Popular ninja character costume ideas for Cosplay and Halloween
A ninja is a covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan. They were also sometimes used as assassins. The word "ninja" is derived from the Japanese characters (shinobu), meaning "to steal, to plot". Here are some ideas for costumes if you want to dress up as a ninja for Halloween or cosplay.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Costume
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' costume can be DIY-ed with a turtle shirt, green long sleeved-shirts, and tights. Then, get a TMNT backpack, eye masks, and pieces of clothes to wear on the limbs.
Shredder's Costume from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Shredder's costume can be recreated by wearing a gray top and kiln. He has a metallic ensemble featuring a helmet, arm guards, and shin guards. Complete the look with a purple cape.
Vega's Costume from Street Fighter
Vega's costume comes with a muscle shirt with a snake print, purple shorts, and a red waist cloth. He has a mask and blades coming off his fist, too.
Jiraiya Costume
Jiraiya’s costume is a sage green kimono tunic and trouser combo, arm guards and calf leggings, a kimono outercoat, a ninja headband, and Japanese red wooden clogs.
Obito Uchiha Costume
Obito Uchiha’s costume is a long-sleeved dark gray turtleneck top, dark gray sweatpants, dark gray leather gloves, ninja boots, an Akatsuki cloak, and a special Obito Uchiha mask.
Minato Namikaze Costume
Minato Namikaze’s costume is a long-sleeved blue shirt, blue pants with white bandage wraps, a green vest, a ninja headband, black ninja shoes, and a fourth hokage cloak.
Mai Shiranui (Fatal Fury) Costume
Mai Shiranui wears a sexy version of a red kimono with a halter top, a pony tail, and red shoes.
Coon (South Park) Costume
The Coon’s costume is a white shirt, a dark gray denim jacket, dark gray pants, black shoes, a utility belt, a red hero cape, raccoon ears and tail, and finger claws.
Psylocke Costume
Psylocke’s costume is a blue one-piece high cut thong bodysuit, blue stretch gloves, blue thigh-high stockings, blue bands, and a hot pink sash belt.
Sakura Haruno Costume from Naruto
Sakura Haruno's costume has a red top, pink shorts, long leg warmers, and ninja sandals. She also has pink hair and a forehead protector with a red strap.
Killer B (Naruto) Costume
Recreate Killer B's outfit with one-shoulder top with a white cloth then style it with a red rope around the the waist. Wear gray pants, shin guards, and ninja sandals, too. Complete the look with a white wig, shades, forehead protector, and swords.
ANBU Black Ops' (Naruto) Costume
ANBU Black Ops costume is a ninja vest, pants, sandals and animal printed mask
Storm Shadow's (G.I. Joe) Costume
Storm Shadow's costume is an all-white sight with a vest, a long sleeved top, and matching pants. Complete the look with a white holster, shoes, and a balaclava mask.
Roxy Richter (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) Costume
Roxy Richter’s costume is a black top, black skirt, a cropped black jacket, black floral tights, and black Uggs. Roxy Richter is one of Ramona’s Evil Exes.
Rock Lee (Naruto) Costume
Rock Lee's iconic green costume can be recreated with a long sleeved top and tights. Style it with the iconic Konoha head gear used as a belt. Finish the look with his signature bowl cut hair and thick eyebrows.
Stealth Elf (Skylanders) Costume
Stealth Elf is an cunning and sneaky elven ninja. She has green skin and blue, braided hair. She wears a black cropped tank top, brown pants, and a face mask.
The Karate Kid Costume
Jaden Smith's Karate Kid reboot costume a white sleeveless top, red karate pants, black socks, and black shoes. His hair is in cornrows, too.
Gaara (Naruto Shippuden) Costume
Gaara costume is a red tunic-style coat with one-shoulder grey tactical vest and belts, dark trousers, and sandals. He carries a gourd. His hair is red and has a red tattoo on his forehead.
Shego Costume
Shego costume is your typical super-villain or super-hero skin tight body suit, but her special edgy twist is on the colors.
Iron Fist Costume
Iron Fist costume is a T-shirt with the Iron Fist symbol on it, an opened military green jacket, brown cargo pants, a yellow belt, a yellow mask, yellow finger-less gloves, and brown combat boots.
Kakashi Hatake Costume
Kakashi Hatake costume has a very cool and edgy sort of style, and combined with his cold but protective personality, he has an appeal that reaches many.
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.
Kenshi (Mortal Kombat) Costume
Truly a warrior, Kenshi dresses like one as well. He wears an all-black body suit with dark grey armor, a white sash with a red bandanna, and a blood red cloth covering his eyes. He even has a deadly Sento in hand.
Mortal Kombat's Ermac Costume
Ermac is quite a unique and more complex character than any other in the series. No matter how convoluted his back story is, his origin in the series remains humble. Ermac started out with the same ninja costume that characters like Scorpion and Sub Zero wore but his is in the color red.
Noob Saibot (Mortal Kombat) Costume
Noob Saibot wears an all-black ensemble. From his black long-sleeved top to his plain black sneakers, Noob Saibot is a definite creature of the shadows.
Mortal Kombat's Frost Costume
Frost’s attire is the female counterpart of Sub Zero’s with the same shade of blue and the ninja-like uniform. Their biggest difference is that Frost’s hair is visible and she sports an ice white, spiky hairdo.
Reptile (Mortal Kombat) Costume
Reptile is unquestioningly loyal to those he serves and he makes the best kind of minion since he doesn’t have an ambitious bone to his body. Reptile’s appearance now is a humanoid creature with reptilian skin but when he was first introduced, he simply looked like a green garbed ninja wearing a green mask.
Smoke (Mortal Kombat) Costume
An Enenra (supernatural creature), Smoke still retains his human form. He wears simple martial arts attire in the color black with silver details and he wears a mask over his face.
Sub Zero (Mortal Kombat) Costume
Kuai Liang as Sub Zero wears an outfit as cold and icy as his powers. He wears a typical martial arts uniform tinged with blue, arm and leg guards, an icy blue mask, and wields an Ice Sword.
Kano (Mortal Kombat) Costume
Kano outfit is a simple black and red martial arts outfit but with upgraded accessories like his modern looking utility sash and mechanical half-mask.
Scorpion (Mortal Kombat) Costume
Despite all his rotten luck, Scorpion still creates opportunities for the good side to win and that’s why many people love him. Scorpion looks like a typical martial arts aficionado in his get up. Like other fighters, he wears a typical martial arts uniform and a mask with added accessories.
Master Udon (SpongeBob SquarePants) Costume
This masterful conman may have lots of creative tricks up his sleeves, but he’s still no match for SpongeBob and the gang. Here’s everything you need to look like Master Udon
Jack Burton (Big Trouble in Little China) Costume
Jack Burton costume are a very tight tank top, a pair of light washed jeans, and knee-high boots when he’s out battling crazy Chinese cults