"Peach" redirects here. For other uses, seePeach (disambiguation).

Princess Peach
Artwork fromSuper Mario Party Jamboree
Full name	Princess Peach Toadstool[1][2][3]
Species	Human
First appearance	Super Mario Bros. (1985)
Latest appearance	Mario & Luigi: Brothership (2024)
Latest portrayal	Samantha Kelly (2007–present)

“Oh dear... Here we go again... I can't believe I'm kidnapped again. Everyone must be worried sick. Again.”

—Princess Peach,Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door (Nintendo Switch)

Princess Peach (casuallyPeach, usually known asPrincess Toadstool outsideJapan prior toYoshi's Safari) is a major character in theSuper Mario franchise, the princess of theMushroom Kingdom, and the love interest ofMario. She first appeared inSuper Mario Bros. and was created byShigeru Miyamoto to be the damsel-in-distress throughout mostSuper Mario games. She resides inher castle along with manyToads, who act as her loyal servants. Her kingdom is often attacked byBowser andhis minions.

Peach has an affinity for the color pink, which accents her gentle personality and kind temperament. Peach's kind nature and role as the damsel in distress are often represented with her heart abilities and crown emblem.

Since her debut, Peach has appeared in severalSuper Mario games spanning the course of decades, even appearing in more games than any other female character in video game history. Peach is occasionally a supporting character in mainstream games and she is almost always playable in spin-off installments. Her lead roles are inSuper Princess Peach andPrincess Peach: Showtime!

Creation and development

Design

Peach's initial design was said to represent her stubborn yet cute appearance.^[4] Peach's initial design had been conceived byShigeru Miyamoto, with some of his suggestions toYoichi Kotabe being incorporated into the final design, in particular making her eyes look more "cat-like."^[5] Before Kotabe conceived Peach's finalized character design, a couple of prototype designs were created for the character. One such design, seen on theSuper Mario Bros. Japanese box art, depicts her with a long-sleeved dress, no gloves, strawberry-blonde hair, and crown jewels that were white instead of red and blue. Another prototype, seen in the 1985 Japanese strategy guideHow to win at Super Mario Bros., portrays her as a Toad rather than as a human, having a mushroom cap instead of natural hair, as well as a simple tiara and a gown reminiscent ofAurora from Disney'sSleeping Beauty, whom she somewhat currently resembles.

Peach has always been depicted as a blonde in video game artwork, although it was originally a darker, more strawberry-blonde shade (or in the case of the Japanese packaging, a dark blonde shade). However, due to the graphical limitations of theFamily Computer andFamily Computer Disk System hardware (including theWesternNintendo Entertainment System), Peach's on-screen sprite in the earlierSuper Mario Bros. games displayed her with reddish-brown hair, and as a result, she was depicted as a redhead in the DiC Entertainment cartoons, as well as reddish-brown in Mario-related merchandise such as a 1988 toy box artwork. Starting withSuper Mario World for the SNES, her in-game appearances had her proper hair color. On a similar note, her dress had always been depicted as pink in video game artwork, although because of the aforementioned graphical limitations, Peach's on-screen sprite inSuper Mario Bros. andSuper Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels depicted her as wearing a white dress with red highlights; this depiction of her old dress would later be reused for her Fire form inSuper Mario 3D World. She only gained a pink dress in-game starting with the overseas version ofSuper Mario Bros 2. Peach's classic main dress had a normal pink high collar, a sash around the waist instead of panniers, and was darker pink from the hem to her knees, but otherwise does not differ greatly from the modern/current main dress introduced with the GameCube-era games, starting withSuper Mario Sunshine andMario Party 4, although the subsequentPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door installment marked the original dress's final appearance, with it being retained for theNintendo Switch remake as well. Although the key artwork featured Peach in the Japanese versions ofSuper Mario Bros., the instruction manuals for both the Famicom and NES versions of the game hid her sprite behind a question mark in order to keep her identity a surprise for players as a way to motivate them into completing the game.

Name

Miyamoto came up with her name by associating princesses with girls, girls with the color pink, and pink with peaches.^[6] In Japan, her name has always been Princess Peach (ピーチ姫Pīchi-hime), but in the West, she was originally known as "Princess Toadstool", due toNintendo of America renaming her when localizingSuper Mario Bros., feeling that "Peach" was irrelevant to the theme of the Mushroom Kingdom.^[7]

