| 1 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' '''[[Characters/SuperMarioBros Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 2 | '''Main characters:''' [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosMarioBrothers The Mario Brothers]] | [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosAllies Allies]] ([[Characters/SuperMarioBrosThePrincesses The Princesses]]) | [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosTheKoopaKingdom The Koopa Kingdom]] ([[Characters/SuperMarioBrosBowser Bowser]] -- [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosBowserJr Bowser Jr.]] -- [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosTheKoopalings The Koopalings]] -- [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosOtherHighRankingSubordinates Other High-Ranking Subordinates]] -- [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosTheKoopaKingdomBosses Bosses]]) | [[Characters/SuperMarioBrosAssortedNasties Assorted Nasties]]\ |
| 3 | '''RPG characters:''' ''Characters/SuperMarioRPG'' | ''Characters/PaperMario'' (''[[Characters/PaperMario64 64]]'' -- ''[[Characters/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor The Thousand-Year Door]]'' -- ''[[Characters/SuperPaperMario Super]]'' -- ''[[Characters/PaperMarioStickerStar Sticker Star]]'' -- ''[[Characters/PaperMarioColorSplash Color Splash]]'' -- ''[[Characters/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing The Origami King]]'') | ''[[Characters/MarioAndLuigi Mario & Luigi]]'' (''Characters/MinionQuestTheSearchForBowser'')\ |
| 4 | '''Spinoff series:''' ''Characters/YoshisIsland'' | ''Characters/LuigisMansion'' | ''Characters/MarioGolf'' | ''Characters/MarioTennis'' | ''Characters/SuperMarioMaker'' | ''Characters/DonkeyKong'' [[Characters/DonkeyKong series]] ([[Characters/DonkeyKongKongs Kongs]]) | ''Characters/{{Wario}}'' [[Characters/{{Wario}} series]] ('''Wario and Waluigi''')\ |
| 5 | '''Crossovers:''' ''Characters/PunchOut'' | ''Characters/SuperSmashBros'' | ''Characters/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames'' | ''Characters/{{Skylanders}}'' | ''Characters/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle'' | ''Characters/MarioPlusRabbidsSparksOfHope''\ |
| 6 | '''Other media:''' ''Characters/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach'' | ''Characters/SuperMarioBrosDic'' | ''Characters/SuperMarioBros1993'' | ''Characters/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie''-]]]]] |
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| 8 | [[WMG:[[center:[-'''[[Characters/{{Wario}} Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 9 | '''Wario and Waluigi''' | ''Characters/WarioLand'' | ''Characters/WarioWorld'' | ''Characters/WarioMasterOfDisguise'' | ''Characters/WarioWare''-]]]]] |
| 10 | !!Wario and Waluigi |
| 11 | |
| 12 | The Mario Brothers' {{evil counterpart}}s. A pair of angry, greedy jerks who often try to ruin the day simply out of jealousy and spite. Wario is the {{greed}}y, [[LaboriousLaziness lazy]], and {{boisterous|Bruiser}} counterpart of Mario. Waluigi is the scowling, bitter, and [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} strange]] counterpart to Luigi. |
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| 17 | [[folder:General]] |
| 18 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/542px_wario_and_waluigi___mtus.png]] |
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| 20 | * AmbiguouslyHuman: They are humanoid in appearance, and they are said to be humans. But the elf ears, gangly eyes, pink noses, and extremely deformed proportions make them look super bizarre. Plus their even weirder anatomies and powers. |
| 21 | * AmbiguouslyRelated: They're the {{Evil Counterpart}}s to twins Mario and Luigi. However, their relationship is unspecified. ''Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games'' clarifies they are ''not'' brothers, but nothing is stated of any other relationship. The official word is that Wario and Waluigi don't ''seem'' to be related, but not outright stating that they aren't. |
| 22 | * AntiRoleModel: Both represent greed and scheming. |
| 23 | * ArtEvolution: |
| 24 | ** Wario's original appearance had a more {{Gonk}}-ish facial expression, had a long-sleeved yellow shirt that didn't show his arm muscles, and would constantly drool in the commercials. |
| 25 | ** Waluigi started out with a far bigger smile on his face, his eyes were ganglier, he was [[http://www.dkvine.com/features/images/nazi_waluigieyes.jpg more hunched-over]], and he would perform scarier, more psychotic sounds. |
| 26 | * ArtisticAge: They look a ''lot'' older than the Mario Bros, who already look a little bit older than their age of twenty-four (though mainly due to their thick mustaches), but they're said to be roughly the same age. |
| 27 | * BrainsAndBrawn: As expected, when they team together, Wario is the brawn, while Waluigi is the brains. Both are still extremely prone to stupid decisions. |
| 28 | * BrilliantButLazy: These two are very skilled characters when it comes to mechanics and designing plans. It's a shame they usually resort to simple vandalism and petty mischief. |
| 29 | * BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Wario has the "W" on his hat and his gloves. Waluigi, however, wears a vertically-flipped L (Γ) on his hat and gloves. It could also be the Greek letter "Gamma". Waluigi's hat makes more sense if you think of Wario's "W" as an upside-down version of Mario's "M"; that makes Waluigi's logo logical as the upside-down version of Luigi's. |
| 30 | * BumblingHenchmenDuo: Even though Wario and Waluigi aren't exactly good guys, they're on Team Rocket-levels in terms of actual threat and are LaughablyEvil at best. |
| 31 | * CardCarryingJerkass: They're rude, greedy jerks who joyfully revel in every single second of it. |
| 32 | * CharacterCatchphrase: |
| 33 | ** Both: |
| 34 | *** "Wario/Waluigi time!" |
| 35 | *** "Wario/Waluigi number one!" |
| 36 | ** Wario: |
| 37 | *** "Have a rotten day!" |
| 38 | *** "Hurry up!" This one comes from ''VideoGame/WarioLand4''. |
| 39 | *** "EXCELLENT!!" |
| 40 | *** In the Nintendo 64 games, "[[GratuitousGerman So ein Mist!]]"[[note]]Roughly translates to "Darn it!", though it's commonly misheard as "D'oh, I missed!"[[/note]] |
| 41 | ** Waluigi: |
| 42 | *** "Waluigi time!" |
| 43 | *** "Waluigi number one!" |
| 44 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: They both started out as simple bad guys. Wario was established as more greedy than evil, and Waluigi was given traits of self-pity, vengeful anger, and romantic passions. Later ''Mario Party'' games also made efforts to associate Waluigi with cunning and craftiness. |
| 45 | * ColorCodedCharacters: Wario's colors are yellow and purple, Waluigi's colors are indigo and black. |
| 46 | * CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Both have distinct blue rings around their eyes (presumed to be either [[ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow eyeshadow]] or [[ExhaustedEyeBags eye bags]]), making them look creepier, if somewhat goofier, than the Mario Brothers. |
| 47 | * ADayInTheLimelight: The Camelot-developed ''Mario Golf'' and ''Mario Tennis'' spinoffs tend to give the pair the spotlight, showcasing their antics and mischievous hijinks. ''Mario Tennis Aces'' begins with them unwittingly digging up [[BigBad Lucien]] and jump starting the plot. |
| 48 | * {{Determinator}}: Both of them are extremely dedicated towards their goals. Wario does whatever it takes to get rich, and Waluigi goes to great lengths to beat his rival and cause mischief (which tends to [[KarmicButtMonkey backfire hilariously]]). |
| 49 | * DemonicPossession: The first unfortunate victims of Lucien's possessive powers in ''Mario Tennis Aces''. |
| 50 | * EvilCounterpart: These two are practically {{Evil Twin}}s of the Mario Brothers and poster boys for the trope, though they usually act as a GoldfishPoopGang in sports spin-offs. The symbols on their hats are even an M and L turned upside-down. That being said, neither of them are truly evil at heart, just mischievous, greedy, and very flawed. |
| 51 | * FatAndSkinny: Wario's the Fat. Waluigi is the Skinny. |
| 52 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: In ''VideoGame/MarioSuperSluggers'' the pair have ''no'' player chemistry with anyone besides each other and Miis that share the same color, making them nothing more than [[CripplingOverspecialization specialized]] guns for your team. Wario brings hitting, while Waluigi is a good pitcher, and that's about it. |
| 53 | * GagNose: One way they differ from the Mario Bros. is that their noses are bright pink and very large, adding to their ugly appearances. |
| 54 | * {{Gonk}}: |
| 55 | ** Wario is one of the few examples of a gonk ''protagonist''. This is possibly due to him starting off as an antagonist. |
| 56 | ** Waluigi may not be as ugly as Wario, but still there. |
| 57 | * {{Greed}}: Even though Wario is a poster child for this, they both are extremely greedy, though Waluigi is less on the money sense, and more on the competitive sense. They will even steal from each other! |
| 58 | * GreenEyedMonster: Wario was originally designed as Mario's jealous counterpart, but eventually became [[VideoGame/WarioLand defined by his greed]]. Waluigi, however, has always been motivated by envy of Luigi, down to having a crush on the same girl and believing with every fiber of his being that Mr. Green is the only thing standing between him and ultimate stardom. This is best shown by the 3DS version of ''Mario & Sonic at the London Olympic Games'', where Dr. Eggman tricks Waluigi into facing Metal Sonic to get strong enough to beat Luigi, while Wario doesn't fall for the same trick from Orbot. |
| 59 | * HairTriggerTemper: They often get in trouble because of it. |
| 60 | * HarmlessVillain: Presented as evil versions of Mario and Luigi, but their brand of villainy only extends towards embodying certain vices as opposed to actual villainy that Bowser and other villains possess. |
| 61 | * {{Heel}}: In the story ''Mario Tennis Aces'', during their doubles showdown with [[UniversallyBelovedLeader Peach and Daisy]], the crowd relentlessly booes the pair in their intro and during the match. Contrast with Luigi, who is [[DemonicPossession possessed]] like them but is still cheered by the audience during his match with Mario. |
| 62 | * HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Sometimes they spitefully try to ruin the day, but other times, like in the ''Mario Party'' series, they'll even ally with Mario and the others. |
| 63 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: It's unclear whether they're related or not. |
| 64 | * HostileShowTakeover: In earlier appearances. Perhaps one of the earliest examples of either of them doing this was the French commercial for ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'' where Wario interrupted what was supposed to be a commercial for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioAllStars''. |
| 65 | * IronButtMonkey: They have lived through things that even the Mario Bros couldn't. Examples include Bob-ombs and a Banzai Bill. |
