Wanda

Wanda
Species	Fairy
Debut	Mario & Wario

Wanda is a fairy featured in the Japanese-only Mario & Wario. Despite not being the titular character, she is actually the main playable character.

Background

In her original appearance, she is controlled using the Super Famicom mouse. After Wario has gone around dropping buckets (and other objects) on the heads of Mario, Peach, and Yoshi. Rather than remove the item from their head, she had to guide them safely to Luigi, who would wait at the end of a stage to remove the bucket from their head. At the end of each world, she would battle Wario in his Bulldog. Guiding them safely required her to use her wand to defeat enemies, remove obstacles, and to turn the person she was guiding around. At the very end, the character Wanda was guiding boarded their own plane and dropped a bucket on Wario, sending the menace crashing into the ground.

A fairy also appears in the NES version of Wario's Woods to help Toad along with Birdo. This fairy is commonly believed to be Wanda. To help Toad, she would drop bombs to help him clear a row of tiles. When not active, she would be replaced by a Pidgit instead.

Trivia

• Wanda would seem to have some sort of rivalry against Wario, as both of her appearances have her battling him.