How could Ms. Peel from the original Avengers series be forgotten?
• Princess Peach Toadstool from the various Super Mario Bros games, who has been kidnapped too many times to count. And yet she’s perfectly capable of kicking butt in such games as Super Mario Bros. 2, Super Mario RPG, Super Princess Peach, Super Paper Mario, and the Super Smash Bros series. Go figure. • Thank you, Mario, but our princess is in another castle! • Like Zelda mentioned below, Peach in the Paper Mario games doesn’t just sit idly by. She utilizes Twink (and TEC in Thousand-Year Door) to send mission-vital information and items to Mario. Maybe one of these days she’ll orchestrate her own escape (The Deus Ex Machina in Super Paper Mario doesn’t count). • Peach also does this in Super Mario Brothers 3, sending useful power-ups to help Mario and Luigi. Bowser doesn’t kidnap her until the player enters World 8. • Tippi also plays Distressed Damsel for all of one chapter in SPM, though her capturer only wants to post pictures of her on the Internet. (No, really.) • Princess Daisy
