Sunday, December 22, 2024

Character Analysis: Waluigi

 Background

A plumber who acts as Luigi’s main rival in the Mario spin offs. He’s worked with Wario on various occasions, and some material implies they have familial ties.


His meaningful contributions to Mario lore include……..



















In terms of personality Waluigi is noted to be a cheater, and scoundrel. He has a large desire to overtake the Mario Bros in the spotlight. But has thus far been regulated to side games.

  • MGTT: Waluigi gets frustrated easily https://youtu.be/iT-Tl8xW3K4?t=62 

  • Double Dash: Think twice before getting too close to Waluigi. He's a natural-born cheater with a real mean streak. His special attack will blow your mind! 

  • Mario Kart Tour: "Waluigi can't stand by and watch while Luigi gets all the attention…so he's decided to join the #MarioKartTour game on the next tour! He's packing an offense-oriented special skill, so Luigi has a lot more to watch out for than just ghosts!"

  • Mario Party 8: Waluigi is to Luigi as Wario is to Mario. The gaunt Waluigi has been a thorn in everyone's side since he took to the court in Mario Tennis, twirling his mustache in a variety of nasty schemes. At the Star Carnival, expect the long-legged Waluigi to make big strides across the boards en route to the coveted stars.

  • Marty Party DS: As the black sheep of the Mario crew, Waluigi never gets his fair share of time in the spotlight. It's up to you to make sure he does!

  • Smash Bros: This tall, thin, evil-looking guy seems to be Luigi's rival. He works hard at his mischief: Waluigi reportedly spent a lot of time training for his debut in Mario Tennis by honing his ability to antagonize the Mario brothers. While it's general knowledge that he's the same age as Luigi, his relationship to Wario is unclear.

Arsenal

Mechanical Backpack

A mechanical backpack Wluigi can summon to fling projectiles at opponents at high speeds. 


Music Keys

Magical Keys that can influence opponents to dance uncontrollably and can cause magical alterations to the landscape.


Tennis Racket

A Tennis Racket used by Waluigi in the vario Mario Tennis games.


Golf Club

A Golf Club used by Waluigi in the various Mario Golf games.


Baseball Bat

A Baseball Bat used by Waluigi in the Mario Sluggers games.


Boxing Gloves

A pair of boxing gloves.


Star Rod (Mario Party 8)

A magic rod that can create powerful star bolt projectiles.


Karts

Various racing Karts. They have gliders, submarine and anti-gravity functionality. 


General power ups

Mega Mushroom

Grants increased size and invulnerability for a short period of time.


Mushroom

Increases size and strength


Super Star/Staman

Grant increases strength, speed and agility. Also grants temporary invincibility.


Power Stars

Powerful stars collected by characters in most 3D games or Mario Party. They can amplify the abilities of the user or as explosive weapons.


They can also heal


Create dark matter


Power stars can also ward off dark magic or illusions. Such as Bower’s endless staircase spell in SM64.



Grand Stars

More powerful variants of Power stars. Bowsers can absorb their power to become giant, and they grant a myriad of additional powers when consumed. They can be collected in Mario Kart Tour by normal characters.


Some powers include


Space/Time manipulation

Grand stars can create massive rifts in space that can be used to travel interstellar distances


Gravity Manipulation

Grand stars can control gravity. 


Dark Matter generation

Finally, Grand stars can generate “dark matter” , a substance that destroys the “space” the objects occupy.


Mario Kart items


Red Shell

Koopa Shell projectile that home in on opponents.


Green Shell

  • Koopa Shell projectile that travels straight forward.


Blue Shell

Shell projectile that fly through the air and then explode after crashing into a target


Lightning/thunder Cloud

Item that calls down bolts of lightning that shrink opponents for a short period of time.


Banana 

Drops a banana peel that can trip up opponents.


Bomb-omb

Summons a bomb that can be thrown at opponents.


Blooper

Summons a squid like Blooper to spray ink on opponents.


Bullet Bill

Transforms the user into a large bullet that can fly through an environment.


Boo

Summons a Boo ghost to steal an item from an opponent.


Pow Block

Item block that creates a shockwave that can stun opponents.


Feather

Grants increased jumping ability


Boomerang Flower

Creates a Boomerang projectile.


Piranha Plant

A large Piranha Plant  that can stretch itself to bite opponents.

  • Piranha plant


Super Horn

Creates a powerful energy pulse that can nullify projectile attacks or harm nearby enemies.