In 1993, the English version ofYoshi's Safari marked the first time that the name "Princess Peach" was used outside of Japan; however, the name did not become standardized untilSuper Mario 64. Games as ofMario Kart 64 use Peach as her prominent name. Certain contemporary sources reconcile the two names by listing her full name as "Peach Toadstool", including subsequent re-releases ofSuper Mario 64, such as the international, Shindō Pak Taiō Version andthe DS remake, which had the princess signing her letter using both "Toadstool" and "Peach".^[2] For the most part, however, the "Toadstool" name is hardly used outside of remakes and re-releases of older titles, which most times retain the original localized text. She, along with her Toad subjects, is the only major character that no longer uses her original localized name. However,Super Smash Bros. for Wii U refers to "Princess Toadstool" as a name Peach went by in one of the in-game tips, and in the North American version her title on theBoxing Ring stage is "Princess of Toadstools". On a similar note, although she was mostly referred to as Princess Toadstool in various countries outside the United States in most localizations (or "Princess Mushroom" in some cases), the Danish dub forThe Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 had changed her name to Prinsesse Slørhat, which translated to "Princess Cortinarius", referring to a genus of poisonous mushrooms. Likewise, the Italian dub for the entire DIC cartoon line also referred to her as "Principessa Amarena" or "Princess Cherry".

Her name when translated into Japanese is normally ピーチ姫 (Pīchi-hime), with "Peach" being transliterated as opposed to using the word for the fruit (桃,momo). However, the full transliteration of her name, プリンセスピーチ (Purinsesu Pīchi), only officially exists in the Japanese titles of the gamesSuper Princess Peach andPrincess Peach: Showtime! as well as in the Japanese name ofThe Princess Peach fromPaper Mario: The Origami King.

History

Main article:History of Princess Peach

Following a frequent role of being the damsel-of-distress kidnapped byBowser, Princess Peach has appeared in almost every single piece ofSuper Mario media from the very start. Her first appearance, chronologically, is inYoshi's Island DS as one of the sevenstar children. Though Peach has the role of being held captive by Bowser, she is also seen allying with him as shown in several spin-off series. As withMario, Peach can be seen in a wide bevy of cameos, even outside her own franchise.

Appearance

Physical description

Peach's original appearance (left); Peach's current appearance (right).

Peach is a young woman with long blonde hair, fair skin and blue eyes, framed by six lashes (three or four in other artwork) and small, thin eyebrows. She has an oval face with a pointed chin, a triangular nose and full pink lips. Her hair has a triangular bang in the center of her forehead, two rows of flips on her back, and two split sideburns framing her face. Due to her lithe and slim figure, she is classified as lighter weight than Mario in various games such as in theMario Kart series despite being taller than him.

Peach usually wears a pink floor-length dress with puffy sleeves, magenta panniers at the waist, a high collar and a frill of the same color at the hem. Most games include a white petticoat under her dress. FromSuper Mario Bros. toMario Kart: Super Circuit, her dress had a band around her waist rather than panniers and was colored magenta from below her knees. This appearance was brought back inPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and its remake. Peach wears a golden crown with red and blue gems, round blue earrings, and an oval blue brooch on her chest. She wears long white opera gloves and red high heels. InPrincess Peach: Showtime!, princess seams are added to the bodice. Her dress is far more elaborately designed in recentSuper Smash Bros. titles, as well asSuper Smash Bros. Melee giving her dress an original design, but is otherwise the same; theSuper Smash Bros. games have also given her minor proportion changes such as the size of her head and the thickness of her eyelashes.

Peach is usually depicted as taller than most human characters, exceeded only byRosalina,Pauline, andWaluigi. In the pamphlet forSuper Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!, her height is given as 160 cm (5 ft. 3 in.) and her weight as 41 kg (90 lbs.),^[8] while in theSuper Mario Daishūgō4koma Gag Battle manga, her height is stated to be 360 cm (11 ft. 9 in.).^[9] In the original andSuper Mario Bros. Deluxe versions ofSuper Mario Bros. andSuper Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, however, she is depicted as being shorter thanSuper Mario/Super Luigi (with the difference in size being enough that she has to stand on her tip-toes to kiss Mario/Luigi if they are in Super/Fire form in theDeluxe version). However, in theDeluxe version, there are full scenes with Peach lowering herself to make eye contact with Mario while being eye-level with Luigi. InSuper Mario Bros. Wonder, Super Mario and Super Peach are now depicted as approximately the same height, with Super Luigi being taller.

Though no fixed age has been revealed for Peach in the video games,Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time indicates that she is at least just slightly younger than Mario and Luigi, being the only one of the three to have not yet developed proper motor or speech skills as a baby. Taking into consideration thestatement that Mario and Luigi are between their early and mid twenties, a relatively wider and more exact age gap is present in early animated media; the pamphlet forSuper Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen! states her age as 16 (compared to Mario and Luigi, who are respectively stated to be around 25 and 23),^[8][10] while the writers' bible forThe Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 states that the DIC cartoons' version of the princess is 17.^[11]

Alternate outfits

Princess Peach is seen in sports wear, with her hair tied back, rather than her dress for most of theSuper Mario sports games.