| 66 | * {{Jerkass}}: Their prime characterization is that they are both hostile jerks. |
| 67 | * KarmicButtMonkey: Both are jerks who are extremely prone to slapstick whenever they team up on the spin-offs. To elaborate their jerkish personalities and malicious intent, such as cheating in sports, un-warrant any sympathy for the duo whenever they run into any bad luck or are on the receiving end of Bowser's fury, with their misfortunes being framed as something the audience is supposed to laugh at. |
| 68 | * LargeHam: Always over the top, with exaggerated actions and lines. |
| 69 | * LaughablyEvil: Both have their antics played mostly for laughs. |
| 70 | * MadBomber: Started with Wario and Bomberman's crossover appearance back in ''[[VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} Wario Blast]]'', Wario and Waluigi are usually associated with bombs and explosives. |
| 71 | * MeaningfulName: Portmanteaus of the words "warui" and their rivals' names. More details below for the respective characters. |
| 72 | * {{Narcissist}}: Their use of [[ThirdPersonPerson third person]] is an example, among many others: |
| 73 | ** In ''Mario Kart 8'', Wario oftens screams, "Wario ''always'' win!" upon getting first place. |
| 74 | ** Waluigi blows his own horn at every opportunity and abhors anything that might tarnish his image. Guy literally thinks the sun is ''trying to outshine him''. |
| 75 | ** Taken even further with Wario in the ''[=WarioWare=]'' series, where not only do all of his microgames [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue involve him in some fashion]] (albeit not always flattering), but in ''Gold''[='=]s portrait mode, he draws extremely crude pictures of the character whose amiibo you scanned... except for his own, where he instead draws high quality {{Bishonen}} portraits of himself. Not even [[KarmicButtMonkey Waluigi]] gets any special treatment. |
| 76 | * OddballDoppelganger: While both of them initially started off as {{Evil Counterpart}}s to Mario and Luigi, they've since [[CharacterDevelopment changed]] to be more like this. |
| 77 | * OutOfFocus: The two's appearances with the standard ''Mario'' cast is usually limited to just the spin-off titles. The last time Wario showed up in the flesh in a ''Mario'' platformer was 2004's ''Super Mario 64 DS'', otherwise generally keeping to himself with ''Wario Land'' and ''[=WarioWare=]''; Waluigi never appears in anything but spinoffs. |
| 78 | * {{Parody}}: An interesting example in a meta-sense, Wario and Waluigi are gross exaggerations of Mario and Luigi's designs. Mario may be chubby, but Wario's practically as wide as tall. Luigi's the skinnier of the two, but Waluigi has lengthy, spider-like limbs. |
| 79 | * PointyEars: Both Wario and Waluigi have long, pointy elf ears for some reason. Neither of them seem to be supernatural, at least not anymore so than Mario, Luigi, or any other humans in the franchise, so it seems to simply be a way of making them more obviously weird. |
| 80 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Wario wears purple pants, and Waluigi's cap and shirt are purple. Interestingly enough, their purples are distinctly different hues, with Waluigi's being a more bluish purple. |
| 81 | * TheRival: They consider themselves this to the Mario brothers. However, in more recent years they’ve become more of an UnknownRival. |
| 82 | * SecondaryColorNemesis: Wario may wear yellow, but he also wears purple overalls and green shoes, possibly as a nod to his [[AntiHero gray area as a character]] rather than outright villainy. Waluigi plays this a lot more straight, with purple being the colors of his cap and shirt, orange shoes, and [[EvilWearsBlack black]] overalls. |
| 83 | * SuperStrength: They are polar opposites. Wario has great strength in his arms and punches, but his stubby legs are pretty weak on their own. Waluigi's arms are scrawny and he is usually pretty weak, but his long, lanky legs can deliver nasty kicks. |
| 84 | * ThirdPersonPerson: Though Waluigi makes the most use of this, Wario is prone to do so sometimes. |
| 85 | * TokenHuman: They are one of the few existing humans in the Mario games. And they don't even look that human. |
| 86 | * TombstoneTeeth: Both Wario and Waluigi's teeth are almost cube-shaped, adding to their grotesque appearances, and Wario puts them to good use in games like ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''. |
| 87 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Wario loves garlic, and Waluigi loves eggplants. |
| 88 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: In ''Mario Tennis Aces'', the pair dig up [[SealedEvilInACan Lucien]], kickstarting the plot. |
| 89 | * VerbalTic: Both Wario and Waluigi like muttering their own names a lot. Also: "WAAAA!" |
| 90 | * VillainTeamUp: Waluigi was actually first developed to do this with Wario in ''Mario Tennis''. In ''Mario Power Tennis'', Bowser recruits them after they lose a doubles match and puts them through TrainingFromHell in an attempt to sabotage the game's tournament. |
| 91 | * VitriolicBestBuds: Unlike Luigi's UndyingLoyalty to Mario, there's been a number of times where Waluigi either throws Wario under a bus or laughs at the big guy's misfortune, mostly in the FMV cutscenes of the sports games. They apparently even argue with each other during the ending of ''VideoGame/MarioParty3''. Even then, the two are pretty close. |
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| 94 | [[folder:Wario]] |
| 95 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/250px_wario_mp100.png]] |
| 96 | [[caption-width-right:250:''"I'm-a Wario! I'm-a gonna win!"''[[note]]''"[[MemeticMutation D'oh, I missed!]]"''[[/note]]]] |
| 97 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/wwgit_wario.png]] |
| 98 | [[caption-width-right:250:EXCELLENT!]] |
| 99 | !!!Debut: ''Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins'' |
| 100 | !!!'''Voiced by''': Creator/ChikaoOhtsuka (Japanese ads), James H. Sawyer Sr. (American ads for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'', ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'', ''Wario Blast: Featuring VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}!'', and ''VideoGame/VirtualBoyWarioLand'') Thomas Spindler (''Mario Kart 64'', Japanese version; ''BS Excitebike'', ''Mario Party 1-2'', ''Mario Kart Super Circuit''), Creator/CharlesMartinet (English, 1996-2023), '''Kevin Afghani''' (English, ''VideoGame/WarioWare Move It!''), Gerardo Alonso (Latin American Spanish, ''VideoGame/WarioWare Gold''), Óscar Flores (Latin American Spanish, ''VideoGame/WarioWare Get It Together!''), Hironori Kondō (Japanese, ''VideoGame/WarioWare Gold''), Frédéric Souterelle (French, ''VideoGame/WarioWare Gold'') |
| 101 | ->''"So admit it... Don't I look cool in the game screens? Those long, muscular legs on my sturdy, toned frame... I'm the perfect specimen of a man! ...What!?!? You say I look fat and my quadruple chin looks like a waterfall of flab? Shut up! That's just because you have your television set up for widescreen display!"'' |
| 102 | -->--''VideoGame/WarioWorld'' instruction manual |
| 103 | |
| 104 | A fat, ill-tempered, greedy, [[VideoGame/WarioLand treasure hunter]] and [[VideoGame/WarioWare microgame designer]] who is often described as Mario's rival. Debuted in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'' as the BigBad, but branched off with ''VideoGame/{{WarioWare}}'' and his own platformers; his nemesis is Captain Syrup. He sticks around for the spin-offs, though. |
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| 107 | * AccidentalHero: Wario almost never intends to perform acts of heroism, he just wants treasure. |
| 108 | * {{Acrofatic}}: Still capable of feats of agility/acrobatics despite being fatter than Mario. As Mario's EvilCounterpart, Wario tends to emphasize feats relating to horizontal speed over vertical jumping distance, whereas Mario is known for his verticality. |
| 109 | * AntiHero: On his best days, he ''barely'' qualifies. Wario really doesn't mind helping people out... as long as it is within his price range. |
| 110 | * AntiRoleModel: While Wario is not a bad guy (most of the time), this is ''not'' someone you'd want your kids to look up to. [[CardCarryingVillain Not even he thinks so.]] |
| 111 | --> "Bath -- NO! Brush teeth -- NO! Don't be like me, kids!" |
| 112 | * ArtEvolution: In his earlier appearances, Wario wore long sleeves and had a lazy eye. He was also much [[EvilIsBigger bigger and fatter]]. His modern appearance is still noticeably overweight, but he's noticeably shorter and more muscular as well. |
| 113 | * AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Wario's nose resembles a giant, pink clove of garlic. Guess what his [[TrademarkFavouriteFood favourite food]] is. |
| 114 | * BadBoss: He fluctuates between this and a standard MeanBoss in the ''[=WarioWare=]'' titles, where he frequently mistreats his employees and acts like a jerk to them. At his absolute worst, he outright refuses to pay them, trying to run off with the money in the first game and causing several of his workers to leave for Diamond Software in ''D.I.Y.''. |
| 115 | * BadReasonToDoGood: His heroics are always driven by a selfish need for more wealth, and he rarely gives any thought to the people he ends up rescuing in the process. |
| 116 | * BadassBiker: In ''VideoGame/{{WarioWare}}'', he has a personal motorbike, which carries over to his appearance in ''Super Smash Bros.'' |
| 117 | * BadassInANiceSuit: [[spoiler:Gets a rather spiffy-looking golden suit as Wario Deluxe.]] |
| 118 | * BaritoneOfStrength: He has one of the deepest voices of all the major ''Mario'' characters, a sign of his raw power. It becomes even deeper when he turns into [[spoiler:Wario Deluxe]]. |
| 119 | * BigBad: |
| 120 | ** Wario started as the antagonist of ''Super Mario Land 2'', and had a few antagonist roles in spin-offs such as ''Wario's Woods''. He went from this to VillainProtagonist, then to AntiHero as the games went on. |
| 121 | ** However, Wario would return to his status as main antagonist in ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'', where he [[spoiler:attempts to cheat the player out of winning the Wario Bowl as Wario Deluxe and keep the prize money for himself]]. |
| 122 | * BigEater: Especially in ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'', where he has a Franchise/{{Kirby}}-like ability to suck in coins. |
| 123 | * TheBigGuy: When allied with Mario, he typically takes this role, sometimes sharing it with Donkey Kong. |
| 124 | * BoisterousBruiser: Loud, arrogant, and with all the strength to back it up. |
| 125 | * BreakoutCharacter: Since appearing as an antagonist, he gets two series featuring him and has since become a staple AntiHero in the ''Mario'' franchise. |
| 126 | * BrilliantButLazy: |
| 127 | ** In his own platform series, Wario can take extreme risks, push his physical limits and solve complex puzzles (sometimes the three at once)... as long as money is involved or his possessions are stolen ([[VideoGame/WarioLand3 although some exceptions exist]]). Otherwise, he would rather slack off and eat sweets. |
