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Articles About Toad Species
Species Toad
Relevant Individuals Toadette - Toadsworth - Captain Toad

Mushroom!
I hope you can achieve your dreams!
~ Toadette

Background

Toadette is a recurring Toad character in the Mario franchise. Originally introduced as a playable racing partner for Toad in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, she has since appeared in other games as a playable character and has played supporting roles in several titles, and as a main character in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. While she has very similar traits to other characters, she is the most commonly recurring female Toad in the Mario franchise. Toadette has been shown to be on good terms with such characters as Princess Peach, Toad, Toadsworth, and Mario. Toadette's defining traits are her bouncing pigtails, cheerful and energetic personality, and occasional bursts of creativity.

This dropdown contains the synopsis of Toadette’s story. Read at your own risk as you may be spoiled otherwise!

Toadette first appears in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! as Toad's racing partner and an unlockable character. Both Toad and Toadette can be unlocked by winning the Special Cup in 100cc. Additionally, she has her own personal kart, the Toadette Kart. It can only be unlocked by completing the Mushroom Cup in Mirror Mode. Both characters are lightweights, and their special item is the Golden Mushroom. Her artwork depicts her as having a scarlet dress and maroon vest, though in her in-game model, she has a pink dress and vest.

In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Toadette appears whenever Mario discovers a new hammer upgrade or a new pair of Boots. Toadette hosts a tutorial session with Mario and explains how to use the new ability, and whenever Mario uses a new item on the first try correctly, she blushes. During her last tutorial with Mario, Toadette runs off crying knowing she will not see him for the rest of the adventure. After Punio returns to Boggly Woods, Toadette leaves a message on the notice board in Rogueport wondering where he went. If Mario attempts to fix the Happy Lucky Lottery and is caught, Lucky mentions that he had to tell Toadette she will not be able to play. He also claims that this caused her to "burst into tears".

Toadette appears in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker as a playable character alongside Captain Toad, although she is only playable in certain episodes after beating Wingo in Episode 1. Her appearance is made to resemble Captain Toad, as she wears a similar explorer's outfit. While treasure hunting with Captain Toad, Wingo appears and grabs the Power Star the Toads just retrieved. While the Captain gets knocked over, she tries to grab back the Power Star, but fails; instead, Wingo flies away with both the Star and Toadette. After a long journey, Captain Toad arrives to Wingo's Watchtower, defeats Wingo and saves Toadette, retrieving another Power Star in the process. The two jump in a minecart as the first credits roll.

In the second episode, the two Toads go treasure hunting again, but after retrieving a Power Star, Wingo appears once more. This time, the Toads play opposite roles in the adventures of Episode 1. Toadette gets knocked over, while the Captain tries to grab the Star back, but instead gets carried away by Wingo with the Star in hand. Toadette goes off to save the Captain and is played in all levels of the chapter. She heads first to Pyropuff Peak and then to Battle Tower. After the Captain is saved, Wingo appears and takes both the Power Star and Toadette again.

In the third episode, Wingo taunts the Captain, showing him Toadette and taking the Power Star, then flies away. While flying, he loses Toadette and she sets off to find the Captain. About half of the episode's levels are, in fact, played by Toadette. In the second-to-last level, Scalding Scaffold Sinkhole, Toadette retrieves yet another Power Star, but upon doing so, Wingo steals both the Star and Toadette. Captain Toad then fights and defeats Wingo for the second and last time to save Toadette. The two ride a minecart as the credits roll. At the end of the credits, Captain Toad sees a Green Star falling through the sky and sets off to take it. Toadette remains in the minecart instead and looks to the player, confused. Her whereabouts in Super Mario 3D World are unknown.

In the Bonus Episode, Toadette is played as during the three Mummy-Me chase levels. She also appears to congratulate Captain Toad at the end of Mummy-Me Maze Forever.

