If you watched that Final Smash compilation we posted earlier this month, the appearance of Luigi in Brawl will be of little surprise to you. Nevertheless, today's dojo update contains plenty of new information on the lesser-known Mario brother and expert taunter.
There's a look at his special moves (the Super Jump Punch, the Fire Jump Punch, and the Green Missile), and also plenty more on his Final Smash, which left us baffled the first time we saw it. Known as "Negative Zone," this can reduce your opponent's attack power and movement speed, raise the launch distance of any foe you strike, or lead to sleepiness, dizziness, slipping, and uncontrollable taunting. Oh, and a flower grows on the heads of opponents. We're as baffled as you by that one.
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2-15-2008 @ 6:07PM
Croove55 said...
What? No vacuum for B-Down? For shame, HAL.
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2-15-2008 @ 6:28PM
Mr Khan said...
It seems like they were at a loss as to how to make Luigi less of a clone, so they just went with being as off-the-wall with him as they possibly could
I for one like it. Luigi was a favorite of mine in the original, but a few things they did in Melee crushed him (like no horizontal movement in his up-B, i know the Green Missile is supposed to substitute, but its not enough)
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2-15-2008 @ 7:03PM
SkyCroc said...
Try to look up Luigi videos on YouTube, his Tornado now has some awesome horizontal recovery.
2-15-2008 @ 6:32PM
Nikolas said...
I have had the game since day after JAP release, and Luigi is very different then Mario in how he plays.
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2-15-2008 @ 7:35PM
Perverted said...
Yeah he's really nothing like Mario and his pose is awesome, pure awesome.
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2-15-2008 @ 7:44PM
Cyber-Tyrant said...
How exactly would they use the Poltergust, anyway...
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2-15-2008 @ 8:32PM
Adv2k1 said...
They could of used the Poltergust to stun an enemy and suck away small bits of life.
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2-15-2008 @ 8:37PM
Tom said...
So as I've said before, Luigi's FS is a bad acid trip. They can call it the "Negative Zone" for all the little kiddies, but it's just so OBVIOUS!!
I can't wait to get this game and test out each character fully. I hope some are different just for change, but if they drastically altered Capt. Falcon, I'm gonna have to take forever getting readjusted to him. Luigi could us the Poltergust to....um.... suck away enemies items? It wouldn't really work out people! Plus, Luigi's Mansion got boring after a while.
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2-15-2008 @ 8:51PM
Shadow31 said...
Um, please tell me some people actually know the Negative Zone reference...
It seems people on lots of forums are clueless here and I'm in shock. Negative Zone is a glitch world in Super Mario Bros (it's world -1) and all sorts of weird effects happen in it. Hence Luigi's final smash.
Though if we wanna get that technical, Luigi wasn't invented yet, it was just a different colored Mario, but that's just splitting hairs.
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2-16-2008 @ 6:59AM
FantomRedux said...
If Luigi wasn't invented yet, who's the green guy in Mario Bros.? And I mean the arcade game, no Super Mario Bros.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Bros.
2-16-2008 @ 9:58AM
Shadow31 said...
Oh my goodness, didn't you hear me? It was a different colored Mario, if you look, there are no distinguishing features other than the color scheme. It wasn't until Super Mario Bros 2 that Nintendo decided to make him a standalone character.
And wikipedia is probably the worst thing you can cite, it's user edited.
2-15-2008 @ 8:57PM
Gerwurztraminer said...
Wait, who is Luigi?
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2-16-2008 @ 6:49AM
MBJ said...
Thanks for pointing that out Shadow31. In other people's defense, I've always heard that glitch referred to by the name "Minus World", but I was able to figure out what "Negative Zone" meant easily enough. Incidentally, I just checked that repository of popular knowledge Wikipedia, and it's referred to primarily as "The Minus World" there.
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2-16-2008 @ 10:55AM
MBJ said...
Shadow31: http://jarcas.dreamhosters.com/rdocs/Mario_Bros_-_Manual_-_NES.pdf
If you look at the manual for the original Mario Bros. from the NES release, it refers to the characters as Mario and Luigi.
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2-16-2008 @ 10:59AM
DSeaver said...
The flower in the head is the Floro Sprout from super paper mario! That would explain the uncontrolled taunting, seeing the the sprouts took over the person
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2-16-2008 @ 2:08PM
LittleKey said...
They could have made the Poltergust work. At the very least, it could have been the same as Mario's FLUDD, which isn't very good anyway.
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2-16-2008 @ 4:54PM
Dark Lord said...
yep, confirmed! it is a glitch world, and luigi wasn't created then. i completely agree on shadow31 for that theory. :)
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2-16-2008 @ 7:04PM
TheOverlord#2 said...
@shadow31
Look at the side of the arcade cabinet from Mario Bros.(as seen @ 2P Start, various sites) It has Mario w/blue & red on top of a pipe with an arrow that says Mario on it...then look at the obvious Luigi under him, it has an arrow with Luigi in it
Just to clear things up...also, look at screenshots of Super Mario Bros. it has the names above scores, and Mario & Luigi are listed
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2-17-2008 @ 9:16AM
kriscolumbus said...
I thought his FS was the negative zone from Super Mario USA when you throw the potion on the ground and go through the door. Doesn't this make more sense than minus world?
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2-17-2008 @ 10:19AM
Neowyrm said...
I can't think of any characters other than Mario and Luigi that say things like "it's-a", so maybe this spoiler is thinly veiled?
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2-17-2008 @ 11:48AM
Gerwurztraminer said...
I was wondering the same thing. But then I figured, anyone who could figure out that it was a thinly veiled spoiler surely knows that Luigi is in Smash Bros by now. I sure hope so anyway.
2-18-2008 @ 11:16AM
GregZ said...
You guys crack me up, arguing that Luigi didn't exist because his sprites were the same as Mario's. When you play a two-player game of Super Mario Bros., it says LUIGI multiple times. So, Luigi doesn't exist, even though the game and the manual acknowledge him multiple times? Flawless logic folks. I would love to hear when Luigi actually came into existence then. It's a palette swap, big deal.
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