More on Cosplay - Deadpool and Embracing the Character

More on Cosplay and Cosplay Environments-

As I mentioned in my first post about the ideas of cosplay, one of the best places to find cosplayers are at conventions and fan-based expo's.

And it's where you can also find a huge intermix of literally hundreds of fandoms and characters being cosplayed.

From iconic book characters to infamous comic book characters, the possibilities are endless. Here for example, is one of my favourites; Deadpool being confronted by Gandalf. They'd never meet in their own universes outside of a very whacky cross over, but they both remain in character - Gandalf and his famous line, 'you shall not pass' and Deadpool being the oddball he is, tries to get around him.

Okay. I'm gonna give you guys some more Deadpool examples - he's one of the best characters to cosplay, in my opinion, mostly because he's a great character for satire; he takes the piss out of everything in some seriously funny ways.

Fight with a Power Ranger? More like a sissy slap fight. Deadpool is a good example of how cosplayer's can have fun without breaking character; he's a character that breaks stereotypes of characters. These cosplayers (they might be the same one, I don't know for sure), are all playing up the idea of Deadpool just being an idiot and all round crazy character.
Here's a few more examples of Deadpool cosplayers (I'm going with him since he's so easy to work with).

Admittedly most of the other cosplayer's the Deadpool cosplayer's are interacting with are other Marvel or DC or whichever character, but the cosplayer's are still having fun and getting up to all manner of shenanigans because the cosplayers are embracing the idea's of the character's personality traits - whacky, weak, idiotic; the list goes on.

These gifs have obviously been taken from videos taken whilst at these conventions, so it's not exactly professional photography or cinematography or anything. Most of the shot's are long shots, to show the entirety of what's going on between the characters. The only closer shot is the mid shot of the arm-wrestle, to give a sense of how hard Deadpool is trying to win, and quite obviously losing.

I thought I'd make a Deadpool post since I've been lacking the motivation and time lately to make anymore gifs myself, but I wanted to have something to show at the very least. I also just found a whole handful of my convention photos that I had stored on a couple of my USB's have been damaged and corrupted, so I'm unable to put up some of the really amazing ones as I'd hoped; instead next time I'll make a post using some of the ones I took from my phone, which aren't of such great quality, but I'll also be throwing in a few from friends at other conventions around the world (I've been asking around on my dA, tumblr, etc for help from fellow cosplayers), and should have a good handful to upload soon.

Til next time then.

~S