| 128 | ** [[VideoGame/WarioWare He made his own company]], but is too lazy to run it. |
| 129 | ** Wario demonstrates actual artistic talent in ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'' when drawing portraits... but only of ''himself''. Using any other amiibo gets you a rather sloppy drawing, as if he didn't care. |
| 130 | ** There's also the small matter of [[VideoGame/WarioMasterOfDisguise inventing dimensional transportation]], just so Wario could one-up a thief he saw on TV. |
| 131 | * BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: The W on his cap and gloves. |
| 132 | * BruiserWithASoftCenter: In ''Wario Land II'', he put a hold on getting his treasure back when his pet hen goes missing. He also talks about [[ADogNamedDog Hen]] rather fondly in the instruction manual. |
| 133 | * ChromeChampion: Mario could pick up the Metal Cap to become this in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', but in the DS remake, the Metal Cap is instead exclusive to Wario. |
| 134 | * CharacterizationMarchesOn: Wario was an outright villain in his first appearance, and in his debut starring role, he was a VillainProtagonist. Later ''Wario Land'' games established that Wario is more greedy than evil, before finally reaching today, where Wario's villainy has all but disappeared completely. He's still [[AntiHero exceptionally greedy]] however. |
| 135 | * CheatersNeverProsper: Most of his attempts at cheating end in failure-- an example of this is in the ''VideoGame/MarioTennis'' series where his and Waluigi's attempts to bomb Mario and Luigi ended with them getting blown up themselves. |
| 136 | * TheChosenOne: Wario is one of the [[VideoGame/YoshisIslandDS seven Star Children]]. |
| 137 | * CompleteImmortality: In ''Wario Land II'' and ''3'', he cannot be killed by any means (all except for Rudy, the final boss in ''3'', which can kill him and give him a Game Over... though this only sends him back to the world map). |
| 138 | * CoolBike: As mentioned above, Wario drives one in the ''[=WarioWare=]'' series. |
| 139 | * CoolCar: ''Wario Land 4'' gives him a pretty mean purple car that looks a lot like a Cadillac. It also serves as his signature vehicle in ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash''. |
| 140 | * CoolPlane: The Bulldog in ''VideoGame/MarioAndWario'', ''VideoGame/WariosWoods'', ''VideoGame/VirtualBoyWarioLand'', and ''VideoGame/WarioLand3'', though it's phased out in favor of the Wario Car and Wario Bike in later games. |
| 141 | * CorruptCorporateExecutive: In the ''VideoGame/{{WarioWare}}'' series, where he's the head of [=WarioWare Inc.=] and regularly refuses to pay his employees making the games for him. |
| 142 | * CutLexLuthorACheck: Wario is extremely brainy and economical with lots of great ideas. Too bad his greed gets the better of him which costs him not only a lot more legitimate money, but his plans and ideas as well. In ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'', [[spoiler:the Wario Bowl games actually were a great success, but then Wario had to scam everyone by taking all the prize money for himself. If he'd just fulfilled his end of the deal instead, he could've easily done more Wario Bowls given its massive popularity and netted himself even more (legitimate) money in the long term.]] |
| 143 | * DependingOnTheWriter: |
| 144 | ** While he's consistently been a selfish and greedy jerk from the beginning, his morality tends to vary over the years. Earlier games tend to portray him as being more of a villain and the BigBad, while the ''Wario Land'' series tend to vary between having him as a VillainProtagonist or an neutral AntiHero depending on the game (earlier games tend to lean more the former, while later games lean more towards the latter). ''VideoGame/{{WarioWare}}'' however, portrays him as merely being a rude, but mostly alright guy when he's not letting his greed get the better of him [[spoiler:(aside from ''Gold'', which goes back to portraying him as a villain)]]. The current ''Mario'' games largely portray him as an antagonistic rival in most cases, but will occassionally depict him as an anti-hero like in the later ''Land'' games (such as ''Super Mario 64 DS''). |
| 145 | ** Whether Wario is on better terms with Mario or not tends to largely depend on the game. Some have him as being an ally to Mario and having more of a mostly FriendlyRivalry with him, while other games portray him as still hating his guts and attempting to outdo him, sometimes to the point of even attempting to get rid of him entirely. One ''[=WarioWare=]'' microgame, "Burying the Hatchet", makes fun of this; the goal is to get Wario to shake Mario's hand, with "Make up!" as the prompt. |
| 146 | * DivergentCharacterEvolution: |
| 147 | ** Design-wise -- in newer games, he wears a T-shirt under his overalls (unlike Mario, Luigi, and Waluigi, who wear long-sleeved shirts). His ''[=WarioWare=]'' appearances give him an entirely unique outfit. |
| 148 | ** Wario in his debut was able to use the same powerups Mario could, except he was able to obtain substantially more power from them. The ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' series gave him his own set of skills, generally used for puzzle-solving rather than getting from point A to point B. |
| 149 | * DrivenByEnvy: According to the ''Super Mario Land 2'' manual, he's been jealous of Mario's popularity since they were children and tried to steal his castle many times before. |
| 150 | * DrunkOnTheDarkSide: When he [[spoiler:becomes Wario Deluxe in ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'']], he instantly becomes [[SmugSuper smug and boisterous]]--even more than usual. He even gains the requisite [[ShockAndAwe lightning powers]]. |
| 151 | * DumbMuscle: The ''VideoGame/SuperMario64 DS'' booklet describes him as lacking in brains... which [[AvertedTrope actually contradicts]] the events of other ''Wario''-centric games, where it's shown that he can make inventions, program microgames, and build companies in mere ''seconds''. However, [[DitzyGenius while he proves his smarts in many ways, Wario is still prone to comical error and his plans are often short-sighted]], something demonstrated equally in his own games (where his schemes can often backfire on him, like when [[spoiler: his two-time ArchNemesis Captain Syrup played him and makes off with his treasure]] in ''Shake It!'' or the many times his skeevy treatment of employees [[LaserGuidedKarma bites him in the butt]] in the ''[=WarioWare=]'' series) and in the ''Mario'' series (such as the intro to ''Mario Power Tennis''). |
| 152 | * EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: |
| 153 | ** He used to wear a long-sleeved shirt in his earlier appearances (similar to Mario, Luigi, and Waluigi, who also wear long-sleeved shirts) before trading it for a short-sleeved shirt that shows off his muscular arms since ''VideoGame/WarioLandII''. The ''Mario'' spin-offs alternated between long sleeves and short sleeves before permanently settling on the latter. His ''[=WarioWare=]'' appearances also go a step further by giving him an entirely unique biker outfit, in which his sleeves have varied in length but never gone up to his wrists. |
| 154 | ** Tiny Wario was also apparently bald, going by his defeat animation in ''Super Mario Land 2''. However, [[https://www.mariowiki.com/Tiny_Wario#Gallery his appearances in the form]] spanning ''Wario Land'' to present day consistently depict him with a very short spiky mohawk, making it somewhat questionable if that's simply not visible at the angle the form was shown at in his debut or if he had an actual change in hairstyle. |
| 155 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Wario had a few elements of SorcerousOverlord and was capable of MindManipulation in his earliest appearances. In ''Six Golden Coins'', he hypnotized the entire island where Mario's castle resided, and he does something similar to the originally peaceful inhabitants of ''Wario's Woods''. The original commercial for ''Six Golden Coins'' also saw him attempting to hypnotize the viewer. [[spoiler:This gets a minor CallBack in ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'', where Wario Deluxe uses sorcery to mess with the player's perception]]. |
| 156 | * EasilyForgiven: |
| 157 | ** Despite his repeated attempts to rip off his own employees and take all the money they make for himself, the [=WarioWare=] crew still continues to work for him, and they still consider him a friend. In ''Gold'', both the Dancing Team and Potluck Game levels end with someone (Mona and Dribble, respectively) saying they should invite Wario next time they hang out. |
| 158 | ** This was notably [[AvertedTrope averted]] in ''D.I.Y'' however, as that game's plot centers around half of his employees leaving him in favor of ''Diamond Software'' due to him never paying them for their efforts. This didn't last long though [[Main/SnapBack as the next game has them working for him again with no explanation.]] |
| 159 | ** Also averted in ''Get it Together'' [[spoiler: where the group is still upset that his faulty bug testing trapped them all in the game, only calming down when he reminds them they still have more employees they need to save. Ironically, it's also the one incident he wasn't actually trying to screw them over.]] |
| 160 | * EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth: |
| 161 | ** The ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'' [[AllThereInTheManual manual]] says that all the [[TrademarkFavoriteFood garlic]] he eats [[EvenTheRatsWontTouchIt scares off any germs that would cause tooth decay]]. Any plaque that's brave enough to stay there, he himself eats. |
| 162 | ** Averted in ''[=WarioWare=]: Touched!'', where Wario finally gets a terrible toothache from eating sweets. Twice. |
| 163 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Even though Wario loves anything gold, he was more than happy to let Lulu take off with a golden pot he stole in ''VideoGame/WarioWareGold'', after she reveals to him that it was a in fact a chamberpot. |
| 164 | * EvilCounterpart: |
| 165 | ** Wario was set apart from Bowser in his first appearance by his ability to use the same items as Mario. Then again, [[spoiler:Bowser himself is [[VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld not above doing this.]]]] |
| 166 | ** Wario being Mario's antithesis is exemplified in him being an outright caricature of Nintendo's famed mustachioed plumber, being obese compared to Mario's portly and being outright greedy compared to Mario (who also tends to collect coins left and right, but doesn't treat financial gain as his ultimate goal, unlike Wario), as well as being German rather than Italian (relations between the two countries have been notoriously rocky throughout European history). |
| 167 | ** Wario also has his own Evil-er Counterpart in the Shake King, from ''VideoGame/WarioLandShakeIt'', who represents Wario's greed and jerkish behavior taken up a notch. |