Princess Peach has been in various outfits, most frequently in the sports games. InMario Golf andMario Tennis for the Nintendo 64, Peach's sports dress was simply a shorter, sleeveless version of her usual dress. Starting with the GameCubeMario sports games, however, her outfits have more variety. InMario Golf: Toadstool Tour andMario Power Tennis, the outfit that she wears is a sleeveless minidress. In other traditional active sports installments such asMario Hoops 3-on-3, theMario Baseball games, andMario Sports Mix, her outfit consists of a two-piece athletic uniform. She has received different sports outfits in some games such asMario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, where she has different clothes to suit each sport ranging from surf wear to jockey apparel to leotards, and theMario Strikers games, where she wears armor to fit the more physical nature of the games.

InMario Kart Wii andMario Kart 8 /Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Peach wears a pink jumpsuit when ridingmotorbikes andATVs. This jumpsuit is also seen inThe Super Mario Bros. Movie.

Outside of sports, Peach occasionally changes her outfit to fit the occasion. InMario Party 2, she wears five distinct outfits fitting into five of the six themes for Mario Land, asBowser Land has the characters in their original clothes. InSuper Mario Sunshine, Peach wears a lighter, sleeveless version of her dress and a hair in a ponytail; she wears a ponytail in subsequentMario Kart games, starting withMario Kart: Double Dash!!, and various sports games. InSuper Mario Odyssey, aside from her traditional pink dress, which only appears in the prologue and when encountering her at Mushroom Kingdom in the post-game, she has a wide variety of outfits, such as thewedding dress she wore for most of the game, as well as various outfits she wore in the post-game, with the specific type depending on the world visited. Most of these outfits have reappeared as high-tier rewards inMario Kart Tour.

InPrincess Peach: Showtime!, Peach has 12 different costumes she can transform into:Swordfighter,Detective,Patissiere,Kung Fu,Ninja,Cowgirl,Figure Skater,Dashing Thief,Mermaid,Mighty,Radiant andSuper Radiant.

In certain games where multiple players can play as Peach, such as theSuper Smash Bros. series, Princess Peach comes in severalalternate colors, usually changing her clothing, but she has a Princess Daisy palette inSuper Smash Bros. Melee that even changes her hair color and complexion.

Peach has also worn alternate outfits in promotions. One of the earliest was Peach in a kimono inAll Night Nippon: Super Mario Bros. to promote Japanese holiday. Although this particular outfit has not appeared in any games since, Peach wore similar kimono outfits in an advertisement for Nintendo's involvement in the Kyoto Cross Media Experience 2009, a Club Nintendo calendar award, a New Year 2017 wallpaper (which was reused from artwork from the Kyoto Cross Media Experience 2009), in Bowser's Kingdom inSuper Mario Odyssey, and as a driver variant inMario Kart Tour (as well as a pink yukata partly derived from her Bowser's Kingdom attire).

General information

Personality

LINE sticker of Peach showing off her personality

Peach is shown to be a sweet, kind, polite, and optimistic person, while also being classy and sociable, with more and more portrayals further displaying her as clever and adventurous. She apologizes excessively for getting into trouble and requiring Mario to rescue her. She even shows concern and compassion towards her enemies frequently such as savingMimi inSuper Paper Mario or making a thank-you cake for Bowser inMario & Luigi's Bowser Inside Story, even after Mario and Luigi defeat Bowser in a fight that Bowser started. She can sometimes be assertive when it comes to standing up for her friends; she managed to outright resistNastasia's mind control abilities during the "wedding" inSuper Paper Mario, which Nastasia indicated was unprecedented. InPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, she manages to resist Shadow Queen's possession long enough to not only offer words of encouragement to Mario and his party, but also heal them (with the Shadow Queen, due to possessing Peach's body, being forced to go along with it). Her innate characteristics are often key to the plot of several games, such as her abilities to activate theBeanstar andDark Star.

Largely because of her frequency of being kidnapped, she has been the subject of a running gag in throughout the series where several characters refer to the frequency of her abductions. Even Peach herself has referred to her kidnapping inNew Super Mario Bros. Wii as a "recent kidnapping". Some characters referred to her even being useless, such asSnake inSuper Smash Bros. Brawl and Pit (and to a certain extent, Viridi) inSuper Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U. But while Peach is often considered the archetypal video game damsel in distress, she is often shown actively working against her captors, such as tossing Super Mushrooms to Mario during the final fight inSuper Mario World, sneaking around searching for power-ups and/or information to send to Mario in games such asSuper Mario Galaxy and thePaper Mario series, and even attempting to escape her confinement inSuper Mario 3D Land.

Peach, Mario, and Luigi help make a thank-you cake for Bowser at the end ofMario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

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 noticinga Mario doppelganger in the Isle Delfino vacation guide video's background inSuper Mario Sunshine, insisting that an emergency meeting continues even after it is briefly interrupted by Bowser and deducing what Fawful wasplanning regarding her inMario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, and talking a stubborn Bowser into joining her and Mario inSuper Paper Mario. She often acts as a peacemaker; for example, inSuper Smash Bros. Brawl's story mode, she offers tea toFox andSheik in order to stop them from fighting, and later convertsMr. Game & Watch to their cause. In theSuper Mario World cartoon, she is a motherly figure to the young Yoshi andOogtar, and in the cartoons overall, she is 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, theMario 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, whileMario Strikers Charged in particular shows her having a diva-like side, with her being eager to get photographed and striking poses; inMario Strikers: Battle League, though, she regains 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 ofChef, 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.

