Goths on film: 18 of the best-dressed doomers in pop culture

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Whatever their purpose may be, these goth characters are some of the best known and loved on television. Winona Ryder’s casting as the goth girl Lydia in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice was an odd one. So enduring was her appearance in the film, that Billie Eilish, Bella Hadid, Alexa Demie, and Beyoncé continue to resurrect her spiky baby bangs and backcombed updo. Despite what the Addams family might attest, nobody is born wearing alabaster face paint and black gowns.

• She plays Nancy, the alpha-female of a high school coven of witches who has a hunger for power and the dark arts.
• Despite what the Addams family might attest, nobody is born wearing alabaster face paint and black gowns.
• In his sprier, woohoo pizza days of Devil May Cry 3, Dante was the standard-bearer for gothic fashion in video games..
• Blue, played by Rose McGowan, is dressed in a punk-rock wardrobe to reflect her abrasive coming of age, donning Dr Martens, retro sundresses, and oversized leather jackets.
• That is, except for the whole bit about the serial killer prowling a university campus and slaying students according to famous urban legends.

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His wiki describes him as “an icon of the shunned, the unaccepted, and the unabashedly original” and I have no choice but to stan. His fit is serving effortlessly with his crop top and futuristically tactful cowboy aesthetic. He might have been born under a bad omen, but the only omen his fit is serving is envy to those taken out by him in the Apex arena.

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The supernatural horror follows two teenage sisters whose bond is put to the test once Ginger is attacked by a stray animal and starts to morph into a werewolf. It’s continually reexamined for its feminist themes – Ginger’s werewolf also coincides with her first period, so there’s a lot to unpack there. Although I’ve yet to play Apex Legends, Seer has managed to transcend the game itself, cross my gaming fault lines, and skyrocket himself into S Tier on this list.

Danielle Harris plays Tosh the goth, a late 90’s representative of the gothic subculture on a bit more of a Victorian trip. With her dark lipstick and alluring black corset, what freshman wouldn’t want to have a dorm room on her floor? That is, except for the whole bit about the serial killer prowling a university campus and slaying students according to famous urban legends. She missed a big warning sign in the movie, and being the main character’s roommate and all, poor, poor Goth-Tosh was pretty doomed from the start. Maybe she slays you with the way she rocks platform boots, or she might make you blush with her cool elegance. Whether you’re part of the goth subculture or not, you’ve got a chance.

In 1989, artist James O’Barr created The Crow, a superhero comic book series which followed a rock musician’s quest for revenge after returning from the dead. Four years after the series was released, actor Brandon Lee was channelled to bring the character to life in an on-screen adaptation, and with his full leather looks and pale face paint, Lee did just that. Sadly at the age of 28, Lee was fatally killed on set of filming The Crow by a faulty prop gun. Rouge the Bat has always been one of the stranger aspects of the Sonic franchise. Where most characters in this universe exhibit wildly inhuman proportions, she comes equipped with very distinct features that denote her as the series’ de facto alluring character. Pastel Goth emerged in the 2010s influenced from Japanese and Korean street style, as a mixture of goth and the pastel colors of the kawaii aesthetic.

Sure, her background as a succubus may give developers license to go a little overboard with the sexiness at times, but Morrigan’s looks are almost always used to underline the power she wields in the Darkstalkers mythos. And while most eyes might be drawn to her outfit, I gotta give it up for the small set of wings on her head. It’s a bold design decision that could have come off as goofy in the wrong hands, but the various artists who have depicted Morrigan throughout the years nail the look more often than not. As the female protagonist of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Lisbeth Salander is the epitome of a grunge intellectual. Played by Rooney Mara in the 2011 English film adaptation of the Swedish novel of the same name, sees Mara only ever in full black, accessorised with facial piercings and a jet black gothic haircut. While Mara never returned as Lisbeth is the sequels, her successors followed suit, reinventing on Lisbeth’s iconic look while keeping it as goth as can be.