In the Nintendo Switch exclusive DLC Special Episode, Toadette hunts for the Shiny Crowns and Super Crown alongside Captain Toad. Unlike other chapters, Toadette can only be played as in multiplayer. As the chapter progresses, Toadette shows less interest in the common Shiny Crowns than Captain Toad, as she is really looking for the Super Crown, which is located on the 30th floor of the Grand Labyrinth. Once the last stage is completed, Chapter 1's ending sequence then plays, but the Super Crown is present. Notably, Toadette does not put the crown on and transform into Peachette in this game.

General Information

Name: Toadette

Origin: Mario Kart: Double Dash

Sex: Female

Age: Unknown

Classification: Female Toad

Species: Toad

Occupation: Doctor, Captain, Party Host

Status: Alive

Alignment: Varies on roles (Mario and his friends are noted to be akin to a troupe of actors, taking on different roles depending on the game[1], thus depending on the role, Toadette can take more antagonistic roles or more heroic), normally Neutral Good (Toadette normally aids Mario and friends on their journey in saving Princess Peach from Bowser)

Codex Statistics

'Tier: Varies. 8-B, up to 2-C. Far Higher with Power-Ups

Cardinality: Varies

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Varies (Mario and his friends are noted to be akin to a troupe of actors, taking on different roles depending on the game[2], with his gimmick being attributed to the same as Mickey Mouse,with their strength and skills even being shown to vary with it being shown with Mario being unable to take on Wario in his pixelated form due to the Wario using a different physiology to make him be unable to interact requiring him to turn to a similar physiology to beat him). City Block level (Stated to be stronger then Princess Peach, one-shot Bowser, can easily defeat Boom Boom, who is a consistent challenging threat to Mario. Mario has been able to casually destroy castles on multiple occasions. Comparable to Bowser and the Koopalings, who can survive being crushed by their own castle. Comparable to Yoshi, who can defeat Baby Bowser as he's bigger than his castle), up to Universe level (Can harm Wario, who defeated the Black Jewel. The Black Jewel's power created a parallel universe and can manipulate it. Its death destroyed the universe with Wario still being inside. Defeated Bowser during Mario Party 5, who was going to destroy each dream world one by one. A dream world is stated to be the size of a universe. Can Princess Peach and Bowser, who all survived and can walk inside the incomplete Void, which destroyed all of Sammer Kingdom and its space-time). Far Higher with Power-Ups (Many of Daisy's general items increase her strength. Can enter forms such as the elephant state where she can casually knock enemies away just by moving into them. The Super Star makes her able to one-shot anyone just by running into them, including the likes of Bowser. Is equipped with Power Stars, in which a single one can greatly increase Luigi's power and strength, up to 10x per star)

Durability: Varies. City Block level (Can survive attacks from those can preform similar feats to her, such as Luigi, Toad, and Toadette), up to Universe level (Comparable to characters who survived and can walk inside the incomplete Void, which destroyed all of Sammer Kingdom and its space-time. Survived attacks from Bowser, Luigi, Princess Peach, Wario, and many others who have similar feats), Far Higher with Power-Ups

Striking Strength: Varies. City Block Class, up to Universe Class. Far Higher with Power-Ups

Lifting Strength: Varies. Class G (Comparable to Mario who can lift up an entire castle and kick it with ease and pull back a Chain Chomp made out of gold) to Multi-Stellar (Stronger than Power Star users, which can move stars and send them flying. Can escape the inside of a black hole and resist its pull), Far Higher with Power-Ups

Travel Speed: Varies. Supersonic (Can stomp on Bullet Bills and cannonballs) to Faster Than Light (Can fight off those with similar reaction speeds, such as Luigi. Tagged the Fake Millennium Star, who can fly to the center of the universe. Outpaced Power Star, Grand Star, and Green Star users, which can cross galaxies, pass galaxy clusters, fly to the center of the universe, and are faster than Mini-Stars, which can fly around the universe. Faster than Star Bits, which can keep up with the Launch Star. Comparable to Princess Rosalina, who can kick a ball to another planet), Far Higher with Power-Ups

