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12 meme costume ideas for Halloween 2019

The bad news: Not everybody can be Kombucha Girl. The good news: We gave you 11 other equally fun options.

Andy Moser

on October 14, 2019

Hallo-meme 2019 is here!

Perhaps the greatest time to celebrate the most wonderful memes of the year is during Halloween. What other holiday not only allows, but encourages you to embrace the singular weirdness of the internet?

This year, there are plenty of opportunities to dress as your favorite meme. From "Sorry To This Man" to "Kombucha Girl," here are 12 gloriously internet-worthy meme costume ideas that'll earn you some greatly coveted pop culture points at your costume party.

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1. Area 51

The meme that made modern history. Gather your friends and get ready to storm Area 51 to save some aliens from the treachery of the U.S. government! The meme is a prime opportunity for group costumes with numerous roles to fill. You need aliens, guards, and of course, a couple Naruto runners going full speed to uncover whatever secrets the military base is keeping within. It's time to get intergalactic on these Halloween fools. They can't stop you all.

2. Ight Imma Head Out

Things just wouldn't feel right without a SpongeBob meme in the mix. Do you have a white shirt? And pants? A tie? And a TV remote? Boom. You got the basics. Bonus points for yellow face paint with holes drawn on and a big red chair in the background. This unstoppable meme is a golden opportunity for a cheap-but-totally-Instagramable Halloween photo op before you "head out" to the night's festivities.

3. Fat Thor

Fat Thor was one of the many sensations to come out of Marvel's Avengers: Endgame. It's the same Thor, only a few pounds heavier from too much time drinking beer on the couch playing video games. Though to be fair, you pretty much get to cope however you please when a genocidal sack of purple gelatin with a colorful glove wrecks your whole universe. Beer gut or no beer gut, Thor is still just as powerful, just as cool, just as godly.

4. I Just Took A DNA Test

Turns out this meme is 100 percent a solid costume idea. Born out of the lyrics to Lizzo's number one smash "Truth Hurts," the DNA Test meme is conveniently versatile and allows you to mold your costume into whatever you are 100 percent of. Include the lyrics anywhere (be it a shirt, hat, or via last-minute sharpie job), and you likely have a killer costume.

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5. Kombucha Girl

You knew it was coming! Difficulty level: Like, super freaking easy. Iconic level: MAX.

Kombucha Girl, real name Brittany Broski, set the internet ablaze with a TikTok video of herself trying Kombucha for the first time. Her noncommittal, all-over-the-place reaction has been applied to countless meme-able situations across the web since. Things you'll need: any black shirt, kombucha, and a top-notch facial expression game.

6. Chris Evans/Captain America With Acrylics

Chris Evans (aka Marvel's Captain America) with acrylic nails is so inspiringly American it deserves to be its own costume. For some unknown reason, perhaps simply to enrich our lives, people began editing photos of Evans with stylish acrylic nails that instantly added layers of depth to his character. Be part of the Captain Acrylica revolution this Halloween.

7. Shaking Mannequin Head

Shaking Mannequin Head obviously has to be a go-to for Hallow's Eve dance parties. Grab yourself a fiery red wig, some lipstick to match, and shake-shake, shake-shake-a-shake it.

8. Popeye's Chicken Sandwich

All it did was become an internet sensation, spawn a vicious fast food war, and completely sell out in a matter of days. Why shouldn't it be your Halloween costume, too? The demand for Popeye's chicken sandwiches is insatiably high, and the world is starving for the return of our hero. On October 31, be that hero.

9. Sorry To This Man

The Keke Palmer soundbite heard 'round the world. To pull off "Sorry To This Man," you'll need a blazer, some hoop earrings, and to tie your hair back into a bun. But most importantly, you have to not know who this man is, not to mention you have to be genuinely sorry about it.

10. Hot Ones

The Halloween meme season of reaction videos continues. This time, you have your choice of pretty much any celebrity guest of Hot Ones, the YouTube series where celebrities get interviewed while eating increasingly spicy wings. Idris Elba, Shaq, and Gordon Ramsay are your best bets for popularity. A bonus? You get to take chicken wings with you wherever you go. They're instrumental to the success of this lewk.

11. Cats

Everything changed when the Cats trailer released. The post-Cats-trailer world is filled with confusion and fright. And you can use it to your advantage this year for a truly horrifying costume. Want to be a meme but don't want to compromise on terror? Cat.

12. Taco Hulk

Avengers: Endgame was always going to have multiple entries in the meme costume guide. This time, it's chill Taco Hulk — less angry, just as green, and now beefy in more ways than one. Hulk handing Ant-Man a taco in the movie has warped into a variety of delightful memes and has earned its place on our list of Halloween meme costume ideas.

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Andy Moser

Andy is a fellow on Mashable's Culture team. He graduated with a B.S. from the University of North Florida in 2018 and moved to New York to pursue journalism in culture and entertainment. He can (and will) talk for too long about Star Wars and movies in general. His fear of stinging insects and 80+ degree weather will keep him inside forever. He wishes he were shorter.