This one took a little longer than usual since I’m moving this week, so there is a lot to pack. Fun pages though, every poor expression on Luigi makes me smile. Wet chihuahua of a man.
young bowser will now be drawn with the non spiked versions of his arm and neck bands to separate his design from junior’s
anyways here’s them as hanging out cuz either:
kamek kidnapped baby luigi to be prince bowser’s playmate
luigi got lost and prince bowser was like ‘it’s free baby/ friend’
luigi just wandered into koopa kingdom, kamek’s looking for his parents, and prince bowser is watching over him until they’re found
this is either an alternate universe where their kid versions are friends, or it’s from the partners in time game and their younger selves are hanging out for a bit
images:
playing ghost hunter/ luigi ran into a haunted mansion and bowser followed him in because he didn’t want kamek nagging him if luigi got hurt
bowser babysitting luigi, who is drawing
bowser either finding luigi, who was collecting fire flowers, or bowser being a bodyguard and threatening someone off screen in case they tried to mess with luigi
partners in time is a game from the mario and luigi series ^_^^
extra stuff + me rambling under the cut
ok. i know the stargate scenes are pretty famous for the whole "youre multifaceted like a diamond" bit and that is so so awesome and true for luigi. however. i did not know about the part where it puts him on Blast for being a coward in front of his baby self god and everyone. like a celestial supposedly Soul Reading Gate singled him out and told eveyone either he redeems his character or has to be left behind. the babies were granted free entry and of course mario gets to pass, but can u imagine. can you even imagine being luigi realizing hes made it so he grows up and isnt deemed worthy or brave enough when his past self is an innocent clean slate that had all the potential in the world. am i reading too much into this when it had a neat resolution? maybe. i could also be the mouthpiece of god we dont even know
some baby luigis for your troubles thanks for reading this if you did. thanks anyway for anything really Love you
I’m choosing to believe this scene of Luigi’s heart getting read by the gigantic homophobic star is about Bowuigi since it makes it a MILLION times funnier
3 times Luigi was directly (and indirectly) referred to as 'mama' by Nintendo
Episode 13 "Mama Luigi" of the Super Mario World cartoon from 1991
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Interview of Alphadream's devs about the development and story of 'Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time' (original page was deleted around the time AlphaDream went out of business - WayBack Machine archive version available) here:
Google Translate (so it may not be 100% accurate, but they do use and I recognize 'motherly/mother-like' Jpn characters to refer to Luigi):
--There are some gags for adults here and there, right?
Kubota: We were aiming for something that would be easily accepted not only by children but also by adults. Actually, the previous work had a lot more material for adults. This time I was completely conscious of the world, so I'm pretty modest (lol). This is a secret setting, but in this work Mario and Luigi play the roles of a father-like character and a mother-like babysitter, respectively. The extent to which this was achieved is a question, but I would be happy if that part was conveyed.
Page 53 of the Mario and Luigi RPG 4koma manga (in panel 3 basically Luigi is mom):
Source for the Japanese ver.: https://twitter.com/ToldUBoutStairs/status/1259787872368025600
Translation was done by @navigationsubs ! Check their translation notes right here:
If anyone knows another time this happens, feel free to add or tell me to add it!!!
When you think of enemies from Super Mario Bros. 2, who comes to mind? Personally, one of the first that comes to MY mind are those weird birds that you find as early as World 1. The borderline flightless ones that were colored red, white and black in the original, but weirdly got some purple coloring in the All-Stars remake — the ones who weirdly barely appeared again. You know,
Name: Pidgit
Debut: Super Mario Bros. 2/ Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic
Did I actually trick anyone into thinking today’s enemy would be sweet old Tweeter? I don’t know if Tweeter is well-known enough to get that kind of anticipation!
Regardless, Pidgit’s a weird enemy, to be certain! Of course, one could say almost all Super Mario Bros. 2 enemies are weird, but “flightless crow riding on a carpet” is a bit more weird than enemies like “walking bomb”, “walking cactus”, and “bird that drops walking bomb”.
And that’s right: despite its name, Pidgit is a crow, which is not a pigeon at all! It is actually more wrong to name Pidgit after a pigeon than it is to name a gorilla enemy with some sort of hare-related pun in mind. And that’s science!
However, even its original Japanese name is just a portmanteau of “dodo” and “Rodrigues solitaire”, both of which are pigeons…this is Pidgit’s Trick.
This guy’s an oddball, one that didn’t debut in a Mario game and has had very few reappearances since, but has left an inescapable impact since. Before that, though, let’s cherish the reappearances it HAS had!
Pidgit’s first reappearance is a weird one—instead of riding a magic carpet, it finds itself being blasted out of Turtle Cannons in Fall as the Pidgit Bill! Super Mario World sure seems pretty fond of Super Mario Bros. 2, and this might be one of its most blatant callbacks. Funnily enough, in the SNES version only horizontally-moving Bullet Bills get replaced, which seems fine until you realize Super Mario World also introduces vertically- and diagonally-inclined Bullet Bills. Woopsie!
Pidgit Bills appear in the ending of Super Princess Peach, too, congratulating the player! That’s cute.
Pidgit’s next appearance would be another weird one. Wario’s Woods has it be one of Wario’s goons, replacing the fairy when Wario appears on the upper right screen to drop only bombs. Remember when Wario was a villain who could have minions? Yeah. Pidgit can fly here without a carpet at all, no foolin’! Is this part of the spell Wario put over his Woods? Is this why Pidgits fight for him? I don’t know! I think they just forgot.
They wouldn’t reappear until Partners in Time, and wow! This might actually be their only in-game reappearance where they actually ride their carpets! Which reminds me, do Pidgits make their own carpets, or do they get them from somewhere, or…?
I’ve never had nor played this game so I don’t know exactly how they act, but what I do know is that in the American version, they’re stronger and more likely to drop loot than any other version! That’s fun.
Do you remember 12 paragraphs ago, when you still had your youth and I said we’d get back to how Pidgit left an inescapable impact on the franchise? Well, that time is now, and that inescapable impact is the Lakitu!
“But Weirdma Rio Enemies dot Tumblr dot Com!,” you cry. “Lakitu debuted in Super Mario Bros., before Doki Doki Panic and thus long before Super Mario Bros. 2 was even conceived!” And on that, you’re right. But let’s look at an attribute unique to Pidgit!
You see, Pidgit rides a magic carpet, yes, but when it’s picked up, the player can ride the carpet themselves temporarily — after a certain amount of time, though, the carpet starts flashing before disappearing completely. Sound familiar?
Sounds a lot like Lakitu’s Cloud, if you ask me! While Lakitus have been riding their fair-weather friends since 1985, we weren’t privy to that same experience till long after Super Mario Bros. 2, in a little game called…Super Mario World! In a game which already has Pidgit, is it truly at all absurd to say it would have just one more reference to it?
So remember, in every game where you can ride a truculent terrapin’s silly cirrus, be sure to thank your local Pidgit!
…man, too bad we couldn’t segue into at least something about Tweeter, huh? First they were bought out by a rich muskrat, now this. Is there anything Tweeterheads get to look forward to?
the answer is ME!!!!!!
Hi!! I’m Mod Tweeter, and today’s post was written by none other than moi! It’s a real tweat and an honour to join the cast of Oddball Red-Cloaked-Daisy Critters, and I hope you will all enjoy my writings about more sillybeasts in the future!
For now, let’s close this post with a smooth songbird’s swingin’ serenade…
Quick drawing of a scene from another game I have yet to play. I know the gate apologized after and said the nice things it actually thought about him, but that's still gotta hurt.