Princess Daisy
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Princess Daisy (デイジー姫 Deijī-Hime?) or simply Daisy, is a Nintendo character in Mario video games series. She is the princess of the fictitious Kingdom of Sarasaland and she is a bit of a tomboy. Daisy first appeared in Super Mario Land for the Game Boy, in which she is kidnapped by Tatanga. Since then, she has appeared in several Mario games, playing soccer, baseball, tennis, golf, Mario Party boards or racing on karts.
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History
Video games
For a long period, Daisy was considered one of the more obscure characters in the Mario franchise. Her debut was in Super Mario Land, a game which featured a large cast of new characters that failed to catch on and have since been largely forgotten. In Land, she is introduced as the princess of Sarasaland, a neighboring nation of the Mushroom Kingdom. She is the damsel-in-distress character, who has been captured by intergalactic conqueror Tatanga. As always, Mario must rescue her.
After her debut on the Game Boy, Daisy did not appear in another Mario game for over ten years. She was eventually brought back for the Nintendo 64 video game Mario Tennis. She quickly became a regular character in the Mario Party series and the Mario sports titles.
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. After appearing in the Mario spin-offs for almost seven years Daisy makes her Wii appearance in the latest Mario Party, Mario Party 8.
She made her debut in the Mario Kart series with Mario Kart: Double Dash!! as a partner to Princess Peach. She even got her own level called "Daisy Cruiser". Which can be seen drifting in the ocean on "Peach Beach".[1] Daisy and Peach also share the best defensive special in the game, Heart.[2] She has also appeared in the recent Mario Kart DS as an unlockable player. Daisy is a medium-weight character that has good acceleration and top speed, great drifting and item using, but low handling.[3]Daisy made her second DS debut with Mario Hoops 3-on-3. In Mario Hoops Daisys special is the "Flower Shot".[4] She once again has her own court, and it's called "Daisy Garden"; where Petey Piranhas replace normal basketball hoops.
Voice
Daisy's first voice actor was Kate Fleming who played her voice in Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64. In this game she sounded more like an elegant girl then a tomboy. Her next voice actor was Jen Taylor who provided her voice in Mario Party 3. She sounded rather young and childish in this game. From every game forward Daisy has been and is currently voiced by Deanna Mustard. This voice is high pitched but less high pitched then Princess Peach's voice and gives Daisy more of a personality then her past voices have.
Appearance
In her first appearance, Daisy had pale skin, long orange hair, and a white pattern on her dress. In later games, such as Mario Tennis and Mario Party 3, her appearance was refined, giving her a rounder face, a slightly darker skintone, her hair color had more of an auburn color, and a daisy-motif for her accessories, with flower jewels appearing on her crown, earrings, and brooch. The daisy-motif has stuck ever since, though it should be noted that the daisy-motif was readily apparent in her concept art for Super Mario Land.
In Mario Party 4, Daisy's character design was altered yet again, giving her shorter hair, a new dress design, and once again a paler skin tone. Nowadays, Daisy no longer has a pale skin complexion, instead it is now more of a pink tone. Daisy and Peach also have consistently different gloves; while Peach's gloves end at around mid-triceps, Daisy's gloves end at the wrists. Daisy appears to be equal in height to Peach, though she may appear shorter in some games. In her early days, Daisy wore a red crown, and during some of the Nintendo 64 games she wore a pink crown. Nowadays she wears a gold one.
In most of her game appearances, Daisy has consistently worn a yellow and/or orange color scheme, usually in the form of a collared dress, with white and orange accents, meant to parallel that of her counterpart's pink-themed fashion just as Luigi's outfit does to Mario's. Daisy has been confirmed for her first Wii appearance, and she has been shown to have her GameCube appearance.
In Mario sports titles, Daisy (and Peach) are the only two characters to always wear different outfits from their regular ones. She is usually depicted in orange shorts with a yellow shirt and daisy accessories. In Super Mario Strikers, Daisy wears a two-piece outfit. In Mario Hoops 3 on 3, Daisy normally appears in her usual sports outfit but has a second unlockable costume.
Super Mario Bros. Film
Image:MovieDaisy.jpg 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 "Daisy" — not "Princess Toadstool"; as Peach was then known in North America. The movie also makes its Daisy a love interest for Luigi.
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 Koopa'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 is another problem going on, apparently setting up an eventual sequel; which never came.
Appearances
- Super Mario Land (GB) - 1989 NPC
- Super Smash Bros. Melee (GC) -2001 NPC Trophy
Playable appearances
- Mario Tennis (N64) - 2000
- Mario Party 3(N64) - 2001
- Mario Party 4 (GC) - 2002
- Mario Party-e (e-Reader) - 2003
- Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour (GC) - 2003
- Mario Party 5 (GC) - 2003
- Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (GC) - 2003
- Mario Power Tennis (GC) - 2004
- Mario Party 6 (GC) - 2004
- Mario Superstar Baseball (GC) - 2005
- Mario Party 7 (GC) - 2005
- Mario Kart DS (DS) - 2005
- Super Mario Strikers (GC) - 2005
- Mario Hoops 3-on-3 (DS) - 2006
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 N64 appearance, giving Peach a yellow dress, brown hair, flower-shaped earrings, blue shoes, a pink crown, and tan skin. Daisy's gloves also replace Peach's gloves. She also has her own trophy. Peach's All-Star Mode Trophy has is the same appearance as Daisy.es:Princesa Daisy
