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Princess Peach Toadstool (ピーチ姫, Piichi-Hime) is a fictional character in Nintendo's Mario video games series. Formerly called Princess Toadstool in the early English translations of the games, Peach is the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom with a multitude of Toad servants, and is Mario's apparent love interest, although officially their relationship to each other is "unknown". In North America, Peach is no longer regularly referred to as Princess Toadstool. The name "Peach" was first used in Yoshi's Safari, and became the norm as of Super Mario 64. The text in Super Mario 64, however, does occasionally use the retro moniker.

Peach first appeared in Super Mario Bros. and has since appeared in many subsequent games, in which she is usually kidnapped by Bowser. She has also shown her fighting abilities in Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario RPG, Super Princess Peach and Super Smash Bros. Melee.

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Princess Peach is portrayed as being the ruler of the Mushroom Kingdom. No queen appears to exist, although in Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, she has a grandmother and a chancellor who appears to be in charge of ruling the Mushroom Kingdom. Like most characters from the Mario franchise, her backstory is purposely left vague and undeveloped. Her father was a common character in the Nintendo Comics System stories, in which he was portrayed as a bumbling person of little intelligence.

While the King is also mentioned in the original Super Mario Bros. instruction manual, he has never appeared in any game and is never mentioned again. In Super Mario Bros. 3, it is revealed that the Mushroom Kingdom is part of a larger "Mushroom World" comprised of seven neighboring countries (excluding the Mushroom Kingdom), each ruled by a different King. However, none of the kings in the game seem to be related to Peach. Peach lives by herself in a grand palace surrounded by Toad guards, eight of which are among the elite (Toad the character included as the highest of the guards, even though he's not the best of them). She is the "princess" referred to at the end of every level of the original Super Mario Bros. when Toad says, "Thank you Mario, but our princess is in another castle!"

Peach has always been depicted as a blonde. Also, in official artwork by Nintendo, her hair has been blonde since the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2 (a.k.a the lost levels) 　(). However, due to the graphical limitations of the NES hardware, her on-screen sprite in the earlier Super Mario Bros. games displayed her with brown hair or red hair and outlines (presumably, this was the reason why Peach was depicted with red hair instead of blonde in the cartoons). This discrepancy was remedied in the SNES era with Super Mario World, in which was she shown with her proper hair color.

According to the American instruction booklet for Super Mario Bros., Peach is the only one who could undo the evil magic that Bowser had cast upon the Mushroom Kingdom; it was for this reason that Bowser had kidnapped her to begin with. However, upon her rescue, this prophecy is not mentioned in the game itself, nor any other game, although her sorcerous powers have been alluded to since (e.g. her ability to float in Super Mario Bros. 2. on the NES). This prophecy was seemingly abandoned in later games, and not mentioned in the cartoons. Oddly enough, on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Peach was depicted as constantly being in search of someone who could defeat Bowser's forces, despite the fact that Mario and Luigi could do just that (and also the fact that most of the blokes they were looking for turned out to be of little to no help whatsoever). Despite all this, however, she plays a magic-related role in most of the RPGs.

Interestingly, while Peach is usually depicted as being content to simply bake cakes and rely on her emotions to defeat enemies (as in Super Princess Peach), in Nintendo Power's Super Mario Adventures
comic serial, Peach acted as macho as she could get. In this comic, she not only snaps back at the marriage-proposing Bowser, but she also beats up the Koopalings, trashes several Koopa Troopas, and even threatens to blow up a tower while wearing Luigi's clothes. Peach is so violent in this comic that Bowser has to hire a hypnotist to get her to surrender to him, perhaps so the Mario Bros. and the Yoshis can save the day in the last installment.

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