If you’ve been to a convention recently (or anywhere where people might cosplay), you may have come across a weird sight. Grown men wearing what looks like heart-covered boxers. They may also have a little cat plushie with them. And you might’ve wracked your mind, trying to think of what fandom could produce such an odd combo.
Somehow, something hadn’t occurred to me, perhaps ever, until I saw the recent—and pretty good—Marvel Zombies series on Disney+. But it opens so many avenues for cosplay. It gives someone a template.
In articles like this, I usually do a little introduction to tell people about a piece of media that they maybe don’t know about. But like, is that really necessary for this one?
Magic: The Gathering is great for fantasy cosplayers—as I have pointed out multiple times—but besides a few cards, it’s never had much to appeal to the science fiction fans. And though the two are often lumped together when talking about genres, they are very different in a lot of ways.
SecUnit from The Murderbot Diaries feels like an easy choice for a cosplay. But the visual references we’ve had are the covers of the books. We can’t really get into the details.
Some cosplays just feel served on a silver platter. This is one of them. The Fantastic Four are back, and this time they’re part of an anachronistic MCU project that seems to be aiming for a completely different vibe than a lot of the other movies.
It’s cold outside. I live in Florida, and though most people wouldn’t consider the temperature that bad here, it still feels cold to me. And it got me thinking about characters that have snow/ice powers, or even just have that as a theme. It’s visually distinct, certainly. Which dovetails quite nicely into cosplay.
Sometimes, a pop culture figure hits the scene—either because they feature in a new project, or even an adaptation—and instantly signals that they’re going to be a cosplay mainstay.
I said I’d do more of these lists—and I meant it. Here are five more Planeswalkers from Magic: The Gathering that would be cool to cosplay.
Five years ago—yes, really—I wrote an article saying that Magic: The Gathering is a great media property for cosplay. But I never gave a list of some ideas. That was a massive oversite on my part. So, I figured I’d do something about it by going over five Magic characters that would make for an interesting cosplay challenge.
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