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Where did you go, Ms. Pac-Man?

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137 points glhaynes | 2 comments | 17 Jun 24 20:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.549s | source
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toast0 ◴[17 Jun 24 21:04 UTC] No.40711059[source]▶
> After all, this would be like if Nintendo re-released a Super Mario game and swapped out Princess Peach for a Princess Pineapple or Princess Pumpkin and just acted like it wasn’t weird.

Yeah, that'd be weird, but swapping Princess Peach for Princess Toadstool was fine?

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1. NeoTar ◴[17 Jun 24 21:18 UTC] No.40711190[source]▶
I believe that in Mario lore they are explicitly the same character - either her name is “Peach Toadstool” (i.e. its surname and first name), or the Princess Toadstool is a title - like how the Prince of Wales, Queen Mother, and Princess Royal are all titles in the contemporary British monarchy.
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2. kibwen ◴[17 Jun 24 22:28 UTC] No.40711873[source]▶
"In Japan, her name has always been Princess Peach (ピーチ姫 Pīchi-hime), but in the West, she was originally known as "Princess Toadstool", due to Nintendo of America renaming her when localizing Super Mario Bros., feeling that "Peach" was irrelevant to the theme of the Mushroom Kingdom."

https://www.mariowiki.com/Princess_Peach#Name