Dragon Con 2025 Photos, Part 5: The Cosplay Parade, Video Game Division

Fallout Technicians Costuming Group holding their banner. Some have Vault jumpsuits, at least two are New Vegas dancers.

Fallout fans welcome you to pre-Wasteland Atlanta!

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…

Our belated coverage of Atlanta’s annual Dragon Con Cosplay Parade continues! We amateur enthusiasts took way too many photos that took me too long to sort in between juggling other life aspects (such as a family reunion this weekend). If you or someone you know was in the parade and you’d love to see them, pretty-please let us know! We’ll be happy to search our files and show ’em if we caught ’em. No guarantees, but we’ll oblige if we can. Also, please let me know if any characters have been misidentified. As we get older the number of pop-culture universes keeps multiplying and we can only contain so many of ’em in active memory at once.

Next batch up: lots of video game characters, just because. Enjoy!

Cortana and other HALO fans from the 405th Infantry Division costuming group.

HALO Spartan reaching upward with blue energy sword.

A HALO Spartan.

HALO blue armor with red highlights, doing a devil-horn gesture at the camera.

Full disclosure: I’ve never played HALO. We’ve never even had an XBox in this house.

Final Fantasy fans including Aerith, a Purple Mage, and Cloud in Chocobo shirt from FFVII Rebirth.

Sephiroth cosplayer with Masamune sword, waiving hi at us.

One of the all-time great baddies: Sephiroth from FFVII.

Kefka from FFVI.

Several Shyguys marching behind a redheaded woman in a ballgown.

Shyguys from Super Mario Bros 2 and Anna Henrietta from The Witcher 3‘s Blood and Wine expansion.

Ye olde standard-bearers, Mario and Princess Peach.

For the Legend of Zelda fans: Knight Link, Tetra, Toon Zelda, and Classic Link, among others.

Three Legend of Zelda character costumes.

An unmasked Ravio from A Link Between Worlds follows another Link and another Zelda.

Mewtwo from the Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue games, whom I first saw when I was forced to watch Pokemon: The First Movie.

A group from Team Fortress 2.

Soldiers from the Helldivers series.

More Helldivers.

One more Helldiver for good luck.

Ms. Pac-Man cosplayer standing in front of a Pac-Man cosplayer.

Ms. Pac-Man and the OG himself.

Ada Wong and other Resident Evil costumes.

Ada Wong and others from the world of Resident Evil.

Also from Resident Evil: one of several Umbrella Corporation scientists, who kept assuring us everything was fine and there sure wasn’t a zombie apocalypse going on or anything.