Edit: To those getting upset over my pronunciation of “Super Mario Bros.”, it will be okay. Life will continue lol. I don’t think anyone here didn’t know that “Bros.” is an abbreviation for “brothers”. Regardless, I hope you enjoy the video. Whose origins would you like to see next? Check out more Origin Oracle > ua-cam.com/video/0tl5MnedT00/v-deo.html
A round-up on Luigi, Daisy, Wario, and Waluigi would be cool after their own episodes, with summaries on Camelot Software Planning and all kinds of weirdness like Azalea. '-'-'-'-' My own fan fiction, is that Daisy has an older sister who was the original successor to the throne, the one with darker skin and magenta crown. It gets pretty convoluted with all this stuff about fake or "honorary" names, and such. Mario's world would be branching off from ancient Athens, and that's why DoraKinon, an old name for PEACHES, is the root word in Dragon Coins and Kinopios (Japanese for Toads). So Princess Dorakinon, ruler of Yoshis and Toads, was simplified as Peach. ωαρίο and γιώλιγι actually take on the names to reflect Μαριο and λυιγι, which is localized to English as Wario and Waluigi for Mario and Luigi.
I’m more interested in the comic where Baby Mario dies and Baby Luigi is like “Guess I’m Player 1 now, bitch!” Can you make a video on specifically that?
Cool thing about Luigi's Mansion is how they show the personality differences between Mario & Luigi. Mario is shown to be impatient and impulsive when it comes to protecting his loved ones. Luigi wins a mansion? Yeah, he definitely knew something was fishy, so he went ahead of time to protect Luigi. He didn't even stop to talk to Professor E Gadd on his way in. He survived long enough to even put his hat into the washing machine in the Laundry Room. And he was running from boos long enough to write a letter to Luigi to look out for them. With King Boo's abilities, Mario never stood a chance, and was shoved into a painting. He was so worried that Luigi would get hurt going to the mansion that he fought an enemy head on and failed. Meanwhile Luigi is shown to be more cautious. Mario faces his fears, no matter how scary. But Luigi runs away when things get too tough. It's this running away that caused him to run into E Gadd, and how he got ahold of the Poltergust. King Boo never even saw Luigi as being a problem, but things changed when he noticed he had the Poltergust. Luigi highlights the carelessness of Mario by commenting on how while Mario uses the washing machine, Luigi likes to hand-wash his hat. Luigi's Mansion was an absolute gauntlet for Luigi, but... Luigi was the only one who could've done it. Look at Luigi's Mansion 3. Mario is captured, but his room is an absolute mess. This is evidence of a battle. He had already been captured by King Boo twice before, so he should've known he isn't strong enough to defeat him. But he knew Luigi and Peach were in danger, so he fought back. Luigi only escaped because he ran away. If he wouldn't have run away, he wouldn't have stumbled upon E Gadd's car, to find the new Poltergust. At the end of the game, Mario almost immediately runs off to find Peach. He doesn't notice King Boo flying by in the window. He zooms up the stairs as fast as he can. And every now and then he tries to get Luigi to hurry: "C'MON C'MON C'MON!!" At first I thought this was weird, but it was definitely done to show how impatient Mario is in a dire situation. And I'm willing to bet the reason Mario was captured in Dark Moon, is because he once again decided to fight King Boo, instead of running away. He got in over his head. In other games like Odyssey he is struck down by Bowser pretty quickly. Mario's weakness is his love for his friends in dire situations. It pushes him to move faster and take on challenges he can't win. But when he slows down, that's when he's able to realize what he can use to his advantage and save the day. Luigi is also fueled by the love of his friends in dire situations. But that love is what pushes him forward to do his best. He is afraid and doesn't want to participate most of the time. But when his bro is in danger? He'll face anything. Even if it means running away. His fear is a powerful tool that pushes him to survive until he can handle the situation better. Man I love the Luigi's Mansion series.
Awe man I love this analysis of the brothers so much! There was one comic I saw a while ago about King Boo's perspective in the first Luigi's mansion. When he confronts Luigi infront of the passed out Mario portrait he thought Luigi was quivering in fear because of how scary of a ghost he is, but he realized that he wasn't even afraid of him but infact more terrified of losing his brother as his gaze was fixated on Mario and not King Boo. I thought that headcanon was brilliant and I wanted to share it since this comment was about the Luigi's Mansion series (I've yet to play 3, I need to get it soon!)
When I first played Luigi's Mansion 3 on release, that moment where you save Mario, I swore that it was King Boo in disguise or something. First time I'm seeing someone else point out how weird that moment was but I like the analysis you mentioned because if it was a normal Mario game, we would be flipping up to the rooftop the same exact way. 😄
@@TheMentok I think they might've purposefully exaggerated it to really contrast Mario and Luigi. But in the end it felt a little weird and led to a lot of people assuming he was possessed or actually King Boo in disguise 😅
Something I wish was mentioned was Luigi’s more timid personality came from Charles Martinet himself. It was at a game convention near directly after Charles was cast as Mario where he was wearing a helmet with technology that mimicked his movement to a 3D Mario head exactly like Mario Teaches Typing. People asked to speak to Luigi, but Nintendo hadn’t made a 3D model or planned a voice actor for Luigi, and so Charles improvised saying Luigi was very shy and cooking spaghetti off screen. Despite the Super Mario 1986 Anime and American cartoons, I think that could technically be one of Luigi’s first depiction as timid and cautious from Nintendo without the shows and anime.
I can definitely see this. I wanted to focus on a segment within this video on Charles Martinet since I have yet to talk about him but I decided to save it for when I get to Wario’s vid.
@@gentlemancharmander4411 ua-cam.com/video/UReCxGzQRvw/v-deo.html This is a qna with Charles Martinet where he literally tells the story and describe just what I commented. It's not misinformation. ua-cam.com/video/qrXKklRLUq4/v-deo.html Here is a full video by a deepdiving Nintendo UA-camr TGD, describing Luigi's voice and personality where the story and footage is included.
Luigi’s Mansion reminds me of cartoons that are scared of ghosts like Courage the Cowardly Dog and Scooby Doo starring a cowardly yet courageous character who willingly face their fears to rescue their loved ones!!
In hindsight, it makes sense that this was Luigi. But I don't think he was named that back then. The name Luigi first appears on that Mario Bros handheld the video mentioned, AFAIK.
