CHICAGO — “Mortal Kombat” superfan and cosplayer Dennis Trimble became increasingly frustrated while attending a local video game expo after multiple people acknowledged his Billy Corgan cosplay which was actually a Quan Chi outfit he had spent many hours perfecting, sources report.
“I wanted to make this as realistic as possible so I shaved my head, spent hours getting the makeup just right, and now everyone keeps telling me I’m the best Billy Corgan they have ever seen,” Trimble explained. “After all the hard work, detail, and effort I put into creating this thing, I can’t help but want to bicycle kick the next person to ask me ‘Hey bro, nice Corgan outfit, but where’s the Zero shirt?’ I didn’t spend 14 hours at the dump looking for stuff to make this goddamn outfit just to be confused for some washed-up alt-rocker! Billy Corgan doesn’t even have a fatality for Christ’s sake!”
Corgan expresses his displeasure for being the victim of mistaken identity.
“I’m getting pretty damn fed up with people out here thinking I’m dressing up as some Demon character from the Mortal Kombat franchise,” Corgan said, adding that he’s in fact, the frontman to a very popular rock band. “I think people tend to forget that I basically reintroduced goth culture to the ‘90s audience, and I’m also bald. I can’t help it that some video game character who the developers probably based on me anyways looks like me, and I’m sure not changing the way I look because of it.”
Longtime fan of the cosplaying lifestyle Sandra Fuentes talks about other occasions of mistaken cosplay.
“Unfortunately, if you’re part of the cosplay world, eventually someone is probably going to mistake your initial costume for a musician of some sort,” Fuentes said. “A friend of mine who’s a huge Power Rangers fan made an incredibly clever Zordon costume, and everyone kept complimenting him on his ‘Moby’s Severed Head Floating in a Jar’ cosplay whenever he would wear it in public. The sad reality of die-hard fandom is the fact that this sort of thing just comes with the territory.”
At press time, Corgan was challenged to a fight to the death by a man dressed as Sub Zero to which he declined.