History Characters / SuperMarioBrosMarioBrothers

'''Voiced in English by''': Larry Moran (1982 ''Donkey Kong'' cereal commercials), Creator/PeterCullen (''WesternAnimation/SaturdaySupercade''), Lou Albano (''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''), Walker Boone (''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' and ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld''), Ronald B. Ruben (''Mario Teaches Typing''; Floppy version), Colin Case (Super Mario Compact Disco), David Platshon (''Mario's Time Machine''; PC version), Nick Glaeser (''Mario is Missing''; PC version), Marc Graue (''VideoGame/HotelMario''), Creator/CharlesMartinet (video games, 1992-2023); '''Kevin Afghani''' (''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder'')\\

'''Portrayed by''': Harris Shore (live-action ''VideoGame/{{Donkey Kong}}'' commercial), Lou Albano (''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'')\\

'''Voiced in English by''': Creator/DannyWells (''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''), Creator/TonyRosato (''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' and ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld''), Bob Sorenson (''Mario is Missing''), Marc Graue (''VideoGame/HotelMario''), Julien Bardakoff (''VideoGame/MarioKart64'', ''VideoGame/MarioParty'', ''Mario Party 2'' and ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit''), Creator/CharlesMartinet (video games, 1992-2023); '''Kevin Afghani''' (''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder'')\\
'''Voiced in Japanese by''': Creator/YuuMizushima (''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach''), Naoki Tatsuta (OVA trilogy), Ichirōta Miyagawa (''BS Super Mario USA Power Challenge'' and ''VideoGame/{{Excitebike}}: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium''), Julien Bardakoff (''VideoGame/MarioKart64'')\\
'''Portrayed by''': Creator/DannyWells (''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'')\\

'''Voiced in English by''': Larry Moran (1982 ''Donkey Kong'' cereal commercials), Creator/PeterCullen (''WesternAnimation/SaturdaySupercade''), Lou Albano (''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''), Walker Boone (''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' and ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld''), Ronald B. Ruben (''Mario Teaches Typing''; Floppy version), Colin Case (Super Mario Compact Disco), David Platshon (''Mario's Time Machine''; PC version), Nick Glaeser (''Mario is Missing''; PC version), Marc Graue (''VideoGame/HotelMario''), Creator/CharlesMartinet (video games, 1992-2023); '''Kevin Afghani''' (''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder''), Creator/ChrisPratt ([[WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie 2023 animated movie]])\\
'''Voiced in Japanese by''': Creator/ToruFuruya (''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach'', original video animations and Satellaview games), Creator/MayumiTanaka (''Mario Kirby Masterpiece Video''), Creator/MamoruMiyano ([[WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie 2023 animated movie]])\\
'''Portrayed by''': Harris Shore (live-action ''VideoGame/{{Donkey Kong}}'' commercial), Lou Albano (''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''), Creator/BobHoskins ([[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 1993 live action film]])\\

'''Voiced in English by''': Creator/DannyWells (''Series/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''), Creator/TonyRosato (''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' and ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld''), Bob Sorenson (''Mario is Missing''), Marc Graue (''VideoGame/HotelMario''), Julien Bardakoff (''VideoGame/MarioKart64'', ''VideoGame/MarioParty'', ''Mario Party 2'' and ''Mario Kart: Super Circuit''), Creator/CharlesMartinet (video games, 1992-2023); '''Kevin Afghani''' (''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder''), Creator/CharlieDay ([[WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie 2023 animated movie]])\\
'''Voiced in Japanese by''': Creator/YuuMizushima (''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach''), Naoki Tatsuta (OVA trilogy), Ichirōta Miyagawa (''BS Super Mario USA Power Challenge'' and ''VideoGame/{{Excitebike}}: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium''), Julien Bardakoff (''VideoGame/MarioKart64''), Creator/TasukuHatanaka ([[WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie 2023 animated movie]])\\
'''Portrayed by''': Creator/DannyWells (''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow''), Creator/JohnLeguizamo ([[Film/SuperMarioBros1993 1993 live action film]])\\