InSuper Mario Bros. 2,Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars,Super Paper Mario,Super Mario 3D World,Super Mario Run,Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle,Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope,Super Mario Bros. Wonder, and most notably,Super Princess Peach andPrincess Peach: Showtime!, Peach shows the braver side of her personality; participating as a fellow heroine, or in the latter two cases, as the sole heroine, single-handedly saving the day.

InThe Super Mario Bros. Movie, Peach's personality was drastically revamped. She is considerably more assertive and tomboyish, and a born leader for her kingdom, keeping her role as a caring figure towards the Toads, albeit in a more active way. She is not soft-spoken like her game counterpart but has moments of kindness, as she takes Mario with her to theJungle Kingdom, despite failing the obstacle course multiple times. Additionally, she reluctantly accepts to Bowser's proposal as Kamek tortures Toad, on the condition that he doesn't hurt herpeople.

Speech

Early in her history, while Peach did speak, it was largely done via text dialogue. It was not untilMario is Missing where Peach got some dialogue, and it would not be untilSuper Mario 64 onward that she maintained having voiced dialogue. InSuper Mario 64 and the international versions ofMario Kart 64, she largely spoke with a mature, feminine tone, though in the Japanese version ofMario Kart 64 as well as all versions ofMario Party,2, and3, andSuper Mario Advance, Peach spoke with a slightly higher-pitched, somewhat shrill tone, and also possessing a slight Italian accent in the case of the last game. Starting withSuper Smash Bros. Melee andSuper Mario Sunshine, she was given a very soft, high-pitched voice. In the Japanese versions of certain games, such asItadaki Street DS andFortune Street, Peach tends to end her sentences with "ですわ" (desu wa), a stereotypical trait in Japanese media reserved for noble upper-class women and even simply haughty and arrogant women. InPrincess Peach: Showtime!, Peach's voice varies from her usual tone to a deeper one, similar to the one used in her earlier voiced appearances.

Powers and abilities

Like otherSuper Mario characters, Peach canJump andGround Pound; she also slaps opponents, which is her specialty, rather thanpunching. While not very strong physically, she makes up for it in technique and skill, and many games reveal her to be fast and agile as well. She is also shown to be very graceful, often embellishing attacks and victory scenes alike with elegant movements, twirls, and dances. With the release ofSuper Mario 3D World, Peach is able to use power-ups, such as theFire Flower,Super Leaf,Super Bell, andDouble Cherry, among other power-ups and items. She also has the unique ability tofloat in mid-air by means of her skirt, first seen inSuper Mario Bros. 2, and can also useher parasol to achieve this same effect. This ability returns inSuper Mario 3D World (where it is also revealed that Peach can still glide even when she does not have a skirt on) and theSuper Smash Bros. series, and Peach is also shown using it inThe Super Mario Bros. Movie. InNew Super Mario Bros.,New Super Mario Bros. Wii, andNew Super Mario Bros. 2, she is shown to be able to slow down her descent from a fairly large height.

Peach's Super Strike, the "Royal Strike", inSuper Mario Strikers

InSuper Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, she was linked with explosions, as one of her attacks,Psych Bomb, involved throwing bombs at her opponents, and a similar scene occurred in theSuper Mario Adventures comic, when she used a barrage of bombs against the Koopalings. InSuper Smash Bros. Melee, Peach has a powerful special attack called thePeach Bomber, where hip-checking her opponents engulfs them in an explosion.

InSuper Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars Peach is shown to have impressive supportive abilities. She shows prowess in healing abilities likeTherapy andGroup Hug, and this ability is seen again inPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door when she overcomes the Shadow Queen's mind control over her to heal Mario and his party. She can also forcibly send people to sleep, such as when she usedSleepy Time. Additionally, inSuper Smash Bros. Brawl, herFinal Smash,Peach Blossom, puts her opponents to sleep and summons items, specificallypeaches, to heal herself.

She has occasionally been shown to have psionic powers, like inSuper Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3, when she telepathically calls out to Mario as a hologram inDark Land, or when she and Starlow combine powers to drain Bowser of his power. InMario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, she was also shown to have enough strength to not just telekinetically throw Bowser flying out of her castle, but throw him far intothe forest outsideToad Town. However, it's implied that she was only able to do this withStarlow's help, largely because Starlow had weakened Bowser earlier. She also was powerful enough to counteract Bowser's magic, which was the initial reason why Bowser had abducted her inSuper Mario Bros.

