Toad (Japanese: キノピオ, Hepburn: Kinopio) is an imaginary personality who mainly shows up in Nintendo s Mario franchise. A humanoid with a mushroom-like head, Toad was created by Japanese video game developer Shigeru Miyamoto, and also is represented as a person of the Mushroom Kingdom as well as is among Princess Peach s many faithful assistants, frequently dealing with her behalf. He is generally viewed as a non-player personality who offers assistance to Mario as well as his pals in a lot of video games, however there are times when Toad takes spotlight and shows up as a lead character, as seen in Super Mario Bros. 2, Wario s Woods and also Super Mario 3D World. While Toad is the name of a private, it also describes his entire race (a lot like Yoshi, Birdo and Kirby from the Kirby series). However, in very early video games, the types was called Mushroom Retainers, in Japan they were called Kinoko-zoku (キノコ族), essentially Mushroom Individuals (which is an alternate name utilized in ea...