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Princess Daisy (Japanese: デイジ姫 Deiji-Hime) is a Nintendo character who first appeared in Super Mario Land as the princess of Sarasaland. In that game she is captured by Tatanga and later rescued by Mario.

History

For a long period, Princess Daisy was considered one of the most obscure characters of the Mario franchise. Her debut, Super Mario Land, was a game which featured a large cast of new characters that failed to catch on and have since been largely forgotten.

After her debut on the Game Boy, Daisy did not appear in another Mario game for over ten years, with the exception of her role as Luigi's caddy in NES Open Tournament Golf. In the SNES version of "Mario is Missing," the female behind the help desks looks very similar to Daisy as well. She was eventually brought back for the Nintendo 64's Mario Tennis. She quickly became a regular character in the Mario Party series and the Mario sports titles, often appearing as a partner for Luigi or Peach.

Although she has not appeared in a platform game since Super Mario Land or any of the Mario RPGs, she is now a standard character in the Mario sports and Mario Party
games, and has earned a place as a member of Mario's all-star crowd.

She made her debut in the Mario Kart
series with Mario Kart: Double Dash!! as a partner to Princess Peach. She has also appeared in the recent Mario Kart DS as an unlockable player. Like Peach, Daisy is a lightweight character (in Mario Kart DS at least) that has good acceleration and handling, but a low top speed.

In Mario Tennis for Nintendo 64, she was voiced by Kate Flemming. Although Daisy is supposedly less girly than Peach, Daisy usually sounds very chipper and speaks in more contemporary-sounding slang than Peach does. Daisy's voice has been supplied by actress Deanna Mustard since Mario Party 3.

Super Mario Bros. movie

This character is often wrongly applied to Princess Peach, in part because the Super Mario Bros. movie refers to the main princess-in-peril as "Princess Daisy" — not "Princess Toadstool", as Peach was then known in North America. Still, the movie also makes its Princess Daisy a love interest for Luigi, not Mario, but this is likely only because Luigi's younger, more open-minded character fit much better into the romance story, as opposed to Bob Hoskins' more cynical, world-weary Mario.

In the film, Daisy was portrayed by Samantha Mathis. Here, she has a piece of the meteorite that banished the dinosaurs to another dimension, and which King Koopa needs in order to conquer the humans' dimension. After Luigi becomes infatuated with her, Daisy is kidnapped by King Koopa's cousins, Iggy and Spike, and taken to Dinohattan. There, she learns that her father, the true king of Dinohattan, was turned into a fungus after being put in Bowser's de-evolutionary machine. Eventually, after the Mario Bros. defeat Koopa, Daisy stays behind in Dinohattan to help her now-restored father. The movie ends with Daisy showing up at Mario and Luigi's apartment to alert them that there's another problem going on, apparently setting up an eventual sequel, which never came.

Other appearances

Daisy also appeared in the Game Boy comic books
, where, as in Super Mario Land, she was the unwilling prisoner of Tatanga, hoping that Mario would eventually rescue her.
In Super Smash Bros. Melee, the player can change Peach's color template to that of Daisy's, giving Peach a yellow dress, brown hair and flower-shaped earrings.

Appearance

In most of the games, this princess can be distinguished from Peach by the color of her hair: Daisy has brown hair and Peach has blonde hair, although Daisy sometimes has appeared as a redhead. The color of their dresses is also different: Daisy wears a yellow dress, while Peach's dress is pink. Initially, in Super Mario Land, Daisy looked exactly like Peach, but in a yellow dress and with flower-shaped earrings. Since then, however, Nintendo has slowly changed Daisy's appearance. In Mario Tennis, her skin was more tanned, with a thinner face, but starting with Mario Party 4, her skin is pale as opposed to tan, has shorter hair, more plump cheeks, and disconcertingly, a pot belly (in some games such as Toadstool Tour). The look has remained in subsequent games.

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