Baby Rosalina

Baby Rosalina
Render from Mario Kart Tour
Species	Human
First appearance	Mario Kart 8 (2014)
Latest appearance	Mario Kart World (2025)
Portrayed by	Laura Faye Smith (2014–present)

Baby Rosalina is a minor character in the Super Mario franchise designed to be the infant counterpart of Rosalina. Baby Rosalina debuted as an unlockable racer in Mario Kart 8, similarly to how Baby Daisy was introduced in Mario Kart Wii.

History

Mario Kart series

Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Baby Rosalina in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, wearing a crown in Battle mode

Baby Rosalina makes her overall debut in Mario Kart 8, where she is an unlockable character. She is a lightweight racer, and her stats are the same with the other playable baby characters, as well as Lemmy Koopa. She is used by Nin★Maria's staff ghost on Cloudtop Cruise in Time Trials. In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, Baby Rosalina is available from the start, and her statistics have also been slightly altered. She remains classified as a lightweight character, and her stats are the same with Lemmy. Her only rival is Toadette.

Mario Kart Tour

Baby Rosalina returns as a playable character in Mario Kart Tour. She was introduced in the Tokyo Tour update on October 8, 2019. She is classified as a Normal character, and her special item is the Bubble. In the closed beta test, however, her special item was the Boomerang Flower. On March 11, 2020, Baby Rosalina also became the focus of her own self-named tour, which introduced a variant of her wearing a detective outfit, named Baby Rosalina (Detective). This variant is a tour-exclusive High-End character, with the Dash Ring as her special item.

Baby Rosalina is one of the few characters in the game not to receive any new favorite tracks beyond her debut, with her only default favorite tracks being SNES Choco Island 2T and SNES Rainbow Road T. She shares this distinction with Baby Peach, Shy Guy, Dry Bones, Morton and Wendy.

Mario Kart World

Baby Rosalina returns as a playable character in Mario Kart World, this time as a default character. As a result, this is the only game where Baby Rosalina is available from the start while her adult form must be unlocked. She uses a cyan pacifier like in Dr. Mario World for all of her outfits except "Touring", where it is yellow.

Baby Rosalina remains a lightweight character, now sharing statistics with Baby Mario, Baby Luigi, Goomba, Dry Bones, Sidestepper, Spike, Fish Bone, and Peepa. Like Baby Peach and Baby Daisy, she has four alternate outfits that can be unlocked through Dash Food: Touring, Pro Racer, Sailor, and Explorer.

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate

In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Baby Rosalina appears in the artwork for the Biddybuggy spirit. The spirit's battle features a small version of Rosalina & Luma as the opponent to reflect this. In addition, the music that plays during the battle is the Cloudtop Cruise theme, possibly referencing Baby Rosalina being the staff ghost of Cloudtop Cruise in her original appearance.

Dr. Mario World

Artwork of Dr. Baby Rosalina for Dr. Mario World

In Dr. Mario World, Baby Rosalina appears as an unlockable playable character (referred to as Dr. Baby Rosalina). She was added around December 2019 along with Dr. Kamek. Her skill changes a random object into a rainbow capsule, in both stage mode and versus mode. Viruses are targeted first for being changed before certain other objects are targeted. Coins, capsules, objects that can eliminate viruses (e.g. Exploders) and objects that cannot be eliminated (e.g. Empty Blocks) cannot be transformed. In stage mode, only one object is transformed, while in versus mode, the number of objects transformed is different based on level, being 2 at level one and 10 at the maximum level. In versus, this skill has a delay in taking effect after activating it.

General information

Physical appearance

Like her adult counterpart, Baby Rosalina has fair skin, turquoise eyes with brown eyelashes (albeit four instead of six like her adult counterpart has), and platinum blonde hair with a large bang that obscures her right eye, albeit much shorter than Rosalina's. She wears a crown similar to Rosalina's, but much larger, in line with Baby Peach and Baby Daisy, a turquoise baby dress with short, frilly powder-blue sleeves and hem, light cyan baby bottoms, white tights, and dark blue Mary Jane shoes. Similar to Baby Peach and Baby Daisy, she has rosy cheeks and a round pacifier.

Baby Rosalina's emblem is a Grand Star like her adult counterpart, except that it is inside teal bonnet frills.

