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Luigi

CHARACTER · SUPER MARIO BROS. 3

Luigi

Appears in
Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988)
Played by
John Leguizamo

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Luigi is a character in the video game Super Mario Bros. 3 (1988), portrayed by John Leguizamo.

11 Interesting Facts About Luigi

Interesting Facts (8)

  1. #001

    Despite more than 30 years of voicing them in the Super Mario games, he was not even considered for the parts of Mario or Luigi in The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023).

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  2. #002

    Luigi's in-game sprite shows him in purple overalls, while the official artwork gives him blue ones. His sprite colors in this game were later used as Luigi's default costume in Super Smash Bros. (1999).

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  3. #003

    This is the first game in which Mario, Luigi and Peach are shown wearing gloves in-game as they do in their promotional artwork. In earlier appearances, their in-game sprites showed bare hands because of the palette restrictions of NES games running on that hardware in the 1980s and early '90s.

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  4. #004

    It is also the first game in which Fire Luigi is colored differently from Fire Mario, with a white hat and shirt and green overalls.

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  5. #005

    In Super Mario Galaxy, the playable Luigi stands only slightly taller than Mario, yet the non-playable Luigi is a full head taller, and Rosalina treats the two as separate people.

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  6. #006

    Winning the Singles Tournament as Shy Guy in Mario Tennis (2000) unlocks a cutscene in which Shy Guy falls and loses his mask before Luigi; Luigi sees his face, but the player does not.

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  7. #007

    Luigi has posed as Princess Peach more than once, among them the 1992 comic Super Mario Adventures and later Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.

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  8. #008

    In The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 cartoon, Luigi donned a disguise to court Kootie Pie, whom gamers know as Wendy O. Koopa.

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Easter Eggs & References (2)

  1. #009

    Luigi was originally named Ruiji, a Japanese word that also means "similar"—a nod to his debut as a palette swap of Mario in 1983's Mario Bros.

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  2. #010

    Castlevania: Lords of Shadow — Mirror of Fate, released in 2013, the Year of Luigi, hides an Easter egg: a scroll from a plumber who complains that even his brother Mario couldn't fix the pipes.

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Deeper Meaning (1)

  1. #011

    In castle levels, the enemy "Boo Diddley" shows up as a bashful little ghost: it hides its face behind its hands whenever Mario or Luigi is looking its way, then strikes from behind once they turn around. The name comes from the American blues singer Bo Diddley, and the behavior is said to have been modeled on director Takashi Tezuka's wife, a shy woman who could fly into a rage when he stayed at work late. The enemy became a favorite after the game and has appeared in most Mario titles since.

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