In general, however, Peach's special abilities and powers usually involve hearts. They are mostly seen in the sports installments including, but not limited to,Mario Power Tennis (Sweet Kiss Return),Mario Hoops 3-on-3 (Heart Shot),Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour andSuper Mario Strikers (heart trails follow the balls after special hits). Her special item inMario Kart: Double Dash!! is also aheart, and allows her to co-opt others' attacks. Besides hearts alone, Peach will sometimes use the power of love to combat her opponents in sports, such as herSuper Peach Spin offensive shot inMario Power Tennis, or how herHeart Swing inMario Super Sluggers dazes any male player who tries to catch it, while the other females are immune. In addition, many of her abilities inSuper Mario RPG have a heart as her magic symbol. Additionally, theSuper Smash Bros. series as ofBrawl has generally given her moves more of an embellished feminine flair, such as replacing certain moves and adding details like ribbons, rainbows, sparkles, and hearts to others (including replacing the Peach Bomber's explosion with hearts).

Aside from her magical abilities, she is also shown in a few games to be a good chef, or at least a good baker, such as the Modern version ofChef in some of theGame & Watch Gallery games, as well asPaper Mario, when she has to bake a cake forGourmet Guy in exchange for information regarding Mario. In addition, incidental dialogue from Toad after getting a star on thePeach's Birthday Cake board fromMario Party revealed that she was responsible for the titular cake's creation. She also was shown to be good at chemistry, having created an invisibility potion with the help ofTEC in an attempt to retrieve vital information on the X-Nauts' plans from Grodus's office.

During her trek on Vibe Island inSuper Princess Peach, she also was shown to utilize variousVibe Powers, withGloom making her run faster and use tears to grow plants,Rage making her shake the ground upon landing and burn hot enough to melt ice,Calm letting her heal herself, andJoy making her fly and spin foes and objects with a whirlwind.

Relationships

Family

Peach and Toadsworth greeting their friends in theMario Super Sluggers opening

TheMushroom King as well asthe Mushroom Queen are the only confirmed members of her family in the games, although very little is known about them. According to his depiction in theNintendo Comics System, while he does embarrass her with his general foolishness, she knows he has good intentions and loves him dearly. Other media have shed light on Peach's other relatives, such asGramma Toadstool,another grandmother, andher mother. InMario Superstar Baseball, a Lakitu mistakenly refers toToadsworth as Peach's grandpa, but in reality, while he is very protective of her and has cared for her ever since she wasa baby, he is actually her longtime steward and has no actual family relation. Similar confusion surrounds an elderly chambermaid Toad referred to asGrandma by Peach inSuper Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars; however, it is most likely that this was a term of endearment carried over from the Japanese version, where it is more common to use familial terms for non-relatives. In theMario Kart: Double Dash!! andMario Kart Wii official guides published byPrima 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 forSuper Mario Galaxy, Rosalina was initially intended to be a relative of Peach's, hence her similar physical appearance to Peach, although this concept was dropped.^[12] In theAmada Anime Series: Super Mario Bros. adaptation ofMomotarō, Ojīsan and Obāsan are the parents of Princess Peach. In theSuper Mario Land 4 manga, adescendant of her is seen working for theFederation Army, alongsideMario's, during the event of theSolar Striker game. In the continuity of theWario's Woodsadaptation of theKodansha series,Mario and Peach get married and have a baby namedLuigi as their son.^[13]

Friends and love interests

LINE sticker of Mario and Peach

“Oh Mario! You came to the party to see me! You're so sweet! Thank you!♥”

—Princess Peach,Paper Mario

Mario, being her most frequent rescuer, is Peach's love interest. The two are shown to have been close friends since childhood inMario & Luigi: Partners in Time, and the comic "Warios Weihnachtsmärchen," published in the GermanClub Nintendo magazine, reveals that they spent their graduation ball in school together. Peach has sent Toads to help Luigi when Mario disappears inLuigi's Mansion, and she herself rescues all three of them from Bowser inSuper Princess Peach, as well as saving Mario and one of his allies from theIcicle Golem inMario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. InSuper Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!, Peach is willing to put herself into a forced marriage with Bowser if it means saving Mario's life. They also share goodchemistry together as "buddy players" inMario Superstar Baseball andMario Super Sluggers.

Luigi often reacts the same way as Mario when Peach kisses him.

