Pauline

Pauline (originally known as Lady[1]) is the damsel-in-distress in the arcade game Donkey Kong, the installment that marked her debut in both the Donkey Kong and Mario franchises, along with Mario and the titular character who captured her (confirmed in later games to be a younger Cranky Kong). She was Mario's first love interest.

Pauline reprises her damsel-in-distress role in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series. In Super Mario Odyssey, she plays a prominent supporting role singing the theme song of the game, "Jump Up, Super Star!."

Pauline is stated by Game Over, a 1993 non-fiction book by David Sheff, to be named after Polly James, wife of Nintendo of America's warehouse manager, Don James[page number needed], a fact later confirmed by Don James himself at Nintendo's E3 2018 Treehouse Live event[2].