>Toadette >Created for Mario Kart Double Dash because Toad needed a partner >Derivative, unoriginal design >Went on to make small appearances in the RPGs and mainline games >Guest star of Captain Toad's game >Is now a fully-fledged playable in the mainline platformer games
>Waluigi >Created for Mario Tennis because Wario needed a partner >Derivative, unoriginal design >Never left the sports and party series >Doesn't get so much as a mention in Wario's games >Will likely never even cameo in the mainline platformer games
Toad is a mainline Mario character, so it was easy to shoehorn in Toadette, especially since she has the same abilities as Toad. Wario isn't in mainline Mario games, and Wario and Waluigi would play totally different if both playable in a game.
Zachary Howard
>Is a girl character >Is based off of a staple of the Mario universe >Replaced another Toad as the playable character in NSMBU and Deluxe >Actually cohesive to the mainline games' design
>Wario has gotten 2 platformers since Waluigi was created and those games aren't designed for multiplayer >Warioware is always kept distinct from the Mario cast, with none of them showing up in Diamond City or vice-versa
Toadette succeeded because what she was derived from is a series mainstay. Wario has been in one mainline Mario game and one remake. If Wario was more frequently present in Mario games, then we might have seen Waluigi in one too.
>How did Toadette succeed where Waluigi failed? By being created by Nintendo while Waluigi was created by Camelot. This is the hard truth.
Bentley Murphy
>waluigi has objectively a more interesting design than toadette >more room for character development since he isn't a goody two shoes >with wario, acts as a perfect parallel to mario and luigi
>nsmb shoves two recolored toads in as characters instead of the wario bros >because of this nsmbu deluxe forces at least one player to go on easy mode >his only mainline game appearance was a cameo as a suit in odyssey What did he do to get shafted this hard?
Jace Turner
>How did Toadette succeed where Waluigi failed? Because she's cute and funny.
Juan Reed
wario and waluigi come with the expectation of having much different movesets than the mario bros. toads can do the same shit as the mario bros which works for 4 player co-op.
In addition to what everyone else has said, Toad and Toadette share a skeleton and animations, so she's far easier to add.
Cooper Thomas
I'd be happy if we got Waluigi in MM2 even if it would be like the costume from MM1
Charles Parker
Removing Wario's unique moveset would piss of Wario Land fans but it's not like they're doing anything with that series anyway.
Jonathan Reed
visual representation of sticking your dick in toadette
Juan Flores
Toadette can work in more places than waluigi.
Nathaniel Ramirez
wait a year and he'll be in smash
Easton Gonzalez
Toadette is a female Toad whereas Waluigi is a shitty uninspired evil clone of Luigi. Mario doesn't need more villains but apparently it does need more women.
Hudson Green
what if the plot of Mario Odyssey 2 is going to Diamond city
Adam Bailey
it kinda did need more chicks before it was just >peach and her clone now we have >space mommy >girl toad >i guess pauline is a thing again
John Baker
Toadette was made by Japanese whilst Waluigi was indirectly made by filthy whittu piggus
James Parker
both were made by Japanese you dolt
Landon Phillips
>not mentioning that Wario isn't playable but toadette is in Mario Maker 2
Chase Perry
You would have a better chance trying to convince Camelot to give Waluigi his own series rather than trying to get him in mainline Mario games. They already have dozens of characters from the sports games they most likely won't ever use again to flesh out his series.
Characters in SMM2 have to play the same so Wario wouldn't work.
Samuel Russell
Mario Kart is developed by EAD, Nintendo's core developers. Waluigi was created by Camelot, an outside third party. That's it.
Even Wario is relatively shafted and left out of Mario games (with Toadette appearing more than him by now in the non-spin off stuff ) because he was created by a secondary team within Nintendo itself (R&D1) rather than EAD.
Angel Martin
Waluigi's design being original is part of the problem. Toads are generic NPC characters in most Mario games, making Toadette a great pick if you want "female NPC". You just can't do the same with Waluigi.
