Like his brother, Luigi's distinctive characteristics include his large nose and mustache, overalls, green hat, and high-pitched, exaggerated Italian accent.

Luigi has also appeared in other Nintendo properties, such as the Super Smash Bros. series of crossover fighting games.

Luigi's creation began in 1982, during the development of Donkey Kong, where Shigeru Miyamoto had created Jumpman (later known as Mario), hoping that he would be able to recast the character in a variety of roles in future games.

[9] Rus McLaughlin of IGN wrote that the theories from a rhyme on the Japanese word for "analogous" and a pizza parlor near Minoru Arakawa's office called Mario & Luigi's were considered.

Software constraints at the time of the respective game's origins meant that Luigi's first appearance was restricted to a simple palette swap.

[10] Consequently, In 1988, an alternative release was developed to serve as Super Mario Bros. 2 for Western players (and later released in Japan as Super Mario USA); this version played a key role in shaping Luigi's current appearance.

The Japanese version uses a high-pitched, falsetto voice, provided by the then French translator at Nintendo, Julien Bardakoff.

On Daisy's trophy in Super Smash Bros. Melee, it says that she is possibly Luigi's answer to Mario's Peach.

He made a minor appearance in his baby form in Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

[citation needed] Luigi has been associated with the more difficult second acts of multiple Super Mario games.

Luigi also appeared in Super Mario 3D World along with his brother, Peach, Rosalina and Toad.

Super Paper Mario features him as a playable character after he is initially brainwashed into working for the antagonist under the name "Mr. L".

In Color Splash, Luigi appears at the end of the game driving a kart and helps Mario reach Bowser's Castle.

[citation needed] Luigi made an appearance in the 1986 film Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach!

He was not given his consistent color scheme, sporting a yellow shirt with a blue hat, and overalls.

He appears at the end of the video to save Mario and Peach from the Wicked Queen, portrayed by Koopa.

Like his brother, Luigi's voice actor changed in later cartoons, in his case to Tony Rosato.

Luigi played a different role in the Super Mario Bros. film, where he was portrayed by John Leguizamo.

[21] He is depicted as a more easy-going character in contrast to the cynical Mario, portrayed by Bob Hoskins.

[22] Luigi, alongside his brother Mario, are residents of Brooklyn who recently began their own plumbing business.

[26] In 2015, game designer Josh Millard released Ennuigi which relates the story of Luigi's inability to come to terms with the lack of narrative in the original Super Mario Bros.[27][28][29] In a Reddit thread, Millard commented that he enjoyed creating "a recharacterization of Luigi as a guy who's as legitimately confused and distressed by his strange life as you'd expect a person to be once removed from the bubble of cartoony context of the franchise.