Fire Flower

Allows the user to throw fireball projectile


Mario Kart GP Items

  • Broken Wheel: Forces the opponent to lose control of their given machine.

  • Dizziness Virus : Infects opponents and makes their vision blurry

  • Fairy: Removes negative status effects

  • Flaming Tender : Grants the user fire breath

  • Invisible Mushroom: Grants invisibility to the user

  • Item Seal: Seals an opponent's ability to use items

  • Reflect Shield: Creates barrier that reflects projectiles

  • Shield: Protects the user from other items for a short period of time

  • Smokescreen: Smoke screen bomb

  • List of all items


Mario Party Items

Mario Party 3

  • Warp Block: Warps the user and opponent to random locations

  • Boo repellent: Repels ghosts

  • Plunder Chest: Allows the user to steal an item from an opponent


Mario party 4

  • Swap Card: Allows users to switch all items between opponents.

  • MiniMega Hammer: Hammer that can shrink or enlarge a target

  • Chomp Call: Summons a chain chomp

  • Sparky Sticker: Creates an electrifying trap

  • Bowser Suit: A suite that grants a character several attribute of Bowser


Mario Party 5

  • Kamet Capsule: Summon’s Kamek, who can mess with opponent inventories


Mario Party 6

  • Metal Mushroom Orb: Turns the user into invincible living metal


Mario Party 7

  • Vacuum Orb: Steals coins from an opponent


Mario Party DS

  • Snag bag: Steals an item from an opponent


Super Mario Party 

  • Ally Phone: Summons another Mario character as an ally.


Mario Party Jamboree

  • Bowser Bell: Summons Imposter Bowser


Misc

Abilities

Athleticism

Waluigi is skilled at various sports including soccer, basketball, tennis, golf, horse riding and more. He’s described as being a technician style sports combatant. 


Mechanical knowhow 

It’s heavily implied Waluigi has skill with machines and can  create complex mechanics, stadiums, pinball platforms and more himself


Frenzy

A special ability in Mario Kart Tour. Allows the user to become temporarily invincible after gaining 3 of the same item. Also grants an infinite number of items for a short time.


Whirluigi 

A powerful tennis pitch. Creates a tornado. 


Swimming return

A special sports shot that allows Waluigi to swim through open air as if it was water for a few seconds.


 Ultra Smash 

A powerful tennis swing. 


Showtime

A dynamic jumping tennis swing. Can hit projectiles at a high speed.


Moonwalk

A dynamic jumping counter swing. Can bounce back projectiles.


Wall-Luigi

A special move in Mario Strikers. Creates a wall of thorns to impede opponents.


Purple Strike

A jumping strike that uses a thorn whip to knock away a projectile.


Twist Dunk

A powerful dunk move where Waluigi enhances a projectile with wind energy.


Drop Rocket

Powerful kicking move used in Mario Strikers.


Slim Stinger

A powerful golf swing that enhances a projectile with electricity. 


Dance off Dance

A spinning dash. Allows for quick movement across terrain. 


Liar Swing

A powerful baseball bat swing.


Liar Ball

A powerful baseball pitch.


Deke

A teleportation move used in Mario Strikers.


Special shot (Sports Superstars)

A powerful physical strike used on sports balls.


Thorn Barrier

A special kicking move that makes any projectile hit by it spread spiky thorns as it travels across the ground

Feats

Strength


Speed


Endurance

Scaling

Waluigi is comparable to most standard Mario characters, including Bowser.


General Mario Characters

  • WWG: The characters Dribble and Spitz were able to drive a taxi to the “farthest edge of space”. They return at the end of a fairly short trip https://youtu.be/HBRi94_NVDY?t=990 

and https://youtu.be/HBRi94_NVDY?t=1285 


Power Stars

In Mario 64 it is stated that they can create or warp the painting worlds that serve as that game's main levels. While there’s some arguments about translations regarding this ability, other characters like King Boo have also created painting worlds, backing up the claim as possible.


Power stars should also be comparable in power to Lumas, cosmic creatures that can transform into stars, planets, and sometimes even galaxies upon reaching adulthood.  


Power stars have also consistently been used to cross interstellar distances and can alter star configurations.


Grand Stars

Rosalina’s starship is powered by Grand stars and can travel to the center of the universe in seconds.


Bowser’s powers his galaxy generator with Grand Stars. One generator collapsing creates a universe destroying black hole in Galaxy’s ending.

Experience
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