Here's what happened when 15 random people took turns drawg and scribg, startg wh the prompt "waluigi and war are a gay uple".
Contents:
- THE OPPOSE OF GAY ITALIAN PLUMBERS: WAR AND WALUIGI’S HETEROSEXUAL GREEK ORIGS
- GAY WALUIGI
- PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, LET ME GET WALUIGI ON THE TER’S AGONY AND ECSTASY OF LOVG THE LEAST LOVABLE NTENDO CHARACTER. MAX GENEV JUN—30—2018 09:17AM EST IN THE GIANT NCRETE PARKG STCTURE ABUTTG THE LOS ANGEL CONVENTN CENTER, NEARLY TWO HOURS BEFORE E3 BEGAN THERE ON JUNE 12, I HELD BACK MY R A LTLE LONGER TO WATCH THE NTENDO DIRECT LIVTREAM WHERE THE PANY ANNOUNCED THE TAILS OF UPG RELEAS. THE PRENTATN CULMATED WHAT’S SURE TO BE THE GAME OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON, SUPER SMASH BROS ULTIMATE. THE GAME, THE FIFTH THE LONG-NNG SERI, WILL FEATURE EVERY CHARACTER THAT’S EVER APPEARED A SMASH GAME, OM INS LIKE MAR TO CLOUD STRIFE OM FAL FANTASY VII (A GAME THAT HAS NEVER BEEN RELEASED ON A NTENDO NSOLE). MASAHIRO SAKURAI, THE DIRECTOR OF THE SERI, ALSO TRODUCED A NEW CHARACTER: DAISY, PEACH’S BTE UNTERPART OM SUPER MAR LAND AND, MORE PROMENTLY, THE EXTEND MAR SPORTS/RACG/PARTY-FUN-TIME UNIVERSE. THEN SAKURAI PRENTED A NEW ASPECT OF THE GAME: THE NON-PLAYER ASSIST CHARACTERS YOU N REC THE GAME N NOW BE DAMAGED AND KOED. THIS FEATURE WAS MONSTRATED BY LK, MASTER SWORD HAND, SLASHG AT A HAPLS CHARACTER UNTIL HE FLEW OFFSCREEN. ARMED ONLY WH A TENNIS RACKET, THAT NPC NEVER HAD A CHANCE. IN FACT, HE NEVER HAS A CHANCE, BEE THAT CHARACTER WAS WALUIGI.THIS WASN’T JT UNSPORTG. IT WAS THE TWIST OF THE BAYO WALUIGI’S PUTER-ANIMATED CHT AFTER DAISY’S TRODUCTN. IT WAS NTENDO TELLG THE WORLD THAT WALUIGI DIDN’T SERVE A CHANCE AT GLORY WHILE A SIARLY MOR CHARACTER DID. AS A PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE THE EAKG WASHGTON POST PUT , “WALUIGI WAS ROBBED AND HUIATED BY NTENDO.” (WHAT, WAS “WALUIGI DI DARKNS” TOO MUCH?)OF URSE, THIS MISRRIAGE OF JTICE WAS THE LEAD TOPIC OF SUAL NVERSATN ON THE E3 SHOW FLOOR. WELL, THIS AND THE FACT THAT FORTNE SEEMED TO BE PLAYG ON EVERY SCREEN THE LA CONVENTN CENTER. IN THE LE TO PLAY SMASH MO, NTENDO FANS PLAED ABOUT WALUIGI’S ABSENCE. ONE TEENAGER, ONCE I TOLD HIM I WAS GOG TO WRE ABOUT WALUIGI, SED AND TRODUCED HIMSELF TO ME AS WALUIGI’S SON, SAYG THAT THE CHARACTER “IS ;S EVERYTHG A NTENDO CHARACTER SHOULD BE.” THE DISNTENT LE TURNED TO A ENZY WHEN WE ALL SAW, LS THAN TWENTY OR SO METERS AWAY, REGGIE FILS-AIME AND BILL TREN, THE TWO TOP EXECUTIV AND FAC OF NTENDO OF AMERI, PLAYG A MO OF MAR TENNIS AC. THOUGH A LIFE-SIZED MAR STOOD BY THEM, TREN PICKED YOSHI, AND REGGIE PLAYED AS WALUIGI.KAYCUL ON DEVIANTARTDEMONSTRATNS OF WALUIGI LOVE ARE EVEN MORE APPARENT ONLE. A FOURTH-GRAR WROTE AN AWARD-WNG POEM ABOUT HIM. EATHLETE ZERO WON THE SUPER SMASH BROS INVATNAL AT E3 THIS YEAR PLAYG AS MAR HIS WALUIGI LORWAY. MULTIPLE PEOPLE HAVE MA MODS OF WALUIGI VAR SMASH GAM. HERE HE IS SGG THE WTWORLD THEME, AND HERE HE IS AS SAILOR URAN. MY FAVORE WALUIGI FAN TRIBUTE IS A “LOFI CHILL BEATS” STREAM MA BY GAMG OUTLET POLYGON WHERE YOU N WORK ALONGSI THE LANKY PURPLE MAN AS HE FEEBLY STUDI FOR HIS CLASS EVIL. IN THE PUBLIC NSCNS, WALUIGI HAS GROWN OM A GANGLY MAN WH A GROSS PK NOSE AND NO PURPOSE TO A GANGLY MAN WH A GROSS PK NOSE AND A PERSISTENT, RUDY-QUE HEART. GIVEN HIS STAT AS A LONGTIME FAN FAVORE, THE SYMPATHETIC MEM WERE SURE TO FLOW THE WAKE OF THE PRS NFERENCE.OF URSE, NOT EVERYONE LOV WALUIGI. IN A VICE ARTICLE TLED, “COUNTERPOT: FUCK WALUIGI,” MATTHEW