Princess Peach

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*.

Personality traits

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*, 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.

### Powers and abilities

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.

### 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.

## Trivia

* She has never been known as "Princess Toadstool" in Japan. She was always known as Princess Peach.
* In the Spring Breeze game of *Kirby Super Star* and *Kirby Super Star Ultra*, Princess Peach is one of the audience members within the arena where Kirby fights King Dedede.
* Ever since her debut in 1985, Princess Peach has appeared in more games than any female character in video game history.
* There's a homage in the game *Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix* to a famous quote about Princess Toadstool, which is *"Thank you Mario / Luigi. But our Princess is in another castle."*, very common at Mario's early games: As the player beats the secret boss *Akuma*, he is given an achievement named *"Sheng Long is in another castle"*. The achievement name interprets the player is unable to find Sheng Long but just Akuma.
	+ Sheng Long is a "character" originated from a joke, based upon Ryu's quote *"You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance,"* which suggested Sheng Long's existence as a secret final boss in the Capcom fighting game *Street Fighter II* and that helped to create both the characters Akuma and *Gouken* later.
* Not only is Peach really famous in real life, but she's really famous in her universe as well. Almost every Mario character knows Princess Peach, even the most infamous of villains.
* Princess Peach's sprite on the title screen of Super Mario Kart shows a very irritated expression on her face, although this has not been confirmed.
* To date, Peach's official age has remained unknown and it .
	+ The pamphlet for *Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!* listed her age as 16 and her DIC cartoon counterpart was stated to be 17, but neither of these ages have been confirmed official in the games.
	+ During Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, Peach appearsto be younger than Baby Marioand Baby Luigi, having to be carried by Toadsworth on his arms and sometimes on a baby carriage. She also ppears wearing a small pink romper instead of full clothes and shoes unlike the brothers. Later, she begans to learn about her floating ability while other baby counterparts like Bowser and the Mario brothers are able to fight with their own abilities.
	+ In Yoshi's Island DS, Peach appears a baby along with Mario, Luigi, Wario, Donkey Kong and Bowser in the credits. In that image they all appear to be near the same age. Peach is the only human baby to not wear a diaper a she appears with a pink romper, which can imply she might be slighly older than them.
* The boxart for Princess Peach: Showtime! was slightly modified on October 13th, 2023 after the Nintendo Direct from September 2023. The changes include a different expression for Peach practicing martial arts where she appears with a frown. The other change includes a shade on Peach nose on the center, her eyes becomes more almend shaped and her eyebrows are slightly curved. Some fans have commented that this artwork holds a resemblance to Peach's character design on the The Super Mario Bros. Movie. At this moment there is not an explanation for this changes.