Daisy

Daisy in Mario Party 8.
Daisy
Species	Human
Affiliation	Sarasaland
Hair color	Brown
Eye color	blue
Voiced by	Jen Taylor (2000-2003) Deanna Mustard (2004-Present)
Debut	Super Mario Land

This article is about the Mario character. For the Pokémon character, see Daisy Oak.

Princess Daisy is a supporting character from the Super Mario series who has primarily appeared in the sports and party spin-offs of the Mario series over the years. She originally appeared in Super Mario Land, which remains her only appearance in one of the adventure games.

Background

Daisy hailed from and ruled over Sarasaland, which was described as a 'world' containing four kingdoms. The space conqueror Tatanga came to Sarasaland in Super Mario Land and hypnotized the inhabitants into doing his bidding. He them kidnapped Daisy and even set up fakes of her at the end of each of the four kingdoms, guarded by his strongest of minions. Mario rescued Daisy after a long quest and the two took off in a rocket ship that had presumably belonged to the defeated Tatanga.

She later made a brief appearance in NES Open Tournament Golf as Luigi's caddie, and at that point there was a long gap in her appearances until she returned as a playable character Mario Tennis 64. From then on, she has acted as a constant presence in the spin-off games. She's played golf, tennis, basketball, soccer, kart races, and taken part in the myriad of Mario Parties. Not much has been learned about Daisy, although she has been shown to own her own cruise ship, as seen in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, and she has sometimes been described as being tomboyish. She has been constantly partnered with Peach (and a sometimes Luigi) as her double. It has occasionally been implied that she and Luigi possibly have a romantic interest.

She also has an infant counterpart, known as Baby Daisy. She has appeared in several of the kart-racing games, starting in Mario Kart Wii, and she also appeared in Mario Super Sluggers.

Sports

Daisy has primarily appeared in sports titles.

• Golf: Daisy first appeared in NES Open Tournament Golf as Luigi's caddie. Daisy was also playable in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour and Mario Golf: World Tour.
• Kart Racing: Daisy is playable in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (as Peach's partner), Mario Kart DS (where she must be unlocked by completing the 50cc Retro Grand Prix), Mario Kart Wii (where she us unlocked by winning the 150cc Special Cup), Mario Kart 7 (where she is unlocked by beating the 150cc Mushroom Cup), Mario Kart 8, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Mario Kart Arcade GP DX (as a downloadable character).
  • Baby Daisy also makes her first appearance as an unlockable character in Mario Kart Wii (unlocked by collecting one star in all 50cc Wii-Cups), and she returns as a starting character in Mario Kart 8 and Mario Kart 8 DX.
• Tennis: Daisy is playable in Mario Tennis 64, Mario Tennis: Power Tour, Mario Tennis Open, Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash and Mario Tennis Aces.
• Baseball: Daisy is a playable team member in Mario Superstar Baseball and Mario Super Sluggers. Baby Daisy also appears in Mario Super Sluggers as an unlockable character. Both Daisy and Baby Daisy are part of the Peach Royals.
• Soccer: Daisy is also a playable captain in Super Mario Strikers and in Mario Strikers Charged.
• The Olympics: Daisy is playable in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games, Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games and Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
• Other Sports: Daisy is playable in Mario Hoops 3-on-3, Mario Sports Mix and Mario Sports Superstars.

Within the Challenge Mode of Mario Super Sluggers, she was turned into a statue, presumably through Magikoopa magic, within the Peach Ice Gardens. The statue was first used down to hold a switch to activate the fountain's drain. She was restored and replaced with a Toad statue after Bowser Jr. was driven out of the area, and she would then be recruited into the baseball team. Baby Daisy would be found later on in the same area, where she was crying after being scared by Bowser Jr. until her rattle (which she used as a bat) was returned to her.

Mario Party

Daisy is also a playable character in the Mario Party series, starting in Mario Party 3, where she is not playable in Story Mode. Afterwards, she is also playable in Mario Party 4, Mario Party 5, Mario Party 6, Mario Party 7, Mario Party 8, Mario Party 9, Mario Party 10, Mario Party-e, Mario Party DS, Mario Party: Island Tour, Mario Party: Star Rush, Mario Party: The Top 100, Super Mario Fushigi no Korokoro Party and Super Mario Fushigi no Korokoro Party 2. She was also playable in the similarly themed Itadaki Street DS and Fortune Street.

In the Story Mode of Mario Party 3, Daisy appears after the Courage Star Stamp is won by the player to claim the Beauty Star Stamp. She nearly convinces the Millennium Star to give it to her without a test with her charms, but the player character argues which results in a Duel Match between the two for the Beauty stamp at Backtrack. Daisy loses the match and then runs away.

Other Appearances

Video Games

• Daisy has made appearances throughout the Super Smash Bros. series. From Peach's first appearance as a playable character in Super Smash Bros. Melee onwards, Peach has had a color swap which matches the color of Daisy's hair and clothing, even including her flower brooch. In the sixth installment, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Daisy was included a playable character and designated as an Echo Fighter, meaning that her moveset is mostly a clone of Peach's.
  • In previous Smash games, Daisy was available in trophy form. Trophies of her appear in Melee, Brawl (of Striker Daisy, from the Super Mario Strikers games) and in Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, where she has several trophies. The trophy available in both versions uses her tennis outfit, while in the Wii U version there is also a second trophy of her in her baseball outfit as well as one for Baby Daisy.
    • Her trophy in Melee is known for having several errors. The trophy has a third eye on the back of Daisy's head, behind her hair (seen by zooming in with the camera close enough), and her description erroneously says that her reappearance was in Mario Golf, which she did not appear in.
  • There are also two stickers of her Brawl, one from Super Mario Strikers and another showing her with Peach from Mario Party 7.

Other Media

• In the Super Mario Bros. movie, the princess of the Mushroom Kingdom was named Daisy, and Luigi was the one who fell in love with her. She was played by Samantha Mathis.
• She appeared in several issues of the Nintendo Comics System that were based on Super Mario Land.

Trivia

• She is named after the flower of the same name. She is also shown to have an affinity to flowers and sports flower-related accessories.
• Daisy is unique in that she's only appeared in one 'main' Mario game, with all of her other appearances have been in sports/spin-off games.