Attack Speed: Varies. Supersonic (Can stomp on Bullet Bills and cannonballs) to Faster Than Light (Can fight off those with similar reaction speeds, such as Luigi. Tagged the Fake Millennium Star, who can fly to the center of the universe. Outpaced Power Star, Grand Star, and Green Star users, which can cross galaxies, pass galaxy clusters, fly to the center of the universe, and are faster than Mini-Stars, which can fly around the universe. Faster than Star Bits, which can keep up with the Launch Star. Comparable to Princess Rosalina, who can kick a ball to another planet), Far Higher with Power-Ups

Reaction Speed: Varies. Supersonic (Can dodge and react to Bullet Bills and cannonballs) to Faster Than Light (Can view lasers as slow in comparison to him. Reacts to the landing when using Launch Stars, which can send you to the edges of the universe), Far Higher with Power-Ups

Stamina: Superhuman (Several minigames display Toadette running around, fighting, and dodging obstacles for entire days without showing any hint of being tired. Able to breathe underwater and do an entire race underwater without losing air), Far Higher with various items

Range: Standard Melee, Extended Melee with Baseball Bat, Golf Club, and Transformed Tennis Racket, Tens of Meters with the mega mushroom granting her this size, Kilometers with Items (Can send someone items from far distances, along with swap items from far distances and Battlefield Removal someone to far distances, with stages being this huge, reaching up into the clouds), Universal with Power Stars

Intelligence: Extraordinary Genius Intelligence (Is very knowledgeable on the many different items Mario obtains during The Thousand Year Door, built a papercraft to counteract a powerful machine has a doctorate and is a doctor on the same scale as Mario whose been a highly skilled doctor as early as an infant, curing diseases and life threatening viruses and he even created his own medicine that cured a patient a scientist himself could not, which Doctor Toadette is comparable too. Should be comparable to the Mario Party 2 cast who were able to figure out a riddle that people couldn’t figure out for over 2000 years)


Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Human Achievements (Skilled at shooting in basketball. Skilled in soccer. Skilled a volleyball), Acrobatics (Displayed incredibly acrobatic flips and jumps on a level of trained ninjas. Can perform superhuman leaps, and gain extra air time by repeatedly fluttering their feat), Martial Arts (Can sumo wrestle), Vehicular Mastery (Can drive around in a jet for a race. Can ride around in a shell-like vehicle down a tube. Can ride down a race track in a boat. Able to race in race cars), Preparation (Built a papercraft to counteract a powerful machine), Aquatic Breathing (Able to breathe underwater and do an entire race underwater without losing air. Can all breathe underwater in Deep Blooper Sea. Can fight within a bubble completely filled with water without needing air), Self-Sustenance (Respiratory Self-Sustenance; Can breathe in space land just fine), Weapon Usage (Can use guns to shoot several balloons floating in the sky. Can use boomerangs in combat. Able to stab flying fruit with a rapier), Cartoon Physics (Completely fine after having their entire body charred by fire), Aura (Can build up an energy charged aura to produce a powerful hit from her bat. Can charge aura to hit a powerful golf club shot that generates electricity around it), Forcefield Creation & Flight (Toadette can create a bubble to prevent any damage or hazards), Statistics Amplification (Her aura also amplifies her speed and strength making her run faster then before), Regeneration (Mid. Can regenerate from being crushed and flattened), Supernatural Resilience (Completely fine after having their entire body charred by fire), Immortality (Regenerative Immortality; Can regenerate from being crushed and flattened. Reliance on Concept; Toadette is protected by both The Desire, a force that overrides the laws of the universe through the desire to be reunited with someone important to them, in Toadette’s case being Toad), Fate Manipulation (Toadette is protected by The Desire, which defies time, space, and the laws of the universe in order to reunite her with her special ones, such as Toad), Pseudo-Flight (Can walk in the air), Creation (Can create turnips from nothing), Limited Intangibility (Phasing. Like Mario when Toadette takes damage, she enters a state where she flickers, being invincible from damage showing in canon cutscenes that taking damage does indeed revert Mario's form, which is what causes the flickering shown again here), Glyph Creation (Can create mushroom glyphs she can hop on), Perception Manipulation (Slows down her perceptions when doing a powerful tennis shot), Non-Standard Interaction (Metaphysical Interaction; Boo is a playable character who characters can interact with and harm), Air Manipulation (Can spin around fast enough to become a tornado), Status Effect Inducement (Can attack opponents causing them to be stunned for a brief period of time), Ice Manipulation (Can throw snowballs at an opponent, freezing them solid), Wish Granting (Bowser notes this world grants wishes to those who wishes it. Everyone in the Mario verse makes a wish to the Star Spirits with even villains such as Koopa Kid getting their wish of always wanting to be with Bowser and Bowser getting his wish for a strong opponent), Light Manipulation (With a Toad's emotions they can restore light to the room), Paint (Like everyone else can use paint which gives the following: Conceptual Manipulation (Like every other character Toadette can remove paint from anyone with any attack. The next set of the abilities are what paint makes up, and thus Toadette can remove them. See Paint (Super Mario Bros.) for extra information and scans on paint), Life Manipulation & Death Manipulation (Paint makes up all of life), Mind Erasure & Memory Erasure (Paint makes up the mind and memory), Metaphysics Manipulation (Soul Manipulation; Paint makes up the souls), Empathic Manipulation (Paint can inflict anger, sadness, self-consciousness, and remove motivation. It can also remove said emotions), Poison Manipulation (Paint can inflict poison), Blood Manipulation (Paint makes up blood), Power Nullification (Paint can nullify abilities and forces you to use an ability that's the same color as the paint)), Able to walk and escape a room, even while completely dizzy.


