Okay, what is the deal.....with Waluigi?

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famousringo said:

JerzeeBalla said:
The worst part is his name, even THAT was lazy. Mario has Wario. Simple play on the name. Naturally Wuigi doesnt fly, so they needed something else. But Luigi just gets a Wa- thrown in front? It could have been something silly like Luwigi, Weegeelu or something stupid, but at least it would have shown an ounce of effort.

'Warui' is the Japanese word for bad. So Waluigi is literally 'bad Luigi.' It's a pun which is lost in translation.

Though it must be noted that originally, it was quite a lucky translation. 

 

Wario was the first one with the pun on "warui", it was pure luck that it happened to come with an upside down "M", AND the word "war" in english. 

In Japanese, it was also extra luck that after that, "Luigi"  happened to be an EVEN BETTER japanese pun on "warui", (especially with l and r being the same in japanese anyways). 

Only that latter one fails a little bit in english, but with that lucky streak they couldn't just scrap the whole thing...