Mermaid Dūke
The title of this article is official, but it comes from a Japanese source.
If an acceptable English name is found, then the article should be moved to the new title.
| Mermaid Dūke | |
|---|---|
 Screenshot in Princess Peach: Showtime! | |
| Appears in | Princess Peach: Showtime! (2024) |
| Member of | Sour Bunch |
| Variant of | Dūke |
Mermaid Dūke are enemies in Princess Peach: Showtime!, and are members of the Sour Bunch. They are Dūke with blue merfolk tailfins and frilly gills, and appear as the primary antagonists in the first two Mermaid plays. In Melody of the Sea, several of them have kidnapped merfolk Theet band members, which Mermaid Peach need to free by controlling schools of fish with her singing; each of the Mermaid Dūke get defeated when the band members get freed in the process. Several more Mermaid Dūke get defeated by Mermaid Peach's singing at the end of the concert, finishing the level.
In Blight of the Sea, a school of Mermaid Dūke, imbued with dark powers, have taken control of a ghost ship, spreading misery throughout the sea with it, and kidnapped several mermaid Theets. After following the ghost ship and freeing the sea of misery using her singing in the process, Mermaid Peach engages in a boss fight with the Mermaid Dūke; the Mermaid Dūke will surround itself with large, purple rocks, sending them forward one by one in order to hurt Peach, but this leaves an opening for Peach so she can use her singing to control a fish and cleans the Mermaid Dūke from its misery, hurtling it back to the ghost ship. In the fight's second phase, the Mermaid Dūke makes a vertical wall from the rocks and send two or three of them at once, and in the third phase, a second Mermaid Dūke will join in, which Mermaid Peach will have to defeat as well. After defeating them, Mermaid Peach is able to enter the ghost ship and free the captured Theets. In the level's final scene, Peach and the Theets perform another concert to successfully defeat the Mermaid Dūke in control of the ghost ship once and for all.
Gallery[edit]
The darkness-imbued Mermaid Dūke
Mermaid Peach fighting the Mermaid Dūke
Naming[edit]
Names in other languages[edit]
| Language | Name | Meaning | Note(s) | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japanese | マーメイドドゥーケ Māmeido Dūke |
Mermaid Dūke | [1] |
References[edit]
- ^ Sugawara, Tomoyuki, Shuichi Shike, and Akiko Matsumaru (May 28, 2024). 『プリンセスピーチショータイム! キラメキガイドブック』. Tokyo: Kadokawa (Japanese). ISBN 978-4-04-733734-3. Page 104.
