
Wario’s kind of on-the-nose in terms of a bad guy, and Waluigi, we just wanted to explore him a bit more. Waluigi, we kind of depicted him as being – yeah, he’s a bit, I don’t know, a bit edgier than Wario. "The inspiration for that came from quite frankly like the shape – even though it’s a ‘V’, we thought it was a representation of part of the ‘W’, so that’s sort of his way of connecting into his first initial. Is this the Wario and Waluigi lore some of you are chain-chomping at the bit for?:

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Earlier in the chat, he almost goes into a full analysis of Waluigi's - and his brother Wario's - psyche and characteristics. It certainly sounds like Inglehart at least did. We hope it's still there, too - it has become part of Waluigi's identity at this point! But the fact that no one at Nintendo even brought it up is a little surprising, but perhaps Nintendo saw that Next Level Games understood the character. I’m not sure if it will be in the threequel but I’m really interested to see if it’s still there. "The crotch shot, you just didn’t expect it to get through, but you know, nobody batted an eye so we didn’t kind of bring it up because we wanted it to be in there and sure enough it landed the way we expected to. As part of GameXplain's interview with Mike Inglehart - director of Super Mario Strikers - the former Next Level Games developer was asked how this celebration snuck its way in and the answer is way simpler than you think! Hey, we love him too, and his signature, ahem, crotch chop lit Waluigi fans' world on fire. Of course, there's one very famous goal celebration, and of course it's Waluigi's.

That remains true for the Mario universe, and for the Mario Strikers series, retaining that was important for developer Next Level Games when creating the franchise. Everyone has their signature footie celebration, right? Running to the corner flag, whipping your shirt off, doing a little dance - whatever floats your boat.
