The government may be shut down, but that’s no excuse to not care about how you look. Sure, you can’t visit a National Park, but that doesn’t mean you can’t look good while not visiting a national park. If anyone knows a thing or two about looking good, it’s cosplayers. This is why I’ve compiled my weekly list of the Net’s best, brightest and most bizarre cosplays, in a column we like to call Cosplay Friday.

Because we can all bi-partisan about cosplay!

Let’s start the week off with a fantastic Dark Phoenix cosplay. You can tell she’s evil because her hair is glowing.

New York City taxi driver, meet Felicia Hardy. It’s your (un)lucky night.

Paine from Final Fantasy X-2 asks, “What were you saying about the new games being too linear? Yeah, that’s what I thought.”

The Navy really is expanding their hiring policies. (Awesome Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni cosplay)

Fantastic Bleach cosplay. I’m not going to attempt to be funny. It looks like a lady M.Bison crossing guard. I love this.

I woke up not knowing what Defense Devil is, but after this cosplay, you better believe I’m remedying that.

Worst barber ever. (But a great Psycho Pass cosplay!)

Obligatory monthly Tifa cosplay. Because… it’s Tifa!

Yes, Gabrielle, you look great. I don’t want to speak out of turn, but shouldn’t you be hunting vampires?

“I may not always kill Titans, but when I do, I kill them with gas powered grapple hooks.” The most interesting Pixis in the world.

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