Waluigi

Waluigi is a character in Nintendo's series of Mario video games. He is the villainous version of Luigi in the same way that Wario is the evil version of Mario. Waluigi is a very tall and skinny man who wears purple and black.

Waluigi
Waluigi's emblem
Game series	Mario
First game	Mario Tennis (2000)
Created by	Fumihide Aoki
Voiced by	Charles Martinet (2000-2023) Kevin Afghani (2024-present)

Characteristics

Waluigi is very tall and thin. He wears black overalls with a purple shirt, and has brown, pointed shoes. He has an upside-down L (Γ) on his hat, gloves and moustache that looks like a Greek letter Gamma.

He was made as a partner for Wario by the company Camelot in Mario Tennis and other Mario spinoff games and has no real story behind him. He is in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as an Assist Trophy. Waluigi is known to be smarter than Wario but acts sillier.

Notable appearances

• Mario Tennis
• Mario Power Tennis
• Mario Party 3
• Mario Party 4
• Mario Party 5
• Mario Party 6
• Mario Party 7
• Mario Party 8
• Mario Party 9
• Mario Party 10
• Mario Party DS
• Super Mario Party
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl
• Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour
• Mario Kart: Double Dash!!
• Mario Kart 8
• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
• Mario Kart DS
• Mario Kart Wii
• Mario Super Sluggers
• Super Mario Strikers (also known as Mario Smash Football)
• Mario Strikers Charged Football
• Mario Hoops 3-on-3
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games
• Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
• Mario Tennis Aces
• Mario Tennis Open
• Mario Power Tennis

Reception

Waluigi was ranked in the tenth slot on GameDaily's top 10 Nintendo characters that deserve their own games.^[1] They also listed him as one of the top 25 videogame anti-heroes, saying that it was too bad that he has never had the spotlight.^[2]

However, he also ranked number one on the Top 10 Worst Mario Characters list from Game Daily, which said, "for every likable character there's one that continues to annoy us even years after we're done with the game they came from".^[3] Waluigi has been criticised by others as well. Cracked.com said that he was a lazy excuse to add a new villain to the spin-off games and even called him an "abomination".^[4]