Popular male character costume ideas for Cosplay and Halloween
The Sack Boy (Little Big Planet) Costume
Sackboy looks like any other do-it-yourself doll. He’s made of brown wooly fabric and is probably filled with stuffing. While you obviously can’t be filled with stockings, you can still look like Sackboy. All you need to do is wear an all-brown ensemble and add a few details, like fake stitching and a silver zipper.
Pinhead (Hellraiser) Costume
Pinhead’s known for his sadistic torture of his prisoners as well as his iconic, gruesome appearance. Pinhead looks terrifyingly unforgettable. He has a sickly pale pallor. His bald head has hundreds of pins stuck on it. He wears a dominantly leather ensemble, as well.
Crash Bandicoot Costume
Crash’s outfit is fairly simple (if you’re a bandicoot). He only wears a pair of blue denim shorts and red high-cut sneakers, after all. But if you don’t have bright orange skin you might want to wear something on top.
Billy the Puppet (Saw) Costume
Since Billy is actually a puppet, his face is in the same style of a puppet, but with scary features like red eyes and crazy black hair.
Micheal Myers Costume
Michael Myers costume is wearing blue coveralls with an intimidating white mask covering his entire face.
The A Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy Kreuger Costume
Freddy Kreuger’s costume is a plain red and brown striped long-sleeved sweater, black pants, and a hat. What’s more uncommon is his deadly glove.
Chucky (Child’s Play) Costume
Chucky costume looks like a Good Guys doll when newly resurrected but over the years, he has gained many imperfections. He wears a multicolor striped sweater, blue overalls, and red sneakers.
War Boy (Nux) from Mad Max Costume
War Boys often wear only a pair of dark cargo pants with a big belt and motorcycle boots. However, some of them may have other accessories such as gloves or goggles on.
Immortan Joe Costume
Immortan Joe costume is a skull-shaped breathing mask, a see-through plastic upper body and arms armor decorated with countless rank medals, white bandage gauntlets, a big black belt with holsters, white pants and white cape, and black boots.
Mad Max Rockatansky Costume
Max Rockatansky costume is a brown T-shirt under a torn black leather jacket, a pair of brown pants, tactical boots, bandaged gloves and a black scarf to cover his face.
Ninja Brian Costume
Ninja Brian costume is a black ninja hood, a black long-sleeved shirt with double yellow vipers and yellow Chinese alphabet on it, black pants, and black sneakers.
Black Mask Costume
Black Mask costume is a full-head skull-like mask in carbon black color. He is often seen wearing a neat business suit, especially the white one with a black shirt, black gloves, a white necktie, white business pants, and white formal shoes.
Big Bad Wolf Costume
Big Bad Wolf has a wolf head, hairy arms and claws, and hairy wolf feet. He wears a long sleeved plaid shirt with brown pants with suspenders. He also wear a straw hat to cover his terrifying face.
Ash Williams Costume
Ash Williams costume is rugged denim shirt, hardy black work boots, whirling bloody chainsaw, and encompasses the part of a zombie killing machine.
Dr. Horrible Costume
Follow the typical scientist costume and then add a few accessories, special to Dr. Horrible’s character at the end.
The Red Panda Costume
The red panda doesn’t actually look like a panda. It looks more like a cross between a bear, a raccoon, a skunk, while being roughly the size of a cat. Red pandas have an orange-red fur with white-detailed ears. They have a long furry tail and very huggable body.
Mituna Captor from Homestuck Costume
Mituna dresses like Litula Pyrope but in different colors. His is a combination of black and yellow. He also has on a yellow helmet with a red-blue visor while his four horns are visible.
Commander Cody (CC-224) Costume
CC-224, or Cody, is a commander of the clone army during the Clone Wars. Cody looks like any clone trooper. He wears a battle-worn white trooper suit with orange details.
