Princess Daisy
Princess Daisy is the princess of Sarasaland, seemingly loved by Luigi. She wears a yellow dress and has gingery hair.
History
For a long period, Princess 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.
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. 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 that has good acceleration and handling, but a low top speed.
In Mario Tennis for Nintendo 64, she was voiced by Kate Flemming. Daisy is supposedly less feminine than Peach. She usually sounds 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 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'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, along with shorter hair and more plump cheeks. The look has remained in subsequent games.
Alternate Outfits
- Daisy TennisOutfit.jpg
Original Tennis Outfit - Daisy SportOutfit.jpg
Usual Sport Outfit - Daisy SoccerOutfit.jpg
Soccer Outfit
Relationships
Despite Daisy's resemblance to Peach, Nintendo has never officially stated if the two are related. The bio for Daisy's trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee states that Daisy is the tomboyish counterpart of Peach and that gossips suspect her of being Luigi's girlfriend. In Mario Party 6, if the player puts Daisy and Luigi on a team, the team will be called "Steady Sweeties." Also, in her tournament victory FMV in Mario Power Tennis, she addresses Luigi as "sweetie."
Trivia
- The Super Mario Land manual on page #13 lists her as "Daisy Princess" even though they obviously meant to call her "Princess Daisy."
- Daisy's trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee has a mysterious third eye that players can view by zooming in on the back of her head. This error was fixed in PAL and US version 1.2.
- Daisy's trophy says that she appeared in Mario Golf for N64 and GBC. However, Nintendo obviously meant Mario Tennis for the N64 and GBC, or perhaps NES Open Tournament Golf for the NES. The only Mario Golf game she has appeared in is Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, which was released nineteen months after Super Smash Bros. Melee.
Playable Appearances
- Mario Tennis
- Mario Party 3
- Mario Party 4
- Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
- Mario Party 5
- Super Smash Bros. Melee
- Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
- Mario Power Tennis
- Mario Party 6
- Mario Superstar Baseball
- Mario Party 7
- Mario Kart DS
- Super Mario Strikers
- Mario Hoops 3 on 3
Portrayals
Was voiced/portrayed by:
- Samantha Mathis in the Super Mario Bros. movie.
- Her original voice actor was Kate Flemming. As of Mario Party 3 Deanna Mustard has supplied her voice.
Mario Superstar Baseball Bio
"Sarasaland's princess. Mario rescued Daisy from the nasty villain Tatanga. While often compared to Peach, Daisy is both stronger and more tomboyish than her blonde counterpart. She uses a Flower Ball that scatters confusing petals."
