Luigi

*“You just got a Luigi'd.”*
— Luigi

**Luigi** is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Princess Peach) of *The Super Mario Bros. Movie*. He is a Brooklyn plumber with Italian origins and the younger brother of Mario.

When he was investigating pipes with Mario, he was sucked into a portal and separated from Mario, as while Mario traveled to the Mushroom Kingdom, Luigi was unfortunate and instead traveled to the Dark Lands, under the tyrannical rule of Bowser. He is then later captured and imprisoned, he is also used for Bowser's investigation on Mario's whereabouts.

## Description & Personality

Luigi has a nervous, timid personality unlike his brother Mario. On the SMB Plumbing website's "20 Questions," it is mentioned that Luigi also cries in fear by the time the brothers were creating the FAQ. In the climax of the movie, he becomes more confident, as he stands up to Bowser by shielding his attack that he was about to scorch Mario with, before using a star to plow down his army.

Luigi is tall, wears a green hat and matching shirt with blue overalls and brown boots. He has a mustache of a unique shape in contrast to his brother and blue eyes.

## History

Luigi was born to Papa Mario and Mama Mario in Brooklyn, New York alongside his older brother Mario. Growing up, Luigi became somewhat of a coward, but also developed a taste for mushrooms, as opposed to his brother, who instead disliked them.

When the brothers were young, a bully knocked down a castle that Luigi had built, making him sad. Mario stepped in and stopped him making the bully leave enraged.

When Mario and Luigi reached their adulthood, they worked for the Wrecking Crew under the control of Foreman Spike. After awhile, the brothers left due to the terrible conditions of the job and started their own plumbing business, Super Mario Bros. Plumbing.

Upon starting their business, they receive their first call from a couple to help fix their leaky sink, to which the two brother travel through a series of obstacle to reach their destination. As they head to the bathroom of the house, Luigi accidentally steps on one of the couple's dog's toys, which provokes him. As they finish fixing the leak, the dog from earlier intervenes with their work and attacks the two creating a bigger mess inside the bathroom.

When they arrive back home for dinner, Mario goes to his room to notice on the news about an ongoing flood. Luigi is then taken with Mario to investigate the situation, but the two end up discovering a maze of pipes, eventually finding a mysterious pipe behind a wall, that soon sucks in Luigi.

Mario then is also sucked through, and the two brothers are separated from each other, leading to Luigi heading towards the Dark Lands, while Mario heads towards the Mushroom Forest. Luigi then soon recovers from his fall, but is then chased by a ravenousness group of Dry Bones, soon hiding in a nearby castle, where he is captured by Shy Guys, and taken upon their balloon.

Afterwards, Luigi arrives at a mysterious fortress, where he is then interrogated by their ruler, Bowser, on Mario's whereabouts. Luigi then tries to deny it, but Bowser would keep pulling on his mustache until he gets an answer. Luigi then finally confesses that Mario is now in the Mushroom Kingdom, and Bowser has his right hand man, Kamek imprison him in a cage hanging above lava.

Luigi is then not seen for the majority of the movie, until the wedding scene, where in Bowser's honor, he will be executed alongside the other various prisoners. However, the bride of the wedding, Princess Peach managed to use an Ice Flower to freeze Bowser and save Luigi and the others from meeting a fiery demise. However, as the bottom of Luigi's cage starts to melt, the latter attempts to escape and climb on the top, before slipping off and falling into the lava. Before he falls into it however, Mario, with a Tanooki outfit, flies in and catches Luigi, saving him in the nick of time, and the two are reunited with each other.

However, that happiness is soon interrupted after Bowser orders a Bomber Bill to launched, and for Mario to redirect in into the warp pipe he entered from the beginning. This explosion causes everybody, including Luigi to be sucked back to Brooklyn. As he lands back in his home town, Luigi notices a bunch of falling objects and fearfully hides in a nearby dumpster. While Luigi hides, Bowser attempts to brutally beat his brother to death, and when Mario is about to get scorched by his fire breath, Luigi shields him, using a manhole for protection. The brother then grab a Super Star Bowser stole at the beginning of the movie, granting them invincibility to take out his minions, before being able to defeat Bowser. Luigi's mother and father congratulate him and Mario and become proud of them for saving Brooklyn, alongside the other residents who cheer the brothers, hailing them as heroes.

Luigi then would proceed to move to the Mushroom Kingdom with Mario, but installed a nearby warp pipe so that they can travel back to Brooklyn anytime for their job.

## Powers & Abilities

* **Acrobatics:** Although he is stated to have bad knees, Luigi is quite surprisingly acrobatic. This is demonstrated when he parkoured though a construction site, and later leaped across several piles of rubble above lava in the Dark Lands. However, this demonstration is best shown in the climax, where he uses his acrobatics while under influence from the Super Star to defeat Bowser and his army.
* **Plumbing skills:** Generally, since this is Luigi's occupation, he is an expert plumber and is able to fix and maintain plumbing systems.

## Origins

Luigi made his debut in the 1983 arcade game *Mario Bros.* Initially a palette swap of his brother Mario, he would become distinguishable starting with the release of *Super Mario Bros. 2* (1988). In later games, Luigi would gain an identity of his own as a standalone hero, such as in *Luigi’s Mansion* (2001).

## Trivia

* Luigi being separated from his brother in the film borrows the concept from *Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island*, when Baby Mario and Baby Luigi were separated from each other when Kamek ran into the stork carrying the two.
* As mentioned in the "20 Questions" on the SMBplumbing website, the reason why Luigi is taller than Mario is due to him eating mushrooms while growing up.