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# Luigi Sure Has Been A Popular Name At This Year’s AGDQ, For Some Reason
- URL: https://aftermath.site/awesome-games-done-quick-speedrun-luigi-skyrim-zelda/
- Published: 2025-01-10T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-27T17:10:00.000Z
- Author: Nathan Grayson
- Tags: Blog, Video Games, agdq, awesome games done quick, fallout: new vegas, final fantasy, legend of zelda, luigi, pokemon, skyrim, speedrunning, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-10-27 13:00

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, which as we all know is not Christmas, but that which immediately follows it: [Awesome Games Done Quick](https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick?ref=aftermath.site) week. The annual speedrunning charity marathon is always a joy, featuring a mixture of mindboggling techniques and hypnotic gimmick runs like somebody [jamming out on piano while playing *New Super Mario Bros Wii* with their feet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuaWJ-40hFY&ref=aftermath.site). Speaking of Mario, there sure have been a lot of player characters named Luigi this year. Wonder what that's about.

It’s the darndest thing. Viewers keep using AGDQ’s [donation incentives](https://tracker.gamesdonequick.com/tracker/ui/events/52/donate?ref=aftermath.site) – which allow viewers to influence decisions made by runners and, in many cases, choose characters’ names – to christen everybody Luigi.

Here it is happening at the start of a *Legend Of Zelda: Wind Waker* run:

And here it is at the start of a *Skyrim* run:

And in a *Fallout: New Vegas* romance run:

And a *Pokémon: Let's Go, Eevee* run:

And a *Gauntlet IV* run:

And a *Final Fantasy Legend 2* run:

According to [the AGDQ 2025 bid index](https://tracker.gamesdonequick.com/tracker/bids/52?ref=aftermath.site), some people have donated thousands of dollars in Luigi’s name. One person, for example, furiously flung $4,379.70 at the Prevent Cancer Foundation in support of the best cause of all: naming Link, gaming’s most famous green guy, after Luigi, gaming’s second most famous green guy.

Impossible to say [why people are doing this](https://aftermath.site/united-healthcare-luigi-mangione/). We’ll probably never find out.

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