Peach

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Princess Peach

Princess Peach Toadstool (sometimes just called Peach) is a princess first appearing in Super Mario Bros. She resides in her castle. She is often the damsel in distress is most Mario games, and sometimes a playable character.

Paper Mario

In Paper Mario, the second Mario RPG, King Bowser once again kidnapped Peach, this time using his castle to carry her away. He does this after imprisoning the 7 Star Spirits and stealing the Star Rod. Once again Mario rescues her, this time with the help of the 7 Star Spirits and party members Goombario, Kooper, Bombette, Bow, Parakarry, Sushie, Watt and Lakilester. Peach actually helped Mario save the Mushroom Kingdom. A young star spirit named Twink came to help her, and together they found a secret passage out of her room. She sabotaged Bowser's plots by supplying Mario with a relatively constant stream of information, using Twink as her messenger.

At the end of the game, Bowser ties her to the ceiling of the main hall as bait for Mario. Mario comes and fights Bowser. When he is defeated, Bowser grabs the Princess and runs to the roof of the castle. He then uses the Star Rod to make himself completely invincible. Princes Peach and Twink get into a fight with Kammy Koopa, and defeat her. Then Peach wishes that her kingdom would remain safe. Twink and Peach add their power to the Star Beam, making it able to break Bowser's invincibility.

Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door

In the final Mario RPG, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Peach is kidnapped again, but not by Bowser - she is kidnapped by Grodus, the leader of the X-Nauts and taken to the X-Naut Moon Base. You can control Peach after each chapter, like in the original Paper Mario, and a computer named TEC falls in love with her and betrays Grodus to help Peach escape. Grodus destroys TEC when he finds out, and takes her to the Palace of Shadow, where the Shadow Queen, the ancient 1000-year old demon, possesses Peach and fights Mario. However, she finds Peach's body too weak and returns to her true form (a purple shadow creature) for the final battle.

Super Paper Mario

Peach is a playable character in Super Paper Mario, starting after Chapter 1. She escapes from Castle Bleck with the help of Private Koopa, and falls from the sky into Flipside. Although she was temporarily unconscious, she gets better and joins the adventure when Mario gives her Spicy Soup. She can float with her parasol using the 2 button, and if the player presses down on the D-Pad, she uses the parasol to shield from her enemies.

In Chapter 8-2, Mimi taunts her for being kidnapped so many times and for being rescued by plumbers instead of just rescuing herself. After this, for the remainder of the chapter, Peach is very rude and mean to Mario and Luigi, especially after Luigi's remark, "Are you sure you want to fight her alone, Princess?".

Peach also has a big role in Super Paper Mario in that the only way to form the evil Chaos Heart was through her being married to Bowser; such a wedding was successfully executed by Count Bleck. It is very interesting to note that, even by the end of Super Paper Mario, nothing was ever stated about Peach and Bowser forming a divorce of any sorts, and it is likely that the subject of their bond in holy matrimony will never be touched again in any Mario game. However, it is most likely that Nintendo will retcon the marriage between the two, as all morally correct love between Peach and Mario is terminated with Peach married to Bowser; it is also possible that the Peach and Bowser's wedding was not official, as Peach herself expresses a belief in The Bitlands. However, Bowser shows a great and continuous belief in their marriage for the obvious reasons of his love for Peach, and the wedding was indeed official enough to make the Chaos Heart appear, so the mysteries of Peach's marriage may never be solved.

Gallery

Peach taken over by the Shadow Queen

Peach in Super Paper Mario

Peach in Thousand Year Door

Peach in her first apperance into the Paper Mario series.