Princess Daisy

Princess Daisy (Japanese: Deiji-Hime) is a Nintendo character who first appeared in Super Mario Land for the Game Boy.

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 sadly failed to catch on and have since been largely forgotten. In it, she is the princess of Sarasaland, neighboring nation of the Mushroom Kingdom, and damsel-in-distress. In that game she is captured by the intergalactic conqueror Tatanga and is later rescued by none other than Mario.

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. Daisy is a light-weight character that has good acceleration and handling, but a low top speed.

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 "Daisy" â€” not "Princess Toadstool", as Peach was then known in North America. Still, the movie also makes its 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 N64 appearance, giving Peach a yellow dress, brown hair, flower-shaped earrings, blue shoes, a pink crown, and tan skin. She also has her own trophy.

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 Party 3 and Mario Tennis, her appearance was refined, giving her a rounder face, slightly darker skintone and hair color, giving it a more auburn color, and a daisy-motif to 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 again, giving her shorter hair with a new dress design, and once again a paler skin tone. Daisy and Peach also have consistently different gloves; while Peach's gloves end at around mid-tricep, Daisy's gloves end at the wrists. Daisy appears to be equal in height to Peach, though she may appear shorter in some games. She continues to slowly change with each new game.

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. In NES Open Tournament Golf however, she was depicted in a blue dress of a similar design. In Mario sports titles, she is usually depicted in orange shorts with a yellow shirt and daisy accessories, showing off her tomboy side compared to Peach, who consistently wears a short skirt to the sports outings. The primary exceptions to this was Mario Tennis on the N64, in which she, like Peach, is wearing an orange short skirt and shirt with her brooch and earrings; the only difference is that Daisy is not wearing a crown, whereas Peach is. Also, in Super Mario Strikers, Daisy wears a 2-piece outfit, which created some controversy among fans. 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 Mario Hoops 3 on 3 Daisy appears in her normal sports clothes but can obtain an alternate outfit by beating the Flower Cup.

Personality
Daisy has a rather cheerful and chipper personality in each of the games she appears in. She is widely acknowledged as a tomboy and as "less feminine" than her Mushroom Kingdom counterpart, Princess Peach, in the respect that she is not seen as so "dainty" or "fragile" compared to her fellow member of royalty. She also has a huge competitive drive, though she knows it's all in good fun. She tends to speak more in common, contemporary vernacular than Peach as well. In Mario Tennis for the N64, she's been shown to be a bit clumsy. And in Mario Party 3, she showed a bit of a seductive side. All in all, she can be summarized as an outgoing, friendly, and funloving girl who can "hang with the guys," so to speak.

Relationships
Mario was the one who rescued Daisy from the clutches of Tatanga in Super Mario Land, and she rewarded him with a kiss upon her rescue. But Mario has never explicitly expressed an interest in her. And nowadays the two seem to be nothing more then acquaintances.

Daisy has been good friends with Princess Peach ever since her comeback appearance in Mario Tennis for the N64. The two are often partnered up in Mario spinoffs. Naturally, they enjoy the occasional rivalry, but for the most part, they enjoy each other's company. By their friendship, one can assume that the Mushroom Kingdom and Sarasaland have very good foreign relations.

However, Daisy's most notable relationship of her career is with the younger Mario brother, Luigi. It is rumored that Daisy is Luigi's love interest, and vice versa. As previously noted, Daisy's only appearance between Super Mario Land and Mario Tennis was as Luigi's caddy for NES Open Tournament Golf, just as Peach was Mario's caddy; this would be the first implication of a relationship between the two, spawning the rumors that are mentioned in Daisy's trophy biography in Super Smash Bros. Melee: "After her appearance in Mario Golf, some gossips started portraying her as Luigi's answer to Mario's Peach." In Mario Tennis for the N64, Daisy will be Luigi's doubles partner when he is selected for the doubles tournament. When the two are paired up in the recent Mario Party games, their team name is "Steady Sweeties". In Mario Superstar Baseball, Luigi and Daisy are "buddy players," and they share good chemistry, whereas Daisy does not share chemistry with Mario. Nintendo has not explicitly said anything regarding their official status. As a result, the Luigi/Daisy relationship is still a mystery and is widely speculated and debated by fans to this day.

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.

Trivia

 * The Super Mario Land manual on page #13 lists her as "Daisy Princess" even though they obviously meant to call her "Princess Daisy." This misordering might have to do with the fact that her Japanese name, Deiji-Hime, literally translated would be Daisy-princess.
 * 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 was fixed in PAL and US version 1.2.
 * Although Daisy doesn't appear in Super Smash Bros. Melee, you could play as her as one of Princess Peach's alternate colors in SSBM. The alternate costume is Daisy's tanned skin, brown hair, and yellow dress with flower motif from the Nintendo 64 days.
 * Daisy's trophy also says that she appeared in Mario Golf for N64 and GBC rather than Mario Tennis for N64 and GBC. Although Daisy appeared in NES Open Tournament Golf in 1991, the only Mario Golf game she has appeared in is Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour, and that game was released nineteen months after Super Smash Bros. Melee.
 * In Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour Daisy appeared to have a bit of a pudgy stomach. This extra stomach was added to hide errors with her models design. In later sports titles Camelot, the creators of the game, fixed it.

Appearances

 * Super Mario Land(GB) -1989 NPC
 * NES Open Tournament Golf(NES)'' -1991 NPC
 * Mario Tennis(N64) - 2000
 * Mario Party 3(N64) - 2001
 * Super Smash Bros. Melee(GC) -2001 NPC Trophy
 * Mario Party 4(GC) - 2002
 * 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
 * Mario Strikers Charged(Wii) -2007