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|image=[[File:John Leguizamo.jpg|360px|]]

|full_name=Luigi Mario

|first_appearance=''[[Super Mario Bros. (film)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' (1993)

|portrayed_by=[[John Leguizamo]]

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'''Luigi Mario''', played by [[John Leguizamo]], is a main character in the 1993 [[Super Mario Bros. (film)|''Super Mario Bros.'' film]]. He is the younger brother to  [[Mario (film character)|Mario Mario]], and the two run their family plumbing business based in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]] named [[Mario Brothers Plumbing|Mario Bros. Plumbing]] together.  

==History==

As they walk and converse, the conversation leads to Daisy taking Luigi to show him her work on the dig site. At the site, she leads him to an underground sewer and shows him several dinosaur fossils. She notes to him the strange human-like features shown by the fossils. They move in to kiss, but are interrupted by the sound of flowing water, along with two Scapelli Construction workers running off. They discover Scapelli's workers have destroyed some of the pipelines to sabotage Daisy's project, and the cavern begins flooding. Luigi and Daisy run to retrieve Mario, and they return to the dig site where the brothers begin repairing the plumbing. As they fix the pipes, they are knocked out by [[Iggy (film character)|Iggy]] and [[Spike (film character)|Spike]] and the two kidnap Daisy and take off running.

Mario and Luigi notice Daisy is missing when they awaken, and Mario uses the echos through the pipes to locate her and track her down. They come to a precipice and a rock wall, through which Daisy's voice can be heard. She is able to partly pop her head through the wall, and Luigi attempts to grab her, but only succeeds in taking her necklace. Unbeknownst to the brothers, this necklace carries a [[meteorite piece]] from the original meteor that caused the extinction of dinosaurs. Luigi leaps through the rocky boulder wall after Daisy, and he disappears into it. A skeptical Mario trips into it and the brothers are taken to the meteorite chamber in the [[Dinohattan]] dimension. They continue following Daisy's screams for help and the brothers find themselves in [[Koopa Square]], as Spike, Iggy and Daisy disappear and drive away in a taxi cab. The brothers fall through a grate to a lower section of Koopa Square, and begin taking in their surroundings.

Mario and Luigi come to a junk yard operated by [[Snifit (film species)|Snifits]]. Mario and Luigi knock out some Snifits near a [[Sludge Gulper]], and they hijack the vehicle to drive back into the city, using Snifit masks to bypass the security guard. Iggy and Spike then lend the brothers their ex-wives' clothes to sneak into the Boom Boom Bar. The brothers leave their plumbing gear with the [[Hat Check Girl]], who notices they are the wanted fugitives on a poster and she calls the number on the poster. Mario successfully retrieves the meteorite pendant after dancing with Big Bertha, just as [[Lena]] and several Goombas arrive. Mario and Luigi attempt to thwart the Goombas, tossing the meteorite necklace back and forth, but Mario drops it and it is picked up by Lena. Big Bertha helps Mario and Luigi escape, knocking out the Hat Check Girl, and taking the brothers in her hat check room. She barricades the door, and instructs them to take a pair of Thwomp Stompers from the room. The two leap out of a window with the Thwomp Stompers, and escape through a catwalk. During this escape, Luigi notices the fungus offering him a Bob-omb again, and this time he grabs it. As they become cornered by Goombas, they notice a Sludge Gulper passing on the road below them and the two brothers jump into the back of the moving truck with the garbage.

The Sludge Gulper conveniently dumps them off at the entrance of [[Koopa's Tower]]. Inside, upon Mario's directions, they mess with the building's heating system pipes and an alarm begins ringing out. They find a locker room with mechanic outfits and they don them. These outfits more closely resemble the iconic overalls and hats the two brothers wear in their video game depictions. As they head into an elevator, the elevator begins filling up with various Goombas. The two are able to successfully hide from the Goombas' views, standing directly behind their towering bodies. Luigi takes note of the elevator music playing inside, and begins gently rocking the Goomba in front of him side to side. Though Mario is stressed and hesitant, he follows Luigi's lead, and they begin rocking the Goombas one by one. The Goombas all begin dancing to the elevator tune, distracting them, and the brothers take the chance to escape out of the elevator.  