11:45 - his personality was the invention (at least partially) of the voice actor. He tells a story in one interview, I remember it very poorly, but the gist is that he spoken for the rendered Mario head during some public event, and when kids were asking him, where's Luigi, he were telling them that he's too shy / afraid to present himself, and he voiced Luigi as if he was talking off screen.
What I think is ironic is that the name "Luigi," is apparently the Italian version of Louis, from the Germanic Ludwig, meaning "famous warrior," yet Luigi acts so frightened and cautious.
But still a warrior, nevertheless. And definitely famous. He was the most played character on Super Mario 2. At least by me, and by my friends who also owned the game. As kids, to beat that game, was something else. So, Luigi was considered a faithful and victorious companion throughout that adventure.
Indeed, that's what it means. Since Miyamoto said he only picked that name because it was the second most popular Italian name, that Japanese character transcription (NOT translation) of Luigi's name meaning "the same" was just a chance double-entendre and nothing more.
I guess now we need an origin vídeo on either Wario or Daisy, considering how they are some of the first characters made (or maybe the Toads or Yoshi too) Although tbh Wario is the one that has the most to speak about
Even the 1983 commercial of Luigi yelling out for Mario to help him put it in people’s minds he’s that way. Also, Mario 3’s story states Luigi is “reluctant” to help Mario, depicting he doesn’t want to go on the adventures
I once heard something about the reason Luigi is a coward is because Mario’s VA (maybe his first VA?) was doing an in character bit (maybe at a convention?) and people kept asking to see Luigi, but that wasn’t possible so the VA made something up about Luigi being too shy.
And he was also speaking through a thing that tracked his mouth and showed it as Mario moving his mouth on a screen, which is why Luigi‘s voice is him not opening his mouth that much. I hope that made any sense. He was playing Luigi off-screen while Mario was technically mouthing it.
@@metalmario1231 I mean, Martinet wasn't the first VA for Mario or Luigi. Hell, Mario's canonically from Brooklyn, so Martinet's accent makes no goddamned sense.
Did NOT expect the character study of how their trauma created two different brothers. I missed out on Nintendo when I was young, your videos are helping me with catching up! Just got a switch and I'm eating up as much lore as I can!
Gotta love that Dic cemented their parts in the games they adapted forever, sonic in having his favorite food and Mario Bros in a few parts of their personalities
Fantastic video man! Luigi has been one of my most favorite Mario characters ever since I was a kid simply because he was in green and green has always been my favorite color haha. Great explanation as to why his personality is far more timid than Mario's
8:50 "I think we need a game with this Luigi somewhere" According to Game Theory, that game is Super Paper Mario. No. seriously. If y'all haven't played SPM, DO IT. It's one of my favorite games of all time.
I love when the YT algorithm drops me on the doorstep of a new channel - been listening to your dives into characters while gaming and I love the dedication, my dude. Have to say I'm learning info I didn't know or wouldn't think to look up.
Same with Wario. I remember seeing somewhere that Wa translates or relates to a word that means "bad" or something like that in Japanese, so his name was just supposed to mean "bad Mario". It was just a fun coincidence that a W is an upside down M
Luigi has always been low key one of my favorite parts of the Mario universe and I'm glad they use him pretty well. He's hilarious in the Mario and Luigi titles and in the Mario + Rabbids game love how they make him a bad ass sniper.
They ripped off the exploding fat guy from Monty Phython's Meaning of Life to advertise Yoshi's Island. It was the gross-out humor decade before they all got jealous of Iraq's joke to end all jokes. It's so good it nearly knocked the creator of Family Guy dead.
I feel like Luigi’s „sinister“ personality from the weird comic you showed plays kind of a huge role in Super Paper Mario. Maybe Nintendo was up to something approving that comic. Then there’s tiny things like the Luigi death stare in MK8 and him having untold, possibly disturbing secrets in Mario&Luigi: Partners in Time
5:04 Fun fact, a man by the name of Luigi Cordona was Responsible for losing 10 Battles over the Isonzo River in WW1 which claimed the lives of most of the 1.2 million Italians who died in WW1, which ended with the Greatest Military Disaster in Italian History at the Last Battle (12th) of Isonzo, also known as Capparetto. A Last Ditch Defense prevented Venice from being Captured. He had a Son with a Better military Record than he did. the Battle of Capparetto was where Erwin Rommel the Infamous Desert Fox of the Afrika Corps in WW2 entered the History books pioneering Early Blitzkrieg as a German imperial StormTropper. Described by post world war Historians as "Blitzkrieg without Tanks and only infantry". of the 300,000 soldiers from Italy lost after Capparetto, Romel Captured at least 9,000 using only a Small Contingent of 100 men while he himself was Wounded (His Gun Blew up on him injuring his leg). Luigi Cordona got fired and he never lived it down since. His Son would Lead an Italian Army in WW2 with a Greater Rate of Success... Poor Luigi was the Black sheep in a Family of Military Tradition as he himself was the Son of the General who marched on Rome and Completed the Risorgimento/Italian Unification wars in the 1860s, basically Italy's Version of Washington Crossing the Delaware river.
If you read the secret diary entries by Luigi in Paper Mario, the entry that appears after chapter 3 is him absolutely terrified of any and all ghosts. First official depiction of him being timid in any games as far as I know.
THANK YOU. As the one person in my town that knew and liked the Game & Watch Gallery series back in the early 2000s. Mario Bros on the G&W had hard evidence that Luigi made his earliest appearance as far as that game. G&W Gallery 4 had a history section that given the years these little handhelds were released. Also, Warioware paid more respects for Game & Watch and especially the rest of Gunpei Yokoi's creations WW Gold having the section of explaining all of the Nintendo licensed products
Luigi is a very important existence in the history of the game in the sense that it gave personality to a character for 2p that had no personality until then. he is a great character
The real first Luigi Game is Luigi’s Hammer Toss, for the game and watch. It was released in the 1990s as a McDonald’s toy, so really, that was the first LUIGI BASED game.
Like most younger siblings I identify with Luigi because that's who I always got stuck playing. So he's my character now and I want him to have as many games as possible where he's the main player! I know I'm not the only one.
