends, although, Mario fought and beat him and won the Kong army, to defeat Bowser.

## Trivia

* -She appeared in *The Super Mario Bros. Movie*.
* -She is voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy.
* -Her kingdom is the Mushroom kingdom.
* -When Peach used an ice flower to power up as Ice Peach, tricking Bowser for forced marriage, and froze Bowser, it is just like how Elsa, the snow queen, and fifth spirit of the enchanted forest from *Frozen* has ice powers to freeze things.