GLT PRENTS WALUIGI AS A GROSS CIPHER WH NO NONIL PERSONALY BEYOND CNS. GLT CLAIMS THAT WAR IS THE “GLUTTONO GREEDY BASTARD WE ALL LOVE TO HATE,” BUT THAT “WALUIGI HAS NO GOALS BEYOND BEG ANNOYG.” BUT IF WAR IS A BASTARD, THEN WALUIGI IS THE BASTARD OF A BASTARD, AN IOLOGIL ORPHAN WH NOTHG MORE THAN A TRANSACTNAL RELATNSHIP WH A SMELLY MI-GAME ADDICT WHO MIGHT NOT EVEN BE HIS REAL BROTHER. COMMENTG ABOUT THE RPONSE TO HIS POLEMIC, GLT TELLS ME "I ENJOY POTG OUT WHEN THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTH AND WALUIGI STANDS BEFORE HIS FANS NAKED. THEY BTOW MEANG ON WHAT IS, SENTIALLY, A C RPORATE MAST THAT EVEN THE RPORATN TTS. THE HATE HAS BEEN MOST, MUCH LS THAN I'VE RECEIVED OM WRG ABOUT OTHER THGS. I DID GET ONE CLY PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGE OF WALUIGI TAKG MY TWTER AVATAR OM BEHD A FANCY HOTEL ROOM. WHICH, I THK, SPEAKS VOLUM ABOUT WALUIGI AND HIS FANS."TO SHED SOME OFFICIAL LIGHT ON WALUIGI’S JOURNEY OM ALSO-RAN TO IN, NTENDO OF AMERI RPOND TO ME WH THE FOLLOWG STATEMENT AFTER 24 HOURS AFTER IAL BACK-AND-FORTH OF ME STATG AND RTATG MY QUERY: “WE HAVE NOTHG TO ANNOUNCE ON THIS TOPIC.”“I HONTLY THK THERE’S A B OF A DISNNECT BETWEEN NTENDO AND THEIR FANS, PECIALLY WHEN TO DIVIDUAL CHARACTERS,” SAYS HAEL AL-MASSARI, REARCH ASSOCIATE AT STRATEGIC NTENT AGENCY TWOFIVIX. WALUIGI IS JT TOO MSY AND STRANGE OF A CHARACTER FOR NTENDO TO LATCH ON TO. “MAR SEEMS TO BE THEIR ‘SAFT’ CHARACTER BEE, BIS BEG A PLUMBER, HE DON’T REALLY HAVE THIS HUGE BACKSTORY.”LILLAYFRAN ON DEVIANTARTBUT EVEN THOUGH THEY WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE HIM ENOUGH TO CENTER A GAME AROUND HIM OR EXPLICLY GIVE HIM SOME TERRY, NTENDO LOV TO HT AT THE FACT THAT WALUIGI IS THEIR SHAMEFUL LOVECHILD WHO SPERATELY WANTS THE LIMELIGHT BUT WILL NEVER SEE DUE TO WHAT FEEL LIKE MEDIEVAL L OF PRIMOGENURE. SAKURAI PUTS DOWN THE POTY MAN AS WELL, SAYG THAT “JT BEE YOU TRY HARD DON’T MEAN YOU’LL MAKE TO BATTLE.” THIS BLUDGEONG HAPPENS SO OFTEN THAT FEELS LIKE NTENDO GETS A KICK OUT OF HUIATG HIM — PERHAPS BEE THE CHARACTER ISN’T REALLY THEIRS.WALUIGI IS THE CREATN OF CAMELOT SOFTWARE PLANNG, A THIRD-PARTY VELOPER TO WHOM NTENDO OUTSOURCED THE CREATN OF THE MAR GOLF AND MAR TENNIS SERI. IN LE WH THEIR PREV GAME FOR THE PLAYSTATN, EVERYBODY’S GOLF, CAMELOT ALSO PUT PLENTY OF ANIME-SPIRED CHARACTERS THE EARLY STALLMENTS OF THE THOSE GAM, CHARACTERS LIKE ALEX, NA AND PLUM, ALL OF WHOM FELL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH SUCCSIVE GAM, PERHAPS BEE THEY ULD NOT F THE MAR UNIVERSE. ONE N ASSUME THAT WALUIGI WAS CREATED TO BE A FENSIVE UNTERPART TO WAR DURG TENNIS DOUBL MO, SCE HE FIRST APPEARS 2000’S MAR TENNIS. IN AN OCTOBER 2000 FAN QUTN LUMN, PUTY PLANNG MANAGER FOR CAMELOT YE SUGIMOTO SCRIB THE PROCS OF CLUDG CHARACTERS FOR THE GAME BUT SISTEPS THE CREATN OF WALUIGI. HE DO START THE LUMN BY ACKNOWLEDGG WALUIGI’S TRODUCTN, BUT IGNOR HIS ORIG STORY TO SPEAK ABOUT HOW CAMELOT NEED CHARACTERS WH HUMAN BODI THAT ULD NVCGLY PLAY SPORTS, WHICH THE MAR SERI HAS SURPRISGLY FEW OF ONCE YOU ARE DONE UNTG THE TOP-TIER CHARACTERS. BIRDO AND DAISY WERE ADD TO THE GAME EVEN LATER THAN WALUIGI WAS; THE TEAM FELT THEY WERE SCRAPG THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL TERMS OF REGNIZABLE CHARACTERS. SUGIMOTO THROWS WALUIGI OFFHANDLY, AS IF HE WAS A GIVEN, WHEN THE TEAM DISCSED THE CLN OF AN EVIL PEACH CHARACTER: “IF THERE’S WAR FOR MAR AND WALUIGI FOR LUIGI, THEN PEACH WOULD HAVE WA-PEACH…” (MY TRANSLATN). THE “WA-PEACH” IA, NJURG THE IMAGE OF A WAR WOMEN’S CLOTHG, WAS THROWN OUT ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AS NTENDO HAD GIVEN CAMELOT A DICTATE OF MAKG THE CHARACTERS CUTE. HOW WALUIGI, WH HIS PK GROUCHO NOSE AND MAC TONIGHT CH, PASSED NTENDO’S “CUTE” BAR IS NOT MENTNED.AS PERFORMED BY CHARL MARTET, THE MAN WHO VOIC ALL THE OTHER BE-OVERALLED MAR CHARACTERS, WALUIGI WAS TRODUCED MAR TENNIS AS A MOR ANTAGONIST ALONGSI WAR THE TRODUCTN BEFORE THEY ARE NVCED TO JO THE RT OF THE ST NGENIAL PETN. IN SUCCEEDG GAM, THE WA PAIR ARE THE CENTRAL CHARACTERS OF THE TRODUCTNS: GETTG TORTURED, EXPLOD (MANY, MANY TIM), AND BEATEN UP. THEY ARE THE ONLY ON THAT GO THROUGH ANY AMOUNT OF DRAMA OR PA; IF YOU KNEW NOTHG ABOUT THE SERI, YOU’D ASSUME THEY WERE THE GAM’ HAPLS PROTAGONISTS.AWOME "O TO WALUIGI" POEM BY 4TH GRAR WS NATNAL WRG NTT: POEM: — BRIAN BEHREND (@BHRND) MAY 29, 2014BUT IF YOU LOOK MORE CLOSELY AT HIS LS-NONIL APPEARANC, WALUIGI IS GRACEFUL AND PRECISE. IN THE MAR AND SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAM SERI (Y, THOSE ARE REAL), HE HAS THE HIGHT SKILL RATG AMONG ALL CHARACTERS MOST OF THE GAM, MAKG HIM GOOD AT EVENTS LIKE ARCHERY AND FIGURE SKATG. “DPE HIS SEEMGLY LACKADAISIL ATTU,” THE R 2016 EDN SCRIB, “HE ACTUALLY TRAS QUE HARD BEHD THE SCEN.” HE’S ALSO A DANCER, SHOWG OFF HIS NGO GRACE EVER SCE MAR GOLF TOADSTOOL TOUR 2003. OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS OR SO, HE’S GAED A PENCHANT FOR PIROUETT AND ROS HIS MOV AND TNTS. IN MAR TENNIS AC, RELEASED LAST WEEK, HE PERFORMS BALLETIC SPS AND POS AS HE ENTERS THE URT AND PERFORMS HIS SPECIAL MOVE: WALUIGI’S SHOWTIME. (WH HIS LONG ARMS AND NSIRABLE SPEED, HE’S ALSO ONE OF THE BT CHARACTERS THE GAME.) HE’S GIVEN HIS MOST VIBRANT CHARACTERIZATN AS A MA ANTAGONIST , OF ALL THGS, DANCE DANCE REVOLUTN: MAR MIX OM 2005, WHERE HE STEALS SOME MAGIC ORBS SO THAT HE N “HYPNOTIZE THE RHYTHMLS MASS WH MY MOV! AND RISE TO POWER!” AT HIS GREATT MOMENTS, THIS GANGLY MISF FDS THE SPOTLIGHT UPON HIM, AND SUDNLY EVERYTHG IS RIGHT.FUCK CAPITALISMA POST SHARED BY ? (@WALUIGI) ON NOV 14, 2017 AT 11:15AM PSTBUT ALL THIS NON HISTORY DON’T FE THE CHARACTER FANS’ MDS. PEOPLE FD RONANCE WALUIGI WHETHER THEY KNOW ALL THAT BACKSTORY OR NOT. AL-MASSARI SAYS THAT IS PART OF A “PHENOMENON WHERE PEOPLE TEND TO LATCH ONTO VERY MOR SI CHARACTERS, EVEN GOG SO FAR AS TO PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS ONTO THE CHARACTERS [AS A WAY] FOR FANS TO SEE THEMSELV THEIR FAVORE GAM.” SHE INTIFI THE CHARACTER MATT HOLT OM THE VOLTRON NETFLIX SERI AS ANOTHER SE WHERE FANS TAKE EXTREME HOLD OVER A B CHARACTER. HOWEVER, WALUIGI’S OTHERNS AND DISTANCE OM THE SPOTLIGHT, GRAED THE CHARACTER’S BOTH DIEGETILLY AND HIS RELATNSHIP WH NTENDO, IS ALSO A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO INTIFY WH HIM. WRER JAIME GREEN HAS HAD AN ENTIRELY PERSONAL RELATNSHIP WH WALUIGI, WHICH IS TO SAY SHE MET HIM WHILE PLAYG MAR KART DOUBLE DASH WH HER IENDS LLEGE. “WE ALL LOVED HIM, I THK, FOR HIS EFFETENS. I DON’T KNOW IF EVERYONE SE HIM THAT WAY? BUT I’VE ALWAYS FELT SURE HE’S GAY. MAYBE ’S THAT SUCH A ROUND, CHEERY WORLD, HE’S LONG AND SHARP… I ONLY KNEW HIM AS PART OF THE MAR KART TEAM.” WALUIGI HAS AN OTHERNS TO HIM THAT IS, IF NOT RELATABLE, EPLY EMPATHETIC. SPECIFILLY, PEOPLE HAVE LATCHED ONTO HIM AS A QUEER OR ASEXUAL CHARACTER. (OR AT LEAST A QUEER-ADJACENT ONE: THOUGH SEEMS LIKE A BAD IA, SEARCHG “WALUIGI QUEER” ON TWTER IS A LIGHT, REVEALG A HOST OF PENNT, KD FANS WANTG TO SEE HIM