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'''Carl:''' ''[confused]'' Speak English, moron!\\
'''Witch:''' ''[exasperated]'' I'm ''turning you into your costumes.''\\
'''Homer:''' Well, are ya gonna talk about it or are you gonna do it? ''[zapped]''

* Of a non-Halloween variation, WesternAnimation/PunkyBrewster is vying for the role of a mermaid in a school play (episode "Fish Story") but her costume is quite slipshod. Glomer tries to help out by turning Punky into an actual mermaid.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'' HalloweenEpisode "Strange Little Halloween", Baron Mordo casts a spell that transforms trick-or-treaters into the monsters they're dressed as. Non-monstrous costumes are interpreted more ... creatively ... so they ''still'' turn into rampaging monsters (astronaut into alien monster, princess into ''zombie'' princess). The spell is also pretty liberal in its definition of "costume" -- Spidey is shielded by protection magic Dr Strange cast on him in a previous episode, but Ant-Man's helmet is enough for him to turn into a giant ant.

* ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'': Purple Guy's [[spoiler:ultimate fate, where it is revealed he suffered a grievous, painful death and became entombed in the very same suit he used to commit his crimes, his restless ghost haunting it to this day.]]

%%* ''WesternAnimation/CostumeQuest'': The kids do this deliberately to fight monsters.

* ''WebAnimation/CrashZoom'': This is the premise of the third episode. Kate, bored at a LARPing event, transforms everyone into their costumes and summons a huge monster for them to fight.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' has "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E145TheMasks The Masks]]", where a dying millionaire forces his worthless heirs to wear masks caricaturing their worst personality traits -- if they take them off before midnight, they get cut out of his will save for some fare to take the train home. At midnight, he dies, and they shed the masks... and discover their faces have taken on the shapes of the masks permanently save the good-hearted millionaire, who retains his human face. It should be noted this isn't set on Halloween, but Mardi Gras in New Orleans.

* ''ComicBook/{{Silverblade}}'': The longer Jonathan remains in the form of one of his movie characters, the more he starts to believe he is that character. While in the form of Franchise/{{Dracula}}, he gets staked through the heart and 'dies' (because that would have killed Dracula in the film). When Milestone finds his skeleton and removes the stake, that 'revives' Dracula (again because it would have in the film). However, because of the time he has spent 'dead', Jonathan now believes he truly is Dracula.

* ''ComicBook/TheVision'': Three trick-or-treaters are transformed into a ghost, a goblin and a Jack o'Lantern-headed monster in ''The Vision and the Scarlet Witch #1'', after the demon Samhein escapes from the Druid Tome.