Halloween, as we know it, would be nothing without the costumes. However, coming up with an original look year after year (especially if you're a dinosaur like me and were born in the last millennia) is not that easy.
So, to save your tushy in 2021 and give you some ideas, Bored Panda put together a list of some of the most brilliant Halloween outfits we've seen.
From Freddie Mercury Krueger to Post Malone, remember, it's not how much money you spend that counts, rather, it's the ability to think outside the box and the guts to try something new that will set you apart during the spooky celebration.
Heck, you can even copy your favorite costume from this list. Whatever. There are no rules! And if you need more inspiration, fire up our similar articles here, here, and here.
#1 Freddie Mercury Krueger
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#2 Rosey The Robot From The Jetsons. Handmade Costume By My Roommate
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#3 Entering A Costume Contest Next Weekend
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#4 Post Malone For Halloween. Turned Out Better Than Anticipated
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#5 My Wife
The last few years she’s cosplayed like male characters for Halloween and it’s hilarious to see her transform. Besides the vest ($20), everything was put together from things we had around the house. The cravat is the sash of a silk dress. The tie pin is a thumbtack. She’s sitting in front of a piece of art we have that we propped on the floor.
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#6 Put Me In Coach, Just Give Me A Chance
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#7 A Happy Belated Halloween From Our Artsy Family
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#8 My Friend Rae, Has Her Own Latex Company, This Is Her Handmade Costume This Year
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#9 Halloween Is Coming
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#10 Helping My Friend With A Halloween Costume. I Think We Are Off To A Good Start
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#11 My Front Man Costume, Thoughts?
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#12 Happy Halloween From The Torrance Family
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#13 I'm Doing A Costume A Day For October. Today Is Day 1/31. Lumiere From Beauty And The Beast
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#14 I Cannot For The Life Of Me Understand Why Small Children Take So Long To Grow Up. I Think They Do It Deliberately, Just To Annoy Me
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#15 Sweeney Todd - Halloween 2020
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#16 Scooby Doo Halloween Family
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#17 Imagine Seeing Someone Wearing This On Halloween
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#18 I Decided To Dress Up As A Vampire For Halloween
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#19 Halloween Costume Is Done
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#20 This Costume
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#21 We Are Venom
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#22 My Doom Suit I Made For Halloween This Year
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#23 Covid Ruined My Halloween
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#24 My Wife Made Her Own How To Train Your Dragon Costume From Scratch For Halloween
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#25 My Friends Airbender Halloween Costume
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#26 Luna Lovegood For Halloween
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#27 Adam's Family Halloween
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#28 Covid-19 Test
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#29 My Medusa Build Using Foam Mats From The Dollar Store
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#30 My Daughter's Bat Morph Suit
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#31 All Set For Halloween
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#32 Working On My Halloween Costume, 80% Complete So Far
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#33 After Getting Hit By A Car This Year, I Thought This Was The Only Appropriate Costume For Halloween
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#34 Danny Devitos Penguin
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#35 Got A Little Groovy This Year As A Lava Lamp
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#36 Happy Halloween
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#37 A Local Bar Holds St. Patrick Swayze Day Every Year For His Birthday, Here Is My Costume
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#38 Best Day Of The Dead Dancer Costume Ever
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#39 Our Gravity Falls Halloween
My roommate and I dressed ourselves and the house up for Halloween this year as Soos, Stan, and The Mystery Shack. It was a hit with the neighborhood! Sorry for the late post, too busy with party and recovery from said party. No refunds!
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#40 Ollo Citizens Of Metrocity
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#41 I Put My Halloween Costume On A Week Early And Was Too Excited To Not Share How It Looked
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#42 เพราะเราคือพื้นที่ปลอดภัยของกันและกัน เมื่อคุณแม่มาแต่งตัวฮาโลวีนกับหมวยครั้งแรกค่ะ ????️?❤️
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me And My Mum Doing Our Best For Our First Halloween Dress-Up Together. Spooky. ???️?