| 168 | * EvilIsBigger: Lampshaded in his ArtEvolution. In his earliest appearances, Wario was a ''huge'' guy, standing a full head taller than Mario and his friends. As the games went on and Wario began to shed some of his villainy and became an AntiHero, his proportions became much smaller, to the point where now he's barely taller than Mario, though he's still considerably more rotund. |
| 169 | * EvilLaugh: Wario is best known for his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4p_mdK7THI bellicose cackle]]. ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'' goes further and gives him a ''[laughing extra maniacally]'' cackle [[spoiler:when he becomes Wario Deluxe and host the final set of microgames]]. |
| 170 | * EvilSoundsDeep: Wario's voice has consistently been much gruffer than Mario & Luigi's, emphasizing his comparative lack of moral integrity. Additionally, [[spoiler:upon becoming Wario Deluxe in ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'' his voice becomes deeper]]. |
| 171 | * EvilTwin: Evil Twin wannabe, anyway. |
| 172 | * {{Expy}}: Much like Mario was created as an Expy of [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Popeye the Sailor]], Wario was envisioned by Nintendo as an expy of Popeye's main rival, Bluto. |
| 173 | * ExtraOreDinary: His hat power up in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64 [[UpdatedRerelease DS]]'' is the Metal Cap. |
| 174 | * ExtremeOmnivore: Garlic aside, Wario has eaten such things as [[PowerUpFood demonic mandrake roots]], bacterial plaque, and metal coins. In the ''Super Smash Bros.'' series, he can even eat ''his own bike'', and this is ''recommended'' by one of the loading screen tips. |
| 175 | * FailureHero: Zig-zagged. In his earlier games, this was completely averted. He successfully got a castle, stole Syrup's treasure, and got riches in the Music Box and Golden Pyramid, and restored his money from the Black Jewel. ''[=WarioWare=]'' flip-flopped between it, with some games having him lose the money he'd gain by the end or not mention anything happening to it at all. Played Straight in the later Wario platformers, where Wario always gets cheated out of the big treasure he was aiming for. |
| 176 | * FanDisservice: The RunningGag throughout his more recent appearances in which Wario shakes his ass in plain view of the camera. |
| 177 | * {{Fartillery}}: The Gas Mask! Super Ability from ''VideoGame/MarioStrikers Charged'' and the Wario Waft in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series. Wario (or rather, [[spoiler:Wario Deluxe]]) also weaponizes his flatuence as one of the potential [[InterfaceScrew distractions]] in ''Wario Interrupts'', which is also one of the harder distractions to deal with. |
| 178 | * FatAndSkinny: The Fat to Waluigi's Skinny. |
| 179 | * FatBastard: He's not evil, but he's not nice either. In the same way that Mario is short and plump, Wario exaggerates this trait to villainous levels. |
| 180 | * FatSlob: He's overweight, picks his nose, farts, eats a lot, and is generally very gross. |
| 181 | * Fiction500: In ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' more than ''VideoGame/WarioWare''. |
| 182 | * FinalBoss: Of ''Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins''. In the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series, most of the final stages are his. |
| 183 | * {{Flanderization}}: While Wario was always a {{Gonk}} and not exactly a pleasant person, his {{Gasshole}} tendencies weren't very played up until his appearance in ''Super Smash Bros''. Before then, Wario's defining character trait was running off of {{Greed}}, which while still carrying over to the ''[=WarioWare=]'' series, he comes across more like a MiserAdvisor rather than being a shameless treasure hunter. |
| 184 | * FoeTossingCharge: His primary method of defeating enemies. |
| 185 | * AFoolAndHisNewMoneyAreSoonParted: |
| 186 | ** Wario is so successful as a treasure hunter and game maker that he could probably ''buy'' all of Diamond City... if only he could manage money to save his life. If Wario isn't motivated by simple greed at the start of a journey, it's probably because he's squandered all the profit from the previous one. |
| 187 | ** Exaggerated In ''[=WarioWare=]'' Gold, where he starts up the Wario Bowl games to make money and buy a pizza and is so profitable that he could buy ''several'' pizzerias. By the end of the story, Wario has already blown all of his (stolen) prize money [[ItMakesSenseInContext on balloons]]. |
| 188 | * ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: While the ''Land'' series may be dormant for over a decade, Wario still does some treasure hunting every so often in other games. The plots of both ''[[VideoGame/MarioTennis Mario Tennis Aces]]'' and ''VideoGame/WarioWareGold'' start off with Wario searching for artifacts. |
| 189 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble : Choleric |
| 190 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: Averted within the ''[=WarioWare=]'' games, Wario is EasilyForgiven by his friends/employees despite his repeated attempts to rip them off. Mona and Dribble in particular insisting on inviting Wario to their future hangouts. On the other side, Wario actually ''does'' value his friends, though he won't let this stop him from avoiding paying them at all costs. |
| 191 | * FromASingleCell: When set on fire, he runs around before turning into ashes and regenerates from them. |
| 192 | * GadgeteerGenius: Wario invented the Telmet-- a device capable of transporting himself into the realm shown on his television set-- within ''seven seconds''. |
| 193 | * GagNose: A pink one. |
| 194 | * GarlicIsAbhorrent: Wario's favorite food is garlic, fitting for his often-times gross nature. |
| 195 | * {{Gasshole}}: Whilst exaggerated in ''Super Smash Bros.'', toilet humor has been a part of his characterization in Japanese since ''Wario Land 2'', where "Crazy Wario" ([[FrothyMugsOfWater originally, Drunk Wario]]) had a burping attack. |
| 196 | * GeniusBruiser: In ''VideoGame/WarioMasterOfDisguise''. Can invent a device to transport himself to another dimension in a few seconds, and is just as capable in kicking ass as ever. |
| 197 | * TheGMIsACheatingBastard: [[spoiler:Wario, as his Deluxe alter ego, causes a temporary InterfaceScrew partway through the final stage of ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'', until Lulu intervenes. The secret mini-game ''Wario Interrupts'' has him do this ''constantly''.]] |
| 198 | * GoldenSuperMode: [[spoiler:Wario Deluxe in ''Gold''. Wario gets golden-looking clothing in this form to match his crown, though his character card says he isn't any stronger than usual.]] |
| 199 | * GoofyPrintUnderwear: The box art for ''[=WarioWare: Get It Together!=]'' shows that Wario wears white underpants with his emblem repeatedly plastered across them. |
| 200 | * GratuitousGerman: In early [=N64=] apperances, in which he was voiced by Nintendo of Europe employee Thomas Spindler, he had the habit of saying, "So ein Mist!" According to Spindler, this was because voice director Takashi Tezuka intended for Wario to be ethnically German; while this seemed to have gone by the wayside following Creator/CharlesMartinet taking on the role (with his rendition using an Italian accent a-la Mario and Luigi), there are still occasional allusions to Wario being German, keeping in-line with Tezuka's intentions. As of ''Mario Kart 8'', he appears to have returned to doing it, but now his German is more varied, with phrases such as "Jawohl!" |
| 201 | * {{Greed}}: A poster child. |
| 202 | * GroundPound: One of his signature moves since his debut. Unlike Yoshi and Mario before him, he doesn't spin in place before falling. |
| 203 | * HairTriggerTemper: It's not hard to make him mad, particularly if he's denied treasure. |
| 204 | * HarmlessVillain: To the point where he stopped being a villain altogether and became an anti-hero. |
| 205 | * HatOfPower: |
| 206 | ** Wario's {{power up}}s in the [[VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3 first]] [[VideoGame/VirtualBoyWarioLand two]] ''Wario Land'' games took the form of hats instead of suits like the Mario Bros.' power-ups, granting him SuperStrength to limited [[VideoGameFlight flight]] and [[PlayingWithFire breathing fire]]. The King Dragon power-up from ''Virtual Boy Wario Land'' [[AllYourPowersCombined combines all the abilities]] of the three. |
| 207 | ** Wario gets a different kind of hat of power in ''VideoGame/WarioWare Gold'' [[spoiler:when he puts the Pot of Luxeville on his head and turns into Wario Deluxe, granting him abnormal abilities]]. |
| 208 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 209 | ** Wario apparently has a thing for poultry farming. Not only does he have his own farm, but one of his most prized possessions is a hen. |
| 210 | ** He also has a surprisingly introspective side, as demonstrated in the credits of ''Wario Land 4''. |
| 211 | * HeelFaceTurn: Implied. While he's still not exactly a hero, he doesn't go out of his way to mess with Mario and his friends anymore and even [[EnemyMine helps them on occasion]]. |
| 212 | * HerCodenameWasMarySue: Wario's sets of microgames throughout the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series are usually centered around him, whether the goal is to help him or to stop him. The only exceptions to this egocentric rule are his first sets in both ''Twisted!'' and ''Touched!''. |
| 213 | * AHeroToHisHometown: While most of the world considers him to be an AntiHero at best and a CardCarryingVillain at worst, his hometown of Diamond City seems to have a much more charitable view of him thanks to the vast wealth and prosperity [=WarioWare Inc.=] brings to the community. He doesn't even need to lock his front door according to his A-Rank card in in ''[=WarioWare Gold=]''. |
| 214 | * HollywoodMagnetism: His baby form in both ''VideoGame/YoshisIslandDS'' and ''Dr. Mario World'' utilizes a horseshoe magnet to attract coins and manipulate certain blocks, befitting his greedy nature. |
| 215 | * HorrifyingHero: He's this towards ''King Boo'' of all people in ''Super Mario 64 DS''. |
| 216 | * HotBlooded: Very adventurous and excitable. |
| 217 | * HypnoticEyes: In the American commercial for ''Super Mario Land 2''. |
| 218 | * HypnoTrinket: In the American commercial for ''Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3'', he uses one with Bull Wario on one side and the game's logo on the other. |
| 219 | * IncomingHam: When he [[spoiler:turns into Wario Deluxe]] in ''[=WarioWare Gold=]'': |
| 220 | -->''"Oh! The money! The power! I feel it--inside! Gurgling! ...Building! It's... it's, uh... EXPLOSIVE!"'' |
| 221 | * InterpretativeCharacter: In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', Wario is an IronButtMonkey and FightingClown who revels in ToiletHumour, whereas in games like ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'' his strength, greed, and malevolence are emphasized to the point where he almost becomes a completely different character. The creators of ''VideoGame/WarioLandShakeIt'' even discussed the different portrayals [[https://www.nintendo.co.uk/News/2008/Drawing-Wario-The-animation-of-Wario-Land-250334.html in an interview]]. That said, those interpretations aren't mutually exclusive, so it's easy for Wario to be both an accident-prone oaf and a greedy bad boy at the same time in a single game (best shown in the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' series and the various sports spin-off games where both him and Waluigi are often villainous comic reliefs). |
