Neither of them. Daedalus built the wings
Yeah, this is erasure of the man who also built the Labyrinth and invented carpentry
Yes we all watched the same OSP video last week
Hey! Some of us get our knowledge of Greek mythology from videogames thank you very much!
The Romans often just appropriated a Hellenistic concept and slapped new names on it, calling Icarus Luigi is far from the only example. See also renaming Zeus Jupiter or referring to lesbians as gal pals.
or like how hermes became sonic the hedgehog. but of course when they did that sometimes their own myths didn't map precisely and you end up with some oddities like how wario is both luigi's brother mario's evil twin in the legends from the early republic, but later versions have wario as luigi's father who built the wings after luigi became associated with icarus. hence why the main character of james joyce's a portrait of the artist as a young man is named stephen wario, indicating that he is perhaps destined to fly too close to the sun.
Missed opportunity to use Kid Icharus imagery.
It's a stone Luigi, you didn't make it
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