The History & Evolution of Princess Daisy (1989-2023) 

Another thing to note is her skin color. She started more tan, possible as a reference of sarasa being a pattern from india, but slowly became more pale. In recent years though it seems her skin color has slowly returned to being tan which I think helps separate her from Peach

I hope Daisy appears more in main Mario games. Maybe one day we’ll go back to Sarasaland.

I have two daughters and I think it’s awesome that they can now each play as a princess!

Daisy has come a long way from being abducted by Tatanga, from participating in lots of sports, parties, kart races, super smash bros, to finally joining Mario and the others on their big adventure to the Flower Kingdom! So happy for my Princess Daisy!

The fact that we've known this character for over 20 years now and we can't get a 20 minute video about Daisy says a lot for her been underutilized

Another fun tidbit about Daisy in World Tour is that her and Peach can magically transform into their standard dresses when you get a Birdie or better.

If you really want to see a Daisy that feels alive, go check out Pringus McDingus. Dude really makes each Princess, especially Daisy, come to life just how you probably imagine the Mario Princess would behave if Nintendo went in deeper into who they are.

It’s criminal how Nintendo hasn’t revisited sarasaland. They could make the new Mario game coming for Nintendo’s next gen console all about the return to sarasaland. An empire consisting of 4 drastically different kingdoms. Cool new and never before seen enemies. New gameplay mechanics and of course Daisy. They have to revisit it one day.

I started playing as Daisy because it annoyed my friends in Double Dash, and just... ended up sticking with her in other Mario games. As for preference, I'd say the Mario Tennis 64 design is my favourite. I like the more tan / long hair variant. I think it suits her very well.

I loved this character the moment I heard her scream “NEXT LEVEL GAMES!” Before Mario Strikers. Best Mario Princess, hands down.

It would be neat if she becomes an unlockable post game character in Princess Peach Showtime, kinda like how you unlock Luigi in the post game of some Mario games.

Two things to note--Daisy got her own song on the mario album released around mario land called "saved me with your charm." Second you guys didn't bring up the manga. In japan daisy is really popular and one reason is kids grew up there with daisy in the mario manga! Daisy was peach's best friend and was at her side for years in the manga even in the early 90s. She was in manga based on games she wasn't even in like dr mario! She also had more outfits in the manga like a nurse outfit in dr mario. Daisy did also show up in american comics in the 90s also in the gameboy comic but was not a tomboy yet in those comics!

Daisy is honestly my favourite of the Mario princesses especially because of her personality compared to Peach's. Maybe it's also because of fan works, but Daisy being depicted as the loud woman who'd definitely yell at a fast food employee on Luigi's behalf because they forgot his happy meal toy or something compared to Mario and Peach's couple dynamic makes her far more interesting to me. I also do like that Nintendo is slowly bringing back her tan look since it only makes the perfect sense since she's from a desert kingdom

I am extremely obsessed with Princess Daisy cause I am also a girl who grew up as a tomboy as a kid, and became a more feminine woman as an adult. I liked Daisy because she was both feminine AND tomboyish! It's a great mix, and she's so sassy and silly. Love her sooooo much

I absolutely love Daisy, for a long time now she's been my favourite mario character, she's an awesome tomboy and it shows in many ways, but I love that she also has outfits that are elegant and pretty, she is a princess after all, and tomboys don't always have to dress boyishly. I'm 100% gonna play through wonder as her as soon as the game is out, and I really hope we see more of her as time goes on.

I love content like this, and this is well researched and put together! Daisy is my favorite out of the princesses and I would love to see her star in a game of her own someday.

I think a huge part of the reason why we want more Mario RPG games is because that genre is where characters can best display their personalities and quirks, especially when compared to sports and platformers where let's be honest can be fun but doesn't provide as much room for dialogue and character development. Daisy's kingdom definitely warrants a second visit, for Super Mario Land had a lot of interesting locales that would look amazing with 21st century technology. A future Super Mario RPG taking place in Daisy's kingdom could be so much fun. Back to Daisy though, Mario Strikers Charged Daisy is by farrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr the best iteration of Daisy, and the watering-down of her persona in the decade following Strikers Charged remains in line with the ongoing theory that after the slight controversies surrounding Super Paper Mario and Mario Strikers Charged, upper management at Nintendo wanted to put a stop to drastic deviations to Mario characters.