Continuing on their way, they are stopped by what appears to be a bottomless chasm. Luigi claims he is feeling an intuition, and makes a blind leap towards the bottomless pit and is pleasantly surprised to find himself suspended, floating in midair. He convinces Mario to jump, but tries to stop him once he realizes he is not flying but rather his belt got stuck to a hook and that is what's been suspending him in mid-air. Mario begins falling down the bottomless pit, but the fungus in the shaft begins forming into a trampoline-like creation. The fungus bounces Mario up and down twice, and Luigi catches him and the two swing over to safety. Daisy communicates with them over an intercom. As they reach the shaft, Daisy informs them that she is located in [[Devo 4]]. Inside, Luigi notices that the fungus inside is once again attempting to communicate with them and he takes a glowing [[Mushroom]] growing on the fungus. Moving on, they are eventually able to reach the Devo 4 chamber, where Daisy introduces the brothers formally to her father; Daisy explains that he used to be the king, but was de-evolved into the fungus around the city by President Koopa. Luigi nervously and awkwardly tries to make conversation with the King's fungus form, expressing pleasure in getting to formally meet him for the first time.  

[[File:MarioLuigiDevoGun.png|thumb|left|Mario and Luigi using the Devo Guns to defeat President Koopa]]

At the meteorite chamber, Luigi tells the Brooklyn girls to head back to Earth to warn everyone, and they take his directions and flee into the rock wall portal back to New York. Luigi and Daisy yell out to Lena to not insert the meteorite into the chamber, but she does so. The dimensions start merging, and Lena is unable to withstand its power, which kills her and turns her into a skeleton embedded into the wall. Luigi and Daisy begin using their plumbing tools to try and attempt to remove the meteorite piece. They eventually succeed, and the two dimensions begin merging again. As they head back to Mario and his fight with President Koopa, they encounter Toad, who hands them [[Devo Gun]]s, and Big Bertha, who gives Luigi another pair of Thwomp Stompers. Luigi joins Mario on the catwalks over the city, and hands him a Devo Gun. The two brothers begin to fire upon President Koopa. As he is being blasted, the Bob-omb that Luigi nabbed earlier and Mario used during his fight with Koopa completes its journey and detonates directly underneath President Koopa, sending him flying into the same vat from earlier above the street. Seconds later, he emerges as a miniature Tyrannosaurus. The Mario Brothers blast him once more, which causes him to de-evolve into primordial slime. With President Koopa defeated, all the Dinohattan citizens begins to celebrate, taking to the streets dancing.

In the meteorite chamber, Daisy uses the meteorite piece to re-open the portal between the Earth and Dinohattan. Luigi wants Daisy to return to New York with them, but she expresses that she feels it is her duty to stay around and rebuild Dinoahattan and she also needs time to get to know her father. Disappointed but understanding, Luigi kisses Daisy goodbye, and Daisy, Toad and [[Yoshi (film character)|Yoshi]] wave the brothers goodbye. Three weeks later, Daniella has moved in with Mario and Luigi and is preparing dinner for them. Luigi is called in to join Mario and Daniella for dinner, but Luigi proudly motions that he is watching ''Our Miraculous World'', where they are running a broadcast speaking about the brothers' heroic adventure. The television host calls them the "Super Mario Brothers". Unexpectedly, Daisy enters the room wearing military gear, stating she needs the brothers' help and that they are not going to believe what has happened. The brothers quickly begin strapping on their plumber tool belts and head out.

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As Luigi and Daisy attempt to flee back through the portal, they are stopped by Spike and Iggy who confiscate the meteorite piece and insert it into the meteorite chamber. This merges the dimensions together, but creates a force powerful enough to disintegrate Spike and Iggy. Daisy realizes she was the only one capable of withstanding the force of the meteorite. The two begin working at pulling the meteorite out to re-split the worlds and eventually succeed. Luigi and Daisy head back to meet back up with Mario, who has already defeated Koopa. Mario, now wielding the Devo Gun, expresses his plans to head back to Earth to fix the damage Koopa has done. The three of them set off to return back to Earth.  

===Other appearances===

==Gallery==

MarioMovieKCDeluxe.jpg|Luigi in the [[Super Mario (Kodansha manga)|Kodansha ''Super Mario'' manga]] next to his [[Luigi|video game counterpart]] (middle panel)

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