| 222 | * IronButtMonkey: In most of the ''Wario Land'' games, he often ''needs'' to injure himself in hilarious ways to progress, though he'll shrug off any injuries like they were nothing. |
| 223 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 224 | ** For someone who eats copious amounts of garlic, he has a Kurokyura as his [[TheDragon right hand man]] during the Super Mario (Kodansha manga)'s adaptation of ''Super Mario Land 2'', even though vampires hate garlic. |
| 225 | ** Wario himself is is shown to be quite a strong and athletic guy, yet is very weak and ineffectual as [[SuperZeroes Wario-Man]]. |
| 226 | * IShallTauntYou: In ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'', Wario Deluxe straight up mocks you if you fail a minigame, and dismisses you if you clear one. |
| 227 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: While the "Jerk" part was (and still is) one of his defining characters, he later develops the "Heart of Gold" part. He'll gladly liberate the citizens of a music box from an evil clown... If you let him keep any treasure he finds. Then in ''Wario Land 4'', he was more than willing to risk his life to help a random cat out of a collapsing temple. He also goes out of his way to rescue Princess Peach in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64 [[UpdatedRerelease DS]]'' for no real profit ([[SeriousBusiness unless he really likes cake, anyway]]). He is probably at his nicest in the ''[=WarioWare=]'' games; he is still rude and crude, but he is surprisingly very encouraging to the player and (despite scamming them on occasion) downright genial to his friends... until they ask him to pay them. |
| 228 | * JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Because Queen Merelda certainly needed whiplash less than a minute after being freed from a ''cage''. But Wario shaved down the time to get his money by several seconds, so it all evens out. [[spoiler:[[CantGetAwayWithNuthin Too bad Captain Syrup was counting on this so she could take the money while he wasn't looking]]]]. |
| 229 | * JetPack: |
| 230 | ** Uses one alongside Bowser in the Die Jagd nach dem Nintendo 64: Krawall im All German Club Nintendo comic. |
| 231 | ** The Jet Wario ability from the first ''Wario Land'' is more of a Jet ''Hat''. |
| 232 | ** Wario gets a more traditional one for the first time since the aforementioned German Club Nintendo in ''[=WarioWare=]: Get It Together!'' He uses another one made from a golf bag in ''Mario Golf: Super Rush''. |
| 233 | * KavorkaMan: Despite being fat, ugly and generally a greedy jerk, he somehow still manages to be a ChickMagnet of sorts, attracting the likes of Mona, Princess Shokora and Captain Syrup [[spoiler:(although that last one was just a ruse)]]. |
| 234 | * LargeHam: More so in ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'', where everything was his including the manual. |
| 235 | * LaserGuidedKarma: He's delivered it as much as he's received it. If his greedy antics don't come at the expense of someone [[AssholeVictim more deserving of the karma]], Wario's schemes ''will'' bite him in the butt at the end. |
| 236 | * {{Leitmotif}}: Wario has some recurring tracks associated with him, but they're not as consistent compared to some of the other ''Mario'' characters. |
| 237 | ** The ''Mario Tennis'' series usually associates Wario with the RecurringRiff from ''VideoGame/WarioLand3'', specifically "Out of the Woods." It was also used in his guest appearance for ''VideoGame/TheLegendaryStarfy'' series. |
| 238 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioParty10'' and the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series uses "Stonecarving City" from ''VideoGame/WarioLandShakeIt''. |
| 239 | * LightningBruiser: He is massively strong, can take a lot of damage, and can jump high and dash quickly (with his signature dash attack). This is especially true in ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'' -- he's actually ''faster'' in this game while dashing than Mario had been in previous games, and his strength and jumping remains the same as ever. |
| 240 | * LovesOnlyGold: Wario is a money-grubbing jerk no matter how you slice it, but he adores anything gold. Many of his adventures start off with him hunting for treasure, and his ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' incarnation has him get into the video game industry solely to see more green and gold. He hardly seems to care for anything else. |
| 241 | * MadeOfIron: He can take almost anything thrown at him. Heck, some of the AmusingInjuries inflicted on him in ''Wario Land II'' and ''3'' actually serve as powerups! |
| 242 | * ManlyMan: A big guy with a huge mustache and huger arms, Wario has a boorish, slobbish attitude towards everything, thinks of himself as the epitome of machismo, and is well known for his StoutStrength and [[NighInvulnerable resilience]]. |
| 243 | * MascotWithAttitude: Wario was marketed as this in TheNineties, when the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' series was most prominent, though with more of an emphasis on manliness rather than coolness proper, being the bigger, badder, tougher, [[DarkerAndEdgier hardcore]] (but [[BadButt not too hard]]) and more [[AntiRoleModel rebellious]] counterpart in comparison to the family-friendly Mario and other Nintendo protagonists. Promotional material for those games always depicted Wario acting like the pig he is, eating junk food or posing with a CoolCar, and his games relied way more on combat and slapstick than its parent series. Quite a few ''Wario'' game instruction manuals also had this vibe, with Wario outright [[NoFourthWall taking over the manual]] and giving the game instructions himself with his own snark and commentary. With the advent of the ''[=WarioWare=]'' series, Wario was inexplicably redesigned with a biker outfit for those games, but his manliness was somewhat downplayed for a [[DenserAndWackier wackier]] attitude. |
| 244 | * MeanBoss: In the ''[=WarioWare=]'' series, especially when you realize the only reason he started his business was to make and get money as much as possible. |
| 245 | * MeaningfulName: His name [[IncidentalMultilingualWordplay works in Japanese and in English-speaking]] countries. |
| 246 | ** His name was originally a portmanteau of the Japanese word "warui" meaning "bad" and Mario. As such, his name means "bad Mario"; a play on his status as Mario's reverse doppelganger. |
| 247 | ** In English-speaking countries, in addition to having the word "war" in his name (though this is not pronounced as such), the W in his name can instead be read as an upside-down M, which still perfectly fits his EvilTwin nature to Mario. |
| 248 | * MightyGlacier: |
| 249 | ** In comparison to the Mario Brothers. All three are generally portrayed as [[LightningBruiser Lightning Bruisers]], but Wario is stronger while the Bros are faster and more agile. Especially notable in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64 [[UpdatedRerelease DS]]'' where he's easily the slowest amongst the four playable characters, but does the most damage to enemies, throws objects the farthest, and can destroy objects on his own that Mario would need a Metal Cap to break in the original ''Super Mario 64''. |
| 250 | ** In ''VideoGame/MarioKart'', Wario is the "slow to start, hard to stop" variant, making him equivalent to [[VideoGame/FZero Samurai Goroh]]: his heavyweight drains his acceleration, but also makes him one of the fastest characters after a certain amount of time. However, this top speed also makes him harder to control (though this is downplayed in ''Mario Kart 8 Deluxe'': while he is lighter than Bowser, he still conserves the maximum top speed stat ''and'' gains [[CursedWithAwesome slightly more traction and handling]]). |
| 251 | * MirrorBoss: In ''Super Mario Land 2'', his second and third phases mimic Mario's Bunny and Fire powerups. |
| 252 | * MoneyFetish: He'll do ''anything'' to make a quick buck, even if it means risking his own life. |
| 253 | * MoralityPet: Wario's pet hen, [[ADogNamedDog "Hen"]], is one of the few things in the world besides money that he actually cares about. In ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'', while chasing the Black Sugar Gang, the pirates disturb Hen, causing her to flee from her nest. Wario deliberately ''cuts off his chase for his treasure'' just to help Hen and return her to her nest. |
| 254 | * MrViceGuy: His obvious vices are greed and gluttony, but he is occasionally shown to be heroic and amiable despite this. |
| 255 | * MusclesAreMeaningful: Those bulky biceps Wario possesses aren't just for show. The fat guy has superhuman strength. |
| 256 | * MythologyGag: The fact that Wario doffs his cap for Princess Peach in ''Super Mario 64 DS'' indicates a special regard for her he doesn't share for just any other girl (having been known to manhandle even royalty like Princess Merelda); in ''Nintendo Power'' comics and the ''Mario-kun'' manga, he had a crush on Her Highness. |
| 257 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Early English-language advertisements depicted him with a voice strongly resembling that of Creator/PaulWinchell, particularly as [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981 Gargamel.]] |
| 258 | * NominalHero: When he's not an outright VillainProtagonist, he's this. PetTheDog and JerkWithAHeartOfGold moments aside, he's very selfish and only helps people if he's rewarded for it. |
| 259 | * OddFriendship: With Toadette apparently, if their team name in ''Mario Party 6'' is anything to go by. He also forms one with Goodstyle in ''Master of Disguise''. |
| 260 | ** He has one with Link from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' in this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7N8__FakOk commercial.]] The commercial focusing on ''VideoGame/WariosWoods'' and a cartridge version of the first ''Zelda''. |
| 261 | * OneManArmy: Rivals the Mario Bros in the sheer devastation he can wreak upon his enemies. Best shown in ''Wario World'', one of the more combat-heavy platformers in the overall ''Mario'' franchise. |
| 262 | * OnlyInItForTheMoney: His motivation for anything almost always centers around getting rich, especially in the ''[=WarioWare=]'' series and ''Wario Land: Shake It!'' |
| 263 | * ParentalAbandonment: All of the other babies are taken home by storks at the end of ''VideoGame/YoshisIslandDS'', except for Baby Wario, who is instead taken to a raft with treasure on it, implying that he was homeless. |
| 264 | * PetTheDog: |
| 265 | ** Whenever he gets something valuable or finishes an adventure, Wario is quick to give an approving thumbs up [[BreakingTheFourthWall to the player who helped him.]] |