!!!'''Debut''': ''Mario Bros'' (VideoGame/GameAndWatch)\\

'''Spinoff series:''' ''Characters/YoshisIsland'' | ''Characters/LuigisMansion'' ([[Characters/LuigisMansionKingBoo King Boo]]) | ''Characters/MarioGolf'' | ''Characters/MarioTennis'' | ''Characters/SuperMarioMaker'' | ''Characters/DonkeyKong'' [[Characters/DonkeyKong series]] ([[Characters/DonkeyKongKongs Kongs]]) | ''Characters/{{Wario}}'' [[Characters/{{Wario}} series]] ([[Characters/WarioAndWaluigi Wario and Waluigi]])\\

* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: The Writer's Bible for ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' describes the Bros. as having this sort of dynamic, with Luigi wishing Mario would weigh risks more often, though in the games it doesn't quite apply. While Mario is often described as stubborn and impulsive, and Luigi is often characterized as the more anxious of the two but also the more cautious and level-headed, the contrast rarely comes into play due to rarely showing Mario's more stubborn side or is just as often reversed, with Mario being focused on the task at hand, while Luigi's cowardice often leads him to making foolish decisions or the fact that he's often involved in several antics.

'''Spinoff series:''' ''Characters/YoshisIsland'' | ''Characters/LuigisMansion'' ([[Characters/LuigisMansionKingBoo King Boo]]) | ''Characters/MarioGolf'' | ''Characters/MarioTennis'' | ''Characters/SuperMarioMaker'' | ''Characters/DonkeyKong'' [[Characters/DonkeyKong series]] ([[Characters/DonkeyKongKongs Kongs]] -- [[Characters/DonkeyKongKingKRool King K. Rool]]) | ''Characters/{{Wario}}'' [[Characters/{{Wario}} series]] ([[Characters/WarioAndWaluigi Wario and Waluigi]])\\

[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[VideoGame/MarioandLuigi Let's-a go!]]"'' ''"[[VideoGame/MarioandLuigi Okie-dokie!]]"'']]

** In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'', when [[spoiler:Bowser vows to make Mario pay, he says, "And you too, Green 'Sta... Luigi!". It's the first time in ''Mario & Luigi'' he has ever remembered Luigi's name.]]
** In ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsKingdomBattle'', the game's resident ExpositionFairy, Beep-O, misnames Luigi. What makes this especially egregious is that there's already the Rabbid counterpart of Luigi on the team, named Rabbid ''[[FailedASpotCheck Luigi.]]''

-->''"Let's-a go!"''

-->''"I wanna be a great plumber like my brother Mario."''

* BigBrotherWorship: Luigi will go to the ends of the earth for his bro. Revealed in Luigi's wish in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'': "I wanna be a great plumber like my brother Mario." And then in ''Videogame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam'':

!! Tropes that apply to both of the Mario Brothers:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/94d341a1a069c95c6d08984a54ebf6ff_3.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[VideoGame/MarioandLuigi Let's-a go!]]"'' ''"[[VideoGame/MarioandLuigi Okie-dokie!]]"'']]

** With Martinet's retirement, Kevin Afghani has stepped into his boots. Since Afghani started voicing Mario at 27 (which is closer to Mario's age than Martinet beginning in his mid-thirties), his Mario sounds younger and higher-pitched.

** After over 30 years as the voice of Mario, Charles Martinet retired in voicing him and the other characters, so it was going to happen. His successor, Kevin Afghani, gives Mario a voice that while similiar to Charles's, sounds higher-pitched due to his young age compared to his legendary predecessor: he's 27, which not only makes him 40 years younger than Charles, but also makes him around the same age of the character he voices.

** After Charles Martinet stopped voicing the characters in the franchise, he was succeeded by Kevin Afghani in his roles. His Luigi voice is very similar to the voice that Martinet used starting by the 2000's.

