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16 sci-fi costumes that would definitely get you fired (NSFW)
It's the Friday before Halloween, and you know what that means—office workers everywhere showing up in orange sweaters and ghastly ghost ties. But not everyone is that low-key about it. Every once in a while, somebody goes a little bit ... well ... overboard.
If you want to be one of those people—and start looking for a new job come Monday—then check out the 30th of our 31 specials for the 31 days of Halloween, spotlighting costumes designed to get you fired.
And don't forget to come back tomorrow at noon for the greatest Halloween moments in fiction and nonfiction.
And while you're in a Halloween state of mind, why not check out:
Day 1: 19 amazing Star Wars pumpkins
Day 2: Our 9 favorite crazy zombie kills of all time (video)
Day 3: 10 scariest Stephen King novels
Day 4: 14 great Cthulhu toys that make devouring souls fun
Day 5: 15 haunted cereals that will scare your dentist
Day 6: 20 great costumes to dress up your pet
Day 7: 21 (mostly) sexy female stormtroopers (NSFW)
Day 8: 9 movie and TV clowns that scared the hell out of us
Day 9: 10 creepy movie kids even Angelina Jolie wouldn't adopt
Day 10: 6 most awesome Stephen King horror films (plus 3 that sucked)
Day 11: 16 horror movie posters so gruesome they make our eyeballs bleed
Day 12: 16 hot movie and TV vampires who turn us into willing victims
Day 13: 20 awesomely hot Slave Leia costumes (slightly NSFW)
Day 14: 14 lamest horror movie killer costumes (What were they thinking?)
Day 15: 9 of the grossest, goriest X-Files creatures
Day 16: 11 splatterific exploding head scenes from the movies
Day 17: 15 of the most disgusting Halloween candies you can buy
Day 18: 19 freakiest movie and TV neighbors from hell
Day 19: 11 most disturbing Treehouse of Horror segments from The Simpsons
Day 20: 9 rampaging space zombies hungry for our sci-fi brains
Day 21: 10 most nightmarish movie prom nights
Day 22: 11 scary, goofy and just plain revolting movie possessions
Day 23: 13 kick-ass moments from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Day 24:13 real haunted houses you can visit in the U.S.
Day 25: 15 ghoulish apps you can download to your iPhone
Day 26: 20 hot film and TV witches and warlocks that cast a spell on us
Day 27: The 10 most truly, utterly evil things in sci-fi
Day 28: The 15 cursed movie objects you NEVER want to own
Day 29: 14 most twisted original Twilight Zone twist endings
Day 31: 12 awesome sci-fi Halloween moments, real and fake
By Marty B. at 12:19 PM ON 10/30/09
Kinda incoherrent guys. I see here 16 costumes, some of which are arguably in poor taste, some of which might be worth a second thought before wearing to work, some kind of inappropriate for body type (some consciously/ironically, some sadly not), but a few of these costumes are pretty well done.
Twi'lek girl is clearly at a con (and if that's her "job" I think she'll be fine), "clawchest" is obviously at a con or a well-set party/photo shoot, Replicant from Bladerunner is obviously NSF(most)W but is pretty well done. And who's going to take their alien chestburst baby to the office?
I guess what I see here is a collection of costumes that push one to ask "what were they thinking" but a good number of these are actually pretty well thought out. Lumping them together on the "fired" theme is a bit weak IMHO.
Just curious, is the SciFiWire Halloween party subject to the same puritanical standards you claim the rest of the working world is?
By jdmimic at 12:22 PM ON 10/30/09
Ok, fire all the guys, but can I work where the women dress like most of those costumes?:) Talk about not getting ANY work done.
Despite the complaints some people made about the illegal alien costume, I don't see anything wrong with it. People should be less anxious to find something to take offense at.
By robeuax at 12:52 PM ON 10/30/09
Looks like Lelu is packin and I don't mean her gun!
By Sithboy at 1:09 PM ON 10/30/09
that chestburster baby is SO photoshopped
By Krazy Joe at 1:41 PM ON 10/30/09
There's nothing wrong with the Illegal Alien costume. That one wouldn't get you fired.
By me at 2:30 PM ON 10/30/09
Could they find uglier people? GAH!
By muadib at 3:06 PM ON 10/30/09
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! THE LOOK ON THE BABY'S FACE IS KILLING ME lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Mandy at 4:22 PM ON 10/30/09
I think Scifi Wire just hit a new low...
By LOWER at 4:28 PM ON 10/30/09
If this is a new low please go LOWER! This was firkken funny!
By Mike at 4:51 PM ON 10/30/09
How about some sources, "Sci Fi Wire Staff"?
Even though I'm sure the photographers / subjects / source sites don't mind you ripping them off for your own gain and profit.
Quit making bloggers look bad.
By Catcher at 5:57 PM ON 10/30/09
Get out of your mom's basement much guys?
By Omen at 7:13 PM ON 10/30/09
Agreed Supergirl can't go to the office.
So I'll just have to take her home for the Halloween weekend.
By REDante at 7:51 PM ON 10/30/09
Second picture down right above the photo of the Star Wars alien slave, she was like totally one of my teachers from school. I cant believe shes on here. The guys from school are going to freak when they see this. This might confirm the rumors.........
By BadBoy at 8:28 PM ON 10/30/09
I've seen a lot of those costumes at Comic Con and some even more risque there. One year a girl was wearing almost nothing in some kind of costume talking to Lou Ferrigno (Incredible Hulk) and Lou looked very interested in her nearly bare chest!
By BadBoy at 8:32 PM ON 10/30/09
Here is a photo from Comic Con of the girl with the costume that Lou Ferrigno there liked very much:
http://i33.tinypic.com/2pt3vpu.jpg
By Obi Window Washer at 11:48 PM ON 10/30/09
Isn't Supergirl Gina Carano?
By tb83 at 1:46 AM ON 10/31/09
good thing im not an uptit parent or i would complane about this artical to
By AngryJonny at 10:33 AM ON 10/31/09
BadBoy, thanks for the photo!
Alas... the butterface...
By Obi Window Washer at 1:11 PM ON 10/31/09
By tb83 at 1:46 AM ON 10/31/09
good thing im not an uptit parent or i would complane about this artical to
Well with your lack of correct spelling and puncuation I doubt you' re even a teenager.
And on the off chance you are a parent, I weep openly for your kids!
By antodav at 2:08 PM ON 10/31/09
The Flash, Wonder Woman, and Spider-Man costumes might subject the people who wear them to ridicule but I don't see why they'd get them fired. The Wolverine costume might but only if those blades on the end of his fingers are real.
The illegal alien costume is actually quite hilarious but it probably would get the person who wore it fired—only because most companies are anal about political correctness and are afraid that somebody without a sense of humor might sue. Sears or Target or whoever it was are cowards for taking that costume off the shelf.
By faythan at 2:01 PM ON 11/01/09
By antodav at 2:08 PM ON 10/31/09
The Flash, Wonder Woman, and Spider-Man costumes might subject the people who wear them to ridicule but I don't see why they'd get them fired. The Wolverine costume might but only if those blades on the end of his fingers are real.
the spiderman one is definitly NSFW what you can't tell due to where they cut off the picture is he is wearing nothing but body paint.
By Marty B. at 2:07 PM ON 11/01/09
You are aware, faythan, that spider man's "costume" is body paint, right?
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