10 Underused Video Game Characters You Fell In Love With

In the Mario fandom, you have two camps: the people who don't get why people are so huffy about Nintendo mostly ignoring Princess Daisy except for when they need a palette swap for Peach, and the people who played Mario Strikers Charged.

Those who did the latter were exposed to a side of Princess Daisy that permanently solidified in the eyes of the fandom as what set her apart from Princess Peach: a cocky, competitive, loudmouthed tomboy. Seriously, the actress they got for her soundbites had approximately zero chill.

Although this personality being explicitly shown in game would come and go with the Strikers series, the fandom latched onto it and ran with it as they tend to do. After all, it helps to explain why we only ever see Daisy in racing and sports games, and why the only other game besides that we're seeing her appear in is Super Smash Bros..

While Daisy hasn't appeared in a mainline Mario game since, well, since the first time we actually MET her in Super Mario Land on the original Gameboy, her use as a pallet swap with Peach has at least kept her from being completely forgotten the same way Pauline was for a long time.