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Every year, come Halloween, the geeks are out in force showing off their favorite geek subjects with their costumes. I have put together ten of the best (or worst perhaps) geek costumes for Halloween. Enjoy!
1. Darth Vader
This is where it all begins. Chances are, the kid in this photo is the star of one of the other nine below, but grown up.
2. iPod
You won’t believe (well – maybe you will) how many iPod Halloween costumes I saw in my search. Tres original guys. Not!
3. Rubik’s Cube
At least he was able to solve it before he got inside I guess.
4. XBox
This guy looks like he just saw someone walk past in a Wii costume.
5. The Deathstar
Hands up those of you who knew this would be on the list before you opened the page.
6. Star wars again?
A lot of effort went into this one I see.
7. The Flying Spaghetti Monster
Aren’t we honored to be visited by god this Halloween?
8. Grammar Nazi
Guess what types of comments this guy leaves on the social networking sites?
9. Star Wars again… Again!
This is a very very popular theme.
10. Gordon Freeman
Gordon Freeman from half life being attacked by either a snark, a headcrab, or a face crab (depending on which comment from below you believe).
Bonus: Domokun
A list like this would not be complete without Domokun. Happy Halloween!
October 31st, 2007 at 11:39 am
The costume listed for number 10 is Gordon from the game Half Life. If i remember correctly he is holding a crow bar, and a face crab.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:40 am
#10 is Gordon Freeman from the Halflife video games. He’s bashing a Snark with his crowbar.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:40 am
Blast! Too slow.
October 31st, 2007 at 11:41 am
Number 10 is Gordon Freeman from Half-Life being attacked by a headcrab
Great list, those Star Wars costumes made me giggle xD
October 31st, 2007 at 11:42 am
Oh
too slow indeed
October 31st, 2007 at 11:47 am
Thanks guys – fixed it. I guess that means you three are the geekiest here
October 31st, 2007 at 11:47 am
lol…y’all too slow…
October 31st, 2007 at 11:52 am
I’m surprised there’s no Cthulhu costume
Speaking of… meet My Little Cthulhu
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/shakespeares_sister/shakes5/MyLittleCthulhu.png
October 31st, 2007 at 11:54 am
I might have known good old Freeman but what the hell is the bonus one from?
October 31st, 2007 at 11:54 am
Real geeks do not dress up for Halloween. C’mon! There would be no point in dressing up since no actual living human being has any face to face social interaction with real geeks. Now putting a costume on an avatar for Halloween, perhaps I’ll believe…
I love the Flying Spaghetti Monster!
October 31st, 2007 at 12:06 pm
No, no, no! You got it all wrong! It’s not a snark, a headcrab or a face crab, they’re called head-humpers!
October 31st, 2007 at 12:11 pm
no no no…THIS has got to be #1
http://www.tronguy.net/TRONcostume/
October 31st, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Haha, dude looks like milton from Office Space. Tron was the shit though.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Dan: Oh my eyes! IT BURNS!
Mathilda: haha so cruel!
Ben: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domokun – he has become something of an Internet Meme
October 31st, 2007 at 12:35 pm
I Agree with Mathilda. A true Geek does not socialize in public very well. So would not likely go out in public wearing a costumer. That does not mean they wont dress up though. More then likely they will dress in one of the above costumers and take pictures of themselves to post on there website. therefore makign it appear they went into public for the first time this month.
October 31st, 2007 at 12:41 pm
One of my friends is a pastafarian
October 31st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Definitely worths honorable mention:
Real Transformers
October 31st, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Now THIS is a good FSM:
http://johnstewart.com/v/halloween/2007/Gordon+Halloween+2007.jpg.html
October 31st, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Juggz – So you’re saying that the geeks dressed themselves up in costumes, took pictures of themselves, photoshopped in imaginary friends in the background, and then posted them on their websites? That would be so pathetic. Yeah, I’ll buy it; I think that’s it!
October 31st, 2007 at 1:57 pm
This list was hilarious! Thanks, very cute. =]
October 31st, 2007 at 2:23 pm
so what is everyone going as this year then?
October 31st, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Gordon is my favourite. and I’m pretty sure it’s a headcrab. lol
October 31st, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Went out on Saturday. I was Frankenstein’s monster and my hot, zombie-shootin babe was The Bride. T’was the shit. We always go all out for Halloween costumes. We won 2 costume contests at different bars! Got $100 worth of comps. Drank ‘em. I woke up in very much pain Sunday morning and went to band rehearsal still sporting green/gray makeup. Farted alot in the studio. Pissed off other band members. Drank off the hangover, went home and took a nap.
Good times!
October 31st, 2007 at 4:08 pm
What up J Frat, I’ve been lerking this site for a good 3 months now but I just finally got around to registering. I gotta say… I am a huge fan, keep the good stuff coming!
