20th January 2017, 6:04 AM
Both the Mario Adventure comic and Super Mario RPG also played with the idea of the princess always getting kidnapped. It was already considered a comically overdone plot device by the time of Super Mario World. The comic had Luigi get kidnapped because they thought he was the princess and she breaks in to rescue him. Also, she does get kidnapped but breaks out herself (with a massive assortment of explosives). Mario RPG had the game open with Mario already facing off against Bowser while Peach gives him tips and hints on how to beat him. She gets kidnapped AGAIN later by not-Wario and after all that, and being told she would be safer at the castle, she makes a break for it Mary Poppins style and joins your party. Namely, the things she says are pretty hilarious and she's got some pretty good points about all this. (Not to mention Bowser also joins your party. Super Mario RPG is just great.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)