170 Creative Halloween Costume Ideas

GlennSotraz Haziran 14, 2021

Halloween is just around the corner and it’s about that time of the year when we are getting all crazed and creative while pumping those brain cells hard to come up with the coolest costumes. But the good news is that the best inspiration always comes from the things around us.

And from the year we've had so far, it seems like this Halloween will be the party of the century. Think of COVID deniers, anti-vax "Karens" callin’ corporate, a trash bag that represents GOT’s final season, and many more out-of-the-box ideas that have been packed into this prep list by Bored Panda. And even though the costume winner is more or less obvious—Steve Martin, where are you?—we suspect the grey hair paint and plastic mini flies will be flying off the shelves this year.

For more ways to win Halloween this year once and for all, check out our previous posts with killer costumes here, here, and here.

#1 Social Media Post And The Reality Behind It

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#2 My Grandma Found A Clever Way To Incorporate Her Walker Into Her Halloween Costume

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#3 Game Of Thrones Writer

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#4 Madlass

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#5 Please Pray For My Dog. He Just Realized We’re Insane

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#6 I Just Want Everyone To Know That My Two-Year Old Insisted On Being “Pants” For Halloween

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#7 Dressed As My Cat Murnau For Halloween This Year

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#8 Kid Won The Best Costume Award At His School

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#9 Mermaid On Wheels

Since becoming a wheelchair user 3 years ago I wanted to dress up as a mermaid, because I figure on land they would use wheelchairs too. Finally got the chance at a Halloween party. It took around 3 hours to do my makeup - my disability affects my fine motor skills so it was a bit tricky! I was happy with how it turned out though and loved being a mermaid for a night.

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#10 We’ve Watched Beauty And The Beast Too Many Times To Count. She Is Lucky She Has The Cutest Beast That Puts Up With Her Shenanigans

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#11 You Better Be Scared

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#12 Pretty Stoked With How My Peggy Bundy Turned Out

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#13 My First DIY Costume. I Was Medusa

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#14 5y Girl As Pennywise

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#15 Steve Martin's Costume

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#16 Princess Lineup

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#17 May The Force Be With You All This Halloween

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#18 Costume Test For Zero

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#19 My Dad Dressed As Me For Halloween

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#20 My Girlfriend Wanted To Do A Quidditch Costume And Told Me To Dress Up As A Snitch

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#21 I'll Be Confusing Trick-Or-Treaters Again This Year

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#22 An Attempt Was Made

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#23 The Best Halloween Costume

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#24 Reverse Pleasantville Halloween Costume This Year. Black And White In A Color World

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#25 Jewbacca

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#26 My Uncle's Halloween Costume Is The Scariest Thing He's Ever Known, His Ex-Wife

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#27 Wednesday And Morticia Adams

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#28 I Decided To Be Brave!

For this Halloween I decided to be brave, and just own the chemo head. Embracing the bald if you will, and I think it ended up pretty cool! All creds go to my bestie for painting me, she's got some serious skill! (Cyantivity on Instagram if anyone is interested).

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#29 If You Don’t Understand This Costume, You’re Too Young For Me

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#30 I Got Something In My Eye

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#31 Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs

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#32 Everyone's Been Making The Same Pirate Joke Since I Lost My Leg, So I Said Screw It. Happy Halloween

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#33 Show Me The Receipt

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#34 Obelix

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#35 Fra-Gee-Lay

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#36 My Teachers Costume On Halloween

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#37 Kyle

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#38 My Friend Needed A Turtle Costume For A Party, So I Made This

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#39 Our Sons Halloween Costume That We Made For Him. He Is Way Stoked

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#40 I Heard Your Mother Does Tricks Trebek

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#41 Went As Freddy Mercury Krueger

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#42 My Son’s Hand Made Halloween Costume. He’s Been Working On It Since April

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#43 She Won

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#44 My Costume This Year

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#45 This Costume Wins Hands Down

Kevin spilled the sauce! This part legit makes me sad coz he was so proud of his chili and his desperate struggle to try to retrieve it....the truest folly of man.

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#46 Fortune Teller And Crystal Ball (Baby Bump)

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#47 Came 3rd In The Costume Contest At Work

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#48 Our Daughters First Halloween Costume

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#49 The Most Expensive Part Of This Costume Was The Pizza

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#50 My Boy And I Are Irondad And Spider-Son

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#51 Thought You Guys Might Like My Costume

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#52 The Scariest Costume Of All

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#53 I Wanted To Show Off Seymour’s Halloween Costume. Don’t Worry. His Mom Is A Professional Groomer, No Cheap And/Or Harmful Products Used

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#54 My Little Toad, Toadbert, In His Wizard Halloween Costume

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#55 "I'm Your Other Mother, Silly"