12:49 OMG THERS AN ARCADE I GO TO SOMETIMES WHERE THERE ACTUALLY IS A LUIGI'S MANSION ARCADE GAME AND I LOVE PLAYING AT IT IT FEEL SO DAMN REAL WHEN U CATCH THE GHOSTS OR GET SOME COINS DEAR LORD AAAAAAAAAAH
I know a Dave & Busters that usually has that Dark Moon arcade game. I played it in full with my mom and I had a really great time with it! The ironic part is that I never played dark moon on the 3ds
It's interesting, but the idea of two best friends (brothers or not) who share adventures, in which the tallest one is displayed as the shyest, most cautious and passive is quite frequent. While the shortest being the opposite, and usually the leader of the duo. In comic books, you have Calvin and Hobbes, Joe Dalton and Averell Dalton, Astérix and Obélix, etc. There are other examples, also outside comics and cartoons.
If Luigi's mansion is any indication we need a lot more games featuring him with different concepts. He can stand up on his own. I'd love to see a game where his vastly different jumping abilities are used.
Yes! Please do another video about Luigi's personality in the Paper Mario series/how competitive he is! Luigi in Paper Mario, especially TTYD, is what makes me choose him every time I play Mario Kart/Party games 💚
7:49 I’d like to point out that you’re saying about Luigi being the scared one because of what he went through as a baby because in fact MARIO would be the scared one (if you use common sense) because babies will literally be TRAUMATIZED from being around what yoshi put baby Mario through.
Nah getting kindapped by an evil wizard would definitely be more traumatizing. Hek you could even say Mario got his sense of adventure and his courage from the OG yoshi.
Now I have a fan theory that New Super Luigi U is an alternate universe where Mario is a legend in the past (the Cap is the only thing that shows up in NSLU) and Luigi is the star, following his dead brother's footsteps. That is why the Cap is kept. It is kept as a memory of him.
I first saw Luigi on my big sister’s copy of Super Mario Advance 4 when I was about four years old (she got it in 2005). Since then, he’s become my favorite character in the series, but I’ve only acknowledged his stats in later years (my original reason for liking him was because he wore green, which is my favorite color.).
Luigi is great. He shows that old adage that courage is not never being afraid, it's being afraid and doing it anyway. Being said, I was a younger brother when Super Mario World hit, I've always been biased towards the green plumber
I have the Mario Bros Game & Watch. I've had it since I was a kid. Serendipitously, we even saved the box and instructions. But I wouldn't have guessed that it predated the arcade game. Neat!
This was wholesome to hear. Game and Watch was before my time. I hopped in at the original Game Boy so reading more on the impact it had was one of my favorite parts of making this video. One day I might just do a full retrospective on the Game and Watch because it’s really interesting
What I've always liked about Luigi's Mansion is the similar vibes it gives me that I get from the Disneyland Haunted Mansion ride. The outside of the mansion looks kinda like the Shiply-Lydecker House which Disneyland's Haunted Mansion is based on, the portrait ghosts remind me of the portraits you pass on the way to the loading area of Disneyland's version of the ride, as well as when the portrait ghosts are outside of their portraits, they really remind me of the different "Happy Haunts" on the ride-- Luigi's Mansion even has a ghost couple dancing around in the Ballroom like the Ballroom Scene from the ride. Even the butler ghost from Luigi's Mansion reminds me of The Endless Hallway scene from the ride, where as your Doom Buggie ride vehicle rounds the first corner, the first thing you see is the Endless Hallway with the floating candelabra, which you see recreated with the butler ghost carrying a candelabra and sometimes disappearing so only a floating candelabra is seen in the game. Heck, about a year or so after Luigi's Mansion was released, Disney released their own Haunted Mansion game to promote the Haunted Mansion movie Eddie Murphy starred in - though the game actually had nothing to do with the movie except for both taking place inside the Haunted Mansion. The game is centered around a young man named Zeke, and it is mentioned to take place "after the war"-- I _think_ it's supposed to be The Civil War, who answers a newspaper ad for a job listing at the mansion but of course it turns out to be a cover for a more supernatural goings-on, and the Haunted Mansion game replicates the gameplay of Luigi's Mansion, but instead of sucking up ghosts and Boos into a vacuum, Zeke uses an enchanted lantern to capture the ghosts. (The rooms will also get brighter after you cleared out all the ghosts like in Luigi's Mansion!) Even The Last Resort Hotel in Luigi's Mansion 3 looks like The Tower of Terror ride, which Caddicarus pointed out in his video. Although the one in particular he was talking about and showed a photo of is Tokyo's version of the Tower of Terror ride, which is completely different to the original in Orlando (The Hollywood Tower Hotel aka "The Tower of Terror" - which was also in Disney California Adventure park before getting re-themed to it's current Guardians of the Galaxy version "Mission Breakout"), and is called "The Hotel Hightower" named after its owner Harrison Hightower. (Which fun fact: Tokyo's Tower of Terror actually ties into Disneyland's Haunted Mansion ride, as The Black Widow Bride, Constance Hatchaway, aka The Attic Bride/The Beating Heart Bride was married to a man named George Hightower, speculated to be the brother of Harrison Hightower, owner of The Hotel Hightower and disgraced former member of The S.E.A. - The Society of Explorers and Adventurers, a fun little secret society Disney came up with to tie some of their attractions together for park fans), as in The Attic Scene of the Disneyland ride, we see a wedding portrait of Constance and George, and George looks a lot like Harrison.) So, even in a roundabout way, I can still tie Luigi's Mansion to Disneyland's Haunted Mansion!
PLEASE do a video on how Nintendo should bring back "The Year of Luigi" for Luigi's 40th anniversary this year and how YOU would suggest they celebrate it. :)
luigi is not a coward. he is depicted as scared but allways does what he needs to anyway. That is true courage. Mario on the other hand has no fear. mario is not courageous, he's foolhardy.
@@nicknetwork118 i meant that for Lugi some people say it's Green Mario. but i see it as Mario being Red Lugi. so Green Mario is in reality Green Red Luigi.
