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Waluigi
Waluigi(SMP)0
Waluigi, as he appears in
Super Mario Party
Residence Diamond City
Wario's Castle
Mushroom Kingdom
Waluigi's Island
Friends and Allies Wario
Rivals Mario
Luigi
First Appearance Mario Tennis (N64) (2000)
Latest Appearance Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (2018)
Voice actor Charles Martinet (2000-2023)

Waluigi is Wario's main partner in sports games and Luigi's mischievous taller and skinner counterpart and rival. He has so far mostly appeared in spin-off and party games in the Mario series. He is the same age as Luigi and acts as his dark rival, in the same way that Wario is Mario's dark rival. The name Waluigi is derived from the Japanese adjective for bad- "warui" (悪い) and Luigi. Waluigi has a short tempered attitude and is a huge sore loser, getting angry if his opponent makes even a small amount of progress. He also will never cheer or become saddened even if an opponent wins, much like the other characters, instead he will get disgusted about it. Waluigi has a hat and gloves with an inverted L (Γ), which is similar to Wario's "W", an inverted "M". Waluigi was created by Camelot's Fumihide Aoki and is voiced by Charles Martinet.

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Waluigi is a Technique character in Mario Tennis, which means he has good control over the ball and above-average reach.
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Yes, Waluigi is an unlockable Technique character in the Game Boy Color version of Mario Tennis.
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Waluigi plays against Luigi in his own minigame in Mario Tennis.
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Waluigi is a Defense character in Mario Power Tennis, with great reach but somewhat limited movement and power.
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Waluigi's Offensive Power Shot is the Whirluigi, a backspin shot that gives returners a whirlwind effect. His Defensive Power Shot is the Swimming Return, where he swims to hit the ball.
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Physical Appearance[]

Waluigi is taller, skinnier and lankier than Luigi. He has a pink nose like Wario's, but pointy and has a thin boomerang-shaped mustache. He wears a plumber outfit similar to Mario and Luigi's, but with a purple hat with a purple brim (with the "Γ" symbol, Luigi's L symbol flipped upside down) and a purple long-sleeved undershirt along with black overalls and gold buttons. He also wears orange elf-like shoes and white gloves with the Γ symbol on them.

Personality[]

Waluigi is portrayed as a self-centered, moody, arrogant ,rude, often moody, cheating and envious man who has a tendency to get the attention of others.

Being ignored by people greatly disturbs his, evoking traumatic memories of the times when he was ignored and easily forgotten by people around his causing his to suffer from a slight histrionic personality disorder as a result of people either ignoring or unaware about his in the past and seeks attention from people and wants them to acknowledge his existence.

Enemies and Allies[]

Waluigi has numerous enemies, including Luigi, Bowser and Mario. He seems to only have one permanent ally, Wario, who treats him a little unfairly but needs him to help create plots to ruin the Mario Bros.

Abilities[]

Waluigi has great kicking power as described a lot of the time, although in Mario Strikers Charged Football, he is a defensive character and has weak kicks. He can run pretty fast thanks to his long legs. He is good with a tennis racket and in the Super Smash Bros. series, he is an Assist Trophy. Once summoned, he would beat someone into the ground with his mighty kicks then blast them away with a tennis racket.

In other games, Waluigi is often depicted with bizarre abilities, such as swimming through the air and generating purple thorns.

History[]

Mario Tennis series[]

Mario Tennis[]

Waluigi makes his debut in Mario Tennis for the Nintendo 64. In the opening of Mario Tennis, several characters play in a tennis tournament. Wario and Waluigi lurk on the sidelines of the court. The two interrupt the final match between Mario and Luigi, and Waluigi states that they want to play. Luigi declines and mocks Waluigi, which upsets him. Waluigi and Luigi prepare to fight as they walk up to each other. Mario tries to stop them, but Wario stands in his way. Suddenly, Bowser falls from the sky, knocking Wario and Waluigi onto the ground. Everyone prepares to fight him, but Bowser reveals that he just wants to play tennis. Mario allows Bowser, Wario, and Waluigi to play, and everyone cheers. A Bob-omb then explodes inside the stadium.

