Halloween 2011: Doggie Dress-up!

See costumed canine Kanye West, Charlie Sheen, Lady Gaga, Batman, and more unleashed at N.Y.'s Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade
By Christian Blauvelt
Updated October 24, 2011 at 08:00 PM EDT

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Kanye West

Imma let you finish, but this Boston Terrier has the best costume of all time. Of all time!

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Batman

Even the darkest knights aren?t above wearing a leash.

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The Black Swan

The toy poodle won the Dog Parade's first prize for her turn as a haunted ballerina, but suffered some embarrassment later when her canine ''dance double'' accused her of covering up her contribution.

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Princess Beatrice

Come to think of it, that Philip Treacy hat really did seem more like a chew toy.

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Yoda

When 900 years old you reach, look as good as this pooch you will not.

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Superman

For those of you who doubted the Kryptonian lineage of French bulldogs, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's...Superdog!

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Slinky Dog in Toy Story

Andy's most elastic toy goes all Pinocchio on us and becomes a real dog!

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Lady Gaga

This Little Monster pays tribute to Lady Gaga with a replica of the red-lace Alexander McQueen ensemble she sported at the 2009 VMAs, complete with a veil to obscure her P-P-P-Poker Face.

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Olivia Newton-John in the ''Physical'' music video

She's getting physi-cal, physi-cal and helping put leg warmers back in style.

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Charlie Sheen

The former Two and a Half Men star has certainly been called a dog more than once, so here's a ''Winning'' canine — and two Barbie Goddesses — willing to repay the favor. If you want tiger blood, though, you'll have to visit a cat parade.

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Quint in Jaws

He's already reenacting Robert Shaw's infamously grisly death in Jaws. Now he just needs to nail that monologue about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis, and he'll be ready for Spielberg.

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Henry VIII

On the spectrum of House of Tudor handsomeness, this regal pug doesn't lean so much toward Jonathan Rhys Meyers' buff Henry VIII as he does Charles Laughton's.

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Maximus from Gladiator

You just know somewhere in this mutt's brain he's thinking, ''At my signal, unleash hell.''

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A flying monkey from The Wizard of Oz

Fly, my doggies!

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Bulldog Wearing Dalmatian coat

For a dose of Buffalo Bill-in-Silence of the Lambs perversity, this bulldog actually donned one of Cruella De Vil's Dalmatian coats.

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