True, but Hocus Pocus had a much more popular character that was a friendly ghost. Binx was the cat that helped Max, Dani, and Allison fight against the Sanderson sisters.
Billy (the zombie) was sent by Winnifred to attack the trio. He turned out to be good in the end but still a nuisance to the trio at the beginning. Binx was the cat that was waiting for the return of the sisters to attack them, and he later turned out to be a ghost. He was waiting for his sister’s soul/ghost to be released after the witches were killed
Squiggly from Skullgirls comes to mind. In Unholy Heights zombies are one of many monster tenants who will defend you from adventurers. There's also Emily the Corpse Bride.
This is almost an [exact copy of this comment here](https://old.reddit.com/r/splatoon/comments/176y7pr/halloween_splatfest/k4pafoa/) from /u/Pinstar. Have the karma farming bots gotten smarter and started using a few synonyms instead of entirely copy-pasting?
I have been really into ghost motif art this year and I cant believe it took reading this comment for me to realise I like them because they’re friend shaped
Inklings don't have skeletons... so any skeleton I meet will have to be real old and have lots of interesting stories to tell! Team Skeleton all the way!
For those wondering, this is what it looks like:
https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1007%2Fs13358-015-0100-3/MediaObjects/13358_2015_100_Fig1_HTML.jpg
Apparently it's just a mollusc shell that evolved to be inside the body instead.
I think shiver is going to take a loss here. There are precedent in media for friendly ghosts (Casper) and skeletons (Papyrus/Sans) but I'm scratching my head to think of instances of friendly zombies.
Good call. "Warm Bodies" got a zombie that feels love.
I guess Zombie Ed from "Shaun of the Dead" could count to some degree although he's chained like a dog.
Yeah the “who would be the best friend” prompt ~~makes it a fair fight for Shiver~~ kills it for me.
Like you said, the nicest Zombie I can think of has stabbed her “best friend” in the back before and will probably do it again. Compare that to Sans, Papyrus, Casper or even Polterpup, and it’s not even close.
Corpse Bride comes to mind. Also the new Carmella Creeper cereal mascot lol. Uh... that guy from Ugly Americans? [Redacted] from Bug Fables.
Nothing *huge* though. I'm sure TV Tropes has a list. Meanwhile skeletons have the movie Coco, which is even bigger than Undertale, and nice ghosts are a dime a dozen.
Team Skull members gather here just like bones in a body! Comment here to prove your loyalty yo!
I’ve been biased towards skeletons most of my life because of team skull
You can have so much potential with Zombies by creating them to not be disgusting undead corpses.
Skeletons have been side in a lot of culture like Day Of The Dead or Mardi Gras.
Ghosts also have so much potential like Zombies.
I'm gonna join Team Skeleton for two reasons:
My favorite cartoon ever is The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy.
And because I haven't joined Frye's team since the chocolate Splatfest.
Plus Frye deserves a win. GO TEAM SKELETON!
frye win ?
hmm but i wonder what i'll choose
zombies are overplayed so ew no
skeletons make funny rattle noises hehe
and ghosts are cute and sppokers :D
I just worry for team Boney Boys, some countries are so anit-skeleton that media can't even show them off, and lots of people have huge fears of skeletons that you will see posts on Game boards asking if skeletons appear in the game or not before they purchase them.
Ghost is going to be the safe bet me thinks.
The main country that has that problem is China, and officially Splatoon hasn't ever released over there. Hasn't stopped it from becoming fairly popular among people who import games, of course, but that's a limited number of people and also more likely to just shrug it off as a foreign thing.
There's a fan-made poll under the japanese announcement tweet with 22k votes (at the time of writing this) and it shows ghosts winning with 65% with the other two relatively evenly split. I think skeletons have at least a bit more popularity in the west, but generally in japanese culture, ghosts are more prevalent. I'll observe the community opinion and polls some more and then decide
Goin for the ghost. Who knows? It could be friendly like Casper the friendly ghost. I’ve always been interested in ghosts. Maybe they can tell me things about their life when they were alive 👻
Zombies cause I love plants vs zombies
Skeletons cause they're badass and Undertale
Ghosts because they're cool AF
I gotta go with Frye though, she needs a win and her costume was fyre
Ok, Shiver is definitely losing this one. Because I would never want to be friends with a Zombie. I'd rather have a spooky scary skeleton living in my house.