hair By @kerkkim
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#43 This Year's Costumes. Hope Everyone Has A Great Halloween
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#44 I’ve Come To The Realization, Dressing Up As The Opposite Sex For Halloween Is Significantly Underrated
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#45 A Krampus A Day Keeps The Xmas Away
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#46 I’m Up For Tenure Today And Figured This Was The Best Way To Put A Spell On My Admins. Fingers Crossed
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#47 Morticia And Gomez
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#48 I Dressed Like A Hobbit For Halloween. Thought You Guys Might Appreciate
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#49 Every Halloween I Dress Up As Dwight For School. I Make My First Graders Call Me Mr. Schrute And We Discuss Which Bear Is Best
You would be surprised about how many 6-7 year olds watch The Office
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#50 My Brother Won A Costume Contest (Built The Bike Himself)
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#51 Pulled This Prank On My Brother 2 Years Ago
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#52 Stitched Doll
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#53 Probably My Best Halloween Costume
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#54 The Perfect Halloween Costume
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#55 It's Showtime
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#56 My Half-Finished Lemongrab From Adventure Time. Kind Of Silly But I Think It’s A Good Look For Me
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#57 Demon Lord - Mask By Immortal Masks
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#58 My Witch Costume From Last Year
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#59 I Was A Victorian Ghost For Halloween
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#60 This Was My Costume Last Year
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#61 My 13-Year-Old Wanted To Be A Creepy Rabbit So I Made Him This
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#62 How Many Times I Gotta Tell You, My Name Ain’t Ernie No More, Its Ice
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#63 On My 3rd Round Of Detailing My New Chatterer Mask-Thought I Would Share The Progress So Far
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#64 Thought I'd Share My Family's Halloween Costumes Pre-Covid. Sucks So Bad That Halloween Festivities In My Area Have Dwindled Even More
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#65 My Halloween Costume, Thorny From Supertroopers
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#66 Family Costume Halloween 2020
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#67 Dressed Up As An EA Executive For This Halloween! Scariest Thing I Know
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#68 5 Years Ago, My Dad Made Me This Blaze Costume For Halloween. Honestly Was The Best Halloween Ever
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#69 Fire Nation Suki For Halloween
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#70 My Filipino Mom In 1985 Dressed As Pris From Bladerunner On Halloween
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#71 Pyramid Head And Nurse Halloween 2020
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#72 My Wife's Fat Thor Costume For Tonight
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#73 It's All Just A Bunch Of Hocus Pocus
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#74 My Halloween Costume
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#75 My Bird Person Costume
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#76 My Halloween Costume From 2019 Bc I Still Think It Looks Cool
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#77 Easiest Costume Every Year
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#78 Was Told My Wife's Halloween Makeup Belonged Here
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#79 Here’s Johnny. A Little Unsettling How Much I Resemble Jack Torrence. Happy Halloween All
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#80 Beauty And The Beast
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#81 I'm Doing A Costume A Day For The Month Of October. Today I Went As The Fever Dream That Is The Crimson Chin
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#82 My Sister And Cousins Win Halloween
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#83 I Promise There’s Only One More Jumpscare To Come This Week But Can’t Guarantee There Won’t Be More For The Next
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#84 But Remember, We’re The Wet Bandits
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#85 We Had Twins During Covid. This Was The Only Costume That Made Any Sense In My Mind
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#86 My Boyfriend And I Were 3 Kids Sneaking Into A Rated R Movie
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#87 Never Gonna Give You Up
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#88 Wife And I For Halloween
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#89 Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
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#90 It's 2020, So Of Course I Had To Be A Plague Doctor
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#91 My Fiancée And I In Our Costumes From Last Year. Good Times
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#92 My Halloween Costume Last Year
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#93 A Wilderness Explorer And Kevin, The Most Beautiful Bird In The World
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#94 Vice Presidential Debate Fly
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#95 He Just Wants To Clown Around
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#96 Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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#97 My Friends (Standing) And I (Kneeling) As The Goats Of Glam Rock
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#98 Work Accident
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#99 My Very 2020 Halloween Costume. An N95 Fits Inside The Mask, And The Atomizer I’m Holding Is Filled With Hand Sanitizer
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#100 My Halloween Costume: Mary Poppins! Been Working On It All Summer In Quarantine
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#101 Going Through Old Photos And Dug Up Some Of My Halloween Costumes
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#102 Cut My Beard Off For This Year’s Look
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#103 Our Family’s Halloween Costume That Nobody Got To See Last Year
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#104 My Brother As "The Dude"
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#105 Made My Costume! I Wanted To Have One Of Those Creepy Paper-Mache Pumpkin Masks From The Early 1900s So I Made It
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#106 My Homemade Papier-Mâché Angler Fish Costume
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#107 My Favourite Costumes Worn Over The Years
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#108 My Wife And I As Freddie Mercury And Jarrett The Goblin King A Couple Years Ago, She Ended Up Winning The Costume Contest
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#109 My Fiancé And I Celebrating At A Halfway To Halloween Party
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#110 Happy Halloween From Zamunda To Queens
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#111 My Luna Lovegood Costume This Halloween
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#112 This Year I Decided To Be A Murderous Mermaid For Halloween! It Took Me About 4.5 Hours
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#113 Mike Pence Halloween Costume
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#114 Happy Halloween From The Simpsons
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#115 Wanted To Dress Up As Jessica Rabbit For 10+ Years. Tonight Was The Night
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#116 I Hope To Make A Splash With My Halloween Costume, But That’s Okay Because It’ll Be In A Seaplane
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#117 My Friends And I Did 8 Different Britney Spears In Drag For Halloween This Year
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#118 My Group Cosplayed As Our Characters This Halloween
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#119 Our First Date Was On Animal Crossing Due To The Pandemic. A Bit Over 6 Months Later And Here We Are! Happy Halloween
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#120 Hello October
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