Daisy and Waluigi have a lot of things in common. Such as the massive overlap of games they appear in as playable characters.

Love the video. I just wanted to comment that Daisy’s tennis skirt origin came from Mario Hoops 3 on 3 for the nintendo ds. That was first time we saw it once unlocked.

Ever since she came pack in Mario Tennis 64, Daisy has ALWAYS been my choice in all the Mario's spinoff games. And I was SO HAPPY that she got to be a playable character in Ultimate!!!! :)

Funny how Nintendo is really trying to highlight Daisy while simultaneously erasing Waluigi

Call it a long stretch, but I almost feel like Daisy’s fairy outfit represents Krista from Ferngully because Krista was voiced by Samantha Mathis and Daisy was played by Samantha Mathis in the old super Mario brothers movie.

My first introduction to Daisy was with her inclusion in Mario Kart DS. I had no idea who she was at the time. (Mario Kart DS was also my first Mario Kart game.) She was one of my most wanted characters, and most wanted Mario character, to get into Smash. (Even more than a certain purple plumber.)

12:14 she's wearing a skort, mix between skirt and shorts, commonly worn in golf

I would love more of these! They're like a videogame equivelant to cartoon evolution!

Things like personality through voice clips are where her character most contrasts with Peach. Peach is more subdued and elegant, while Daisy is excitable and loud. Now that I think about it, the princesses are kind of inverse to the brothers. Mario is energetic and loud with Peach, and Luigi is more subdued and quiet with Daisy. As Luigi and Mario have been more defined, it would be cook to see that with Daisy from Peach. It is why I think she needs to be in a movie sequel. With Peach how she was it is going to require Daisy to be herself up to 11, like she always should have been reintroduced as.

Random but the skirt she wears in Mario Golf for 3DS actually originated as an optional outfit in Mario Hoops for the DS

It's high time to publish a Daisy farm simulator

2:37 I don't think this is exactly correct. Camelot considered giving Wario an 'Evil Peach' doppelganger as a partner, but decided to go with an 'Evil Luigi' instead: Waluigi. I don't believe a "WaruPeach" was ever considered to be Peach's partner.

It's awesome that Daisy is gonna be in Super Mario Bros Wonder, as a playable character. As much as I love Peach, I do fancy Daisy as well as I like her tomboyish attitude and she's so snazzy in all the outfits she wears. I say her design since the Mario Party games has been absolutely incredible, but my favourite outfit would be her dress, followed by her shorts and swimwear. I can't wait to play as her again and see what's up next for her as a character! May she be in a second Mario movie! 😍

TLDW: 15 minutes of Derrick describing women’s clothing

Daisy, Daisy, Daisy. A fun lady in the Mario universe. I first saw her in Mario Tennis, then became a fan in Mario Party 3. She has consistently been my favorite princess in the Mario series since...2004, I want to say. Now Daisy is going to be playable in another 2D romp! Good analysis, Derrick.

Is it me or Daisy's modern design looks like a 1950s housewife?

Actually, Daisy’s sports dress first appeared in Mario Sports Mix in 2010 as an alternate outfit for Daisy. It was later reused in Mario Golf: World Tour

GOATED VIDEO, Amazing! I love Princess Daisy, she is my favorite Princess ever and I am so happy that Super Mario Bros Wonder finally brought her to the spotlight again after the feeling of she being an afterthought to Nintendo in the last years.

Pretty happy that she is getting more attention in Mario Wonder. Ever if I appreciate more of Peach thanks to the Mario Movie, I’ve always been more of a Daisy Fan, and find her more interesting than Peach and even Rosalina even if she is a great character. Can’t wait to play her when the game comes out.

For Daisy's sport skirt, it actually appeared as an unlockable "color swap" in Mario Sports Mix before Mario Golf World Tour

In Mario Strikers Charged, if she fought against Mario, DK, Wario, Bowser Petey, Bowser Jr, or Diddy, Her alternative outfit is teal! :D I can only hope Daisy continues to get more love! She's so great. I know people like her in Mario Strikers, and don't get me wrong, her personality is great in it. I just always liked her because she was always so unapologetically loud and energetic. I could always relate to that, and it makes me happy!