Numerous games, alternate media, and supplemental material depict Mario and Peach as having mutual romantic affection for each other as well as a friendship. InMario Party 5, Peach and Mario are called "Cutest Couple," and the official guide forMario Party 8 states that Peach is the apple of Mario's eye. In the official guide ofYoshi's Island DS, the description forBaby Mario and Baby Peach: Dynamic Duo mentions the "romantic entanglements" in their adult lives, while the officialMario Kart: Double Dash!! guide reads,"Aw, isn’t that cute? Mario and Peach are together again." InSuper Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, Peach calls Mario her "knight in shining armor," and in the firstPaper Mario, one of the Toads tells Mario to take Peach on a date toShooting Star Summit. InSuper Princess Peach, after Peach rescues Mario, she enthusiastically calls and runs towards him and happily dances with him in celebration.Rosalina refers to Peach as Mario's "special one" inSuper Mario Galaxy, with the two seen holding hands toward the ending of the game. InSuper Mario Galaxy 2,Lubba and two otherLumas refer to Peach as Mario's "special one."Mario Power Tennis even goes as far as showing Mario himself telling Peach of his love for her in Peach's victory scene, which she responds to with a smile and a blown kiss. Also, in Mario's victory scene inMario Power Tennis, Peach gives him a small kiss on his cheek. Further, inSuper Mario Odyssey, after kidnapping her, Bowser declares his intention to make Peach marry him, and Mario's main motivation is to stop Bowser from taking Peach's hand in marriage by force. While Peach does care for Mario, there are times where she gets annoyed if Mario misbehaves. A notable example of this is in the ending toSuper Mario Odyssey, where, after Mario attempts to prevent Bowser from getting her hand in marriage by behaving in a similar aggressive manner, she shouts,"Enough!" and storms off in a huff, although she nonetheless calms down enough to tell Mario and Bowser that they should all go back home, and the post-game shows she forgave Mario for the earlier incident.

Peach's obedient servant is Toad, who dotes upon and attempts to protect her despite his fear of Bowser, often getting himself kidnapped along with her in the process. Toad's collectible card fromSuper Mario Galaxy states that he even formed theToad Brigade and followed Peach and Bowser to space in order to try to save her, while in numerous other games, he is the one to go alert Mario about Peach's disappearance. They have good chemistry in theMario Baseball games, and their team names in theMario Party series include "Royal Family" and "Loyal Friends." In theSuper Smash Bros. games, Peach holds Toad in front of herself for protection, though he is shown to be reluctant and attacks out of fear. InSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate, however, Toad acts like a proper bodyguard and blocks opponents off from Peach.

Another of Peach's closest friends is Luigi, who often helps Mario rescue her. There has been inconsistencies whenever Luigi is attracted to Peach, as in the platformers, Peach kisses Luigi the same way she kisses Mario, and he reacts the same way. InMario Power Tennis, when winning a trophy, Peach blows kisses to Mario and Luigi, who both swoon in love. However, individual interaction in other games show that there are no romantic feelings between them. The two share good chemistry inMario Superstar Baseball but not in its sequel,Mario Super Sluggers.

Peach and Daisy helping each other carry a large present.

Peach andDaisy have been shown to be best friends since Daisy first became playable inMario Tennis for the Nintendo 64. If something involves partners in theSuper Mario spin-offs, the two will usually be a team, from various sports games toMario Kart: Double Dash!!.Mario Super Sluggers is the first game to show the two sharing dialog, wherein Peach reveals that she has concerns for Daisy's welfare. Nintendo'sMario Power Tennis website says that Daisy is Peach's "sister in arms," a term used to describe a close friendship, and while the Prima guides forMario Kart: Double Dash!! andMario Kart Wii say that they are cousins, no known first-party material has ever confirmed or denied this. Prior to Daisy's comeback appearance in the games and by extension the establishment of their being best friends, however, a 4-koma segment of theSuper Mario-kun manga depicts Peach as being jealous of Daisy receiving attention from Mario to the extent that she throws a mushroom at him out of frustration.

Yoshi is another one of Peach's closest friends, who saved her as a baby alongside the other babies inYoshi's Island DS. The two share good chemistry is most games, and he has also helped Mario save her in a number of games, includingSuper Mario 64 DS. He also helps Mario save Peach's friends at her request inYoshi's Safari.

Peach is on friendly terms with numerous other characters. In the baseball games, she shares good chemistry withToadette, who is on her starting team, and inMario Party DS, she gives Toadette a set of touching trumpets. While Peach and Rosalina did not speak in theSuper Mario Galaxy games, the two were shown to become fast friends upon meeting in issue 38 of theSuper Mario-kun manga, and they were also shown to work together inSuper Mario 3D World. While Wario has sometimes shown antagonism towards Peach, such as inMario Power Tennis, he helps save her inSuper Mario 64 DS and is invited to have cake as thanks. He also attempts to retrieve a stolen statue of Peach inWario Land: Super Mario Land 3 (albeit with the selfish motivation of trying to hold it for ransom to gainhis own castle), and he appears to have a crush on her in theMario & Wario arc of theSuper Mario Adventures comic, seeing as he tries to outdo Mario and buy Peach's prize item, a Samus Doll, for her birthday. Furthermore, the comic "Warios Weihnachtsmärchen" reveals that Peach turned Wario down and instead accompanied Mario to their high school graduation ball.

Though initially not getting along, the relationship between Peach and Rabbid Peach later improved.

