The Year of Waluigi

**The Year of Waluigi**, or **WALUIGI**, is a humoristic comic series about the past of the Nintendo video game character of the same name.

The story argues he started out as a good guy on a hero's journey, but his crude appearance kept chasing people away, whereafter his character became corrupted by the cynical Wario.

Because Wario has his own plans and wants to become a celebrity like his nephew -without taking the strenuous hero's journey- he recruits the gullible Waluigi for competitions and games set against Mario.
When he manages to convince him Luigi is the same as him, yet loved and respected by everyone, Waluigi grows bitter and begins to consider the lesser Mario brother a serious rival.

The series was conceived in July of 2015 and many storyboards were drawn, but never publicly released.

## Characters

### Waluigi

Waluigi is the main character.

He starts off as a motivated, bright-eyed young man, going around the Mushroom Kingdom to assist people in all sorts of ways. Since the Mario brothers are the world's guardians, only silly, thankless jobs are left for him to do, but at the same time, most people are too disturbed by his appearance to accept his help.

He's not originally from the Mushroom Kingdom and has stated to have tried setting up his dream career at other places first. His English skills are still developing and are considered worse than as portrayed in the video games.

Despite the many set-backs in life, it was only after getting acquainted with Wario that he changed his once unbreakable, optimistic demeanour, though it's insinuated that his animosity against Luigi and fixation on becoming "number 1" are still part of the course of becoming a loved hero one day.

While Wario is a dubious character inside and out, Waluigi instantly jumped at the chance to claim him as a friend. He's never had friends before and is extremely lonely. His parents are said to have died at an early age and didn't like him much, either.

He believes Luigi to have a high status and be the leader of "the Mario Brothers", regardless of the team's name. He has a crush on his girlfriend, princess Daisy, who he considers better-looking than the also more adored princess Peach.

### Wario

Wario is the deuteragonist.

After having gone through plenty of abuse from Mario and his allies, he sees no incentive to be nice to people, and this mindset he forced upon Waluigi. While he's fairly tolerant towards him and Waluigi considers him helpful, Wario only approached him for personal reasons; and wanted an ally to join him on his quest of getting back at Mario.

He tries to keep him loyal to him by arguing to be his only friend, and actively uses the envy he feels for a stranger to his benefit.

### Luigi

Luigi is a reoccurring side-character.

He's the cowardly brother of Mario, and not shy to bring up his sadness over the fact he's a second-rate hero. Waluigi thinks he's better than his brother, but Luigi doesn't know the reason he's being targeted, nor feels targeted. Having that said, he doesn't see a threat in Waluigi or Wario.

### Daisy

Daisy is a reoccurring side-character.

She's the princess of Sarasaland and the supportive girlfriend of Luigi. Though she's in the same boat as him and considered to be "less appreciated", she doesn't mind it and has no insecurities towards her friend, Peach.

She has her hands full with Luigi and her own life, thus Waluigi is rarely made the subject of conversation, though she does believe he's a bother. She's not aware he has a crush on her, since he tends to keep his distance and the two usually meet in confrontational settings.

## Quotes

> **Waluigi:** *"The screaming mushroom person wearing the Aladdin vest didn’t want help, but surely other unexplained creatures do! Waluigi not lose yet..!"*
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> **Koopa:** *"Help!"*
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> **Koopa:** *"Someone just robbed me of my shell and skateboarded off on it, and now I’m naked, vulnerable, and all in all a good opportunity for creeps, as no one will believe me, that’s a guarantee!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"..Wah.."*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Why so hard to be a hero, everybody don’t like Waluigi! Is it because my haircut is too last month?"*
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> **Toadette:** *"Oh no, why! Whyyyy!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Is that lady voice? NYEEEAAAA, Waluigi’s time to shine and save first princess!"*
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> **Toadette:** *"I’m releasing spores and am all out of pads!"*
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> **Waluigi:** (turns around) *"No."*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Let me save you, drowning cool fish!"*
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> **Birdo:** *"How dare you call me “sir”, you oppressive, privileged, white, Nazi, cis male!"*
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> **Bowser:** *"Wow. You’re a beast. No thanks, people might think ill of me if I left my kids with Satan! I’ll find another nanny."*
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> **Whomp:** *"You're not very attractive."*
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> **Chain Chomp:** *"Great, another illiterate Mexican, the Mushroom Kingdom is going to the dogs, thanks Obama."*
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(Waluigi witnessing Mario and Luigi jumping on Goombas.)