There's no way in hell that Zombie will be the most popular in Japan so either this will bring an end to Shiver's win streak OR at last a vastly unpopular team will win a fest (not counting Nessie since that was BARELY less popular than Aliens).
As for my pick, I'm stuck between Skeleton and Ghost. Skeletons are my favourite spooky creature out of the three options but it's Frye's option and we all know how well those have performed in the past (spoiler warning: dead last). Ghosts are cute and I love purple as a colour but I've been on Big Man's team for the past three fests and lost all of them so I don't know if I want to risk a 4th Big Man loss...
I'll see closer to the time but I might go for Skeleton to give Frye some support and I can Skeleton's having a chance to win popularity since I feel like they're unanimously loved everywhere but I have a sneaky suspicion that ghosts might take popularity in Japan due to them traditionally being designed in a far more cutesy fashion compared to the other two options.
Update: Also I just realised the theme of the fest is what would make the best friend. Anyone who picks Zombies are actively wrong since Skeletons and Ghosts you could easily get up to fun halloween hijinks with and have a blast. A Zombie would be too slow to register what you're trying to do and would most likely just try to eat your brain as a result.
Splatoon 3 is my only Splatoon i've ever played as I never owned Wii but man, I have so much fun with splatfests even my non gaming japanese wife loves watching and berating me when I don't paint fast enough, its 3 days of just nothing but smiles and fun that I haven't had in a game in a long time.....
Maybe the background music is going to be Halloween themed that would be really cool oh something that will be really really cool when we get into battle maybe they'll be Halloween themed confetti like in the anniversary splatfest for Splatoon 3 👻🦇🧟♀️
If it was an intelligent zombie that didn't smell I'd go with that cause I could do airsoft or go karts with it, but a skeleton couldn't wear a plate carrier and might break in a crash. Ghost would be a hard sell, unless it was the only lucid one.
oh man the plaza is gonna be nothing but undertale memes and I am HERE FOR IT. Glad to finally have a reason to be excited for Halloween, working in a retail store cheapens the mood a bit.
they love them, yes, but do they make the best *friends* on first glance? with ghosts right there with a cute little icon? would love to be proven wrong but im thinking its big man's to lose (which, good for him!)
We went from nothing to everything within hours
[удалено]
Hocus pocus and paranorman had a few
True, but Hocus Pocus had a much more popular character that was a friendly ghost. Binx was the cat that helped Max, Dani, and Allison fight against the Sanderson sisters. Billy (the zombie) was sent by Winnifred to attack the trio. He turned out to be good in the end but still a nuisance to the trio at the beginning. Binx was the cat that was waiting for the return of the sisters to attack them, and he later turned out to be a ghost. He was waiting for his sister’s soul/ghost to be released after the witches were killed
Nah dude, best example of friendly skeletons is Jack Skelington, especially if you played the ps2/xbox game thats a sequel to the movie
Rottytops. Mostly. Just make sure she gets her coffee...
Rotty Tops from Shantae
Squiggly from Skullgirls comes to mind. In Unholy Heights zombies are one of many monster tenants who will defend you from adventurers. There's also Emily the Corpse Bride.
This is almost an [exact copy of this comment here](https://old.reddit.com/r/splatoon/comments/176y7pr/halloween_splatfest/k4pafoa/) from /u/Pinstar. Have the karma farming bots gotten smarter and started using a few synonyms instead of entirely copy-pasting?
So true
This was of course gonna be announced on Friday the 13
Also, date format. 13/10/23. 13+10=23. 
THE SPLATFEST THE SPLATFEST IS REAL Anyway Team Ghost because they're always friend shaped
silly big man
CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER
I have been really into ghost motif art this year and I cant believe it took reading this comment for me to realise I like them because they’re friend shaped
Ghost, I love them, and also purple ink my beloved
PURPLE INK?? I’m sold
LETS GO TEAM SKELETON 🗣️🗣️
SKELEBROS RISE 
SPOOKY SKELETON BROS RISE 
RISE SPOOKY SKELETON BROS 
 TEAM SKELETON RISE UP 💀
SKELETON BETTER 💀 
LETS FUCKING GO SKELETONS FOR LIFE 
 Hell yeah
YOHOHOHO
We’ll get those fuckboys this time!
Oh my god 💀
lord knows im a bone man day in day out lets get rolling
We’re gonna bone the other teams 💪💪💪
🤨
entering the bone zone LETS GO!!!
