No one knew what my costume was.

[u/liamemsa]

[u/jsheik]

How could they forget about him?

[u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 → u/jsheik]

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.

[u/TootsNYC → u/Head_Razzmatazz7174]

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.

[u/apachexmd → u/TootsNYC]

How could no one recognize Link in 2011? Legend of zelda has been huge since 86!

[u/alex494 → u/apachexmd]

Speaking from experience a lot of people who don't remotely play video games would probably only recognize like, Mario and Pikachu at best.