GVG doing evolution videos now? Awesome! Why did I have a feeling before clicking, it was Derrick and I was right.

Daisy is the best she’s so cool I’m glad she’s in a mainline game

6:10 there was also a full teal outfit for her in Charged

14:00 I heard a pitch somewhere, maybe from you actually, for a co-op Luigi’s Mansion game with Daisy and Luigi going to a beach house or something.

My favorite character of all time.

Mario - *Super Mario Bros series* (duh) Luigi - *Luigi's Mansion* Peach - *Super Princess Peach + Showtime!* Yoshi - *Yoshi's Island* Donkey Kong - *Donkey Kong Country* Wario - *Wario Land* Bowser - *Bowser's Inside Story* Toad+Toadette - *Captain Toad: Treasure Seeker* Daisy - ?????? *(still waiting her spinoff..)* 😩😩😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 Daisy: When is my own solo game come out? Waluigi: *Excuse me????*

With all of these different outfits, I'm shocked Nintendo never made dolls of Peach and Daisy. With the new Peach game coming, it would be perfect. I'm sure little girls would love it!

Loved the video! Hope to see you make one on Rosalina and Pauline too :D

Thank you for proving that Wapeach was Daisy all along (what does an upside down P look like?)

8:58 and 9:00 Awesome high kick and pose you displayed, Daisy 🧡🧡🧡

I'd like to point out that her most recent Mario Golf outfit gives her a skort, not a skirt, since there's shorts legs under the skirt part

Before I found out that Daisy was from a whole other kingdom, I always thought she was Peach’s sister.

Great 👍 choice! It’s a birthday 🥳 video for Duskie!

Best princess

I will forever stand by Classic Daisy. N64 Daisy is just the best of her design and I wish Nintendo would've kept it. Daisy in the switch era has become increasingly more inspired from that era of the character and I think is a great 2nd place

Peach, are you ok? 1:19

You know now that princess Peach is getting a new game, I wonder if it's come full circle and in a future game Sour Grape will be her equivalent of Wario?

I'm so happy she's playable in Smash Ultimate.

High quality content!

I hate the fact that they developted a personality for her, who everyone was crazy about, and then just cancelled from every game, made her softer and happier, and slapped the strong and cool personality on Peach, making us doubt she was ever considered a strong tomboy at all like- BRO. But most people live in the illusion that Peach was always like this so... Guess majority win. Even if they have stupid opinion. We could compromise but nooooo. Daisy in her being underrated had more personality than all the charachters together and they wasted her potential putting her traits on more popular charachter!

As a non-native speaker only hearing that word in the most unhinged contexts, the word "tomboy" makes me flinch.

SYACV going nuts over this video.

Dope!...maybe we Getta Daisy appearance in a New Super Mario Movie

What a wonderful video about the history and evolution of Princess Daisy, why don't you make a video telling the story and evolution of Princess Peach after or before her new game called Princess Peach showtime?

I love Daisy and I'm glad to see her in another main Mario game.

I hope Daisy gets her chance to shine in the Super Mario Bros Movie 2.

Shes my go to character when shes available in a multiplayer game 🌼😍👍

I miss the red crown... :C

I thought that Daisy been in 3 appeared games that are super Mario land, super Mario run, and super Mario bros wonder. And bicker outfit from Mario kart.

If only we could see her take wing...

I get a bit frustrated i love Daisy and i feel that over the years instead of leaning in her tomboyish personality Nintendo just wants to wash her down and make her a shitty version of Peach instead of having another character that can appeal to female players. It meant to me a lot growing up, to see a girl in video games that wasn't crying all the time and wasn't all girly and gave me the confidence that only representations can give.

For me it was the other way around. I only ever knew "Princess Daisy". Back then most people around me only had a Game Boy. We even called Peach "Daisy", mostly because "Toadstool" was strange and hard to pronounce as a kid from Germany lol

“Daisy’s the winner!”