Waluigi is a Technique character in Mario Tennis, which means Waluigi has good control over the ball. Also, he has above-average reach. Waluigi lacks power and movement speed, however.

Waluigi also appears in the Game Boy Color version of the game, where he is an unlockable Technique character. He can be unlocked only if a Transfer Pak is used. Due to this, he is not playable in the Nintendo 3DS Virtual Console release of the game. In the Two-On-One minigame, the player as Bowser plays against Wario and Waluigi. Waluigi is also playable in his own minigame, playing against Luigi.

Waluigi reappears in Mario Power Tennis as a playable character. When the game starts, he is seen holding a Camelot sign.

In the intro movie in Mario Power Tennis, Wario and Waluigi face the Mario Bros. in the first round of a tennis tournament. Mario and Luigi defeat them.

Some time after the match, Wario and Waluigi head to Peach Dome, where they notice the tournament board which shows that they have been eliminated. They decide to vandalize the picture of the Mario Bros. on the board in revenge. However, a group of police sees them in the act and attempts to arrest them. Wario and Waluigi run from the police for a while before hiding in a side room, which turns out to be an entrance to Bowser's workout room. The three then form an alliance, and Bowser has Wario and Waluigi train there while the tournament continues.

They interrupt the final match of the tournament; the Mario Bros. against Yoshi and Donkey Kong, turning it into a rematch. They are booed, and decide to fire Bob-ombs at the Mario Bros.. Bowser helps them in a giant balloon full of Bob-ombs. However, the Bros. and the other characters hit the Bob-ombs back at Wario and Waluigi with their tennis rackets, blowing up parts of the Peach Dome. Bowser fires a Bullet Bill at Mario, but he deflects it with his tennis racket, sending it into Wario and Waluigi's Bob-omb launcher, which malfunctions and fires a Bob-omb at Bowser's balloon. Since the balloon was full of Bob-ombs, it crashes into the ground near Wario and Waluigi, causing a huge explosion. The three faint as a result.

In Mario Power Tennis, Waluigi is a Defense character. He has great reach, but his movement and power are somewhat limited. Waluigi is one of the two Defense characters in the game, the other being Wiggler. The game is the first to feature Waluigi's ability to swim through the air, a move that has recurred in other games. Waluigi's Offensive Power shot is the Whirluigi, a backspin shot that gives returners a whirlwind affect, losing the returner's control. Waluigi's Defensive Power Shot is the Swimming Return. Here, a pool appears in the court, and Waluigi swims to hit the ball.

Mario Tennis: Power Tour Waluigi also appears in Mario Tennis: Power Tour, with the same traits as in the game's GameCube counterpart. This is the only Mario game thus far, excluding the online tournament demo for Mario Tennis Aces, where Waluigi appears as a playable character but his partner, Wario, does not (although the latter can still be heard at the beginning of the game's intro shouting "Nintendo"). Waluigi has the same offensive and Defensive Power Shot that he had in Mario Power Tennis.

Mario Tennis Open Waluigi returns as a playable character in Mario Tennis Open, as one of the game's two defense type characters (the other being Dry Bowser). Waluigi is relatively unchanged, but his winning animation depicts him with flashing eyes, a reference to Waluigi's reaction to winning a point in the Nintendo 64 version of Mario Tennis.

Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash Waluigi returns as a playable character in Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash. Like Mario Tennis Open, he and Dry Bowser are the only two defense type characters in the game.

Waluigi returns as a playable character in Mario Tennis Aces, in which he is once again a defensive character and wears a new tennis outfit. He also appeared as an unlockable playable character in the game's online tournament demo, unlocked after 100 points were accumulated. Waluigi's Special Shot is "Showtime", where he inserts a rose between his teeth, does several pirouettes, and hits the ball. Waluigi's side Trick Shot is "Moonwalk", and his forwards and backwards Trick Shot is "Twisted Jump" involving him jumping in from of the ball. By earning 1000 participation points in the July 2019 or January 2020 online tournaments, the player could unlock a costume of Waluigi with his normal overalls.