That's why she isen't canon, Mario has kids with his audience because it's meant to be suitible for kids to adults. Having a character that was popular with NSFW drawnings would be out of place in a family-friendly franchise
It was epic in a way when the Wii U was floundering at the time.. I still posit that the Luigi U levels were some of the best 2d Mario gameplay I’ve ever experienced! My buddy and I were finishing our undergrad at the time and would unwind with Mario 3D World and Nee Super Mario Bros U and then Luigi U hit.. they are shorter tougher levels, especially if you’d get all the stars.. epic times, and great game, imo. It was tough in ways that reminded me of The Lost Levels in ways, but was more fun for me at the time! Great video! Luigi is number 1 haha
The orthodontists were smart throwing video games in their offices 🤣 I went to one that had an N64 with Smash Bros and Ocarina of Time. Also vaguely remember the game boy version of Donkey Kong there somewhere too
12:50 lol there is a chuck e cheese by my house that has one. and also if you want to play luigi bros, its in super mario 3d world on both the wii and switch versions. the wii u version i think you need to have a new super luigi u save ( i forgot if you did or not) and on the switch version you just need to beat the game.
I believe the Game & Watch title was released less than a month before the arcade title rather than three months, with the former releasing in March 1983 and the latter in April 1983, but I'm splitting hairs. This is a really interesting video essay and it's presented brilliantly. I'm subscribing for more. Edit: Just a thought, but Luigi as a timid or more easily scared character could be said to have its genesis in the infamous Atari commercial for the Mario Bros game; the one where Luigi calls out "MARIO WHERE ARE YOU?!" to the tune of the song featured in the commercial.
The song in that commercial is a parody of an old sitcom, "Car 54, Where Are You?!". The melody is the same, too, just a different tempo (speed). The lyrics end with, "Car 54, Where Are You?!", so the commercial was parodying the show's theme song.
UA-camr, Crispy Toast hosted the Luigipaloosa collab where a lot of Gmod/SFM animators make and post skits of scenes that Luigi finds himself as he goes on a world wide adventure. the narrator in the intro tells him that there's a whole world to explore. and sure enough he does for a duration of the 50 minute video.
For the year of Luigi in 2013, Nintendo and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) did a promotional event for New Super Luigi U in which an entire line of our transit system featured L train cars plastered in New Super Luigi U advertising and vinyl wraps with Luigi himself making appearances on the L cars. For this promotional event CTA chose the Brown Line, one of the L lines with a lesser amount of ridership compared to others in the system. However, despite this, it was still a pretty popular event and I happen to stumble upon it randomly as I was commuting one day so that's always fun.
The first time I heard of Luigi was at a friend's Mario-themed birthday party in the late 1980s, when one of the party games was a scavenger hunt, with the teams called the "Marios" and the "Luigis". Shortly after that, I first played the NES version of Super Mario Bros, and I thought the growth mushrooms were "Mario Mushrooms" because they were red like Mario and the extra life mushrooms were "Luigi Mushrooms" because they were green like Luigi...
The Nintendo Power Mario Mania guide for SMW mentions Luigi being scared of ghosts but they did not really dial up Luigi being more scared until Luigi's Mansion. It used to be much more subdued.
i think nintendo did a good job with the Year of Luigi. it's the only character celebration event that anyone really remembers. i still hear it parodied for other characters in reference to the Luigi one.
I never would've thought those DIC cartoons actually contributed something to the official canon of the Mario games. They really did create Luigi's personality.
Edit: To those getting upset over my pronunciation of “Super Mario Bros.”, it will be okay. Life will continue lol. I don’t think anyone here didn’t know that “Bros.” is an abbreviation for “brothers”. Regardless, I hope you enjoy the video.
Whose origins would you like to see next?
Check out more Origin Oracle > ua-cam.com/video/0tl5MnedT00/v-deo.html
Donkey Kong
A round-up on Luigi, Daisy, Wario, and Waluigi would be cool after their own episodes, with summaries on Camelot Software Planning and all kinds of weirdness like Azalea.
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My own fan fiction, is that Daisy has an older sister who was the original successor to the throne, the one with darker skin and magenta crown.
It gets pretty convoluted with all this stuff about fake or "honorary" names, and such. Mario's world would be branching off from ancient Athens, and that's why DoraKinon, an old name for PEACHES, is the root word in Dragon Coins and Kinopios (Japanese for Toads). So Princess Dorakinon, ruler of Yoshis and Toads, was simplified as Peach.
ωαρίο and γιώλιγι actually take on the names to reflect
Μαριο and λυιγι, which is localized to English as Wario and Waluigi for Mario and Luigi.
I’m more interested in the comic where Baby Mario dies and Baby Luigi is like “Guess I’m Player 1 now, bitch!” Can you make a video on specifically that?
Considering saying “Brothers” next time
5:04 😂So its pronounced like South Park.
Cool thing about Luigi's Mansion is how they show the personality differences between Mario & Luigi.
Mario is shown to be impatient and impulsive when it comes to protecting his loved ones. Luigi wins a mansion? Yeah, he definitely knew something was fishy, so he went ahead of time to protect Luigi. He didn't even stop to talk to Professor E Gadd on his way in. He survived long enough to even put his hat into the washing machine in the Laundry Room. And he was running from boos long enough to write a letter to Luigi to look out for them. With King Boo's abilities, Mario never stood a chance, and was shoved into a painting. He was so worried that Luigi would get hurt going to the mansion that he fought an enemy head on and failed.
Meanwhile Luigi is shown to be more cautious. Mario faces his fears, no matter how scary. But Luigi runs away when things get too tough. It's this running away that caused him to run into E Gadd, and how he got ahold of the Poltergust. King Boo never even saw Luigi as being a problem, but things changed when he noticed he had the Poltergust. Luigi highlights the carelessness of Mario by commenting on how while Mario uses the washing machine, Luigi likes to hand-wash his hat.
Luigi's Mansion was an absolute gauntlet for Luigi, but... Luigi was the only one who could've done it.
Look at Luigi's Mansion 3. Mario is captured, but his room is an absolute mess. This is evidence of a battle. He had already been captured by King Boo twice before, so he should've known he isn't strong enough to defeat him. But he knew Luigi and Peach were in danger, so he fought back. Luigi only escaped because he ran away. If he wouldn't have run away, he wouldn't have stumbled upon E Gadd's car, to find the new Poltergust.
At the end of the game, Mario almost immediately runs off to find Peach. He doesn't notice King Boo flying by in the window. He zooms up the stairs as fast as he can. And every now and then he tries to get Luigi to hurry: "C'MON C'MON C'MON!!"
