Luigi’s Mansion May Have A Secret Villain Hiding In Plain Sight This Whole Time

The series has become a celebrated franchise in the pantheon of Nintendo IP, and the upcoming release of is another chapter in that legacy. The most important accomplishment of the original was giving Luigi an identity of his own, one that distinguished him from his more famous brother. Just as Mario has an enemy in Bowser, the first game gave Luigi an eternal nemesis all his own — King Boo. Even as the green plumber encounters new bosses with each installment, it never fails that King Boo is behind the mayhem.

However, things are not always as they seem when wandering the spooky, cobweb-infested halls of a game. Pesky specters can often take the form of innocuous objects and sometimes even people. Yet, for all the chaos King Boo and his minions have wrought on Luigi and his friends, it's possible that there is a darker, far more dangerous fiend lurking in their midst. Not a ghost or ghoul, but a living villain of flesh and blood, one who could be hiding in plain sight, and it may even be the one person that Luigi trusts most — Professor E. Gadd.

The coming release of Luigi's Mansion 2 HD on Nintendo Switch shows a historical pattern that may be a sign of what is in store for a future console.

One must wonder though if Professor Elven Gadd is really in his line of work purely for the pursuit of knowledge. The mansion in the first game was a supernatural illusion created by King Boo to house the recently freed ghosts that Gadd held in captivity. There is potential for a moral and ethical argument against what Gadd is doing, holding the spirits of the deceased hostage for his own selfish experiments. What exactly was he doing with these imprisoned spirits? When viewed in that lens, King Boo was acting heroically by trying to protect innocent specters from Gadd's clutches.

It's important to remember that Gadd is a business owner, being the founder of Gadd Science Inc., as well as running a gadget shop on the side. It's a strange coincidence that every time