Drunken_Lemur408 on 09/16/2008 10:36 am

Dude, you could still do Two-Face without anyone else.

wobzire on 09/16/2008 10:47 am

well that was easy

stonewar on 09/16/2008 11:09 am

the plastic smock idea would be kinda hipster nostalgic

NutsMouth (Guest) on 09/16/2008 11:26 am

You could go as a giantcan of peanut brittle and when someone opens the lid, you'll jump out as a snake!!! Hiss! Meeow! He's got the cat, honey! By the throat!

Jay-Tee (Guest) on 09/16/2008 11:31 am

Could always pull off an Alex DeLarge like every other male seems to do. I've got a 200 dollar bowler derby and that's the only thing I think to do with it.

Jigby Huggletinks on 09/16/2008 11:42 am

Drive up and park right on people's driveways and honk the horn. When they emerge, pissed, demand candy from them, saying that you're dressed as a car for Halloween.

Jigby Huggletinks on 09/16/2008 11:43 am

Scratch that, just drive through their front doors.

Squirrel Eater (Guest) on 09/16/2008 11:57 am

Since a cthulhu game was brought up not very long ago I was wondering, why not go as one of those fishmen? Preferably one of the ones that were in their later stage of transformation. If made right it would be an awesome costume.

King Credo on 09/16/2008 12:00 pm

Get a lame store bought costume and add a twist. You took a simple Red Shirt and made him into a bad-ass costume. Do that with another pop culture character that most people will recognize. Who wouldn't want to see an alcohoic Dr. Strange at their Halloween party? What heartless bastard wouldn't enjoy Darth Vader with a traffic cone up his ass (cut a part off of the cone and tape it on your ass to save you a lot of time and horrible pain)? Amputee Tony the Tiger? You better believe he'd get entire candy bowls handed to him during trick or treating. Try something like that.

Price (Guest) on 09/16/2008 3:16 pm

The best costumes are definitely thought up at the very last minute.

McFly on 09/16/2008 3:36 pm

One of my friends was thinking of going as Nacho Libre, but it may be scary seeing him in stretchy pants. As for myself, I am in the same boat as you Proto. Usually what I end up picking is within close vicinity of Halloween, which leaves a couple of lame costumes on the shelves to choose from.

imockyou on 09/17/2008 11:21 am

... For some reason I can see you really pulling off a Dr. Strangelove costume. I've always wanted someone to do a pumpkin-headed alien creature too.
Or you can invent your own superhero. I did that last year. No one will know who you are, but it's still fun anyways.

I'm thinking of doing a radioactive zombie mad scientist this year. It's not official yet.

Jen (Guest) on 09/17/2008 11:45 am

Seconding the Two-Face idea. Or go as one of the blue man group.

Geminate on 09/17/2008 11:48 am

I believe anything that requires that you carry a loaded shotgun would be nice.

Me, I'll just be my dead little self, as usual...I go as a corpse, formal dress.

Viteh on 09/17/2008 2:21 pm

If you really want to scare people away, you could dress as Pee-Wee Herman.

Or better yet, dress as Michael Jackson.

SPINAL on 09/17/2008 2:48 pm

The Orphans from "The Warriors".

Simple t-shirts with ORPHANS written on the front. Baseball Furies is way to complicated and expensive for my fellow simpletons and cheapskates.

We're gonna rain on them Warriors!

Relaxing Dragon on 09/17/2008 2:51 pm

I've got it: go as a giant, flaming carrot. It's big, it's cool looking, it's noticeable, and best of all it's completely origina-

Oh, wait, scratch that. Hmm...

OK, then I'll second the loaded shotgun one (local gun laws notwithstanding of course). You can find a gimp outfit (available at any friendly neighborhood S&M store!) and go as the father from The People Under the Stairs.

I have this problem almost every year; I can almost never decide what to be, and it gets more and more irritating as life goes on and I keep getting more and more ideas (most of which I'm too lazy to commit to). But not this year; this year, I'm dead set on being Raoul Duke, and dammit, I'm going to go through with it (still need that hat, though).

Bastran (Guest) on 09/17/2008 3:54 pm

How about someone from a black-and-white movie? If the make-up doesn't kill you, it's worth the odd looks. :D I myself am an IRS agent, but without the bulletproof vest. It adds an extra sense of risk to trick-or-treating.

Ronin S on 09/17/2008 7:04 pm

You could make up your own superhero.

Um... how about a sidekick/ally for Pickleman? Like Mayo guy? Mustard Man? Oh wait, that one's taken...

Tetsu Deinonychus on 09/17/2008 7:05 pm

What about Jar Jar Binks?

That, or an Ewok.

Durin413 on 09/17/2008 7:05 pm

I giant, mutant, blob of CANDY! to accomplish this you would need the following. a vat of assorted candy (no fun size snickers/milky way type candies), something very sticky that is safe to eat, and if you are a wuss some kind of clothing cover.

What you do is you coat yourself (or the clothing covering that you are wearing) with the sticky stuff. Than you spill open your vat of candy (the candy must be opened) and roll around in it, thus covering your entire body in candy. Than you take some more candy and rain it down on yourself to make sure that you are coated all the way.

The advantage of this costume is that it is edible. Hungry? Just gnaw on your arm. And if you are feeling generous you can let other people takes bits out of you as well.

Note: the candies would need a good variety. Like were talkin nerds, candy bars (no fun size), jawbreakers, candy corn, mellowcreme pumpkins, gum, jolly ranchers, hershey kisses, etc.

Durin413 on 09/17/2008 7:06 pm

Dammit, no edit button. meant to say A giant bloc of candy (as opposed to I giant blod of candy)

john smith (Guest) on 09/17/2008 8:20 pm

Although it's really wierd, klaus nomi would make a kick ass costume if you could pull it off right.

that, or a splicer from bioshock.

me personally, I'm going as a crazy person dressed as a seventies cop.

