The next time you see a crazy mashup costume, think fast: you could be looking at an epic geek pun.
In fact, here are the 10 punniest cosplay mashups I've found from this year's Dragon Con; a mix of my own pics plus several more I found combing through galleries online.
1. Piggy Stardust
Three Kermit Flails for an epic Bowie/Muppets mashup!
2: The Purple Rain-ger
Cosplayer: Billy Light of Deconstructive Studios
That's Prince plus Power Rangers, everybody.
And please note the hair on the helmet, for it is glorious.
3. Lisa Frank-lin
Lisa Frank + Benjamin Franklin = the most colorful Founding Father?
4. Gand-ALF
Photo by td2timemvp
Your cats shall not pass.
6. Sher-Loki
Complete with a magnifying glass in her staff. YES.
"I am Sher-Loki, and I am burdened with glorious game - which is AFOOT."
7. Rey Stantz
9. Wierd Al Dalek, aka WierDALEK:
This photo is actually from 3 years ago, but I *think* this guy was there again this year. Either way, LURVE IT.
*****
BONUS GOODNESS
(Thanks for the tips, commenters!)
(Thanks for the tips, commenters!)
11. Ruth Vader Ginsburg:
Photo by allistelling
"I've got a hilarious feeling about this."
Also, to whoever this is: I love you.
12: Elsaba (Elsa + Elphaba) and Glindanna:
Cosplayers Glinda Belle Cosplay & Chelphie Cosplay
They're letting it go to defy gravity.
So what'd I miss, gang? If you know of any other punny cosplay from this year's Dragon Con, then please, link me up in the comments!
PURPLE RAIN-GER! I need this cosplay so much in my life! 💕
ReplyDeleteLove them all, buy Piggy Stardust and Gand-Alf are killing me! Can't stop giggling!
ReplyDeleteWeirDalek! NEVER would I have thought of those two together, that guy's a genius!
ReplyDeletePurple Rainger makes me so happy!
ReplyDeleteJON SNOW WHITE FTW!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm rolling. Those are some great pun cosplays. Purple Rainger may be my fave.
ReplyDeleteActually, the Peter Porker isn't so much a pun as it is a real Marvel character. Oh, the '80s.. That's Spider-Ham - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Ham
ReplyDeleteso great!!
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ReplyDeleteSpit my coffee at Gand-ALF! And the cats "quotation".
ReplyDeleteSome people are so clever! Love it!! Great imaginations made great costumes!
ReplyDeleteKW
I'm having a hard time choosing a favorite... But I think I gotta go with Piggy Stardust. Because it's Ms. Piggy!
ReplyDeleteAnd Anonymous is correct - I remember that comic book series, Peter Porker. . :)
I laughed way too hard at Gand-ALF. Seriously, tears rolling down my face.
ReplyDeleteRey Stantz is my favorite!
ReplyDeleteMaybe not a pun because they are from the "same" universe, but I got a picture with Barf Vader!
ReplyDeletespider pig, spider pig, does whatever a spider pig does...
ReplyDeleteBeaker gone Rogue might give me nightmares. Disturbing Marvel/Muppet mash-up nightmares.
ReplyDeleteI saw an Elsaphaba (Elsa + Elphaba) at D*C this year. Wish I had a picture - I thought it was really clever.
ReplyDeleteSorry if someone else already posted this and I missed it, but Peter Porker, the Amazing Spider Ham is both a pun and an existing character. He was created as a Spider Man parody, and I think his comic was published by Star.
ReplyDeleteI also saw Elsphaba, at Chicago's C2E2! And I did not get a picture either. :-/ I wonder if it was the same person.
ReplyDeleteAmazingly, Spider-Pig is an actual comic book character! He is most seen in Marvel's Web Warriors comic, and is cartoonishly awesome.
ReplyDeleteLoki Holmes was really stressing me out until I read the caption.
ReplyDeleteMy fave was the Ruth Vader Ginsburg we saw, but Rey Stanz and the Purple Rainger are right behind her.
ReplyDeleteHoly Hannah this made my night!
ReplyDeleteSomewhere recently I saw a picture of someone cosplaying Freddie Sailor Mercury....
ReplyDeleteSandra
Hee, that was here! I spotted him at one of our last local cons here in Florida.
DeleteThanks for that!
DeleteHahahahahaha!!!! PUNS!!!! I love puns!!
ReplyDeleteThank you Jen. Those were great.
Maureen S
omg RVG is too good LOLOLOL
ReplyDeleteI shared that Purple Rainger picture on Facebook when it was going around. A friend commented that he saw him there and that he had a purple boombox playing Prince as well.
ReplyDeleteMy best friend and I were Civil War: Civil War -Captain American and Iron Man as Civil War era ballgowns :D I was so sad I never ran into you while we were in them! We were in the Vintage Vogue fashion show. I will never come up with a better pun than that :)
ReplyDeleteHere's a picture! I'm Cap:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/alyjack/29322405474/in/datetaken-public/
Not a mashup, but one of my favorite visual pun costumes from a local con... a few years ago I saw a guy wearing a big sandwich board with the table of elements chart square for iron. He was... Iron Man.
ReplyDeleteIt was my first time trying to be punny. I was a Southern Belle (from Beauty and the Beast!)
ReplyDeleteLuckily everyone loved it!
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10100804722029242
For the record, I did WeirDALek at Dragon Con for 3 years: 2012 (sans DalACcordion, since I didn't have time to finish it), '13 and '14. I retired the costume after getting the DalACcordion autographed by The Weird One himself after a concert in '15. I still cosplay plain ol' Weird Al, mostly out of laziness.
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