{"id":36332,"date":"2025-01-28T15:59:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/kim-possible-cosplay-brings-back-iconic-childhood-crush-with-chic-shego-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T15:59:19","slug":"kim-possible-cosplay-brings-back-iconic-childhood-crush-with-chic-shego-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/kim-possible-cosplay-brings-back-iconic-childhood-crush-with-chic-shego-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Possible cosplay brings back iconic childhood crush with chic Shego &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Possible cosplay brings back iconic childhood crush with chic Shego Twitter, @toripareno \/ DisneyKim Possible\u2019s Shego is one of the most iconic antagonists in cartoon history, and Luminosity Gaming\u2019s content creator, Tori Pareno, has brought the villain back to life. Although Kim Possible\u2019s last episode aired in 2007, the show continues to live on to this day in our cultural cloud, consistently re-emerging on Halloween with Kim\u2019s trademark cargo pants \u2013 and now, in cosplay as Pareno has recreated Shego\u2019s striking look. Shego was no ordinary villain, but a sassy boss with super powers, a temper and some serious charm. Rocking a tight catsuit, long dark hair (as referenced by Jack Harlow in his 2020 hit, \u201cWhat\u2019s Poppin\u2019?\u201d) and an attitude, it\u2019s no surprise that Shego is one of the most infamous childhood crushes in animated history. Undertaking some artistic liberties, Pareno has now forced thousands to remember their early infatuations. Shego was hit with a comet as a child, granting her the superpowers of green flames of energy and an appearance with a pale green skin tone. While fully invoking Shego\u2019s somewhat green skin may have been one way to do things, Pareno decided to embody the look with a green contour against pale makeup\u2014juxtaposed against the sharp contrast of Shego\u2019s black upper lip, sharp, dark eyebrows, and vivid green eyes, the content creator looks every bit as distinct as her inspiration. As for the rest of Pareno\u2019s ensemble, she locked it down. A master of stealth and subterfuge, Shego\u2019s fit is emblazoned with a dazzle camouflage, much like UK and US warships used to confuse enemies in World War I. Down to the mismatched gloves, Pareno efficiently recreates this puzzled green and black look. As an added bonus, she even edited in a green flame while maintaining Shego\u2019s signature frowns\u2014probably lighting the flames of nostalgia in hundreds of hearts. Pareno doesn\u2019t typically partake in cosplay, instead running Twitch streams of games like Oxygen Not Included and Resident Evil 3 or making content for YouTube and TikTok. In fact, she calls this her first official public cosplay ever \u2013 likely because she didn\u2019t create the outfit used in August, 2019 when she recreated Emilia from Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu. https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B1VB9AVnt1t\/ While she may have admittedly forgotten to do a TikTok dance for this Shego look, fans will be sure to forgive her for it since the antagonist isn\u2019t really the type to do cute dances for views, anyway. And it seems that Pareno is intent on doing more, asking fans who she should cosplay next in her Instagram post. So far, Viper from Valorant seems to be the front-runner as another combat-proficient lady with a taste for green clothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kim Possible cosplay brings back iconic childhood crush with chic Shego Twitter, @toripareno \/ DisneyKim Possible\u2019s Shego is one of the most iconic antagonists in cartoon history, and Luminosity Gaming\u2019s content creator, Tori Pareno, has brought the villain back to life. Although Kim Possible\u2019s last episode aired in 2007, the show continues to live on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}