Conceptual Cosplay

July 21, 2012 2:00 AM

I love really clever & well-done conceptual cosplay, such as Disney Princess superheros or genderbent Justice League. What others are there? (They don't have to be tied to a specific fandom; just a real-life costume of a conceptual or non-anthro idea that is done well)
posted by divabat to Grab Bag (12 answers total)

Best answer: The Mary Sue loves this kind of high concept cosplay. They recently did a round up of genderswapped/otherwise interesting Comic Con cosplays that you might like, and the post's tags should be a goldmine.
posted by PercyByssheShelley at 2:09 AM on July 21, 2012

Hello Kitty Darth Vader?
posted by Su at 3:23 AM on July 21, 2012 [1 favorite]

Fatty Thor! The other Avengers also make regular appearances.
posted by cilantro at 4:10 AM on July 21, 2012 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: heh, Fatty Thor is an acquaintance of mine :)
posted by divabat at 4:58 AM on July 21, 2012

I think you would enjoy this clever Science Alliance cosplay.

Also the naked sim seems to be increasing in popularity and personally it hits all the right notes for me of simple-seeming but success is in the little details.
posted by Mizu at 5:49 AM on July 21, 2012

Some friends and I are planning Steampunk Lady-Dr-Who's for DragonCon. I'm Christopher Eccleston. We also have a Lady-Dr-Matt-Smith and a Lady-Dr-#5. Someone is clearly doing Tennant but I can't remember who.
posted by Medieval Maven at 7:15 AM on July 21, 2012

I just was smiling at this Leia-Han picture as I read this:
posted by Jon_Evil at 7:44 AM on July 21, 2012 [1 favorite]

Here's artist Ben Moore at the G20 protests. More stormtrooper stuff can be found here.
posted by hydrophonic at 7:56 AM on July 21, 2012

Genderbending cosplay is also known as Rule 63.
posted by dgeiser13 at 8:48 AM on July 21, 2012

Response by poster: Any ideas for creative cosplay of things originally not human, maybe even ideas or concepts? I've seen some about, say, the Portal personality cores as human beings as well as the various OS-tans and I really enjoy those.
posted by divabat at 9:25 PM on July 21, 2012

There's always My Little Pony cosplay. Humanized ponies seem to be a pretty popular form of fanart too.
posted by ashirys at 8:13 AM on July 23, 2012

Genderbent Harvey Dent is mesmerizing.
posted by homodachi at 9:36 AM on July 23, 2012