Why isn't Pauline as popular as the other Mario girls?

Why isn't Pauline as popular as the other Mario girls?

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its because Pauline is not a princess. Mind you if she was I guarantee you she would be above daisy and Rosalina in popularity

She was awkwardly shoved into a corner for years and years. She's absolutely the best of them all though.

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They need to put her in more games. Simple as that.

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what did Cumalot mean by this design

>daisy
Not a high bar
>rosalina
Yea right

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>as popular
She's basically what Rosalina was to 7th gen Mario, with the added prestige benefit of being Mario's original girlfriend
>Mario's appearance in Smash Ultimate comes with a New Donk City stage where she makes an appearance and sings Odyssey's signature song
>Mario sports games and Mario Kart Tour gave her a spotlight
>god knows if they go multiple playable characters in the next 3D Mario like 3D World she'll probably be playable next to Peach and Rosalina
>the damsel in distress for Mario vs Donkey Kong titles
>will probably be the first post-launch character added to Mario Strikers
>comfortable bet for the next Smash roster

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Her name isn't punchy and marketable enough. Nobody finna care about a chick named Pauline

I have a hunch that she’s Mario’s Italian sister and they’re the children of the original Jumpman & Lady. Although that would make a lot of certain existing fanart kinda awkward.

She barely appears in anything, there you go.

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She seems pretty popular despite being similar to Daisy, a Mario character with no observable role. Say what you will about Rosalina, but at least her job is to manage the creation of the universe. Pauline by comparison is like Daisy, just some pointless extra. Though unlike Daisy Nintendo actually tried to give Pauline a role of some type, but the problem is how useful is mayor of New Donk City going to be for the Mario world? Mario lives in the Mushroom Kingdom and though he takes adventures in many parts of the world like Delfino Islands or Dinosaur Land, how often is Mario going to return to New Donk City to see Pauline? You would need to create and force reasons to have Mario reunite with Pauline in New Donk City.

And suppose Pauline stops being the mayor of New Donk City, then she's demoted to being again similar to Daisy, a female character with no observable role. Even Toadsworth had a role being the chancellor of the Mario kingdom and Nintendo got rid of him. Egad is the stereotype scientist of the franchise and Nintendo doesn't even use him very much despite how flexible he could be as a character, so Pauline doesn't inspire hope.

What kind of official Pauline toys/merchandise should Nintendo start selling?

To be fair now the first damsel Mario rescued in the arcade Donkey Kong? That's not Pauline. It's literally a pink dress blonde haired female called Lady. She was prototype Peach basically. Pauline didn't actually get created until the Game Boy Donkey Kong game.

Lots of people get this confused.

A scale of her in that sexy red dress

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a fleshlight of her plump red lips

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Peach is named after a fruit, I don't think Nintendo is trying to create cool stand out names for the sake of marketing. For goodness sake Samus from Metroid has a cool unique name, but how successful is Metroid compared to Nintendo's darling mascot Mario franchise? There you go. Names don't mean too much.

Though for what it's worth I prefer Bowser over Koopa.

Anyone else weirded out by how tall Pauline is despite being one of the cartoony Mario characters? Rosalina and Walugi used to be the tallest ones, but now Pauline is the tallest. Visually she looks out of place compared to the other Mario characters.

And seeing her be the mayor of a city of realistic humans, by the standards of what the Switch can do, makes Pauline look more out of place.

Cuz normal people played Mario 64, loved it, and then grew out of this shit.

A plush doll

user, Pauline explicitly mentions being kidnapped and the entire point of the New Donk City world is to be a deliberate call back to Donkey Kong

Then it seems like a retcon because the arcade Donkey Kong sprite does not even vaguely look like Pauline.