Kind of forgot they changed it.

Peach solely because of Dan's Face/Off reference in the newest bombcast.

I'm a sucker for anything involving Nicolas Cage or a good John Woo movie.

@agentboolen said:

Yup. Can't say I really care.

Though she definitely was more brunette at one point. Even a little reddish in the first game.

Princess Toadstool for historical reasons... but to pronounce it is a mouthful.

eh

I always kind of figured her full name was Peach Toadstool, but maybe not.

Peach sounds fine. Princess Toadstool sounds fine too. Princess Peach sounds odd.

Toadstool, Robotnik, King Koopa,

Didn't even know it wasn't Peach, but then I never played Mario is a young'un.

@viking_funeral: Isn't that Daisy?

Toadstool had red/brown hair in Super Mario Bros. Daisy has brown hair now and was the princess in Super Mario Land

These are all correct!

It made more sense that she was Princess Toadstool as she was royalty in the Mushroom Kingdom where her subjects were little toads and they lived in Mushroom houses.

Where's the peach?

Also Robotnik was a way better name than Eggman. Eggman is such an insult to that genius of a failed inventor.

And when did they change King Koopa to Bowser? Was that Super Mario World? Koops is way better.

@rebel_scum: I feel like it kinda makes sense that Sonic would come up with some dumb insulting nickname for Robotnik, but I don't like how they've all but replaced the name Robotnik entirely at this point. You would think he would at least make a point of trying to make it clear that he's really Robotnik.

He did refer to himself as Dr. Ivo Robotnik in Sonic Adventure 2 until he went full supervillain and blew up the moon.

I'm completely fine with the Eggman name because it created the best non-Generations song in the entire series.

He's got the master plan~

@rebel_scum: Bowser's actually secretly been Bowser since Super Mario Bros., according to the game's manual. He was just more commonly referred to as King Koopa or whatever until the SNES era. (Of course, in Japan, he's Koopa to this day.)

Speaking of Japan, Peach was Peach from the get-go over there (the get-go being, again, Super Mario Bros.). They changed her name to Toadstool for the western release because they thought it'd fit the mushroomy theme better. But I guess at some point they decided to go for parity between versions, so they casually switched it back.

Though really you can still call her whatever you want, since in Mario 64's opening she signs her letter as both Princess Toadstool and Peach. Guess her full name's Peach Toadstool?

Anyway, I think I prefer saying Peach, if only because Toadstool is kind of an annoying word to say.

@superkenon: I like that Bowser is supposed to be a sorceror.

My option isn't on there which is to say "I have no preference."

I always assumed they were different people anyway even though people keep telling me they are not.

*waits for people to tell me they are not different people and the reasons because it's really important that I be told that every time even though I prefer to not care one way or the other and wallow in my enjoyment of assuming they are different people because it doesn't actually matter*

same here, even if it wasn't I figured this would be an easy way for Nintendo to retcon the situation effectively.

So there arent multiple princessi?

Alliteration is hard to beat, though P. Toadstool does have a ring to it. Canonically Toadstool does make more sense, considering the Kingdom and all them mushroom folk.

Princess Peach Toadstool makes a world of sense to me, though it sounds inane.

Yup. I was dying when I heard that. Dan's the best.

Well he's certainly not a wizard. Dude has never opened a book in his life.

If I were to let you suck my tongue, would that be Koopalingus?

It took me the better part of my childhood to figure out that Daisy and Peach were two different characters and they didn't just rename her at some point.

A bigger question I have is why she's apparently the only human in the entire Mushroom Kingdom. Is she adopted? Is she going to have to marry a mushroom person to accede to the throne?

Peach. Because it's a word.

Not sure if this is a reference to Dan and Drew's discussion of Dan's lost spelling bee. Also, Peach. Referring to someone by their last name is weird once you get to know them better.

Toadstool is also a word.

Yeah but it's not a word to me

They didn't actually change it. Here first name ( or possibly nickname) is Peach, but her full title is still Princess Toadstool.

well that's always been an odd thing because the original USA instruction manual said "all the people of mushroom kingdom were turn to stone." And as an 8 year old I was thinking "every block I hit is a murder, this game is just so violent."

In the wide world of Mario I'm non committal and can accept both. But I'd sooner tell people that I main Peach, as in Princess Peach, in Smash Bros.

Don't really care, but this is the internet so I'll vote and then make a post about it.

I kinda like Toadstool better.

@corevi said:

@korwin said:

@baconhound said:

@corevi said:

Peach solely because of Dan's Face/Off reference in the newest bombcast.

Yup. I was dying when I heard that. Dan's the best.

If I were to let you suck my tongue, would that be Koopalingus?

Now we're going to find out what's in Papa's bag, Peaches!

Dead heat at 100% after 3 votes...even though there are 35 replies. Yep, polls are still broken.

@gvalo: So i never knew Daisy was a princess as well, i figured they just swapped the color pallette of peach to get another female character in their spin off games.

So mario is bouncing between ttwo princesses? what an italian plumber!

@onemanarmyy: Daisy is Princess of Sarasaland. Mariowiki says that in Melee her trophy says "some gossips started portraying her as Luigi's answer to Mario's Peach" and that the Mario Party 4 guide says that Luigi has a crush on her. So she went from being saved by Mario to Luigi.

@onemanarmyy: Daisy is Luigi's girl.

I prefer Peach because of the Rule 34 stuff. Toadstool would lead to a darker region of the cybersphere.

I always thought that princess peach was a name in reference to the japanese folktale Momohime ( peach princess)...which is why I like it better. Also the original name apparently.

I suppose it's one of those weird marketing renames that happened around that time. ( that or a mistranslation)

I thought the reddish hair on 2 was due to technical limitations tho. It was a re-skin of Doki doki panic as everyone knows, so why give any credence to it...At least we got birdo and the shy guys out of it.

More importantly, she's Peach now and that's not going to change.

I figure Toadstool to be some sort of official title, whereas Peach is what she actually likes to go by.

Anyway, my vote is for Peach. I certainly couldn't eat a toadstool for hours.

I don't really care about the name change, but I really wish she had stayed a redhead/brunette.

Same. Link too.

Peach, it is the name I've always known