Lagoony (Guest) on 09/17/2008 8:43 pm

You should go as -Rog-.

captain516 on 09/17/2008 8:54 pm

You can't go wrong with Dr. Mcninja!

Aduross on 09/17/2008 8:56 pm

You could run around in a pair of boxers and carry a lance and you'd be Arthur. :P

cthulhu257 on 09/17/2008 9:00 pm

I'm not going to dress up. Instead, I'm going to find a boom box with a REALLY high max volume. Then, I'm going to hide it on my roof along with a strobe light or something, and have it blare out the noise the Tripods make in War of the Worlds. I guarantee it'll scare the crap out of anyone who's seen the movie.

Viteh on 09/17/2008 9:18 pm

You could dress up as you normally do and claim that you are your identical evil twin brother Ectoclown

Kyle Harkes (Guest) on 09/17/2008 10:03 pm

Go as the Large Hadron Collider.

Jenn (Guest) on 09/17/2008 10:21 pm

I would like to second the LHC idea.

Copper on 09/17/2008 10:40 pm

(Hmm, first comment got eaten by the server malfunction...)

Personally, I'm for the Two-Face idea, but then, with the movie being out, there's likely going to be a lot of him and the Joker running around this year. Could go green and purple and be old Edward Nigma.

Seconding Dr. McNinja,too, simply because he's friggin' awesome!

Could always hit the thrift stores and see what you can put together from what you find there. If nothing else, get a white sheet, cut a bunch of holes in it, carry around a bag of rocks, and go as Charlie Brown. If people make fun of you, hit 'em with a rock!

dantheman73 (Guest) on 09/17/2008 11:03 pm

go as a gay pirate ninja jedi clown....zombie.

Dungeonbrownies on 09/17/2008 11:33 pm

put a plastic bag on, some nasty assed pants, and a shoebox on your head, maybe even steal a shopping cart and get some cut up gloves and youre a hobo. Bam.

add some plastic teeth youre a vampirehobo,
a medical coat and youre dr hobo,
a lil blood and youre a zombie hobo.

hobo's are like black clothes, they go with everything.

Fear N Loathing on 09/18/2008 12:17 am

Easy... red sneakers, red sweatpants, white sweatshirt dyed a matching red as the sweatpants halfway up... white ball cap with large string on it.
Viola

Instant Used Tampax

Outcome on 09/18/2008 1:59 am

Go as one of the marvel zombies. Or you could go as drunken Iron Man.

Cockbag mc dong (Guest) on 09/18/2008 12:56 pm

Go as hunter s thompson.

Kirbykid on 09/18/2008 1:13 pm

I'm going as Quail-Man. BEAT THAT!!!

MrEff on 09/18/2008 2:50 pm

Two-Face, Dr McNinja and Hunter S. Thompson are all fine ideas, but I say dress as Snake Plissken, as he's pure 80's badass.

90’s Child on 09/18/2008 5:46 pm

I reccomend either Dr. Mcninja ,Squirrel Eater's idea of going as one of those people with "The Insmouth Look" or going as Pokey Minch from Earthbound (It's obscure, sure, but Pokey's a cool character, he was like Cartman befor Cartman (Even moreso in Mother 3) ever was thought up), preferrably when he's all blue from abuse of time-travel.

Protoclown on 09/18/2008 9:59 pm

Haha, there are some great costume ideas here, guys. I especially like the Dr. Strangelove costume, and since it's really easy to emulate his voice and style of speaking that'd be really easy to pull off. Unfortunately it would also involve a wheelchair, which would be a bit of a pain to deal with.

The Ectoclown and the car ideas also made me laugh. And a few others, but I can't be bothered to scroll up and look--do you think time grows on trees? what the fuck. seriously

Silver on 09/19/2008 1:01 am

Ever thought of recycling that costume you used for some small zombie film you talked about some time ago?

captain516 on 09/19/2008 1:10 am

I just had a better idea- Phil Ken Sebben from Harvey Birdman!

Trelard (Guest) on 09/19/2008 8:58 am

You could always go as a fireman.. Bollock naked with a glass bottle over your penis.. (Break the glass, pull, and you'll come as fast as you can.)

Alternatively you could go out to a fancy dress party in a pair of boxers and nothing else. That would be a costume called "Premature ejaculation".. You came in your underwear. (rimshot)

Ferrit on 09/19/2008 7:28 pm

Proto - easy enough:

Go as the Joker from the new Batman movie. NOBODY will be going as the Joker from the new Batman movie this Halloween. Nobody.

I always thought it'd be interesting to print out a full sized picture of my face with digital distortion. Then wear that as a mask and go as FBI informant man

Or an IMP from Doom with real working fireball shooters in my hands.

Invisible on 09/19/2008 11:28 pm

Go as -RoG-!!!

resident-adam on 09/20/2008 10:34 pm

Guess you can be like me :) The Empire always needs more Stormies!

ecco6t9 (Guest) on 09/21/2008 2:26 am

Take the Mexican Ninja but be red underneath and be El Ziodo here to ruin your drinking water.

JakeOfAllTrades on 09/24/2008 2:39 am

Try a Sweeney Todd costume. NOBODY will be going as Sweeney Todd, only as the Joker from the new Batman.

Sal (Guest) on 09/26/2008 8:27 am

Go as a local comic shop retailer.

Jordan H. (Guest) on 10/01/2008 1:59 am

Dress up as a Matt Lesko Vampire. It's as easy as grabbing a suit made of question marks and buying fangs.

Tashie Jackson (Guest) on 09/10/2011 11:04 am

i think you have to be 21 good luck though