Talk:Wanda

Ally or Antagonist?
Wanda is in the category Wario Allies, as she was an ally to the player (actually the playable character) However, she was an enemy to Wario and also is listed as Minor Villain on the template. Where does she belong? - 11:37, 28 July 2007 (EDT)

Same with the Wario's Woods bosses; they're all listed as Wario Enemies and Wario Bosses, despite being allies of Wario. -- Sir Grodus

Wanda in Wario's woods?
In what canon material or sprite did it state/ show that, Wanda was indeed the sprite/ fairy that aided Toad, in the events of Wario's woods? -- Eaglejack 18 Sept 2008

Put Wario's Woods info in the Sprixie article or create a new Sprite article
Wanda is currently considered the same as the fairy character from Wario's Woods, but a closer look at the instruction booklets only refers to this character as "the Sprite" (meanwhile, the Japanese manual uses the generic term for sprite or fairy, 妖精 ). There's no sign in the game that this Sprite character is supposed to be the same as Wanda from Mario & Wario, and the sprites in both the NES and SNES releases look nothing like Wanda's original design. Therefore, it seems prudent to take the info from the Wario's Woods section away from Wanda's article.

The solution would seem clear-cut if it weren't for the existence of other fairy folk later seen in the Mario series, the Sprixies, which share the same Japanese name (and a few other direct foreign localizations) as the Sprite and Wanda's species. Looking at the design itself of these later fairies/sprites/pixies, it's also not too far off from Wanda - having a similar one-button dress and butterfly-esque wings, but with Toad-like eyes sort of like the Sprite from the SNES version of Wario's Woods. Looking at Wanda's few references in English media supports that sprite and fairy are inconsistent translations of the same thing, so Sprixie would be a modern attempt at it.

At this point, one would have the ask the question of why Wanda was considered the Wario's Woods sprite in the first place. According to the article, Wanda also makes an appearance in the Wario's Woods adaptation in Super Mario-Kun, apparently taking place of the game's Sprite. However, Super Mario-Kun mixes characters and situations from a variety of games, so I don't think that is strong evidence in favor of Wanda being the same as the Sprite in Wario's Woods. Even then, Wanda is treated as a single character, whereas there can be two Sprites on the screen at the same time in the VS modes.

Proposer: Deadline: May 1, 2015 (23:59 GMT)

Sprixie is a name change from Fairy/Sprite; Wanda is a Sprixie

 * 1) Per above obserations.