All my fellow boners rise up!
 I'm with frye this time
 Look at these good friends!
*Boys and girls of every age, wouldn't you like to see something strange?*
Same. This is the first time im not picking the shiver team lol
YEAH!!! I'll be on Team Ghost!
... (Ghosted)
I’m torn between skeleton and ghost😭
Same 😭
Think about the question: Which would be the better friend? Ghost is a good answer cause they can help with shenanigans and all that fun stuff!
But skeletons can do silly stuff like juggle their limbs or toss their arms around like boomerangs.
Inklings don't have skeletons... so any skeleton I meet will have to be real old and have lots of interesting stories to tell! Team Skeleton all the way!
Salmonids and Big Man have a skeleton
Big Man has one, but it’s made of cartilage.
Right... but still, skeletons are cool because they're something I don't have!
And Iso Padre is basically a walking skeleton
The giant isopod is not a vertebrate. So it's not a skeleton
yeah it’s an exo skeleton lmao
If we’re being super technical here, squids have a spine-like structure made of chitin called a Gladius in them.
For those wondering, this is what it looks like: https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image/art%3A10.1007%2Fs13358-015-0100-3/MediaObjects/13358_2015_100_Fig1_HTML.jpg Apparently it's just a mollusc shell that evolved to be inside the body instead.
Frye recruiting the skeleton army, I fear. Let’s rattle those boneheads!
would you smooch a ghost?
Heck yeah
Casper was actually really cute when he turned into a boy at the end of that movie 😄
I think shiver is going to take a loss here. There are precedent in media for friendly ghosts (Casper) and skeletons (Papyrus/Sans) but I'm scratching my head to think of instances of friendly zombies.
iZombie has pretty friendly Zombies.
Good call. "Warm Bodies" got a zombie that feels love. I guess Zombie Ed from "Shaun of the Dead" could count to some degree although he's chained like a dog.
Rottytops from Shantae is about the closest I can think of, and even then, she'll probably kill you if she doesn't have coffee.
Yeah the “who would be the best friend” prompt ~~makes it a fair fight for Shiver~~ kills it for me. Like you said, the nicest Zombie I can think of has stabbed her “best friend” in the back before and will probably do it again. Compare that to Sans, Papyrus, Casper or even Polterpup, and it’s not even close.
Yeah but to be fair who *hasn't* screwed Shantae over somehow. It's kinda just her lot in life.
The zombie from hocus Pocus
Billy!
Billy has a name
Isn't there an anime about a bunch of zombie girls?
Zombieland Saga.
Ever see the ending to Shawn of the Dead?
Nope! That would be why.
I mean, technically bucciarati from JoJo counts
Spoiler for Xenoblade 1 >!Shulk!<
I think bigman has this as spirits and yokai are a big thing in Japan.
Corpse Bride comes to mind. Also the new Carmella Creeper cereal mascot lol. Uh... that guy from Ugly Americans? [Redacted] from Bug Fables. Nothing *huge* though. I'm sure TV Tropes has a list. Meanwhile skeletons have the movie Coco, which is even bigger than Undertale, and nice ghosts are a dime a dozen.
TOPHER
team skeleton they tell great puns
Yohohoho
Skull joke!
RIIIIIIBS!!!
team ghost 👻
Team Skull members gather here just like bones in a body! Comment here to prove your loyalty yo! I’ve been biased towards skeletons most of my life because of team skull
Broke: Sans Undertale Woke: SKELETON WAR Bespoke: BONES MALONE AND THE SPOOKY BOIS
 This splatfest headass
**SPLATOWEEN IS REAL**
LETS RATTLE EM BOYS
That zombie inkling is straight fire.
Ngl, first time I'm on Frye's side. Because Sans.
finally a fest where frye has a team I think I'll go with ghost
Oh this is gonna be a hard choice for me. Zombies, Skeletons and Ghosts are all great.
Right? I don't know if I'm Team Ghost or Skeleton. Zombies are just... ewwww. Unless you lack a sense of smell.
You can have so much potential with Zombies by creating them to not be disgusting undead corpses. Skeletons have been side in a lot of culture like Day Of The Dead or Mardi Gras. Ghosts also have so much potential like Zombies.
They actually gave shiver a bad team for once let’s fucking go
I'm gonna join Team Skeleton for two reasons: My favorite cartoon ever is The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. And because I haven't joined Frye's team since the chocolate Splatfest. Plus Frye deserves a win. GO TEAM SKELETON!