In Dr. Mario World and Mario Kart World, Baby Rosalina has a cyan pacifier instead of a yellow one, her shoes are dark turquoise instead of dark blue, and her crown is angled the opposite side from before. In the former, she also wears a white lab coat over her usual appearance.

In Mario Kart Tour, Baby Rosalina's detective form retains most of her default outfit, with the differences being that she wears a brown British detective's cap in place of her crown, a brown mantle, and she carries a star-shaped magnifying glass.

Profiles and statistics

Main article: List of Baby Rosalina profiles and statistics

Mario Kart 8

Baby Rosalina emblems for Mario Kart 8

• Weight Class: Light
• Color: Teal
• Stats
  • Speed
    • Ground: 2.25
    • Water: 2.75
    • Air: 2.25
    • Anti-Gravity: 2.5
  • Acceleration: 3.25
  • Weight: 2.25
  • Handling
    • Ground: 4.75
    • Water: 4.75
    • Air: 4.5
    • Anti-Gravity: 5
  • Traction: 4.5
  • Mini-Turbo: 3

• Bio: "Protectors of the stars gotta start small..."

Gallery

For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Baby Rosalina.

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  Mario Kart 8

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  Dr. Mario World

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  Mario Kart Tour

Quotes

• "Woohoo!" – Mario Kart 8 (when selected)
• "Yippee!" Mario Kart 8 (anti-gravity)

Audio samples

Mario Kart 8 - "Baby Rosalina!" - When unlocked (Laura Faye Smith, 2014)

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List of appearances

Title	Description	Release date	System / format
Mario Kart 8	Unlockable playable character	2014	Wii U
Nintendo Badge Arcade	Cameo as a Badge	2014	Nintendo 3DS
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe	Playable character	2017	Nintendo Switch
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate	Cameo as a spirit	2018	Nintendo Switch
Mario Kart Tour	Unlockable playable character	2019	iOS / Android
Dr. Mario World	Unlockable playable character (update)	2019	iOS / Android
Mario Kart World	Playable character	2025	Nintendo Switch 2

Names in other languages

Baby Rosalina

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ベビィロゼッタ[?] Bebī Rozetta	Baby Rosalina
Chinese (simplified)	罗莎塔宝贝[?] Luóshātǎ Bǎobèi	Baby Rosalina
Chinese (traditional)	羅潔塔寶寶[?] Luójiétǎ Bǎobǎo	Baby Rosalina
Dutch	Baby Rosalina[?]	-
French (NOA)	Bébé Rosalina[?]	Baby Rosalina
French (NOE)	Bébé Harmonie[?]	Baby Rosalina
German	Baby Rosalina[?]	-
Italian	Baby Rosalinda[?]	Baby Rosalina
Korean	베이비로젤리나[?] Beibi Rojellina	Baby Rosalina
Portuguese (NOA)	Bebê Rosalina[?]	Baby Rosalina
Portuguese (NOE)	Rosalina Bebé[?]	Baby Rosalina
Russian	Малышка Розалина[?] Malyshka Rozalina	Baby Rosalina
Spanish (NOA)	Bebé Rosalina[?]	Baby Rosalina
Spanish (NOE)	Bebé Estela[?]	Baby Rosalina

Baby Rosalina (Detective)

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	ベビィロゼッタ (探偵)[?] Bebī Rozetta (Tantei)	Baby Rosalina (Detective)
Chinese (simplified)	罗莎塔宝贝 (侦探)[?] Luóshātǎ Bǎobèi (Zhēntàn)	Baby Rosalina (Detective)
Chinese (traditional)	羅潔塔寶寶 (偵探)[?] Luójiétǎ Bǎobǎo (Zhēntàn)	Baby Rosalina (Detective)
French	Bébé Harmonie (détective)[?]	Baby Rosalina (detective)
German	Baby Rosalina (Detektivin)[?]	Baby Rosalina (Detective)
Italian	Baby Rosalinda (Detective)[?]	Baby Rosalina (Detective)
Korean	베이비로젤리나(탐정)[?] Beibi Rojellina (Tamjeong)	Baby Rosalina (Detective)
Portuguese	Bebê Rosalina (detetive)[?]	Baby Rosalina (detective)
Spanish (NOA)	Bebé Rosalina (detective)[?]	Baby Rosalina (detective)
Spanish (NOE)	Bebé Estela (Detective)[?]	Baby Rosalina (Detective)