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Despite sometimes bickering, Waluigi and Wario have generally been shown to be sports partners, sharing good chemistry in the baseball games and often teaming up in sports events and spinoff titles. According to Fumihide Aoki, Waluigi was intended to be Wario's brother but pictured their current relationship as that of "like co-workers who only cooperate with each other when their goals are the same."<ref name="Aoki Instagram"></ref>. Although they have been called brothers in the original ''Mario Tennis'' website,<ref name="brothers1">{{cite|date=August 17, 2000|deadlink=yes|archive=web.archive.org/web/20000817231440/http://www.nintendo.com:80/n64/mariotennis/waluigi.html|title=Mario Tennis 64: Introducing Waluigi|publisher=Nintendo.com|accessdate=February 20, 2018}}</ref> [[Prima Games|Prima]] guide<ref>{{cite|quote=Waluigi is Wario's little brother–a tall, lithe, smarmy fella with a really bad attitude.|author=Young, James|title=''Mario Tennis'' Prima's Official Strategy Guide|publisher=[[Prima Games]]|page=27}}</ref> and certain Nintendo of Europe sources such as Wario's Warehouse<ref name="brothers2">In [[Wario's Warehouse]], Wario (in first-person writing) refers to Waluigi as his brother two times, in the articles based on ''[[metroidwiki:Metroid Prime|Metroid Prime]]'' and ''[[New Super Mario Bros.]]''</ref> or the ''Mario Kart DS'' website,<ref name="brothers3">{{cite|quote=Wario's weird sibling constructed this high-speed track inside a giant pinball table; complete with bumpers, flippers, ramps and enormous steel spheres that bounce you around like - well, like a pinball. Make sure to bring plenty of aspirin for this race. - [[DS Waluigi Pinball|Waluigi Pinball]] description|url=microsite.nintendo-europe.com/mariokartds/ European ''Mario Kart DS'' website}}{{dead link}}</ref> various websites, guides and games since then have only described them as partners, with some explicitly stating the two are not related. In a 2008 interview with ''[[Nintendo DREAM]]'', [[Shugo Takahashi]] stated that the two are not friends or brothers, or even blood-related.<ref>{{cite|deadlink=yes|archive=web.archive.org/web/20230704235024/https://www.ndw.jp/waluigi-interview-221021|title=ワルイージ誕生秘話（2008年 9月号より）|publisher=Nintendo DREAM|accessdate=July 4, 2023}}.</ref>