Villainpedia: Waluigi

Waluigi is not in smash, but he is in all of our hearts. The lore is shallow, but the love is deep. Maybe one day the forgotten wa bro will have his day in the sun and blossom into the villain he is meant to be. Thanks for watching!

00:00 - Intro
01:11 - Origins: Nintendo's Adopted Child
05:16 - Professional Bench Warmer.. But Villain?
08:54 - Why the Disrespect?
11:33 - The Games that COULD Be
15:21 - Outro

#waluigi#lore#disrespect#meme

Waluigi is no villain, he is a God. How can one fight a god? What a grand and intoxicating innocence.

[PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

I theorize that Waluigi's self-pity, his resentment towards the main Mario cast, and his self-appointed role as Luigi's foe are all linked to the fact that he lacks the fantastical powers of his rivals.

See, Mario, Luigi, and even Wario are all "Star Children, " granted great powers at birth. This explains why they can do all the "super" stuff they do. Waluigi though? He's just some dude. It's specified in quite a few games that he works extremely hard to sharpen his skills to a point where they can keep up with the others. Indeed, I like to think the whole reason he BUILT this "Waluigi" persona was just so he'd be noticed. Nobody cared who he was until he related himself to the Mario Brothers.

And yet despite all of his efforts, he ALWAYS comes in last. Hence his self-pity and festering resentment towards everyone else. Waluigi cheats because in his mind he DESERVES to win.

[Twisted_Logic]

The Waluigi game I've had in my head for years is a Mario RPG where he's the villain. The premise is that via some magical macguffin Waluigi turns everyone into Waluigi (i.e. putting masks on them that make them think and act like him). Because if everyone is Waluigi, everyone will love Waluigi.

[hyperventalated]

Camelot did such a great job designing Waluigi. Wario, visually, was meant to an exaggeration of Mario's main physical traits, and Waluigi reflects his counterpart in the same way perfectly. Also, be this a prediction, a coincidence, or otherwise, his personality and self pity perfectly reflects how he is treated as a character. Sure he gets into Party and Kart games, but no matter what he cant seem to reach the main status the other 3 do. Another comment mentioned how Mario, Luigi, and Wario are "star children" and this reflects how those characters are Nintendo-created while Waluigi was not. In his own way, he fits into the series like a puzzle piece, and I find that very cool.

[mechamechs]

Waluigi's hat is NOT just an inverted L ...
Its the greek letter Γ which has the same sound as W when used at the start of names.

[stonecoat_art]

wario and waluigi are like hyperbolic or caricature versions of the mario and luigi, all their feature exaggerated including their personalities, no wonder they are so loved, they ooze soul

[richardbarbaros]

If memory serves, I think Waluigi is just not very popular to the Japanese audience, most of which truly being baffled at why the Western audience likes him so much.

[alpagator]

"has a special vacuum that's faster at sucking but has a higher failure rate akin to Waluigis entire life" Damn man, spittin some fire right there

[PelinalDidNothingWrong]

I'd kill for Waluigi to get his own game. Imagine him having his own Wario World style game series on the Switch or have Wario and Waluigi appear as antagonists in a 3D game

[TheonetruedogTheDog]

I like to imagine that Waluigi is that one cool uncle that you'd have a blast pulling pranks and making terrible life choices with

[chesterstevens]

Super Heist Bros. might be enough of a reason for me to buy the next Nintendo console.

[samwise]

"Waluigi is the ultimate example of an individual shaped by a signifier. Waluigi is a man only seen in mirror images... Waluigi's identity only come from what and who he isn't."

[zJerichoz]

I see waluigi in a metroidvania game i think he's one of those misunderstood geniuses that can invent/build anything.

[TheBalthassar]

Imagine if they did an April fools reveal for a final Smash character with Waluigi's silhuette, and then it turned out to be lanky Mario from Mario Maker instead.

[BlueDongDroop]

Waluigi in smash? Fuck no, we want 63 more fire emblem characters.

[princesshannah]

I think the official word from Charles Martinet himself on Wario and Waluigi's relationship is that they're just "two nice evil guys who simply Found Each Other" and I think that's adorable.

[diogoteixeira]

I don't think Waluigi will ever receive a solo game. BUT i still ask: why there are no games about him and Wario? Or a game where he is Luigi main antagonist?

[javetus]

This is it... your magnum opus, a single tear came down when the video finished.

[NumbingDisasterAnon]

I like the idea of the game concepts being opposites for the Mario Bros and the Wario Bros. Mario is saving a kingdom, Wario is trying to get rich to make his own kingdom. Luigi is trying to capture and exorcise ghosts, we can have Waluigi causing mischief by antagonizing monsters around the world

[Hitzel]

Holding a 20+ year pointless self-destructive grudge against your own IP to the point where it loses you millions of dollars all because someone that wasn't you came up with a good idea is the most Nintendo thing I have ever heard.