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* Luigi of ''[[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' was originally a just a palette swap of his older brother, Mario. The early Mario Bros. anime and other promotional art depicted him as taller and thinner than Mario early on, but this depiction would take until Super Mario Bros 2 USA to show up in the actual games. He also gained divergent gameplay traits in both the US and Japanese [[SMB 2]] games, jumping higher and, in the Japanese game, having less traction while stopping.
** Additionally, the [[Cowardly Lion]] traits and fear of ghosts first displayed in ''[[Luigi's Mansion|Luigis Mansion]]'' also stuck through later games, going a long way to distinguish his personality along with his physical characteristics. Later games (especially the ''[[Mario & Luigi]]'' series) would have quite a bit of fun with this.
** Many of Luigi's distinctive character traits came from Western sources like the ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' and were eventually introduced into the games, in a rare example of Mario canon [[Ascended Fanon|embracing rather than contradicting fanon.]] Even the character's voice has gradually come to sound more like his cartoon counterpart.
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