At first I thought this was weird, but it was definitely done to show how impatient Mario is in a dire situation.
And I'm willing to bet the reason Mario was captured in Dark Moon, is because he once again decided to fight King Boo, instead of running away. He got in over his head. In other games like Odyssey he is struck down by Bowser pretty quickly. Mario's weakness is his love for his friends in dire situations. It pushes him to move faster and take on challenges he can't win. But when he slows down, that's when he's able to realize what he can use to his advantage and save the day.
Luigi is also fueled by the love of his friends in dire situations. But that love is what pushes him forward to do his best. He is afraid and doesn't want to participate most of the time. But when his bro is in danger? He'll face anything. Even if it means running away. His fear is a powerful tool that pushes him to survive until he can handle the situation better.
Man I love the Luigi's Mansion series.
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@@JayGSGX lol
Awe man I love this analysis of the brothers so much!
There was one comic I saw a while ago about King Boo's perspective in the first Luigi's mansion. When he confronts Luigi infront of the passed out Mario portrait he thought Luigi was quivering in fear because of how scary of a ghost he is, but he realized that he wasn't even afraid of him but infact more terrified of losing his brother as his gaze was fixated on Mario and not King Boo. I thought that headcanon was brilliant and I wanted to share it since this comment was about the Luigi's Mansion series (I've yet to play 3, I need to get it soon!)
When I first played Luigi's Mansion 3 on release, that moment where you save Mario, I swore that it was King Boo in disguise or something. First time I'm seeing someone else point out how weird that moment was but I like the analysis you mentioned because if it was a normal Mario game, we would be flipping up to the rooftop the same exact way. 😄
@@TheMentok
I think they might've purposefully exaggerated it to really contrast Mario and Luigi.
But in the end it felt a little weird and led to a lot of people assuming he was possessed or actually King Boo in disguise 😅
Something I wish was mentioned was Luigi’s more timid personality came from Charles Martinet himself. It was at a game convention near directly after Charles was cast as Mario where he was wearing a helmet with technology that mimicked his movement to a 3D Mario head exactly like Mario Teaches Typing.
People asked to speak to Luigi, but Nintendo hadn’t made a 3D model or planned a voice actor for Luigi, and so Charles improvised saying Luigi was very shy and cooking spaghetti off screen.
Despite the Super Mario 1986 Anime and American cartoons, I think that could technically be one of Luigi’s first depiction as timid and cautious from Nintendo without the shows and anime.
I can definitely see this. I wanted to focus on a segment within this video on Charles Martinet since I have yet to talk about him but I decided to save it for when I get to Wario’s vid.
Uh, no, it was in the American cartoon. This is just plain misinformation
@@gentlemancharmander4411 literally mentioned in the comment
@@gentlemancharmander4411 ua-cam.com/video/UReCxGzQRvw/v-deo.html
This is a qna with Charles Martinet where he literally tells the story and describe just what I commented.
It's not misinformation.
ua-cam.com/video/qrXKklRLUq4/v-deo.html
Here is a full video by a deepdiving Nintendo UA-camr TGD, describing Luigi's voice and personality where the story and footage is included.
@@delicioustoes1136 that’s the confusing part, he mentioned it, and disregarded it in the same sentence
Luigi’s Mansion reminds me of cartoons that are scared of ghosts like Courage the Cowardly Dog and Scooby Doo starring a cowardly yet courageous character who willingly face their fears to rescue their loved ones!!
And he wear green like saggy.
@@INFERNO95ah yes my favorite scooby doo character. Saggy
Those two did a crossover
Saggy and Sooby Do
That was the point
I still think his first appearance is in Donkey Kong Jr. (1982) when we see 2 Mario’s at the start
And as for Mario Bros., well, Wikis say it was his debut. But honestly, I think that was his second appearance after DKJR.
I wonder if there's any footage?
In hindsight, it makes sense that this was Luigi. But I don't think he was named that back then. The name Luigi first appears on that Mario Bros handheld the video mentioned, AFAIK.
I thought of the two Marios in DKJR being Mario and his father, Jumpman
Me too
11:45 - his personality was the invention (at least partially) of the voice actor. He tells a story in one interview, I remember it very poorly, but the gist is that he spoken for the rendered Mario head during some public event, and when kids were asking him, where's Luigi, he were telling them that he's too shy / afraid to present himself, and he voiced Luigi as if he was talking off screen.
What I think is ironic is that the name "Luigi," is apparently the Italian version of Louis, from the Germanic Ludwig, meaning "famous warrior," yet Luigi acts so frightened and cautious.
But still a warrior, nevertheless. And definitely famous. He was the most played character on Super Mario 2. At least by me, and by my friends who also owned the game. As kids, to beat that game, was something else. So, Luigi was considered a faithful and victorious companion throughout that adventure.
Indeed, that's what it means. Since Miyamoto said he only picked that name because it was the second most popular Italian name, that Japanese character transcription (NOT translation) of Luigi's name meaning "the same" was just a chance double-entendre and nothing more.
I mean, it's not like Luigi calls himself as number one
Interesting, and Ludwig is one of the Koopalings (Bowser's children).
I guess now we need an origin vídeo on either Wario or Daisy, considering how they are some of the first characters made (or maybe the Toads or Yoshi too)
Although tbh Wario is the one that has the most to speak about
They have similar origins, too--both from the Game Boy versions, and only appearing at the end of the games.
his purpose?
Wasn't Wario an "alien" in the SMB GB games?
@@Oyaji_Music No, just Mario's childhood rival. Tatanga, the main villain of the first game (and shows up in the second), is an alien.
@@Oyaji_Music That alien you referred to is named "Tatanga" from Super Mario Land, not Wario.
Really like this, I didn’t know how much story came from Luigi’s development! Keep it up!
As a younger sibling who was always stuck playing Player 2, I have a fondness for Luigi.
younger sibs who love luigi >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I always admired Luigi. He shows up every single time even though he’s clearly afraid and nervous.
Even the 1983 commercial of Luigi yelling out for Mario to help him put it in people’s minds he’s that way. Also, Mario 3’s story states Luigi is “reluctant” to help Mario, depicting he doesn’t want to go on the adventures
I once heard something about the reason Luigi is a coward is because Mario’s VA (maybe his first VA?) was doing an in character bit (maybe at a convention?) and people kept asking to see Luigi, but that wasn’t possible so the VA made something up about Luigi being too shy.
yes,it was the reason (I think)
First va? Charles Martinet.....how you not get that?
