Carbon Costume

…Rose started out as a normal nineteen-year-old shopgirl until the Doctor blew up her shop (there were Autons inside at the time – don’t ask). But given the choice between an ordinary life and adventure through all of time and space, Rose chose the latter. Hey, who wouldn’t?…

…Accidentally drawn onto the Doctor’s ship on her wedding day, Donna Noble never thought she’d see the lonely alien man again. But unable to get him out of her mind, she began searching for him wherever something strange or paranormal cropped up, eventually joining him as a full-time companion….

…What can you say about the Doctor that hasn’t already been said over his show’s fifty-year history? He’s nine hundred years old, he’s an alien and he travels through time and space in a 1963 blue police call box. Also, sometimes he looks like Christopher Eccleston and that’s pretty fantastic….

…er, which has rocket boosters built into the wheels. Hector Salamanca from Breaking Bad In Breaking Bad, Hector Salamanca (see costume guide) is a former drug gang member who is still much feared, despite being wheelchair-bound and left without the ability to speak. Instead, he communicates using an old brass service bell attached to his wheelchair, and whose rings are more menacing than you could ever have thought possible. Artie Abrams from Glee…

…Gary King (Simon Pegg) is the protagonist of the 2014 action comedy sci-fi film The World‘s End, the conclusion to the Cornetto Trilogy. He reunites his high school friends in order to partake in the “Golden Mile”, a challenge to travel to every pub in their hometown and drink at each stop leading up to The World‘s End….

…Highly intelligent, intensely curious, wildly theoretical and with a penchant for sneezing, professor of Egyptology Daniel Jackson (James Spader) from the 1994 sci-fi flick Stargate traipses across an unknown world in search of knowledge, exploration and, unexpectedly, love. While off-world, he wears a loose robe and shawls given to him by the local tribe over his standard army clothes….

…we first see Nezumi, he’s 12 year old and very badly injured, and ends up breaking into Shion’s house, where the latter offers to treat his wound, despite having just been threatened by him. A few years later, he helps Shion escape from No.6 when he’s being brought to a correctional facility and brings him to his home in West Block, showing him the world outside of No.6, sharing classical literature and theater with him, and eventually developing…

…while these seaweed wrapped crackers made in appearance in Star Trek: The Search for Spock. If your costume hails from a specific time period you can also look up popular snacks and candy from the period and stock up on a few to savor on Halloween night! Don’t Forget Decor Food and music are absolutely vital for getting in-character and staying there. But you don’t want to skip on decor either. Unlike most Halloweens you are going to want to skip…

…Half-ninja and the fourth evil ex of Ramona Flowers, Roxie Richter (Mae Whitman) embraces the line between industrial goth and lazy ninja. Dressed in all black, save for the silver belt and red lipstick, you can easily steal her look from a trip to Hot Topic and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Although, you may have to put holes in the tights yourself. Bonus points if you can do it while disappearing in a cloud of smoke….

…Scott Pilgrim has other things to concern himself with other than his wardrobe, like playing bass and fighting Ramona’s seven evil exes. Thus, he keeps what he’s wearing as simple as his mind. His only real accessory is a wristband to match his ringer T-shirts but maybe that means he does care about fashion, just a little….