See Super Mario RPG, for instance, in which she attacks people with gloved slaps, parasols, and frying pans, and bestows healing magic that flies off of her as a big pink heart. Even when she does get a bit of development or sees a little action, she’s often portrayed as demure and traditionally feminine. That’s all in stark contrast to the Peach we know from the games, who has often functioned more as a plot device than a character, existing just to get kidnapped so that Mario has a motivation for his adventures. She leads military briefings with aplomb, puts Mario through his paces as a platforming hero, and in the end, when it seems like Bowser’s plot to force her to marry him has at last succeeded, she has a trick up her sleeve. As voiced by Anya Taylor-Joy, this Peach is capable, confident, and heroic.
Movie, we see a version of Princess Peach who exists in defiance of how she’s so often been characterised in the games. In this spring’s stupendously successful Super Mario Bros. Princess Peach enters her post-damsel era But I would argue that it’s a 2017 Nintendo Switch game, not that blockbuster film, that gives us the best version of Peach yet, the one that this future game of hers should take its inspiration from. Movie is probably freshest in their minds.
For millions of young moviegoers just forming their impressions of who she is, the modern Peach take we get in The Super Mario Bros.
Once a perennial damsel in distress who existed for Mario to save, she may at last be leaving that role behind. After all, perhaps more than any other Mario character, the Mushroom Kingdom monarch has seen some dramatic evolution in recent years, and the character still holds a lot of exciting, untapped potential.
No title was announced for the game and few gameplay details can be gleaned from the brief teaser, but I’m already hoping for good things from Princess Peach’s new adventure. Last week as part of the latest Nintendo Direct broadcast, the company behind the Mario games announced that in 2024, Princess Peach will be headlining her own game for the first time in 18 years.
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