Carbon Costume

Ali G (Sacha Baron Cohen), real name Alistair Leslie Graham, is a white British suburban male who imitates urban rap and hip hop culture. He’s boorish, uneducated, and the very definition of a poser, spouting endless catchphrases like “aight”, “booyakasha”, and “respek”.

In Ready Player One, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan) is an orphaned teenager living in the slummy “stacks” of Columbus, Ohio. He passes his time in the virtual reality universe OASIS, where he controls his avatar Parzival as a Gunter who tries to win the Golden Easter Egg hunt so he can leave the stacks.

Taichi “Tai” Kamiya is the main protagonist in the anime Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure tri. He is a DigiDestined, partnered with Agumon, and the bearer of the Crest of Courage. He is the older brother of Kari Kamiya. His appearance is based on Taichi Yagami, the human protagonist of the Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 manga, who in turn was based on Kentarou Kamon from the C’mon Digimon: The capering monster BUN one-shot. The goggles he wears are a characteristic that would eventually become shared among the leaders of the various DigiDestined in Digimon.

In Fullmetal Alchemist, Shou Tucker is the Sewing-Life Alchemist. Edward Elric and Colonel Roy Mustang pay a visit to his estate, where they meet him and his young daughter Nina. The clothes and shoes are self-explanatory, but if you haven’t figured it out, we’ll leave the dog and wig to your imagination.

A favorite henchman among James Bond fans, Jaws (Richard Kiel) is a brute of a man, tall and strong, with signature metal teeth that can cut through steel. He appears in two films: The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, working for different villains in each one. In The Spy who Loved Me he never sided with Bond, but in Moonraker he meets a girl named Dolly and decides to join forces with Bond against his employer. While Jaws usually appears in a suit, go for his more distinctive look of shirt and suspenders to really make an impression.

In Digimon Adventure 02, Tai Kamiya is Kari’s older brother who was the original leader of the Digidestined. He now attends high school and has given up his goggles to Davis.

In the 2017 adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express, Ratchett (Johnny Depp) is a wealthy American criminal who fears for his life upon boarding the train. Because he deals in art forgeries, the costume designer chose clothing that would be elegant and upscale, but mismatched and out of place in Europe at the time.

In It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Ongo Gablogian is an alias of Frank Reynolds (Danny Devito), a white-haired art collector with undetermined accent who’s more than a little reminiscent of Andy Warhol. He’s not one to shy away from calling out art that he feels is derivative.