More than 120 cosplayers posed for privacy and free speech at EFF and Access Now's Project Secret Identity station at Dragon Con. Over the Labor Day weekend, we were visited by Scarecrow and "Weird Al," Marvel Zombies and self-designed Steampunk characters, and heroes and villains from anime and video games—all with a common interest in defending Internet freedom.
ProjectSecretIdentity.org has the full collection. Here are some of the cosplayers that we'll never forget:
Marvel Zombies
The 11th Doctor
Scarlet Witch
Grimlock
Anger and Disgust from Inside Out (Two perfectly normal emotional responses to mass surveillance)
Sugar Plum Fairy from Cabin in the Woods
Beast
Boba Fett on Vacation
Team Fortress
Scarecrow
Scary Terry
Flying Spaghetti Monster
Wolf, Turtle, and Gryphon Shamans
Linda Belcher
Super-Skrull
Checkers
Yinz and Sally the Rag Dog
Cheetara and Bane
Deadpool
Star Trek engineer with Geordi La Forge
Rogue
Dishonored
Lana Kane from Archer
Forecast Janna and Sakura Kasugano
Mal Reynolds from Firefly
Hawkeye, Spider Gwen, and Black Widow
"Weird Al" Yankovic
Now for the Steampunk contingent:
Mala Mul'tave'rii
Ysabet and Scareltt
Charley Hankins
Lady Phoenix and Queen Victoria
Dr. Drakken
