Identity Forge Cosplayer

Cosplaying a canon character usually means hand-writing the costume into your prompt and praying the model doesn't give you a third person. Identity Forge Cosplayer removes the prayer. It's a companion preset node for the Identity Forge pack: pick a character - Spider-Man, 2B, She-Hulk, Zelda, take your pick from a roster of roughly 1,800 - and it emits a JSON document describing the costume on a random person. The person underneath changes every run; the costume stays faithful, because each character ships a hand-written, canon-checked description covering garments, colours, masks, markings and signature props.

How it works

A character is stored as three layers: a costume (worn items only), a small signature look (hair and eyes), and an optional physique. Everything else - body, face, ethnicity - is left for Identity Forge to randomize, which is exactly why each run is a different person wearing the same suit. The look_level input controls how faithful that gets:

• Costume only (default) - costume plus signature hair/eyes; the person randomizes freely.
• Full character - also locks the physique for a more faithful read.

The outputs of character_json wires into Identity Forge's archetype_json socket, same as the pack's Archetype node. If you don't own the pack, this node alone does nothing useful - it's a seed layer, not a renderer.

The inputs that matter

• character - the dropdown. None emits nothing; the Random - … entries pick one using the seed. Type to filter, which you'll want, because the roster is enormous.
• random_scope - limits what Random can pick. Attribute scopes come first (Giant characters, Tiny characters, Non-human / colored, Masked), then a single franchise or category (only Anime & Manga, only Marvel, only Star Wars…). Combines with the character's gender scope.
• mask - only matters for full-mask characters. Default keeps the mask on and suppresses the randomized face/hair entirely; Unmask (show face) drops it for a helmet-off look, letting the randomized head show under the suit. No effect on face-visible characters.
• props - off by default. Include signature prop adds the character's iconic held item (Thor's hammer, Captain America's shield) voiced as holding…. The tooltip's warning is real: held objects can stress hand rendering in some models. Opt in only when you want the prop.
• seed - drives the random character pick, alternate costumes, and colour variation.

Crossplay and the gender bit

Here's the part that confuses people. The person's gender is not this node's job - it's the Identity Forge gender widget, and it's independent of the character's. Set the Forge node's gender however you like for crossplay, and it's always respected. Relatedly, fully-encased characters (Iron Giant, Ultraman, a droid) skip the ethnicity mention entirely - with no human skin or face left showing, describing the person underneath only risks nudging the render toward stray human traits. Face-visible cosplays still describe the person as usual.

Some characters have more than one iconic look - Harley Quinn, Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Giganta - and those rotate between costumes by seed, so the same character gives you a different signature outfit each roll.

Chaining and stacking

All the preset nodes expose an optional upstream input, so you can chain Archetype → Cosplayer → Identity Forge on one wire instead of fighting over the single archetype_json socket. Where fields overlap, the node closest to Identity Forge wins; non-overlapping upstream values survive. Set this node to None and it passes its upstream through unchanged - keep everything wired and just toggle what's active.

Install and gotchas

Same story as the rest of the pack: zero dependencies, fully offline, no model downloads.

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/EnragedAntelope/comfyui-identity-forge

Restart ComfyUI, or install via ComfyUI Manager (search "Identity Forge"). It needs a recent ComfyUI (0.25.0+) because the pack runs on the V3 API. And the one documented gotcha applies here more than anywhere: if a node on a saved graph shows a blank widget or throws a NoneType error after a pack update, delete and re-add the node - its fields were built when the node was created, and recreation clears the stale state.

One honest note: this is a very new pack and the roster is community-curated, not licensed art. The character descriptions are text, so the checkpoint still decides how faithfully Spider-Man's suit reads. What you get is the prompt fight removed - the prose is already written, canon-checked, and internally consistent.