Princess Peach

**Princess Peach** (プリンセスピーチ, Purinsesupīchi) also known as **Princess Peach Toadstool**or just **Peach**, is the ruler of theMushroom Kingdom. She is the damsel-in-distress in most of the Mario games. She 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 appears occasionally in RPGS, the Peachy Peach.

She first appears in *Super Mario Bros.* and has since appeared in most subsequent games, in which she is usually kidnapped by Bowser. Princess Peach is occasionally a key supporting character of the plot, and sometimes a playable character. Her most notable appearance is as the heroine 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*, *Super Smash Bros. Melee*, *Super Smash Bros. Brawl*, and *Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U*. Princess Peach's first game as the main character, *Super Princess Peach*, has been released worldwide on February 27, 2006. She has also gone through many voice actresses and is currently voiced by Samantha Kelly. She has an affinity for the color pink and has been shown to be a ladylike, kind and very beautiful monarch. Princess Peach resides in her castle along with many Toads who tend to her. She sometimes is about to get her kingdom often attacked by the Koopa Army, lead byKing Bowser Koopa. Princess Peach is portrayed as Mario's love interest. She also has a special relationship with Princess Daisy, and is a good friend of Luigi, Yoshi, Toad, and Toadette. She has appeared in many sport titles as well as other spin-offs. In addition, she is almost always playable in spin-off tournaments, such as *Mario Hoops 3-on-3*.

## Design and Appearance

Princess Peach's initial appearance was drawn by Shigeru Miyamoto. Miyamoto has later asked Yōichi Kotabeto redraw Princess Peach with his instructions. He has asked Kotabe to draw her eyes to be "a little cat-like" and that she should look "stubborn, but cute". With Kotabe's influence, Princess Peach changed considerably throughout her gaming history.

Like most human characters in the Mario franchise, Peach has blue eyes. Her blonde hair (initially red or brown in NES games, resulting in the DiC cartoons depicting her as a redhead) reaches her waist in length, which usually sees her put it into a ponytail for most of her more active appearances. In terms of height, the only human characters to be taller than her are Pauline, Waluigi, and Rosalina (though Pauline may actually be slightly shorter due to the first damsel in distress wearing higher heels).

Her primary outfit consists of a long pink dress with a ring at the bottom, pink panniers, short puffy sleeves, a raised collar, and a sapphire brooch set in gold. Accompanying it are a golden crown with four jewels on it, white evening gloves that reach past her elbows, and deep pink high heel pumps that usually go unseen unless one were to look at the correct angle or she does her primary victory pose in Mario Party 4-6, and, in Super Smash Bros. Melee and Super Smash Bros. Brawl a pair of pink bloomers. This look replaces her original dress, which was a darker pink from much closer to her waist; in the DiC cartoon Adventured 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 a number of 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 sports wear); 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*, Daisy and Rosalina also receiving their own in their respective color schemes; for some strange reason Wario doesn't use his WarioWare-origin biker outfit himself under the same circumstances), a sleeveless, lighter pink version of her normal dress (*Super Mario Sunshine*, the sleeveless-ness 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 minidress with dark pink tights along with white gloves and ankle boots (winter editions of the *Mario & Sonic* series), and perhaps her most risque outfit, a pink midriff-baring crop top (with a white number 10 on both sides, small in front under her emblem and large on the back under her (also in white) name) and shorts (*Super Mario Strikers*, the sequel adding protective pink battle armor over it).

## TMNT X Pokemon

She can heal others using her magic. As being a Princess, she usually stay behind but is able to fight the enemies herself.

## Trivia

* She has never been known as "Princess Toadstool" in Japan. She was always known as Princess Peach.
* 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"*. Actually the achievement name means that as well as Mario / Luigi couldn't find the Princess, 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.