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Main protagonist of moving-picture show The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack Skellington
Jack Skellington as he appears in the Kingdom Hearts series
Commencement appearance	The Nightmare Earlier Christmas (1993)
Created by	Tim Burton
Voiced past	Chris Sarandon^[ane] Danny Elfman (singing in picture show only)^[ane]
Total name	Jack Skellington
Alias	Pumpkin King
Species	Zombie
Gender	Male
Significant other	Sally
Origin	Halloween Town

Jack Skellington is a graphic symbol and the chief protagonist of the 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas. He is a skeletal zombie who is the Pumpkin Male monarch of Halloween Boondocks, a fantasy world based solely on the Halloween vacation.^[2] Jack is voiced past Chris Sarandon.^[i] ^[3] Danny Elfman provided Jack'south singing voice in the original film and soundtrack album, with Sarandon providing Jack's speaking and singing vox in subsequent productions.

His overall appearance is a skeleton dressed in a black pin-striped suit and a bow tie that strongly resembles a bat. Originally, his suit was meant to exist completely black, but it composite with the background too well, so it was changed. At the offset of the movie, Jack makes his yard entrance past emerging out of the fountain in Halloween Boondocks'due south plaza. His last name is a play on the give-and-take "skeleton". He has a ghost domestic dog named Zero for a pet, who has a small jack-o'-lantern for a nose. He is adored by Emerge, a feminine creation of Md Finklestein. The character is a popular blueprint on numberless, hats, clothing, umbrellas, belt buckles, pet collars, and other items.^[four]

In The Nightmare Before Christmas [edit]

Jack Skellington is the patron spirit of Halloween, portrayed every bit beingness on par with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny within his ain vacation. As a living skeleton, he is supernatural and can remove parts of his body without damage, as is frequently demonstrated for comic relief. He is the nearly important of many Halloween spirits, with the implication that their chore is to scare people in the real earth on Halloween dark.

Jack, as the "Pumpkin King" and primary of ceremonies, is in charge of Halloween Town's Halloween celebration. He is loved, respected, and fifty-fifty idolized by the other residents for his role, merely he has grown weary of jubilant the aforementioned vacation incessantly and is depressed virtually it. The only one who understands Jack's feelings is a lonely ragdoll named Sally. She overhears his singing monologue and feels she can relate to his state of affairs.

Ane morning time after the usual annual celebration, Jack enters a forest containing portals to other worlds themed around holidays. He discovers Christmas Town and decides that this new feel is what his life was missing. He makes preparations for his own Christmas celebration in Halloween Boondocks and wants to impersonate Santa Claus in the real world. While his intentions are not malicious, Jack does not understand the true spirit of Christmas. Halloween Town plans to requite the holidays a macabre makeover. Sally reveals to Jack a bad premonition, but Jack'southward basic nature is impulsiveness. He does not seem to annals contradictory information. By the finish of the film, he notices Sally and her conclusion to help him. He proves that love can be a office of his nature past calling Sally his "Dearest Friend", telling Sally that they were meant to be together, embracing his future with her and embracing her.

Jack follows the formula of a tragic hero considering he begins the story at a lofty position. In spite of all his fame and talent, he yearns for another side of life. While a desire for completeness is not a flaw, his impulsiveness proves to exist. He tends to be enthusiastic and inclusive, and his charisma is enough to sway every fellow member of Halloween Boondocks except Sally. His selfish decisions lead to the near destruction of Christmas and himself. The strength of Jack's character is demonstrated by his will to correct his own mistakes.

The official film soundtrack CD contains an epilogue not in the film, stating that "many years later" Santa returned to Halloween Town to visit Jack, where he discovered that Jack had "four or five skeleton children at hand" who play together in a xylophone band.

In video games [edit]

The Nightmare Earlier Christmas: The Pumpkin King [edit]

Jack Skellington has been shown to have an extreme hatred for Oogie Boogie as was proven when he spoke of this plan to Lock, Shock, and Butt, stating to "exit that no account Oogie Boogie out of this!" He afterward finds out that Santa Claus and Emerge have been kidnapped by the Boogie Man and are in his underground lair. While trying to save his friends, Jack manages to destroy Oogie and save Christmas.

