Pauline

So I think there's a lot you could do here.

And the addition of Pauline, uh, kind of adds an interesting layer of complexity that you could add to like a smash character moveset.

Yeah, I was actually just thinking it would be cool if like Pauline or Smalleen was actually like riding on DK's back in the matches.

Like she's actually in Smash as part of DK's moveset.

I think that would be so cool.

And I love that you mentioned the terrain stuff because I feel like you can't have Bonanza DK without, you know, having that kind of ability to rip out terrain and use it against your enemies.

Like you said, the chunk jump would be a great recovery move or even like a midair downbeat to hit enemies real hard if you end up directly above them.

I would love to see him use that kind of chunk surf to get around more quickly because he's a slower, heavier guy, right? And having Pauline on his back I think would add so much just to the just to the general visual splendor of his animations like I could picture her like hanging on for dear life as he's charging at an enemy you know or or something like that or her encouraging DK after after he loses a stock.

It's difficult to say if or how the cartoon influenced these changes, but it's enough to observe that the Super Show identified a need in Mario's mythos for a stronger female figure than the passive and largely absent Peach of the first Super Mario Bros. game.

In this book, I analyze the origins of Pac-Man, Ms. Pac-Man, also baby Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Pauline, Mario, Peach, Luigi, Toad, Koopa, Link, Zelda, Ganon, Mega Man, Rush, Dr.

Light, Dr. Wily, Roll, the descendants of Lotto or Erdrick from the Dragon Quest series, Captain N, Princess Lana, and the N-Team, among others.

To consider how these characters formed, how they changed, and how they moved through a complex of folkloric forms to create a compelling fantasy.

Miyamoto originally planned to create a Popeye game, as the character was popular in Japan, but Nintendo struggled to find a way to portray the Popeye characters using the technology available.

And so, Donkey Kong, Jumpman, and the Beautiful Girl replaced the Popeye characters.

Donkey Kong was a giant ape who kidnapped the beautiful girl, renamed Pauline, but was undone by Jumpman, who was renamed Mario.

Nintendo of America, founded as a subsidiary in 1980, had 3,000 radarscope machines, but they only managed to sell about a third of them, again because the game wasn't very popular.

Mm

... and then a Donkey Kong game comes out, like, a month later, and so you would assume, "Oh, well, they'll do an update around that where there's new costumes for Pauline and-"

Yeah

... put more of the Kongs in there, and there's more costumes for Donkey Kong.

Do a little cross, but also Donkey Kong only has one costume in the game.

Donkey Kong and Pauline both only have one

costume in the game.

What are we

Thank you so much.

Kabob says, "Where are the DK and Pauline outfits in Mario Kart World?" What an excellent question.

Yeah.

How did they not do that? How was there not a Donkey Kong Mario Kart World drop the month Bonanza came out?

Yeah.

So there's no reason-

Pauline had a couple, but Pauline was old at that point.

Yeah.

But if you're doing it docked, do two player and then have a second player use the mouse to take stuff out.

Kind of like Pauline in Donkey Kong, right? Like kind of a similar thing there.

But then you have to play with somebody else.

So maybe that...

Oh, please do.

Tammy Vance is voiced by longtime voice actor Judy Strangas, who is best known to me as Pauline from the Ruby Spears Donkey Kong cartoon that aired in the 80s as part of Saturday Supercade, on which she often says, help! And she says help three different times in this episode.

And I think that's a callback to her playing Pauline.

I can't prove that, though.

She's also Dino Girl in Electro Woman and Dino Girl, which was a live action Sid and Marty Krofft production about a team of female superheroes, which...

But the Nintendo Direct is September 9th.

They'll finally announce Pauline vs. Donkey Kong, the revival of the Mario Donkey Kong franchise.

Get that fucker out of there.

Nobody cares about him.

You know, from Pocopia, I've been on that grind saying like, if you're going to, I really think like Pocopia was a huge success for them.

They could maybe, you know, another Mario character with maybe like Pauline or something.

I don't think it would be a ton of characters.

I think if they were going to do a deluxe edition, it would probably be a new mode and maybe the announcement of a new challenger pass.