Game Theory: The END of Princess Peach! (New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe Peachette / Bowsette) - YouTube

The recent Nintendo Direct introduced the world to the super crown

A power-up which apparently changes the character who nabs it into a 'peach-fied' version of themselves.

They showed its effects on Toadette and that's all it took for the Internet's imaginations to go wild.

But while everyone else was busy searching for Bowsette content on, um…less brand-safe sites…

Did anyone actually stop to consider what happens when Toads other than Toadette touch this thing? Like, say, Yellow Toad?

*Power Mushroom sound effect*

*Daisy sound effect* ('Ya-hou!')

And what's the other main color of Toad? Oh yeah, blue.

*Power Mushroom sound effect*

*Rosalina sound effect* ("Woo!")

Did that just blow your mind? Ah; wait, never mind. You're still busy looking at Bowsette.

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Hello Internet!

Welcome to Game Theory! Where, let's be honest with ourselves, Bowsette would NOT be hot.

She'd look like this:

*Monstrous roar*

Hate to burst your 'good girl, gone bad' fantasy bubble there, guys and gals.

No, my friends, let me shoot straight with ya: Waluigiette is where it's at. Oho, yeah…

Now if you have NO idea what I'm talking about,

let me catch you up: In the trailer for New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe -

a name that would make Street Fighter proud -

We get to see this nifty new mushroom-crown hybrid power-up that's able to turn Toadette into a brand new character

Nintendo is calling 'Peachette', who, for supposedly being this brand new character, looks an awful lot like Peach;

she's got her own version of floating jump that Peach has, she has blonde hair, the pink dress;

I wouldn't blame you if you thought that this was just Peach in a new costume, but if you look closer,

it's clear that the two are indeed

separate characters. While the different shoes could be shrugged off as a simple change of footwear,

the dress has structure and lacks wrinkles, even when it's in motion.

It really does appear to be just an oversized mushroom.

Additionally, Peachette has grey eyes, whereas Peach has blue; which is particularly interesting,

since with every powerup that Mario and Luigi have ever gotten, they always maintain the same eye color.

Lastly, because no Mario episode would be complete without arbitrary pixel measurements,

I DID run the numbers and Peachette is indeed shorter than Peach's canon height.

Anyways, I think we can safely rule out Peachette as a mere palette swap and confidently say

that she's her own separate, but obviously related character within the Mushroom Kingdom.

But before we begin to celebrate the arrival of an EXTREMELY unexpected

new character to the Marioverse, we should probably take a moment to assess the implications

of what Peachette's mere existence in canon lore means for the Mushroom Kingdom.

Because guess what? The addition of Toadette's evolved form is GAME CHANGING

from a lore perspective, and may lead to the SINGLE darkest event in Mario's overall narrative arc.

So strap in, Nintendo. When I reveal the MASSIVE ramifications of making Peachette

so close to Peach, you may just rethink any future attempts to quickly slap together

some half realized power-ups in an attempt to spice up a re-release.

Let's get started! To begin, the Super Crown powerup immediately throws one HUGE question into focus.

Is Peach ACTUALLY human, or is she instead an evolved form of toad?

It seems like an absurd prospect;

that Peach could somehow be nothing more than a sophisticated shiitake;

more MOREL than man.

But looking closer, there does indeed seem to be more to this

Mycelial mystery than first meets the eye. I mean, she WAS originally called Princess Toadstool

after all; something that no one in their right mind ever had any reason to assume was anywhere close to being literal until

Apparently today modern Nintendo is weird. But again, that was all just a name

Is there anything in the Mario canon that could possibly link toadstool to actual toadstools? Yes.

Yes, there is. The clues were hiding in plain sight for us since the very first GAME

and we've simply been overlooking the evidence the entire time way back in the original NES manual for Super Mario Brothers

It's established., that peach has a father, the "Mushroom King" quote

"The only one who can undo the magic smell on the mushroom people and return them to their normal selves is the Princess Toadstool."

"Daughter of the Mushroom King." and if you think that's just a remnant of 1980s

mistranslation or some poorly thought-out first game lore

Well think again, the manual for 1999 Super Mario brothers deluxe says the exact same thing

but again

"It is said that only the daughter of the Mushroom King Princess Toadstool can break the evil spell" end quote. So if Nintendo

truly wanted to retcon this guy out of the story that

Re-release would have been their chance to do it. So it definitely he appears like he's a real entity in this universe

What's more he also has a wife?

In 1987's official Nintendo player's guide we see that quote "The mushroom people were ruled by a good king and queen."

and what's more despite them never once appearing in any game ever?

We do get a chance to see them a second release in 1987 how to win at Super Mario Brothers

Which is another book created by official Nintendo employees

Revealed for the first time imagery of the Mushroom King and his wife king and queen Stool

Look familiar?

both of them sporting mushroom heads just like their subjects adding to the evidence that Peach

Started as a little baby Shroom-Lance and what's more that's not her only

familial connection here. In Super Mario RPG for the Super Nintendo,

You can actually sneak a peek into peaches castles bedrooms

and well

You might be distracted by Samus from Metroid being in the guest bedroom, or Peaches

"???" hiding in the corner and that's a- huh,

That's a theory we covered before link is in the iCard. It's an oldie, but it's a goodie

They're not the only interesting things to see in this room. You'll also find an elderly toad woman simply named

Grandma. Does the name necessarily prove that she's related?

No, but she is trusted enough to be the only other person to know about Peaches' secret personal item stashed over in the corner

So, you know regardless we have a princess named toadstool who has herself a fungal headed family

Which definitely starts to give some credence to the idea that she went from womb, to

shroom. Now, let's change directions for a minute instead of talking about more mushrooms

Let's talk about bees. Honey bees specifically

I'm sure most of you already have a general idea of how honey bee colonies work with one queen bee

Ruling over a bunch of female workers and male drone bees

But do you know how a queen is chosen?

