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A photo received from one of the assistants reveals that King Boo and his Boo minions have trapped Mario in a painting much like in the first Luigi's Mansion. Gadd sends Luigi there to rescue Mario. However, Luigi and E. Gadd soon discover that it was a trap, and Luigi is ambushed by Big Boo ; a large Boo made up of many smaller Boos who Luigi subsequently captures.
Back at the lab, Luigi and E. Gadd ponder where King Boo and the painting are. Soon after, the Parascope picks up strong readings from the Treacherous Mansion's terrace. Luigi is sent there, where King Boo appears and opens the paranormal portal , which releases a large number of ghosts into the mansion, then escapes with the Mario painting inside.
Gadd tells Luigi to capture the ghosts in the mansion, as the paranormal activity is so strong that their dimension could collapse upon itself. In the portal, Luigi finds the final Possessor ghost, the Tough Possessor , who clones himself and controls multiple suits of armor. The final Possessor is caught, and Luigi finds the final Dark Moon piece.
Gadd attempts to transport Luigi back to the lab. However, King Boo interrupts and sends Luigi into an illusion. Here, Luigi and King Boo fight. Before the fight, King Boo reveals that he was the one who shattered the Dark Moon and captured Mario. Luigi, Mario, and E. Gadd rejoice, and a Greenie takes a photo with them and the now once again friendly ghosts due to the restored Dark Moon.
Luigi then takes in Polterpup as his pet, and Polterpup is later seen sleeping on Luigi, with Luigi seemingly overcoming his fear of ghosts. Luigi's controls and personality are mostly retained from the previous game.
Luigi still can't jump, but he isn't as easily frightened from ghosts, being able to still move around while being startled. Luigi's Health Meter also returns, functioning the same way as it did in the original game, though players can recover from a Game Over if they have found a Gold Bone.
While the Poltergust can't shoot out elemental blasts, Luigi can still use it to suck up ghosts and objects, cause a wider and stronger beam of light , and reveal hidden objects. Luigi appears as the main protagonist in Luigi's Mansion 3. He has a new Poltergust that can fire plungers and lift him off the ground, along with using the Strobulb and Dark-Light attachments, as well as storing Gooigi. However, that night the hotel turns haunted and it is revealed that the invitation was set up by Hellen Gravely so that King Boo could trap Luigi and his friends in paintings.
Just as King Boo was about to trap Luigi, he manages to escape through a laundry chute. Luigi ends up in the basement where he finds the Poltergust G in a car. He later finds Professor E. Gadd trapped in a painting on the second floor, and after releasing him with the Dark-Light Device, E. Gadd aids Luigi once more by providing him with the Virtual Boo for communication, and Gooigi. To advance through the hotel, Luigi must retrieve the missing elevator buttons from the ghostly hotel staff, freeing the three Toads along the way.
Once Luigi reaches the top and defeats Hellen Gravely, he rescues Mario, who leads him to the rooftop where Peach is. After releasing Peach, however, King Boo traps everyone besides Luigi, who was saved by Polterpup, in a single painting. King Boo, enraged that he missed Luigi, engages him in battle. After Luigi defeats King Boo, the entire hotel collapses from taking the bulk of the battle.
Polterpup saves Luigi once again, and frees everyone from the painting. During the credits, Luigi helps rebuild the hotel with the newly-turned friendly ghosts, and after construction was complete, departs with Mario, Peach, Polterpup and the Toads.
In battle, Luigi usually boasts a high HP stat along with a decently high defense stat, making him a decent supporting character. Compared to Mario, Luigi has a lower speed stat and slightly lower power stat.
Though he originally didn't intend to go, Bowser scooped him up and brought him along in the Koopa Cruiser and they headed off to the Beanbean Kingdom.
Luigi's personality shines through during this adventure, as he is often reluctant to do anything dangerous. One such time is when Mario comes down with the Bean Fever and Luigi must go to Guffawha Ruins to find the cure , though hearing of the dangers, he becomes too scared to move properly, disabling his Jump command for the time being. He also briefly poses as Princess Peach via Peach's Extra Dress in an attempt to rescue her, successfully tricking Fawful and Bowletta into releasing Peach and abducting him.
However, he is ultimately forced to reveal his true identity when Bowletta, suspicious about "Peach" covering "her" mouth, tricks "her" into turning around by claiming a giant cockroach was behind "her", although he does ultimately retrieve the actual Beanstar from Bowletta. Luigi's actions and attributes differ from Mario's as well. For example, Luigi has higher HP, but lower attack power than Mario. While both he and Mario can both Jump and use Hammers , the actions they perform depend on their positioning.