Waluigi plays a major role in the game's Adventure Mode, where he and Wario steal Lucien, after hearing of the racket's legendary power. In the intro cutscene, where Wario and Waluigi are seen digging in the Bask Ruins. They uncover a golden chest, containing Lucien. Wario and Waluigi fight over the racket, and start getting shocked by it. Later, after Mario and Peach win a tennis match, they enter the Marina Stadium. Wario and Waluigi decide to give Lucien to Mario as a present, but Luigi grabs it first and a dark storm cloud appears, and Lucien possesses Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi. Waluigi later appears as an Adventure Mode opponent who challenges Mario and Toad to a tennis match. After the duo succeeds, Waluigi is transformed back into his standard form. Later on, Bowser combines himself with Lucien to create Bowcien, a "dark", superpowered version of the Koopa King. When Bowcien is finally defeated, Wario and Waluigi both express disappointment that they could not use Lucien to become "the best tennis players in the world". Daisy scolds the duo for stealing Lucien and causing this problem in the first place.

Mario Party series Waluigi makes an appearance as a playable character in every game in the Mario Party series since the third installment, except for Mario Party Advance. In Mario Party 3, he is a playable character only in multiplayer mode, but he has been fully playable from the beginning in all other games that he appears in.

Waluigi's only major appearance that does not simply include him as a playable character is in his second appearance, Mario Party 3. After clearing the penultimate board, Mario and his friends are ambushed by Bowser, who announces that the protagonists have to fight him for the Mischief Star Stamp. Tumble then realizes the Star Stamp is missing and Waluigi reveals that he has stolen it. Bowser attacks Waluigi for the stamp, but is defeated. Waluigi then challenges the other party members to a duel on his own board, Waluigi's Island. However, once Waluigi is defeated, he forfeits the Star Stamp.

Waluigi appears in a few minigames in Mario Party-e. In Waluigi's Reign, Waluigi drops hammers, coins, and red coins on Mario. In Time Bomb Ticks!, Waluigi hits buttons in order as quickly as possible to give Mario less time to stop the bomb. Waluigi also appears in two cards, Waluigi and Super Waluigi. They are both duel cards, which involves dueling a player for coin cards and in-play cards, but Super Waluigi costs coin cards.

In Mario Party 5 and Mario Party 6, Waluigi has team names for different combinations of characters. These tames names are as follows:

Mario Luigi Princess Peach Yoshi Wario Princess Daisy Toad Boo Koopa Kid Toadette1 Waluigi Pseudo Bros. にせブラザーズ Unlikely Bros. うんめいライバルズ Anti-couple びっくりカップルズ Unhappy Dino おもながーズ Wicked Bros. わるーズ Awkward Date イージーズ Tall 'n' Small ワルイキノコーズ Scary Screechers イタズラなかまーズ Cheep Chaps ワルいともだちズ Diabolical Duo チビデカコンビーズ In Mario Party 7, Waluigi shares a character-specific orb with Wario: the Vacuum Orb. By using a roulette, Waluigi can steal other opponents' coins.

In Super Mario Party, Waluigi's Dice Block has one -3 coins, one 1, two 3's, one 5, and one 7. His Dice Block is colored purple.

1 - Mario Party 6 only.

Super Smash Bros. series Waluigi makes his first appearance in the Super Smash Bros. series in Super Smash Bros. Melee, where he appears as a trophy, number 207, via the Lottery after collecting at least 250 other trophies. His description states that he spend a large quantity of time training for Mario Tennis, "honing" the ability to annoy Mario and Luigi. The description also notes that he is the same age as Luigi, and that the status of his relationship with Wario is unknown.

Waluigi later appears as a Sticker, trophy, and an Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. His two Stickers are of his appearances in Mario Superstar Baseball and Super Mario Strikers. Both Stickers can be used by Bowser, Peach, Yoshi, Mario, and Luigi, and both increase attack; the former increases the user's long-ranged special attack by eight, and the latter increases the user's strength of moves which use claws or blades by fifteen. His trophy appearance, with includes his tennis racket, again has a description which notes that his relationship with Wario is unknown, and that he worked "silently in the shadow of the Mario Bros." before he could compete against them in Mario Tennis. For his Assist Trophy, he appears with a tennis racket in hand, which is a reference to his debut in Mario Tennis. He kicks his chosen opponent into the ground and finishes up by delivering one final kick or a blow with his tennis racket. Also, one of Luigi's alternate costumes resembles Waluigi's outfit.

