Princess Daisy



Princess Daisy (Japanese: Deiji-Hime) is a princess of Sarasara Land, and first appeared in the game Super Mario Land.

Games
In Super Mario Land, Daisy in her debut was the princess of Sarasara land, a neighboring desert nation of the Mushroom Kingdom, and serves as the damsel in distress, kidnapped by intergalactic conqueror Tatanga and was saved by Mario.

For a long period of time, Daisy was considered an obscure character in the Mario franchise. After being rescued from Tatanga Daisy snagged a cameo as Luigi's caddy in NES Open Tournament Golf, and after that she appeared as a clerk in the game Mario is Missing. She reappeared officially in the Mario series 10 years later and has been appearing in Mario games seven years straight since then.

Daisy has been appearing in the Mario spin-offs ever since Mario Party 3 and has been confirmed for the Wii title Mario Party 8. Appearing as an often partner for Peach, and sometimes Luigi, Daisy has been confirmed to be Peach's best friend ever since she moved to the Mushroom Kingdom.

Even though Daisy hasn't appeared in a major Mario adventure game since Super Mario Land or any RPGs, she 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 or Luigi. She even got her own level called Daisy Cruiser. Which can be seen drifting in the ocean on "Peach Beach". Daisy and Peach also share the best defensive special in the game, Heart. She has also appeared in the recent Mario Kart DS as an unlockable player. Daisy is a medium-weight character that has good acceleration and top speed, great drifting and item using, but low handling.[]Daisy made her second DS debut with Mario Hoops 3-on-3. In Mario Hoops Daisy's special is the "Flower Shot". She once again has her own court, and it's called "Daisy Garden"; where Petey Piranha's replace normal basketball hoops. And now she will be making an appearance in the game Itadaki Street DS where Square Enix's Dragon Quest series and Nintendo's Super Mario franchise join together to have a slight twist on the whole Mario Party experience.

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.

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 and Mario Party 4 as well as she provided Peach's voice. She sounded rather young and childish in this game; likely due to the way she portrays Peach as girly as she is. 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.

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; yet nowadays she appears to have a more peachy skintone then her refined pale appearance. 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; a big difference is that Daisy is not wearing a crown, whereas Peach is. Later on in the game Mario Hoops 3-on-3 you can unlock a refined version of Daisy's Mario Tennis short skirt sports outfit. 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 her appearance in Mario Party 3 she wore a pink crown. Nowadays she wears a gold one.

Relationships
Daisy's most notable relationship of her career is with her best friend Princess Peach. Daisy has been good friends with 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. Like Luigi the two share good chemistry in the game Mario Superstar Baseball. Nintendo's Mario Power Tennis website says that Daisy is Peach's sister in arms; obviously meaning more of a brotherly love type of relationship then actually being related.

Daisy's most hinted 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 is Luigi's doubles partner when he is selected for the doubles tournament. In the Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour beginning Daisy calls upon Luigi in the same way Peach calls upon Mario. 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.

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.

Another notable relationship is that Daisy and Toadette's team name in Mario Party is "Shopping Buddies"; which obviously implies that the two are "buddies".

It is rumored that Waluigi secretly loves Princess Daisy, which would add to his motive for being Luigi's rival, however, in Mario Superstar Baseball, Waluigi actually played worse when Daisy was on his team; probably due to the fact Waluigi is a villain character and Daisy is one of the good guys. Mostly all rumors about Waluigi and Daisy having a relationship is purely fan speculation.

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" 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 Hoskin's 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.

Appearances

 * Super Mario Land (GB) - 1989 NPC
 * NES Open Tournament Golf (NES) - 1991 NPC
 * Mario is Missing! (SNES) - 1993 NPC
 * Super Smash Bros. Melee (GC) -2001 NPC/Trophy

Playable appearances

 * Mario Tennis (N64) - 2000
 * Mario Party 3 (N64) - 2001
 * Mario Party 4 (GC) - 2002
 * Mario Party-e (e-Reader) - 2003
 * 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
 * Mario Party 8 (Wii) - 2007
 * Itadaki Street DS (DS) - 2007

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.

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, until the hair is no longer visible. This was fixed in PAL and US version 1.2.
 * Although Daisy doesn't appear in Super Smash Bros. Melee, you could play as 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 as mentioned above.
 * 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.

Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
Racing Kart: Bloom Coach Weight Class: Middleweight Special Item: Heart

Mario Power Tennis
Type: Technique Defensive Power Shot: Flowerbed Return Offensive Power Shot: Wonder Flower

Mario Superstar Baseball
Teams: Daisy Lilies, Daisy Cupids Type: Balance Special Ball: Flower Ball

Mario Kart DS
Racing Kart: Standard DS Weight Class: Middleweight

Super Mario Strikers
Type: Offensive Captain Super Strike: Torpedo Strike

Mario Hoops 3-on-3
Baller Name: Cash Money Coin Collector Type: Technical Special Dunk: Flower Shot

Mario Party Info
Partner: Peach Special Orb: Flower