Dragon Con 2025 Photos, Part 2: Some Cosplay!

Peacemaker and Eagly costumes in a giant hotel lobby.

Peacemaker and Eagly! They’re here to bring peace no matter how hard they have to party to do it! (Full disclosure: the gent at left is an official Friend of MCC. I’m sure the other guy’s cool, too.)

[CONTENT WARNING! The following entry contains one (1) crude gesture, in-character.]

Previously on Midlife Crisis Crossover:

In 2019 my wife Anne and I attended our very first Dragon Con in Atlanta, Georgia, one of the longest-running science fiction conventions in America. We once again made the eight-hour drive from Indianapolis and returned for our fourth nonconsecutive Labor Day weekend at that amazing colossal southern spectacle. We can’t conscientiously afford to do D*C every year, but we’ll see how long we can keep up an every-other year schedule before we’re too old or overwhelmed to handle it…

…and of course costumes abounded everywhere. Thousands of cosplayers surrounded us on all sides at any given moment. No single human, duo, or entire international photography company could hope to capture more than a tiny percentage of the costumes that graced the hotels, streets, and downtown hot spots with their welcome presence. Over the next several chapters we’ll be sharing batches of pics we took in between our moments of gawking and recognizing and racking our brains trying to remember some of the more obscure character names. Our meager galleries will number several, yet will represent a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the total talents on display. We’re merely amateur appreciators passing along some of those sights and wonders to You, The Viewers At Home.

All of these except the next two were taken Friday between 9 a.m. (when we joined the supersized line at AmericasMart 2 for Artists Alley and the three-story vendors’ hall) and 7 p.m., when we finally gave up the ghost and caught a shuttle back to our hotel.

Our first official costume pic at the show: Wayne and Garth! Party time! Excellent!

Mrs. Roper cosplayer probably yelling "STANLEY!"

Mrs. Roper, so much happier without Stanley around.

Barbie costume walking around inside a big pink box with Buc-ee mascot drawn on box, and two plush dolls inside with her.

Buc-ee’s Fun Barbie! We’d just stopped at the one in Smiths Grove on Monday.

Single cosplayer dressed as Kristin Cabot, holding a hula hoop like a camera frame and with a lo-fi Andy Byron puppet on her back with its arms around her waist.

Former Main Characters of the Day on social media for a while: the Coldplay couple!

Reverend Kane from Poltergeist II.

Cap’n Crunch!

Homemade Nomad robot with two Trek fans in crew costumes, red and blue.

Nomad and Enterprise crew from the Trek episode “The Changeling”.

Captain Pike cosplayer wearing an apron and carrying kitchen tongs.

Captain Pike, straight out of his Strange New Worlds kitchen.

Trek cosplayer with backpack that has three stuffed brown salamanders sticking out of it, plus a sign reading "Are you my mummy? Abandoned by parents in the Delta Quadrant."

Janeway and Paris’ space-salamander offspring from the Voyager episode “Threshold”.

Guy in peasant costume carrying sign: "Hands off our kalkite!"

A Ghor protester from Andor season 2.

Line of Star Wars fans in Narkina 5 orange-and-white convict jumpsuits.

Narkina 5 prisoners from Andor season 1, marching through the Marriott Marquis and chanting “ONE WAY OUT!” (Not the first such procession we’ve seen at a con.)