Do we need to paint a sign?

[Treeinthewoods]

Similar to Aeon Flux, Peach is actually killed every time Mario rescues her and is at this time uaware that she is a reincarnation supressing the memory of each previous death in each game. It also explains Mario's ability to die and return constantly until I can get the timing on that last damn jump.

 

[Jegsimmons]

Ten years from now there'll be some Braid-like twist and it'll turn out Mario kept kidnapping Peach from Bowser's castle and forcing her to make him cake.

oh my dear jesus.....you sir just won the internet. and here to present the award is M. Night Shamalayn....who you can also punch in the mouth.

 

[Android2137]

Some people think that Peach and Bowser actually are in a relationship and the "kidnapping" is basically role play (foreplay?) and that Mario just misunderstands (or doesn't want to admit the truth).

 

[SD-Fiend]

Zelda....

I know, that was predicable, given my username, but think about it...

in just about ever Zelda game (I say "Just about" because of Spirit Tracks) some evil kidnaps her, and, even though we know she has a wide array of magic skills that can cut bone (and most likely other magic...) she never once tries to escape....

although, when you stop to think about it, she would most likely be doing this for the sake of her people...

hmmm....

In defense of Zelda, she's usualy captured by very powerful masters of dark magic, not to mention it's not even the same Zelda, each Zelda game usualy depicts a different Link and Zelda(I have a theory of time being cracked and repeating things) but with Peach, she knows it's gone to happen, she knows who's gone to kidnap her.


With Zelda, she never knows when or who's gone to do so.

Another contrast is when Zelda's kidnapped, it's more serious and dark.

When Peach is kidnapped, it's usualy set as comedic relief.

well anyone else being repeated in hyrule is just nintendo being lazy but link zelda and ganon are always reborn and always come together because they are the triforce bearers. and as for ganon I'm not sure how many time he could have died since one is underwater and one got stabbed dramaticlly

 

[Shoggoth2588]

My main problem is Peach. Think about it. Time after time, she gets kidnapped by Bowser, but when she is saved, or in the process of saving, she does nothing to protect herself. Game after game, you see her kidnapped, but the castle securities are never upgraded, in anyway. Same castle, same gaurds, just new band-aids on the walls. And you'll some times see her with a chance at freedome, like jumping out of a boat or cage. So why does she not take more time out of her cake baking, and more into her security dilemma. Unless...she wants to be kidnapped. Maybe we'll soon learn where bowsers children come from after all.

Here's my theory. Super Mario Brothers 1 was a video game being played by Mario and his imaginary brother Luigi. Super Mario Brothers 2 is a dream he had after days of playing the original game. Super Mario brothers 3 and on (meaning every traditional, platforming Mario game in which Peach is kidnapped) is Mario going from his home in the Mushroom Kingdom into the Koopa Kingdom where he plans on 'rescuing' Princess Peach. Mario is a shut-in gamer who knows nothing of politics. He doesn't realize that Princess Peach is actually Koopa Queen who loves her husband Bowser. Every time she gets 'kidnapped' it's actually liberation. Hell, in one of the later games one of the Koopa Kids outright tells Peach that she is their mother to which Peach responds "Oh my!"

 

[Canadamus Prime]

My main problem is Peach. Think about it. Time after time, she gets kidnapped by Bowser, but when she is saved, or in the process of saving, she does nothing to protect herself. Game after game, you see her kidnapped, but the castle securities are never upgraded, in anyway. Same castle, same gaurds, just new band-aids on the walls. And you'll some times see her with a chance at freedome, like jumping out of a boat or cage. So why does she not take more time out of her cake baking, and more into her security dilemma. Unless...she wants to be kidnapped. Maybe we'll soon learn where bowsers children come from after all.

Actually I can explain that. According to what I read over on TVtropes, Miyamoto doesn't maintain any sort of canon continuity in regards to the Mario Universe. So in other words each Mario game is essentially completely independent of the games that have come before and after it.

This is the case with the Super Mario Bros.. series, where Shigeru Miyamoto said that there wasn't a continuity simply because it'd limit the development of future Mario games (hence the Reset Button basically occurring at the end of every single Mario game when the world is saved).

Of course there are exceptions, namely the Mario RPGs.

 

[firej7]

here's another one

You know the annoying small sidekicks like Navi

Why is it they always seem to be in the games where the heroes have a very BA weapon that they never seem to think "This would shut them up!"

 

[Durananrananrananran]

Double Post

*mutters under breath* Stupid browser.

Don't you mean Bowser? Tee hee, I made a funny.

Better yet, why doesn't Bowser ever just give the fuck up?

Because he doesn't care about Peach, he's in love with Mario. He does it to get mario's attention.