In an absolutely hilarious social media post, one cosplayer recreates the likeness of the iconic Dragon Ball fighter Piccolo using nothing but vegetables. Piccolo is an alien in the Dragon Ball universe known as a Namekian, a species with green skin and pointy ears. The Namekians have been at the center of many Dragon Ball storylines, with Piccolo the most familiar of them all as he is a member of the heroic Z-Fighters alongside Goku, Krillin, and Vegeta. Now, Piccolo has been brought to life in one of the weirdest ways possible, though in a way that oddly pays perfect tribute to the entire series.
Piccolo made his first appearance in Dragon Ball Chapter 161 “The Fist of Son Goku” by Akira Toriyama. In the chapter, Piccolo is introduced as a villain known as King Piccolo who seeks to take over the earth. While only a child, Goku launches a full scale attack on the villain and ends up successfully killing him. With his dying breath, King Piccolo spits out an egg containing his reincarnated form, one who has all of the original Piccolo’s memories and unfulfilled vendettas. However, instead of sticking with his previous life’s villainous ways, Piccolo decides to turn over a new leaf and be on the side of good, becoming the character fans know and love today.
In an Instagram post by Lonleyman @lowcostcosplayth, the cosplayer is using what appears to be a purple cabbage and a number of jalapeños or some other kind of green pepper to pull off Piccolo’s iconic look. Aside from Piccolo’s green skin, his look consists of his white robes and white and purple headpiece he wears religiously throughout the Dragon Ball series. Using the green vegetables to cover his skin and simulate pointy ears with the purple/white cabbage sitting atop the cosplayers head to complete the look in all of its weirdly magnificent glory.
This latest example of creating a low cost cosplay is far from the first from Lonelyman as they have tackled a number of other media, showing that it doesn’t take money to produce epic cosplay no matter how absurd the end result may be. Not only that, but this isn’t even their first time tackling a Dragon Ball character as they used their strange cosplaying method to bring Super Saiyan Blue Goku to life in the oddest way possible. They recreated the classic look not by dyeing their hair a blue color and spiking it, but by clipping a number of blue and white clips together and placing it on top of their head for the desired effect.
This particular Piccolo cosplay stands apart especially when considering their other Dragon Ball cosplays given how the whole thing was put together. As many fans know, the names of a number of Dragon Ball characters are inspired by vegetables: Kakarot for carrot, Broly for broccoli, Vegeta for vegetables, and even Piccolo for pickle. So, using actual vegetables to bring a Dragon Ball character is weirdly the absolute perfect way to do so. Dragon Ball cosplay hilariously recreates Piccolo using only vegetables in a perfect tribute to not only the character but the entire series as a whole.
Source: Lonelyman @lowcostcosplayth