Cartoon of pregnant Luigi in green shirt with Mario touching his belly

Pregnant Luigi

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Published September 23, 2026

Pregnant Luigi refers to fan art and video edits depicting the Super Mario Bros. character Luigi with a swollen, pregnancy-like belly. The idea traces back to a 2008 YouTube poop that turned the animated 'Mama Luigi' episode into an mpreg gag, then spread onto DeviantArt where artists produced photoshops, drawings, and even labor scenes1. It became a recurring joke in Super Mario fandom and Mpreg art circles.

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Overview

The joke leans on Luigi's oddly maternal role in the 1991 cartoon episode 'Mama Luigi,' in which he cares for a Yoshi egg and the baby dinosaur ends up calling him 'mama'2. Fans took that thread and ran with it across YouTube poop edits and DeviantArt drawings that redraw Luigi with a round, distended stomach, sometimes paired with Mario as an in-universe partner3.

Most Pregnant Luigi content lives at the overlap between Super Mario fandom and Mpreg (male pregnancy) art scenes. Common tropes include Luigi looking distressed, Mario reacting or assisting, and captions that call back to the cartoon's 'mama' motif.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube / DeviantArt (viral spread)
Date
2008

On March 30, 2008, YouTube user Tipnman uploaded a YouTube poop titled 'Mama luigi gets pregnant and dies,' splicing footage from the Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode 'Mama Luigi' into an mpreg gag1. It is the earliest known reference to pregnant Luigi.

The source episode aired December 7, 1991 as the final entry in the Super Mario World animated series2. In it, Luigi tells Yoshi the story of finding him as an egg and raising him, and Yoshi ends up calling Luigi 'mama,' a maternal framing that gave later fan artists something literal to riff on2.

How It Spread

The meme moved from YouTube poop culture onto DeviantArt, which became the main hub for Pregnant Luigi imagery. On August 13, 2009, DeviantArt user BigWuff posted a photoshopped Luigi with darkened colors and an enlarged belly, writing 'I was bored, so I photoshopped luigi by changing his colours and making his belly bigger.' A commenter later replied 'He's PREGNANT!!!!!!,' which helped anchor the reading3.

On September 15, 2011, DeviantArt user MariobrosYaoiFan12 posted the first in a series of pregnant Luigi drawings, each watermarked to another account, emeraldwolfs12. The same artist followed on November 27, 2011 with an image of a masked Mario forcefeeding Luigi, and later uploaded a birth scene titled 'Mama luigi gives birth'3. Both DeviantArt accounts were later deactivated, but the visual gag kept popping up in Mpreg tags and Super Mario fan-art circles.

Timeline

1991-12-07

'Mama Luigi,' the final episode of the Super Mario World animated series, airs and later becomes the source material for pregnant Luigi edits.

2008-03-30

YouTube user Tipnman uploads 'Mama luigi gets pregnant and dies,' the earliest known reference to the meme.

2009-08-13

DeviantArt user BigWuff posts a photoshopped Luigi with darkened colors and an enlarged belly.

2011-09-15

DeviantArt user MariobrosYaoiFan12 posts the first in a series of pregnant Luigi drawings.

2011-11-27

MariobrosYaoiFan12 uploads an image of a masked Mario forcefeeding Luigi.

2012

The same artist posts 'Mama luigi gives birth,' pushing the format to a labor scene.

How to Use This Meme

There is no fixed template. Artists typically start with a stock Luigi pose or screengrab, add a round belly, and often stage a scene with Mario reacting. Captions commonly reference the 'Mama Luigi' cartoon or Mpreg tropes.

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