HAPPY.AS RECENTLY AS MONDAY, CHARL MARTET HIMSELF WEIGHED ON WHETHER HE THOUGHT WALUIGI WAS GAY, SAYG “YOU KNOW I N HONTLY TELL YOU I HAVE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT … WELL HE IS MOST CERTALY LIVG A VERY HAPPY LIFE!” THOUGH THERE IS OF URSE NO NON CISN ON WALUIGI’S SEXUALY, HE IS SAID TO HAVE A CSH ON DAISY WHILE SHE DO NOT RETURN THE FAVOR; THE MAR PARTY GAM, THEIR TEAM NAME IS “AWKWARD DATE.” FRANKLY, HOWEVER, NO ONE R FOR THIS WEAK B OF TRIVIA. IT DON’T REFLECT ANYONE’S EXPERIENCE OF WALUIGI. THEY SEE A SKNY MAN WH A FUN MOTACHE LIVG HIS LIFE WHOUT RE FOR ANYONE ELSE’S JUDGMENT, UNLS THEY ARE A SHY HNTED TENNIS RACKET. WHEN YOU BRG NTENDO SELF TO THE NVERSATN, THERE IS SOMETHG DARKLY POIGNANT ABOUT AN EFFETE, EXPRSIVE MAN DOG HIS ABSOLUTE BT TO BE PROUD OF HIMSELF WHILE HIS DISTANT PARENTS ARE STILL REFG TO TLY ACCEPT HIM.PERHAPS, UNLIKE A FAMO TUMBLR POST OM THE EMPTY PAGE THAT JOKILY ATTEMPTS TO THROW SOME FIRST-SEMTER SEMTICS ON TOP OF THE CHARACTER AND MORE LIKE THE FAN-MA SECRET HISTORY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DONKEY KONG’S DAD, WALUIGI IS REGNIZABLE BEE OF THE FACT THAT HE IS AN EXTENSIVELY PRETED CIPHER. MAR, THE ULTIMATE VIO GAME MAST, HAS NO MORE CHARACTERIZATN THAN MICKEY MOE DO: HE’S PLEASANT, PABLE, PLUCKY, AND NOT MUCH ELSE. WALUIGI IS TWO OR THREE STEPS REMOVED OM HIM AND TH POSSS THE SYMBOLIC EEDOM THAT OM BEG SO FAR OM THE HEIGHT OF INOGRAPHY. INDIVIDUAL FANS N FEEL THAT THEY ARE GIVG SUBSTANCE TO A CHARACTER THAT SERV SUBSTANCE THEIR RELATNSHIP TO HIM. HE IS ON OUR LEVEL. HE IS OUR PRCE HAL — OR MAYBE OUR EDGAR — A DUB ROYAL STED FOR GREATNS WHO IS WH THE PTHS, A HERO FOR OUR TIM. WE WILL TAKE RE OF HIM UNTIL HE IS READY.IF ANYONE N UNRSTAND THE WALUIGI PHENOMENON, SHOULD BE NTENDO EXECUTIVE REGGIE FILS-AIME, WHO ULD BE SEEN AT E3 PLAYG MAR TENNIS AS WALUIGI. HE HIMSELF HAS BEEN IMBUED WH SOME OF THE SAME FAN ENERGY THAT ENLIVENS THE CHARACTER. SCE HE ME TO NTENDO AS THIS LOVABLE GIANT WHO VENTED THE BIGFOOT PIZZA WHILE HE WAS A SENR MARKETG DIRECTOR AT PIZZA HUT, HE HAS BEEN MEMED AND MEMED AND MEMED. NTENDO FANS SEE HIM THE KD OF PERFECT, GENTLE FATHER FIGURE THAT WILL PLAY GAM WH THEM. YOU ULD SEE OUR REACTN WATCHG HIM PLAY THE MAR TENNIS MO, THIS WONRFUL DAD IMPLICLY ACCEPTG WALUIGI BY PLAYG AS HIM — AND, BY EXTENSN, ACCEPTG . WE SCREAMED FOR HIM TO NOTICE , WHICH HE OF URSE DID NOT. HE WALKED AWAY, FLANKED BY BILL TREN AND SOMEONE BOPPG ALONG AN OFFICIAL MAR STUME. NONE OF RED ABOUT MAR. THE OUTLE
- FAN ASKS WHETHER WALUIGI IS GAY, CHARL MARTET RPONS
- WALUIGI AND WAR ARE A GAY UPLE
THE OPPOSE OF GAY ITALIAN PLUMBERS: WAR AND WALUIGI’S HETEROSEXUAL GREEK ORIGS
Gay Waluigi is a fn of Gay Luigi and Waluigi who is the brother of Fat War and a rival of Gay Luigi. He is the sendary rival of Fat Mar. He is nsired Satan to any Gay Luigi fan. Gay Waluigi and Fat War were raised the Mhroom Kgdom. They eventually got trouble om... * waluigi gay *
But as siar as they are, the Ntendo brothers might mirror each other even more closely than prevly and Luigi are Italian plumbers and have long been mored to be gay. "The origal tent of the game was a game full of signs of gay culture, Luigi and Mar were a gay uple tryg to meet the challeng of a society that rejects them.
GAY WALUIGI
* waluigi gay *
" So if Mar and Luigi are gay Italian plumbers, who are their unterparts? Gay Waluigi is a fn of Gay Luigi and Waluigi who is the brother of Fat War and a rival of Gay Luigi. He is nsired Satan to any Gay Luigi fan.
