Dragon Con 2025 Photos, Part 10: The Cosplay Parade Is COMING TO GET YOU

Haunted house cosplayer in all-black quasi-canine monster form.

Werewolf or something similar! Among the creatues from Netherworld Haunted House.

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…

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 (my day job, my streaming stories, and so forth). Rather than continuing to fussily sort them into themed galleries (except for this one being mostly horror, but not just horror), let’s plow through the rest and get these out into the world in case any attendees are still Googling themselves two weeks after showtime. Please let me know if we old folks misidentified any characters. Enjoy again!


Horror Group banner followed by zombies, the Bride of Frankenstein, Jigsaw and more.

D*C’s official horror costume group.

Numerous cosplayers parading, most bleeding.

The Bride! Jaws! Zombies! And so on.

Leatherface cosplayer with huge fake chainsaw, next to Lydia from "Beetlejuice" in her red wedding dress.

Leatherface and Lydia Deetz.

Costume: hitchhiker in yellow raincoat and winter cap, bloodied from being run over by a car.

The hitchhiker from Creepshow 2. (“THANKS FOR THE RIDE, LADY!”)

Demogorgon and Splicer costumes

A Bioshock Splicer and Stranger Things‘ Demogorgon, whose Jane Fonda workout tapes are really paying off.

Stranger Things costumes

More Stranger Things fun with Eleven, Barb, Steve, and possibly Sheriff Hopper on his day off.

Eddie Munson cosplayer holding the 1980s Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Masters Guide and Players Handbook.

Eddie Munson from same, wielding my old AD&D manuals.

Stranger Things costumes

Stranger still: another Demogorgon, Vecna, and another Eddie Munson.

Emily the Corpse Bride costume

Emily, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.

Netherworld demon cosplayer

Once again Netherworld Haunted House out of nearby Stone Mountain brought their Halloween troupe.

Netherworld alien costume

Netherworld spooks from beyond the stars!

One Netherworld monster cosplayer pushing a Netehrworld serial killer in a wheelchair, who has a chainsaw on their lap.

Netherworld equal-opportunity tag-team SLAUGHTER.

Costume: big bald killer with flesh face, apron and bloody surgical ax.

We always find a few “cosplay stumpers” that I feel I should recognize but don’t. An Ed Gein superfan, perchance?

Ghostbusters cosplay army, one of them waving to us

A bit more recognizable: Ghostbusters!

More Ghostbusters, two of them looking toward us.

More Ghostbusters!

Still more Ghostbusters cosplayers,

I don’t normally post this many Ghostbusters, but they just kept acknowledging our existence! That goes a long way with me.

Slimer costume

Slimer!

Woody Jessie and Bo Peep costumes. Behind them is an army of Deadpool variants.

Sheriff Woody, Jessie and Bo Peep, with Deadpool’s multiverse hot on their heels.

Casey Jones costume with hockey mask and sledgehammer.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ pal Casey Jones.

Indiana Jones cosplayer brandishing a machete at us.

Indiana Jones! (No relation. Unless there’s a fanfic for that.)

Rick O'Connell cosplayer with old-timey sawed-off shotgun with an undead skull on the barrel.

Rick O’Connell, hero of The Mummy trilogy — one of several members of the Loyal Order of the Ribbon.

Woman with strands of dozens of comic-con badge ribbons hanging from her red dress.

The Loyal Order of the Ribbon gave Anne a tiny badge ribbon!

pirate costume with eyepatch and a beard made of badge ribbons.

This pirate’s ARRRR stands for “ribbon”!

pirate costume with a couple dozen ribbons on his badge

Today’s pirates prefer badge ribbons because they’re much lighter than doubloons. Have you ever tried dangling dozens of doubloons from your neck?

…nope, we’re still not done. To be continued! Other chapters in this very special MCC miniseries:

Part 1: The Stars in Our Galaxy
Part 2: Some Cosplay!
Part 3: Slightly More Cosplay!
Part 4: The Cosplay Parade, Star Wars Division
Part 5: The Cosplay Parade, Video Game Division
Part 6: The Cosplay Parade, Marvel and DC Comics Division
Part 7: Pimp My Cosplay Parade Rides
Part 8: More Than Cosplay at the Parade
Part 9: Did We Mention There Was a Cosplay Parade
Part 11: “But Sir,” You Ask, “What About the Cosplay Parade?”
Part 12: The Cosplay Parade Marches Into the West
Part 13: A Conclusion of Convivial Concatenation


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