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Valentine from Skullgirls
Valentine (voiced by Asami Imai and Laura Post) is an antagonist from the fighting game Skullgirls. A surviving member of the Last Hope, Valentine aids Brain Drain in kidnapping and transforming Painwheel. Valentine has blue hair she wears in a ponytail. Her dress looks a lot like a sexy nurse uniform, and you can update your costume to be more accurate with pink fabric paint on the dress and cap. She also wears white flats, bandages wrapped around her calves, and white gloves. She carries a hacksaw. You can tie pink ribbon into shape and glue it to your leg wraps to get closer to her look from the game. Lastly, Valentine wears a patch over her heavily scarred right eye, so you’ll need an adhesive eye patch.
Lisa Garland from Silent Hill and Dead by Daylight
Lisa Garland (voiced by Thessaly Lerner in Silent Hill and Maude Théberge in Dead by Daylight) is a nurse at Alchemilla Hospital. She is responsible for treating Alessa Gillespie. Lisa’s appearance is mostly the same between the two franchises, though she is a bit rougher-looking in the more recent Dead by Daylight. Her costume consists of a white nurse’s dress and cap, as well as a red cropped sweater and matching heels. She wears an armband and name tag that say “SP.” To recreate these accessories, you can wrap a bandage around your upper bicep and handwrite the designation. You can do the same with a name tag.
Cassie Thomas from Promising Young Woman
In Promising Young Woman, Cassandra “Cassie” Thomas (Carey Mulligan) is a med school dropout who now takes revenge on predatory men by pretending to be drunk at clubs and bars, letting men take her home, and revealing her sobriety when they try to take advantage of her. In her latest act of vengeance, Cassie poses as a stripper dressed in a nurse outfit to reach her target at his bachelor party.
The Nurse from Dead by Daylight
Sally Smithson became a nurse at Crotus Prenn Asylum after she was widowed as a newlywed. After decades of abuse at the hands of patients and fellow staff, she strangled them all in one night and vanished. As the ghoulish Nurse, she serves the Entity of Dead by Daylight as a killer, teleporting across the playing field using the last breaths she stole from her victims. The Nurse carries a hacksaw and wears a white dress. Her appearance is made all the more creepy by the white hood she wears over her face. You can purchase a zentai hood or use a white pillowcase for this part of her costume, as either will evoke the same terrifying effect.
Alex Jones from Supernatural
Annie Jones, better known as Alex (played by Katherine Ramdeen) was abducted as a small child by a family of vampires who used her as a lure for unsuspecting men, and as a blood slave when there were no other sources of food available to them. Alex is eventually rescued by Sam and Dean, and is left in the care of Jody Mills. Alex eventually becomes a nurse, while still hunting as well as the rest of her adopted family.
Nurse Mildred Ratched from Ratched
In the Netflix series Ratched, Sarah Paulson plays the impeccably dressed and increasingly evil Mildred Ratched. Nurse Ratched was first introduced to the world as the primary antagonist of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The Netflix series serves as a prequel to the film, charting Nurse Ratched’s origins and how she became the tyrannical battleax she is known as in pop culture. To create Ratched’s nurse outfit, your best bet will be to find white items and dye them the appropriate shade of teal. While this may seem intimidating, using Rit fabric dye is actually a very simple and straightforward process, and by following the directions on the bottle, you will be able to better mimic the beautiful color of Ratched’s uniform, which is difficult to find ready-made.
Hello Nurse
In Animaniacs, Hello Nurse is a buxom studio nurse who Yakko and Wakko constantly fawn over. Naturally they do their best to get injured so they can get her attention, exclaiming “hellooooooo, nurse” whenever she enters the room. It’s later revealed that not only is she beautiful but that she has a genius IQ of 192.
Bainsley
In The Zero Theorem, Bainsley (Melanie Thierry) first enters Qohen Leth’s life when she saves him from choking on an olive at a party. She continues to show interest in the odd computer programmer, which seems a bit odd itself.
Enema of the State Nurse
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.
Nurse Joker
Heath Ledger once described his depiction of the
Joker as a “psychopathic, mass murdering, schizophrenic clown with zero empathy.” Clearly, this Joker isn’t afraid to do what needs to be done, even if it means cross dressing in a nurse’s dress.
