None of us would be shocked to hear that this WAA-cky waste-of-space tied Penelope Pitstop-or, Princess Peach, rather-to a set of trolley tracks just outside Dipsy Doodle Des-erm, I mean Dry Dry Desert.Ĭoincidence? Yeah, probably. Whether or not Aoki intended to bite the old-school cartoon heel is besides the point. franchise parallels that of another mustache-twirling villain: namely, Dick Dastardly of Hanna-Barbera Wacky Races fame. While I can’t imagine there was a ton of wiggle room when it came time to design a Wario-esque doppelgänger for Luigi, it doesn’t seem like an accident that his design, personality, and overall role in the Super Mario Bros. Ok, so his whole shtick is pretty much a total rip-off of a well-known rascal from yesteryear. So it comes as no surprise that Waluigi’s particular look is far from creative. Their characters' designs are iconic, sure, but that doesn’t make them exciting. Not gonna lie: I don’t play Nintendo games for their artistic value, and neither do you. Know where this brand of extreme body modification doesn’t belong? Well, anywhere -but least of all in a video game series about magical plumbers and sentient mushroom babies. And Mario is, like, what? Two feet tall? It’s basic relativity, people.Īnyway, this kind of self-mutilation sounds like something out of a gritty, hard R Batman comic-kinda like when Dollmaker sliced The Joker’s face off so the psychopath could wear his own decaying skin as a mask. Yup-this dude’s literally disfiguring himself to appear even more like an exaggerated version of Luigi. Or, rather, how he came to resemble the freakish, lumbering horror that haunts our every waking moment.Īccording to “Wario’s Warehouse,” a series of articles that appeared on Nintendo of Europe’s website from 20, Wario straps Waluigi into medieval torture racks to stretch him out and make him taller. OK, so, technically, that last point isn’t 100% true-we do know at least one thing about how Waluigi came to be who he is today. It gives rise to more than a few ominous questions: How did he truly come to be? Was he the result of a Luigi cloning experiment gone horribly awry? And if there's a bizarro clone of the guy in green, does that mean there's a whole city underneath the toadstool metropolis bustling with the likes of Wapeach, Wadaisy, and Wayoshi? And what about evil clones of evil clones? WaWaluigi? And evil clones of them!? There's something off-putting about imaging how this slimy guy in greasy purple overalls just appeared out of nowhere one day, swinging a tennis racket around and claiming to know the Mario Bros. Waluigi wasn’t even created by a Nintendo employee-he was developed by Fumihide Aoki, an employee at Camelot, the software company that collaborated with Nintendo on the Mario Tennis games. In fact, he was “manufactured” to play a specific role in a specific game due to a specific problem: the development team couldn't decide which of their beloved characters should fill the uncomfortable role of being Wario’s doubles partner in Mario Tennis. Unlike his contemporaries who've called the Mushroom Kingdom home their whole lives, Waluigi just kind of popped into existence one day-and nobody batted an eye.
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