Luigi can learn the High Jump , which has him jump on to Mario to jump higher, and he can also turn Mario into Mini-Mario by hitting him with his hammer, both are performed if Luigi is in the back. Additionally, Luigi can burrow into the ground if he is hit with Mario's hammer if Mario is in the back. Later in the game, the bros.
If used on Mario while Luigi is in the back, he stuns him, allowing them to move in sync while facing in one direction. While Luigi can use his standard techniques in battle, Luigi has different Bros. Attacks than Mario as well.
Bounce Bros. While in the present, Luigi meets his infant self, Baby Luigi. The two team up with Mario and his baby self in order to find Princess Peach , who has been kidnapped by the Shroobs. Luigi's cowardly personality is still apparent, with his younger self seemingly having more courage than him. When talking to the Star Temple gate and completing the quest given, it is shown that Luigi has a very large heart and cares deeply for his brother and friends.
While Luigi retains his Jump ability, the Hammer commands are given the younger versions of the bros. Luigi also does not have his High Jump, instead gaining Mario's move from the last game, the Spin Jump , which allows him and Mario to float across large gaps.
Later, he and Mario learn the Bros. Ball technique, which has him and Mario curl into a ball and allows them to move faster. Mario and Luigi arrived in the castle so hastily that Luigi was first shown hopping on one foot while trying to put on his overalls, causing him to trip and fall face-first on the floor. During the meeting, Luigi ends up falling asleep, causing him to miss the fight between Mario and Bowser. Afterward, he joins his brother on the adventure.
At one point during the adventure, however, Mario is separated from Luigi by a gang of Sockops , forcing Luigi to rescue him alone. While Mario and Luigi's controls are relatively the same, Luigi has additional commands. Luigi also has his own set of Badges , which boosts the effect of Mario's corresponding badge.
Starlow stops them from fighting however, reminding them that there is no time for this, even for Bowser Jr. In the story timeline, this event happens while searching for the Star Cures.
Due to the game being released during the Year of Luigi , Luigi's role is far greater than the previous entries in the series. Luigi's appearance has also been updated from the previous three entries, as his overalls now fit properly, hiding his striped socks, and the L on his cap is green, like the M on Mario's is red, to match his appearance from the main games.
When in the Real World, Luigi can use his hammer to turn Mario into Mini-Mario once again, though only on hard surfaces like rock or metal. If on soft surfaces, such as dirt or sand, the move becomes Mole Mario instead, which pounds Mario into the ground.
He also learns the Side Drill , which sends Mario and Luigi spinning in the direction they are facing like a drill, breaking certain blocks and obstacles. Finally, he and Mario can use Ball Hop , which allows them to jump higher and reach previously inaccessible areas, which is an apparent combination of the High Jump and Bros. Luigi's biggest role in this game is opening portals to the Dream World whenever he sleeps on a Pi'illo , which Mario jumps into and Dreamy Luigi , a dream varient of Luigi, assists him while in the Dream World.
Mario is unable to open Dream World portals however, as shown early in the game. One of the main elements in the Dream World are the Luiginary Works , which has Dreamy Luigi transform into various different things by interacting with the objects around him, and are activated by Starlow doing certain things to the sleeping Luigi's face. However, certain transformations are limited to specific areas. A type of Luiginary Work, called the Luiginoid Formation , involves Luiginoids created from the stars of a constellation that can be stacked, and will instantly defeat enemies that come into contact without battling them, and will even permenantly remove them from the overworld.
One such transformation has the Luiginoids turn into a giant , much like how Bowser turned into a giant in the previous game. During battles, Dreamy Luigi will merge with Mario, raising his stats, and assists him with basic attacks along with allowing him to use Luiginary Attacks; the Dream World's variant of Special Attacks. Both versions of Luigi also have their own special attacks, with the "real" Luigi having different Bros.
He and a Toad enter the attic of Peach's Castle. Through a series of events involving a Scaredy Rat , Luigi knocks over a book that contains the characters from the Paper Mario series. Luigi soon meets up with Mario and the paper version of Mario to help put things back together.
He gains additional Bros. Attacks and assists in the Trio Attacks , but overall Luigi is not much different from the other games. He does, however, have a Papercraft based on him called Papercraft Luigi , which allows the player to use the Flying Hammer Attack that can damage spiked enemies.
