San Diego Comic-Con is a cosplayer’s dream.
In 2025, the variety and quality of cosplay inside and outside of the San Diego Convention Center is simply amazing.
Here’s another batch of cosplay photos taken while walking around outside!
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Just another collection of fun photos. I took these on the second day of Comic-Con 2025. Walking around San Diego during Comic-Con is like moving through a fantastic, improbable dream.
Imagination, creativity, cosplay, sudden surprises at every turn! As they say in one movie, Everything Is AWESOME!!!
I feel like a wide-eyed child again. Comic-Con never gets old!
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San Diego Comic-Con in 2025 is just as fun and amazing as ever. Everywhere you go, unbounded creativity. That’s probably what I love most about it.
Human creativity absolutely blooms at Comic-Con. Cosplayers imagine what they can be and become it. Actors play roles that can be utterly crazy. Visitors easily step into fantastic, imaginary worlds. Artists imagine what might be and make it real, right before our eyes.
Walk around downtown San Diego during Comic-Con and expect the unexpected!
I really get excited when I encounter artists who are striving to make their mark in the world. They put their art out there fearlessly. And the cool thing is, everyone loves it.
Local San Diego anime and digital artist Phil produces Umbridled Ambition!
Check out his cool comic by clicking here! Check out his Instagram here!
Manga and anime artist Thomas Fates is a Sketchin Hero! His goal is to have a career as an artist, to create and tell stories full time to give people something to look forward to!
Check out his work by clicking here!
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It’s Thursday evening. Comic-Con 2025 has barely begun. Even so, cosplay is now appearing all over downtown San Diego– particularly in the Gaslamp Quarter and outside the San Diego Convention Center!
Most of these cosplay photos were taken today as I walked all around. A few were taken on Wednesday, the day of Preview Night.
Enjoy!
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An awesome Doctor Who cosplay photoshoot was held today in San Diego at Comic-Con 2025!
A whole host of Time Lords, companions and other Doctor Who characters posed on the grass in front of the Marriott Marquis San Diego for photographs.
I must admit, it has been years since I watched any Doctor Who episodes, so my knowledge is extremely sketchy. How many of these characters do you recognize?
Leave a comment! I’m sure my Doctor Who blogging friend Paul Bowler over in the UK, who is an expert on the very-long-running television series, will know exactly who’s Who!
By the way, check out the Van Gogh Starry Night TARDIS shirt!
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The fun has officially begun this Thursday morning at Comic-Con 2025!
Fans are streaming into the San Diego Convention Center, long lines have formed at the many offsite activations, and cosplay has appeared everywhere downtown!
That’s Mario and Donkey Kong in the above photograph riding through the Gaslamp Quarter!
There was a Thursday morning line at the Pendry Hotel for the Donut Bar’s special donuts…
A line outside the Hard Rock Hotel for Spider-Man Magic: the Gathering.
People head toward the San Diego Convention Center past the Percy Jackson offsite in Gaslamp Square.
Check out this cool Code Vein II motorcycle!
Hot dogs!
Friendly masked Green Lantern had some cool comic books on a table along MLK Promenade.
A line of Abbott Elementary fans wait for the Block Party to open!
The line ends way over here!
Super Toucan chalk art on the bayside boardwalk!
The center of excitement: the San Diego Convention Center.
A steady stream of fans were arriving from their hotels by bus.
Get your 2025 San Diego Comic-Con shirt near the Interactive Zone at Petco Park.
Yes, there will be lots of trash.
The Thunderbolts ice cream truck would begin serving at 10 am.
A fun Phineas and Ferb photo op tucked away near the Percy Jackson offsite.
On the other side…
The Gray Sisters taxi outside the Percy Jackson offsite…
An example of cool cosplay on Thursday morning, back on MLK Promenade…
San Diego Comic-Con sights everywhere you turn! I love it!
C-3PO occupies the Coca Cola Star Wars box office!
Now that’s scary!
Heading back up Fifth Avenue. Another long offsite line. This is for The Lodge, promoting Paramount+ shows.
Hello there. This must be San Diego Comic-Con!
King of the Hill graphic at BAIT in the Gaslamp Quarter. Drinking in public gets one behind bars…
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A cool cosplay photoshoot was held this evening at San Diego Comic-Con 2025. Marvel comic book characters who’ve appeared in the Savage Land posed in front of the Marriott Marquis San Diego’s outdoor fountain!
Which cosplays can you recognize?
I see a cyberpunk Black Widow, Wolverine, Squirrel Girl, Storm, Wild Child, Professor X, Sabretooth, Wiccan, Gambit, Rogue and another Wolverine!
The photoshoot was titled Resistance in the Savage Lands.
Perhaps the hidden Savage Land was suddenly transported from Antarctica to sunny San Diego. If that’s the case, be on the lookout for dinosaurs!
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Costumed dog superheroes converged on San Diego’s Balboa Park today in order to perform feats of heroism at PAWmicon!
With the assistance of kind-hearted humans (some of whom also wore costumes) the cosplay canines helped to raise money and awareness for the Helen Woodward Animal Center, a nationally known animal shelter here in San Diego!
While PAWmicon isn’t associated with Comic-Con, it usually takes place around the week of San Diego’s big international pop culture event.
If you’re so inclined, would you help the Helen Woodward Animal Center by visiting their website here?
You, too, could be a superhero! Loving shelter animals are waiting for you to come to their rescue!
Would this four-footed Wonder Woman win the canine cosplay contest?
Princess Leia (aka Jessica Gercke) is a Helen Woodward Animal Center superstar who has helped saved countless animals. Perhaps you’ve seen her on San Diego television. I looked for Luke and Han but they must have been in a galaxy far away.
Another great dog/human cosplay combo! The Queen of Hearts!
Pikachu joined by two happy Pokémon pups.
Captain America was on hand! Check out his The Rise of Tiny Heroes comic here!
Krypto the Superdog has arrived to save the day! (Can Supergirl be far behind?)
I spun Mario’s wheel and got 2 of 3 pop culture questions correct! The difficult category stumped me.
It’s another four-legged Wonder Woman! Has she entangled a nearby villain with her Lasso of Truth?
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Those who give blood at this year’s Comic-Con blood drive get a special added inducement. You’ll get to meet a bunch of super cool cosplayers!
Costumed members of the San Diego Causeplayer Community will be on hand at the 49th Robert A. Heinlein Blood Drive, San Diego Blood Bank’s largest and longest-running blood drive. (With all that blood sucking action, I wonder whether Blade or Dracula will be there?) Donors will also receive a free Fantastic Four T-shirt from Marvel Studios and other goodies!
If you’re interested in donating blood this year, head down to Grand Hall A at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel during San Diego Comic-Con. Better yet, follow this link to make an appointment.
Look who I saw today in Gaslamp Square! Dude Vader and several of his cosplaying friends!
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The immensely popular Demon Slayer manga and anime is returning to San Diego for Comic-Con 2025, and there’s evidence of it already, weeks in advance.
Not only are many San Diego trolley cars wrapped with cool graphics promoting the upcoming movie Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, but now advertisements for SEGA’s video game Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles 2 have appeared up and down Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp Quarter!
Seeing how popular all things Demon Slayer are, I thought it would be fun to share some cosplay photographs from past Comic-Cons. A cool car, too!
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