History Fridge / LuigisMansion

* Luigi can't jump as normal because he is carrying a cumbersome vacuum around on his back.
** This falls flat though, since you still can't jump even when you aren't wearing the vacuum cleaner.
*** Maybe he's too scared to jump?
*** You only play as Luigi without a vacuum cleaner in the very beginning of the game; I don't recall any circumstance during that time when he needed to jump. Also realism; do you constantly jump when you walk around in your house?

* Music/{{Brentalfloss}} points out that it's weird that Mario is unable to escape the painting, considering that he could go in and out of paintings in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. This could simply be explained by assuming that the painting Mario was trapped in works differently from the paintings in ''64'', but even if it ''did'' work the same, there's another explanation. In ''64'', Mario can't exit a painting unless he gets a Star, or he dies. As far as we know, not only are there no Stars in there, but there is nothing that could kill Mario.
** This is further supported by the fact that Luigi ''does'' find Mario's Star but it's hidden away inside of something ([[ItMakesSenseInContext the Moon]]) rather than in the mansion proper, which suggests that Mario could've had a way out of that painting if he hadn't lost that star.
** In ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', you can exit any level whenever you want, though, can't you? So I don't know about this theory...

* Madame Clairvoya's comment on how Bowser was supposed to be soundly defeated seems a bit strange, seeing how Bowser comes back practically every week. This comment spawned many fan theories conscerning the line about how King Boo is Bowser's ghost. However, if we ignore ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'', Bowser's last defeat was in ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'', where he and Kammy were blasted out of the sky by their malfunctioning power platform, and if you read the news sign during the epilogue, it talks about how Bowser "will likely never return. We're sure of it. Almost positive." Either everyone in the Mushroom Kingdom really thought that Bowser really was KilledOffForReal at the end of ''Paper Mario'' or Madame Clairvoya can't read sarcasm very well.

*** Well, you only play as Luigi without a vacuum cleaner in the very beginning of the game; I don't recall any circumstance during that time when he needed to jump. Also realism; do you constantly jump when you walk around in your house?

** In Super Mario 64, you can exit any level whenever you want, though, can't you? So I don't know about this theory...

*** Maybe he's too scared to jump?

* Sue Pea's death. While most arguing that passing away in your sleep is the most peaceful way to go, imagine putting your young child down for a routine nap during the day, [[AdultFear only to come back to wake them up a short time later and realize they're not breathing...]]

* Sue Peas's death. While most arguing that passing away in your sleep is the most peaceful way to go, imagine putting your young child down for a routine nap during the day, [[AdultFear only to come back to wake them up a short time later and realize they're not breathing...]]

* Why is King Boo the villain? Well, he trapped Mario inside of a painting, and kidnapping innocent people to display as art pieces is obviously an evil thing to do. Now tell me, who is more of a villain: a ghost who imprisoned an innocent human in a painting to display in his altar after freeing a whole bunch of ghosts from paintings...[[DesignatedHero or a human who imprisoned a whole bunch of innocent ghosts in paintings to display in his gallery before freeing a single human from his painting]]?

* Madame Clairvoya's comment on how Bowser was supposed to be soundly defeated seems a bit strange, seeing how Bowser comes back practically every week. This comment spawned many fan theories conscerning the line about how King Boo is Bowser's ghost. However, if we ignore ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'', Bowser's last defeat was in ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'', where he and Kammy were blasted out of the sky by their malfunctioning power platform, and if you read the news sign during the epilogue, it talks about how Bowser "will likely never return. We're sure of it. Almost positive." Either everyone really thought that Bowser really was KilledOffForReal at the end of ''Paper Mario'' or Madame Clairvoya can't read sarcasm very well.

* Madame Clairvoya's comment on how Bowser was supposed to be soundly defeated seems a bit strange, seeing how Bowser comes back practically every week. This comment spawned many fan theories conscerning the line about how King Boo is Bowser's ghost. However, if we ignore ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'', Bowser's last defeat was in ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'', where if you read the news sign during the epilogue, it talks about how Bowser "will likely never return. We're sure of it. Almost positive." Either everyone really thought that Bowser really was KilledOffForReal at the end of ''Paper Mario'' or the sign was being sarcastic and Madame Clairvoya mistook it as a genuine assertion that Bowser is totally dead this time and that he's never coming back.

** Nana has the key to Henry and Orville's room, implying she is their grandmother, but Petunia is never referred to as "Aunt" in the game.

* Why does the first child you find in the Twins' Room accuse you of cheating after you uncover the second? Simple--if you're doing it the "right" way, that first twin just saw you expel an element on the box! Of course that's against the rules!

* Why does King Boo and the rest of the ghost seem so much more terrifying and KnightOfCerebus in this game when compared to thier other appearances. Simple because in those games we are seeing the ghost how the Fearless Mario sees them, but in this game we see how the Phasmophobia Luigi see them.

* Why did Luigi fall for such an obvious scam? He didn't. He was there to find Mario. Mario fell for the scam. And "Your brother won a mansion in a contest you didn't know he entered" is a lot less unbelievable.

* A weird meta example: the game is kicked off by Luigi winning a mansion in a contest he didn't even enter. Or, to put in another way: in true Luigi fashion, [[WinsByDoingAbsolutelyNothing he won it by doing absolutely nothing]].

** Not made any better when Madame Clairvoya herself is shocked by [[spoiler:Bowser actually being relevant at all in King Boo's scheme, since she points out that Bowser had been soundly defeated by Mario, and specifically theorizes that King Boo has ''[[BackFromTheDead revived]]'' Bowser. If Bowser was still alive after his defeat, then said choice of words wouldn't make much sense]]. This is made even more horrifying when this also presents hints that [[spoiler:Mario may have ''[[KilledOffForReal killed]]'' Bowser at some point in the past]]. Luigi is a dark game indeed.

* There's those two ghost twin children who love to play hide and seek, nothing inherently wrong with that right? Well if you happen to find a diary in the study, reading an entry reveals that they both like to hide during the game, sometimes causing the game to go on for a very long time...oh dear.

** Nana has the key to Henry and Orville's room, implying she is their grandmother, but Petunia is never referred to as "Aunt" in thd game.

** [[CowardlyLion Yet somehow through all this traumatization]], [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome he took out an army of ghosts by himself]].

* All the area 1 portrait ghosts plus Henry and Orville are members of the same family. That means something horrible must have happened to kill all five at the same time. It gets worse if you notice there is also an Uncle Grimley, Aunt Petunia and Nana who could also be related to this family.