In a bee hive female workers who are selected as potential queens, are taken to special cells within the hive to receive frankly put

"Royal treatment" among having personal servants to do everything

They could want, the nurse bees feed them huge amounts of royal jelly

a substance that's chock-full of nutrients that allow the selected few to grow into the we'd the Queens and matures and rules and

Reproduces until she grows old or abandons the hive at which point the process repeats. Now,

Why would I digress and tell you about this little bee plot?

Well, think about it. The mushroom King literally

disappears from the Mario Canon after a last hurrah in a coloring book from the 80s, being the only royalty left, Peach is without

question, the acting Queen in the Mushroom Kingdom

Notice how in Super Mario RPG we see the throne room and there's only one chair and it is specifically hers. Sure,

She might be referring to herself as princess

But for all intents and purposes she is the queen this is important because toads are servants to Princess Peach

It's confirmed in the Super Mario Brothers manual and reaffirm pretty much every other time. The toads role is clarified in the lore

They are literally the worker and drone bees of the Mushroom Kingdom

Hi serving their female ruler between peach

it's also worth remembering that according to qu Ichi hayashida codes are genderless and merely expressed the

Characteristics of gender so really there could be any number of drone or worker toads, and we could be none the wiser

Now what has the super crown shown us that a normal worker?

Toadette can be fed a special item and become just like the Queen the super crown is quite literally the royal jelly

Of the Mushroom Kingdom taking a normal worker and transforming them into ruler of the colony now

I can understand some skepticism here taking the leap from fungus to B isn't the most obvious connection

But it is worth pointing out that most fungi are closer to being an animal than they are a plant look at a cladogram

Which is a branching diagram showing the relationship between species and you can instantly see that fungi are grouped closer to us than they are

to plants or bacteria

I mean after all

mushroom the cells are given most of their structure by the fibrous substance known as chitin the very same sorts of chitin found in the

Exoskeletons of insects now, of course. I'm not saying that the denizens of the Mushroom Kingdom are insects

Not only would that be terrifying it would make less sense than the whole peach is a mushroom thing

But I am saying that the evolutionary groundwork is there for a mushroom to some how

Miraculously level up to human status even the changes in eye colour support the idea of a Toadette to Peachette toPeach

maturation process when babies are born, especially

fair-skinned ones like peach they have light-colored eyes because they have very little

Melanin a type of pigment that gives color to the eyes skin and hair but after birth light stimulates the production of melanin

Which is why the eye color may darken or change over time true story when Ollie was born

He had gray blue eyes, which have now become brown as his melanin has increased over the last three months

Now, look at Peachette

Like I mentioned before she has gray eyes clearly differentiating her from peaches blue eyes

But what if that's just because she's an early form of peach. I mean she did just

Changeover give it a year or in peaches case a few decades and that mature blue color will shine right on through. That's right

What if Peachette is merely an immature form of a peach a young queen?

Freshly groomed and ready to start a rule only to grow taller and have her eyes change color as she continues to develop

Over the years the evidence quite frankly is there but why now? Why would Nintendo keep this?

Absolutely, massive lore revealed quiet until this particular Nintendo Direct

Well, remember what I said earlier queen bees aren't constantly being groomed

it only happens when the hive feels as though the current queen is getting old or dying or

simply isn't around anymore and they want to override the current queen with a new one and it's that last reason that stands out how

many times is our princess been in another castle or out playing tennis or on the moon rejecting the advances of

fertile males

I would venture to say that with all the kidnappings and spin-off titles the Mushroom Kingdom might be feeling a bit neglected a bit

barren

If you will after decades of peach being away from the hive the natural response would be to begin the grooming process

And make room for a new queen

I mean

it's not like they didn't give peach a chance right toadette didn't officially arrive until

2003 that is plenty of grace time for peach to get her act together

But alas she never did and along the way toad ed has popped up more

more and more

Gradually making her presence known to the kingdom until the day that she would finally come the day that she would finally

Transcend her worker toad form take the super crown and become the queen bee that the Mushroom Kingdom deserves

But in order to do it one thing stands in her way

Princess Peach remember all that talk about the grooming of the queen bee. Well, there was one

Teensy-weensy part that I left out. Once the first virgin queen emerges from her royal cell

She begins to communicate with the other queen candidates through a process called piping where she makes a sound called Tooting

Yes Tooting like a fart

It's a signal to say that this new queen is ready to fight for the honor of being the one and only to sit atop

The waxy throne the rival Queens answer back with a sound that's known as quacking

When the Virgin Queen here's the quacking the Queen goes to every one of the quacking sister cells and kills us because in the game

Of hives you win or you die

after being too Danette to truly rise to the top of the kingdom a peach yet is gonna start tuning and have to put an

End to the reigning queen you heard me right ladies and gentlemen the introduction of peach

It could mean the death of Princess Peach no extra lives this time

that's why there's only one peach and that's why it's been so long until

Nintendo revealed this the hive is ready for a new queen

Super crowns are being produced and tow debts are being groomed for the throne consuming

Its power growing into peach s and eventually hoping to be the last one standing

So they can mature

into a fully grown peach the worst part of this whole ordeal is that when peach does eventually

Return to the kingdom which he's finally rescued by Mario

She'll likely be killed by your own underlings your days of being chased by men and leisurely

Kidnappings across various galaxies have finally caught up to you peach

the deceptively cold murderous eyes of peach yet will be the last thing you see before being eaten alive by

tiny mushroom men all hail peach ATS long may she reign the queen that the

Room kingdom deserves, but hey, that's just a theory. A GAME

THEORY

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