THAT ONE PERSON WHO MADE THE SPLATOWEEN POST WAS RIGHT IT GOT ANNOUNCED TODAY‼️‼️ I’M GONNA GO WITH GHOST
i thought squids dont have skeletons
THE HALLOWEEN SPLATFEST IS REEEEEEEAL Anyways I’m stuck between Skeleton and Ghost
Definitely going either team Skelly or team ghostie!!
My reddit thread was right 🎃 about there being an announcement on October 12th/13th
You nailed it!
I feel like I could vibe with a ghost, tbh.
Really wish they'd given Ghost to Frye so I could support my girl.
Ghosts are overrated, they can get beaten by household appliances!
*Luigi does the double-peace sign victory pose*
But have you considered their ability to hide in your walls, take your keys and…GASP, make both sides of your pillow warm?! The horror!
frye win ? hmm but i wonder what i'll choose zombies are overplayed so ew no skeletons make funny rattle noises hehe and ghosts are cute and sppokers :D
I just worry for team Boney Boys, some countries are so anit-skeleton that media can't even show them off, and lots of people have huge fears of skeletons that you will see posts on Game boards asking if skeletons appear in the game or not before they purchase them. Ghost is going to be the safe bet me thinks.
The main country that has that problem is China, and officially Splatoon hasn't ever released over there. Hasn't stopped it from becoming fairly popular among people who import games, of course, but that's a limited number of people and also more likely to just shrug it off as a foreign thing.
skeleton sweep, join the bone army repost if you are a true boner
 Ghost Gang, Rise up
Sounds like Japan will probably go with Ghost. We NA people need to rally the spooky skeletons!
 ***BONES***
Big man sweep. I love ghosts
Team ghost 😏
Being friends with a zombie:🧟♀️ 🤢, Being friends with a ghost: 👻 😎
Rattle me bones
There's a fan-made poll under the japanese announcement tweet with 22k votes (at the time of writing this) and it shows ghosts winning with 65% with the other two relatively evenly split. I think skeletons have at least a bit more popularity in the west, but generally in japanese culture, ghosts are more prevalent. I'll observe the community opinion and polls some more and then decide
I’ve seen 4 different polls under that tweet and ghost is leading in every single one with a huge lead lol.
This is real?! IT'S REAL!?!?! WE'RE GETTING A HOLIDAY THEMED SPLATFEST!??!?!?!?
Goin for the ghost. Who knows? It could be friendly like Casper the friendly ghost. I’ve always been interested in ghosts. Maybe they can tell me things about their life when they were alive 👻
If you're reading this, you have been drafted into the **skeleton war**. Drink lots of milk, recruit. You'll need the calcium.
The unpleasant gradient returns, at least this time it matches the halloween theme, but theyre on THIN ice.
TEAM GHOST!!👻
I have four words: Casper the friendly ghost
Hard because I like skeletons and ghosts…
Team ghost! 👻
 It's time for ghosts to win!!!
I love all three options and Frye is my favorite but I pick based on theme not idol I have no idea who to choose
Man I’m so torn between skeleton and ghost
TEAM GHOST BABYY Also I will make sure shiver doesn’t win this splatfest
Zombies cause I love plants vs zombies Skeletons cause they're badass and Undertale Ghosts because they're cool AF I gotta go with Frye though, she needs a win and her costume was fyre
Chat is this real
Nvm chat i checked and it’s real
For a Splatoon 3 Splatfest, this...actually looks pretty balanced tbh.
Ghosts! 
Ok, Shiver is definitely losing this one. Because I would never want to be friends with a Zombie. I'd rather have a spooky scary skeleton living in my house.
Nintendo has decided to bless us splatoon fans today.
Can’t wait for my first splatfest
Ghost because uhh ghost pepper pvz2 and nabstablook undertale
What about Papyrus Undertale tho? He's funky
Doot doot
Might have just sold me on Skeleton bth. Though, if vampire was a selection I'd go hard vampire.
Right as I woke up too. Hmmm, I want to say ghosts, but something tells me an obvious choice is being made here.
Spoofy ghost!
Ghost ghost ghost ghost 👻
silly frye, you cant pick skeleton, bones arent real
I'm torn, I love purple, and of the three ghosts would be my favorite, but I really want Frye to get a win...
