Carbon Costume Women
Rochelle from The Craft
Peach and Daisy from Mario Sports Mix
While Princess Peach is instantly recognizable as Mushroom Kingdom’s damsel in distress in many of the Mario franchise’s games, her counterpart Princess Daisy is also a frequently appearing character in Mario spinoffs. In most titles, Daisy wears a variation of Peach’s dress with slightly different details and in a sunny orange and yellow color scheme. In the various Mario sports games, Peach and Daisy keep their respective palettes, but in athletic wear.
Sarah Bailey from The Craft
Sarah Bailey (Robin Tunney) is the new girl who moves to the Catholic school in 1996’s The Craft. Being a natural-born witch, She overcomes her fear and becomes the strongest of the four by the end of the film. Of all the teen girls, her personality is full of morality and maturity, always being the clear-headed and logical one.
Allison from Hocus Pocus
Allison (Vinessa Shaw) is the rich and confident girl in Max Dennison’s class from the 1993 film, Hocus Pocus.
Sidney Prescott
Sidney (Neve Campbell) is the main protagonist of the Scream series. In the original 1996 film Scream, she finds herself accusing her boyfriend of being the infamous “ghost face” killer.
Princess Tiana as Waitress
Arguably the most hardworking and ambitious of all of Disney’s princesses, Tiana (Anika Noni Rose) is the protagonist of The Princess and The Frog. She is a cook and waitress living in Jazz Age New Orleans, with the dream of opening her own restaurant. After a series of misadventures involving voodoo, bayou creatures, and a Maldonian prince, she eventually accomplishes her goal.
Bombshell Starfire
In the DC Bombshells universe, Starfire is a burlesque dancer, fire dancer, and member of Red Hood and the Outlaws. She performs in the circus and her costume is reminiscent of the burlesque dancers of the 1940’s.
Mai Valentine
In Yu-Gi-Oh!, a beautiful and largely arrogant duelist, Mai Valentine (Haruhi Terada / Megan Hollingshead) is a rival of Yugi Muto (Shunsuke Kazama / Dan Green) and his friends. She cons and seduces men out of money and victories with her faux-psychic powers and her Harpies deck. After spending more time with the protagonists of the series, however, she becomes less cold and hesitant to the idea of having actual friends.
Zoe Benson
The main protagonist of the TV series American Horror Story: Coven, Zoe Benson (Taissa Farmiga) finds herself at Miss Robichaux’s Academy for Exceptional Young Women after discovering that she has the unfortunate power to kill her lovers during sex. Through her eyes the viewers learn about the history of the Academy, the power struggles within and without and the difficulty of interpersonal conflicts with powerful witches. Within the coven she dresses the most like a classical witch, favoring a wide black hat.
Marianne Thornberry
Marianne Hunter Thornberry is the wife of Nigel Thornberry and the mother of Eliza Thornberry and Debbie Thornberry in the Nickelodeon TV series The Wild Thornberries. She’s the one behind the camera and edits the nature show that she and her husband Nigel created. Marianne is often the voice of reason in most situations.
