San Diego Comic-Con is the largest and most iconic entertainment convention in the world, and every year it draws thousands of cosplayers and costumed superfans from all over the world to Southern California for four days of fantasy and fun. This year's con, which just wrapped up on July 24th, was definitely not short on memorable cosplay costume moments.
If you weren't too distracted by Gal Gadot sweetly comforting an emotional young fan, or Lupita Nyong'o joyfully celebrating an exclusive trailer for the upcoming Black Panther movie with her castmates, you would have noticed that this Comic-Con cosplayers took their game to whole new level this time around. Seriously, some of these cosplay characters looked like they walked straight off a cinema screen.
Don't believe us? Check out the best cosplays for yourself below, with each famous character's fictional origins (if relevant) labeled alongside their name, just in case you're a little stunted on your pop culture knowledge. Don't forget to vote for the coolest costumes!
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Liev Schreiber Took His Son To Comic Con Dressed As Harley Quinn
This is proof that Liev Schreiber is an excellent dad. Good job on him.
I don't understand why you're being downvoted
Load More Replies...This small child has beaten out like 500 other people dressed as harley quinn.#SucceedingYoung
So sad there's so many judgmental people. This is awesome he took him as he wanted to dress up as. Stop judging. Many parents don't take time to do anything with their kids anymore.
That's awesome! Love them so much for that. There is hope in this planet...
Because Dads with Daughters dressed like Guy Characters aren't the only Dads who are winning!
Its so amazing and supportive that he lets his son cosplay as whomever character he wants. You see adults cosplaying as other genders, so why not? It's about having fun!
He is so adorable. I like how it isn't a mid-drift like in most Harley costumes, I reckon' it's a bit overly sexualised for someone so young to be wearing a mid-drift. Also, personally, I kinda hate how overdone Harley Quinn is. I liked her before she was popular (ikr, what a hipster) but now she's been butchered by "normies."(I spewed in my mouth a bit when I wrote that) Now I don't feel special for liking her so I'm going with the opposite. Wowza mate, I need to get over myself.
I first thought that Liev Schreiber was an awesome parent. Then I read another mother's post about how it's wrong to sexualize children. Harley Quinn does dress provocatively- if a litttle girl was dressed in such an outfit, we'd be calling foul!
lol a lot of little girls run around as harley quinn. personally I don't like the suicide squad version but to each their own. idk why his outfit is considered as too sexualized...
Load More Replies...Really? Because Harley Quinn is a highly sexualised character in a film meant for older viewers. I credit Liev with allowing his son to express his desire to dress up as whomever he wants (non gender limited) but this is a character representing adult themes. I was surprised to see children as young as 5 years old dressed up as Harley Quinn by their parents...
He should have gone for Wonder Woman; way more bad-a**e. Still nice to see gender fluid parenting happening :)
give the kid female hormones and a sex change operation. If you are going to let kids choose whatever gender they want then why stop there? let them set their own hours. let them choose to go to school or not. Let the kid choose anything he wants to eat. This isnt parenting. this isnt normal. nice job "dad"
No. They say he's an excellent dad because he doesn't shake his kid and put him in a batman outfit when the boy wants to be Harley Quinn instead. I agree with you that his parenting-skills can't be judged on that one fact alone. I mean, maybe he beats the kid bloody on occasion, I don't know enough about him to judge his parenting. BUT - in a world where STILL so many boys have to be little men and are shoved into manly roles no matter what they want (same as girls being shoved into pink pants and told to make themselves pretty), it's nice to see that you can be just as manly accompanying your boy when he's wearing a girl's outfit. Though it would have been a lot better if he'd worn something cool himself. I think he'd have made a pretty good Batman ;-)
Load More Replies...No, actually it's his Maine C**n-emu hybrid that he raised as human, plz don't tell
Load More Replies...My Son's Wheelchair TIE Pilot Cosplay
Storm, X-Men
Night King, Game Of Thrones
The Mad Hatter, Alice In Wonderland
Mr. Spock And Captain Kirk, Star Trek
Ursula, The Little Mermaid
Faun, Pan's Labyrinth
Rey And Rey, Star Wars
Joker, Batman: Arkham Asylum
This was the make up done by Cinema Make Up School, every year they bring a character to life! They also made Thanos and Apocalypse in previous years!
Sindragosa, World Of Warcraft
Weeping Angel, Doctor Who
Edward Scissorhands
Nurse, Silent Hill
Wonder Woman
Enchantress And Rick Flag, Suicide Squad
Steampunk Deadpool
Nien Nunb, Star Wars
Bill Lumbergh, Office Space
Demogorgon, Stranger Things
Leeloo, The Fifth Element
Tracer, Overwatch
Predator, Alien Vs. Predator
See, my first thought was Predator & the Diva from "The Fifth Element". Cool costume, though.
Mad Eye Moody, Harry Potter
Darth Maul, Star Wars
Hulk Buster Iron Man
Joker
Dr. Lazarus, Galaxy Quest
Maui, Moana
The Winter Soldier And Captain America
Thank you so much for this pic! I'm the armless Winter Soldier, and I'm @wintertrickstercosplay on Instagram! I was also 'Red Wedding' Robb Stark on Thursday and Kaecilius on Saturday! :)
Snow White
Xena And Gabrielle, Xena: Warrior Princess
Demogorgon And Eleven, Stranger Things
Rocket Raccoon And Groot, Guardians Of The Galaxy
Daenerys Vs Night King
Harry Potter
Zoom, The Flash
Bobby Drake, X-men
K-2so, Star Wars
Waluigi, Super Mario Bros
Dawnseeker Ix'kin, Arakkoa Sun-sage, World Of Warcraft
Chewbacca, Star Wars
Characters From Moana
Hela, Thor: Ragnarok
Link, The Legend Of Zelda
Wonder Woman And Queen Hippolyta
Monkey King
Iron Man
The Blues Brothers
Death Trooper And Mandalorian Merc, Star Wars
Ghost Rider
Nurse And Pyramid Head, Silent Hill
Batman
Esmeralda And Clopin Trouillefou, The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
D.va, Overwatch
Disney Villains
Super Saiyan Blue Goku, Dragonball
Fairy Queen
Jason Voorhees, Friday The 13th
Demogorgon, Stranger Things
Predator, Alien Vs. Predator
Cruella De Vil, 101 Dalmations
Hawkgirl And Hawkman
Steampunk Slave Leia And Dr. Emmett Brown
Han Solo And Chewbacca, Star Wars
X-wing Fighter Pilot, Star Wars
Commander Shepard, Mass Effect
i love Mass Effect. i love this Commander Shepard. if this cosplayer read this, i love you. You're cosplay is AWESOMMME ! ^^' Congrats
Jack Sparrow, Pirates Of The Caribbean
Death Dealer
Dr Zaius, Planet Of The Apes
Poison Ivy And Harley Quinn
Kayle, League Of Legends
Megatron, Transformers
Tina Belcher, Bob's Burger
she had to carry a sign around for people to figure out who she was impersonating? nice