Additionally, several Battle Cards have artworks of Luigi from previous games. A paper variant of Luigi is seen sleeping next to a gramophone when the player is viewing the Music Player.
Luigi rarely appears in the WarioWare series. In WarioWare: Twisted! He also appears in Mario Brothers , again during the Level 3 variant, where he and Mario try to kick the enemy before the player can flip it back up-right.
In WarioWare: Touched! On the 3rd level difficulty, the player can unravel a Luigi making an "L" formation. The three are part of a team entitled "Nintendo All-Stars", alongside other all-star basketball teams.
Luigi's team additionally has a special basketball court. In Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix , Luigi is one of the characters with the other being Mario that can be chosen at the start of the single-player adventure. Aside from the cap at the starting house changing from Mario's to Luigi's, nothing in the adventure is changed. Luigi travels with Toad to recover the stolen Music Keys in Mario's place. Luigi's stats are well balanced, although his batting skills are slightly weaker than his other skills.
Luigi, along with Bowser Jr. Compared to the predecessor, Luigi's batting, fielding, and running have been improved slightly, while his pitching skills remained the same. In challenge mode, Luigi is the first player that joined the team. Luigi does not appear again until Mario is rescued at the end of the game, where he is shoved to the side by Peach as she runs to Mario. Luigi's number in Super Mario Strikers is 2, probably referring to him being Mario's "younger brother" and him usually filling the "Player 2" role in earlier titles.
In the game, his Super Strike is the Vicious Vortex. He is now classified as a Balanced player alongside Mario, meaning his stats are well-rounded and he does not have any glaring strengths or weaknesses. Luigi's Super Ability is Super Luigi!
Luigi appears in the game Mario Hoops 3-on-3 as one of the starting playable characters and is an All-Around character. Luigi's Baller name is the Mushroom Dynamite. Luigi appears as an unlockable character in Itadaki Street DS , unlocked by playing through the Tour Mode of the game.
He is a Rank C character when controlled by the computer. Several pieces of Luigi's clothing and gear also appear as unlockable customizations for the player's avatar character. Like in the last game, Luigi is a Rank C character when he's a computer controlled character.
In the Wii version's opening, Luigi is seen at the start with all of the other athletes, as well as competing in the m and m Hurdles , the latter where he seems to have a rivalry with Shadow the Hedgehog that parallels the one between his brother and Sonic the Hedgehog. In the game's opening, Luigi appears at the start and end with all of the other athletes, and also competing in Halfpipe and Short Track 1,m ; in the latter event, Luigi and Shadow once again clash as they try to outpace each other only for newcomer Metal Sonic to outpace them and take the lead, putting Luigi in third place.
As well as being a playable character, Luigi also appears in the Adventure Tours mode of the Nintendo DS version , where he is first found in Frostown and asks Mario and Sonic to challenge him at Cross-Country.
Upon being defeated, he joins their party and can be selected for Events with free character selection. Once at Sparkleton , Luigi helps Mario and Sonic look for a key to a gate. A Boo scares Luigi away, which makes Luigi run into a tree, causing the key to fall from it and Boo steals it. Angered at the Boo's insults, Luigi gives chase to the Boo and, if he gets the key in less than forty seconds, the Boo runs away.
In the game's opening, Luigi appears with the other athletes at the start as well as competing in Equestrian - Show Jumping and Dream Hurdles , competing with Mario, Sonic, and Tails in the second event. Luigi also appears as a character that can be spoken to in London Party mode to play a minigame and earn stickers.
In the Nintendo 3DS version of the game, Luigi is included in the Heroes group, allowing him to only compete in certain Events. In the Story Mode, Luigi first appears helping investigate the Phantasmal Fog in the Main Stadium , and then helps clear it up before the three head off to Hyde Park to take a look at the fog there and check that Peach and the other female characters staying there are alright.
After seeing that the Girls have cleared up the park, Luigi, Mario and Toad head to the British Museum , where they come across Sonic and Tails and the five of them clear the fog from the area. After finding out some information about the origin of the Phantasmal Fog, Luigi leaves with Charmy to investigate the London Tennis Club , where they find Waluigi challenging Metal Sonic. Eggman and Metal Sonic again, they head back to the Main Stadium.
Eggman are hiding inside Big Ben. Eggman and seal away the Phantasmal Fog, beofre returnign to the Main Stadum for the opening ceremony of the Olympics. A badge of Luigi can be obtained from the Badge Machine. He has a special victory animation when paired with Mario and Tails. Luigi also appears as a supporting character or a rival in the Road to Rio mode if the player joins Mario or Sonic's Gym respectively.