Initially, Peach was unable to get along withher Rabbid counterpart, due to the latter feeling jealousy towards the former's relationship with Mario. Rabbid Peach has tried to get Mario's attention several times and got frustrated when Peach approached them. When Mario and company came to the revampedMushroom Kingdom, Rabbid Peach looked at Peach with disgust, to the point of touching her dress and then looking away. Peach herself does not show animosity towards her Rabbid counterpart, and she is willing to cooperate with her to stop theMegabug. Although not fond of her counterpart, Rabbid Peach nonetheless has some respect for her, such as placing the Icicle Golem's head in place before stepping aside while making a gesture indicating that the Rabbid's counterpart is free to kick it back into the freezer. After defeating the said villain, Peach constructs a new statue of Rabbid Peach holding aPower Star, much to the latter's delight. Then, Rabbid Peach invites all of her teammates, including Peach, to take a groupselfie. Promotional artwork forMario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle shows Peach and Rabbid Peach taking a selfie together, with the former winking and putting up aV sign.

The opening ofMario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games and the story mode for theNintendo 3DS version ofMario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games show Peach, alongside Daisy, being great friends withAmy Rose andBlaze the Cat, having a special victory animation with the former in the sequels while sharing a similar rational with the latter.

Foes

Bowser and Peach's sham wedding in the prologue ofSuper Paper Mario

“I'll tell you what: I'll smile ifyou make everything as it was before you showed up!”

—Princess Peach,Paper Mario

Bowser has repeatedly kidnapped Peach and invaded her kingdom to rule the world but also as part of his attraction to her. Peach, however, strongly dislikes Bowser for harming her close friends and putting her into distress. She is frightened or apprehensive of Bowser, such as being startled at Mario upon seeing Bowser on his side inSuper Mario RPG and sobbing over her captivity in theSuper Mario anime movie. Peach discovers his feelings toward her inPaper Mario, but in other games, Peach immediately notices his attraction, such as his attempting to get her to kiss him in public inMario Power Tennis. When the situation calls for it, however, she will sweet-talk him to persuade him into teaming up with her and Mario inSuper Paper Mario, and she occasionally shows him goodwill, such as baking him a thank-you cake at the end ofMario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story; she has also hesitated when she had to leave him to his presumed demise inSuper Paper Mario.

InSuper Paper Mario, Nastasia uses mind control to force Peach to marry the willing Bowser in order to fulfill an ancient prophesy, but while Peach considers the wedding a sham and refuses to acknowledge it, Bowser insists on calling her his wife throughout the game, even as they team up to defeat Count Bleck. Peach also rejected Bowser's advances to marriage in theSuper Mario Adventures comic andSuper Mario Odyssey.

InSuper Mario Sunshine, Bowser had lied to his son that Peach was his mother, and while it was later revealed thatBowser Jr. knew it was a lie all along, he went along with it anyway, and even continued to affectionately refer to her as "mama" inMario Superstar Baseball. Likewise, Peach, when Bowser Jr. revealed their "relationship" to both Mario and her, expressed shock and confusion at her being his mother.

She also held some animosity towardsMimi, especially after the latter implied that Peach was only good for getting herself kidnapped. This resulted in her being outraged enough at her insult that she insisted on fighting her alone, even snapping at Mario and Luigi to leave before fighting her. Nonetheless, despite her animosity, she risked her life to save Mimi when they were in danger of falling due to the Void's increasing power.

The public

Peach posters and pictures in a Koopa's house

Peach is widely respected in theMushroom Kingdom and beyond. HerToads are very loyal, and her citizens adore her. Many people in the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond buy and even collect merchandise of her. InPaper Mario, there is a "Secret Sale" that offers "beautiful photos of Princess Peach", and a Peach doll namedDolly is owned byGoombaria and longed for byJr. Troopa. InPaper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, there is a Koopa Troopa Peach fan inPetalburg who collects Peach merchandise, including pictures, photos, and even a life-sized print he keeps at his window, which he claims he would risk life and limb to protect.

Leitmotif

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Since her debut, Peach has had as her theme arepetitive 4-bar musical theme, with it being expanded inVS. Super Mario Bros.,Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, andSuper Mario Bros. 3 to feature chimes nearing the end before it loops. TheSuper Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels version was whatKoji Kondo envisioned for the theme originally, but it had to be cut short due to memory limits in the original game.^[14] In later games, the music varied between either something akin toRichard Wagner'sBridal Chorus (Paper Mario) or ballet-style music (New Super Mario Bros. series,Paper Mario: Color Splash, andSuper Mario Odyssey).

List of game appearances by date

Profiles and statistics

Main article:List of Princess Peach profiles and statistics

Princess Peach's stats from theMario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games website

Princess Peach'semblems fromMario Kart 8

Princess Peach's bios typically describe her as the ruler of theMushroom Kingdom and theToads, as well as mentioning her tendency to get kidnapped byBowser. In mostSuper Mario sports games, she is classed as a Technique type character, and in theMario Kart series, she is classed as either a lightweight or middleweight character. Heremblem is her crown.

