Carbon Costume

Blink-182’s 1999 release Enema of the State was a runaway success. The album cover features Janine Lindemulder in a scantily clad nurse’s uniform, which probably had something to do with that.

In X-Men: Days of Future Past, speed is the name of the game for Quicksilver (Evan Peters). With the ability to move faster than sound, he’s spent a good part of his teen years as a petty thief. That is until he’s called to a greater cause – one to help the X-Men.

In Misfits, Simon Bellamy (Iwan Rheon) is a shy outcast who gains the power of invisibility. He eventual becomes Superhoodie, a masked superhero whose choice of costume is part motocross, part paintball.

David Wooderson (Matthew McConaughey) is a 20-something-year-old who still hangs out with high schoolers in Dazed and Confused. But for him that’s “alright, alright, alright” because even though he gets older, the high school girls stay the same age.

In Left 4 Dead, Zoey is a film major who likes skipping classes to watch horror movies. Little does she know she’s about to live through one when everyone around her becomes infected with the Green Flu.

Mr. Larson (Richard Kiel) is an imposing character in Happy Gilmore not only because of his threatening T-shirts but also because of his ability to bend golf clubs with his bare hands. So Shooter McGavin shouldn’t take his threats idly especially when Mr. Larson tells him that “you can count on me waiting for you in the parking lot.”

In the Nintendo series Punch-Out!!, Little Mac is a scrappy underdog boxer who’s trained with Doc Louis. He’s worked his way up from the bottom to face Mike Tyson, Mr. Dream, and even make an appearance in the next Super Smash Bros.

After running afoul of a local mobster, Dr. Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson) is burned and disfigured. As luck would have it, his research is on synthetic skin for burn victims. Only drawback? It disintegrates when subject to light. He sensibly seeks his revenge in the dark, going by the name Darkman.

In Black Butler (Kuroshitsuji), Grell Sutcliff is a grim reaper who initially works as Madame Red’s butler. After he becomes… disgruntled with this position, he takes over and dons his signature red coat. Grell is equal parts flamboyant and sadistic, and has an unhealthy fixation with Sebastian Michaelis, to his dismay.

In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, District 3, which is considered an upper-middle class district, serves as the technology district for all of Panem. They, like the other districts, are still held under the president’s regime. Smart and knowledgeable, the citizens of District 3 were once the rebels, who started the first uprising.