Carbon Costume Men
Greg Sestero
Greg Sestero is an American actor, model, producer, and author. He is best known for his role as Mark in the 2003 cult film The Room directed by Tommy Wiseau and for his award-winning 2013 memoir The Disaster Artist about his life and experience making The Room. The Disaster Artist was later in 2017 made into a film, where Sestero was portrayed by actor Dave Franco.
Benny from Fallout: New Vegas
Benny is one of the main villains of the Obsidian Entertainment action role-playing video game Fallout: New Vegas. He first appears in the opening cutscene, shooting the player Courier in the head and stealing his Platinum Chip. When Courier recovers, he makes it his duty to get revenge from Benny, eventually stumbling upon a conspiracy surrounding the city of New Vegas, where his Platinum Chip is the key to an upcoming war for Hoover Dam between the New California Republic and Caesar’s Legion.
Ben Hanscom
In Stephen King’s It, Ben Hanscom (Jeremy Ray Taylor) is a member of the Losers Club due to being overweight and bullied at school. He counts among his friends Richie Tozier, Beverly Marsh, and Eddie Kaspbrak.
Vulture
In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Vulture (Michael Keaton) is the nickname of Adrian Toomes, the owner of a salvage company turned supervillain after the government and Iron Man put him out of business. Vulture clashes against Spider-Man, sometimes even while the latter is wearing his homemade costume.
Comic Book Guy
The Simpsons’ Comic Book Guy is notoriously pedantic, annoying, and above all else, lonely. You may want to trim the wig a little bit to really capture his receding hairline. Also: grabbing a slushie from your local 7-Eleven on the way to your event would definitely help breathe authenticity into this cosplay.
Tetsuo from Akira
Akira is a timeless and critically-acclaimed anime from 1988 in which a biker gang in cyberpunk Neo-Tokyo clashes with a secret government telekinesis program. One of the bikers, Tetsuo, is granted unstoppable telekinetic abilities after accidentally colliding with one of the program’s ESPers. Finally powerful for the first time in his life, Tetsuo begins to lose his grip on reality as he abuses his newfound powers and they begin to grow out of his control.
Eddie Kaspbrak
In Stephen King’s It, Eddie Kaspbrak (Jack Dylan Grazer) is a sickly hypochondriac boy, though his broken arm is quite real. He might get that from his domineering mother, who is constantly worrying about his health. He only truly feels well when he’s with this friends in the Losers Club, including the likes of Richie Tozier, and Bev Marsh.
Mike Wheeler
Woodsman from Twin Peaks
In Twin Peaks: The Return, the woodsman is a mysterious being associated with the Black Lodge that takes the form of a disheveled man with an Abe Lincoln beard. He’s a man of few words, often standing motionless except for the occasional “gotta light?”