Resistance to Extreme Colds (All of the cast can move around chilly waters just fine. Able to move in a frozen area just fine. Can travel in an ice cold tundra just fine), Heats (All of the cast can move around spiny dessert just fine. Can run around in the hot dessert just fine. Can stay in a magma hot room just fine), Electricity (Can be fully electrocuted and keep going. The electricity surrounding the electric orb only briefly pauses their movement), Ice Manipulation (Can break out of ice once frozen), Space (Unaffected by the vacuums of space, being able to play entire board games on them), Black Holes (Can resist being pulled into a black hole, and even if pulled in it she survives just fine), Conceptual Manipulation (Can survive attacks from Mario which every one of his attacks are conceptual attacks that take away paint). With the spin jump, Toadette can spin off of: Physical Attacks (Can spin off of spikes, chainsaws and other enemies that’d normally kill her), Fire Manipulation (Can spin off of fireballs, fire enemies that naturally live in lava, lava bubbles, and blue fire), Incorporeal Attacks (Can spin off of ghost), Magic & Transmutation (Can spin off of transmutation spells)
Size Manipulation & Statistics Amplification (With mushrooms, can grow in size allowing her to take extra hits from enemies and break objects she couldn’t beforehand. With mini mushroom, grows extremely tiny, allowing her to jump higher then she could before), Gliding (With acorn suit, can briefly glide in the air), Mimicry (Physiology Mimicry; With Peachette crown, gives her all the innate abilities of Princess Peach), Invulnerability (With starman, is invincible for a brief period of time, being able to one-shot all enemies in her path, including Bowser), Ice Manipulation (With ice flower, shoots ice balls that freeze enemies solid. With the penguin suit, she has essentially the same ability as the ice flower), Fire Manipulation (With fire flower, can shoot out fireballs), Water Walking (With the mini mushroom, she’s able to run on water), Flight (With the P acorn suit, can repeatedly fly upwards infinitely. With the propeller suit, she is able to briefly fly in the air)

