Waluigi

Waluigi in Mario Party 7.
Waluigi
Species	Human
Relatives	Wario (possible brother)
Voiced by	Charles Martinet
Debut	Mario Tennis

Making his debut in a sports game (Mario Tennis 64) Waluigi is to Luigi what Wario is to Mario. Despite criticism as being a shallow character and solely appearing in sports games and other spin-off titles, Waluigi has firmly established himself as a major character among the lineup of Mario characters. He's easily the tallest of all the characters, despite being an extremely wiry fellow. Unlike Wario, he speaks in a whiny, nasally voice.

Background

Like Wario does with Mario, he takes on many of Luigi's attributes. From what is known of Luigi and Wario, it is possible to discern Waluigi's personality.

From Wario, Waluigi can be expected to be greedy, selfish, and have generally bad hygiene. The intros of the various sports games often characterize Wario and Waluigi as being jealous of the other players and attempting to sabotage the other players and win through underhanded tactics. He also shows rivalry (and possibly jealousy and hate) for Luigi as well, as shown in his Mario Power Tennis description where he is said to train day and night in order to defeat Luigi.

From Luigi, he can be expected to have considerable skills in jumping, technology, but be a bit clumsy. And while Luigi is constantly portrayed as an unknown character, it's quite likely in the Mushroom Kingdom that Waluigi is a good deal less famous than Wario.

Attempts at Villainy

Mario Party 3 featured Waluigi (and Daisy) as new characters to the series. In Story Mode, Waluigi stole the Mischief Star Stamp from the Millennium Star and offered to return it only if he were to be named the Superstar. After defeating Bowser in a fistfight, he then competed with three other players for the stamp on Waluigi's Island, an otherwise pleasant island that was overrun by Piranha Plants and filled with explosive traps. After losing, Waluigi fled while the winner received the Star Stamp.

In Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix, Waluigi steals the stage as the villain who breaks into Truffle Towers and scatters the Music Keys, keeping the blue key for himself. While he had planned to wait for the rhythm of the Mushroom Kingdom to fade and then make himself a dancing star, he is beaten in a dance contest and grudgingly surrenders the key to Mario. However, at the end of the game he becomes the final boss when he steals all the Music Keys once Mario retrieves them all and challenges him to once last dance off, that Waluigi ultimately fails.

Sports

Waluigi has appeared primarily in sports games and other Mario spin-offs.

• Golf: Waluigi is playable in Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour and Mario Golf: Advance Tour (where he is unlocked by transferring 27 Best Badges from Toadstool Tour).
• Kart Racing: Waluigi is playable in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (where is partnered with Wario), Mario Kart DS (where he is unlocked by completing the Retro Grand Prix in 100cc Mode), Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 (where he did not appear in the prequel), and in Mario Kart Wii.
• Tennis: Waluigi is playable in Mario Tennis 64, Mario Tennis GBC (through the Nintendo 64 transfer pak), Mario Power Tennis and Mario Tennis: Power Tour.
• Baseball: Waluigi is a playable captain in Mario Superstar Baseball and Mario Super Sluggers.
• Soccer: Waluigi is also a playable captain in Super Mario Strikers, and in Mario Strikers Charged.
• Basketball: Waluigi is playable in Mario Hoops 3-on-3 and Itadaki Street DS.
• The Olympics: Waluigi is playable in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games

Within the sports games, Wario and Waluigi commonly appear in cutscenes where they scheme against the other players. First in Mario Tennis 64, they watch the others start their tournament and barge in on a match between Mario and Luigi so they could settle their rivalries. However, they were then interrupted by Bowser's sudden arrival, who surprisingly eased their tension as he seemed to just want to play.

Waluigi as a captain in Super Mario Strikers

In the intro to Toadstool Tour, they spy on the Mario Bros. during their match with Princess Peach and Daisy. They then attempt to show them up in a competition with Yoshi and a Koopan Troopa, only to wind up fleeing from an angry Bowser after their ball accidentally gives him a black eye, which ends in the three getting caught in a Bob-omb explosion.

The two brothers made their most expansive appearance in the Power Tennis intro, where they were chased by police robots after being caught vandalizing images of Mario and Luigi on a scoreboard as retaliation for having lost to them in the first round of the tennis tournament. They wound up stumbling into Bowser's secret training facility, but instead of attacking them he forced them to train hard there. Afterwards, they took Donkey Kong and Daisy's place in the last round of the tournament against the Mario Bros., and instead of actually playing they launched Bob-ombs from a tennis ball launcher-like device while Bowser aided them from his miniature airship, but the scheme fell apart when the Mario Bros. and eventually all of the players in the audience deflected the Bob-ombs with their tennis rackets, and all three wound up being caught in an explosion again.

In the Mario Superstar Baseball intro, Waluigi is on Wario's team with Donkey Kong playing against Mario's team, and despite a strong showing they ultimately lose. In the Challenge Mode of Mario Super Sluggers, Waluigi was found on a roof in the Wario City guarding a treasure chest he claimed on his own. If spoken to with Wario, he would challenge this claim and after losing a baseball match he would be recruited into the baseball team. Wario and Waluigi also had a role in the ending movie where they, in the manner of the previous intro movies, attempted to sabotage the fireworks ceremony by replacing one of the bob-ombs Mario was supposed to knock into the sky with his bat with a Bullet Bill (which presumably his bat was too weak to deflect), but Bowser leaped in at the last minute to send it back to the brothers. Instead of being hit by the bullet, Wario and Waluigi were caught on its arms, which carried them into the sky before exploding and dropping them.

Waluigi also appears in the Mario Party games as a playable character, starting in Mario Party 3. In Mario Party 3 he was originally only playable in Party Mode and was an opponent in Story Mode. In all later games he was playable in all modes. Waluigi was playable in Mario Party 4, Mario Party 5, Mario Party 6, Mario Party 7, Mario Party 8, Mario Party-e, Mario Party DS and Super Mario Fushigi no Korokoro Party. Also, he will be playable in Super Mario Fushigi no Korokoro Party 2.

Other Appearances

• Waluigi appears as an Assist Trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. He attacks by stomping characters into the ground and then either giving one a mighty kick or a slap with his tennis racket. His colors also appear as alternate colors for Luigi. The Assist Trophy is accompanied by a normal Waluigi trophy, the description for which stating that he spent a long time working quietly in the shadows of the Mario Bros. until he finally became strong enough to compete with them in Mario Tennis. There are also two Waluigi stickers from Super Mario Strikers and Mario Superstar Baseball.
• In Game & Watch Gallery 4, he appears in the Modern Version of Boxing as Luigi's third and last opponent before the game loops back to the first opponent.

Trivia

• In Japanese, the word 'warui' means bad. In Japan, 'L' and 'R' are interchangeable, making 'waruigi' and 'warui' rather similar.
• The upside-down 'L' on Waluigi's hat is probably meaningless, but it could either be a lower case r or the greek letter 'gamma'.
• Waluigi had also appeared in trophy form in Super Smash Bros. Melee.
• In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, equipping both an L and W Emblem at the same time will give Mario a Waluigi color scheme.
• His voice actor, Charles Martinet, has stated that while voicing Waluigi, he sees "self-pity" as his cornerstone emotion.