Gay Waluigi and Fat War were raised the Mhroom Kgdom.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, LET ME GET WALUIGI ON THE TER’S AGONY AND ECSTASY OF LOVG THE LEAST LOVABLE NTENDO CHARACTER. MAX GENEV JUN—30—2018 09:17AM EST IN THE GIANT NCRETE PARKG STCTURE ABUTTG THE LOS ANGEL CONVENTN CENTER, NEARLY TWO HOURS BEFORE E3 BEGAN THERE ON JUNE 12, I HELD BACK MY R A LTLE LONGER TO WATCH THE NTENDO DIRECT LIVTREAM WHERE THE PANY ANNOUNCED THE TAILS OF UPG RELEAS. THE PRENTATN CULMATED WHAT’S SURE TO BE THE GAME OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON, SUPER SMASH BROS ULTIMATE. THE GAME, THE FIFTH THE LONG-NNG SERI, WILL FEATURE EVERY CHARACTER THAT’S EVER APPEARED A SMASH GAME, OM INS LIKE MAR TO CLOUD STRIFE OM FAL FANTASY VII (A GAME THAT HAS NEVER BEEN RELEASED ON A NTENDO NSOLE). MASAHIRO SAKURAI, THE DIRECTOR OF THE SERI, ALSO TRODUCED A NEW CHARACTER: DAISY, PEACH’S BTE UNTERPART OM SUPER MAR LAND AND, MORE PROMENTLY, THE EXTEND MAR SPORTS/RACG/PARTY-FUN-TIME UNIVERSE. THEN SAKURAI PRENTED A NEW ASPECT OF THE GAME: THE NON-PLAYER ASSIST CHARACTERS YOU N REC THE GAME N NOW BE DAMAGED AND KOED. THIS FEATURE WAS MONSTRATED BY LK, MASTER SWORD HAND, SLASHG AT A HAPLS CHARACTER UNTIL HE FLEW OFFSCREEN. ARMED ONLY WH A TENNIS RACKET, THAT NPC NEVER HAD A CHANCE. IN FACT, HE NEVER HAS A CHANCE, BEE THAT CHARACTER WAS WALUIGI.THIS WASN’T JT UNSPORTG. IT WAS THE TWIST OF THE BAYO WALUIGI’S PUTER-ANIMATED CHT AFTER DAISY’S TRODUCTN. IT WAS NTENDO TELLG THE WORLD THAT WALUIGI DIDN’T SERVE A CHANCE AT GLORY WHILE A SIARLY MOR CHARACTER DID. AS A PERSPECTIVE ARTICLE THE EAKG WASHGTON POST PUT , “WALUIGI WAS ROBBED AND HUIATED BY NTENDO.” (WHAT, WAS “WALUIGI DI DARKNS” TOO MUCH?)OF URSE, THIS MISRRIAGE OF JTICE WAS THE LEAD TOPIC OF SUAL NVERSATN ON THE E3 SHOW FLOOR. WELL, THIS AND THE FACT THAT FORTNE SEEMED TO BE PLAYG ON EVERY SCREEN THE LA CONVENTN CENTER. IN THE LE TO PLAY SMASH MO, NTENDO FANS PLAED ABOUT WALUIGI’S ABSENCE. ONE TEENAGER, ONCE I TOLD HIM I WAS GOG TO WRE ABOUT WALUIGI, SED AND TRODUCED HIMSELF TO ME AS WALUIGI’S SON, SAYG THAT THE CHARACTER “IS ;S EVERYTHG A NTENDO CHARACTER SHOULD BE.” THE DISNTENT LE TURNED TO A ENZY WHEN WE ALL SAW, LS THAN TWENTY OR SO METERS AWAY, REGGIE FILS-AIME AND BILL TREN, THE TWO TOP EXECUTIV AND FAC OF NTENDO OF AMERI, PLAYG A MO OF MAR TENNIS AC. THOUGH A LIFE-SIZED MAR STOOD BY THEM, TREN PICKED YOSHI, AND REGGIE PLAYED AS WALUIGI.KAYCUL ON DEVIANTARTDEMONSTRATNS OF WALUIGI LOVE ARE EVEN MORE APPARENT ONLE. A FOURTH-GRAR WROTE AN AWARD-WNG POEM ABOUT HIM. EATHLETE ZERO WON THE SUPER SMASH BROS INVATNAL AT E3 THIS YEAR PLAYG AS MAR HIS WALUIGI LORWAY. MULTIPLE PEOPLE HAVE MA MODS OF WALUIGI VAR SMASH GAM. HERE HE IS SGG THE WTWORLD THEME, AND HERE HE IS AS SAILOR URAN. MY FAVORE WALUIGI FAN TRIBUTE IS A “LOFI CHILL BEATS” STREAM MA BY GAMG OUTLET POLYGON WHERE YOU N WORK ALONGSI THE LANKY PURPLE MAN AS HE FEEBLY STUDI FOR HIS CLASS EVIL. IN THE PUBLIC NSCNS, WALUIGI HAS GROWN OM A GANGLY MAN WH A GROSS PK NOSE AND NO PURPOSE TO A GANGLY MAN WH A GROSS PK NOSE AND A PERSISTENT, RUDY-QUE HEART. GIVEN HIS STAT AS A LONGTIME FAN FAVORE, THE SYMPATHETIC MEM WERE SURE TO FLOW THE WAKE OF THE PRS NFERENCE.OF URSE, NOT EVERYONE LOV WALUIGI. IN A VICE ARTICLE TLED, “COUNTERPOT: FUCK WALUIGI,” MATTHEW GLT PRENTS WALUIGI AS A GROSS CIPHER WH NO NONIL PERSONALY BEYOND CNS. GLT CLAIMS THAT WAR IS THE “GLUTTONO GREEDY BASTARD WE ALL LOVE TO HATE,” BUT THAT “WALUIGI HAS NO GOALS BEYOND BEG ANNOYG.” BUT IF WAR IS A BASTARD, THEN WALUIGI IS THE BASTARD OF A BASTARD, AN IOLOGIL