And he was also speaking through a thing that tracked his mouth and showed it as Mario moving his mouth on a screen, which is why Luigi‘s voice is him not opening his mouth that much. I hope that made any sense. He was playing Luigi off-screen while Mario was technically mouthing it.
@@metalmario1231 I mean, Martinet wasn't the first VA for Mario or Luigi. Hell, Mario's canonically from Brooklyn, so Martinet's accent makes no goddamned sense.
@@metalmario1231 Mario had many voices before he got his iconic voice that everyone knows
Did NOT expect the character study of how their trauma created two different brothers.
I missed out on Nintendo when I was young, your videos are helping me with catching up! Just got a switch and I'm eating up as much lore as I can!
Gotta love that Dic cemented their parts in the games they adapted forever, sonic in having his favorite food and Mario Bros in a few parts of their personalities
Fantastic video man! Luigi has been one of my most favorite Mario characters ever since I was a kid simply because he was in green and green has always been my favorite color haha. Great explanation as to why his personality is far more timid than Mario's
8:50 "I think we need a game with this Luigi somewhere" According to Game Theory, that game is Super Paper Mario.
No. seriously. If y'all haven't played SPM, DO IT. It's one of my favorite games of all time.
I love when the YT algorithm drops me on the doorstep of a new channel - been listening to your dives into characters while gaming and I love the dedication, my dude. Have to say I'm learning info I didn't know or wouldn't think to look up.
That's AMAZING that Luigi was the second most popular name and translates into "similar", that's like destiny lol
Same with Wario. I remember seeing somewhere that Wa translates or relates to a word that means "bad" or something like that in Japanese, so his name was just supposed to mean "bad Mario". It was just a fun coincidence that a W is an upside down M
@@professorfreddy warui
@@geschnitztekiste4111 Waruio-And Waruigi!
Luigi has always been low key one of my favorite parts of the Mario universe and I'm glad they use him pretty well. He's hilarious in the Mario and Luigi titles and in the Mario + Rabbids game love how they make him a bad ass sniper.
8:30 Wow. Nintendo was a lot less strict back then.
They ripped off the exploding fat guy from Monty Phython's Meaning of Life to advertise Yoshi's Island. It was the gross-out humor decade before they all got jealous of Iraq's joke to end all jokes. It's so good it nearly knocked the creator of Family Guy dead.
The Year of Luigi was just a way to make something of an inordinate number of Luigi appearances
The Year of Luigi was like the worst year Nintendo has had in recent memory, which is very fitting in a way.
11:03 Fun fact, turtle shells are actually attached to the turtle's ribs and spine, so Luigi literally ripped Bowser's spine out of his body.
No
Bowser isnt a turtle though, hes a koopa.
This editing is absolutely immaculate and perfect
I respect it so much
I feel like Luigi’s „sinister“ personality from the weird comic you showed plays kind of a huge role in Super Paper Mario. Maybe Nintendo was up to something approving that comic. Then there’s tiny things like the Luigi death stare in MK8 and him having untold, possibly disturbing secrets in Mario&Luigi: Partners in Time
Bro, you found your niche these videos are so good! Keep up the history stuff!!
9:09 Correction: that’s Weegee and Malleo, not Luigi and Mario.
3:45
OH MY GOD
*WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*
*car* *crash* *sound* *effect*
3:30 you're too late suckers, I'm delivery truck certified!
I like how Mario n Luigi started of as workers in a trade. Before superheroes they were blue collar
9:30 KING DEDEDE!!?!
Interesting thing about Luigi's nature is that in the original anime movie he was less timid than Mario and was very greedy.
9:20 - Mario's head does a complete 180º.
the TOAD IS JACKED was perfect with the phonk music
my favorite chartacter in mario kart, toad IS A BUFF BOI 6:20
I'm liking these videos bro! Always fun to get that in-depth background on these classic characters. Especially from the Nintendo staples
It makes sense for Luigi to not be afraid of Bowser, him and Mario have fought Bowser multiple times before.
5:04 Fun fact, a man by the name of Luigi Cordona was Responsible for losing 10 Battles over the Isonzo River in WW1 which claimed the lives of most of the 1.2 million Italians who died in WW1, which ended with the Greatest Military Disaster in Italian History at the Last Battle (12th) of Isonzo, also known as Capparetto. A Last Ditch Defense prevented Venice from being Captured. He had a Son with a Better military Record than he did. the Battle of Capparetto was where Erwin Rommel the Infamous Desert Fox of the Afrika Corps in WW2 entered the History books pioneering Early Blitzkrieg as a German imperial StormTropper. Described by post world war Historians as "Blitzkrieg without Tanks and only infantry". of the 300,000 soldiers from Italy lost after Capparetto, Romel Captured at least 9,000 using only a Small Contingent of 100 men while he himself was Wounded (His Gun Blew up on him injuring his leg). Luigi Cordona got fired and he never lived it down since. His Son would Lead an Italian Army in WW2 with a Greater Rate of Success... Poor Luigi was the Black sheep in a Family of Military Tradition as he himself was the Son of the General who marched on Rome and Completed the Risorgimento/Italian Unification wars in the 1860s, basically Italy's Version of Washington Crossing the Delaware river.
11:10 though its not official there exists Weegee, the chaotic meme version of Luigi.
2:54 The foreman?? So Foreman Spike is just as old lol
If you read the secret diary entries by Luigi in Paper Mario, the entry that appears after chapter 3 is him absolutely terrified of any and all ghosts. First official depiction of him being timid in any games as far as I know.
It was also a teaser for Luigi's Mansion because they were already developing it by the time PM released
THANK YOU. As the one person in my town that knew and liked the Game & Watch Gallery series back in the early 2000s.
Mario Bros on the G&W had hard evidence that Luigi made his earliest appearance as far as that game.
G&W Gallery 4 had a history section that given the years these little handhelds were released.
Also, Warioware paid more respects for Game & Watch and especially the rest of Gunpei Yokoi's creations
WW Gold having the section of explaining all of the Nintendo licensed products
0:41 why does Bowser look like Gargamel after he took a potion that turned him into a grey, spiky shelled, lizard monster ?