> **Waluigi:** *"These handymen.. are happily slaughtering the land's constipated chocolate muffins!"*
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> **Peach:** *"Oh Mario, my hero!"*
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> **Mario:** *"Princess!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Huh?"*
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> **Daisy:** (to Luigi) *"Hey sweety, those were some slick moves!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Oh! Wah! The princess and the hot one like the serial killers.. They must be HEROES!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Green looks like the leader. I can see everyone love him! His girlfriend cute, he look so happy."*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Sniff.. of course, wah.."*
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> **Waluigi:** *"It so easy for some! No one wants to be saved by Waluigi, no one wants to kiss Waluigi! What makes the hero so special?!"*
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> **Waluigi:** (spots Wario sitting next to him) *"..Hello?"*
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> **Wario:** *"Geez, you look like the worst possible end result of that Mario 64 intro screen mini game!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"I don't know what that mean, but it still make me sad."*
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> **Wario:** *"Don't get sand in your Birdo! I get it, I hate stupid Mario brothers too!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"I don't even know stupid Mario brothers to hate."*
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> **Wario:** *"Well, you should hate em and everyone else in this dump!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"..Wah? What's with you, why don't you like the heroes?"*
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> **Wario:** *"Mario and me used to be friends, but he's always mean and then I didn't want to be friends no more! Now we're older and he's playing the hero, while everyone hates Wario!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Who's Wario?"*
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> **Wario:** *"M-Me.. I'm Wario."*
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> **Waluigi:** *"So, even though he a jerk, he still become a hero, huh?"*
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> **Wario:** *"Everyone is stupid! I tried being nice, let Mario make fun of me, but now, I do whatever I want!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"And do people like you?"*
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> **Wario:** *"No, but I'm happy! I got mad dough! Real talk."*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Oh.. But I wanna be liked, become a hero. Waluigi's trying real hard and moved here, because it hard elsewhere too."*
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> **Wario:** *"Who's Waluigi?"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Hohoooo."*
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> **Wario:** *"If you wanna be like the "heroes", you gotta act like them."*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Was I supposed to kill little animals this entire time?"*
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> **Wario:** *"YES, but you can only do that while wearing the same dumb costume! I deserve jail time after all I've done, but people keep confusing me for Sonic, so I'm a free man!"*
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> **Wario:** (notices Waluigi walking off) *"Hey, where're you going! What you doing over there?"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"I tried to reanimate this squished spider, but it saw me and died.. Then a butterfly flew by.. and it died also.."*
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> **Waluigi:** (random coconut drops from the sky) *"Ow! And of course a coconut falls on me out of nowhere!"*
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> **Wario:** *"See, you're not made to be a hero! You got the face of a troublemaker!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"..Heroes don't make trouble."*
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> **Wario:** *"Peh! Stop pretending, with a smile like yours you'll never make it! Look at these bozos! They laugh at losers like you cuz they know it too!"*
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> **Wario:** *"And ya know what.. That Luigi is just like you, a wimpy loser, but he still a hero and you're not! You think that's fair?"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"..."*
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> **Wario:** *"Well?!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"..No, not fair."*
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> **Wario:** *"Speak up, LOSER!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"No, not fair!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"WwwwWWWWAAAAAAH! I hate Mario's brother! I have to beat him and show everyone Waluigi's number 1!"*
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> **Wario:** *"Good! Anyone who hates Mario or his mutts is a friend of Wario! You tall freak!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Friend? You wanna be friends with me?"*
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> **Wario:** *"Uh. Yeah. I could use a mindless slave with no canon backstory!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"I'm-a so happy, you Waluigi's only friend ever! Mama and papa would be so proud if they liked Waluigi and were still alive!"*
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> **Waluigi:** (twirls) *"I'm-a sing! I'm-a dance!"*
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> **Wario:** *"I have regrets."*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Okey Wario, new buddy, my costume just arrived! "Wario Brothers" is official!"*
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> **Wario:** *"What the Toad is this upside down "L" logo?"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Yeah! You have upside down "M" of "Mario", so I did the same thing with my rival!"*
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> **Wario:** *"It's not an upside down "M", empty Koopa shell, it's a "W"! My name is WARIO!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Oh, weird!"*
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> **Wario:** *"WEIRD?!"*
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> **Wario:** *"Darn it, now they gonna know we trying to rip them off!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"We're a skinny and fat guy duo, we rip alotta people off."*
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> **Wario:** *"Well, doesn't matter, we're bad guys, no need to be discreet."*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Bad guys?"*
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> **Wario:** *"If you're against the Mario brothers, that's what you are, like it or not."*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Oh.."*
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> **Wario:** *"You're still having second thoughts? Who you trying to impress?! Let it go!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Y-Yeah.. but I still.. I want everyone to like Wal-"*
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> **Wario:** *"You wanna be a hero?! Then start being a winner! Right now, you're a loser who lets people walk all over himself like I did!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"..You're right."*
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> **Wario:** *"We need to show the world we're better than Mario and the other one! Being nice is a waste of time! Win, and we get popular!"*
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> **Waluigi:** (looks at photo) *"Shouldn't be hard. They look arrogant. They pretty hateable."*
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> **Wario:** *"Harhar! I promise you'll hate them even more after meeting them! They're at the tennis court right now, let's-a dress you up and go beat them!"*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Okey!"*
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> **Luigi:** *"It's-a so unfair, Year of the Luigi was hardly about Luigi, Mario was in all the games. People still think I can't be cool without my brother, and even with my brother I'm not cool..!"*
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> **Daisy:** *"Let's get real, you're more involved than I am, sugar buns."*
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> **Luigi:** *"How can you be so happy about that?"*
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> **Daisy:** *"The few games we have make us special!"*
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> **Luigi:** *"..I just wanna be popular."*
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> **Waluigi:** *"Wah..! You hear that stupid green Mario! Spoiled brat!"*
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> **Wario:** *"Yeh."*
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> **Waluigi:** *"No one likes me and everybody's a cheater! They didn't even wanna give Waluigi a Wadaisy, and Daisy hates "tall and muscular", so I'm-a gonna die alone!"*
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