ORPHAN WH NOTHG MORE THAN A TRANSACTNAL RELATNSHIP WH A SMELLY MI-GAME ADDICT WHO MIGHT NOT EVEN BE HIS REAL BROTHER. COMMENTG ABOUT THE RPONSE TO HIS POLEMIC, GLT TELLS ME "I ENJOY POTG OUT WHEN THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTH AND WALUIGI STANDS BEFORE HIS FANS NAKED. THEY BTOW MEANG ON WHAT IS, SENTIALLY, A C RPORATE MAST THAT EVEN THE RPORATN TTS. THE HATE HAS BEEN MOST, MUCH LS THAN I'VE RECEIVED OM WRG ABOUT OTHER THGS. I DID GET ONE CLY PHOTOSHOPPED IMAGE OF WALUIGI TAKG MY TWTER AVATAR OM BEHD A FANCY HOTEL ROOM. WHICH, I THK, SPEAKS VOLUM ABOUT WALUIGI AND HIS FANS."TO SHED SOME OFFICIAL LIGHT ON WALUIGI’S JOURNEY OM ALSO-RAN TO IN, NTENDO OF AMERI RPOND TO ME WH THE FOLLOWG STATEMENT AFTER 24 HOURS AFTER IAL BACK-AND-FORTH OF ME STATG AND RTATG MY QUERY: “WE HAVE NOTHG TO ANNOUNCE ON THIS TOPIC.”“I HONTLY THK THERE’S A B OF A DISNNECT BETWEEN NTENDO AND THEIR FANS, PECIALLY WHEN TO DIVIDUAL CHARACTERS,” SAYS HAEL AL-MASSARI, REARCH ASSOCIATE AT STRATEGIC NTENT AGENCY TWOFIVIX. WALUIGI IS JT TOO MSY AND STRANGE OF A CHARACTER FOR NTENDO TO LATCH ON TO. “MAR SEEMS TO BE THEIR ‘SAFT’ CHARACTER BEE, BIS BEG A PLUMBER, HE DON’T REALLY HAVE THIS HUGE BACKSTORY.”LILLAYFRAN ON DEVIANTARTBUT EVEN THOUGH THEY WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE HIM ENOUGH TO CENTER A GAME AROUND HIM OR EXPLICLY GIVE HIM SOME TERRY, NTENDO LOV TO HT AT THE FACT THAT WALUIGI IS THEIR SHAMEFUL LOVECHILD WHO SPERATELY WANTS THE LIMELIGHT BUT WILL NEVER SEE DUE TO WHAT FEEL LIKE MEDIEVAL L OF PRIMOGENURE. SAKURAI PUTS DOWN THE POTY MAN AS WELL, SAYG THAT “JT BEE YOU TRY HARD DON’T MEAN YOU’LL MAKE TO BATTLE.” THIS BLUDGEONG HAPPENS SO OFTEN THAT FEELS LIKE NTENDO GETS A KICK OUT OF HUIATG HIM — PERHAPS BEE THE CHARACTER ISN’T REALLY THEIRS.WALUIGI IS THE CREATN OF CAMELOT SOFTWARE PLANNG, A THIRD-PARTY VELOPER TO WHOM NTENDO OUTSOURCED THE CREATN OF THE MAR GOLF AND MAR TENNIS SERI. IN LE WH THEIR PREV GAME FOR THE PLAYSTATN, EVERYBODY’S GOLF, CAMELOT ALSO PUT PLENTY OF ANIME-SPIRED CHARACTERS THE EARLY STALLMENTS OF THE THOSE GAM, CHARACTERS LIKE ALEX, NA AND PLUM, ALL OF WHOM FELL OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH SUCCSIVE GAM, PERHAPS BEE THEY ULD NOT F THE MAR UNIVERSE. ONE N ASSUME THAT WALUIGI WAS CREATED TO BE A FENSIVE UNTERPART TO WAR DURG TENNIS DOUBL MO, SCE HE FIRST APPEARS 2000’S MAR TENNIS. IN AN OCTOBER 2000 FAN QUTN LUMN, PUTY PLANNG MANAGER FOR CAMELOT YE SUGIMOTO SCRIB THE PROCS OF CLUDG CHARACTERS FOR THE GAME BUT SISTEPS THE CREATN OF WALUIGI. HE DO START THE LUMN BY ACKNOWLEDGG WALUIGI’S TRODUCTN, BUT IGNOR HIS ORIG STORY TO SPEAK ABOUT HOW CAMELOT NEED CHARACTERS WH HUMAN BODI THAT ULD NVCGLY PLAY SPORTS, WHICH THE MAR SERI HAS SURPRISGLY FEW OF ONCE YOU ARE DONE UNTG THE TOP-TIER CHARACTERS. BIRDO AND DAISY WERE ADD TO THE GAME EVEN LATER THAN WALUIGI WAS; THE TEAM FELT THEY WERE SCRAPG THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL TERMS OF REGNIZABLE CHARACTERS. SUGIMOTO THROWS WALUIGI OFFHANDLY, AS IF HE WAS A GIVEN, WHEN THE TEAM DISCSED THE CLN OF AN EVIL PEACH CHARACTER: “IF THERE’S WAR FOR MAR AND WALUIGI FOR LUIGI, THEN PEACH WOULD HAVE WA-PEACH…” (MY TRANSLATN). THE “WA-PEACH” IA, NJURG THE IMAGE OF A WAR WOMEN’S CLOTHG, WAS THROWN OUT ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AS NTENDO HAD GIVEN CAMELOT A DICTATE OF MAKG THE CHARACTERS CUTE. HOW WALUIGI, WH HIS PK GROUCHO NOSE AND MAC TONIGHT CH, PASSED NTENDO’S “CUTE” BAR IS NOT MENTNED.AS PERFORMED BY CHARL MARTET, THE MAN WHO VOIC ALL THE OTHER BE-OVERALLED MAR CHARACTERS, WALUIGI WAS