#I bet she's not even gonna fly just flip the axe around a bunch in her hands with a lot of swishing sounds

[lil-oinks]

my issue with movie peach isn't that she's not feminine because obviously she is, and anyone sensible already knows "she's too feminist" or whatever is dumb. my issue is they made her into every generic cool serious surface-level "strong female character" action girl in a group of all men whose only character trait is "capable" that they've been writing over and over and over for the past ten years. I genuinely feel like they erased any personality she had past her appearance in favor of the single superficial female character type men tend to write when they want to be feminist and "modern." I'm not saying she shouldn't be capable and she shouldn't be cool or fight things because (I love paper mario) those things already are a part of her personality. this point is difficult to make with all of the "they're erasing feminine dainty proper women" takes because that's not what I'm taking about at all. I've seen people say if they wanted a character like this daisy was right there, but I wouldn't switch her character over to this trope either. daisy's LOUD and energetic and fun and the subdued woman whose role is being picking up the men's slack doesn't really fit her either (although I agree the two of them together would balance each other out (and it'd be nice if there were two women and they could interact)). it's exactly what I'd expect from a movie like this so I don't know why I complain, but I wish they would've done her differently. the character mario is about the whimsy but so is peach

#to me at least #no hate to you if you like her I just think they passed up an opportunity for variety. could've fought things And been a little silly #people say 'what personality' but I think she has a pretty equal amount to every other main mario character #and imo the Strong Female Character has less personality and isn't unique either. there's barely any variety between characters like that #people use paper mario etc to say look she's always been like this but the two are different characters. paper peach being better imo #your female character doesn't need to be serious all the time to be taken seriously #/The/ princess peach and they made her interchangeable with almost any marvel movie girl #honestly I think they also just didn't have an existing movie character trope to change her to that was very close to the original #and refused to keep her the same #also benefit of the doubt that she's wearing motorcycle outfit because she's on her way to ride a motorcycle #but when they first showed her in it I thought they wanted to put her in a cooler more heroic outfit than dress but for whatever reason #they couldn't come up with literally any other outfit for that (or they couldn't for nintendo reasons or smthn) #which to me made it read like She didn't have any other outfits for the situation and had to wear her motorcycle outfit like a costume #like I said later they showed the mario kart thing but that just initially made it worse for me dfghjgh #super mario #princess peach #I bet she's not even gonna fly just flip the axe around a bunch in her hands with a lot of swishing sounds