My guess is that was Bowser's propsed OG design before he became who we know him as today.
Love the thumbnail art on this video. Helps that it’s a good image on a good video 🤟
Luigi is a very important existence in the history of the game in the sense that it gave personality to a character for 2p that had no personality until then. he is a great character
0:32 I loved that transition
The real first Luigi Game is Luigi’s Hammer Toss, for the game and watch. It was released in the 1990s as a McDonald’s toy, so really, that was the first LUIGI BASED game.
Surprised no one brought this up in the comments
Like most younger siblings I identify with Luigi because that's who I always got stuck playing. So he's my character now and I want him to have as many games as possible where he's the main player! I know I'm not the only one.
12:49 OMG THERS AN ARCADE I GO TO SOMETIMES WHERE THERE ACTUALLY IS A LUIGI'S MANSION ARCADE GAME AND I LOVE PLAYING AT IT IT FEEL SO DAMN REAL WHEN U CATCH THE GHOSTS OR GET SOME COINS DEAR LORD AAAAAAAAAAH
The feeling when holding the vacuum is so satisfying. Would love to see a follow up to that game sometime
@@TheMentok yeah
I know a Dave & Busters that usually has that Dark Moon arcade game. I played it in full with my mom and I had a really great time with it! The ironic part is that I never played dark moon on the 3ds
It's interesting, but the idea of two best friends (brothers or not) who share adventures, in which the tallest one is displayed as the shyest, most cautious and passive is quite frequent. While the shortest being the opposite, and usually the leader of the duo. In comic books, you have Calvin and Hobbes, Joe Dalton and Averell Dalton, Astérix and Obélix, etc. There are other examples, also outside comics and cartoons.
If Luigi's mansion is any indication we need a lot more games featuring him with different concepts. He can stand up on his own. I'd love to see a game where his vastly different jumping abilities are used.
I think they always intended for Luigi to be the cowardly one. The commercial for Mario Bros. depicts Luigi calling Mario for help.
mario don't help luigi becuse he have a date with pauline
Yes! Please do another video about Luigi's personality in the Paper Mario series/how competitive he is! Luigi in Paper Mario, especially TTYD, is what makes me choose him every time I play Mario Kart/Party games 💚
8:37 Its The WAH
12:55 I actually played that at an arcade
luigi is my favorite brother. i just feel like his personality is more fleshed out than mario’s, and i can identify with him a lot more
where is that thumbnail art from? the pic at 5:05
7:49 I’d like to point out that you’re saying about Luigi being the scared one because of what he went through as a baby because in fact MARIO would be the scared one (if you use common sense) because babies will literally be TRAUMATIZED from being around what yoshi put baby Mario through.
Nah getting kindapped by an evil wizard would definitely be more traumatizing.
Hek you could even say Mario got his sense of adventure and his courage from the OG yoshi.
That baby Luigi from the comic, he definitely grew up to be the Luigi in New Super Luigi U.
Now I have a fan theory that New Super Luigi U is an alternate universe where Mario is a legend in the past (the Cap is the only thing that shows up in NSLU) and Luigi is the star, following his dead brother's footsteps. That is why the Cap is kept. It is kept as a memory of him.
Dude your video composition and humor is god like
8:25 well that went south in a hurry.
I first saw Luigi on my big sister’s copy of Super Mario Advance 4 when I was about four years old (she got it in 2005). Since then, he’s become my favorite character in the series, but I’ve only acknowledged his stats in later years (my original reason for liking him was because he wore green, which is my favorite color.).
9:41 I have the SNES Version of this Game.
1:06 - TWIN Brother?????
Yes, Mario and Luigi are twins
Luigi is great. He shows that old adage that courage is not never being afraid, it's being afraid and doing it anyway. Being said, I was a younger brother when Super Mario World hit, I've always been biased towards the green plumber
8:06
Why'd you show OJ 💀
I have the Mario Bros Game & Watch. I've had it since I was a kid. Serendipitously, we even saved the box and instructions. But I wouldn't have guessed that it predated the arcade game. Neat!
This was wholesome to hear. Game and Watch was before my time. I hopped in at the original Game Boy so reading more on the impact it had was one of my favorite parts of making this video. One day I might just do a full retrospective on the Game and Watch because it’s really interesting
There's definitely a H-Game called Mario Is Missing 😂 I'm not even shocked it's based off the name of this title.
What I've always liked about Luigi's Mansion is the similar vibes it gives me that I get from the Disneyland Haunted Mansion ride. The outside of the mansion looks kinda like the Shiply-Lydecker House which Disneyland's Haunted Mansion is based on, the portrait ghosts remind me of the portraits you pass on the way to the loading area of Disneyland's version of the ride, as well as when the portrait ghosts are outside of their portraits, they really remind me of the different "Happy Haunts" on the ride-- Luigi's Mansion even has a ghost couple dancing around in the Ballroom like the Ballroom Scene from the ride. Even the butler ghost from Luigi's Mansion reminds me of The Endless Hallway scene from the ride, where as your Doom Buggie ride vehicle rounds the first corner, the first thing you see is the Endless Hallway with the floating candelabra, which you see recreated with the butler ghost carrying a candelabra and sometimes disappearing so only a floating candelabra is seen in the game.
Heck, about a year or so after Luigi's Mansion was released, Disney released their own Haunted Mansion game to promote the Haunted Mansion movie Eddie Murphy starred in - though the game actually had nothing to do with the movie except for both taking place inside the Haunted Mansion.
The game is centered around a young man named Zeke, and it is mentioned to take place "after the war"-- I _think_ it's supposed to be The Civil War, who answers a newspaper ad for a job listing at the mansion but of course it turns out to be a cover for a more supernatural goings-on, and the Haunted Mansion game replicates the gameplay of Luigi's Mansion, but instead of sucking up ghosts and Boos into a vacuum, Zeke uses an enchanted lantern to capture the ghosts. (The rooms will also get brighter after you cleared out all the ghosts like in Luigi's Mansion!)