Magic (Power Stars are stated to have magic), Statistics Amplification (Mario gets more power and stronger, upon gaining a star. Fast-Foe Comets increases your speed), Healing (Power Stars can heal damages upon touch), Mind Manipulation, Transmutation, Corruption, Empathic Manipulation (Wiggler states the star makes him feel strange, he’s extremely irritated, which after getting rid of the star he suddenly felt far better and more calm. Bowser was going to turn all of the residents from the painting world into monsters), Madness Manipulation (Stated by Toad that being locked up in the walls caused the Toads to slowly become brainwash and fall into madness), Purification (Returning all Power Stars to the castle caused peace to return to the worlds), Flight (Grabbing the Jumbo Star grants the user flight, as well as normal Power Stars), Spatial Manipulation (Bowser used the Power Stars to create an endlessly looping staircase and Power Stars can be alternatively used to override the endless staircase and turn it back into a normal staircase), Power Bestowal (Bowser states he was the one to give his troops their powers), Dimensional Travel (One collecting a Power Star allows them to leave the dimension within the paintings), Resurrection (Was revived by a Power Star given by Bowser), Regeneration (Mid-Godly; Bouldergeist was killed as a ghost, and came back with another body from a new Power Star), Energy Manipulation (Toad states that the Castle is recovering its energy due to Mario collecting power stars), Causality Manipulation (Power Stars can revert parts of stages to re-do their missions and get transparent versions of them), Willpower Manipulation (The Power Stars gave Mario more courage from the castle), Sealing (Bowser used the Power Stars to trap everyone inside the walls of the castle), Power Nullification & Sealing Negation (Power Stars can override the seal Bowser placed on the doors), Creation, Reality Warping & Space-Time (Bowser has created and shaped his own worlds inside of the paintings with the power of the Stars. Obtaining a Power Star can reverse any damage done and recreate what was destroyed), Black Hole Creation (Power Stars have been shown to be black holes), Matter Manipulation (A single Power Star is able to completely remodel the spaceship Lubba was on to work for Mario), Size Manipulation (Power Stars increase the size of various enemies), Forcefield Creation (Can create a barrier across an area), Teleportation (Can teleport around), Fire Manipulation (Can shoot fireballs), Summoning (Can summon other beings), Erasure (Physical Erasure; Power Stars are composed of Mini Stars, which are capable of erasing the physical bodies of opponents), Law Manipulation (Prankster Comets change the effects of galaxies they would normally have, manipulating the area and people within it), Battlefield Removal (Speedy Comets gives you a time limit as to how long you can stay in a galaxy), Statistics Reduction & Life Manipulation (Daredevil Comets reduces your health to one hit point, nullifies giving yourself extra health, and removes all ways to heal yourself. Toad said that life was returning to the castle thanks to the power of the stars), Duplication (Cosmic and Clone Comets can create cosmic clones), Fusionism (Power Stars can fuse together), Mimicry (Physiology Mimicry; Power Stars can create enemies with Mario, Luigi or Wario caps where the wearer that wears them becomes essentially another Mario, Luigi, or Wario). Resistance to Sealing & Power Nullification (Power Stars can override seals)