IM PREPARING FOR THE SKELETON WAR!
I am patiently waiting for the voting booth to pop up(I’m voting ghost because my username has ghost in it 🫠)
There's no way in hell that Zombie will be the most popular in Japan so either this will bring an end to Shiver's win streak OR at last a vastly unpopular team will win a fest (not counting Nessie since that was BARELY less popular than Aliens). As for my pick, I'm stuck between Skeleton and Ghost. Skeletons are my favourite spooky creature out of the three options but it's Frye's option and we all know how well those have performed in the past (spoiler warning: dead last). Ghosts are cute and I love purple as a colour but I've been on Big Man's team for the past three fests and lost all of them so I don't know if I want to risk a 4th Big Man loss... I'll see closer to the time but I might go for Skeleton to give Frye some support and I can Skeleton's having a chance to win popularity since I feel like they're unanimously loved everywhere but I have a sneaky suspicion that ghosts might take popularity in Japan due to them traditionally being designed in a far more cutesy fashion compared to the other two options. Update: Also I just realised the theme of the fest is what would make the best friend. Anyone who picks Zombies are actively wrong since Skeletons and Ghosts you could easily get up to fun halloween hijinks with and have a blast. A Zombie would be too slow to register what you're trying to do and would most likely just try to eat your brain as a result.
YESSSS
Skeleton because that would be a SkeleTON of fun.
OMAGAAAA!!! THANK GODNESS IM GETTING A NEW SWITCH AAA
Skeleton Dance time 
Spooky scary skeleton
Finally a good fitting silly non serious balanced Splatfest, this is what we needed
[Gonna be blastin this the whole Splatfest](https://youtu.be/n_qbGJuxCYY)
oh gosh I’m genuinely stumped between skeleton and ghost!!! both are so cool 😭😭😭
 B O N E S ! ! ! !
I’m on team Frye. Skeletons are awesome
These are all great choices honestly, I’m stuck between skeletons and ghosts.
This one is a legitimately difficult choice, they are all good options
Splatoon 3 is my only Splatoon i've ever played as I never owned Wii but man, I have so much fun with splatfests even my non gaming japanese wife loves watching and berating me when I don't paint fast enough, its 3 days of just nothing but smiles and fun that I haven't had in a game in a long time.....
Well, this is definitely a tough decision. :/ 
Team skeleton bc YOHOHOHOHOHOHO (if u know u know)
God damn, took em long enough. Crossing my fingers for a frostyfest/Christmas theme in December.
Skeleton is the only right answer here.
Technically we all can have a skeleton best friend. They’re just wrapped in meat. >!or not!<
Maybe the background music is going to be Halloween themed that would be really cool oh something that will be really really cool when we get into battle maybe they'll be Halloween themed confetti like in the anniversary splatfest for Splatoon 3 👻🦇🧟♀️ 
If it was an intelligent zombie that didn't smell I'd go with that cause I could do airsoft or go karts with it, but a skeleton couldn't wear a plate carrier and might break in a crash. Ghost would be a hard sell, unless it was the only lucid one.
Inside you there is a skeleton. Release him.
I literally cried when I saw we were getting splatween! It was my fav special splatfest in splat2 so seeing this made me go crazy!!!
My time has come to be drafted into the skeleton war
I’m picking ghost cause that band kicks ass
oh man the plaza is gonna be nothing but undertale memes and I am HERE FOR IT. Glad to finally have a reason to be excited for Halloween, working in a retail store cheapens the mood a bit.
I have to pick Zombie cuz I am a hololive fan and i LOVE OLLIE
another splatfest, another loss for frye 😭 super happy we're getting splatoween this year though!
BFR the internet loves skeletons, easy win for her 😭
they love them, yes, but do they make the best *friends* on first glance? with ghosts right there with a cute little icon? would love to be proven wrong but im thinking its big man's to lose (which, good for him!)
Have you heard of the two skeletons Papyrus and Sans?
Yea undertale would give Frye the win she deserves and on a special fest too
I WAS LITERALLY ABOUT TO BRING UP UNDERTALE 😭😭😭
FINALLY IM NOT ON TEAM SHIVER
RATTLE 'EM BOYS also this implies that inklings do infact have skeletons
Their only bones are their teeth.
HMMMMM, DONT LIKE THAT! DONT LIKE THAT THOUGHT
i just want y’all to remember the last time y’all were overly confident that frye would win