Luigi Mario

> *"Trust the Fungus."*
> *- Luigi Mario, Super Mario Bros.*
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**Luigi Mario** is a human male Italian American plumber from Brooklyn. He has spent most of his life being looked after by his older brother, Mario Mario. Together, they run a business called Mario Bros. Plumbing. They are also responsible for saving Earth and the Dinosaur Dimension from being permanently merged and ruled by the dictator King Koopa.

## History

### Early Life

Little is known about Luigi's early life. Luigi described Mario as having "brought me up", implying that, as the older sibling, Mario took some kind of care of him. It is unknown who their parents were.

### Meeting Daisy

At some point, Mario and Luigi started a plumbing business, Mario Bros. Plumbing. However, at one point, they were being driven out of business by the Scapelli Construction Company run by Anthony Scapelli. One day, Mario and Luigi met an orphaned college student, Daisy, who was digging under the Brooklyn Bridge for dinosaur bones. Luigi asked her out on a date, and afterwards, Daisy took Mario and Luigi to the dig and witnessed Scapelli's men sabotage it by leaving the water-pipes open. Mario and Luigi used their plumbing skills to stop the flooding, but were knocked out by two people who kidnap Daisy. Mario and Luigi, after coming to their senses, follow Daisy's screaming and head deeper into the caves and find an interdimensional portal through which they follow Daisy.

### Dinohattan

Mario and Luigi end up in a strange dystopian parallel world where a human-like race evolved from Dinosaurs rather than the mammalian ancestry of true humans. 65 million years ago a meteorite crashed into the Earth and in doing so ripped the universe into two parallel dimensions. All the living dinosaurs of the time crossed over into this new realm before being sealed there forever. Iggy and Spike (Daisy's kidnappers) turned out to be lackeys (and cousins) of the other world's evil and feared dictator, King Koopa, descended from the T-Rex. However, the two had failed to also bring Daisy's rock, a meteorite fragment which Koopa was trying to get in order to merge his world with the real world that separated from Koopa's world during the meteor strike. It turned out that Daisy is the princess of the other dimension but when Koopa overthrew Daisy's father (and turned him into fungus), Daisy's mother took her to New York using the interdimensional portal. The portal was then destroyed, but when Scapelli was blasting at the cave, the portal was reopened. When Koopa heard about the re-opening of the portal, he sent Spike and Iggy to find Daisy and the rock in order to merge the dimensions and make Koopa dictator of both worlds. Spike and Iggy, however, who had grown more intelligent after being subjected to one of Koopa's experiments, decided to turn on Koopa and joined forces with Mario and Luigi. Koopa though only Daisy can merge the worlds. It turned out Mario and Luigi were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Lucky for Daisy, the plumbers were persistent in finding her.

### Dimensions Merging

Eventually, the worlds merged, during which Scapelli got his comeuppance when Koopa devolved him into a primate, but Luigi takes back the rock and the worlds separate. Mario fought Koopa and eventually wins when he and Luigi devolve him, making him a Tyrannosaurus, and then primordial slime. The brothers saved the two worlds from a cruel dictator with his crime against humanity and Daisy's father turned back to normal and reclaimed control over the kingdom. As the brothers returned home, Luigi and Daisy admitted their love for one another but Daisy was not allowed to return to New York with them. Mario re-phrased Daisy's words to Luigi but he wasn't buying it. Luigi passionately kissed her goodbye and the two Mario Bros. went back to New York, while Daisy, along with Toad, all watched them leave.

### Daisy's return

About three weeks later, Daisy returned for Mario and Luigi's help in fighting more villains. Meanwhile, Mario and Luigi's story was televised, giving them the nickname "Super Mario Bros.".

## Behind the Scenes

Luigi was based on the video game character of the same name. He was portrayed by John Leguizamo.

## Sources

* https://mario.fandom.com/wiki/Super\_Mario\_Bros.\_(film)
* https://www.mariowiki.com/Luigi\_(film\_character)