Rather than needing to be rescued, Peach was a capable character throughout The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
There's your problem.
Every other character had flaws that they needed to grapple with, which creates tension and resolution, which is interesting.
If a character is just good at everything then they're boring. It was the exact same problem with Toad (although, of course, women most affected). Would having a backstory for Peach have done anything, or would it just have been more set dressing?
Here's a pitch: Peach gets captured instead of Luigi, and stays captured in order to protect the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser, instead of the cringe incel pining he does throughout the movie, now has to grapple with "what does a socially inept dragon-turtle actually do when the object of his affection is a real person, right in front of him?"
Peach's arc is not being able to escape, but finding creative ways to subvert Bowser and help the Marios. This could be getting information about his plans to the Bros, making Bowser doubt himself and make mistakes, and securing the power star for the final encounter.
The problem with feminism, which has always been the problem, is that they don't actually want what they say they want so, when they get it, they just complain more. It's pure jealousy of men for having things, without realizing that there are consequences.
Peach's arc is not being able to escape, but finding creative ways to subvert Bowser and help the Marios. This could be getting information about his plans to the Bros, making Bowser doubt himself and make mistakes, and securing the power star for the final encounter.
Paper Mario (and TTYD) both had really good characterization. The Peach interludes between chapters are great. It's a shame what happened to the series.
There's your problem.
Every other character had flaws that they needed to grapple with, which creates tension and resolution, which is interesting.
If a character is just good at everything then they're boring. It was the exact same problem with Toad (although, of course, women most affected). Would having a backstory for Peach have done anything, or would it just have been more set dressing?
Here's a pitch: Peach gets captured instead of Luigi, and stays captured in order to protect the Mushroom Kingdom. Bowser, instead of the cringe incel pining he does throughout the movie, now has to grapple with "what does a socially inept dragon-turtle actually do when the object of his affection is a real person, right in front of him?"
Peach's arc is not being able to escape, but finding creative ways to subvert Bowser and help the Marios. This could be getting information about his plans to the Bros, making Bowser doubt himself and make mistakes, and securing the power star for the final encounter.
The problem with feminism, which has always been the problem, is that they don't actually want what they say they want so, when they get it, they just complain more. It's pure jealousy of men for having things, without realizing that there are consequences.
Paper Mario did almost exactly this.
Paper Mario (and TTYD) both had really good characterization. The Peach interludes between chapters are great. It's a shame what happened to the series.
One would hope when the Super Mario RPG remake does well commercially, Nintendo finally gets the memo people want a traditional RPG Paper Mario game.
Nintendo isn't capable of actually understanding what people want from things that unfold.
That's why they took the failure of Star Fox Zero to mean that people just didn't want Star Fox, instead of people didn't want motion controls.