Luigi VS Ken

**Luigi vs Ken** is Episode ??? of a Smash Bracket Fanon Battle made by Ninoheart5000 which puts *Super Mario's* **Luigi** in a fight against *Street Fighter's* **Ken Masters**.

## Introduction

What would happen if two of gaming's most beloved palette swaps faced off in a battle and to find out who would come out on top? Hi, this is Ninoheart, and this is Smash Bracket Fanon--the wiki where we put every character in *Super Smash Bros Ultimate* into a series of giant written fighting matches to figure out who's canonically the strongest. To figure that out, we need to calculate their stats and feats, starting with Luigi...

## Luigi

Luigi started his life as nothing more than a palette swap of his much more famous brother, Mario. (No literally, Nintendo decided they needed a second-player character for their new arcade game and said "Mario, but this other color in the game, so uh...green." It really is crazy how many Mario characters were made to fill a role, then to become as popular as they are. Early game design limitations, am I right?) Even when they saved the Mushroom Kingdom on multiple occasions–well, there was that one time he had unique abilities, but it was all just a dream–But that dream would foreshadow the man Luigi would become. After all, Luigi can jump higher and run faster than Mario, “The Jumpman” himself–though typically at the cost of brute strength and traction.

Everything changed for Luigi when his beloved Mario was kidnapped. Without his brother, Luigi was forced to go at it alone, and eventually defeated his foe and freed his brother by unleashing the power of…geography knowledge! Yay! Just kidding.

Luigi’s *real* life-changing moment all started with a letter in the mail, saying that he won a free mansion! Yay! Lu did what any loving little brother does and calls up Mario to check it out together. Unbeknownst to them, the whole thing was a trap set up by King Boo to capture the Mario Brothers as revenge for the harm they had inflicted upon Bookind across their various adventures. Mario gets stuck in a painting, and Luigi--a sufferer of crippling phasmophobia--is scared out of his mind without a Power Star to fight back. Luckily, an old professor by the name of Elvin Gadd gives him the Poltergust 3000–a vacuum cleaner that can suck up even the most powerful of ghouls, spiders, and dust bunnies–that he used to defeat the entire ghost army and save Mario. Yay!

From then on, Luigi went on too many adventures to count (Seriously, we’d be here all day if we went in-depth on them all), even if he didn’t always want to go on them. He is still Luigi, after all. Just know that he is, among other things, a plumber, doctor, spaceman, super athlete, party animal, ghostbuster, Dreamboat, and sniper.

But Luigi’s biggest weakness, however, arguably isn’t Koopas, overly competitive gorillas, or even King Boo. Luigi’s worst enemy is himself. He constantly doubts himself and is scared of just about everything that fate tries to throw at him. Even when he faces these fears, he still believes himself to be inferior, to the point where in *Super Smash Bros. Brawl*, his Final Smash was a literal weapon of his depression. He got better, though. He even had his own year and is a certified chick magnet if Nintendo eShop surveys and staff interviews are anything to go by.

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## Ken

Likewise, Ken started out as nothing more than a palette swap of Ryu. Makes sense considering they trained together and are about as close to brothers as you can get.

However, unlike with the Mario Bros., things weren't always this way...

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## Music Track

This episode's track is called "Echoes of Idolization". The name is a reference to Luigi and Ken looking up to Mario and Ryu respectively, particularly highlighted by Ken's status as Ryu's Echo Fighter in *Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*. This also

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## Trivia

* Luigi and Ken's "chibified" appearance in the thumbnail is a nod to "Player 2" being a common designation for younger siblings.