** Conversely, Martinet initially opted for a ''low'' pitched voice for Luigi, a performance that was more down to earth, emphasizing his status as the CowardlySidekick. While still lower in tone than Mario's voice, Martinet's Luigi voice has gotten higher-pitched over the years. Originally, his voice was quiet, deep and confident in ''VideoGame/MarioKart64'' and other N64 games, and in a way, rather similiar to Wario's voice at times, since he Charles started voicing both of them at the same time, but starting with ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'' onward, in keeping with Luigi's DivergentCharacterEvolution, when the character voices were finalized, this also happened with Luigi and Wario, and Martinet finalized his take on him with a higher-pitched voice. It's also seen in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series, where Luigi goes from having sped-up versions of Mario's voice clips in the first game and ''Melee'' (seemingly in emulation of the high-pitched voice Julien Bardakoff gave Luigi in the aforementioned N64 games) to having his own voice starting with ''Brawl''. This finalized version of Luigi's voice, while similiar to Mario's, is slightly deeper in comparison, is more nasal, more skittish and consistently in tenor, unlike Mario, who goes falsetto when happy or excited. Over 25 years later, as Charles' voice aged over time, Luigi's voice gradually became notably deeper again as well as more nasal-like in more recent games, not too dissimilar from Waluigi's nasal quality. This also affected the character's screams, as by 2019, when ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'' and ''VideoGame/MarioKartTour'' were released, Charles had turned 64, and his Luigi voice had become so aged that he couldn't scream at the top of his lungs anymore like in older games, especially ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion2'', which was released six years earlier and had Luigi often let out very intense and high-pitched screams. As a result, in Luigi's Mansion 3, Luigi sounds older and wearier and his screams became less intense and not as loud, especially after getting frightened.

[[caption-width-right:320:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/marioillumination.png[[/labelnote]] to see Mario's movie design.]]

[[caption-width-right:320:[[labelnote:Click here]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/luigi_the_super_mario_bros_movie_full_render.png[[/labelnote]] to see Luigi's movie design.]]

'''Voiced in Japanese by''': Creator/ToruFuruya (''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach'', original video animations and Satellaview games), Creator/MayumiTanaka (''Mario Kirby Masterpiece Video'')\\

'''Voiced in Japanese by''': Creator/YuuMizushima (''Anime/TheGreatMissionToSavePrincessPeach''), Naoki Tatsuta (OVA trilogy), Ichirōta Miyagawa (''BS Super Mario USA Power Challenge'' and ''VideoGame/{{Excitebike}}: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium''), Julien Bardakoff (''VideoGame/MarioKart64'')\\

'''Spinoff series:''' ''Characters/YoshisIsland'' | ''Characters/LuigisMansion'' | ''Characters/MarioGolf'' | ''Characters/MarioTennis'' | ''Characters/SuperMarioMaker'' | ''Characters/DonkeyKong'' [[Characters/DonkeyKong series]] ([[Characters/DonkeyKongKongs Kongs]] -- [[Characters/DonkeyKongKingKRool King K. Rool]]) | ''Characters/{{Wario}}'' [[Characters/{{Wario}} series]] ([[Characters/WarioAndWaluigi Wario and Waluigi]])\\

* UndyingLoyalty: To each other. A constant throughout the series, especially the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games, is that Mario and Luigi will stand together no matter what, and go to any lengths for one another.

** More subtly, [[spoiler:''Super Paper Mario'']] puts a great deal of importance on him; even more than Mario.

* WouldHitAGirl: If a villainess is hurting innocent people, Mario and Luigi certainly do not care if their opponent is a girl.

!!!'''Debut''': ''VideoGame/MarioBros''\\

* SuperStrength: Easily their most commonly displayed power besides their signature jumps. Usually it only amounts to being able to throw around baddies two or three times their size and smashing though solid bricks with their fists, but there's also the notable time when Mario/Luigi ''lifted a castle'' in ''World''.