Princess Daisy



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

First encounter with Mario
In the Super Mario Land series, Daisy was the Princess of Sarasara Land, a neighboring desert nation of the Mushroom Kingdom. She was kidnapped by Tatanga the first time you see her. Mario being the hero he is, came to try and save her. Mario had to travel through each kingdom of Sarasara Land, fighting extrodinary new enemies at the end of each Kingdom. Every time he defeated a Boss, Daisy would appear to come out and thank him, but it turned out that all of these were fake, common enemies disguised as Daisy. Finally, Mario found the real Daisy being held by Tatanga. After a long battle in his plane, Mario was able to defeat Tatanga and rescue Daisy. The last part of Super Mario Land showed them flying away in Mario's plane.

Although Daisy did not actually appear in Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, it was revealed in this game that Wario had hired Tatanga to kidnap her in the first game.

Return to the Mario Family… Breifly.
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. After that she appeared as a clerk in the game Mario is Missing.

Joining in on the Fun at Last!
Daisy made her reappearance in the Mario universe about one decade after her appearance in Open Tournament Golf and Mario is Missing in the games Mario Tennis and Mario Party 3. In Mario Tennis, Daisy served as the clumsy tomboy, best friend of Peach, and love interest for Luigi. In Mario Party 3, Daisy served the same purpose as in her last role, except her tomboyish side showed much larger when she sent Bowser soaring with one mighty punch. Her partner in battle mode was Snifit. Daisy, like Waluigi, was not playable in the story mode of Mario Party 3. Daisy has appeared in every Mario Party and Tennis game since then excluding the handheld games.

In Daisy's switch from the Nintendo 64 to the GameCube, fans everywhere noticed the difference. Daisy no longer had the tomboy tan, and did not have her hair grown out, she also got a new dress design. As most fans know, the GameCube Mario Parties were all very similar games. So as one would expect not much about characters was revealed. Early videos of Mario Party 8 for the Wii show Daisy (as a matter of fact, every character from Mario Party 7), and it's been confirmed that a Blooper and a Hammer Bro are newcomers.

Lightweight Sports
Daisy missed the chance to appear in Mario Golf for the Nintendo 64, and had missed quite a few of the past Mario Karts, but made her debut in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour and Mario Kart: Double Dash for the GameCube. In Toadstool Tour, everyone seemed to notice her larger then usual stomach, which was said to be a graphical error that was fixed after the newest releases of the game. Another thing noticeable in Toadstool Tour was the Taunting system where characters said more then they probably ever had before with each taunt. She made her debut in the Mario Kart series with Mario Kart: Double Dash!! as a partner to Princess Peach. She even got her own level called Daisy Cruiser, which can be seen drifting in the ocean on the Peach Beach course. She also got a kart dedicated to her, the Bloom Coach. Daisy and Peach also share the best defensive special item in the game, the Heart.

To The Next Level
Daisy's appearance in Mario Power Tennis introduced her with her Technique style and her "Flower Powers". She and the rest of the Mario gang made their first appearance on the field in Mario Superstar Baseball where she once again had her "Flower Powers", but in this game she was a Balanced player that leaned more towards Technique. This was also the first game that noted Daisy being stronger then Peach.

Daisy DS
She has also appeared in Mario Kart DS as an unlockable player. Daisy is a lightweight 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, called Daisy Garden, a beautiful garden where two Petey Piranhas replace normal basketball hoops, making it hard to dunk. 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.

Socking in Soccer
In Super Mario Strikers, Daisy once again joins the Mario gang; this time to play some Soccer! In Super Mario Strikers, Daisy is an Offensive Captain who wears the number 09 jersey. It is expected Daisy will be making an appearance in the Wii game, Mario Strikers Charged.

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 Nintendo 64, 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 fun loving 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. Jen taylor also 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 then on, 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 skin tone, 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 skin tone 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 Nintendo 64. 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, one of Daisy's only appearances 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 disordering 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!! Information

 * Partner: Peach
 * Class: Middleweight
 * Personal Kart: Bloom Coach
 * Special Item: Heart
 * Course Owner: Daisy Cruiser

Mario Power Tennis Information

 * Type: Technique
 * Defensive Power Shot: Flowerbed Return
 * Offensive Power Shot: Wonder Flower

Mario Superstar Baseball Information

 * Teams: Daisy Lilies, Daisy Cupids
 * Type: Balanced
 * Starting Team Captain: Peach
 * Status: Secondary Team Captain
 * Stats:
 * Batting: 3/5
 * Pitching: 3.5/5
 * Fielding: 2.5/5
 * Running: 2/5
 * Player Profile:
 * Strong Point: Pitching
 * Special Talents: Quick Throw, Sliding Catch
 * Trajectory:
 * Field: Center
 * Height: Normal
 * Special Ball: Flower Ball
 * Default Batting Position: Left
 * Default Throwing Arm: Right
 * Sweet Spot: The Flower on the bat
 * Compatable Relationships: Luigi, Peach
 * Indifferent Chemistry: Piantas, Paratroopas, Shy Guys
 * Bad Chemistry: Waluigi, Bowser
 * Bio: "Sarasa Land's princess. Mario rescued Daisy from the nasty villain Tatanga. While often compared to Peach, Daisy is both stronger and more tomboyish than her blonde counterpart. She uses a Flower Ball that scatters confusing petals."

Mario Kart DS Information

 * Class: Lightweight
 * Default Karts: Power Flower, Standard DS
 * Unlockable Kart: Light Dancer

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 Orb