Arcade Champ Billy Mitchell Tries To Sue REGULAR SHOW Over Depiction, Hilariously Fails

To this day, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters remains one of my favorite geek-focused documentaries. It's a journey through a very niche and exclusive world of coin operated arcade competition. Grown men compete for all-time records on games ancient by today's standards, and get super salty and obsessive when their records are broken. Featured prominently throughout the film is Billy Mitchell, who once held both the record for high scores in Pac-Man and Donkey Kong. Mitchell has long protested the film's depiction of him, which makes him seem petty, paranoid, and conniving...and while that may or may not be true, this new expose by Gawker may not help his case.

Mitchell recently had a case thrown out by a judge after the gaming champ attempted to sue the Cartoon Network program Regular Show over its depiction of him, which can be seen below.

While the whole episode literally plays out like a caricature of the actual documentary, federal judges say it's all protected under first amendment. They also add:

“The television character does not match the plaintiff in appearance: GBF appears as a non-human creature, a giant floating head with no body from outer space, while Plaintiff is a human being,” Thompson wrote in her decision.

“And when GBF loses his title, the character literally explodes, unlike Plaintiff.”

All that being said, I've also seen people say nice things about Billy Mitchell, so take that for what it's worth. Does a petty person sue a cartoon? You tell me.