| 266 | ** He does not hesitate to help save Princess Peach in ''Super Mario 64 DS''. In the end, he even respectfully takes off his hat before the princess. |
| 267 | ** In ''Wario Land 4'', when the pyramid he is in is collapsing, Wario risks his life to help the black cat that has been helping him, going so far as to make sure she safely gets out of the pyramid before him. He even allows the Scientist lost in the ruins to use him as a springboard for his own escape. |
| 268 | * PhantomThief: In ''VideoGame/WarioMasterOfDisguise'', he adopts "[[ToiletHumor the Purple Wind]]" as an alias when he enters the world of the show within the game. |
| 269 | * PowerUpFood: Wario has two different kinds: garlic, which [[HyperactiveMetabolism heals Wario's wounds]] and doubles as his TrademarkFavoriteFood, and mandrake roots, which turn him into Wario-Man. |
| 270 | * PreAsskickingOneLiner: He has several over his games, such as "I'M-A GONNA WIN!" and "Let's-a go!" |
| 271 | ** A few boss fights in ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'' has him boast "I'M-A NUMBER ONE!" |
| 272 | ** Speaks one to the player in the final level of ''[=WarioWare=] Gold''. |
| 273 | -->'''Wario [[spoiler:Deluxe]]:''' Now, do your worst! Next to me, you're all number two! |
| 274 | * ProgressivelyPrettier: Comparatively speaking. Around the time of ''Wario Land II'', he no longer has a lazy eye, and his upper body became more muscular. |
| 275 | * PurpleIsPowerful: Wario's overalls are a vibrant purple, and he regularly puts his bountiful muscles to use fighting enemies. |
| 276 | * RealMenWearPink: Wears pink pants in the ''[=WarioWare=]'' series. |
| 277 | * RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:Wario's eyes turn red when he puts the golden pot on his head and becomes Wario Deluxe in ''Gold''. It somehow makes his usual SlasherSmile expression even more menacing]]. |
| 278 | * ResurrectiveImmortality: In every other ''Wario Land'' game aside from the first two, Wario merely gets sent back to the world map or a level checkpoint when he "dies". This is because Wario [[AchievementsInIgnorance simply doesn't feel like dying]]. |
| 279 | * TheRival: To Mario. And in his own games, to Captain Syrup. |
| 280 | * TheScrooge: To the point where he'd make the TropeNamer himself look charitable. |
| 281 | * SequentialBoss: The fight against him in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'' consists of three phases; during the second and third, he uses a carrot and a fire flower to power himself up. |
| 282 | * SevenDeadlySins: He's guilty of all seven of the sins: |
| 283 | ** Wrath: He's always rude, mean, cruel and downright selfish. |
| 284 | ** Envy: He's always jealous of Mario. |
| 285 | ** Greed: He's always greedy for money and treasures. |
| 286 | ** Gluttony: He always eats cloves of garlic, one of his favorite food. |
| 287 | ** Sloth: He's always lazy and neglects his hygiene. |
| 288 | ** Lust: He sometimes has a crush on Peach. Noticeable in the ''[[ComicBook/SuperMarioAdventures Mario vs. Wario]]'' comic and in some of the dialogue in ''VideoGame/MarioSuperstarBaseball''. |
| 289 | ** Pride: He always describes himself as "Number One", and all of his microgames incorporate him in some way. |
| 290 | * ShockAndAwe: When he's not using his brute strength or [[{{Fartillery}} body gasses]], this is Wario's go-to power of choice, especially in ''VideoGame/MarioTennis''. Unfortunately, the lightning doesn't always work in his favor, if his Bogey animation in Mario Golf World Tour is anything to go by. ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'' sees him using lightning [[spoiler:to obfuscate the control hints as Wario Deluxe in the final stage]]. |
| 291 | * SignatureLaugh: Has a distinctive 'Wahaha!'. ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'' replaces it with a different-sounding laugh that's comprised of a single voice clip of him going 'Ha!', but repeated, and progressively getting lower pitched. |
| 292 | * SignatureMove: The move has gone by many names official and fanmade over the years, including the "tackle", "dash attack", "charge", "barge", and "body slam", but they all refer to one attack: [[FoeTossingCharge Wario dashing forward with one of his muscled arms out in front to slam into a foe]]. It's one of his attacks in both ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' and ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'', ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' made it his side smash attack in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]'' and his dash attack in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Ultimate]]'', and even games that aren't about Wario fighting have had cameos of the move, such as ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' (where he uses it as his main attack in ''Get It Together!'', and to smash walls and attack mummies in the Loot Scoot microgame) and ''VideoGame/WariosWoods'' (where he slams into a wall to lower the Thwomp above the playfield, decreasing your playing space). |
| 293 | * SlasherSmile: Just ''look'' at him! It almost seems permanent. |
| 294 | * SmugSuper: In ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'' [[spoiler:as Wario Deluxe. He sounds bored whenever the player beats one of his microgames and gives a very condescending "Too bad!" or "Couldn't, huh?" if they fail. The super part? He can mess with the microgame hints and even the screen to pester the player.]] |
| 295 | * SociopathicHero: It's all about money with this guy, any heroics he does are purely accidental... [[VideoGame/SuperMario64 most of the time, anyway.]] |
| 296 | * SpeechImpediment: In ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'', he stutters constantly. This was dropped in later appearances. |
| 297 | * StoutStrength: Out of all the overall-clad, mustachioed humans in the ''Mario'' universe, Wario is both the fattest and the strongest. |
| 298 | * SuperZeroes: His "Wario-Man" persona in the [=WarioWare=] series is very weak, incompetent, and ineffectual, which is highly ironic considering how [[StoutStrength strong]] and [[MadeOfIron powerful]] Wario is normally. |
| 299 | * StylisticSuck: ''VideoGame/WarioWare Gold'' reveals that Wario has artistic talent, but only when asked to draw [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue himself]]. When drawing everyone else, however, the picture looks crude and childlike. |
| 300 | * SuperStrength: He can punch the ground to cause earthquakes and regularly pulverizes stone blocks. |
| 301 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Played with in ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'' [[spoiler:with Wario Deluxe. While Wario doesn't change much personality-wise as he's still a greed-driven jerk, he gains new powers and starts downright ''cheating'' to prevent the player from winning the tournament (and his money)]]. |
| 302 | * SweetTooth: Despite his all around manliness, Wario has been described to be addicted to sweets (though not as much as his addiction to money). He has had dental care problems in ''[=WarioWare=]: Touched'' due to it and was described in one of the ''Mario Party'' games to do anything for candy. |
| 303 | * ThrowDownTheBomblet: When not relying on his brute strength or bodily emmissions, Wario's favored weapon of choice is explosives. One of his [[https://www.mariowiki.com/Wario_Blast:_Featuring_Bomberman! earliest appearances]] was a crossover with VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}; his default partner in ''VideoGame/MarioParty 3'' and his and Waluigi's special item in ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash'' are Bob-ombs; and one of his defeat animations in ''VideoGame/MarioStrikers Charged'' has a Bob-omb blow up in his face. |
| 304 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: ''Whole cloves'' of garlic -- they're his version of Mario's mushrooms. Interestingly, his favorite food was originally envisioned to be crepes, although that was later changed. |
| 305 | * ToiletHumour: While Western fans were introduced to this side of his character in ''Smash Bros. Brawl'', Wario was making butt and fart jokes as early as ''Wario Land 2'', and in the Japanese promotion page for ''Wario Land 4'' he gives a detailed description of his poop. |
| 306 | * TokenEvilTeammate: In ''VideoGame/SuperMario64 [[UpdatedRerelease DS]]''. Unless he really likes cake or wants revenge on Bowser for capturing him, he has no ulterior motive to rescue Peach. |
| 307 | * TookALevelInJerkass: ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' has him in his most villainous role since ''VideoGame/{{Super Mario Land 2|SixGoldenCoins}}''. His role [[spoiler:as Wario Deluxe]] in ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'' also has him actively antagonizing ''the player''. |
| 308 | * TookALevelInKindness: While he's still a fat, greedy jerk, he's generally more of an AntiHero these days. One of the better examples is a ''[=WarioWare=]'' microgame called "Burying the Hatchet", where Wario makes up with Mario by meeting his hand to shake. |
| 309 | * TopHeavyGuy: He's got quite the biceps on him. |
| 310 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Wario seems to be portrayed this way whenever he’s the protagonist of a game, with his exploits being played more as get-rich-quick schemes with a ''lot'' of obstacles in his way as opposed to Mario's more straightforward quests to right whatever wrong happened in the game that time. A good example of this would be his motivation in ''Wario Land: Shake It!'' While the Merfle is telling Wario about the plight of his kingdom and how the princess has been kidnapped, Wario has a bored, disinterested look on his face until [[AMacGuffinFullOfMoney the bottomless sack]] is mentioned. Then his face instantly lights up and he’s rarin’ to go. Compare to Mario who has saved Princess Peach over countless games just because she’s in trouble. These adventures generally lead to [[HilarityEnsues hilarity]] and [[DenserandWackier wacky]] situations, that more often than not result in Wario [[AmusingInjuries getting hurt]], [[HumiliationConga getting put in outlandish situations]] and/or [[LaserGuidedKarma getting his just desserts]] so it all balances out. [[BlackAndGreyMorality It helps that the villains of these games are usually much worse than he is.]] |
| 311 | * UnwittingPawn: In ''Wario Land: Shake It!'', Merfle reveals in the end that Captain Syrup made a deal with him that she would lure Wario into the Shake Dimension so he could defeat the Shake King and save Queen Merelda. In exchange, she would get the Bottomless Coin Sack. Suffice it to say, Wario doesn't take it well. |
| 312 | * VerbalTic: there is the trademark "Waah" we all know, but Creator/CharlesMartinet began a habit of having Wario randomly blow raspberries while playing the character (alongside Mario and Luigi) on social media, which has in turn, started to appear as a tic when he voices him more recently, such as ''[=WarioWare=] Gold's'' intro. |
| 313 | * VillainProtagonist: Initially. After ''VideoGame/WarioLand'', he becomes more of an AntiHero. |
