Rosalina

Super Smash Series and Mario Kart Rosalina debuted in the game Super Mario Galaxy as the adoptive mother of all the Lunas. While she is pinnacle to the story, she is an unplayable character within the game. She is only playable in side-games that don’t have plot, such as Super Smash Brothers and Mario Sports games.

This idealizes the character – that she is only important as a side, which is a idea that Anita Sarkeesian discusses in depth in her youtube videos.

This objectification of Rosalina as a side-kick, demonstrates a general disregard for females as powerful characters. She is portrayed as a blond, blue eyed, pink nailed girly girl who is clueless, and dumb. Also, she apparently only comes in one posture, it’s hard to find her doing anything else.

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