Carbon Costume

In His Dark Materials, Lee Scoresby (Lin-Manuel Miranda) is a skilled aëronaut balloonist. He’s hired by the Gyptians to safely transport Lyra Belacqua to Svalbard. Lee’s dæmon is an arctic hare named Hester.

In Star Wars: The Last Jedi, General Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) is on the deck of her flagship Raddus when the crew is expelled into deep space. Using the Force, Leia makes her way back to the ship and suppresses Poe Dameron. With the help of her brother Luke Skywalker, who distracts Kylo Ren, she makes her escape aboard the Millennium Falcon. For this costume, the star pieces are definitely the dazzling jewelry Leia wears, which stands out even more against her simple clothing.

In Danganronpa, Tsumugi Shirogane is a student of the Ultimate Academy for Gifted Juveniles and the Ultimate Cosplayer. Tsumugi is quiet and dresses like a plain otaku, but has a wild imagination when it comes to anime and likes to recite quotes from her favorite ones. She also designs costumes, although she makes them for others and never for herself.

In The Office episode “The Carpet”, Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) reflects on being a friendly boss with his staff, and then reminisces about his old boss Ed Truck who was no-nonsense and no fun. The camera flashes to an old Dunder Mifflin staff newsletter photo where a young Michael Scott — mullet, fanny pack, and all — is shaking hands with Ed after receiving top sales honors.

In Danganronpa, Junko Enoshima is a popular student at Hope’s Peak Academy and the Ultimate Fashionista. Along with her school uniform, she likes to wear her strawberry blonde hair in long ponytails and has long red nails. Also, black and white bear hair clips she wears represent the two sides of Junko’s personality.

In Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku o!, Megumin is a 13 year-old archwizard. A member of the Crimson Demon Clan, she has black hair, red eyes, and wears a classic black and red witch’s attire. As a wizard, Megumin has an extreme obsession with explosion magic.

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In Silicon Valley, Gwart (Nandini Bapat) is an up and coming programmer that Jared Dunn discovers at the Hacker Hostel. Gwart is eccentric to say the least, a woman of few words who has a taste for artichoke cooked rare, leaves and all. For Gwart’s costume, you can opt for the coke bottle glasses true to her character or the more screen accurate tortoise half-rims with ultra-strong prescription.

In Alvin and the Chipmunks, Jeanette Miller (voiced by Janice Karman) is the second of the Chipettes, younger than Brittany and older than Eleanor. She is the absent-minded professor type of the group, gifts with extraordinary intelligence that leaves her contemplating the universe while tripping over her own feet and knocking things over. In a sense she’s most similar to Theodore, but gets along best with Simon due to their shared interests. Jeanette has brown hair and green or blue eyes, and her signature color is purple.

In Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, it’s the year 2040 and Bruce Wayne has retired from crime-fighting, passing on the mantle of Batman to high schooler Terry McGinnis. This is when Joker (voiced by Mark Hamill) resurfaces in Neo-Gotham City, taking over the Jokerz gang and going on a crime spree.