Big Boss Costume
Big Boss costume is a green military shirt and pants, upper and lower arm guards, suspenders, a utility belt, an eye patch, a black head scarf, and military boots.
Nightcrawler Costume
Nightcrawler has yellow eyes, fangs, point ears, and a long tail. He wears a red leather jacket over a black T-shirt and brown pants with bare feet.
Zapp Brannigan Costume
Zapp Brannigan costume is a red captain uniform which looks a lot like a short dress with long sleeves and a black belt. He also wears long plain white gloves and white boots.
Syndrome (The Incredibles) Costume
Syndrome’s costume is very modern and chic as it’s colored black and white. It perfectly contrasts with his flaming orange hair. Plus, the navy blue cape looks impeccable. You know he planned his superhero debut to the last detail.
Paddington Bear Costume
Paddington Bear is one of the most beloved bears in the world (and probably the most beloved in the UK). Paddington is cute, light brown bear with a very distinct outfit. He loves wearing a red bucket hat from his Uncle, and a blue button-down coat he got from the Browns. He’s also very partial to his brown suitcase.
Thanos Costume
Thanos's large, muscular body is a big part of his character and definitely what most people focus on, which is why his outfit is pretty simple with minimal accessories.
Leonardo Da Vinci Costume
Leonardo Da Vinci is often depicted as having long silver hair with an equally long silver beard. The style of his clothes mimic the Renaissance fashion of artists and painters of the time.
Inigo Montoya (The Princess Bride) Costume
Inigo Montoya costume is very much like a medieval man who prefers the color brown. He has on a cream tunic, a brown vest, brown pants, and brown boots. Plus, he always has his sword on hand.
Draco Malfoy Costume
In the movie, Draco Malfoy doesn’t have a problem wearing muggle clothes and looks very dashing in his all black ensemble.
Dean Winchester (Supernatural) Costume
Dean doesn’t stick to particular pieces of clothing but he does have an over-all sense of fashion: functional, dark, and layered. The Winchester brothers may have an affinity with plaid but they don’t actually wear it all the time, you know.
Doctor Strange Costume
Doctor Strange’s superhero outfit is an interesting combination of classical superhero elements with Nepalese monk clothing to create one of the coolest Marvel superhero getups ever seen.
Ant-man Costume
Ant Man costume is a full-body suit with black and red colored patterns. He also wears a helmet, a tactical belt, black gloves, black boots.
Star Lord (Peter Quill) Costume
Star Lord wears a light blue T-shirt, a red leather jacket, reddish brown pants with a tactical belt, and black boots.
Quicksilver (The Avengers) Costume
Marvel's Quicksilver wears a long-sleeved sport shirt with gray and blue color patterns, dark sport styled pants, and gray sneakers.
Falcon (Avengers) Costume
Falcon costume is a black top armor, black tactical pants, black boots with knee pads and finger-less gloves, a utility belt, and a pair of red goggles.
Captain America Costume
Captain America costume is a red, white, and blue shirt with a star and stripes. He also wears a helmet with an alphabet A, blue pants, hand gloves, and combat boots.
T'Challa / Black Panther Costume
T'Challa's Black Panther suit includes black leather full-body suit, claw gloves, Black Panther helmet, and black boots.
Silver Surfer (Fantastic Four) Costume
As the herald of Galactus, his form looks like a man but with a clean, smooth silver metal look all over his body. His surfboard looks like this metal material as well.
The Satan Costume
For Satan costume, let’s assume that he’s like the regal king of the fallen complete with his beautiful red pitchfork and satin clothes.
Lifeguard Costume
A lifeguard costume is to wear a top and bottom that identifies their profession, and needs to have a saving device with them.
Casey Jones Costume
Casey Jones costume is a sleeveless denim vest over his plain white tee, light gray pants, and a hockey mask in front of his face.
Ghostbuster's Slimer Costume
Slimer is made up of 100% Ectoplasm and that’s why he’s the neon bright green color that he is.