Black Eye for Halloween

October 19, 2015 8:45 AM

I'm pretty sure I'm going to have a black eye for halloween. Any ideas for movie/book/tv characters with black eyes for a costume?
posted by poorchanticleer to Media & Arts (23 answers total)

If I had a black eye around Halloween, I'd use it as an excuse to dress up as Tyler Durden from Fight Club.
posted by schroedingersgirl at 8:55 AM on October 19, 2015 [6 favorites]

Petey, the dog from The Little Rascals.
posted by bondcliff at 8:56 AM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]

Imperator Furiosa and the Warboys all had black all around their eyes.
posted by EndsOfInvention at 8:56 AM on October 19, 2015 [3 favorites]

Uncle Fester from the Addams Family even needs two near-black eyes, so: way to go!
posted by Namlit at 8:56 AM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]

Put a bigger circle around it and go as Petey the dog from Little Rascals!
posted by xingcat at 8:56 AM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]

Spuds MacKenzie, the original party animal!

(If beer commercials count as "TV characters.")
posted by Metroid Baby at 8:56 AM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]

You could just wear a shirt with the letter P on it.
posted by minervous at 9:06 AM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]

Add a magical telescope and you can be Hermione (or Fred or George Weasley)
posted by Mchelly at 9:25 AM on October 19, 2015

Ballgown, yellow caution tape sash, crown askew, bottle of whiskey, handcuffs. Congratulations, you've been crowned Miss Demeanor.
posted by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 9:32 AM on October 19, 2015 [7 favorites]

Put a bigger circle around it and go as Petey the dog from Little Rascals!

Or maybe put a big circle around the other eye, add some white, and go as aDia De Los Muertos-style-skeleton.
posted by Going To Maine at 9:52 AM on October 19, 2015

Rocky Balboa, or any other famous real or fictional boxer.
posted by Rock Steady at 9:53 AM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]

Or you could put a patch over it and go the Captain Hook route.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 9:56 AM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]

Tareyton smoker
(I won't ask how you know you're going to have a black eye)
posted by canoehead at 9:57 AM on October 19, 2015 [2 favorites]

Johnny from The Karate Kid!
posted by thirteenthletter at 10:01 AM on October 19, 2015 [1 favorite]

Rocky
posted by goggie at 11:18 AM on October 19, 2015

Terminator metallica black eye would be iconic.
posted by effluvia at 11:22 AM on October 19, 2015

I went as a generic Rocky Balboa one year with a fake black eye, some Converse shoes, and then grey sweats and an knit cap. (I had my kick-boxing gloves, too) It worked!
posted by jillithd at 11:22 AM on October 19, 2015

Panda! Or a trash panda! (Some of you may call them raccoons).
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 11:35 AM on October 19, 2015 [3 favorites]

TV Tropes has an article about "Beef Bandages", that is when a character puts a piece of raw meat over a black eye to sooth it. Maybe you could get some ideas there.
posted by Rob Rockets at 1:18 PM on October 19, 2015

Hockey player?
posted by floweredfish at 3:17 PM on October 19, 2015

If you want to take artistic license and are willing to make it bigger, going as Prince Zuko from Avatar : The Last Airbender could be soooo much fun.
posted by Rams at 9:04 PM on October 19, 2015

My girlfriend once did Halloween as a "black eyed pea". (Pic: here) Just an idea.
posted by austinetsu at 6:37 AM on October 20, 2015

I'm just thinking, you could simply go as Adam Sandler or Steve Martin or somebody similar with a black eye just to give everyone a good day.
posted by Namlit at 9:27 AM on October 20, 2015