With Mario's strangely disappearing and leaving him in charge of their team, Luigi helps in learning his brother's whereabouts as well as the theft of the Olympic medals. Eggman stuck in the game, and then works with Tails to try to help get them out. Luigi appears in Mario Sports Mix , where he is classified as an all-rounder all-around in North America type character. His speed is average, while he has an above average technique, though his power is below average. His special move involves Luigi pulling out his Poltergust from Luigi's Mansion to suck his opponents toward him, followed by firing the ball at the intended target.
Luigi also has a court based on his mansion that can be played on during the Vollyball and Basketball modes.
In Dr. Luigi , Luigi gains the role of a doctor, much like his brother's persona. Luigi , his appearance is similar to Dr. Mario's, but Luigi wears his cap instead of a doctor's head mirror. Mario: Miracle Cure , Luigi gains a head mirror to wear. Like Dr. Mario, Luigi in his doctor persona makes use of Megavitamins to defeat Viruses.
In a similar fashion to Dr. Mario, Dr. Luigi will toss Megavitamins that the player has to control in order to eliminate the Viruses. It has been suggested that Dr. Luigi has a more laid-back personality than his brother, as in the introduction cutscene to Dr. Luigi , he is seen walking slowly with a tired look on his face.
After he sees the Viruses, however, he becomes shocked and prepares Megavitamins for use, now looking worried. Luigi returns as an unlockable playable character in Dr. Mario World. Luigi is a reward in World 4 's special stage since version 1. His skill in stage mode is eliminating random viruses in an L shape, in which a spot is chosen, followed by clearing downward and then rightward, after which an image of an "L" is formed.
Luigi also struck a pose while the skill is in effect. Prior to version 2. Edition , Luigi is one of the main characters. If Luigi is selected as the leader, he can call on others as a helper. If anyone else is the leader, Luigi can be called as a helper. Luigi shares the same number of forms as Mario, having eighteen forms, all of which are based on power-ups from other games and can be seen here.
Luigi wearing the Poltergust and Kitsune Luigi also appear as skins. Luigi appears in Mario Sports Superstars as a Balance type character in most sports; in tennis, he is the similar All-Around type instead. Due to this, Luigi has no glaring weaknesses in his stats, but does not excel in any one stat in particular. In golf, Luigi's default drive is yards, and his shots travel low in a fade trajectory.
Like with the others present at the statue inauguration at the beginning of the game, Luigi was sucked into the vortex linking the Rabbids to the Mushroom Kingdom. Luigi promptly joins the group once the level is completed. Luigi is a character with high offense and maximum mobility, though his defense is very low. He is the only character with access to Precision weapons as his main set of weapons and he uses Sentry weapons as his secondary set.
The first live-action portrayal of Luigi was in a commercial for Mario Bros. The arcade game Mario Bros.
The development team thought of differentiating the second character by giving him different colors, but the color palette budget was similarly limited. Compared to Mario, Luigi is slimmer and taller. His face is noticeably thinner, his eyes are slightly more bluish, and his hair is the same style as Mario's, but more of an auburn or dark maroon.
Luigi's mustache is dark brown, sometimes black, and smooth, unlike Mario's ragged mustache. Luigi also wears clothes similar to Mario, but his shirt and cap are green instead of red. Layered over the shirt is blue overalls, which are a darker blue than Mario's. He also has brown work shoes, again darker than Mario's, with tan bottoms that reach above his ankles.
Artwork however sometimes shows Luigi with the same color of blue overalls and brown shoes as Mario. In Luigi's Mansion , Luigi's shoes have Velcro on them, which is not present in any other game. In some games, Luigi's cap does play some significance, such as in Super Mario 64 DS , where just like Mario's and Wario's caps, it can be stolen by Klepto and cause him to take extra damage so long as he isn't wearing it.
Mario and Luigi's color preferences are reflected throughout the land in the form of various enemies, such as Koopa Troopas and Cheep-Cheeps , who also come in red and green varieties.
These foes even reflect the brothers' personalities, with red ones being more aggressive and green ones acting cautious. In fact, Mario and Luigi are not the only known red and green brothers, with similarly color-coded siblings including Cork and Cask , the Red and Green bridge guards, the Armored Harriers , Massif Bros.