Portrayals

The following voice actresses have portrayed Princess Peach during the course ofSuper Mario franchise history:

English

• Jeannie Elias -The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
• Tracey Moore -The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3,Super Mario World
• Kathy Fitzgerald -Mario is Missing!
• Jocelyn Benford -Hotel Mario
• Leslie Swan -Super Mario 64,Mario Kart 64 (international),Super Mario 64 DS,Super Paper Mario
• Asako Kozuki -Mario Kart 64 (Japanese),Mario Party,Mario Party 2,Mario Kart: Super Circuit
• Jen Taylor -Mario Golf toMario Kart DS, as well asMario Hoops 3-on-3 andMario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, although her voice clips are sometimes used together with Samantha Kelly's, such as inMario Sports Superstars andMario Tennis Aces.
• Nicole Mills -Super Mario Strikers,Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time; her voice clips fromSuper Mario Strikers are partially reused inMario Strikers Charged along with those provided by Samantha Kelly.
• Samantha Kelly (often abbreviated as Sam Kelly in the game credits) - MostSuper Mario-related media as ofMario Strikers Charged,Mario Party 8, andSuper Mario Galaxy
• Anya Taylor-Joy -The Super Mario Bros. Movie (English)

Other languages

Mami Yamase, a pop singer, voiced Peach inSuper Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!, marking the first time the character was given an official voice.

In the foreign-language dubs of the DIC cartoons, Peach was dubbed by the following actresses:

• Latin American Spanish:María Fernanda Morales (Super Show!), Dulce María Romay (Super Mario Bros. 3), and Rocío Robledo (Super Mario World)
• Castilian Spanish: Pilar Santigosa
• French:Super Show! - Stéphanie Murat (original), Virginie Ledieu (redub);Super Mario Bros. 3 andSuper Mario World - Isabelle Volpé
• German: Sabine Bohlmann
• Italian: Alessandra Karpoff
• Brazilian Portuguese: Guilene Conte (main), Eleonora Prado (alternate portrayer inSuper Mario Bros. 3)
• European Portuguese: Ana Vieira, Flora Mirona, and Márcia Menezes
• Swedish: Louise Raeder (Super Show!), Nina Gunke (Super Mario Bros. 3,Super Mario World)
• Hungarian: Fazekas Zsuzsa (first voice), Solecki Janka (Super Mario World and redubs)
• Finnish: Liisa Paatso
• Russian: Olga Golovanova (Super Mario Bros. 3), Daria Frolova (Super Mario World)
• Romanian: Oana Avram (Super Mario Bros. 3,Super Mario World)

Gallery

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Quotes

Main article:List of Princess Peach quotes

• "Thank you, Mario!"

- General quote used whenever rescued from Bowser or another enemy in a game

• "Mario, you're my knight in shining armor!"

- When rescued fromBooster inSuper Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars.

• "Mario, be careful! I have a bad feeling about this..."

- When spoken to on theDelfino Airstrip inSuper Mario Sunshine.

• "Stay out of this! I am a princess, and she has thrown mud at my dignity! You two leave me be! UNDERSTOOD?!"

- Commanding Mario and Luigi to let her fightMimi on her own inSuper Paper Mario.

• "Oh, did I win?"

- Victory quote in theSuper Smash Bros. series.

• "My travels with Tiara were wonderful - so many memories! And I realized something...how important it is to see different things and talk with different people, that no matter what kingdom you're in, people smile with the same sparkle! We have to do what we can with our time to smiles on as many faces as possible! So I've decided to invite people from all around the world to the castle!"

- When encountered in the Mushroom Kingdom in the postgame ofSuper Mario Odyssey.

Audio samples

Super Mario 64 - "Dear Mario: Please come to the castle. I've baked a cake for you. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool, Peach." - At the opening (Leslie Swan, 1996)

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Mario Kart 64 (Japanese version) - "Get ready!" - When selected (Asako Kozuki, 1996)

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Super Smash Bros. Melee - "Oh, did I win?" - Winning a Versus match (Jen Taylor, 2001)

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Super Mario Strikers - "Pass it to me! Pass it to me!" (Nicole Mills, 2005)

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Super Mario Galaxy - "MARIO!" (Samantha Kelly, 2007; also used inNew Super Mario Bros. Wii,Super Mario 3D Land,Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, and others)

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Super Mario 3D World - "Yay! Peach! Let's go!" - When selected from the file selection screen (Samantha Kelly, 2013)

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Names in other languages

Main article:List of Princess Peach names in other languages

Notes

• Toadstool is described as a "fairy Princess" in the 47th issue of the United KingdomNintendo Magazine System.^[48]
• Peach was misnamed as "Princess Daisy" in the 49th issue of the AustralianNintendo Magazine System.^[49]

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