Bowser and Peach

[flint_marko]

This is by AshleytheDragon.

Comments

[darkblade]

I've never been a fan of the "Peach lets Bowser kidnap her" theory. If they really had a relationship why not just be open about it and join the Mushroom and Koompa kingdoms? Their kingdoms are primarily populated by talking mushroom and turtles I'm not seeing much ground of prejudice here.

[pyrotwilight]

Strangely even when I was a small child and playing my Super Nintendo and my copy of Yoshi's Island I felt like Bowser kidnapped her because he was in love with Peach. I remember there being a level where all the skulls in a dangerous looking area seemed almost like a heart shape.

[sea_dreamer]

Heh, one of my earlier fics involved Mario being Peach's crazy stalker and the whole Bowser-kidnapping-Peach thing actually being Mario's delusions.

[cypherfdp]

Bowser in love with Peach is canon at the least, but the implication that the Princess is baking cakes for anyone but her Jumpman?

BLASPHEMOUS.

[jeyl]

Back in my college days, I was super excited when I heard that Princess Peach was going to get her own game on the DS called "Super Princess Peach". And boy, was it my favorite game on the DS. I'm not even kidding. Look at the game play and animation that's going on. I would play this game over the new super mario brothers any day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoeUm89gQEU

There's something about colorfully animated sprites that is a lot more appealing than a 3D side scrolling mario in the new Super Mario Bros. game. Once I finished the game, I had only two issues.

1. It wasn't her story. It was her umbrella's story. Every time a chapter was completed, Peach and her umbrella would be at a camp site and every single thing would revolve around his history. Peach literally does nothing during the cutscenes. You're even given the impression that she doesn't even listen to him when he does start talking. Cripes, you could argue that her umbrella has more of a back story than Mario himself!

2. BOWSER TRIES TO DEFEAT PEACH! I was appalled at this. There is just no way shape or form that Bowser would willingly attempt to harm Peach like he does in the final confrontation. What the heck is Bowser going to do after he kills Peach? This was WAY out of character for him, and for being the end game boss, it left what was a great solid game with a big letter grade down.

I mean, just look at him when he's around her! He even tries to make her happy by turning himself into a teddy bear for cripe's sake!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAvrPZRuKrU&feature=related

[mullon]

If there was any story that didn't need that much thought put into it, it's the Mario Brothers story.

[fifthie]

"Peach loves Bowser" contradicts the Nintendo Power mario comics, ALSO, the Super Mario Brothers Super Show

THEREFORE it can go get fucked

[jeyl]

Uhh.. you having a bad day? I'm not comfortable discussing the topic if your going to bring prejudice into the picture.

Here's my position on the whole Princess Peach kidnap scenario. It's more about being tired of the same old story told again and again. I liked "Super Princess Peach" because it did give our common damsel something to do besides be kidnapped, but so far that has been a one-shot game. We're still stuck with Princess Peach being the damsel storyline that the heads of Nintendo have little to no desire to try a different direction. Even Miyamoto stated that he deliberately downplayed the storyline to Super Mario Galaxy 2.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/06/super-mario-galaxy-2/

And I thought the first Galaxy game was fantastic! It went in all the right directions that Other M flat out failed to take.

[mistervader]

Stockholm Syndrome squicks me.

Just sayin'.