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The Reason Why Waluigi isn’t in Smash Ultimate (and why people are outraged about it)

It has come to my attention that people are harassing Sakurai and the Smash Team about Waluigi not being in Smash Ultimate. It’s disgusting hearing fans harass Sakurai on his work. Stuff like this is the reason why he worked his butt off on Super Smash Bros 4 (and every other game he produced). He wants to make everyone happy and give people what he wants. I’m sorry to the disappointed Waluigi but can you be happy he’s an assist trophy and recognized in the game. King K Rool would die for an assist trophy. Please be grateful for what you are given.

Now that rant is out of the way, Why wasn’t Waluigi included as a playable character?

The answer isn’t as easy to answer as some would think. But here is what I believe are the reasons for not being included.

Waluigi is a very messy character, practically the one universal thing people know about him is that he’s Wario’s sport partner and he yells “Wah’ a lot. Waluigi is inconsistent. First of all, it’s hard to categorize Waluigi. Waluigi is random and wacky like Wario; so he should be labeled as a Wario character. But he never appeared in a Wario game so he would be a Mario character. However the reason Mario has so many characters is because each of those characters represent something important to his overall franchise. Mario represents his main 2D games; Luigi does to but Luigi can stand out with his own unique traits from Mario Games and Luigi’s Mansion to not just be a clone. Peach and Daisy represents the sports games and the wacky but important Super Mario Bros 2. Bowser represents himself as the bad guy. Bowser Jr. represents the “New” Super Mario Series, Mario Kart and Sunshine while Rosalina represents the Galaxy games. Dr. Mario represents “puzzle” and the other wackier Mario spin-offs. The only other major Mario categories not filled is Mario Party (maybe at best, at worst Mario party is just another sports game) and the RPG’s. Waluigi has only appeared in Spinoffs so he could maybe represent Mario Party BUT that in of itself is a daunting task. Peach could even fill the Mario Party Role as her Down B is random or Luigi with his Misfire having a 1/10 chance of misfiring. Waluigi can’t stand on his own with the games he appeared in alone.

Maybe he could represent Wario except Wario represents both Wario Land and Warioware. The best scenario for Waluigi is that they announced a new Wario Land and he got to be a player 2 for the game (Why haven't they done that yet) or even just being in the WarioWare game that will be released in 2019 for the 3DS.

Well characters like Wii Fit, Ice Climbers, Duck Hunt, ROB, ect. all made it in with being in little videogames and no having much of a moveset. True, but these characterss are important due to economic reasons (Wii Fit sold amazingly, ROB promote the NES as a toy and thus increased sales and Duck Hunt was sold with the original Super Mario Bros, the game that saved the video game industry). These characters/games also have enough of a personality/a certain feeling to be made into a character. Waluigi is wacky but inconsistent, unlike these other characters which feel good for the smash bros cast.

So the reasons why Waluigi isn’t playable are:

- He doesn’t have a specific feel.

- His character is limited to Mario Spin-offs, making it difficult for him to be represented.

- He doesn’t have any true importance to Nintendo’s history.

So why are people so infuriated with his playable absence in this game

First of all let me point to the elephant in the room, Daisy. Daisy hasn’t been in Smash as much as Waluigi and she’s now a playable character. Unlike Waluigi, Daisy has a concrete personality but it’s shallow to be honest (She’s a tomboy, that’s about it). The fact that we got a clone of peach over a potentially unique moveset of Waluigi is salt inducing to Waluigi fans. Even if Waluigi was a clone of Wario, their proportions are different enough that there would need to be some interesting tweaks to his moveset. Daisy’s inclusion pissed off Waluigi fans.

Another important point of Waluigi is that he’s basically a meme character. His whole character can be summed up to “Wah” which means its hard for anyone to take Waluigi super seriously.

Another reason is Waluigi is severely underdeveloped. Before Luigi’s Mansion, Luigi was green Mario. Before Wario Land, Wario was Evil Mario. Waluigi never had a huge game to represent him. If someone can revolutionize Waluigi it’s Sakurai. For example, Sakurai reimagined the Kid Icarus series and gave us a dorky funny Pit who is relevant today. Imagine what Sakurai could do with the elements of Waluigi we do know. Sports, Machinery (He gets associated with machines in some of the games), Pinball, Go-Karting, Waterbending, Being a great dancer or something entirely different. Waluigi is so wacky that anything could work for him. If Sakurai could take Waluigi and give a key set of traits, it would be a huge win-win for fans. A new set personality for Waluigi and the increased potential for his own game or main series representation whether it’s Mario or Wario. Fans want Waluigi to see what Waluigi will become.

In short, Waluigi fails to be playable for smash because he doesn’t have a certain feel to him and he doesn’t represent anything super important to Nintendo. People are angry because Nintendo severely underdeveloped Waluigi and Smash is a chance for Waluigi to stand out and get his own game or at least a set personality; However, Daisy’ s inclusion only enraged fans more, enough to harass Sakurai. Moral of the story: Would our Lord and Savior Waluigi want us to harass Sakurai? Remember it’s Waluigi Time, “Not be a dickhead who harasses the creator of the game because he didn’t make my game perfectly” Time.

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