The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge [edit]

Tired of using the same old themes over and over on Halloween, Jack Skellington goes to Doctor Finkelstein, who gives him the Soul Robber, an invention that changes shape. Jack decided to leave Halloween Boondocks to get new ideas for Halloween frights. When Jack comes dorsum to boondocks, he finds that Oogie Boogie has been resurrected. Now Jack has to set things right again. Jack dances, fights and sings in this game to assault Oogie Boogie's minions. Jack is portrayed every bit inept to some degree in this game.

Chris Sarandon did both the speaking and singing voice for Jack in this game.

Disney Universe [edit]

Jack Skellington features in the Nightmare Before Christmas downloadable expansion pack which includes Jack Skellington, Sally, Oogie-Boogie, Dr. Finklestein, and the Mayor as in-game playable costumes. The downloadable content can exist bought from console stores (e.k. the PlayStation Store). The package included the costumes of which some could be plant in the downloaded level. Different the worlds originally in the game which all had iii chapters, the Nightmare Before Christmas globe only had ane chapter chosen 'Halloween Graveyard'.

Kingdom Hearts serial [edit]

Jack Skellington appears in four installments of the Kingdom Hearts video game series. He inhabits the world of Halloween Town, where the evil Heartless threatens its denizens. The games' master protagonists, Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy, befriend Jack and together they battle the Heartless, and also Oogie Boogie. In gainsay, Jack uses some of his scary powers with demonstrations of some magic, making him a formidable sorcerer.

Chris Sarandon reprises his role for the English version, and Masachika Ichimura provides Jack's Japanese voice.

Kingdom Hearts [edit]

Jack Skellington introduces himself to Sora, Goofy, and Donald Duck as the ruler of Halloween Town. Jack plans to employ the eye that Finklestein created to control the seemingly docile Heartless to brand a festival chosen "Heartless Halloween" so that Halloween tin can be frightening, but the idea fails when not only the beginning experiment cause the Heartless to go berserk, but Oogie Boogie steals the finished eye, and plans to use information technology to take over Halloween Town. At Oogie'south manor, Jack, Sora, and the gang confront him. After Oogie is defeated, Jack finds out that Oogie uses dark orbs as his source of life, which Oogie combines himself with his manor to get a giant dominate. Once the gang defeats Oogie once over again, and his manor crumbles, revealing Halloween Boondocks'due south keyhole. Jack is considerably shorter in this game than as he appeared in the moving picture, though he is still rather tall when compared to the game'due south master protagonists.

Chain of Memories [edit]

"Created" from Sora's memories of Halloween Town, when Jack Skellington wanted to ask Doctor Finkelstein what happened when he sniffs the potion that can bring "truthful memories", Heartless appeared. When Jack Skellington had found out that Oogie Boogie had stolen Medico'south potion, he must stop him before Oogie drinks the whole potion. They neglect to reach him before he does, just they defeat him, as Oogie becomes overwhelmed with fright equally a side effect of the potion. Sora becomes worried about what will happen when he discovers his true memories, simply Jack reassures him that fright is a sign of a strong center.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days [edit]

In this game, Roxas arrives at Halloween Town while Jack is in the middle of brainstorming for Halloween. Jack is having trouble with thinking of things only gets inspiration when he sees Roxas leaving through a Dark Corridor. Time after time, Roxas' adventures through Halloween Town inspire Jack to create such things as balloons filled with spiders, exploding frost pumpkins, and Halloween lanterns. When Roxas is sent to detect the source of a terrible drop in heartless population, he finds the boondocks overrun with monsters called Tentaclaws. After seeing Roxas defeating the source of the Tentaclaws, the cannibalistic Leechgrave, Jack invents a terrifying scarecrowish version of Roxas as his centerpiece for that Halloween.

