Waluigi is a skinny-ass tall dude with a penchant for purple who wears an upside down L on his
hat.
His mustache is too skinny and he has a big stupid pink nose to go along with his giant
head and pointy ears.
Everyone in the mushroom kingdom hates him and his stupid voice, even bowser thinks he’s
a piece of crap.
the only guy who can handle his shenanigans is Wario, but that's not saying much cause
Wario also sucks and smells like farts.
Waluigi isn’t even special enough to get his own game, which pretty lame, (looking
at YOU captain Toad!) and in all honesty there isn’t much known about this Mario world
version of slender man.
What does he do?
Why does he do it?
WHERE DID HE COME FROM?
There are no answers to any of these questions.
Well, at least not straight answers…AND I’M NOT TALKIN’ ABOUT HARVEY MILK!
All we know is that Waluigi looks like he woke up miserable with Bobby Lee in his bed
after a long night of partying and that he’s really good at dancing, and sports…
Man, strap a pair of ugg boots on this guy and send him to state cause he basic!
He’s just a cross chopping, Luigi hating, (possibly dutch) guy with a bad attitude and
a voice like he’s getting over trachea surgery and a deviated palate while sucking down helium
straight from the tank.
With that being said, ironically Waluigi is one of the best characters in the Mario franchise,
in my humble opinion.
I don’t know!
i like a guy that makes me laugh, what can i say?
Also i’m a big fan of purple, underrated color there, purple is good.
Fancy.
Anyway, for almost 2 decades now people have been speculating over this wacky counterpart
to wario.
There’s got to be more to him than simply being a tennis partner for wario right?
Well mr smarty smart person you are correct, so strap in and strap on, and prepare yourself!
for a story of a man with borderline osteo issues who can totally reach that peanut butter
on the top shelf.
For an autobiographical study on a guy with some serious rage issues and virtually no
friends.
FOR AN EXEMPLUM of what it's like to truly be the odd man out, this is Waluigi’s story,
the story, YOU, never knew….
Waluigi has been around since the year 2000 and appeared in over 40 games since.
Despite having a portfolio longer than most franchise representatives he has never had
his own game.
This little fact presents major problems when trying to figure his ass out.
Mostly because he has no official backstory.
At least none within the lore of any game.
However we do know why he was created.
It was simply to be a perfect tennis partner for Wario in mario tennis for the n64.
If you look at Wario, he’s a short little fat dude, like Danny DeVito.
So to counter his shortcomings the guys at camelot games came up with the concept for
Waluigi.”physically the opposite of Wario, mixed with a bizzaro version of Luigi”.
Wario has an upside down “M” on his hat, so Waluigi got an upside down “L” on his
hat.
People have speculated that its actually not an “L” but the symbol for “gamma”
but that’s stupid, you’re stupid.
Let’s be real, the Mario franchise isn’t exactly known for their deep character design
choices.
Mario is an Italian plumber in red, so his brother wears green and is a little taller.
Peach is a princess so she wears a dress and a crown, deep stuff.
Its an upside down “L.” However, Waluigi wasn’t created by nintendo, he was created
by Fumihide Aoki (which I definitely pronounced wrong) with camelot games during development
of Mario Tennis.
Nintendo signed off on the design but the company is known to be finicky with characters
they didn't create themselves.
For instance, Diddy Kong; who was created by rare for donkey kong country in the mid
90’s, didn't show up in Smash Brothers until brawl came out for the wii.
Waluigi is just like that.
Unlike Diddy Kong who had multiple games to flesh out his backstory and personality, thanks
to rare.
Waluigi is a mario character created by a third party which rarely happens.
He is also official which is even more uncommon, the only other cases being Shy Guys and Birdo
from Doki Doki panic, wart too though he’s rarely used but i guess he counts?
Other beloved characters like Geno and Mallow from Mario RPG are still owned by Square who
made the game.
But Waluigi, he’s got nothing.
Except talent and character!
He’s also been the big baddy twice in some of the franchise’s spin off games.
When it comes to sports and dancing waluigi can pretty much do it all.
Tennis, golf, kart racing, soccer, DDR, the man is king.
He’s also super strong, look at him kick the shit out of Bowser like it’s nothing!
It usually takes Mario 8 worlds of running and jumping to work up to a feat like that!
But one decent kick from those stork-like legs and King Koopa is down for the count.
Incredible.
But we still haven't answered the most important and looming question that revolves around
the long legged purple powerhouse, and that’s... “why?”
We covered the Mario Tennis thing but what about the...wh-why does he keep existing?
Really though, why does he exist ever-onwards, why does he play these games and hate Luigi
and never get a game of his own or become playable in Super Smash Brothers?
Why is he so good at DDR?
What's the deal?
Well despite the lack of a solid or significant backstory there are important (however tiny)
pieces of information to be gathered from game manuals tied to his appearances.
A desire of his is to achieve the love and glory the mario brothers receive, but he can
never seem to do it.
Because of this, he hates all the characters in the Mushroom Kingdom and can only tolerate
Wario.
It’s said he genuinely dislikes others being happy.
Realistically though, Waluigi comes out of nowhere and is labeled as Luigi’s rival,
which could explain his lack of significance in the greater Mushroom Kingdom lore.
i mean, he chose the second most ignored main character to be the person he based his entire
life on beating, kind of a dumb move.
Waluigi randomly appears with Wario at a tennis tournament, pissed cause he wasn’t invited,
and i guess we just accepted it?
He asks if he can play too but Luigi says no and makes fun of him instead.
And then...IT WAS ON.