As a Daisy fan, I approve! 🌼🌼

Daisy totally deserves her big break to shine in Mario Bros Wonder 😄😊 Definitly gonna be my main character in that game 😉

I'm so happy that Daisy is finally being embraced as a more mainstream character rather than just a Peach double to fill a female character slot. I'm aware of the history of a falling out between Miyamoto and Gunpei Yokoi, Daisy's original creator, and the refusal to widely incorporate Daisy or any of the original features that he and his dev team created in their games but it's good to see that the newer staff making Super Mario Wonder is not following in grudges of the past. Here's hoping that the trend continues and she's a second playable character in Princess Peach Showtime! Even if the main story can't sensibly incorporate her character alongside Peach she could still be a new game plus feature that swaps Peach's character model for Daisy like Luigi did for Mario in Super Mario Galaxy. However, while this may be an unpopular opinion for much of the fanbase, if Daisy is going to become more prevalent in Mario games in the future the one thing I want Nintendo to do for her character is to distance her supposed relationship with Luigi. The LuigixDaisy ship is entirely headcanon and doesn't actually build or expand upon either her or Luigi's character in any meaningful way other than to satisfy primal instincts to match people up in ways that simply look satisfying to onlookers. Mario and Peach have a long enough history together to understand their relationship, even if Odyssey complicates things, but people have to desperately grasp at straws for random one-liners or images of the two of them arbitrarily standing close to each other to string together "proof" that these two must be an item. No game that the two of them star in together has ever been narratively held together by the idea that Luigi and Daisy are romantically interested in each other. Anything from any game that supposedly verifies that is just a throwaway line that could be easily changed or removed completely and the source game would remain exactly the same in both function and presentation, highlighting it's insignificance to the dismay of forced matchmakers. Thankfully, Nintendo seems to be aware of this due to the fact that Daisy hasn't appeared in the Luigi's Mansion series, and ever their placement in the opening cutscene of Wonder shows the two of them on complete opposite ends of the screen to hopefully signify that the two of them are not intrinsically connected to each another and that anything that suggests otherwise is purely coincidental.

Even in terms of being Luigi’s girlfriend, she hasn’t even appeared in a Luigi’s Mansion game. It’d be kind of cool if she could be a co-op character.

Daisy farming Sim when?

Now do Mario. Including all his Odyssey outfits, and all the different ways you can customize them!

Those Tour renders are uncanny. Some of them seem like a photobash of other renders while others look completely new.

I would have spent more time talking about Mario Run considering it's her first real debut to be honest

Daisy ftw🎉

My favorite Mario character. I love her so much. My family who didn’t know her at all. Know her because of me!😂

0:05 wait, not the second? Or is Mario Maker counted? EDIT: oh, Mario Run

My princess!

Daisy will probably start appearing in Mario RPGs next.

I hope Daisy finally manages to appear in a Mario RPG some day. Rosalina got that opportunity already and she's a way newer character in comparison.

I didn't notice it back then, but my god do some of the GC/DS era 3d renders look terrible. Daisy has dead eyes and all characters have a pale skin like a zombie. As simplistic as the N64 era 3d renders were, they had punchy colors and Daisy had a nice tan. The Mario Wonder render brings that back and it looks fantastic!

Daisy! 💛🧡

It was a slow burn to get there for Daisy. I remember when the fanbase mostly hated her, or maybe it was just the thing to hate Daisy out loud on the Internet 2010s.😅 Even back then I was a fan of her, I'm glad nowadays it's a much better time to be a Daisy fan then it was back then. The Daisy fans Just eating good.

I'm not even trying to make it like a serious "thing" but always find it weird when some people choose to do point out every change in a character's design except for skin tone, especially when the change is extreme

I just want to confirm, does daisy have tomboy traits?

she needs redesigning/remodelling I prefer peach more and its annoying how she has a “shadow” character w same dress, same skill, same powerups and all. 😅

I think… Waaah! Ha Ha!!!

HI I'M DAISY

I’m happy that the waifu is getting more attention!!!

Hi I’m Daisy -Daisy 2003

😮😮🙂🙂✨️🎇🎆😘😘😘

Hi I’m Daisy!

Of course you used footage from chuggaconroy. Why didn't you get him to narrate the video altogether.

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