Professor

Professor
Species	Theet
First appearance	Princess Peach: Showtime! (2024)

Professor is a side character in Princess Peach: Showtime! who appears in the three main levels where Peach uses the Mighty Peach transformation: Mighty Mission: Alien Invasion, Mighty Mission: The Rescue, and Dark Space & the Great Meteor. He is the leader of a squad of assistant Theets of his. He has white hair, glasses, blue gloves, and a lab coat with a light blue tie.

He does not show up in Pictioneer's photos of any of the three levels he appears in.

He is the only character other than Peach and the only male character in the game to have an HP bar of his own, but not when he is first encountered in Mighty Mission: Alien Invasion.

Mighty Mission: Alien Invasion

He is first encountered in the second section, as he runs around in panic as two flying creatures set his surroundings on fire and have already destroyed the city's office block. After Peach saves him from the fires and Sour Aliens, he uses his holo-screens to turn on an elevator that lead down to a base, as he believes Peach can help save them and the city.

After having initially sent Peach back up on the elevator, he heads back up to Peach again after the big UFO boss has kidnapped a sphere bunker that the other Theets were hiding in. He sets up an upwards launch function in the elevator that he rose up with, launching Peach into the sky to fly after the big UFO boss and to rescue the kidnapped Theets in the process.

Mighty Mission: The Rescue

He leads a squad of assistant Theets in spacecrafts heading towards a planet ahead, to rescue his squad's scientists. His spacecraft has five HP in itself, and Peach must protect his spacecraft during their flight to the planet. He lands three Theets on the ground to accompany Peach and keeps the other three Theets in their spacecrafts with him.

After having initially landed, he and the other three Theets of his air squadron returns when Peach has reached the caged scientists, and helps set up for Peach's kaiju fight. After the setup, his full squadron flies immediately behind Peach as she takes on and defeats the UFO boss.

Dark Space & the Great Meteor

He flies solo in his spacecraft, wishing to follow Peach in her journey on the floating platform, and also detects a distress signal from Mighty Sparkla. After a while, he decides to speed ahead as the distress signal gets weaker, but he is abducted by a Sour Bunch squid very soon after.

As Peach chases after and defeats the squid that had abducted him, he finds it embarrassing that he had got abducted while on a rescue mission. He then follows Peach to a sphere where Mighty Sparkla is held captive, and hacks his way into a dashboard to free her. During his hacking, he himself has five HP as he needs to be protected from Sour Bunch members by Peach while he is hacking. After succeeding at it, Mighty Sparkla sets up an upwards launch tube, leaving Professor behind.

Quotes

Mighty Mission: Alien Invasion

• "Aaah!" (When under attack by Sour Alien ships at the office block)
  • "Miss! Help, please!"
  • "We need to get out of here! Quickly!"
• "Wow! You're amazing!" (After Peach defeats the Alien Dūkes)
  • "Thank you! You're something special, huh?"
  • "I wonder…"
  • "Let's put your skills to work, shall we?" (when assembling a lift to his underground lab)
• "Would you join me in my laboratory?" (Instructing Peach to board the lift with him)
• "I believe she's the light that will save us!"
  • "Engage the system!"
  • "Young lady, you may have what it takes!" (After the Mighty sparkle has been revealed)
• "You are absolutely a symbol of justice!" (after Peach became Mighty Peach)
  • "Please protect the city and its people!"
  • "It's all up to you!" (As Mighty Peach ascends back to the office block)
• "Sorry I'm late…" (to Peach after the Mothership abducts the Theets in the shelter)
  • "Times like this call for my special invention."
  • "Hop on the lift!"
• "Now go use that power of yours to save everyone! We're all counting on you!" (as Peach blasts off to the sky)

Mighty Mission: The Rescue

• "They abducted our scientists! They must be planning to use our research for some evil purpose!"
  • "We've got to rescue them."
  • "Here they come!" (seeing the Sour Bunch alien ships preparing for the attack from their planet)
  • "Prepare for battle!"
• "The squadron is under attack!" (When some of his wingmen are attacked)
• "You've gotta help!" (Seeing an Alien Squid on a Theed ship)
• "Above you! Watch out!" (Seeing an Alien Squid on another Theet ship)
• "Watch out for the asteroids!" (Approaching the asteroid section)
• "The whole squad is safe!" (When all Theet ships are saved)
  • "So this is what their homeworld looks like..."
  • "Looks like we've got no choice but to fight!" (As Peach battles the UFO Mech)
• "I knew we could count on you, Hero!"
  • "Everyone, assume landing formation!"
  • "Advance!"
• "We'll search for their base from the sky!"
  • "Be careful as you move ahead, OK?"
• "There you are!"
  • "Glad to see everyone's safe. Excellent work!"
• "My system is charged up and ready to activate."
  • "Do you think you can handle this for us?"
• "Now you're unstoppable!" (After Peach became mega to battle the Sour UFO Mothership)

Dark Space & the Great Meteor

• "I thought I'd monitor your progress in person..."
  • "and it's a good thing I did! I'm picking up the Sparkla's distress signal over there!"
  • "We don't know what kind of trouble they're in, so I'll come with you!"
• "The platform will take you where we need to go." (once Peach is on the moving platform)
  • "Come on, let's hurry!"
  • "Look out!" (Upon spotting Alien Dūkes)
  • "It's all up to you!" (when the Alien Dūkes attack Peach’s platform)
• "Uh-oh. The distress signal is weak..."
  • "I'm going to speed ahead!"
  • "Aaah!" (When his spacecraft gets shot down and gets captured by an Alien Squid)
• "Captured on a rescue mission... Embarrassing." (After Peach defeats the Alien Squid freeing him)
  • "The signal is close. Let's hurry!"
• "Ooh, Mighty Sparkla! Hold on!"
  • "I should be able to unlock this."
  • "Huh?!"
• "Yikes!" (When Alien Dūkes descend on meteors)
  • "Buy me some time!"
• "OK, first I do this..." (unlocking the first shield)
• "And then next is this..." (unlocking the second shield)
• "Oh, and turn this off..." (unlocking the third shield)
• "And reverse this..." (unlocking the fourth shield)
• "As for this..." (unlocking the last shield)
  • "Aha!"
  • "OK, the shields are unlocked!"
  • "Now you just need to destroy the capsule!"
• "Ack!" (Upon hearing a meteor shower approaching)
• "Our escape isn't going to be so easy..."

Gallery

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  Professor leading his squadron at the start of Mighty Mission: The Rescue

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	博士[?] Hakase	Professor
Dutch	Professor[?]	-
French	Professeur[?]	Professor
German	Professor[?]	-
Italian	Professore[?]	Professor
Korean	박사[?] Baksa	?
Portuguese (NOA)	Professor[?]	-
Russian	Профессор[?] Professor	-
Spanish	Profesor[?]	Professor