When tattling the younger of the Armored Harriers, Goombella theorizes that it may be some sort of rule that younger brothers must wear green, offering a possible explanation for Luigi's trademark green shirt and cap. However, Luigi has not always chosen to wear his usual green and blue clothes. Shigeru Miyamoto stated that the green color of clothing for Luigi was inspired by the enemy Shellcreeper.
Even Super Mario Bros. Deluxe replaced this with a less aberrant brown shirt and green overalls, leaving his original colors to Fire Luigi, who usually has an inverse scheme , even though his usual palette and appearance had emerged in artwork. Fire Luigi's palette in Super Mario Bros. Luigi originated as being a palette swap of Mario in his earlier adventures. This applies to Mario Bros. Both Mario and Luigi have been described as "cutesy," to the extent that Shigeru Miyamoto considered redesigning them to "become a bit more grown-up" in the GameCube era—for instance, by removing their trademark V sign.
Luigi's appearance does, however, tend to lend itself to heavy stylization. The Luigi's Mansion graphical team took it upon themselves to animate every part of Luigi to convey emotion, [20] resulting in such exaggerations to his body as head-expanding screams during boss cutscenes and complete flattenings by fake doors. The Super Smash Bros. Luigi's appearance has changed quite a bit throughout the Super Smash Bros.
In the original Super Smash Bros. Melee , Luigi borrows his appearance from Nintendo era artwork, right down to having a tan complexion; Luigi's overalls are now their standard navy blue color, though they receive denim textures and back pockets. Brawl , Luigi uses his contemporary look, though his overalls have further pronounced textures, while his hair and other clothing receive simple detailing. Ultimate , Luigi receives simple detailing in his hair and clothing once again, albeit not to the same extent as in Super Smash Bros.
Luigi has a total of eight selectable costumes to date in the Super Smash Bros. Melee , 6 in Super Smash Bros. Brawl , and 8 in Super Smash Bros. In Smash 64 and Melee , Luigi had his first three costumes introduced; the first costume consists of green overalls and a white undershirt and cap, which are derived from Fire Luigi's colors; the second costume consists of blue overalls and a cyan undershirt and cap, resembling Mario's appearance on the American boxart for Mario Bros.
In Brawl , Luigi's fourth and fifth alternate costumes were introduced: the former consists of blue overalls and an orange undershirt and cap, resembling Mario's appearance on the boxart for Pinball ; the latter consists of dark indigo overalls and a purple undershirt and cap, based off of Waluigi's colors. Luigi is portrayed as timid and a bit of a coward. He is also extremely worrisome and is considerably self-conscious.
However, he overcomes his fears and acts like a hero when necessary, such as when someone he knows is in danger or needs help. On the New Super Mario Bros. Wii website, it describes Luigi as "Mario's fearless brother". Arguably, Luigi's most apparent trait is his seeming cowardice. Though he showed several instances of cowardice in early non-game media such as The Super Mario Bros.
However, Luigi can be quite brave, and has saved the Mushroom Kingdom alongside his brother multiple times. Super Paper Mario especially glimpses into Luigi's more courageous side, showing him boldly rushing into dangerous situations and rarely even implicating his infamous cowardice.
In addition, the endings for Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon and Luigi's Mansion 3 also hinted that he overcame his phasmophobia, or at the very least takes exception to Polterpups and makes friends with the friendly ghosts of Evershade Valley and the Last Resort hotel. Ultimate , Luigi is clearly scared of all the creatures in Dracula's Castle, though he attempts to ward them off with the Poltergust's flashlight, as well as a toilet plunger.
Another strong element of Luigi's personality is his apparent complex of being overlooked. Luigi's bio in Mario Party 5 states that he has been gaining popularity in recent years.
Luigi's state of being in the shadow of his brother shows strongly in Super Smash Bros. An example would be the way Luigi is almost never happy, how his commentary is very monotoned, and how one of his taunts is a bashful kick of the ground. Also, his Final Smash, Negative Zone, seemed to have developed because of living in his brother's shadow forever.
Additionally, whenever the crowd cheers for Luigi, not too many people are heard cheering for him and when the announcer says Luigi's name, he sounds a little surprised. Snake 's codec conversation even has the Colonel refer to Luigi as the "kid brother" and "king of second bananas", despite Snake's protests. Despite this, however, Masahiro Sakurai did not intend to play up Luigi's overshadowed status, instead aiming to make him "everyone's favorite man in green.
