Quotes / For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself

Anime and Manga

Kobayashi: Elma, are you sure? Your horn and tail are showing!
Elma: Kobayashi-san? Just who do you think I am? I've already done my research on how to fool everyone... This is cosplay!!

— Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Elma's OL Diary

Comic Books

"Clever of [Lena] to pretend her Supergirl outfit is only a hired costume!"

— Dick Malverne, The Girl with the X-Ray Mind

Film — Live-Action

Louis: Vampires pretending to be humans, pretending to be vampires.
Claudia: How avant-garde.

— Interview with the Vampire

Elevator Passenger: Cool Spidey outfit.
Spider-Man: Thanks.
Elevator Passenger: Where did you get it?
Spider-Man: I made it.
[pause]
Elevator Passenger: Looks uncomfortable...
Spider-Man: Yeah, it's kind of itchy... and it rides up in the crotch a little bit, too...

— Spider-Man 2

Raver: That costume is amazing!
Venom: Thank you, one person!

— Venom: Let There Be Carnage

Video Games

"My costume for Halloween? Cyborg Ninja."

— Genji, Overwatch

(All of the characters are putting on giant plastic Johnny Gat mascot heads)
Joshua Birk: You're robbing a bank dressed as yourselves?
Johnny Gat: Hell yeah, who doesn't want to be Johnny Gat?
Joshua Birk: Ultra-post-modernism? I love it.

— Saints Row: The Third

Web Animation

Homestar: Hey, guess who I'm supposed to be!
Strong Bad: Um... Homestar Runner?
Homestar: Hey, you got it! First try! Was it my star or propeller cap that gave it away?
Strong Bad: It was your unbelievably loose grasp on the world around you.

— Homestar Runner, "Trogdor-Con '97"

Kid Shine: Well then, the Heroes play tonight.
Enigma: I know...I'd like like to go. But it's dangerous.
Kid Shine: You can go disguised.
Enigma: ...Or go as I have always been!

— SuperThings, "Basketball Match"

Miscellaneous

"I Came As Myself" Says World's Most Boring Man Dressed Normally At Halloween Party

— The Betoota Advocate

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