Luigi

## Overview

### History

Luigi is Mario's younger twin brother and the secondary protagonist of the Mario franchise. Throughout his life, he has lived in Mario's shadow, developing both cowardly and heroic tendencies. Despite this, Luigi has helped and fought alongside his brother on many occasions. Mario Bros. marks his first appearance in the Mario franchise and his debut in general. Originally an exact copy, then palette swap of Mario, Luigi was created to facilitate a second-player option. As Luigi establishes himself throughout the Mario series, over time he has later gained his own identity. Luigi in future games gained his own appearance, colors, and abilities. With Luigi being slower than Mario but able to jump much higher. Luigi eventually gained his own franchise and his own antagonist in the Luigi's Mansion series that debuted in 2001 on the game cube. With Luigi finding a haunted mansion and his brother trapped in a painting He had to save his brother by defeating the one who imprisoned him, King Boo!

### Franchises

Luigi has appeared in many Nintendo franchises and even ones beyond. He became a staple character of Nintendo along side of his brother and was added to almost every game he could along with Mario. His main franchise is Mario as a deuteragonist or protagonist #2. He has appeared in every Mario game whether being saved, doing the saving, or punching dice blocks in Mario party. His own franchise Luigi's mansions where he always is thwarting King Boo's plans to rule the world. Or Super Smash bros, Mario and Sonic olympics , and Many more.

> **Mario:** In Mario games he is the deutoragonist, either being a secondary character, mode, or an unlockable character by saving him such as in Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, and Mario 3d land. His goal in these games are always to defeat Bowser or other evil creatures. He works along side his brother and peach in Mario 3d world to defeat Bowser and free the faries. He also in Mario Odyssey is a sub-game mode of hiding and finding balloons for a global ranking and coins.
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> **Mario and Sonic:** In this franchise luigi is one of many charachters used in racing, and olympic mini games competing against other characters. There is no plot in this game much so he plays no role
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> **Luigi's mansion:** In this series luigi instead of doing stunts with jumping and racing he is weighed down by a Vacuum , why you ask? WEll to face his fears and fight ghosts! In this series He fights king Boo a guy who keeps trying to imprison him and his friends into paintings. Luigi flies solo in this series, sometimes with his friend Professor Egad who creates gadgets to fight and contains ghosts.
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> **Super Smash Bros:** He appeared in various different Super smash bros games as a playable character. And has his own story line in classic mode with him fighting bowser as his final boss.
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### Luigi Quotes

**"Oh, yeah!"** - Various games

**"Okey dokey!"** - Various games

**"Let's-a go!"** - Various games

**"Yay for me!"** - Mario Party 9

**"I'm-a Luigi, number one!"** - Mario Kart 64

**"Hello...?"** - Luigi's Mansion / Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon

**"Come here, doggy."** - Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon

**"MARIO!!!"** - Luigi's Mansion / Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon

**"You wanna switch, bro?"** - Super Mario Galaxy 2

**"Oh yeah, who's number one now? Luigi!"** - Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

**"Oh, this look bad."** - Mario Power Tennis

**"Thanks, bro!"** - Super Mario 3D Land

**"Hey! You know what would look good? A spaceship with MY face on it!"** - Fortune Street

**"Yes! Luigi won!"** - Mario Party 8

**"Whew! Made it!"** - New Super Mario Bros. Wii / New Super Mario Bros. 2 / New Super Mario Bros. U / New Super Luigi U / Super Mario Run

**"Oh, what happened?"** - Mario Kart 8 / Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

**"Ha ha ha! I'm the best!"** - Mario Party 4 / Mario Party 5

### Games with Luigi as central character

**Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon**

**Mario & Luigi: Dream Team**

**New Super Luigi U**

**Dr. Luigi**

### Other Luigi forms

Baby Luigi

Gooigi

Weegee

Dr. Luigi

Mr. L

Fury Luigi

Shadow Luigi

Silver and Gold Luigi

Kitsune Luigi