| 314 | * VillainRespect: As [[spoiler:Wario Deluxe]], he gives players this reaction for completing his microgames in ''[=WarioWare=] Gold'', though usually in the form of a [[StealthInsult backhanded compliment]]. |
| 315 | -->''"Eh, good enough."'' |
| 316 | * VillainousGlutton: He's got quite an appetite, though over the years he's become gradually less villainous. |
| 317 | * VillainsOutShopping: After taking over Mario's Castle, he relaxes while having a Dondon style his mustache to perfection, uses the Octopus boss as a foot massager, a Yashichi trim his hair, and a Kurokyura prepares his overalls in [[https:://www.mariowiki.com/File:Super_Mario_Land_2_Shogakukan_P5.jpg page 5 of the Super Land 2: 6 Golden Coins Japanese guide]]. |
| 318 | * VocalEvolution: |
| 319 | ** In his first voiced appearances, Wario more or less sounded like what he seemed like; an oddball variation of Mario that only sounded slightly more gravelly, and ''Wario World'' has his most energetic portrayal of him. However, as his DivergentCharacterEvolution came through in the 2000s, Wario's voice post-''Wario World'' gradually changed to become significantly deeper and far gruffer and raspier, while retaining the "offbrand Mario" style in his tone and speech pattern, using a few of his catchphrases at times. With the two more recent Wario Ware games, ''Gold'' and especially ''Get It Together!'', which feature full voice acting, Charles Martinet sounds clearly aged over the course of the 25 years he's voiced the character, as Wario's voice has become more and more hoarse. |
| 320 | ** Another quirk of Wario's voice is that how deep it is seems to depend on context. In games where Wario appears without Waluigi, such as the platformers and ''[=WarioWare=]'' titles, it tends to be only a bit more deep and gravelly than Mario's voice. In games where Wario ''and'' Waluigi appear, such as sports and party games, Wario's voice tends to be deeper to better contrast with Waluigi's. ''Gold'' seemingly features both interpretations, with Wario switching from his higher-pitched solo voice to a deeper voice more reminiscent of his sports games voice [[spoiler:when he becomes Wario Deluxe]]. |
| 321 | ** Following Martinet's retirement, Kevin Afghani has stepped into his shoes as the voice of Wario. Afghani's Wario is higher-pitched and isn't as raspy. |
| 322 | * WouldHitAGirl: |
| 323 | ** Wario has pummeled Captain Syrup in ''VideoGame/WarioLand II'' (in the endings to be specific), the Golden Diva from ''Wario Land 4'', [=DinoMighty=] from ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'', Queen Merelda in ''Shake It!'', and [[spoiler:Terrormisu]] from ''[[VideoGame/WarioMasterOfDisguise Master of Disguise]]''. He's got no problem with smacking chicks. |
| 324 | ** In ''VideoGame/WarioWare Gold'', [[spoiler:running out of lives on the final stage after [[KidHero Lulu]] intervenes has him (or rather, Wario Deluxe) [[WouldHurtAChild throw Lulu off of his balloon basket.]] Continuing (only available if the stage is not cleared yet) will cause Lulu to get back in the fight and cling onto Wario Deluxe again. Should you replay the stage after beating it the first time, beating the boss microgame will (after the obligatory coin-collecting game) have Wario Deluxe throw Lulu off the basket. She's fine though, and will intervene after Wario Deluxe starts cheating again.]] |
| 325 | * WrestlerInAllOfUs: He can perform a SpinningPiledriver and a giant swing called the Wild Swing-Ding on his enemies in ''Wario World''. The ''Wario Land 4'' instruction manual also mentions that he watches pro wrestling. |
| 326 | [[/folder]] |
| 327 | |
| 328 | [[folder:Waluigi]] |
| 329 | !!Waluigi |
| 330 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/waluigi_mp8.PNG]] |
| 331 | [[caption-width-right:300:[[Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily Expecting a description? TOO BAD! Waluigi time!]]]] |
| 332 | ->Debut: ''VideoGame/MarioTennis'' |
| 333 | ->'''Voiced by''': Creator/CharlesMartinet (2000-2023) |
| 334 | ->''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DDucAK-Jmg "Everyone cheating but me! WAAAAA!"]]'' |
| 335 | |
| 336 | Waluigi debuted in ''Mario Tennis'' as Wario's partner and Luigi's rival. He has so far only appeared in Mario spin-off games, and ironically never in a Wario game. His odd confrontational and slightly crazed manner have seemed disturbing to some, and inspired [[http://brawlinthefamily.keenspot.com/comic/151-witf/ this comic]]. |
| 337 | |
| 338 | You can also see [[SelfDemonstrating/{{Waluigi}} Waluigi's own page for more information]]. |
| 339 | |
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| 341 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: Waluigi has some degree of feelings for [[TomboyPrincess Princess Daisy]], who utterly despises him. |
| 342 | * AdvertisedExtra: Though he is promoted as a "central" ''Mario'' character and appears in the vast majority of casual side-games, those side-games are his ''only'' appearances. Even when his ''clothes'' appear in [[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor non]]-[[VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle casual games]], he remains absent. ''Super Mario Odyssey'' lampshades it, saying Waluigi's costume is great for someone to lurk in the dark, waiting for their moment to shine. |
| 343 | * TheArtifact: He tends to be considered a ''Wario'' character due to his association with Wario in the ''Mario'' spin-offs, even though the only ''Wario'' title he appears in is ''[=WarioWare Gold=]'', and he's only really there because that game's amiibo Sketch feature is compatible with his figure (in addition to the scores of other characters it's also compatible with). This is continued in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', where he is classified as a ''Mario'' universe character rather than a ''Wario'' universe character. |
| 344 | * AssistCharacter: In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', he is one of the many Assist Trophy characters. His function is to chase down opponents and try to stomp them into the ground and finish up by launching opponents with a mighty kick or a swing from his [[VideoGame/MarioTennis tennis racket]]. This carries over to ''3DS[=/=]Wii U'' and ''Ultimate'', in spite of being a highly-requested character since before ''Brawl'' and afterwards. |
| 345 | * AxCrazy: Just listen to his sound effects and ''[[VideoGame/MarioStrikers Mario Strikers Charged]]'', where he smashes the soccer ball into the face of a member of the opposite team and gleefully dances and laughs after it. Apparently, his true motive, besides spoiling the parties and making everyone angry, is to take over the world and spread chaos across the land. |
| 346 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He is mostly a very silly character, however, he wipes the floor with Bowser in ''Mario Party 3'' (and has an army of Piranha Plants) and can kick pretty much everyone to the ground in ''Brawl''. |
| 347 | * BlowYouAway: In ''Mario Hoops 3-on-3'' and ''Mario Tennis''. In ''Mario Tennis'', he has to [[SpinAttack spin himself]] to create the tornado. |
| 348 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: Whenever Waluigi loses in ''Mario Kart Wii'', he may say "I hate this game". |
| 349 | * BrilliantButLazy: He is very strong and fast physically, has a big assortment of weird and unpredictable powers, is the most skilled of the cast when it comes to sports, and often uses elaborate and deadly machinery. However, he really doesn't use much of his power for actual villainous purposes (even though, as we have seen in ''Mario Party 3'', he could). |
| 350 | * BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: An L, flipped upside-down and mirrored, on his cap and gloves. It could also be the Greek letter gamma (Γ). Coincidentally, if you write Waluigi's name phonetically in Modern Greek, it becomes Γουαλουίτζι (Gualuídzi). |
| 351 | * CampStraight: Despite his crush on Princess Daisy, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNBHW2i4cJI he is quite a]] [[http://31.media.tumblr.com/5e8381d4737f66860fd26bb8a959a2d0/tumblr_mnsg8iV3ma1s3x93po1_500.gif fabulous fellow]]. |
| 352 | * TheCasanova: Can be very romantic, as his victory pose in ''Mario Party 8'' shows. |
| 353 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Just look at his lines in games like ''Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games'' or ''Fortune Street''. |
| 354 | * ConfusionFu: Every new game, Waluigi is likely to come with a set of weird abilities that have no rhyme nor reason for their existence. |
| 355 | * DastardlyWhiplash: He bears an uncanny resemblance to [[WesternAnimation/WackyRaces Dick Dastardly]] and fellow evil twin [[Literature/WheresWally Odlaw]]. |
| 356 | * ADayInTheLimelight: In ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolutionMarioMix'', where Waluigi is the main villain of the story. In ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'', he [[HostileShowTakeover knocks out Bowser]] and becomes the penultimate boss of the game. Waluigi gets a fair bit more screentime in the ''VideoGame/MarioTennis'' games. He stars in Power Tennis' opening movie alongside Wario. [[VideoGame/MarioKart Also]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEFHbtAyK_k WALUIGI PINBALL]]! |
| 357 | * TheDitz: At least according to Wario. |
| 358 | * EvilCounterpart: To Luigi. Both of them feel like they're stuck in the shadow of someone else -- Mario to Luigi, and just about everyone else to Waluigi. The difference is that Luigi can be a CowardlyLion when he needs to be, and still acts heroic in spite of worrying about his place in the world. Waluigi, meanwhile, feels like he has to take his problems out of everyone else. Also, while Luigi tends to be overlooked but still liked by the other characters, Waluigi is generally disliked and thus actively ''avoided'' by the cast. |
| 359 | * EvilIsPetty: Pettiness is practically Waluigi's main trait. |
| 360 | * FatAndSkinny: The Skinny to Wario's Fat. |
| 361 | * {{Flight}}: ''Something'' like it. In ''Mario Power Tennis'' and ''Mario Hoops 3-on-3'', he can "swim" through the air. He can't rise, though. |
| 362 | * FourTemperamentEnsemble : Melancholic |
| 363 | * TheFriendNobodyLikes: "Friend" in a very loose term. Waluigi is generally disliked and has next to no real friends outside of Wario. Despite this, Waluigi is still invited to parties and gatherings in the Mushroom Kingdom. |
| 364 | * FreudianExcuse: Why does he have it out for Luigi? Take a look at their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJNaXk8UuIo first interaction.]] |
| 365 | * GadgeteerGenius: He was the one who designed and built both Waluigi Pinball and Stadium Arena (a stadium full of energetic lights and robotic dinosaurs). In ''VideoGame/MarioSportsMix'', he also seems to have built a robot for Waluigi Pinball and designed a machine with four arms that instantly teleports to him and can fire lightning bolts. |
| 366 | * GagNose: Like Wario, he has a large pink nose. Although it's also crookedly evil. |
| 367 | * GlacierWaif: Because of his tall stature, Waluigi needs taller and heavier vehicles in ''Mario Kart''. However, this can be {{downplayed}}, considering his vehicles are often lighter than, let's say, Wario's. |
