And it's almost entirely one-sided on his end, given how little Luigi cared in his debut, or how Waluigi certainly doesn't feel so strongly about Mario, even though beating Mario is part of why he took up training. We know his inexplicably petty antagonism of Luigi goes way, way back, before he met Wario or took up his training, and that his rivalry with Luigi is a long term dedication so he can prove himself (one of his appearences in Mario & Sonic even has him state that he thinks beating Luigi will make him the greatest Superstar on the planet). He wouldn't be the main villain but he would be a constant nuisance, coming after Waluigi with bigger and bigger fights, culminating in a showdown of mechanic dinosaurs and exploding buildings at the game's city level, which is revealed to be the original setting of the Wrecking Crew games, a city nearby New Donk City. Like all classic villains, his greatest weakness is his complete overconfidence, alongside the perks of age that catch up to him every now and then and the fact that Spike is terrible at keeping people working under him for long. Spike combines the brutish strength and bullheaded arrogance of Wario with the cunning mischief and deviousness of Waluigi. He commands many of his old forces and weapons, and some new ones too. He's here to be a dick and to prove he's still got it even after all these years. He's not really out for money like Wario, or after fame and attention like Waluigi. Spike deems Waluigi a failure and an insufficient replacement, and he thinks he's been slacking around in his rivalry with the Mario Bros, so he's out to prove that age can't stop him and to show Waluigi what a real villain looks like. He never forgot his grudge with them, and when he caught wind of Waluigi's attempts of rising to stardom and using stuff from the Crew that used to be his in the process, he broke out of retirement and is now aiming for payback. He's older, fatter, and he's mad at everyone in general, but particularly the Mario Brothers and Waluigi. As in, "I'll steal your shit and do it better than you ever could, and there's nothing you can do about it, old man"Īt this point, Spike is semi-retired. It would be later revealed that the main reason Waluigi uses stuff from the Wrecking Crew games (bombs, eggplants, the excavator, the wrench & the dinosaurs in MK Arcade GP 2, the Destruction Dance tune) is primarily because he gets to stick it to Spike by doing so. It's at this point he would begin his arduous training, and at a later point he would meet Wario.
Soon afterwards, Waluigi went into hiding, in order to plan his next move against the Mario Bros and to hide from Spike's wrath. He attempted to impersonate Luigi and ruin his career a few times (which is why Luigi appears to take on Spike's role in Vs.Wrecking Crew), but while he failed to even be noticed by the Mario Brothers (Mario thought it was Spike in a dumb disguise), he inavertedly helped Mario & Luigi defeat Foreman Spike and put an end to his business. When Mario & Luigi began working for Spike, Waluigi met them in person for the first time, and his hatred of Luigi rekindled. He was just as mean and abusive to him as he was to any other employee, all the while training him to follow in his villainous ways Foreman Spike saw potential in the prodigious, hard working mechanic, and took young Waluigi under his construction company. Picture this: We learn that Waluigi, during his younger years, was homeless and looking for purpose, and while he even then had an undescribable hatred of Luigi, he didn't yet know him or Mario enough to do anything about it and he had yet to truly become a villain.
I've had a couple of ideas recently as to how I'd reintegrate Foreman Spike and it hit me that he could be a great enemy to Waluigi if he ever got his own standalone game, as a reocurring nuisance and sort of a "Captain Syrup meets Cranky Kong" figure.
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