Velocity Manipulation (Mushroom orb allows the player to roll 2 dice blocks, super mushroom orb allows 3 dice blocks, cursed mushroom orb moves 1-3, and sluggish mushroom orb has the dice block move slowly. With Mushroom Orb, allows the player to roll 2 dice blocks, super ‘shroom orb allows 3 dice blocks, and slow ‘shroom orb has the dice block move slowly. With Triple ‘Shroom Orb, Toad and Toadette use the power of 3 mushrooms to double their Dice Blocks for 3 turns), Metal Manipulation (With metal mushroom orb, the character is also immune to traps), Battlefield Removal (Warp Pipe orb switches places with an opponent), Fire Manipulation (With Podoboo orb, burns an enemy causing them to lose 10 coins), Electricity Manipulation (With zap orb, electrocutes them with each step they take, causing them to lose 5 coins each step), Air Manipulation (With Tweester orb, blows an opponent away to another space), Explosion Manipulation & Status Effect Inducement (With Bob-omb orb, explodes and causes the opponent to halve their movement), Teleportation (With Koopa Troopa Orb, Switches places with any opponent who passes it), Power Nullification (With Toady Orb, takes any orb from an opponent that comes into contact with it. With Mr. Blizzard orb, opponent loses all of their orbs if they come into contact with it), Power Absorption (With Kamek Orb, if an opponent comes into contact, one of their orbs placed on the board will turn into the players), Electricity Manipulation (With zap orb, electrocutes them with each step they take, causing them to lose 5 coins each step), Battlefield Removal (Warp Pipe orb switches places with an opponent)
Transformation & Power Bestowal (Candies transforms the characters into different shapes giving them new abilities, can turn into a stone version of their head with thwomp candy that takes half of an opponent's coins upon contact), Shapeshifting (Can transform into an 8-bit version of themselves. Can shapeshift into a ball that steals coins upon contact), Acrobatics (Their feet turn into a spring allowing them to jump high enough to jump over to the opponent they choose), Aura & Electricity Manipulation (Gains an aura of electricity around themself that electrocutes opponents they choose, removing half of their coins), Air Manipulation & Battlefield Removal (Their feet turn into a tornado that blows enemies far away upon contact), Duplication & Power Nullification (Can turn into 3 smaller versions of themself, who can steal an opponent's orbs by running into them), Fire Manipulation (Gains a fire aura around themself, that gives them two dice blocks), Flight (Gains wings around themself with vampire candy and can steal coins, their legs can turn into a rocket that gives them 3 dice blocks, and can steal stars), Mimicry (Physiology Mimicry; With the Bowser Candy, can transform into Bowser and steal two stars and can roll two dice blocks)
Acrobatics (With cat suit, can freely jump around and climb up objects easily), Surface Scaling (With cat suit, can scale up surfaces), Light Manipulation (Has a rod that shoots a ball of light at the opponent), Vacuum Manipulation, Size Manipulation & Sealing (Has a box that creates a vacuum that can pull characters into the box, shrinking them in size and sealing them within), Fire Manipulation (Has a clown car mech that shoots out 3 fireballs. Red Yoshi can shoot out fireballs), Status Effect Inducement (Has access to the spin jump which can stun enemies), Limited Flight (With cape feather, can fly momentarily, and can stay in the air through keeping momentum. Can briefly fly with racoon leaf), Size Manipulation (With mega mushroom, increases into extreme heights), Creation (With builder’s suit, can create crates), Has access to Yoshi.


Resistance to Magma Manipulation (Can ride lava with dry bones shell)


Equipment

Baseball Bat, Golf Club, Tennis Racket, Triple ‘Shrooms, Mushroom, Fire Flower, Ice Flower, Penguin Suit, Mini Mushroom, Propeller Suit, Acorn Suit, P Acron Suit, Peachette Crown, Starman

Optional Equipment

Mushrooms, Mega Mushrooms, Capsules, Candies, Power Stars, Grand Stars, Bowser Suit, Warp Block, Orbs, Mechs, Vehicles, etcetera.


Notable Techniques

Will be added in a future revision.


Other

Standard Tactics: Toadette is like other New Super Mario Brothers characters opt to use items they have stored before going into battles, she may also use her preparation to build equipment that will help her in the long run.

Weaknesses: Nothing notable.

Note: In Paper Mario Color Splash, the main point of the game is paint. Paint is a concept. As shown in the game, paint encompasses everything. And I mean everything. Paint is shown to be all of land, liquid, life (Once bringing Toad back via paint, Huey states that paint gives life. Additionally, paint can return the blood, organs, and skin to an old fossil that's been dead years ago), mind (Paint can speak to your mind by coloring your thoughts. Paint was able to take over Bowser's body and freely act on their own. Big Paint Stars are also shown to be alive), memory (Toad couldn't remember anything with the loss of paint on his head. Returning paint gave his memories back), emotions, space (even simple holes require paint to function as holes) and souls. Removing any paint would stop making anything work. It's everything.

Gallery

Gallery images will be uploaded in a future revision.

Battle Records

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  1. "If you're familiar with things like Popeye and some of the old comic characters, you would oftentimes see this cast of characters that takes on different roles depending on the comic or cartoon," Miyamoto said. "They might be businessman in one [cartoon] or a pirate in another. Depending on the story that was being told, they would change roles. So, to a certain degree, I look at our characters in a similar way and feel that they can take on different roles in different games."
  2. "If you're familiar with things like Popeye and some of the old comic characters, you would oftentimes see this cast of characters that takes on different roles depending on the comic or cartoon," Miyamoto said. "They might be businessman in one [cartoon] or a pirate in another. Depending on the story that was being told, they would change roles. So, to a certain degree, I look at our characters in a similar way and feel that they can take on different roles in different games."