| 368 | * GlowingEyesOfDoom: Displays them upon victory in ''Mario Tennis'' and ''Game & Watch Gallery 4''. |
| 369 | * GravityMaster: He can swim ''in mid-air.'' |
| 370 | * GreenEyedMonster: He utterly despises Luigi for his popularity and overshadowing him. To make matters worse, the girl he has some degree of feelings for, [[TomboyPrincess Princess Daisy]], [[AbhorrentAdmirer hates him]] and actually prefers Luigi, just to rub it in even more. |
| 371 | * GreenThumb: His special attacks in ''Mario Strikers Charged'' involve summoning purple bramble. |
| 372 | * HappyDance: It seems he really loves celebrating some of his sports achievements with an impromptu dance, some of which, as mentioned, are rather fabulous. |
| 373 | * HarmlessVillain: So much that you wouldn't even know he was a villain, if he hadn't tried to TakeOverTheWorld. |
| 374 | * HatedByAll: Other than Wario, no one seems to like Waluigi at all. He's on bad terms with the rest of the cast, and while even Wario has his own friends in his spinoff series, Waluigi has nobody but Wario, whom he is frequently seen working with and never schemes on his own. |
| 375 | * HeterosexualLifePartners: It's unclear if he and Wario are brothers or not. |
| 376 | * HiddenDepths: It seems Waluigi is a very talented (and passionate) dancer, especially highlighted in ''Super Mario Party'' and ''Mario Party Superstars'', where Waluigi is the dance teacher in Time to Shine. For his dancing animation, he does the ''[[MoonwalkDance moonwalk]]''. |
| 377 | * HijackedByGanon: It at first looks like he's going to be the main villain of ''Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix'', but he's just the first boss, with Bowser being the final one. |
| 378 | * HostileShowTakeover: |
| 379 | ** He [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m22y9hZpdh1rrftcdo2_1280.png is]] '''very''' fond of doing this. Usually, when he appears alongside Wario or gets the spotlight, he will do this, abruptly interrupting the game to announce his arrival. |
| 380 | ** He is implied to have done this to the Mushroom Kingdom itself in a ''Mario Party-e'' minigame. The game is called "Waluigi's Reign". It consists of Mario, trapped in a grey room with pipes above him and Waluigi in a cabin above. Waluigi starts to rain down coins and giant hammers at Mario. The number of hammers starts to increase and increase as Mario tries to avoid them. If you notice in the background not only is everything foggy and grey, but there is a construction site halfway finished, almost as it was being built recently. So much for [[HarmlessVillain Harmless Villain]]. |
| 381 | * {{Hypocrite}}: Accuses his opponents of cheating whenever he loses, while simultaneously taking pride in his own cheating. |
| 382 | * InexplicablyAwesome: We barely know ''anything'' about this guy, from his exact relationship to Wario to where he even came from, and yet he continues to show up doing weird, bizarre, and totally incomprehensible things on his way to victory. |
| 383 | * InASingleBound: He's the ''only'' character who has ever come close to Luigi's jump height without flying. |
| 384 | * InformedAbility: He is said to be good at cheating and apparently does so regularly. However, since Waluigi is playable in almost all of his appearances, we rarely ever see him do it. [[YouBastard Unless the player themselves is cheating, of course]]. |
| 385 | * InsaneTrollLogic: He seems to believe that to become world-famous, all he needs to do is defeat Luigi by spying on him like a hawk and learning his weaknesses. |
| 386 | * {{Irony}}: Despite his association with Wario, Waluigi has never appeared in a ''Wario'' game. |
| 387 | * JackOfAllStats: He was this in ''Double Dash!!'' and ''DS''. While he became a MightyGlacier in ''Wii'', he is something in between in ''8''. |
| 388 | * {{Jerkass}}: It seems like Waluigi exists solely to piss on everyone's parade. He is even more of one than Wario; due to not having his own games, he hasn't been given the opportunity to perform any of the heroic feats that Wario has. He is also noticeably more antagonistic to Luigi than Wario is to Mario. While Wario generally dislikes Mario, Waluigi actively harasses Luigi with little to no provocation. He's also hardly any nicer to the other characters, like Mario. By contrast, Wario doesn't really seem to mind Luigi or any of Mario's other friends, and he is mostly just antagonistic toward Mario. |
| 389 | * KarmicButtMonkey: He's a petty jerk who's even unluckier than [[ButtMonkey Luigi]]. It seems like nothing goes right for him. Even he knows it. |
| 390 | * LaughablyEvil: He's too much of a petty villain and a ButtMonkey to take seriously. |
| 391 | * LeanAndMean: In the same way Wario's fatness is an exaggeration of Mario's physique, Waluigi's leanness is an exaggeration of Luigi's thin physique. |
| 392 | * MasterOfIllusion: In the ''Mario Baseball'' series, he creates visual tricks like creating an oversized baseball or disguising a venomous eggplant as a baseball. |
| 393 | * MakeWayForTheNewVillains: He did this to Bowser as well in ''Mario Party 3''. After getting the Beauty Star Stamp, Bowser shows up. Expecting a fight with Bowser for the Mischief Star Stamp, Waluigi steals it instead, ''[[TheWorfEffect curbstomps]]'' Bowser when he tries to object, and forces the player to fight for the Stamp on a board of his own creation. While Waluigi only ends up being the penultimate boss-of-sorts, that scene was Bowser's last appearance in ''3'''s Story Mode. |
| 394 | * MeaningfulName: Even more so than Wario's; not only is it a portmanteau of "warui" and "Luigi" like Wario's, but it's ''also'' a pun on top of that; "ruiji" in Japanese means "similar", while "warui" means "bad". Put the two together and you get "waruiji", or "bad similar"; [[LampshadeHanging mocking his vastly different appearance to Luigi]]. It's also an anagram of "ijiwaru", meaning "spiteful person". |
| 395 | * MindScrew: Many of his abilities fall on this category, such as suddenly conjuring water to swim through the air and generating huge thorny brambles wherever he runs and even making a powerful spiked whip from these brambles. |
| 396 | * NeverMyFault: He has a tendency to accuse his opponents of cheating whenever he loses. |
| 397 | * NonstandardCharacterDesign: He has a much slimmer physique, longer limbs and overall more realistic proportions than Mario, Luigi and Wario. |
| 398 | * PsychoPink: He's antagonistic and has a pink nose. |
| 399 | * PurpleIsPowerful: [[Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily Everything is purple today. Purple is a color.]] |
| 400 | * RememberTheNewGuy: His very first appearance was in ''Mario Tennis''. He was shown to have some kind of history with the other characters, but we're not given any backstory on this guy. Over 20 years later, we ''still'' barely know anything about him. |
| 401 | * SatelliteCharacter: He seems to have no real purpose other than serving as Wario's partner and Luigi's rival. Unlike Wario or Luigi, he has never appeared in his own official game. |
| 402 | * ShockAndAwe: Although not prevalent as his plant/illusion manipulation, Waluigi has been shown to use electricity in his aresenal. In ''VideoGame/MarioSportsMix'', Waluigi is able to fire off electric bolts from a strange machine he built. In ''Mario Golf: Super Rush'', his special "Slim Stinger" involves Waluigi manipulating electricity to launch the golf ball into the air. |
| 403 | * SpinAttack: One of his special moves in ''Mario Power Tennis''. |
| 404 | * StalkerWithoutACrush: Revealed to be this to Luigi in the 3DS version of ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndSonicAtTheOlympicGames Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games]]''. |
| 405 | * StoneWall: Due to his long limbs, Waluigi is one of only two characters classed as "defensive" in the ''Mario Tennis'' series. |
| 406 | * SomethingAboutARose: His victory animation in ''VideoGame/MarioParty 8'' and ''Mario Party Superstars'', his [[http://i.imgur.com/YqCjigZ.png birdie animation]] in ''VideoGame/MarioGolf World Tour'', and his Special Shot animation in ''VideoGame/MarioTennis Aces'' all have him brandish roses, occasionally with [[BishieSparkle sparkles]], while his outfit in ''Mario Golf: Super Rush'' has a rose on the brim of his hat. Seems to hint at a rather different interpretation of Waluigi than the one we're used to... |
| 407 | * SourOutsideSadInside: Waluigi acts like a jerkass so people won't see his faults. |
| 408 | * SpectacularSpinning: Along with a SpinAttack in ''VideoGame/MarioTennis'', there are a lot of times when Waluigi is spinning just for the heck of it. |
| 409 | * SuperStrength: No, really. Though, unlike the other characters in the series, it's all in his legs, and not to nearly the same degree. |
| 410 | * TakeOverTheWorld: His goal is to take over the world. You can probably guess how good he is at it. |
| 411 | * TeleportSpam: In ''[[VideoGame/MarioStrikers Mario Strikers Charged]]''. |
| 412 | * ThinChinOfSin: To go with his LeanAndMean physique. |
| 413 | * ThirdPersonPerson: |
| 414 | -->''"Waluigi's finest invention! I call them Waluigiscopes! With these babies, [[StalkerWithoutACrush Waluigi can watch Luigi like a hawk and learn all his weaknesses]]! Then when Waluigi wins, he'll be the biggest superstar on the planet!"'' |
| 415 | * ThisIsADrill: According to Wario Warehouse, Waluigi ended up drilling himself to the center of the Earth while trying to look into the back of his shirt. He used his chin like a pickaxe in order to make his way back to the world. |
| 416 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Eggplants, to go with his purple theme. |
| 417 | * UnknownRival: Many of the official descriptions for Waluigi say that Luigi hasn't even realized that Waluigi is being antagonistic towards him. |
| 418 | * UnsportsmanlikeGloating: If Waluigi has the upper hand on you, expect him to rub it in a little. Shows up the most in ''[[VideoGame/MarioStrikers Mario Strikers Charged]]'' where he throws the ball (which is made of metal, mind you) into his opponent's head while dancing around childishly. |
| 419 | * WeakButSkilled: This is his usual role in the ''Mario'' spinoffs in contrast to [[MightyGlacier Wario]], usually showing up in the Technique or Technical class of characters. In his debut game, ''VideoGame/MarioTennis'', his shots don't have much power but he has great control and enough height to make him a terror on the net. This also ties into the abilities he shows. He can't match up to the sheer athleticism of the Mario Bros. or Wario's strength. His most common powers are GreenThumb and MasterOfIllusion, which he uses in unique and creative ways to compete with the rest of the cast. |
| 420 | * ZanyScheme: In ''DDR: Mario Mix''. When Waluigi goes to the Truffle Towers, he tries to use the keys to make his wish come true. His wish is to become the best dancer in the world so he can {{take over the world}} by hypnotizing everyone with his dance moves. |
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