TRODUCED MAR TENNIS AS A MOR ANTAGONIST ALONGSI WAR THE TRODUCTN BEFORE THEY ARE NVCED TO JO THE RT OF THE ST NGENIAL PETN. IN SUCCEEDG GAM, THE WA PAIR ARE THE CENTRAL CHARACTERS OF THE TRODUCTNS: GETTG TORTURED, EXPLOD (MANY, MANY TIM), AND BEATEN UP. THEY ARE THE ONLY ON THAT GO THROUGH ANY AMOUNT OF DRAMA OR PA; IF YOU KNEW NOTHG ABOUT THE SERI, YOU’D ASSUME THEY WERE THE GAM’ HAPLS PROTAGONISTS.AWOME "O TO WALUIGI" POEM BY 4TH GRAR WS NATNAL WRG NTT: POEM: — BRIAN BEHREND (@BHRND) MAY 29, 2014BUT IF YOU LOOK MORE CLOSELY AT HIS LS-NONIL APPEARANC, WALUIGI IS GRACEFUL AND PRECISE. IN THE MAR AND SONIC AT THE OLYMPIC GAM SERI (Y, THOSE ARE REAL), HE HAS THE HIGHT SKILL RATG AMONG ALL CHARACTERS MOST OF THE GAM, MAKG HIM GOOD AT EVENTS LIKE ARCHERY AND FIGURE SKATG. “DPE HIS SEEMGLY LACKADAISIL ATTU,” THE R 2016 EDN SCRIB, “HE ACTUALLY TRAS QUE HARD BEHD THE SCEN.” HE’S ALSO A DANCER, SHOWG OFF HIS NGO GRACE EVER SCE MAR GOLF TOADSTOOL TOUR 2003. OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS OR SO, HE’S GAED A PENCHANT FOR PIROUETT AND ROS HIS MOV AND TNTS. IN MAR TENNIS AC, RELEASED LAST WEEK, HE PERFORMS BALLETIC SPS AND POS AS HE ENTERS THE URT AND PERFORMS HIS SPECIAL MOVE: WALUIGI’S SHOWTIME. (WH HIS LONG ARMS AND NSIRABLE SPEED, HE’S ALSO ONE OF THE BT CHARACTERS THE GAME.) HE’S GIVEN HIS MOST VIBRANT CHARACTERIZATN AS A MA ANTAGONIST , OF ALL THGS, DANCE DANCE REVOLUTN: MAR MIX OM 2005, WHERE HE STEALS SOME MAGIC ORBS SO THAT HE N “HYPNOTIZE THE RHYTHMLS MASS WH MY MOV! AND RISE TO POWER!” AT HIS GREATT MOMENTS, THIS GANGLY MISF FDS THE SPOTLIGHT UPON HIM, AND SUDNLY EVERYTHG IS RIGHT.FUCK CAPITALISMA POST SHARED BY ? (@WALUIGI) ON NOV 14, 2017 AT 11:15AM PSTBUT ALL THIS NON HISTORY DON’T FE THE CHARACTER FANS’ MDS. PEOPLE FD RONANCE WALUIGI WHETHER THEY KNOW ALL THAT BACKSTORY OR NOT. AL-MASSARI SAYS THAT IS PART OF A “PHENOMENON WHERE PEOPLE TEND TO LATCH ONTO VERY MOR SI CHARACTERS, EVEN GOG SO FAR AS TO PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS ONTO THE CHARACTERS [AS A WAY] FOR FANS TO SEE THEMSELV THEIR FAVORE GAM.” SHE INTIFI THE CHARACTER MATT HOLT OM THE VOLTRON NETFLIX SERI AS ANOTHER SE WHERE FANS TAKE EXTREME HOLD OVER A B CHARACTER. HOWEVER, WALUIGI’S OTHERNS AND DISTANCE OM THE SPOTLIGHT, GRAED THE CHARACTER’S BOTH DIEGETILLY AND HIS RELATNSHIP WH NTENDO, IS ALSO A WAY FOR PEOPLE TO INTIFY WH HIM. WRER JAIME GREEN HAS HAD AN ENTIRELY PERSONAL RELATNSHIP WH WALUIGI, WHICH IS TO SAY SHE MET HIM WHILE PLAYG MAR KART DOUBLE DASH WH HER IENDS LLEGE. “WE ALL LOVED HIM, I THK, FOR HIS EFFETENS. I DON’T KNOW IF EVERYONE SE HIM THAT WAY? BUT I’VE ALWAYS FELT SURE HE’S GAY. MAYBE ’S THAT SUCH A ROUND, CHEERY WORLD, HE’S LONG AND SHARP… I ONLY KNEW HIM AS PART OF THE MAR KART TEAM.” WALUIGI HAS AN OTHERNS TO HIM THAT IS, IF NOT RELATABLE, EPLY EMPATHETIC. SPECIFILLY, PEOPLE HAVE LATCHED ONTO HIM AS A QUEER OR ASEXUAL CHARACTER. (OR AT LEAST A QUEER-ADJACENT ONE: THOUGH SEEMS LIKE A BAD IA, SEARCHG “WALUIGI QUEER” ON TWTER IS A LIGHT, REVEALG A HOST OF PENNT, KD FANS WANTG TO SEE HIM HAPPY.AS RECENTLY AS MONDAY, CHARL MARTET HIMSELF WEIGHED ON WHETHER HE THOUGHT WALUIGI WAS GAY, SAYG “YOU KNOW I N HONTLY TELL YOU I HAVE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT … WELL HE IS MOST CERTALY LIVG A VERY HAPPY LIFE!” THOUGH THERE IS OF URSE NO NON CISN ON WALUIGI’S SEXUALY, HE IS SAID TO HAVE A CSH ON DAISY WHILE SHE DO NOT RETURN THE FAVOR; THE MAR PARTY GAM, THEIR TEAM NAME IS “AWKWARD DATE.” FRANKLY, HOWEVER, NO ONE R FOR THIS WEAK B OF TRIVIA. IT DON’T REFLECT ANYONE’S EXPERIENCE OF WALUIGI. THEY