Carbon Costume

In the HBO series Girls, Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) stars as a hip twenty-something from Brooklyn. She aspires to become a famous writer, but manages to bungle up pretty much everything, including her outfits, along the way.

In Buffalo ’66, Billy Brown (Vincent Gallo) is finally released from prison for a crime he didn’t commit. Sensibly, the first thing he does when he gets out is kidnap a tap dancer named Layla and “span time” with her at the bowling alley.

In Orange is the New Black, Morello (Yael Stone) is one of the sweeter inmates at Litchfield. She makes the newbies feel at home with her kind personality and gifts of toothbrushes and toothpaste. She’s a romantic at heart and is constantly talking about her plans for her wedding to fiance Christopher. In season two, we learn that her fairy tale romance may not be all that it seems to be. At least she manages to always look put together with her curled hair and red lips, despite the drab clothing.

In the Fargo TV series, Lorne Malvo (Billy Bob Thornton) is a hitman that passes through Bemidji. In a chance encounter with Lester Nygaard in a hospital waiting room, he convinces Lester about the virtues of violent revenge. Aces!

In the video game Watch Dogs, Aiden Pearce hacks computer systems in order to bring justice to those responsible for his niece’s death. Don’t let the baseball cap fool you — Aiden is a gray hat hacker all the way.

In the FX television adaptation of Fargo, Lester Nygaard (Martin Freeman) is a polite and meek insurance salesman from Bemidji, Minnesota. After he’s pushed over the edge by his old high school bully and then his abusive wife, boy does he embraces his darker side.

“Everybody’s talking about his tight pants.” Well it’s hard not to talk about or look at Jimmy Fallon’s tight white pants especially when he’s performing those hip shaking moves. Now, the important question is who wore it better – Will Ferrell or Jennifer Lopez?

In Pacific Rim, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi) is an officer of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps and Raleigh Becket’s badass co-pilot. She lost her family in a Kaiju attack when she was a little girl, so she has a score to settle.

For those who never played the mid-90’s LucasArts graphic adventure game, Day of the Tentacle (a sequel to Maniac Mansion), let me be the first to say: you’re missing out, man. This game was LEGIT. A diabolical, disembodied purple tentacle tries to take over the world, portable toilets are equipped for time travel, and there’s a head-banging roadie name ‘Hoagie’. Trippy space-cadet and med-school student, Laverne, is one of the three main characters. She flutters about the screen in a gangly way with her wonky eye and wacky giggle. And eventually…she saves the day. Snag her style – complete with scalpel and nerdy protagonist-pal, Bernard.

Based on Alan Moore’s Hellblazer comics, John Constantine (Matt Ryan) can see the supernatural in our everyday world. He must do all he can, including the morally questionable, in the fight against the evil paranormal. You can simply substitute a black tie to dress up as Keanu Reeves’s Constantine. Whoa.