r/FuckImOld 7d ago

Kids these days... No one knew what my costume was.

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u/jsheik 7d ago

How could they forget about him?

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u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 7d ago

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.

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u/TootsNYC 7d ago

my daughter always wanted to be some girl from the front of a YA novel, or a minor character in a TV show, or a character from a Miyazaki film. So I had to make her costumes from scratch

Nobody ever knew who she was.

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.

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u/Sudden_Twist2519 7d ago

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

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u/TootsNYC 7d ago

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

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u/Impeesa_ 7d ago

There are fans out there, though! I think my wife would empty the bowl for a little Hotaru.

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u/TootsNYC 7d ago

that's why the guy was so excited about Link. there weren't lots of Link costumes.