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From Negan to Spider-Man: The impressive cosplay at SVCC 2017

Cosplayers from the Bay Area show off their impressive craftsmanship at the San Jose Convention Center for the second year of Silicon Valley Comic Con.

Jeff Sparkman
Jeff Sparkman is a copy editor at CNET who also writes about goofy and retro gadgets and contributes lame jokes where needed.
Tania González
Jeff Sparkman
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Ashes of Al'ar from World of Warcraft

This cosplayer shows us her version of Ashes of Al'ar from World of Warcraft.

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The complete look

It took her eight hours to put together her look.

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She found a friend

Starfire from Teen Titans joined the photo shoot.

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Red X gon' give it to ya

Red X is working it for the camera.

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Red Son

This Wonder Woman and Superman are from an alternate Earth where Superman's origin happened a little bit differently.

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A power couple

Don't mess with them.

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Sabine Wren

Sabine Wren from "Star Wars Rebels" stands ready.

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Sabine Wren

This is the season 3 version of Sabine Wren, and it took her three months to hand-paint her costume.

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Spideypool?

You can see more than a few clever superhero mashups at conventions. Here's a Spider-Man/Deadpool hybrid.

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Ready to shoot

The cosplayer offered us a few different vogue moments.

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A female Sith

This professional cosplayer's name is @Feisty_Vee and she is showing us her take on a female Sith from Star Wars.

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Ready to charge

Veronica Carousos is also known as Feisty Vee.

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Welcome to the jungle

Even musicians are represented. Here's Slash.

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I am your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate

The Schwartz is with Dark Helmet and his entourage.

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Chapulín Colorado

We also ran into Chapulín Colorado, the most famous Mexican superhero.

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Snakey!

Whoa, what kind of snake is wrapped around this take on the Captain America-style outfit?

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Smile!

A cosplay group having fun at Silicon Valley Comic Con.

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Once upon a dream

We also saw two of Sleeping Beauty's fairy godmothers!

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Do you know this character?

Sometimes it's hard to recognize all the characters we see during a convention. Please let us know if you recognize him in the comment section. 

Update: It's a Psycho from the game Borderlands! Thank you, helpful reader jb13760!

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Stark reality

That's a lot of iron, man.

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Nerf this!

It's D.va from Overwatch without her mech, which means we probably just died. 

(Thanks to the helpful reader who pointed out this slide was unnamed!)

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'You have 20 seconds to comply'

It's ED-209 from "RoboCop." Fortunately, there were no glitches.

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Papercraftsmanship

There's papercraft, and then there's papercraft. Iron Man and K-2S0 look quite imposing.

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Everyone's favorite astromech droid

Oh, then there's this little droid, named, um, hang on, we totally wrote this down...

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Driving simulation

Acura had a simulation at SVCC that allows you to drive a 2017 Accura NSX.

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2017 Accura NSX

For the simulation you had to wear special glasses with sensors that measured 35 biometrics to give you a personalized ride.

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Lord Vader

It's not a convention unless you get Force-choked by Darth Vader.

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'Guardians of the Galaxy'

This exhibit of the "Guardians of the Galaxy" is pretty cool.

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League of Legends

This impressive armored angel is from LoL.

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A motley crew

It's not every day you see Batman villains and Spider-Man characters from the present and the future hanging out with a scout trooper. Unless you go to conventions every day.

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The entrance

The crowd at SVCC was very excited, and we got to see great cosplay.

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Gracie Law

We saw several cosplayers inspired by "Big Trouble in Little China," but this was the most impressive impersonation of Gracie Law.

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Jack Burton and Gracie Law

Here we see the power couple of "Big Trouble in Little China."

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Halo

We found a Spartan!

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A little dancing

This cosplayer danced for the cameras.

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Alien

This cosplayer shows us his take on the creature from "Alien."

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The amazing Amazonian

This Wonder Woman was representing Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, which by coincidence, will have a Wonder Woman-themed ride, the Lasso of Truth, this year.

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Negan and Lucille

Negan from "The Walking Dead" also stopped by SVCC. Fortunately, Lucille seems to be in a good mood.

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