Melee also refers to him in a similar manner, and his cinematic in the game's Adventure Mode shows him Footstool Jumping Mario, signifying his tiredness of being number two.
These include: his dash attack, where he swings his arms aimlessly while keeping a humorous panicking expression; his neutral attack, where he hits opponents with his butt for the third hit; his up tilt, where he "paw swipes" the opponent with his fists while closing his eyes; the aftermath of his Super Jump Punch , where he falls upside-down; his idle poses, where he scratches the back of his head sheepishly or humorously pulls his nose before wincing in pain; and his victory poses, which have him do the following: breathing heavily with his eyes half-closed, falling stiff and planking on the ground also one of his taunts , or childishly making finger pistols and pretending to shoot his opponents which is supported by him saying "Bang, bang!
When Luigi finally went on a quest of his own in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door , he's presented as more arrogant and somewhat of a liar, as he changes the stories of his adventure to make himself look better; his partners claim his stories are false. The novelizations of his escapades describe them with even more flowery exaggerations, stating for instance that he played an earth spirit in the Jazzafrazz Town Drama Slam whereas he actually played grass on the side of the road, according to Hayzee and that he awoke Cranberry with "a soft call" rather than a sneeze.
This most likely has something to do with Luigi's "dark secret from his past," which it also mentions; Luigi did something either embarrassing or foolish which he has kept a secret ever since. However, in an interview with a member of staff, he stated that Luigi had no dark secret, and it was actually a reference to Luigi's constantly living in the shadow of his brother.
Luigi is also portrayed as somewhat refined, leading the " Luigi Gentlemen " in Mario Superstar Baseball. Luigi's Mansion shows him to be a bit of a neat freak, constantly criticizing the dustiness of his mansion and even mentioning at one point that he hand washes his cap as opposed to using a washing machine as his brother does.
He also seems to have an eye for art, but does not appreciate many of King Boo's decorations. Luigi has also been known to cross-dress several times, usually as Princess Peach in order to trick their enemies. Luigi can be sensitive when someone insults him, especially if the jab in question regards his mustache as proven prior to his showdown with Dimentio. Luigi also appears to show concern for cruelty to animals; he is horrified by the deer heads and leopard skin rugs in the Safari Room in Luigi's Mansion and declares that he will not stand for an animal being treated in such a manner.
In The Super Mario Bros. He also does not take as many risks as Mario does. He thinks that Mario is much cooler than he is, that he adores his brother because of this trait. The messages that appear in Dream's Deep further explains this trait.
He is also shown at times to be clumsy, as evidenced in the ending of New Super Mario Bros. Wii , where he accidentally locked himself out of the hot air balloon that Peach and Mario were on while waving goodbye to the Toads, and also ended up collapsing while trying to enter the hot air balloon, due to it having flown off. Overall, Luigi's personality is hard to determine and changes depending on appearance.
Very few games have portrayed him with a personality that lasts throughout the subsequent release. Overall, however, Luigi can be described as timid and cautious, yet kindhearted, brave, and willing to protect his homeland with Mario's help, though can have his flaws at times.
Luigi also didn't receive text dialogue, making him silent like his brother. However, Luigi received voice acting in the Mario anime film, as well as the Amada Anime Mario Series , though he exclusively speaks in Japanese. Four years later in Mario Kart 64 , Luigi received two voice actors: Charles Martinet in overseas versions, and Julien Bardakoff in the Japanese version. The former provides him with a soft voice and strong Italian accent, while the latter provides him with a higher-pitched, less evident accent.
Otherwise, Charles Martinet voices Luigi, and has continued to portray him to this day. However, Martinet's portrayal of Luigi has varied. Luigi's Mansion retains his unique voice, though it sounds higher in pitch, and somewhat akin to Mario's. However, all future installments, including recent Super Smash Bros.
In most modern Mario games, Luigi speaks via catchphrases such as "Let's-a go! However, some Mario games give Luigi a greater amount of voice acting; a notable example is Mario Strikers Charged , which has Luigi say "Thank you!
Thank you so much! In the Paper Mario series, Luigi is mostly silent aside from the odd grunt, though he receives text dialogue to represent what he is saying; in the first three games, Luigi speaks English without an accent, though Paper Mario: Color Splash gives him an Italian accent while speaking. Luigi was initially introduced as Mario's much younger brother.
The first indication of their specific age difference was in Family Album "The Early Years" , which implied that Luigi was born after Mario by several years. The remake of the former, Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 , did not expressly call them twins, but noted that Luigi was Mario's younger brother, carried to their parents at the same time.
