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 Imagine Seeing Someone Wearing This On Halloween

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#2 Freddie Mercury Krueger

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#3 Scooby Doo Halloween Family

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#4 Entering A Costume Contest Next Weekend

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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 We Are Venom

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#7 Halloween Costume Is Done

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#8 Halloween Is Coming

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#9 My Medusa Build Using Foam Mats From The Dollar Store

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#10 The Perfect Halloween Costume

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#11 Rosey The Robot From The Jetsons. Handmade Costume By My Roommate

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#12 I Was A Victorian Ghost For Halloween

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#13 A Krampus A Day Keeps The Xmas Away

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#14 Adam's Family Halloween

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#15 I Decided To Dress Up As A Vampire For Halloween

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#16 After Getting Hit By A Car This Year, I Thought This Was The Only Appropriate Costume For Halloween

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#17 My Friends Airbender Halloween Costume

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#18 A Happy Belated Halloween From Our Artsy Family

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#19 Covid Ruined My Halloween

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#20 Happy Halloween From Zamunda To Queens

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#21 Put Me In Coach, Just Give Me A Chance

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#22 My Wife Made Her Own How To Train Your Dragon Costume From Scratch For Halloween

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#23 A Local Bar Holds St. Patrick Swayze Day Every Year For His Birthday, Here Is My Costume

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#24 My Doom Suit I Made For Halloween This Year

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#25 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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#26 Pulled This Prank On My Brother 2 Years Ago

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#27 Post Malone For Halloween. Turned Out Better Than Anticipated

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#28 My Friend Rae, Has Her Own Latex Company, This Is Her Handmade Costume This Year

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#29 I’ve Come To The Realization, Dressing Up As The Opposite Sex For Halloween Is Significantly Underrated

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#30 Hello October

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#31 Danny Devitos Penguin

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#32 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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#33 This Year I Decided To Be A Murderous Mermaid For Halloween! It Took Me About 4.5 Hours

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#34 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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#35 I Put My Halloween Costume On A Week Early And Was Too Excited To Not Share How It Looked

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#36 Happy Halloween From The Torrance Family

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#37 Morticia And Gomez

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#38 Best Day Of The Dead Dancer Costume Ever

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#39 My Daughter's Bat Morph Suit

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#40 I'm Doing A Costume A Day For October. Today Is Day 1/31. Lumiere From Beauty And The Beast

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#41 Was Told My Wife's Halloween Makeup Belonged Here

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#42 Sweeney Todd - Halloween 2020

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#43 But Remember, We’re The Wet Bandits

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#44 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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#45 Family Costume Halloween 2020

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#46 Ollo Citizens Of Metrocity

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#47 This Was My Costume Last Year

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#48 Got A Little Groovy This Year As A Lava Lamp

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#49 Luna Lovegood For Halloween

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#50 Covid-19 Test

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#51 Vice Presidential Debate Fly

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#52 My 13-Year-Old Wanted To Be A Creepy Rabbit So I Made Him This

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#53 My Wife's Fat Thor Costume For Tonight

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#54 My Brother Won A Costume Contest (Built The Bike Himself)

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#55 My Halloween Costume: Mary Poppins! Been Working On It All Summer In Quarantine

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#56 My Homemade Papier-Mâché Angler Fish Costume

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#57 5 Years Ago, My Dad Made Me This Blaze Costume For Halloween. Honestly Was The Best Halloween Ever

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#58 Helping My Friend With A Halloween Costume. I Think We Are Off To A Good Start

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#59 Beauty And The Beast

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#60 Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice

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#61 A Wilderness Explorer And Kevin, The Most Beautiful Bird In The World

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#62 He Just Wants To Clown Around

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#63 Cut My Beard Off For This Year’s Look

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#64 My Brother As "The Dude"

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#65 Pyramid Head And Nurse Halloween 2020

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#66 Stitched Doll

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#67 We Had Twins During Covid. This Was The Only Costume That Made Any Sense In My Mind

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#68 Never Gonna Give You Up

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#69 I Dressed Like A Hobbit For Halloween. Thought You Guys Might Appreciate

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#70 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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#71 My Front Man Costume, Thoughts?

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#72 This Year's Costumes. Hope Everyone Has A Great Halloween

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#73 My Bird Person Costume

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#74 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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#75 It's 2020, So Of Course I Had To Be A Plague Doctor

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#76 This Costume

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#77 It's Showtime

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#78 Working On My Halloween Costume, 80% Complete So Far

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#79 On My 3rd Round Of Detailing My New Chatterer Mask-Thought I Would Share The Progress So Far

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#80 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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#81 My Witch Costume From Last Year

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#82 Happy Halloween

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#83 My Friends And I Did 8 Different Britney Spears In Drag For Halloween This Year

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#84 All Set For Halloween

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#85 Our Family’s Halloween Costume That Nobody Got To See Last Year

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#86 My Friends (Standing) And I (Kneeling) As The Goats Of Glam Rock

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#87 Work Accident

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#88 My Filipino Mom In 1985 Dressed As Pris From Bladerunner On Halloween

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#89 My Group Cosplayed As Our Characters This Halloween

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#90 My Sister And Cousins Win Halloween

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#91 My Boyfriend And I Were 3 Kids Sneaking Into A Rated R Movie

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#92 Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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#93 Going Through Old Photos And Dug Up Some Of My Halloween Costumes

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#94 Mike Pence Halloween Costume

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#95 Happy Halloween From The Simpsons

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#96 Easiest Costume Every Year

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#97 My Fiancée And I In Our Costumes From Last Year. Good Times

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#98 Demon Lord - Mask By Immortal Masks

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#99 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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#100 My Fiancé And I Celebrating At A Halfway To Halloween Party

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#101 Fire Nation Suki For Halloween

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#102 เพราะเราคือพื้นที่ปลอดภัยของกันและกัน เมื่อคุณแม่มาแต่งตัวฮาโลวีนกับหมวยครั้งแรกค่ะ ????️‍?❤️ youtube: แข่ง Squid Game กับคุณแม่ออน4โมงเย็นนะคะ❤️ me And My Mum Doing Our Best For Our First Halloween Dress-Up Together. Spooky. ???️‍? hair By @kerkkim face By @bytacha styled By @_knkayen_ #lgbt #lgbtq? #lgbtq #queer #equality #gay #genderqueer #genderfluid #genderfluid?#pride #loveislove #gaylife #asexual #lgbtcommunity #letboysbefeminine #degenderfashion #halloween #squidgame

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#103 My Favourite Costumes Worn Over The Years

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#104 My Halloween Costume

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#105 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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#106 Probably My Best Halloween Costume

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#107 My Halloween Costume Last Year

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#108 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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#109 My Luna Lovegood Costume This Halloween

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#110 It's All Just A Bunch Of Hocus Pocus

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#111 Here’s Johnny. A Little Unsettling How Much I Resemble Jack Torrence. Happy Halloween All

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#112 My Half-Finished Lemongrab From Adventure Time. Kind Of Silly But I Think It’s A Good Look For Me

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#113 How Many Times I Gotta Tell You, My Name Ain’t Ernie No More, Its Ice

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#114 My Halloween Costume, Thorny From Supertroopers

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#115 Wanted To Dress Up As Jessica Rabbit For 10+ Years. Tonight Was The Night

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#116 Dressed Up As An EA Executive For This Halloween! Scariest Thing I Know

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#117 My Halloween Costume From 2019 Bc I Still Think It Looks Cool

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#118 Wife And I For Halloween

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#119 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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#120 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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