It’s that time of year again, folks… Comic-Con!
The world’s biggest geek-culture festival may have started as a comics convention, but today, it’s famous for its celebrity appearances, exclusives previews, and its amazing fan costumes and cosplay.
Attendees try to out-do each other each year with ever more elaborate, outlandish, funny and strange costumes, and all the rest of us can do is stand back in appreciation, awe, and confusion.
Let’s see the best that Comic-Con had to offer.
Two Kings Landing
Talk about worlds colliding! Here we have Game of Thrones and Marvel legends Jon Snow and Thanos pulling off a major mashup, and looking like they both kind of enjoy it.
What do you think these two talk about? Rearing direwolves or how not to smash them accidentally with your bare hands? We wouldn’t have put them together as a best pals pairing, but they somehow are really making it work.
Widowmaker Wink
Wow! This is absolutely stunning. Not only is this costume totally accurate and amazing, but it’s just perfect art. With the winning combo between attention to detail and personal style, this woman is winning at everything Comic-Con today.
Do you think that she knew when she donned her Widowmaker costume that morning, how many hearts she’d actually steal? Look at her expression, of course she did.
Megamind..?
While some of Comic-Con’s cosplay can be breathtaking in its amazing attention to detail, there are, of course, less impressive costumes on the con floor.
We’re not sure where to place this Megamind cosplay on that spectrum: on the one hand, yeah, it’s a pretty terrible getup… but on the other, it’s worn by Will Ferrell, who actually voiced Megamind in the original film!
Yes, it can sometimes be difficult to convert CGI characters into realistic look costumes, but we suspect this specific outfit’s badness is actually pretty intentional.