Kris Statlander Doesn’t Care If People Dislike Her Alien Gimmick

Kris Statlander has been a mainstay of the AEW women’s division since her debut a couple of years ago. However, she had to miss almost a year’s worth of television time after suffering an ACL tear last summer.

Statlander made her return on AEW television on the 31st of March 2021 edition of Dynamite which saw Orange Cassidy and Chuck Taylor compete against Miro and Kip Sabian in an Arcade Anarchy match.

Since her return, Statlander came up with a different look and it seems not everyone is a fan of her alien gimmick. While speaking on the AEW Unrestricted podcast, Statlander addressed those who criticize her gimmick. Simply put, Statlander stated that she doesn’t care if people don’t like her alien character.

“With the new look, because I know there’s a lot of criticism about ‘how is she an alien? All she does is have some dots and lines on her face and stuff like that, So I wanted to make it more visual for fans to kind of understand a little bit better. Just because I say I’m an alien or whatever, you can interpret whatever you don’t know however, you want. If that’s how I interpreted it, that’s fine. It’s my take on it, but I feel like this look is so much better and doing it on this side with the purple hair, the whole idea is that this is the alien hair coming out of my head.

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“So that’s why the green is on this side, and that’s the real skin. This is the real hair, the contact [and] the real eyeball and so I saw some things on Twitter where people are like, ‘Oh, this reminds me of V,’ which I think it’s short for ‘The Visitors.’ It was some TV show back in like the [’80s] where they had green reptile skin peeled underneath. They peeled away the human skin underneath the reptile skin, and I was like, ‘Oh, I didn’t even try that,’ but because there is actually something that it looks similar to, now there’s something that people can actually relate it to, which makes it more believable that it’s a thing.

“But then, again, people still criticize. ‘Oh, the alien thing is dumb and stuff.’ That’s fine. You don’t have to like it. It doesn’t mean I’m a bad wrestler or anything. I don’t even care if people don’t like the character. I always find it funny when people are like, ‘Oh, I think Kris is awesome. She just has a dumb gimmick,’ and it’s like, that’s great. I don’t care. I don’t care if you don’t like the character. It’s what I feel comfortable with portraying myself, but if you think I’m a good wrestler, that’s all I care about. That’s all I need to hear.”

Since her AEW return, Statlander has been teaming up with the Best Friends and Orange Cassidy and the bizarre combination certainly seems to be working well as fans definitely like it. We will have to see what AEW is planned for AEW’s resident alien.

h/t to Wrestling Inc for the quotes.