I know this post is huge, I took a lot of pictures and most of them made me laugh. I cut these down from over 30 excluding pictures that I didn’t have the heart to take. For example there was a 400 pound Wonder Woman at this years con. In fact, I mostly stayed away from funny pictures that were just funny because of someones weight.

Although I don’t know when I grew a Grinch sized heart either, so enough with the sob story and on to the show!

15. Sub-Zero

The thing I find most hilarious about taking pictures with people in costumes is to direct them into their character’s poses. As stated before, I grew a heart somewhere between this year and last, and I didn’t do it as much as I should have, but when I did the pictures would turn out like this.

I told him the real Sub-Zero would bend his knees farther, but you can only push people so far.

14./13. The Klingon and Short Riker

Surprisingly enough I didn’t have to direct Riker in the slightest, he was all action as soon as he caught sight of that damn Klingon.

Another note I would like to add is that in a way fat Klingons are normal, but he took it to the hoop.

12. Power Girl

I’ve never thought blending costumes was that good of an idea, but this Power Girl/Medusa outfit is off the chain. Earth 2 better watch the fuck out!

11. Black Canary/Green Arrow

This is just something you have in store for you when you come to Comic-Con. And it makes me ask myself who’s bright idea was this. Imagine telling your red headed, pale, skinny boyfriend you wanted to dress up as Fat Canary to his Oliver Queen. Or on the other side, asking a pig to put on lip-stick.

10. Ryu

As if you didn’t know, this isn’t just regular Ryu. This is stung by a bee Ryu! Which, as you can see, he is very allergic to.

9. Scarecrow

What I like about this picture isn’t that it looks like the Scarecrow’s costume used to be a sack of potatoes. The best part of this picture is  the dude in the background wearing rainbow spandex which, in contrast, is much scarier than the Scarecrow himself.

8. Thors

I couldn’t decide which Thor was worse so I just picked both, (actually there is another Thor higher on the list that makes these guys look like mere morons.) Fake Biceps and an aluminum foil skirt, or a man that looks like he hasn’t known where he’s been in some time? You decide.

7./6. Optimus Prime and The Kool-aid Man

How bizarre.

5. Gambits

As you all know, Remy LeBeau has had a long frustrating relationship with his fellow X-man, Rogue. He lusts after her day by day, but they are unable to kiss or even touch because her mutant power would suck his own powers away and eventually kill him. And so he cloned himself!

This inflection should obviously have thinking people such as yourselves asking other questions. Such as, “which one’s the clone?” I wish I could tell you. All I can say for certain is one (or maybe both) is a  perfect copy of the Gambit we all know and love.

4./3. Captain America’s

#4: (The idiot foiled in a costume on the left.) It is my personal opinion that this Captain America used his super solider training to drink lots of beer. That’s the only explanation.

#3: This is one of those seconds that I told my heart it couldn’t do this to me. And thank God it listened for a fraction of a second. Long enough for me to snap a picture. When I look at a guy like this my first assumption is always that he’s actually an alien wearing an imperfect human costume trying to appear normal by wearing another costume just to throw us off, thereby learning all the secrets we hide in our soft heads.

2. I can’t decide who makes the list and who doesn’t

I submit to you the worst group photo that I have ever taken. Ever. The way the top of Magneto’s helmet is as big as the rest of his head. The Beast who strangely resembles John Candy, pretending to hump Spider-Woman. The little boy who was obviously forced by his parents to get into arms reach of pedophile Thor for a picture, but just doesn’t want any part of it. And the way a normal looking girl is smashed between all of them.

This one will go down in the record books!

1. Nightwing

You’ll never recognize the full majesty of this boys nerdity without knowing who the puppeteer was behind his wily pose. Not me, when I got his picture he was standing straight as a post. But a second later a pair of broads dressed as female Spock, and a green alien chick asked if they could have his picture, and he did this. I then stole what I thought was the worst picture since the con’s conception. But I was wrong, for a moment later he stopped posing for the girls, and began to talk to them half posed. Allowing me to take the worst follow-up picture in recorded history! Just remember you saw it here on Big Shiny Robot! first.

Note the fact that he wears a black fanny pack which I always find to add another layer of loser to a person. (Also in this case, it’s possibly containing his package. It’s got to be somewhere right?)

P.S. Here’s the ladies he was showing off for, posing with Marcus, the Rear Admiral of Comedy.

Be sure to check out The 5 Loveliest Ladies of the Con and the 5 Best Costumes of the Con.

And here’s Dr. Cyborg’s first ever bad costume round-up from 2007.