Game Theory: The END of Princess Peach! (New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe Peachette / Bowsette)

The Nintendo Direct introduced the Super Crown, a power-up that transforms the character who uses it into a 'peach-fied' version of themselves.

The internet's imagination went wild after seeing the Super Crown's effects on Toadette, with most attention focused on speculating about Bowsette.

The question remained: what happens when Toads other than Toadette touch the Super Crown? Yellow Toad becomes Daisy, and Blue Toad becomes Rosalina.

The video promises to explore the darker implications of Peachette's existence for the Mushroom Kingdom lore.

• Peachette has grey eyes while Peach has blue eyes • The dress appears to be an oversized mushroom with structure and no wrinkles in motion • The shoes are distinctly different from Peach's

Peachette is measurably shorter than Peach's canon height, and she possesses her own version of Peach's floating jump.

Peachette is not merely a palette swap but a separate character, though obviously related to Peach within the Mushroom Kingdom.

Peachette's existence raises massive questions about the nature of characters in the Mario universe and the implications for Mushroom Kingdom lore.

Peach was originally called Princess Toadstool, a name that suggests a direct connection to actual toadstools.

• The original NES Super Mario Brothers manual establishes that Peach is the daughter of the Mushroom King • The 1999 Super Mario Brothers Deluxe manual repeats this exact same information • Both manuals state only the daughter of the Mushroom King can break the evil spell

The 1987 Nintendo Player's Guide mentions the Mushroom Kingdom was ruled by a good king and queen, later revealed in 'How to Win at Super Mario Brothers' to have mushroom heads like their subjects.

In Super Mario RPG, players can find an elderly Toad woman named Grandma in Peach's castle bedroom, trusted with knowledge of Peach's secret personal items.

• One queen bee rules over female workers and male drone bees • Selected female workers receive 'royal treatment' in special cells within the hive • Nurse bees feed selected queens large amounts of royal jelly, which enables them to grow into Queens

• Peach is effectively the Queen of the Mushroom Kingdom despite calling herself Princess • Toads are the worker and drone bees of the Mushroom Kingdom, serving Peach • According to Atsushi Hayashida, Toads are genderless and express characteristics of gender, meaning there could be many workers

The Super Crown is the royal jelly of the Mushroom Kingdom, taking a normal worker Toad and transforming them into a Queen.

Fungi are closer evolutionarily to animals than plants, and mushroom cells are structured by chitin, the same substance found in insect exoskeletons, making a toad-to-human evolution possible.

Fair-skinned babies are born with light-colored eyes due to little melanin, but melanin production increases after birth due to light stimulation, causing eye color to darken over time.

Peachette has gray eyes, clearly different from Peach's blue eyes, suggesting she may be an early form of Peach.

Over time, as Peachette matures, her gray eyes would develop the mature blue color, similar to how human infant eyes change color during development.

Peachette represents a young, freshly groomed Queen, while Peach is the fully developed mature Queen—both the same entity at different life stages.

Queen bees are only groomed when the hive feels the current queen is getting old, dying, or is not around enough, prompting the need for a replacement.

• Peach has been kidnapped repeatedly throughout Mario history • She has been featured in numerous spin-off titles unrelated to the main kingdom • She has been away on various adventures across galaxies, neglecting her duties

Toadette did not officially arrive until 2003, giving Peach decades of grace time to get her act together, but she never did.

With Peach increasingly absent from the Mushroom Kingdom, the hive has begun the grooming process to make room for a new Queen, starting with Toadette.

Once a virgin queen emerges from her royal cell, she communicates with other queen candidates through 'piping'—making a sound called 'tooting' to signal she is ready to fight for the throne.

Rival queens answer back with a sound known as 'quacking,' creating a form of queen communication.

When a virgin queen hears quacking, she eliminates rival queen candidates to become the sole reigning queen—in the game of hives, you win or you die.

Toadette, transformed into Peachette, will need to toot and ultimately kill Princess Peach to become the new reigning Queen of the Mushroom Kingdom.

When Princess Peach returns to the Mushroom Kingdom after being rescued by Mario, she will likely be killed by her own underlings, with no extra lives available.

Nintendo kept this massive lore revelation quiet until the recent Nintendo Direct because the Mushroom Kingdom's hive is finally ready for a new Queen.

• Super Crowns are being produced and distributed • Toadettes are being groomed for the throne • Multiple Peachettes will emerge and compete until only one remains standing

The survivor will mature into a fully grown Peach, becoming the cold and murderous new Queen that the Mushroom Kingdom deserves, with deceptively cold murderous eyes being the last thing the old Peach sees before being eaten alive by tiny mushroom men.