Junior Detective

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

Junior Detective is a side character in Princess Peach: Showtime! in the levels where Peach uses the Detective Peach transformation. He shows up as himself in The Case of the Missing Mural and The Case of the Rainy-Day Plot, and is used as a fake disguise by a Sour Thief in The Dark Museum & the Purple Mystery.

While he is considered by other Theets to be young and inexperienced for his profession, he makes up for it with his strong enthusiasm for his cases. He follows and advises Detective Peach on their cases, becoming a duo team.

The Case of the Missing Mural

He is first seen hiding behind a billboard, saying he can help solve the situation. However, two police officer Theets who are keeping the nearby museum's front door closed, tell him that they think he's too inexperienced and young for such a case.

Feeling sad that he cannot solve it on his own, Peach cheers him up with Sparkle, who leads her into a detective office nearby. The office is owned by a main detective (later known to be Detective Sparkla) who was out at the time, with Junior Detective struggling to solve a mystery inside the office involving touching four stone bricks in a visible order.

Junior Detective's hiding attempt during the detective test he had set up.

While Peach was in another room and became Detective Peach, Junior Detective had in the meantime set up a test for her, where he left a note on the floor signed by him, footprints on the floor, and his nose peeking out between three pillows on a nearby couch.

Being amazed by Peach's detective skills, he heads back to the museum, and is allowed to go inside by virtue of Detective Peach being taken for being the main detective by the police. Once inside, Junior Detective heads off to the right towards the Theepota mural.

Upon the mural going missing, he wanders around the room in a thinking pose. Seeing Peach crawling through an air vent, he runs after her and into it. Noticing that the Masks of Disguise had been stolen, he concludes that the culprits could be anyone in the room on the right.

After the culprits had been found, Junior Detective heads into the mural room, where the mural is eventually found.

The Case of the Rainy-Day Plot

Junior Detective spotting the suspect from a bench.

Junior Detective stands ready near a bench, arriving five minutes early according to him. He has taken note of a suspect walking down the same street each day, and sits patiently on the bench for a short while until a Sour Bunch member walks by.

He tells Peach to sneak near the suspect and spy on him, but he'll insistently tell Peach if she's walking too close to him, forcing her to take a few steps back.

With the suspect eventually running away from them, they find a note on the ground about a secretive plan at "our" hideout. He points out that the use of "our" indicate there's multiple suspects.

Finding their way through a back alley, they catch up with the main suspect again, who runs into an apartment district that Junior Detective too runs towards. Having eventually found the correct apartment, they sneak their way inside the hallway. He listens in on the suspects' plans, but gets so startled by the mention of a planned bomb, that he accidentally alerts the suspects, who then jump out the window before he could catch up to them.

Making his way to the clock tower to alert the police and to head inside, he instructs Peach to find the correct key to operate the lift. After riding the lift to the next floor, he decides to head out a nearby door quickly. As the main culprit runs toward Junior Detective to attack him, the culprit gets arrested by the police. As the police fails to realize the culprit has accidentally given them a complete clue to them about the bomb being on the top floor, Junior Detective and Peach heads alone into the higher floors.

Junior Detective in the midst of his throw fumble.

In their efforts to reach the top floor, Junior Detective analyze the surroundings while standing still, leaving the work to Peach to get them there.

Having found the bomb on the top floor, and with less than 10 seconds on the clock, Junior Detective spots a river nearby below, and attempts a very long throw. However, he fumbles with three seconds on the clock, leaving Peach to pick up the bomb and make the throw. As a massive explosion occurs below, the case is declared solved.

The Dark Museum & the Purple Mystery

After the museum exhibition puzzle and the resulting portal, Junior Detective shows up on a balcony ahead of Peach, seeking to find Detective Sparkla, shining light on four boxes on the floor beneath, and hopes to figure out which of the four that are the real Sparkla.

Junior Detective retreats back inside the building, to Stella's perplexment. After Detective Sparkla has been freed and is partway through their escape, Junior Detective shows up again, telling the others to hurry up with him through an exit (that later turned out to be fake). Detective Sparkla wants to ask him some control questions just to be sure.

The fake Junior Detective in the immediate aftermath of having been called on the bluff.

Detective Sparkla starts with a trick question, claiming there's no cushions in the office couch, and asking Junior Detective which color he would choose to buy a cushion for the couch. Although perplexed by the situation, Junior Detective answers purple.

Detective Sparkla then asks what time Junior Detective would arrive to a nine o'clock meeting, to which he answers to show up precisely on time.

Laughing a little bit and sensing he's onto something, Detective Sparkla then asks what Junior Detective thinks about Grape. As Junior Detective refers to her as "Madame Grape", his gig is up, and Peach uses Strike of Intuition to call his bluff, revealing the Junior Detective of this level to have been a Sour Bunch member in disguise.

Gallery

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  Photo frames of Junior Detective (right) and Detective Sparkla at their office in The Case of the Missing Mural

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	助手じょしゅ Joshu	Assistant
Dutch	Hulpdetective
French	Assistant du détective	Detective's assistant
German	Hilfsdetektiv
Italian	Assistente del detective Assistente (in textboxes)	Detective's assistant Assistant
Korean	조수 Josu	Assistant
Portuguese	Estagiário
Russian	Помощник детектива Pomoshchnik detektiva
Spanish	Ayudante del detective	Detective's assistant