# Help! Costume ideas needed! Villains/Heroes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-costume-ideas-needed-villains-heroes/483066>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 26, 2009, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-costume-ideas-needed-villains-heroes/483066 "2009-01-26T16:57:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-costume-ideas-needed-villains-heroes/483066/21 "2009-01-27T04:34:23Z")

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I usually go as [_normalman_.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalman)

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**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-costume-ideas-needed-villains-heroes/483066/22 "2009-01-27T13:17:41Z")

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Bowling balls are heavy–but black construction paper cut to look like a bowling ball is cheap and light. 🙂

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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2009, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-costume-ideas-needed-villains-heroes/483066/23 "2009-01-27T13:23:55Z")

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> [@as\_u\_wish](#):
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> Bowling balls are heavy–but black construction paper cut to look like a bowling ball is cheap and light. 🙂

As is a rubber playground ball painted your favorite color with black “holes” on it. Can’t roll it like a bowling ball, but a light non-functional prop.

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