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#56 Laces Out

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#57 Last Year My Wife Was Mushu And Mulan, This Year It's Ash And Pikachu

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#58 Our Couple Cosplays So Far

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#59 Hope You Guys Like My Costume, Emily From Corpse Bride

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#60 32 Weeks Pregnant, Most Relatable Costume

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#61 Since Everybody Calls Him A Horse Anyway

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#62 Finally Dressed As My Childhood Hero For Halloween

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#63 I Need A Hero

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#64 Painted Up Pop Art

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#65 Going Looking For The Manager

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#66 My Friend Nailed His Kevin Smith Costume

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#67 He Was This Close To Cutting Off An Ear

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#68 Edgar Allan Hoe And The Raven

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#69 My Friends Liked It Well Enough

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#70 An Attempt At Van Gogh

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#71 Punching Halloween Like A Mantis Shrimp Would

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#72 A Buddy Of Mine And His Salty Halloween Costume

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#73 Wore My Ravenclaw Quidditch Outfit With Pride For Halloween

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#74 My Homemade Oogie Boogie Costume

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#75 Name Is Hades, Lord Of The Dead, Hi Howya Doing?

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#76 "Cynthia! She's A Really Cool Dancer!"

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#77 Are You The Gatekeeper?

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#78 Adam Jones From Tool As Dwight Schrute

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#79 Please Join My Team!!!! So Many Good Deals!!! Definitely 100% Not A Pyramid Scheme

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#80 The Powerpuff Girls

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#81 Office Halloween Party Win. The Vest Really Ties The Whole Outfit Together

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#82 Hubs And I Switching It Up This Halloween

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#83 Claire From Outlander For Halloween. Costume By Me

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#84 Honk! Ms. Steal Your Bell

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#85 Half Man, Half Dog. I'm My Own Best Friend

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#86 My BF And I As The Landlady And Stephen Chow From Kung Fu Hustle

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#87 Yip Yip Yip, Uh-Huh, Uh-Huh

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#88 I Made A Starbucks Dress

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#89 Father/Daughter Costume - Greetings From Salem Mass!

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#90 Spooky

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#91 This Post-Endgame Black Widow Cosplay

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#92 My Sister And I Took On Beetlejuice

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#93 My Waluigi Halloween Costume

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#94 Last Minute Halloween Costume

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#95 For Your Costume Consideration: Barbara Fett

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#96 Costume Contest Entry

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#97 My Wife And I Built This Kaer Morhen Witcher 3 Armor For Our Son's School Halloween Parade. Bird Is Our Sun Conure Parrot Lily

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#98 Happy Halloween!! Winter Is Coming

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#99 Very Proud Of My Him Costume And Wanted To Share

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#100 Happy Halloween!

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#101 I Know I’m Late But I Wanted To Share My Borderlands Psycho Costume

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#102 Mom’s Friendly Robot Corp. Cosplay

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#103 My Take On Cruella De Vil For A Heroes/Villains Party

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#104 Cheap, Low Effort Halloween Idea

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#105 A Little Wednesday For Your Monday

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#106 Charles Montgomery "Monty" Burns

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#107 6’5 Sexy Big Bird As A Last Minute Costume

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#108 My Halloween Costume This Year, Stay Spooky Out There

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#109 My Halloween Costume 2019

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#110 Good Evening Boils And Ghouls! Time For Some Tales From The Crypt

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#111 My Arya Stark Costume With My Boy Rex As Nymeria

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#112 My Fiancè And I Dressed Up For Halloween

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#113 Finished My Oogie Boogie Costume

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#114 Went To A Halloween Party As Hop, Found My Daughter Twice. It Was A Fun Night

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#115 "In Your Head... Zombie, Zombie"

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#116 My Favorite Halloween Costume

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#117 Won The Costume Contest At My Neighbourhood Bar Last Night

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#118 Mine And My Girlfriend's Costumes This Year

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#119 Halloween Costume

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#120 Halloween 2019. My Daughter Wanted To Go As Mose Schrute

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#121 Snow White Walker And John Snow White

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#122 For Halloween, I Went As Master Hand And Crazy Hand With A Super Smash Bros. Ultimate-Inspired Final Destination. I Even Handed Out Smash Invites To Gaming-Related Costumes

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#123 I Was Drunk Dared To Make A Set Of Wearable T-51 Nuka Cola Power Armor From Fallout. Joke Is On Them, I Actually Made It 2 Years Later

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#124 Finally Made My Hitchcock Dreams A Reality

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#125 Homemade Jessie From Team Rocket Costume

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#126 My Grandpa Dressed As Jafar And It Makes Me Very Happy

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#127 Couldn't Get One This Year, So Here's My Halloween Costume From Last Year

It was funny getting compliments or gross comments from guys, then responding "THANKS" in my deepest man voice. I swear one guy jumped 5 feet straight up.