They do the same thing for Mario, Zelda, Link, Kirby, Donkey Kong, Pikachu and many more. Are those also sinister "woke" signalling or are you maybe reading too much into this?

I apologize that an easter egg that displays a cute image of a duck dressed as a video game character made you so upset, but please don't assume bad faith and inject vitrol into a discussion that should be whimsical.

I meant to make this as an Ask HN thread but was hitting a title limit... I was going to comment asking if anyone had found others, but got distracted by the thread on Robert Redford's death[1].

[1] RIP :-( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45261159

I tested, and it looks like if you revoke permissions for DDG in NoScript the image no longer displays when you search "Luigi" (or other characters like Pikachu.)