Princess Daisy

Princess Daisy(デイジー姫: Deijī-hime in Japanese) is the lovely and beautiful princess of Sarasaland, a land existing in the same universe as the Mushroom Kingdom. Daisy made her debut appearance in Super Mario Land on the Game Boy in 1989. Then she made a cameo appearance in NES Open Tournament Golf. After that, she didn't appear in a game for 9 years. Luckily, after her revival in Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64 in 2000 she started to appear as a regular spin-off character due to the lack of human characters in the Mario universe at the time.

Appearances
See Daisy's Appearances for the list of games she has appeared in.

Designs and Physical Appearances
Super Mario Land Daisy

While her in-game sprite is only 8-bit and lacks colors, Daisy's official artwork for Super Mario Land shows a detailed image of her. She has a round face shape and a beauty mark on her upper right cheek. She has long, red and ginger hair. Her earrings, dress jewel, and crown jewel all have blue gemstones encircled by five to six white petals. She wears a yellow dress with white flower motifs at the bottom of it. Her crown is red with no present gemstones on the side. Compared to Peach, Daisy has a rounder face, black eyes (which became blue in NES Open Tournament Golf) with only 2 eyelashes, a smaller nose, a bigger mouth with finer lips and hair of the same length but with a slightly different style. The most recent appearance of this design was in Super Mario Bros. Print World, using the same artwork from Super Mario Land but this one depicts Daisy with Peach's color scheme.

Daisy's Sportswear
Daisy's Classic Sports Dress

In NES Open Tournament Golf and in the Mario Tennis games on the Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Color, Daisy wears a skirt which is inspired by the yellow and white dress she wore in Super Mario Land. In NES Open Tournament Golf, Daisy wears yellow shoes. In Mario Tennis, she wears knee-high socks and orange shoes. Unlike Peach, Daisy doesn't wear her crown.

In-game Daisy for NES Open Tournament Golf appears with blonde hair and a blue skirt due to color limitations.

Personality
Since her first appearance in Super Mario Land, Daisy is described as being tomboyish with a cheerful and charming disposition. She is competitive and lively but is also confident and kind. Additionally, she is also shown to be less refined and more immature than Princess Peach, possibly because she is described as being very young.

In the KC Deluxe manga, Daisy is extremely tomboyish and mischievous. She brazenly flirts with Mario who reciprocates her interest, much to Peach's dismay, and is shown being seductive and even at times belligerent. In Mario Party 3, Daisy shows a similar characterization as she has no qualms about slapping Bowser because he was in her way and flirting with the Millennial Star to get the beauty stamp.

In Japanese and English versions of Fortune Street, Daisy is shown with a domineering, brash character. Her words are often playfully teasing, sometimes too harsh, especially to Luigi; whom she teases and bosses around when his shops aren't big enough. She seems to be impulsive and quick to fly off the handle, as her words tend to be sharper and uncontrolled if she feels irritated. Peach in contrast, is shown to be more thoughtful and careful in her expressions, while Daisy is more competitive, blunt and impolite.

However, she is shown as optimistic and down-to-earth in most of the spin-off titles and a pleasant companion, especially to Princess Peach.

Daisy enjoys activities such as sports, roller skating, cheerleading, this contrasts to Peach who enjoys video games baking and gardening. However, the two seem to share an interest in food as Daisy's sponsors include Daisy Candy and Peach & Daisy Royal Patisserie, and the newest sponsor, Kingdom Cafe.

Alternative Forms
Daisy can appear in other forms that show up briefly games she appeared in, or solely in one game. Below are all of the alternative forms/ appearances Daisy has taken on to date.

Baby Daisy Baby Daisy is the infant counterpart to Princess Daisy. She made her first appearance as an unlockable character in Mario Kart Wii and her most recent appearance was in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe. Baby Daisy shares similarities with her adult counterpart. The two have a very loud voice, an energetic temperament and both wear dresses that incorporate yellow and orange into it. Baby Daisy wears a yellow skirt with two orange hoop designs at the bottom as well as baby bottoms with white tights

Shadow Daisy

The Legends Showdown mode in Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games would feature clones of characters called shadow variants of the characters. They appear to be evil and have a characteristic dark blue complexion with white-blue eyes. The playable characters have to face off against these shadow characters in events.

Bitsize Daisy

Mario Party 8 features 8-bit versions of the playable characters. When a character eats a Bitsize Candy they will turn into an 8-bit version of themselves. Bitsize characters hit Coin Blocks that contain three coins inside for every space they move until their move is complete.

8-bit Daisy 

Super Mario Maker would introduce Mystery Mushrooms where Mario can use to turn into mostly 8-bit costumes of characters. Interestingly, Daisy's dress appears to have lost its second frill at the bottom. This is most likely due to the limited space to work with on her model. Her brooch underneath her neck collar also noticeably lacks white petals.