SEE A SKNY MAN WH A FUN MOTACHE LIVG HIS LIFE WHOUT RE FOR ANYONE ELSE’S JUDGMENT, UNLS THEY ARE A SHY HNTED TENNIS RACKET. WHEN YOU BRG NTENDO SELF TO THE NVERSATN, THERE IS SOMETHG DARKLY POIGNANT ABOUT AN EFFETE, EXPRSIVE MAN DOG HIS ABSOLUTE BT TO BE PROUD OF HIMSELF WHILE HIS DISTANT PARENTS ARE STILL REFG TO TLY ACCEPT HIM.PERHAPS, UNLIKE A FAMO TUMBLR POST OM THE EMPTY PAGE THAT JOKILY ATTEMPTS TO THROW SOME FIRST-SEMTER SEMTICS ON TOP OF THE CHARACTER AND MORE LIKE THE FAN-MA SECRET HISTORY OF WHAT HAPPENED TO DONKEY KONG’S DAD, WALUIGI IS REGNIZABLE BEE OF THE FACT THAT HE IS AN EXTENSIVELY PRETED CIPHER. MAR, THE ULTIMATE VIO GAME MAST, HAS NO MORE CHARACTERIZATN THAN MICKEY MOE DO: HE’S PLEASANT, PABLE, PLUCKY, AND NOT MUCH ELSE. WALUIGI IS TWO OR THREE STEPS REMOVED OM HIM AND TH POSSS THE SYMBOLIC EEDOM THAT OM BEG SO FAR OM THE HEIGHT OF INOGRAPHY. INDIVIDUAL FANS N FEEL THAT THEY ARE GIVG SUBSTANCE TO A CHARACTER THAT SERV SUBSTANCE THEIR RELATNSHIP TO HIM. HE IS ON OUR LEVEL. HE IS OUR PRCE HAL — OR MAYBE OUR EDGAR — A DUB ROYAL STED FOR GREATNS WHO IS WH THE PTHS, A HERO FOR OUR TIM. WE WILL TAKE RE OF HIM UNTIL HE IS READY.IF ANYONE N UNRSTAND THE WALUIGI PHENOMENON, SHOULD BE NTENDO EXECUTIVE REGGIE FILS-AIME, WHO ULD BE SEEN AT E3 PLAYG MAR TENNIS AS WALUIGI. HE HIMSELF HAS BEEN IMBUED WH SOME OF THE SAME FAN ENERGY THAT ENLIVENS THE CHARACTER. SCE HE ME TO NTENDO AS THIS LOVABLE GIANT WHO VENTED THE BIGFOOT PIZZA WHILE HE WAS A SENR MARKETG DIRECTOR AT PIZZA HUT, HE HAS BEEN MEMED AND MEMED AND MEMED. NTENDO FANS SEE HIM THE KD OF PERFECT, GENTLE FATHER FIGURE THAT WILL PLAY GAM WH THEM. YOU ULD SEE OUR REACTN WATCHG HIM PLAY THE MAR TENNIS MO, THIS WONRFUL DAD IMPLICLY ACCEPTG WALUIGI BY PLAYG AS HIM — AND, BY EXTENSN, ACCEPTG . WE SCREAMED FOR HIM TO NOTICE , WHICH HE OF URSE DID NOT. HE WALKED AWAY, FLANKED BY BILL TREN AND SOMEONE BOPPG ALONG AN OFFICIAL MAR STUME. NONE OF RED ABOUT MAR. THE OUTLE
There, Gay Waluigi found his fascatn wh chee strgs (as opposed to spaghetti). They met Gay Luigi and Fat Mar, and stantly beme enemi. But I’ve always felt sure he’s gay.
(Or at least a queer-adjacent one: though seems like a bad ia, searchg “Waluigi queer” on Twter is a light, revealg a host of pennt, kd fans wantg to see him recently as Monday, Charl Martet himself weighed on whether he thought Waluigi was gay, sayg “You know I n hontly tell you I have never thought about … well he is most certaly livg a very happy life!
@soyboyrnate then proceed to ask whether Waluigi is a gay man and whether is he sgle. waluigi and war are a gay uple.
FAN ASKS WHETHER WALUIGI IS GAY, CHARL MARTET RPONS
Gay Luigi • Mama Luigi (Luigi's sojourn) • Weegee.
One fan asked Martet via Twter direct msage if Waluigi was gay. The artwork by Ramzy Masri, which showed all three characters cloaked rabows, had the ter speculatg — and var forms of “SpongeBob is gay” was already nfirmed by the “Legend of Korra” creators to have end the seri a relatnship wh female iend Asami. Is SpongeBob gay?
After all, this isn’t the first time fans have speculated about SpongeBob, the square-panted hero who me up wh a rabowger:Nickeloon outright nied SpongeBob was gay 2002. ”Hillenburg doubled down on those ments to Rters 2005, sayg: “We never tend them to be gay.
WALUIGI AND WAR ARE A GAY UPLE
”Unls Nickeloon is gog back on seri creator Hillenburg’s statements, SpongeBob isn’t gay. While Nickeloon’s post had some perhaps erroneoly spreadg the word that SpongeBob was “nfirmed” to be gay, others were celebratg him as the asexual in he already is:You May Like.