Many video game sources still refer to Luigi as the younger brother, indicating that Luigi may have been the second born twin. Despite the small age difference, Luigi directly refers to Mario as "big bro" in the same game on more than one occasion. Brawl also referred to him as "younger twin brother", Colonel Roy Campbell calls Luigi a "kid brother" to Snake during Snake's Codec conversation in the same game.
In the Mario cartoon series, Luigi playfully refers to Mario as his "little big brother", likely due to their height difference. Melee , then, provided it is correct, Luigi is also 26 years old. Luigi's abilities are usually exactly the same as Mario's, such as in Mario Bros. In most instances where one player can choose between the two brothers, however, Luigi is given his own gameplay quirks.
This first occurred in Super Mario Bros. In the American Super Mario Bros. Luigi's high jumps but low traction would return in Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World , which, unlike its original version, allowed players to switch between Mario and Luigi at any time on the map screen.
In three-dimensional adventures, such as Super Mario 64 DS , Super Mario Galaxy , and Super Mario Galaxy 2 Luigi is usually faster than Mario at the cost of poorer acceleration , but retains his classic high jumps and poor traction.
In addition, when either carrying a large object on his back, or when left extremely terrified, his jumping abilities are reduced significantly to the extent of appearing inferior to Mario's. This is best demonstrated during the climax of Luigi's Mansion 3 where the two brothers are racing to the top of the hotel to locate Peach.
Mario in particular is able to cross large gaps up the stairs with a single bound, while by contrast, Luigi has to hug the wall to cross over to the other side. As aforementioned, Luigi has a higher top speed, but poorer acceleration than his brother in Super Mario 64 DS , along with poor traction and increased agility.
In this game, the two brothers are the fastest in all speeds. Luigi's jumps are perhaps at their strongest in this game; not only can Luigi jump higher than his brother, but he can also scuttle to slow his fall.
His backflip has the same effect as being caught in a Tweester or stomping a Fly Guy , allowing for a very slow descent. Unlike Mario, however, Luigi cannot Wall Jump in this game.
As a result of his agility and lightness, Luigi can walk on water for a short time. Luigi's Power Flower ability is Vanish Luigi , allowing him to disappear for invincibility and the ability to walk through certain obstacles. In Super Paper Mario , Luigi's specialty is the Spring Jump , which sends him just off the screen to bound over obstacles and damage enemies mid-air. His standard jumps are also higher than any other character's and he has lower traction once more.
However, the player can simply press down to stop instantly in this game due to his Spring Jump. Electricity is sometimes depicted as Luigi's answer to Mario's fire. Gadd to suck up more ghosts and battles his nemesis, King Boo once again to rescue Mario.
Luigi stays in the main lobby while Mario looks for Princess Peach. However, the castle itself soon gets lifted into the sky and Luigi manages to escape. Later, Mario can visit Luigi at their house where Luigi usually does different things each time Mario completes a Chapter.
Luigi also keeps a diary hidden in the basement where Mario can only access after learning the Spin Jump. If Mario heads back to his house as soon he acquires the Super Boots from Boo's Mansion , he can actually catch Luigi writing in his diary who the latter flees at sight. Luigi, like Mario, acquires many partners that help him on his journey.
Luigi can be usually found in certain areas where he is eager to tell his story. However, all of his stories he tells are very long and usually puts Mario and his partners to sleep. During the final battle, Luigi's voice can be heard with the green text saying " You go, bro! Luigi finally becomes a main and playable character in Super Paper Mario where he is one of the four heroes of the Light Prognosticus. Luigi is first seen in the beginning with Mario who actually wishes something would happen.
Mario fails to defeat Count Bleck and the Master of Darkness takes Luigi and everyone else away from the castle except for Mario. Luigi can be seen in Castle Bleck where he tries to find a way out.
However, he is cornered by Nastasia who hypnotizes him into a new villain named Mr. As Mr. L succeeds in finding one in the Whoa Zone and fights Mario in battle. During the final facedown of the game, after Dimentio makes an appearance he hypnotizes Luigi with a Floro sprout planted in his unconscious, once again revealing Mr.
Then Super D is created half Dimentio, half Mr. Once you defeat him, Luigi is expelled from the dying robot and saved. Luigi, unlike all of the other Paper Mario games, plays a very small role in Paper Mario: Sticker Star only making cameo appearances. Once Mario spots Luigi, he can Paperize him out of a location and then Luigi runs away. If Mario finds Luigi in all five places, then Luigi will lead the parade at the very end of the game. Luigi can be found in:. At one point after Mario finds the bridge expert that fix the bridge in the Blue District, Mario can go to the Post Office.