The player can unlock this 8-bit Daisy by beating Adventure in Sarasaland, an event course based on Daisy.

Bubble Daisy

Mario Party: Island Tour would feature evil versions of the playable characters made by Bowser's bubble machine to hinder the player's progress in Bowser's Tower. They are characteristically a light blue color with reflections similar to a typical bubble.

Fake Daisy

In Super Mario Land, after beating the boss of world one, two and three the player is transported to go a room where "Daisy" is trapped. After "Daisy" thanks Mario it turns out that she is actually a costume and she will turn into an enemy and go away. These are similar to the Fake Bowsers from Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario 3D Land, which would be revealed to be minions of Bowser upon being defeated by Mario.

Crystallized Daisy Crystallized Daisy is Daisy's ultimate form when Daisy performs her Mega Strike in Mario Strikers Charged. During this transformation, Daisy jumps up high into the air with the ball. She then raises her hand, charging crystals into her clenched fist as her skin turns black and her eyes glow a bright blue color and she punches the ball straight towards the goal emitting shining crystals throughout the mega strike.

Small Daisy The Small Form introduced in Super Mario Bros. is the weakest form of a player character. The players turn into this form when hit by an enemy or obstacle when under the effect of a Super Mushroom. Small Daisy was introduced in Super Mario Run. Regular Daisy takes this form when hit by an enemy or an obstacle, but can be restored to her default form after coming into contact with a Super Mushroom.

Mega Daisy Mega Daisy is a form Daisy takes when using the Mega Mushroom item. The Mega Mushroom enlarges the individual and increases their strength and allows them to destroy almost any object. Mega Daisy was introduced in Mario Party 4 when the Mega Mushroom was first introduced as well. Daisy would go on to use this form in Mario Party 7, Mario Kart Wii, Mario Super Sluggers, Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games and most recently Mario Tennis Ultra Smash.

Invincible Daisy Invincible Daisy is a temporary powerful form Daisy can take in various games she appears in by using the Super Star. The Super Star is an item that transforms the character, surrounding them in a colorful shield making them temporarily invulnerable to almost anything including enemies, objects, and others. This item first appears in Super Mario Bros. Daisy was first seen taking this form in Mario Kart: Double Dash and has taken this form in the rest of her appearances in the Mario Kart series. She can also be seen taking this form in the Mario Sports series games and in Super Mario Run.

Bowlo Daisy Bowlo Daisy is an alternate form of Daisy making it's only appearance in Mario Party 8. Daisy can transform into Bowlo form after eating the Bowlo Candy. The Bowlo Candy will then transform Daisy into a large rubber ball that tramples and steals  the coins of any opponent in her path. The effects wear off once Daisy's turn is over.

Trivia
☀ While Daisy is the princess of Sarasaland, Mario Party 6's website suggests that Daisy currently lives in the Mushroom Kingdom.

☀ Daisy's Super Mario Land design and N64 Era Design have a White and Daisy color palette, same as the flower Daisy, the flower Princess Daisy is named after and more interestingly Daisy's N64 Design has a crown jewel of a Daisy!

☀ Princess Daisy has appeared in over 70 games, which makes her the second most appearing female video game character. Only Peach has appeared in more games (more than 90 games). However, nearly all of these games are spin-off titles, which may be why some people refer to her as the "Queen of spin-offs". Princess Daisy can't be considered as a spin-off only character though, as she has been created for a mainstream title Super Mario Land.

☀ In the Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and Mario Kart Wii guides written by Prima Games, it is stated that Daisy is Peach's cousin. Mario Kart Wii's guide also says that Daisy was saved by both Mario and Luigi from Tatanga. However, Luigi did not appear in Super Mario Land. No Mario game has ever confirmed Peach and Daisy to be cousins, instead just referring to them as friends.

☀ Princess Daisy is one of the few major Mario characters to not have been created by Shigeru Miyamoto. Other examples include Wario and Rosalina.

☀ Many people believe that Gunpei Yokoi created both Daisy and Wario, however, he did not create either of them. Gunpei Yokoi has never been credited as a character designer in any game he has been involved with. Wario was created by Hiroji Kiyotake, and no specific creator has been attributed for Daisy. Satoru Okada (director of Super Mario Land) or Hirofumi Matsuoka and/or Masahiko Mashimo (graphic designers for the game) would be more likely to have the creator(s) of Daisy.

☀ Luigi, Waluigi, Tatanga and the fake Millennium Star from Mario Party 3 all have crushes on Daisy.

☀ Princess Daisy's name doesn't change in any of the European localizations (Russian localization not included), excluding some Portuguese magazines which call her "Princesa Margarida" (which still translates to "Princess Daisy" when translated from Portuguese).

☀ Daisy has titian (red) hair and blue eyes, one of the rarest natural hair and eye combinations in the world, with only about 17% of the world having it.