Meet our favorite cosplayers at the 2025 Florida Supercon in Miami Beach
They came to the Miami Beach Convention Center wearing painted faces and homemade masks, complicated headpieces and gravity-defying shoes, lugging swords crafted not from steel but from foam, glue and sheer determination.
They came as video game villains and big-screen superheroes, anime princesses and obscure creatures from other worlds. Professor Dumbledore from the “Harry Potter” series was there. So were Nick Fury from the Marvel Universe and the ever-green Elphaba from “Wicked” and pretty much every “Star Wars” character from Greedo to the Emperor and R2D2, too.
The annual Florida Supercon drew thousands of cosplayers to the three-day event for panels, games, photo ops, dance parties and autograph signings from stars like Jeremy Renner (Hawkeye from the Marvel Universe); John Boyega (from the “Star Wars” franchise); and Billie Piper and Christopher Eccleston (“Doctor Who”).
Look in one direction and you might spot Poison Ivy. Look the other way and Doctor Who appears, waving a sonic screwdriver. You could barely turn around without tripping over a character from “One Piece.” And the ultracreepy Pyramid Head from the “Silent Hill” horror video game inspired more than a few costumes — and probably a few nightmares as well.
Here are some of our favorite costumes from Florida Supercon, which continues 10 a.m. through 5 p.m. on Sunday.
This story was originally published July 19, 2025 at 12:00 AM.