Make it believable. When I heard about Peach saving Mario in the movie and athletically clearing courses, I completely lost interest. She is a princess, yet she's also basically the most athletic, physically adept person in the world? Just another "strong" Mary Sue without flaws, because showing a woman failing or not be the most competent person in every situation is a sin now, apparently. Can't have a man being shown as stronger, faster and smarter, never.
With Zelda, they can't isekai Link. He is a Hylian, someone from the same world. If Zelda can affect the outcome of the quest from her gilded cage in the castle, then absolutely, go for it. If she has abilities or knowledge beyond a normal princess, give us a reasonable explanation. Did she analyze notes left by her departed mother like in Spirit Tracks? Did she receive Sheikah training for 7 years like in OoT? Did she live her life leading a pirate crew she inherited from her parents like in Wind Waker? Just make it believable. Because making her able to traverse perilous obstacles with superhuman athetic abilities has never been her suit, and would make no sense if she's been living in a castle all her life. Acting like a tomboy and sneaking out occasionally wouldn't be enough to make it make sense, either. Not for someone whose life was mostly spent sitting down, learning manners and how to rule a kingdom by her retainers who do all the manual labour.
When I heard about Peach saving Mario in the movie and athletically clearing courses
Despite the common narrative around here, that's not really how it goes down. She makes an offhand line that jokingly suggests she one shot the course he just did. And she has lived in the kingdom her whole life compared to his one day, so it would be fucking dumb if she couldn't parkour around the bizzaro architecture the world has.
Its the most believable thing possible, because they decided to Isekai a regular human Mario into the game world while she spent her entire life in it. And after aforementioned training course he is for the most part on her level (despite being half her size) despite not having years of experience to back it up.
But perhaps I actually played Mario games outside the old mainlines, so seeing Peach able to actually run and do stuff like she does in all the spinoffs and most of the non-Odyssey recent games didn't trigger any alarms to me as outlandish.
The entire Kong section where she fails to accomplish the one thing she went there for despite it being her idea, and Mario instead steps up and wins them over through his skill and ability. And when he manages to get rid of the Big Bob-omb, and him and Luigi defeat Bowser in the climax. The only time he is ever shown to be lacking is during the obstacle course which is a literal training montage to justify a regular human learning to platform, and he is otherwise a capable if out of his element Isekai protagonist.
The only time we see her do anything remotely useful is during the wedding, where she was going along with it until a distraction arrived and they as a team fought back.
That's the thing about actually watching a movie instead of just hearing about it from people repeating a narrative they also heard. You can actually name things about it to support your position.
Going out of my way to watch a movie takes effort and time. Not watching it takes none. I'd need a justification to bother with it.
I have your opinion now, and it does sound believable. I'd like to hear from at least another person supporting it for me to decide if it's worth it. Even if it isn't as bad with the boss girl tropes as the rest of modern media, I'd still need to decide if it's something I'd enjoy watching at all.
Make it believable. When I heard about Peach saving Mario in the movie and athletically clearing courses, I completely lost interest. She is a princess, yet she's also basically the most athletic, physically adept person in the world? Just another "strong" Mary Sue without flaws, because showing a woman failing or not be the most competent person in every situation is a sin now, apparently. Can't have a man being shown as stronger, faster and smarter, never.
With Zelda, they can't isekai Link. He is a Hylian, someone from the same world. If Zelda can affect the outcome of the quest from her gilded cage in the castle, then absolutely, go for it. If she has abilities or knowledge beyond a normal princess, give us a reasonable explanation. Did she analyze notes left by her departed mother like in Spirit Tracks? Did she receive Sheikah training for 7 years like in OoT? Did she live her life leading a pirate crew she inherited from her parents like in Wind Waker? Just make it believable. Because making her able to traverse perilous obstacles with superhuman athetic abilities has never been her suit, and would make no sense if she's been living in a castle all her life. Acting like a tomboy and sneaking out occasionally wouldn't be enough to make it make sense, either. Not for someone whose life was mostly spent sitting down, learning manners and how to rule a kingdom by her retainers who do all the manual labour.
Despite the common narrative around here, that's not really how it goes down. She makes an offhand line that jokingly suggests she one shot the course he just did. And she has lived in the kingdom her whole life compared to his one day, so it would be fucking dumb if she couldn't parkour around the bizzaro architecture the world has.
Its the most believable thing possible, because they decided to Isekai a regular human Mario into the game world while she spent her entire life in it. And after aforementioned training course he is for the most part on her level (despite being half her size) despite not having years of experience to back it up.
But perhaps I actually played Mario games outside the old mainlines, so seeing Peach able to actually run and do stuff like she does in all the spinoffs and most of the non-Odyssey recent games didn't trigger any alarms to me as outlandish.
Oh? Then tell me. Is there any point whatsoever in the movie where Mario saves Peach? Or does anything better than her? How often does she save him?
The entire Kong section where she fails to accomplish the one thing she went there for despite it being her idea, and Mario instead steps up and wins them over through his skill and ability. And when he manages to get rid of the Big Bob-omb, and him and Luigi defeat Bowser in the climax. The only time he is ever shown to be lacking is during the obstacle course which is a literal training montage to justify a regular human learning to platform, and he is otherwise a capable if out of his element Isekai protagonist.
The only time we see her do anything remotely useful is during the wedding, where she was going along with it until a distraction arrived and they as a team fought back.
That's the thing about actually watching a movie instead of just hearing about it from people repeating a narrative they also heard. You can actually name things about it to support your position.
Going out of my way to watch a movie takes effort and time. Not watching it takes none. I'd need a justification to bother with it.
I have your opinion now, and it does sound believable. I'd like to hear from at least another person supporting it for me to decide if it's worth it. Even if it isn't as bad with the boss girl tropes as the rest of modern media, I'd still need to decide if it's something I'd enjoy watching at all.