Dorrie
Dorrie is a fictional blue plesiosaur in the Mario franchise. He first appears in Super Mario 64. Dorrie has been suggested to be based on the mythical Loch Ness Monster, but this has not been officially confirmed.
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| First game: | Super Mario 64 (1996) |
| Gender: | Male (most appearances) Female (Mario Party 3) Neutral (Super Mario Odyssey) |
| Species: | Plesiosaur |
Dorrie has been inconsistently gendered throughout his appearances, and despite having a feminine name, Dorrie is usually a male. Mario Party 3 is the only appearance where Dorrie is a female, but in Super Mario Odyssey, Dorrie is gender-neutral.
Mario game appearances
Super Mario series
Super Mario 64 / Super Mario 64 DS
In Super Mario 64 and its Nintendo DS version, Super Mario 64 DS, Dorrie appears in a circular lake on the lowest floor of Hazy Maze Cave. Dorrie willingly allows Mario to ride on her, which is required to reach certain ledges, as well as obtain the Power Star associated with Hazy Maze Cave's first mission, Swimming Beast in the Cavern. Dorrie swims in whichever direction Mario is facing. If Mario ground-pounds Dorrie's back, she whimpers and lowers her head for Mario to climb on, which he is required to do in order to access the Cavern of the Metal Cap.
In Super Mario 64 DS, Dorrie's physical appearance was updated to give him yellow goggles. The mission Swimming Beast in the Cavern now requires Wario to ride on Dorrie, as the Power Star is inside of a large boulder which only he can break.
New Super Mario Bros.
In New Super Mario Bros. Dorrie appears in two levels, World 4-1 and World 4-6. Mario or Luigi can ride on Dorrie, much like in Super Mario 64 (or, in Luigi's case, Super Mario 64 DS). This time, Dorrie's role is adjusted to suit the side-scrolling gameplay, and Mario or Luigi is required to ride on Dorrie to travel across the poisoned water. It is still possible to ground-pound Dorrie, and by doing so, he not only lowers his head but also moves faster.
Mario Party series
Mario Party 3
In Mario Party 3, Dorrie is featured both within and in the title of the Item Minigame, Dorrie Dip. Here, the player's character can ground-pound Dorrie's back so that she retrieves an item on one of the rotating rafts, but if a Koopa Kid is selected, the player loses.
Mario Party Advance
In Mario Party Advance, Dorrie is one of the denizens of Shroom City, living in Loch Dorrie within the jungle area. Dorrie is lonely and wishes that he has a dinosaur friend, so Yoshi is required to visit Dorrie. If Yoshi agrees to befriend Dorrie, he rewards Yoshi with the Soil Sonar Gaddget.
Despite Dorrie's newfound friendship with Yoshi, the epilogue states that the two of them have not seen each other in a long time.
This is the last game where Dorrie is designed after his appearance in Super Mario 64, rather than wear goggles in Super Mario 64 DS and all later appearances of Dorrie after Mario Party Advance.
Miscellaneous
Other than a few physical appearances, a few of the Mario Party games only feature cameo appearances of Dorrie or feature aquatic structures designed after him.
In Mario Party 2, Dorrie's technical debut in the series, he appears only in the lake in the background of the board, Mystery Land.
In the Mario Party 4 minigame Right Oar Left?, each team uses their own plastic paddle boat modeled after Dorrie, and their goal is to escape a cavern before the opposing side does.
In the Mario Party 5 minigame Tug-o-Dorrie, each of the four players stand on their own giant plastic Dorrie (colored blue, red, yellow, and green respectively), and the goal for each character is to pull their opponents off of the giant Dorrie until only one of them remains.
List of game appearances
- Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64) - 1996
- Super Mario 64: Shindō Pak Taiō (Nintendo 64) - 1997
- Mario Party 2 (Nintendo 64) - 1999 (cameo)
- Mario Party 3 (Nintendo 64) - 2000
- Mario Party 4 (Nintendo GameCube) - 2002 (non-physical)
- Mario Party 5 (Nintendo GameCube) - 2003 (non-physical)
- Super Mario 64 DS (Nintendo DS) - 2004
- Mario Party Advance (Game Boy Advance) - 2005
- New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo DS) - 2006
- Super Mario Odyssey (Nintendo Switch) - 2017