Darkseid Costume

As a lifelong DC comic fan, I always been fascinated by the intergalactic tyrant Darkseid. How powerful he is and the authority he holds in that universe.

For a costume, I picked up that he had some Roman gladiator type of motif, so I went to a fabrics store and cut pieces of a emerald type blue felt and electrical taped it onto a cheap gladiator kilt I purchased online. I used pajama pants and tall Tommy Hilfiger navy blue rain boots for the lower half of the outfit.

The upper torso consisted of a stonewashed looming long sleeve gray t shirt with purplish blue gloves and a pajama t shirt I owned that I cut off the sleeves and adhesived on a horse shoe insignia patch.

A big part to me was the light up eyes. I got a pull over bavaclava that covered these light up red eye glasses which I was able to control from my pocket. It had three speeds, regular, flicking and slow speed. This was to simulate the character’s “alpha beams”.

Last but not least came the mask which was a mummified mask that I just painted in safe non toxic gray from an arts and crafts store in two coats.