Cartoons
Rusty Rivets
Rusty Rivets (voiced by Kyle Breitkopf) is the titular main character of the Nickelodeon cartoon Rusty Rivets. A young mechanic and inventor, Rusty creates his own contraptions from salvaged parts. Rusty has dark blue-black hair that he wears slicked back. His outfit consists of blue pants, an orange shirt with a lightning bolt design, grey gloves, and grey and teal sneakers with orange laces. He also wears a grey utility belt and goggles. For his shirt, you can use black fabric markers to recreate the emblem on the front. Swap out a dull pair of boot laces with orange ones for an extra finishing touch.
Reim Lunettes from Pandora Hearts
Reim (voiced by Junichi Suwabe) is one of the secondary main characters in the anime/manga series Pandora Hearts.
He serves under the family of Rufus Barma, while working with the Pandora organization, is good friends with both Sharon and Break, and helps the main trio throughout the story. His contracted chain is the March Hare, tying in with Break’s being the Mad Hatter.
Reim has very short light brown hair, with eyes in a similar shade, worn over by gold oval glasses and accessorized by black and gold dangle earrings. He wears the standard black and white robed Pandora uniform, with white gloves, and black boots tipped with metal.
Ruby Rose (Formal Dress) from RWBY
Ruby Rose (voiced in English by Lindsay Jones and in Japanese by Saori Hayami) is the main protagonist of the animated series RWBY.
This is the formal dress outfit that she wears in the episode ‘Dance Dance Infiltration’ in Season 2.
Ruby has black hair with red highlights, and silver eyes. For this outfit, she wears a red dress with a mesh top and black accents, and a black belt piece. It’s finished off with greyish tights, and black pumps.
Cosmo from Cucumber Quest
Cosmo is a talented inventor from the Space Kingdom in the webcomic Cucumber Quest. They help Cucumber and Almond occasionally throughout their quest. Cosmo has black hair and grey skin with pink freckles, which you can recreate with body paint and an eyeliner pen. They also have a pair of grey rabbit-like ears. Their clothes consist of a light purple shirt and black leggings under dark blue star-and-planet-themed shortalls. You can add the cosmic design with some fabric paint yourself. Accessorize with pink gloves, blue polarized glasses, and some star pins; a black one at your throat and two silver ones on the straps of your overall shorts.
The Pirate Captain from The Pirates! Band of Misfits
The Pirate Captain (voiced by Hugh Grant) is the main character in the stop-motion animation feature film The Pirates! Band of Misfits. The Captain leads his crew on an adventure to try and steal enough gold to win the Pirate of the Year award, but is plagued by bad luck as they strike ships without the bounty they seek, eventually coming in contact with Charles Darwin on the HMS Beagle. The Pirate Captain has a bushy red beard and wears a long red coat with gold details. His shirt and sash are different shades of yellow, while his pants are tan and his boots brown. He also carries a sword.
(Keigo Takami) Hawks from My Hero Academia
Hawks (voiced in Japanese by Yuichi Nakamura and in English by Zeno Robinson) is one of the main pro heroes in the anime/manga My Hero Academia.
He is currently the No.2 Pro Hero, and has a variety of ties to different groups, both current and former. His Quirk incorporates his wings, allowing him to fly and control individual feathers for attacks.
Hawks has golden messily spiked hair, and golden-brown eyes that he wears yellow goggles over, in tandem with ear protectors. His outfit is built for flight, streamlined for the black and gold underlayer, with bulky and warm tan outer layers. He wears a thick pair of black gloves, black socks, and black boots, and has a large set of red wings coming from his back.
Shino Aburame from Naruto
Shino Aburame (voiced by Shinji Kawada and Darek Stephen Prince) is a character from the anime and manga series Naruto. He is a member of Team 8, under Kurenai Yuhi, alongside Hinata Hyuga and Kiba Inuzuka. He can control bugs that live inside his body as part of his clan’s special technique. Members of the Aburame clan are known for wearing dark glasses that obscure their eyes, and Shino is no exception. In the original series, he also wears brown pants and a grey-green jacket with a high collar that covers his mouth. When creating your costume, try to find a jacket with a high-stand collar. In the later episodes of Shippuden, Shino wears a green hooded jacket with a black shirt beneath instead having the collar that covers the lower portion of his face. A cowl neck zip-up can serve this purpose well. During the Fourth Shinobi War, he also wears a Konoha standard-issue flak vest. No matter which version you choose, don’t forget your forehead protector, kunai pouch, sandals, and round sunglasses.
Chizome Akaguro/Stain from My Hero Academia
Stain (voiced in Japanese by Go Inoue and in English by Robert McCollum) is one of the initial antagonists in the series My Hero Academia/Boku no Hero Academia.
He is a villain known as the Hero Killer, and one of the main antagonists early on in the series, focusing on Iida’s part of the story.
Stain has extremely spiky and messy hair, and tiny red eyes that are framed by a tattered cream mask. He wears a thick red headband, a tattered red scarf, a black and grey tank top/vest combo, black pants, and a large variety of holsters, with spiked boots with knee guards, black bracers, a tan belt with a holster, and cream arm wraps. Also several blades.
Miss Hattie from Despicable Me
Miss Hattie (voiced by Kristen Wiig) is a minor antagonist in the Illumination film Despicable Me. She is the cruel operator of Miss Hattie’s Home for Girls where Margo, Edith, and Agnes live before they are adopted by Gru. Miss Hattie has brown hair and wears a pink cardigan with a red plaid skirt. The ruffled collar of her blouse sticks out over the collar of her sweater, and she wears a red gem brooch at her throat. Complete your costume with a coiffed wig, sheer stockings, and red shoes.
Baki Hanma from Baki the Grappler
Baki Hanma (voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki and Troy Baker in the 2018 anime) is the protagonist of Baki the Grappler. Baki trains as a fighter so he can surpass and defeat his father Yuujiro Hanma as vengeance for the death of his mother Emi Akezawa. Baki has shaggy brown hair and a beauty mark over his lip that resembles Emi’s. For your costume, you’ll need a pair of red shorts to emulate Baki’s preferred fighting uniform. While finding an exact match might be difficult, plenty of options exist that are very similar, so choose your favorite. You’ll also need white hand wraps and athletic tape, and you can use a pair of open-toed grip socks to protect your feet. Baki is covered in scars from his hard years of training, and you can use scar wax to recreate these. Depending on how many you decide to wear, you may need extra wax. Choose a concealer in your skin tone (the one linked comes in many) to conceal the edges. Finally, use a black eyebrow pencil to add your beauty mark and you’re ready for a fight!