My Chemical Romance are facing legal action from the company behind the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders after featuring dancers in lookalike uniforms during their recent Hollywood Bowl shows.
The band made headlines earlier this week when they brought out dancers dressed as the famous cheerleading squad during the opening night of their five-show residency at the Los Angeles venue on Wednesday (October 21).
The performers appeared during ‘Teenagers’, before becoming involved in a staged gunfight with soldiers during ‘Disenchanted’, wielding prop rifles and appearing to be shot before crawling offstage.
Now, Pro Silver Star Ltd., which owns the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (DCC) brand, has filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the band, seeking to prevent them from continuing to use the costumes.
The legal action was filed in Dallas County, Texas on Friday (October 23), with the company arguing that the distinctive uniforms are protected and that their appearance in the violent sequence could damage the cheerleading squad’s reputation.
My Chemical Romance performing “Teenagers” tonight in LA, featuring their cheerleader dancers. #MCRLA2 pic.twitter.com/vLDYocU6sf
— MCR Updates (@gwayupdates) October 24, 2026
According to court documents obtained by TheWrap, Pro Silver Star claimed that “audience members and online commentators understandably believed that the performers were the real Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders”, with the confusion spreading across social media.
The company also alleged that it had contacted My Chemical Romance and asked them to stop using the uniforms, but that the band had refused.
It said their continued use threatened “ongoing and irreparable harm to the reputation and goodwill Silver Star has cultivated in the DCC brand”.
“Silver Star does not ask Defendants to change their setlist, narrative, politics, choreography, or even their decision to put gun-toting performers on stage. Silver Star asks only that those performers not wear the DCC Uniform while doing it.
As well as requesting an injunction, Pro Silver Star is seeking unspecified monetary damages.
Despite the legal action, fan-filmed footage from the band’s second Hollywood Bowl show on Friday (October 23) appeared to show the performers returning in the same cheerleading outfits.
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The band’s Hollywood Bowl residency marks the culmination of their ‘Long Live The Black Parade’ anniversary tour, which has seen them perform their landmark 2006 album ‘The Black Parade’ in full.
They are the first band to play five consecutive nights at the Hollywood Bowl, with the final two performances scheduled for October 30 and 31.
The group have also released an expanded 20th anniversary edition of ‘The Black Parade’, featuring six bonus tracks, including previously unreleased live recordings from a 2007 show in Hoboken, New Jersey.
In its original 9/10 review, NME praised the record as an ambitious reinvention of the band’s sound, writing that it was set to make them “the biggest band on the planet”.
Elsewhere, frontman Gerard Way recently hinted that the band were hoping to make another studio album.
“We’ve kind of really always wanted to make another record, so we hope that life allows us to do that,” he told fans at their San Antonio show last month.
“You guys deserve another record. I don’t know when it’ll be. But it’ll be awesome.”
