Cosplayers enjoy honoring their beloved characters by recreating their costumes, gestures, voices, and acting, directly inspired by comics, games, movies, books, and series, thereby breathing life into them during presentations. These exhibitions commonly take place at major events, YouTube channels, and, naturally, across social media platforms. Presently, a ranking has been devised to categorize the most referenced heroes and villains in digital realms.

The survey was conducted by the online gaming platform Hearts Land, which examined over 150 characters from pop culture and categorized them into four groups: superheroes and villains, anime, games, and characters from movies and TV shows. The analysis was carried out through Instagram, primarily by evaluating the results obtained through the combination of the hashtags “cosplay” and “costume