October 31st, 2007 at 5:20 pm
They’re called either headcrabs or head-humpers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headcrab
A snark is a different thing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snark_%28Half-Life%29
Haha, yes, I am a bit of a geek
October 31st, 2007 at 5:23 pm
ah, I love domo.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:58 pm
I have no pictures handy, but my brother once dressed as Pac-Man, made from a cardboard box, with his face painted red and looking out the open mouth. Another year, he was Luke Skywalker from ESB. My parents always made our costumes as they were theatre majors.
November 1st, 2007 at 12:43 am
You missed dressing up as a starship trooper.
November 1st, 2007 at 1:21 am
InfiniteJorge: hey – are you the Jorge I know from ZG? Welcome to the site btw
November 1st, 2007 at 3:11 am
Hahaha! I like the Deathstar. That is so funny. I would of thought he was a moon or something if I had seen this somewhere other than here.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:07 am
Ben, here’s the definitive domokun image. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:God-kills-kitten.jpg
my very first dress up halloween i was the costume-in-a-bag yoda. rain coat texture body piece with those terrible plastic masks that dug into your eyes if that piece of crap sliver of cheap rubber held the mask to your head in the first place. good times. great candy.
i’m crazy yoda man, gimme some candy.
November 1st, 2007 at 2:06 pm
How about a list on how to get rid of all this leftover halloween candy? Ughh….
November 2nd, 2007 at 8:14 am
Dan,
The Tron-guy is… how do I say this?
It’s just wrong on so many levels.
After seeing those images, I began to pray for the extinction of the human race, that’s how wrong they were.
November 2nd, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Don’t make fun of Star Wars to much! Next year my boyfriend is goig as a stormtrooper and i’m going as princess leia when she gets captured by jabba the hutt (i know all the guys know exactly which outfit i’m talking about) But dressing up as a deathstar??? Thats just waaaay to geeky.
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Sandra: I strongly urge you to post photos for us next year
November 2nd, 2007 at 4:33 pm
jfrater- no prob, i will definitely post photos. I’m still debating what to dress our daughter up as next year. She’ll be almost 2 by then, maybe an Ewok? or would that just be overkill?
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:07 pm
That kid in the darth vader costume? wil weaton from Stand By Me and Star Trek fame. i was just looking at his website today and say that… wow, i guess that makes me a giant nerd as well
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:10 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wilwheaton/728675279/
here’s proof
November 3rd, 2007 at 2:09 am
RandiLu: haha I guess it does
Thanks for pointing the origin of the photograph out.
November 4th, 2007 at 8:58 am
How about a facebook costume…?
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/1285/facebookad3.jpg
November 4th, 2007 at 9:07 am
JT: haha that is hilarious
November 4th, 2007 at 9:12 am
I loved it
Posting it on my FaceBook account right now
November 10th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
i was SO close to being an ipod this year! I was gunna be a green one and have “sexyback” playing
February 3rd, 2008 at 10:10 am
my mom was a box for halloween once. her coustume consisted of
1. Cardboard box with no head or arm holes.
February 23rd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
i wonder if any of these guys get laid on a regular basis…
March 16th, 2008 at 5:08 am
DOZ: Yeah, that would certainly be a tangable concept!
What about the head of a dinosaur! Like a Tyranosaurus Rex’s head. Or prehaps even the a windows 95 computer “back from the grave”!
March 19th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
who is the kid in the darth vader outfit, he is precious. Not in a michael jackson way, but look at him. I am sure he is very proud to be the most evil man in the universe.
THIS IS MY FIRST POST YOUR MORONS, lol.
thanks
Barack Obama.
May 21st, 2008 at 4:24 pm
its a headcrab you idiots.
a head crab
anyone would know this
July 3rd, 2008 at 2:02 am
Another good one would of been Sheldon’s ‘Doppler Effect’ costume from The Big Bang Theory
July 11th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
lol.. i h8 auss! i want halloween!! =(
it would be good tho to get sum friends along and all dress up as the components of a regular household computer, u could have the screen, the mouse, the keyboard and the speakers all connected to the boxy thing by big thick white wires.
that’d be so fun! =D
August 8th, 2008 at 2:03 am
Call me biased, but I absolutely love #’s 9 and 6! I would totally wear those in a heartbeat.
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:52 am
the head-humper actually looks somewhat “realistic”.
i laughed hard at the comment below #4 XD
October 29th, 2008 at 10:12 am
these guys hav no lives at all
November 11th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
Bonus: EEP!!
December 18th, 2008 at 1:17 am
its a freaking HEADCRAB. how dare you insult the awesomeness that is Half-Life
February 11th, 2009 at 10:25 am
You forgot the guy who created a TRON outfit. see this site — http://www.tronguy.net/
March 23rd, 2009 at 10:23 am
WOW #4 the Xbox gave me a big laugh…This guy looks like he just saw someone walk past in a Wii costume.
Hahaha LOVE LOVE LOVE listverse….thanks for constantly amusing me!
April 4th, 2009 at 8:15 am
the bonus is a hugely popular tv show in japan called domoi watched it once and its pretty stupid
May 20th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Gordon freeman is hitting a HEADCRAB! not anything other than that, and he is holding his iconic crowbar.