cosplay – Chris Wildrick

These are two cosplays based on the 2016 Vote Loki miniseries, which later inspired the look of President Loki, who appeared briefly in the far future in the MCU.

I will be playing with the idea of Variants–an MCU Loki concept–with these cosplays, adding to and changing them over time. I call these two looks “Suit Loki” and “Western Loki.” They are technically just different clothes for the same Loki as opposed to truly different Variants. Loki has a kind of complicated history in the last 10 or 15 years in the comics. There was standard Evil Loki, who died so he could be reborn and forgiven as Kid Loki, who sacrificed himself as well. Then we got teen Loki (born from a raven named Ikol who was actually the old Loki, sort of) in Young Avengers and Agent of Asgard, who became the God of Stories (and increasingly embraced gender fluidity). They then took a trip out of the timeline into the “present.” In-between then and the God of Stories’ recent reappearance, we got Vote Loki, a more adult version of Loki, who then continued on in other appearances (including a stint as Sorcerer Supreme). Currently, even more Variance has been happening with Loki in Defenders and Immortal Thor, with changes coming quickly enough that it’s not worth recapping at the moment except to say that they embrace recent evolutions and create even more.

All of which is to say that these Loki costumes will include a lot of Variants over time. A new accessory will be introduced for Suit Loki soon, and we’ll see other Variants as well.

This is my first cosplay with prescription colored contacts, and I was somewhat shocked how clearly I could see with them. Western Loki’s “ice cream plus” cone is one of my favorite things I have ever made (“By the Gods! What is this work of art?”).

Suit Loki only appeared on one page and Western Loki on three, with the SuperCone in a single panel.

April 10, 2024April 10, 2024 by chriswildrick Tags: cosplay, geek culture, Loki Leave a comment

The A New Hope, male, version, if you’re interested.

I actually don’t have a huge explanation of this cosplay. It’s probably the most well-known character I’ve done in years, one that doesn’t require me to explain some weird continuity quirk or decades-long comic history. It’s just one of the Sand People who tried to kill Luke and steal R2 in the first Star Wars.

I started this thinking it was going to be relatively straightforward, but as with all costumes, it turned out to be more complicated than I thought. It’s scratch-built, including the leather bandoliers, except for the metal bits on the face, which are 3D printed from Thingiverse.

And no, I can barely see anything out of it. This has the worst visibility of any of my costumes.

If you are a stickler, you will note that the gaffi stick is slightly different in design from the most popular version in the movie, partly in the pineapple head design but also because the spike is a 3-sided pyramid, not 4-sided. Why? Well, as my son said, 3-sided blades are “better for war crimz.” So there’s that.

Or as the Tusken says, “Hraaaaaaaa…hruk hurk hruk hruk hruk hruk!”