Waluigi appears as an Assist Trophy again in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U. Additionally, Luigi regains his Waluigi-inspired alternate costume (albeit with a purple L instead of yellow) while Mario gains the same costume, the only difference being that his M is yellow like Waluigi's Γ.

Waluigi returns in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as an Assist Trophy. Also, Mario and Luigi retain their Waluigi-inspired alternate costumes. Two spirits of Waluigi appear, one of which uses his artwork from Mario Strikers Charged, the other using artwork of his regular appearance. He also appears in the Standard Bike's spirit. His Spirit fight for his regular costume has the Soccer Ball item rule, takes place on Wuhu Island. His regular appearance fight has Waluigi appearing as Assist Trophy enemies, and takes place on Peach's Castle. Bot fights are against Luigi, referencing his rivalry with him.

Game & Watch Gallery series

Waluigi only appears in one game in the Game & Watch Gallery series, Game & Watch Gallery 4; he appears in the games Boxing and Rain Shower. In Boxing, Waluigi appears as Luigi's final opponent, where he attacks by elbowing and kicking in contrast to Luigi's punches. Waluigi is controlled by the second player in Link Cable multiplayer.

In Rain Shower, he appears only on Hard Mode, where he moves the lines around, putting the other characters (including Wario) in danger of Bowser's water balloons.

Memorable Quotes[]

"He can't do a thing, No.1" - Waluigi after winning a cup in Mario Strikers Charged Football or football and event in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games.

"He, Waluigi get you next time" - Waluigi when placing 2nd or 3rd in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.

"He, Awww" - Waluigi when placing in 4th in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games.

"Waluigi time" - Waluigi when starting an event in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.

"Bhwahahaha" - This is Waluigi's laugh, it is similar to Wario's.

"Next Level Games ha-ha, losers" - Waluigi advertising Next Level Games in Mario Strikers Charged Football.

"Waluigi" - Waluigi when you pick him in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games or Mario Strikers Charged Football.

"Hello" - When using his fake in Mario Strikers Charged Football.

"Buh bye" - Another comment when using his fake.

"Wa-Lu-Ui-Gi Yeah yeah yeah!" - Waluigi when scoring in Mario Strikers Charged Football.

"Want the ball? Wa ha ha ha!" - Another one of Waluigi's comments when scoring in Mario Strikers Charged Football.

"Too easy yeah! Losers." - Another comment when scoring in Mario Strikers Charged Football.

"You're lousy!" - Taunt in Mario Party 6.

"So good!" - Waluigi sometimes says this when he hits another player with an item in Mario Kart Wii.

Trivia[]

WaluigiInSmoothMoves

Waluigi's cameo in WarioWare: Smooth Moves.

  • Waluigi has never made any appearance in the WarioWare series other than a cameo in WarioWare: Smooth Moves.
  • Waluigi's long legs let him run really fast, but in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games he was a Skill type character and not a Speed type.
  • In Super Mario 64 DS, there was a rumor that he is an unlockable character, similar to the Luigi myth in its predecessor Super Mario 64. It has since been disproven.
  • In Paper Mario: The Thousand Year-Door, if Mario wears both the W Emblem and the L Emblem, his clothing color turns into the color scheme of Waluigi's.
  • The Game Boy Color version of Mario Tennis marked Waluigi's only appearance on a Game Boy Color game.
  • Mario Tennis: Power Tour marks the only time where Waluigi appears without Wario.
  • Waluigi is not playable in Mario Kart 7, but his course, Waluigi Pinball from Mario Kart DS appears as one of the retro tracks, making it the only post-Mario Kart: Double Dash!! game where Waluigi does not physically appear.
  • Waluigi appeared in Super Mario Bros Z alongside Wario

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