Have you ever wished to step into the spandex of your favourite superhero or heroine? Well, there has certainly not been a better time for you to do it, as the variety of costumes on the market right now is bigger, and better than ever.

We will take a look at some of the more recognisable characters from a few of the mainstream films made throughout the current Hollywood obsession with the incredibly bankable, superhero genre.

There are however, a great number of fancy dress outfits on the market to re-create a fancy dress vision of your favourite characters which have yet to receive a Hollywood make-over and remain limited to the pages of comic books and graphic novels (to the relief of a lot of fans!).

Wolverine is a comic book and now film icon. Strolling into a fancy dress event as Logan will ensure instant recognition following the world wide success of X-men trilogy of films as well as the millions of comic books sold.

The Wolverine Deluxe Muscle costume makes use of the traditional yellow and blue livery in the comic books, as opposed to the updated motion picture look and consists of a padded body suit to simulate Wolverines highly developed physique, boot tops, belt and foam mask.

The outfit also comes with replicas of the renowned adamantium claws he uses to cut through his super villain enemies. We do not advocate the cigar chain smoking to complete the look!

Another renowned superhero is the man who originally put the ‘super’ in superhero – Superman. The Superman Muscle costume contains a blue and red body suit with padded muscle groups plus the famous ‘S’ logo, red cape, boot covers and belt.

Superman is unmistakable and the padded suit means that should you be more like Clark Kent in real life, you will still look like a son of Krypton at the bash!

For the women who wish to get in on the comic book action – the Super Girl outfit can be a good possibility. The outfit consists of a red and blue leotard along with the famous ‘S’ symbol, red skirt, red boot tops as well as a big red cape.

This fancy dress is effortless to wear, suitable for any superhero theme and is incredibly sultry to boot. Ideal.

There are loads of wonderful superheroes and heroines fancy dress costumes to choose from in the marketplace at the moment. Do some investigation on the internet at online fancy dress outfit retailers and see what they have in their ranges.

Should you be stuck for the precise hero you’d prefer to be, head over to some comic fan sites and read a number of the biographies and find the perfect alter ego for your next bash.

Hopefully this very short overview will have shown you that the market place for superhero fancy dress is developing all the time and you can pick up some excellent fancy dress centered around popular superheroes from movies and literature, relatively effortlessly.

Don’t be afraid if you believe your favourite will not be main-stream enough; take a look on the internet, you may be pleasantly surprised.