Although, APPARENTLY there was previous beef in this relationship, and this beef may be
the point where Waluigi finally broke.
He shows back up again in Mario Party 3 as the main villain with his own island as the
final world.
This is also the game where he defeated bowser with a single kick.
After inevitably losing, Waluigi comes back again as the main villain in, get this: Dance
Dance Revolution Mario Mix.
In this game he has stolen the music keys which he uses to make himself the best dancer
in order to “hypnotize the rythemless masses” and “flood the world with chaos…”
As far as main roles, this is all Waluigi has ever had, every other appearance of his
has been as an optional character.
And it gets even more sad than that.
The only other person he has any association with is Daisy, having some strange kind of
crush on her, but just like everyone else, she hates his stinky guts.
Even more than Wario, Waluigi seems to be the most despised character in the Mario universe,
but that might be due to his motivations, or lack-thereof.
You see, Wario as a villain makes sense, he’s disgusting, greedy and wants nothing more
than to be the richest most powerful person on earth.
A megalomaniac if you will.
People, even evil people, can be understood, analyzed, predicted and manipulated.
But Waluigi wants none of that.
All he wants is for people to be unhappy.
At this point all he desires is opportunity to cause chaos.
He isn’t there to take what you have, he’s there for no other reason than to mess everything
up for everyone.
Glory is only a side benefit from wanton destruction, if everyone else is in tatters because of
chaos you automatically become the person on top.
However is this truly Waluigi’s end goal?
And what of his fixation on Luigi, how does this all make sense?
Maybe it’s simply not supposed to, or maybe there’s a bed of truth under the hazy origins
and complicated motives of this character.
More than anyone else in the Mushroom Kingdom; Waluigi could be considered a loser.
He has no real friends, he has no real enemies.
No one takes him seriously and their only real feelings towards him are disgust.
He’s talented, powerful and wealthy (judging by his island) he’s intelligent, sneaky
and deceptive, despite his bumbling outward appearance.
His attitude sucks, and he’s one ugly dude, but by all rights he should have a spotlight.
On the flipside, there’s Luigi…
Mario’s slightly younger brother, a coward, a second fiddle with arguably less ambition
and drive who shares the spotlight in no-small-part because of his birth circumstances.
Yet he is a beloved friend and considered a hero.
Perhaps it’s this dichotomy that really twisted Waluigi’s undies up.
Someone so undeserving (in his eyes) shouldn’t have attention and love when Waluigi himself
has nothing.
Maybe that’s why he’s so quick to tell you that he’s the best.
Maybe it’s this that broke him to the point where he now justs desires to be the cause
of everything falling apart.
Waluigi is the trickster archetype of the mario universe.
No REAL motive, no real backstory, an obsessive focus on a hero who represents all that he
despises, a desire for chaos and misery for all.
Originally he wanted the fame and effection of the Mario brothers, but after being humiliated
by them he now wants simply to ruin them.
He has no real connections to anyone.
Not even Wario, that’s just business.
And mostly tennis business at that.
He’s a lord of confusion (and the dance) The reason he’s only in sports games and
party games is simple, he wants to beat the other characters, not to be the best, but
simply to humiliate them, to prove that he, and his ideals are truly the best in the world
by any means.
He has no desire to star in an adventure, because his goal is only to disgrace and disrupt.
He’s the ultimate sourpuss, just trying to ruin your day.
This also explains his crazy moves and demeanor, he’s just nuts.
He’s funny to an audience but would come off pretty psychotic in reality.
However, because of his character design he is simply too random to become a star of his
own game.
Unlike Wario who can go out in search for money and power to eventually take down Mario
-which is easily adaptable into a Nintendo game formula, Waluigi isn’t linear enough
for that.
He does however make for an excellent antagonist.
Dealing with chaos that Waluigi has created and eventually catching him and making him
pay for his crimes would make an excellent game and would be a great way to mix up the
Mario formula (especially if you played as Luigi).
But that’s about the games...not the man himself.
What do we take away from this lanky man of terrible mouth noises?
All of this comes from one simple issue Waluigi couldn’t get over, which is his own self
pity.
He felt bad for himself and his over inflated ego couldn’t take the rejection from the
Mario crew so he totally lost his mind.
Even his voice actor Charles Martinet says that self pity is the cornerstone to his character,
he’s a cheater and a hypocrite.
He’s quick to call others out and accuse them of breaking the rules but aims to win
by doing the same, manipulating the odds, and taking control over the outcome.
By ignoring Waluigi, Nintendo has accidentally created the joker of their Mario franchise.
It’s a shame, originally all he wanted was to be invited to a tennis game.
Granted the rejection from that resulting in him losing his marbles kind of means he
was a little fragile in the first place but, whatever.
Through their own characters Nintendo shamed and disgraced the fragile Waluigi into a life
of psychosis and hatred.
He’s now out to take down the entire regime of the Mario world, including even bowser
whom he despises just as much as anyone else...
except Luigi.
He hates Luigi the most.
Waluigi is an underused and underutilized character with massive potential for changing
the shape of the Mario universe, or at least the formula of the main series games, he’s
not as villainy-looking as Bowser, not as power hungry as Wario, but he is nuts, he
is angry and he just wants to watch the world burn, and that’s the story you never knew!
And...that’s my take on Waluigi!
Did I miss anything?
Probably!
But we covered all the important bases I think.
Anyway, I’m Grant and I hope you enjoyed the video!
I had a ton of fun with this one...and if you liked it then why not check out Luigi:
The Story You Never Knew.
It’s the logical thing to do now that you’ve watched this far about his rival.
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