Princess Daisy (film character)

Princess Daisy is the princess of the parallel world where dinosaurs had survived the meteorite strike and evolved into humans. Her mother smuggled her into our world to save her from a coup orchestrated by then-General Koopa. The portal between the two dimensions then sealed, which prevent Koopa from entering our world to abduct Daisy back. Daisy was then raised by nuns as a human until she was 20 when Koopa was finally able to return. She first appeared in the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film alongside many other characters from the games.

History


Daisy is one of the main characters from the games that appears in the Super Mario Bros. film. The first scene of the movie depicts Daisy’s mother smuggling the yet unborn Daisy into our world while being pursued by General Koopa. Daisy's mother makes her way to St. Theresa's Cathedral and lovingly leaves the unborn Daisy within her egg on the cathedral's steps. Her mother is later killed in a tunnel cave-in caused by Koopa while Daisy hatches from her egg, crying out with life.

The nuns had either taken a vow of silence, or decided to keep it secret, because Daisy grows up thinking she is a normal human being. However, she always has an odd love of fossils and dinosaurs, so much that she becomes a paleontologist. One of her digging sites is being hounded by Anthony Scapelli, a wealthy entrepreneur, because the dig is making him lose business. One day, she meets Mario and Luigi, and she and Luigi really hit it off.

Later in the film, King Koopa sends out his cousins Spike and Iggy to capture Daisy. Luckily, the cousins continually kidnap the wrong girls, including Mario's girlfriend Daniella. Finally, when Mario and Luigi are helping her repair damage (done by Scapelli) to the fossil site, Iggy and Spike knock Mario and Luigi out and kidnap Daisy. They take her to Dinohattan and Mario and Luigi quickly follow. Luckily, Luigi is able to recover Daisy’s crystal necklace before she is abducted in a car, which takes the young woman straight to King Koopa’s Tower. When Daisy arrives, King Koopa reveals to her that she is the princess of the dinosaur world. King Koopa states that the meteor that supposedly wiped out the dinosaurs actually sent the reptiles to an alternate dimension, where they eventually evolved into humans (just as had happened on Earth, albeit Earthlings evolved from primates). Her mother and father, King Bowser, were the king of this dimension, until King Koopa turned her father into a fungus. Her mother fled to the dinosaur's original dimension, using a crystal recovered from the meteor that caused the dimensional rift, and, as previously mentioned, entrusted her daughter’s life to a group of nuns. After revealing this to Daisy, King Koopa states that he has long harbored an ambition to take over the real world (his former home), but cannot send his entire army there without the crystal. As such, he sent Iggy and Spike to find her and with her, the meteorite piece. However, Daisy does not have the crystal, Luigi does. When this is revealed to King Koopa, he locks Daisy up in his tower. While imprisoned, Daisy forms a friendship with King Koopa's pet, Yoshi. King Koopa’s mistress, Lena, grows to hate Daisy, suspecting that King Koopa has a crush on her. Eventually, this hatred drives her insane, and Lena attempted to kill Daisy. Yoshi saves the princess at the last minute, and they both escape from the tower together. She is then kidnapped by a Goomba (who, in fact, used to be an anti-King Koopa street musician named Toad). Ironically, it is Iggy and Spike, who had recently had there brains enlarged, that save Daisy from her new prison. She then meets up again with Mario and Luigi. Mario goes to save the "princesses" that Spike and Iggy kidnapped while searching for Daisy, while Luigi and Daisy go to stop the invasion. Finally, Daisy seals the breach between the dimensions and decides to stay in Dinohattan an take her rightful place as ruler. The end of the movie shows Daisy, geared for war, appears at Mario's apartment, telling them that they have to come back to Dinohattan, because a new threat had emerged. This was an attempt at setting up a sequel, which never came.

Trivia

 * Although the character shares name with Princess Daisy of the video games, her qualities come mostly from Princess Peach.

Quotes

 * ''"I'm the boss here."
 * ''"Thank God you're here! I mean, you're a plumber, right?"
 * ''"Luigi, help me!"
 * ''"Where's my father?"
 * ''"I guess we're both prisoners here, huh?"
 * ''"Uh, I'm a vegetarian. I don't eat anything with a face."
 * ''"I hope he's alright."
 * ''"The rock will merge our two dimensions!"
 * ''"Only I can stop it."
 * ''"Luigi, Mario! You gotta come with me, I need your help."
 * ''"You're never gonna believe this."