One of Mario pieces of mail from Luigi about a shady guy that's in Port Prisma. Also, after Mario and Huey get all of the paint stars and have the rainbow road open, Luigi comes in his kart. He asks them if they want a ride up to Black Bowser's Castle. He stays by the front door and lets Mario and Huey go and save Peach. Luigi is first seen to see Mario off as he heads toward the Beanbean Kingdom with Bowser.
However, Bowser doesn't see any of his troops and instead notices Luigi jumping up and down waving his hands thinking he wants to join the Koopa Troop. Luigi tries to run away but Bowser's army starts to show up. Luigi tries to get away, but Bowser manages to catch him and put him aboard his Koopa Cruiser.
Luigi is now forced to tag along with Mario for the duration of the game. In this game, the player uses the "B" button to control Luigi's actions in battle. Luigi is able to perform Bros.
Attacks along with Mario. Luigi also has a unique move called the Thunderhand which he can shock enemies for damage. Outside of battle, the player can switch Mario and Luigi's positions by pressing the Start button. Luigi can use his Hammer on Mario to make him smaller used for accessing secret areas where the entrance is normally too small while Mario can hammer Luigi to send him into the ground this move is mainly used to dig up Beans scattered throughout places. Luigi can also activate blue orbs using his Thunderhand ability to activate them.
Luigi, at some points, must separate or is separated from Mario in order to solve some puzzles. Luigi returns in Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time. After Mario defeats the alien Shroob that came from the past, E. Gadd decides for the group to head into the past in order to rescue Princess Peach.
However, as Luigi is leaning toward a Time Hole, Toadsworth comes rolling in and knocks Luigi into the Time Hole sending him into the past. Mario jumps in after them and the duo heads toward a destroyed town. The Mario Bros. It is then the past and presents Mario Bros. In this game, Luigi's main attack actions are still "B. Unlike the previous game, Luigi never separates from Mario in this game but does separate from the babies reverting to the original battle style. Also, whenever Luigi is defeated in battle and he is with the babies, Baby Luigi will drag him away and take his place in battle.
After a rampaging Bowser sucks up everything in sight including Mario, Peach, and the Toad citizens, Luigi was found in the Trash Pit hanging up high. Mario frees him and the duo once again team up, this time, to stop Fawful. Luigi's battle style for the inside of battle is still mainly the same except for different Bros. The Hammer sequence has also changed to wait about three seconds for maximum damage.
Outside of battle, Luigi often teams up with Mario in order to help out Bowser inside his body. This game focuses mostly on Luigi as he and Mario fight inside of his dreams. During the beginning of the game, Luigi dreams about Mario fighting a strange shadow creature. Once Luigi awakens, he and Mario arrive at the Pi'illo Kingdom. Also in this game, Luigi has a dream version known as Dreamy Luigi.
In fact, in Luigi's dreams, there is a depth to his character that has never been seen before in any other game. The player can learn a great deal about his feelings when Dreamy Luigi speaks to Mario at certain points.
In one particular instance, Dreamy Luigi points out that Luigi is actually happy just to be able to help his older brother out during his adventures. Luigi was featured in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Luigi is featured as one of the protagonists in the Super Mario Bros. Non-canon warning : Non-canonical information ends here. Mario Bros. Attention MarioWiki users!
Whether you are commenting or editing, we would appreciate it if you help MarioWiki by expanding it. Luigi is an Italian name; it represents Luigi's nationality. The name means "renown fighter", despite his timid personality. Luigi is also a German name. The name means "famous fighter".
Charles Martinet has stated in various interviews that he invented Luigi's voice, and his current personality, on the spot, while doing "Mario In Real Time". Children would ask him where his "brother Luigi" is. At the time, his interpretation of Luigi had not been conceived, but he improvised Luigi calling out that he's in the kitchen, and that he doesn't want to come out because he's too shy, in what would go on to become his trademark "timid" sounding voice.
This was in keeping with how Luigi had been portrayed prior to this, as somewhat of a coward, and helped to cement this personality for the character. MarioWiki Explore. WarioWare, Inc. Enemies Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. Locations Mario World Levels Worlds. Policies Blog Posts Recent Changes. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Characters in New Super Mario Bros. U Characters in Super Mario Bros.
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