Even The Last Resort Hotel in Luigi's Mansion 3 looks like The Tower of Terror ride, which Caddicarus pointed out in his video. Although the one in particular he was talking about and showed a photo of is Tokyo's version of the Tower of Terror ride, which is completely different to the original in Orlando (The Hollywood Tower Hotel aka "The Tower of Terror" - which was also in Disney California Adventure park before getting re-themed to it's current Guardians of the Galaxy version "Mission Breakout"), and is called "The Hotel Hightower" named after its owner Harrison Hightower. (Which fun fact: Tokyo's Tower of Terror actually ties into Disneyland's Haunted Mansion ride, as The Black Widow Bride, Constance Hatchaway, aka The Attic Bride/The Beating Heart Bride was married to a man named George Hightower, speculated to be the brother of Harrison Hightower, owner of The Hotel Hightower and disgraced former member of The S.E.A. - The Society of Explorers and Adventurers, a fun little secret society Disney came up with to tie some of their attractions together for park fans), as in The Attic Scene of the Disneyland ride, we see a wedding portrait of Constance and George, and George looks a lot like Harrison.)
So, even in a roundabout way, I can still tie Luigi's Mansion to Disneyland's Haunted Mansion!
PLEASE do a video on how Nintendo should bring back "The Year of Luigi" for Luigi's 40th anniversary this year and how YOU would suggest they celebrate it. :)
You got a new sub lol this was so funny
LUIGIIII
Thank you for putting the music names in the description
luigi is not a coward. he is depicted as scared but allways does what he needs to anyway. That is true courage. Mario on the other hand has no fear. mario is not courageous, he's foolhardy.
They are both courageous stop being a asshole.
@@INFERNO95 Wow. Really. i was being an as***le?
@@IzzyTheDyspraxicArtistPretty much
Mario and Luigi are both fun characters. Great to see his original origin. Thanks for sharing.
I’m the first one to comment on the green Mario
Who's green mario? You mean green red Luigi?
@@JezElectro13 whos green red luigi
Isnt it green red green luigi
@@nicknetwork118 i meant that for Lugi some people say it's Green Mario. but i see it as Mario being Red Lugi. so Green Mario is in reality Green Red Luigi.
I say we need an action adventure reversioning of Mario is Missing.
Let Luigi go full badass
@9:46 dat Bowsette lol..
That's why she isen't canon, Mario has kids with his audience because it's meant to be suitible for kids to adults. Having a character that was popular with NSFW drawnings would be out of place in a family-friendly franchise
@@mariajimenafigueroa233 _Obviously_ she isn't canon because she is, you know, a _fan character_ made off of Rule 63 of Bowser.
It was epic in a way when the Wii U was floundering at the time.. I still posit that the Luigi U levels were some of the best 2d Mario gameplay I’ve ever experienced! My buddy and I were finishing our undergrad at the time and would unwind with Mario 3D World and Nee Super Mario Bros U and then Luigi U hit.. they are shorter tougher levels, especially if you’d get all the stars.. epic times, and great game, imo. It was tough in ways that reminded me of The Lost Levels in ways, but was more fun for me at the time!
Great video! Luigi is number 1 haha
3:11 wtf bald mario
They had the bottling game n watch at my sister's orthodontist in the early 90s... i played it soooo much!!
The orthodontists were smart throwing video games in their offices 🤣 I went to one that had an N64 with Smash Bros and Ocarina of Time. Also vaguely remember the game boy version of Donkey Kong there somewhere too
i played the arcade one
It’s pretty fun especially with a friend
12:50 lol there is a chuck e cheese by my house that has one. and also if you want to play luigi bros, its in super mario 3d world on both the wii and switch versions. the wii u version i think you need to have a new super luigi u save ( i forgot if you did or not) and on the switch version you just need to beat the game.
The Waffle Hose Has Found Its New Host
I believe the Game & Watch title was released less than a month before the arcade title rather than three months, with the former releasing in March 1983 and the latter in April 1983, but I'm splitting hairs. This is a really interesting video essay and it's presented brilliantly. I'm subscribing for more.
Edit: Just a thought, but Luigi as a timid or more easily scared character could be said to have its genesis in the infamous Atari commercial for the Mario Bros game; the one where Luigi calls out "MARIO WHERE ARE YOU?!" to the tune of the song featured in the commercial.
The song in that commercial is a parody of an old sitcom, "Car 54, Where Are You?!". The melody is the same, too, just a different tempo (speed). The lyrics end with, "Car 54, Where Are You?!", so the commercial was parodying the show's theme song.
The waffle house has found a new host
The Waffle House has found its new host
I will never be able to have enough Luigi in my life
The waffle House has found it's new host.
UA-camr, Crispy Toast hosted the Luigipaloosa collab where a lot of Gmod/SFM animators make and post skits of scenes that Luigi finds himself as he goes on a world wide adventure. the narrator in the intro tells him that there's a whole world to explore. and sure enough he does for a duration of the 50 minute video.
11:21 also the Mario Bros commercial
The Waffle House has found it’s new host
For the year of Luigi in 2013, Nintendo and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) did a promotional event for New Super Luigi U in which an entire line of our transit system featured L train cars plastered in New Super Luigi U advertising and vinyl wraps with Luigi himself making appearances on the L cars. For this promotional event CTA chose the Brown Line, one of the L lines with a lesser amount of ridership compared to others in the system. However, despite this, it was still a pretty popular event and I happen to stumble upon it randomly as I was commuting one day so that's always fun.
The first time I heard of Luigi was at a friend's Mario-themed birthday party in the late 1980s, when one of the party games was a scavenger hunt, with the teams called the "Marios" and the "Luigis". Shortly after that, I first played the NES version of Super Mario Bros, and I thought the growth mushrooms were "Mario Mushrooms" because they were red like Mario and the extra life mushrooms were "Luigi Mushrooms" because they were green like Luigi...
10:30 - To quote Freddy: “Sorry, kid. I don’t believe in fairy tales.”
Never knew he first appeared in Mario Bros for the Game & Watch! I hope i can finally serve the riddle of luigi’s bones after playing this.
7:52 solid analysis. Love that 💪🏼
The Nintendo Power Mario Mania guide for SMW mentions Luigi being scared of ghosts but they did not really dial up Luigi being more scared until Luigi's Mansion. It used to be much more subdued.
Solid video, I was amazed at how much I didn’t know here.
i think nintendo did a good job with the Year of Luigi. it's the only character celebration event that anyone really remembers. i still hear it parodied for other characters in reference to the Luigi one.
I never would've thought those DIC cartoons actually contributed something to the official canon of the Mario games. They really did create Luigi's personality.