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[thatcrazycajun]

As I sit watching Dragon*Con's Masquerade go through its Young Fans division (gotta get those kids to bed early, y'know), I note the even more interesting and varied costume competition going on all four days of the con, in its hallways and streets. So far I have seen the following identifiable costumes (that is, depicting characters I recognize) -- or just ones that looked hella nice -- on folks roaming this year's Dragon*Con:

• At least three men dressed as Superman (one in the Elseworlds "Red Son" costume, from the graphic novel/miniseries that speculated what might have happened had baby Kal-El's spaceship crashed in the old Soviet Bloc instead of Kansas, back in 1938)
• Two Supergirls, at the same time and in remarkably similar renditions of the character's current DC Comics costume (belly-cropped top with S-shield and cape, short pleated skirt and boots), except one had spike heels on her boots (not terribly practical for superheroing, but they did make her legs look that much better), plus one girl in the "evil Supergirl" all-black version
  
• At least three of Batman, representing several eras: one in the Adam West 1960s TV show costume, one in the Batman Begins movie outfit and one in the more recent main comic book titles/animated TV shows' darker, simpler version. No Frank Miller Dark Knight Returns costumes as yet (alas; what I wouldn't give to see a girl do Carrie/Robin!).
• One or more each of various other Justice League members, including a classic-look Aquaman, a Green Lantern, a Smallville-style Green Arrow, two Wonder Women (I absolutely refuse to count the fat, balding, bearded man I saw wearing a WW outfit!), a Zatanna (tux and fishnets, not the blue/red costume) and a Flash (Barry Allen/Wally West costume) with fake muscles built into the outfit, similar to the one John Wesley Shipp wore for the TV series;
• Several Hogwarts scholars from the Harry Potter movie/book series, including a quidditch team in full game uniform, a suitably imposing Professor Snape and a marvelous Draco Malfoy, complete with bleached-blond hair;
• A pair of suitably young and comely females dressed as Kim Possible and her (mostly) arch-nemesis Shego, from the Disney Channel TV series bearing Kim's name
• A young woman wearing a Lady Death outfit and makeup, but woefully lacking in the ridiculously oversized boobage needed to pull it off
• A couple of Captain Jack Sparrows, along with assorted other piratical types
• A woman dressed as Pamela Lillian Isley, AKA Poison Ivy (Batman comics) and her 4- or 5-year-old daughter similarly garbed (would that be Ivy's child or her offshoot? Cutting? Bud?)
• Some X-Men (movie and comic versions both), including two Rogues (early-years and reformed-X-Men-member later outfits) and a Wolverine, and a Spider-Man with a costume so deliberately torn and damaged it looked as if the wearer intended to recreate Tobey Maguire's subway-train-stopping scene from the 2nd film
• Another Spider-Man, this one in the Black Alien Ooze costume (post-Secret Wars comic and 3rd movie) and a Dr. Strange
  
• An Owlman and Ozymandias, from Watchmen, Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons' landmark 1980s DC maxi-series (reportedly on its way to the big screen even as we type)
• At least two or three versions of Princess Leia's Tatooine-slave-girl outfit from Return of the Jedi, one of them spoiled somewhat by the wearer's having short-cropped red hair rather than the long brown braids the costume calls for. (partiallyclips' girlfriend claims she's counted no less than 21 Slave Girl Leia costumes, though she admits she may have counted one or two repeatedly.)
• A surprising paucity of Star Trek-related costumes, despite the presence of a number of actors from Next Generation and other incarnations. There have been a few, but nowhere near the number of, say, Star Wars costumes. (I did see two lovely young Sevens of Nine.)
• Two female fairies with magnificent wings of clear plastic and electric lights, attached to nicely revealing fur-trimmed leather costumes.
• Several sexed-up renditions of Alice's blue/white pinafore from the Disney classic Alice in Wonderland.
• A woman in a short maid's costume colored candy-apple red, in the dark hue and finish one would ordinarily see only on a pimped-out automotive vehicle. (PVC?)
• And the usual assortment of Goth chicks and dudes, medieval baebes corseted/basqued to within an inch of their lives and long, voluminous skirts, anime/manga characters I very seldom recognize, heavily high-tech-armored men with Really Big Guns, and girls and women in outfits I have no idea the genesis of but damn, those heels are high and those skirts are short! (Some so obviously young I have to fight off the incipient old-fogey reaction: "Does your mama know you run around dressed like that?" --and yeah, yeah, I know, one or two may have actually had theirs made by their mothers.)