Tag: Princess Peach

  • Conquering the Cyber Kingdom: Analyzing Bowsette

    Conquering the Cyber Kingdom: Analyzing Bowsette

    On Sept. 19, Twitter user haniwa (@ayyk92) posted a fan comic whose conclusion focused on a blonde woman with horns, a visual mix of official characters Princess Peach and Bowser from Nintendo’s Super Mario franchise. This fan creation would be nicknamed Bowsette. The fan comic has now garnered over 80 thousand retweets and motivated many to post…

  • 5 Times the Princess Saved *Your* Useless Ass

    5 Times the Princess Saved *Your* Useless Ass

    Is it worth it? let me work it put that established narrative convention down, flip it and reverse it …. I am so, so sorry for that. Here’s five times the princess saved you. Saskia saves Geralt – The Witcher 2 If you first came along to the series with The Witcher 3, you never…

  • Super Mario Odyssey Continues the Series’ Struggles with Gender Politics

    Super Mario Odyssey Continues the Series’ Struggles with Gender Politics

    My first few hours with Super Mario Odyssey were really uncomfortable. In the first few minutes of the game, when Peach is being kidnapped by Bowser, he taunts Mario by saying, “Are you jealous?” My skin crawled when I heard that. The suggestion was, Mario would be going on his Odyssey because, yeah. He was…