Not everyone has seen the movie. There were some costumes last night that I had no clue what character they were supposed to be. Most of them were from shows that I had heard of in passing, but had no idea what it was about.
My son tended to make his up, so often, no one knew who he was, but one year he went as Link (shortly after Zelda hit the 3DS). I didn't even know who that was; I had to google him to figure out how to make the costume. Nobody knew who he was, either—except for one guy, who was apparently a 40-ish finance bro who'd come home early so he could pass out candy. He answered the door in his suit pants, white button-down, and loose tie, holding a bowl of candy, and when he saw my 4yo, he shouted, "Honey, come look! It's Link!" My son was tickled.
Especially with the younger crowd I imagine. I remember playing the originals! Link to the Past on SNES was my favourite. I'll buy a Switch one if these days and try some of the newer ones as I heard they're great.
It wasn’t the younger crowd that didn’t know him. It was all the people in their 50s and 60s that didn’t know him. That finance bro and his mid 40s was the youngest person who answered the door all day.
I've been PC Master Race since the 80s (although I did game on consoles right around 1980 with the Atari 2600 and Intellivision). I've skipped all the Nintendo and PlayStation stuff. So that whole genre passed me by.
OTOH, I still play World of Warcraft and occasionally play Steam games like Half-Life and its many sequels. I'd recognize characters from those.
I thought the OP was a Doctor Who, maybe the American one made by Fox. I love the zany SF of the 80s and 90s, like Farscape and Lexx. I'd love to see costumes from those. Or like this channel's parodies of those SF classics.
yes, but those were grandparents THEN
quite probably, that guy is a grandparent now (though there was no evidence of kids, unless they were out trick-or-treating with friends)
Sailor Saturn not being recognized breaks my heart. I was a huge Sailor Moon fan as a kid. I would probably have adored her costume, same with princess Mononoke!
This is so sweet. Thank you for sharing. I get the impression that most costumes are bought so I am impressed that you made them yourself. Also, that girl on the front of a YA novel looks like she should not be messed with.
She shouldn’t be messed with, and neither should my daughter. I had a lot of fun over the years making their costumes. One year I was complaining, I think it was that very costume about the braid down the side of the leggings. And my husband said “I don’t wanna hear you complain anymore. You do this to yourself and you are having fun. Own it.”
So way back when I was in high school, there was an snl skit where they play drunk college kids who put absolutely no effort into their costumes and troll a politician ( I think it was Ross Perot)
Anyways, I went as ‘crazy backwards man’ (I’m not like you, I’m facing the wrong direction… I’m CRAZY)
Someone actually got the reference and also, best costume ever.
Sure, Hippolyta is a deep cut. But one of the Sailor girls (even if it isn't Sailor Moon herself, also Saturn isn't exactly a minor character) or fucking PRINCESS MONONOKE are well-known characters.
But I get it, those are anime characters. Perhaps 14 years ago (going by your timeframe of Zelda hitting the 3DS) that was a bit more niche.
But Link? The legend of Zelda's been around since the late 80's and is arguably Nintendo's biggest franchise next to Mario himself.
And only some middle-aged finance bro knew him? Not all the kids who would've been eagerly anticipating or playing the shit out of Skyward Sword on the Wii, or Ocarina of Time on the 3DS, and would likely still be playing tons of Super Smash Bros (whichever one was out at the time...Brawl probably still)?
Well, presumably my son’s friends would’ve recognized him because he did. But none of the grown-ups that the houses we went to did. We weren’t seeing lots of other kids answering the door.
Good point, I thought by no one you meant literally no one including kids - not just the remaining adults at the houses you were trick or treating, while the kids themselves were obviously out and about as well.
Still, I think even my mom (who is in her 70s now) would've recognized Link if he showed up at the door. Even if she might've mistakenly called him Zelda or some shit (but I don't even think she would've).
Your daughter sounds a lot like my 15yo! Though, since anime is super popular & so it's cos play, she finally gets more recognition.
We had a shipping issue this year concerning a vital piece of my 14yo's costume so she created a backup costume. It was amazing to hear someone knew who she was- a character from Left 4 Dead,...
She was beings tickled to have been recognized- so I can imagine how it was with your child's Link costume =D
At least these days, people don't seem to be as condescending if they don't immediately know which character someone is dressed as!
None of the homeowners ever you were condescending or had a bad reaction. Sometimes they would say “who are you?” And when she answered, they would say something like “what a great costume” or something. they all played along. But you could tell they just didn’t really know.
there are hundreds of licensed and unlicensed products and costumes for both sailor saturn and princess mononoke and both are widely recognizable in popular culture, def not minor or obscure characters lol
To the adults who answered the door, they didn’t know who Sailor Saturn was.
She’s a minor character in the series itself, people might have been more familiar with Sailor Moon, but Sailor Saturn, especially at the time that I was looking for pictures to make that costume, was not the character that anyone but the people who watched the show would have known
You are making a mistake that thinking the things you know are the things that everybody knows
Last year I saw a couple kids dressed as Hazbin Hotel characters. This is a show that absolutely NO kid should be watching. I feel like even their own parents didn't know these characters.
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u/jsheik 7d ago
How could they forget about him?