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Tony- Is dressed up as a ghost. He’s opened up part of the base as a party space. Local families are invited to come and bring their kids. Tony has gone completely all out on decorating, there are moving skeletons of all sizes, a couple dozen fog machines, and spiderwebs absolutely everywhere courtesy of Peter. He also has every kind of candy imaginable, from Kit Kats to pacoca to sour gummy octopuses.
Steve- Is dressed up as t-rex (Natasha’s idea). He’s mostly just handing out candy, he loves seeing all the little kid’s costumes.
Bucky- Keeping with the dinosaur theme, he’s a stegosaurus. Wanda put him on photography duty, so he’s hanging out with Steve, taking pictures of the kids. One little boy dresses up as him from the 40s and Bucky almost cries.
Thor- Is dressed up as a traditional Prince Charming, and Jane is Cinderella. (Loki rolls his eyes so hard it’s a wonder they don’t roll right off his face.) He almost maims an actor in the haunted house when she pops out behind him.
Loki- Thor told him he had to dress up, so Loki sighs dramatically and magicked himself into a vampire. He’s seized command of the haunted house, and due to his illusions it’s now known to be one of the scariest parts of the party. He’s surprisingly good, however, at toning it down for the little kids so that they don’t get scared too badly. He remembers other children scaring him when he was small and doesn’t want to do that. He’ll vehemently deny it if anybody confronts him about it, of course.
Scott- Is the Scarecrow, from the Wizard of Oz. Cassie is Dorothy, and they roped in a bunch of other Avengers to make up the rest of the cast (Cassie’s sad begging eyes should never be underestimated). Wanda lent them Sparky for the night to be Toto, and he’s doing a good job of staying in Cassie’s basket.
Hope- Is dressed as the Wicked Witch of the West. She’s having great fun chasing Cassie around and cackling at the top of her lungs, perhaps a little too much fun…
Rhodey- Is wearing a Cowardly Lion costume (Eh, he needed something). He’s in charge of making sure things don’t get too out of hand with the pranks and such.
Vision- Is the Tin Man. He’s helping Rhodey, and his main job is supervising the younger superpowered people, namely Peter, Shuri, and Pietro (He’s an honorary teenager, Shuri decreed it so). He made Pietro wear a blue glow stick around his wrist so that he can (sort of) keep track of him when he’s speeding around.
Wanda- Is dressed up as the Wicked Witch of the East, complete with sparkling red shoes. (Vision tries to tell her the shoes were originally silver, but Wanda likes red better.) She has a bubbling cauldron of something she’s stirring in the corner, and nobody knows for sure what it does. Scott drank some and his hair started fluctuating colors, but when Quill tried it he started floating.
Pietro- Is costumed as a flying monkey. In hindsight it was a mistake to let Tony make him working wings; apparently his superspeed works in the air too. He’s become very good at dodging the webs Peter keeps putting up.
Sam- Is also a flying monkey, and has been hiding out up by the ceiling vents most of the night. He has made it his goal to startle Peter at least once tonight.
Carol- Is Glinda the Good. She claims she’s only doing it because of Cassie, but she does like the fact that she’s more powerful than Stephen, at least with their costumes. They’re still debating about out of costume. She doesn’t hate the dress as much as she thought she would either. Do you know how much stuff you can hide in a skirt that big?
Stephen- Is the Wizard himself. Yeah, it’s a bit on the nose, but they couldn’t think of anyone better to play the part. He and Wong helped supply Tony with some of the more exotic treats he wanted. Stephen does try to put his foot down when Tony asks for some kind of Japanese squid candy, (“They say it tastes like squid, I want to see if it really does!”) but Wong sneaks some in.
Peter- He’s Michael Meyers from Halloween. Due to his spider-sense he’s been able to avoid Sam. He’s in charge of maintaining the aforementioned spider web decorations, (Part of the reason he’s dressed like he is, the costume has a mask) and keeps coincidentally sending webs where Sam is about to fly.
Natasha- Is dressed up as, you guessed it, an actual black widow spider. She’s in charge of making sure the candy is safe from hungry superheroes before the party starts.
Bruce- Is a mad scientist. (It was quick, give him a break). He’s focusing on regulating his breathing. He’s terrible at jump scares, this is his least favorite holiday.
Quill- Is “too cool” to wear a costume. But after he drank whatever was in Wanda’s cauldron and started floating, Drax yanked him down and tied a cord around his foot. Mantis said he looked like a balloon, so apparently that’s what he’s being for Halloween.
Drax- Is wearing a jack-o-lantern costume that is far too small for him (Although most costumes are too small for him, to be fair). But he thought the scary face would make him more intimidating. He and Mantis recently discovered classic Earth horror movies, and both of them are far too delighted by getting jump scared.
Gamora- Dressed up as a Flerken, although she gave up trying to explain that after the seventh kid points at her and yells “Kitty!” She’s been delegated to ‘balloon’ holder, and is really hoping the effects aren’t permanent.
Nebula- Really really hopes the effects are permanent, or at least lasts for a few days…or weeks… She’s wearing what has to be the deadliest looking angel costume ever made, by the way. She also knows way more than she should about how unrealistic certain horror movie deaths are. (“He didn’t suffocate her long enough. She shouldn’t be dead.”)
Rocket- Is a tiny devil. So really not much of a change, they just gave him horns. As always, he’s on the lookout for candy or extra body parts to steal. (He’s already got several sets of vampire teeth, some a lot more realistic than others).
Groot- Somehow got wrapped up in all the toilet paper from the bathroom. (“What were you doing ?” “I am Groot.” “He says it’s better not to ask questions.”) But at least they don’t have to make him a costume. He loves all the colorful candies.
Mantis- Saw a pirate costume and was very confused. (“Pirates don’t dress like this.” “On Earth they do. Well, they don’t anymore, but they used to. Sort of.”) But she liked it, so. She’s a pirate, cue the music.
Clint- Laura heard about the Legolas nickname and made him dress up as an elvish archer for Halloween. His condition was that they all had to dress up with him, and he wasn’t wearing the wig. Laura is a druid, Cooper is an elvish swordsman, Lila is an enchantress, and Nathaniel is an adorable little satyr. Clint is mostly just supervising his kids so that Laura can chat with Natasha.
T’challa- Is dressed as a skeleton. He’s incredibly good at carving pumpkins, and many of the jack-o-lanterns at the party were done by him. His favorite is a cat face Sam convinced him to do.
Shuri- Made herself into a zombie with way too much fake blood for T’challa’s liking (Which was the main reason she used so much). She’s doing most of the scaring tonight, and even conspired with Sam to help startle Peter. She’s wondered if there was a way to get past his Spider-Sense for a while now, and now is as good a time as any to test out the couple ideas she has of getting past it.