Luigi


 * For fighter info, see Luigi (SR).

Luigi (ルイージ, Ruīji) is a character in the Mario series. He is the younger brother of the more-famous Mario, but is still a prominent character (and second only to his older brother) in the series of the same name. He has been a playable character in all five Super Smash Bros. games. He can be considered the deuteragonist of the Super Smash Bros. series.

Character description
Two years after his brother, Mario, made his first appearance in the arcade classic Donkey Kong, Luigi would make his first appearance in Mario Bros. for the arcade as the character the second player would control. His appearance is a palette swap of Mario, the difference being he's colored with green instead of red. He was named after a pizza parlor which was near Nintendo of America's headquarters called "Mario & Luigi's".

Luigi would then once again be featured in the world-famous Super Mario Bros. for the NES, which saw the two brothers traveling through the Mushroom Kingdom for the first to rescue Princess Peach (then called "Princess Toadstool") from the evil Koopa King, Bowser. Here, Luigi was clad in a green shirt, white overalls and white hat compared to his usual green color scheme. In Super Mario Bros. 2 (both the U.S. and Japanese versions) he would be established as actually having a superior jumping ability to Mario, but having worse traction. However, the U.S. version did establish that Luigi was both taller and thinner than his older brother. In Super Mario Bros. 3, Luigi once again looked no different than Mario.

Over the years, while Mario appeared in more and more games, Luigi started taking a back seat to his older brother, even being left out of some games entirely. While he appeared as the sole playable character in Mario is Missing, this was not a "true" Mario title due to its focus on education. The most notable of these was Luigi's complete absence in the world-famous Super Mario 64 which garnered some controversy. He also did not appear in Super Mario Sunshine after that, although he did appear in the Nintendo DS remake of Super Mario 64 as a playable character alongside Yoshi and Wario.

However, he would soon make his first appearance in a fighting game in Super Smash Bros. and following that, earned him the spotlight in his own game, Luigi's Mansion, which launched the GameCube and would later have a sequel on the 3DS called Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon. Since then, Nintendo has made a more conscious effort to include Luigi in more games, playable or otherwise; he starred alongside Mario in the Mario and Luigi games for the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS, and was a playable character in Super Paper Mario (after appearing as a non-playable character in the previous two Paper Mario games). He has even been made into a playable character in Super Mario Galaxy after the game is beaten as Mario. In Super Mario Galaxy 2, he makes a playable appearance by temporarily replacing Mario for the duration of certain levels. Also in 2013, Nintendo decided to make it the "Year of Luigi". Additionally, in October of 2019, he got the spotlight once again with Luigi's Mansion 3 for the Nintendo Switch.

Things have since been looking up for Luigi, and while he is less famous than Mario, he is a popular character among gamers and may still be called the lean, green, mean machine in the future.

As a playable character


Luigi appears in Smash Remix along with the rest of the original characters from Smash 64.

Just like in Smash 64, Luigi's abilities are almost identical to Mario's, but with a few differences. His Neutral Special Move is also a Fireball, except colored green rather than red, and is not affected by gravity like Mario's, so it floats in the air. His Up Special Move is also an uppercut called the Super Jump Punch, but it does only 1% damage if the hit is indirect. If the hit is direct, it can do up to 25% damage. His Down Special Move is called the Luigi Cyclone, which is similar to the Mario Tornado, but it sends the opponent flying away from Luigi almost straight up; as such, it is often used as a combo finisher. Luigi's taunt is also the only taunt that can damage opponents.

One thing that is not known about Luigi is that he is one of the two characters that have three recovery jumps (the other being Mario): his midair jump, the Up B and then the Down B. When getting back to the stage, double jump and after using it, press Down B and press B as quickly as possible. This sends Luigi in an upwards direction and gives him a quick second hover, allowing for the Up B to be used.

Luigi's in-game character description reads:
 * Luigi


 * Though often hidden in his older brother Mario's shadow, Luigi, is in reality, very popular. Taller than Mario, Luigi also jumps higher. Although he didn't appear in Super Mario 64, in Mario Kart 64 he performed to the best of his ability. For one who always seems to be in the background, he has many fans who eagerly await his appearance.


 * Works:
 * Mario Bros. (NES),
 * Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES),
 * Mario Kart 64 (N64)