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Viral 2025 Pop Culture Moments That'll Make Perfect Halloween Costumes If you're always online and need a Halloween costume, this is for you! All the men are probably dressing up as Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another, and the women might be Aunt Gladys from Weapons. So, it's time to think outside the box while remaining relevant to some of the biggest pop culture moments of 2025. I'm here to help. Here are 28 Halloween costumes based on 2025 pop culture moments that nobody else thought of: Note: There are SPOILERS for the following movies and TV shows: The White Lotus, Weapons, One Battle After Another, Sinners, Fantastic Four: First Steps, and Severence. You were warned. 1. You can be a pair of Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle jeans from the July campaign that received both online backlash and support from the president and the White House. 2. You can dress up as the black purse that Chit (Jay Renshaw) was looking for in the office, as seen in Episode 7 of The Chit Show. 3. Dress up as the actual Coldplay jumbotron that accidentally captured Andy Byron, the former CEO, and Kristin Cabot, the former Chief People Officer of the big tech company Astronomer, hugging each other. 4. Why don't you dress up as Jon Hamm, aka "Juan Jamón," dancing at Bad Bunny's Puerto Rico residency, "No Me Quiero Ir de Aquí?" 5. How about a costume based on North West's finger piercing, which her mom, Kim Kardashian, was criticized for just before she received a humanitarian award at the DVF Awards? 6. Here's an idea: be a split piece of Dubai chocolate that the internet can't stop talking about, and have everybody craving you at the party. 7. If you're looking for a notable figure, consider dressing up as Aisha Bowe, a former NASA rocket scientist, who was the only person who made sense being part of Blue Origin's first all-female crew to travel to space since 1963. 8. Novel idea: Dress as a box of Crumbl cookies that somebody took one bite out of and put back because, "They're good, honestly, but they're just too sweet and it's not really for them." 9. Sports fan? How about dressing up as Kendrick Lamar's $1,200 flared-leg denim jeans by Celine, which he wore during the 2025 Super Bowl Halftime show? 10. Want to speak to the current political climate? Dress your entire family or friend group as a carton of eggs that was accused of being expensive in Charlie Kirk's article "Shut Up About Egg Prices," which Trump reposted on Truth Social. 11. Dressing up as animals is always easy. Be a sexy version of the angler fish that was spotted swimming vertically to the surface on the coast of Tenerife. 12. If your favorite color is green, then go as a gentrified cup of matcha that a performative man waited in line for 2 hours to buy. 13. Everybody's going to be a 24-karat gold Labubu, so dress up as a lafufu (fake Labubu) that was purchased at a liquor store in a strip mall for $20. 14. If you're single and looking for love, go as Jordan Keltner's signature chicken smoothie with 6 ounces of unseasoned baked chicken from Season 9 of Love Is Blind. 15. You have an old doctor costume lying around? You could be Dr. Steven Levine, the plastic surgeon who performed Kris Jenner's most viral facelift. 16. Everybody loves dressing up as superheroes for Halloween! You can be baby Franklin Richards getting cuddled by Mr. Fantastic and the Invisible Woman before Galactus shows up to kidnap you in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. 17. If you're a health-nut, dress as the Bosch blender that wasn't cleaned properly, so it contains a lot of protein and a little bit of poison from the night before when your dad tried to murder the family in The White Lotus. 18. If you're feeling a little eccentric for Halloween, you could dress up as Emile the goat, being held by Mammalians Nurturable department head Lorne after she rescued you from an unnecessary ritualistic sacrifice at Lumon in Severance. 19. Everybody's going to be somebody from K-pop Demon Hunters this year, so dress up as the Honmoon preventing Gwi-Ma and his demons from entering the human world. 20. Here's an idea, I want to keep for myself: A half-empty bucket of popcorn that was flung across the theater by a 13-year-old when the Chicken Jockey first appeared on the screen in Minecraft. 21. You could be a cannabis-growing, gun-toting nun from the Sisters of the Brave Beaver in One Battle After Another and tell everybody you're only holding a joint because it's part of your costume. 22. Novelty costume loading: Dress up as the actual beach where the paparazzi didn't clock that Justin Bieber was standing on business. 23. Not to be confused with a couple's costume, dress up as Nicolandria, the literal combination of Nic Vansteenberghe and Olandria Carthen from Season 7 of Love Island USA — it's up to you to choose which features you'd like to blend from both of them because, honestly, there's no bad choice. 24. Of course, people are going to dress up as Beyoncé and the malfunctioning red car from her Cowboy Carter tour performance of "16 Carriages" during her first stop in Houston, Texas, so I suggest you just be the crooked American flag dangling from the backseat. 25. Here's a cute idea that would even work for the babies! Be the warm and fuzzy, Junior Mint polar bear that Conrad Fisher gifted to Belly Conklin when they were kids in The Summer I Turned Pretty. 26. Is your best friend and her boyfriend going to be Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for Halloween? You can be the Old Mine Brilliant Cut diamond piece with Kindred Lubeck and Artifex Fine Jewelry that Travis gave her on Aug. 26 and tag along in style. 27. If you remember Sal Saperstein (Ike Barinholtz) from Episode 8 of The Studio, "The Golden Globes," where he was thanked by Ramy Youssef, Quinta Brunson, Aaron Sorkin, and Jean Smart in The Studio — be the couch that he let Adam Scott crash on. 28. And finally, everybody can't stop talking about the Louvre heist, so the most obvious costume is to dress up as the stolen wedding gift from Napoleon to his second wife, Marie-Louise of Austria, the emerald necklace and earrings crafted by the jeweler François-Régnault Nitot with 32 intricately cut emeralds and 1,138 diamonds. Any 2025 pop culture moments, TV shows, or movies that I missed? Share your ideas in the comments!
