Design of WaPeach revealed by Waluigi's creator

The Pink Cat In The Hat

The Pink Cat In The Hat

Honey, it was ruined when she bought it
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I always figured she'd be to Cruella de Vil what Waluigi was to Dick Dastardly. Instead, we get someone who looks like she'd have some connection or another to Ashley.
 
Nintendo were such cowards for rejecting this.

'Didn't want to look like they were just copying Yatterman' WHO CARES tons of characters in Japanese culture are based off the villains from Yatterman.
 
This looks so cute! Why would Nintendo reject something like this? The eyes look nice, and the clothes have a distinct style that I've never seen before. If she got through, I bet she would've been one of my mains easily.

And it's not just Nintendo that's doing this. A former Sega employee just revealed a scrapped Spider design as well as a bat design that may have been turned into Rouge for SA2. But some of these just look so good, it makes me sad they didn't make the cut.
 
Potato, huh. I wonder if there was intended to be some kind of relation to Professor E. Gadd with them sharing those very distinct glasses, or perhaps they just share the same optometrists prescription.
 
I think this overplayed "dark version of character" trope would have spread too far in the Mario series and I'm glad Nintendo kept it in check, whether that was their actual reason for it or not.

Mario having an evil version of himself was a matter of course. He's basically a superstar both out and in his fictional universe, so he'd obviously end up attracting vain imitators (and what we got was executed superbly).

Waluigi was created more out of a gameplay necessity, but I can tolerate the concept. Though, he would have been more interesting if Nintendo went through with his designer's original vision, that is to make him this sharp-toothed, cruel, unrepentant, atrocious monster and professional son of a gun who lives to do bad stuff like how Wario lives for money.

Carrying their torch further with Walpeach would've been unwarranted, nevermind that her design needed some work to become proof of concept imo. Interesting piece of history, though, but not every single character in Miyamoto's holy garden needs a bizarro counterpart.