Kingdom Hearts II [edit]

Post-obit the motion-picture show loosely to some degree, out of reference, Jack tries to take Santa Claus'southward place again. To that end, Jack asks Sora and the gang to aid him be Santa'south bodyguards. But after fighting the Heartless and Oogie Boogie, who has been resurrected past Maleficent, Santa explains to Jack that they each take a chore to do with their respective holidays. Despite this, he begins to habiliment a Santa suit Emerge sewed together for him. In the second trip to Halloween Town, Jack however wears the Santa arrange, as he still longs to deliver Christmas presents and feels that it would be rude non to wear the arrange Sally worked so hard on. Along with Sora and the gang, he helps defeat Doctor Finkelstein's experiment, who stole Christmas presents from Santa in search of a heart. As a reward for all his hard work and assist, Santa brings Jack on a ride-along with him in his sleigh for a while. After Santa drops Jack off at Halloween Town, Jack learns the true significant of Christmas past understanding the human activity of giving. He dances with Sally in the end, finally realizing all of the gifts she had given to him were all from the heart and wishes to requite her something in return. She tells him that the nicest present she could ever enquire for is just to be with Jack. Jack responds telling her that she does not even have to ask for that, pregnant Jack feels the same way for her. During a cutting scene in the stop credits, he is shown to be wearing his original suit, suggesting he has taken Santa's previous advice to centre completely, and plainly begins presenting new ideas for adjacent Halloween.

Disney Infinity [edit]

In the Disney Infinity video game series, Jack appears as office of the second wave of playable characters. He has the ability to scare enemies and throw exploding jack-o'-lanterns. If he rides Ghost Passenger's motorbike, his caput will catch on fire, resembling Ghost Passenger's flaming head.^[5]

Attractions [edit]

Jack appears as a meetable character at several Walt Disney Parks and Resorts including Disneyland, Hong Kong Disneyland, Disneyland Paris and Walt Disney Earth, and is located exterior The Haunted Mansion in Frontierland. Disneyland during the holidays, Haunted Mansion is taken over by the cast of The Nightmare Earlier Christmas and is turned into Haunted Mansion Holiday. Jack and other characters appear throughout the ride wearing Christmas attire. Additionally, Jack hosts the Halloween Screams and Not Then Chilling Spectacular! fireworks shows, as well every bit the Frightfully Fun Parade.^[6] Chris Sarandon provided the voice for the character in each instance.

Cameos [edit]

In Vincent, a figure like to Jack appears as i of the phantasmic imaginisms of the titular character, during the last minutes of the short film.
In Beetlejuice, during the seance scene, when Betelgeuse rises out of the table he is wearing a carousel adorned with a skull that resembles what would later exist the design of Jack.
During the opening scene of Sleepy Hollow, a scarecrow begetting a strong resemblance to the Pumpkin Rex scarecrow at the kickoff of "This is Halloween" can exist seen.
In the 2010 motion-picture show Alice in Wonderland, Jack's face tin be found on the Mad Hatter's bow tie.
In James and the Giant Peach, Jack makes a cameo as Helm Jack, an antagonist second to Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker, in the pirate scene. Upon discovering him, Centipede says "A Skellington?".
A silhouette of Jack is shown in The Princess and the Frog as one of the shadows Dr. Facilier summons.
Jack Skellington's face made a cameo appearance on a doormat in the showtime volume of the graphic novel series Lenore, created by Roman Dirge.
Jack appears in an episode of The Critic in a curt parody called "The Nightmare Before Hanukkah", done in the same stop-motion animation style as the original moving-picture show. In this parody, Jack wears a ruddy arrange rather than his usual black and white striped one.
Jack also appears in the animated Adult Swim sketch show Robot Chicken. In i sketch, movie critic Roger Ebert and filmmaker Chiliad. Night Shyamalan review a batch of sequels to popular movies. I of which is The Nightmare Before Hanukkah, with Jack finding a place called "Hanukkah Boondocks" and watches children open upward presents, just finding out that it is but socks and pencils for their outset day of Hanukkah, leading to Jack saying to himself: "Oh, wow, this sucks..." Jack appears again on another sketch chosen "Grown-Up Halloween" alongside the Mayor of Halloween Town.
Jack appears in the background in a Southward Park made-for-Television receiver movie chosen "Imaginationland".
Jack appears in the movie Coraline as the yolk of an egg cracked by the Other Mother.
Jack appears in the Mad episode "Kitchen Nightmares Before Christmas". He as well makes a cameo appearance in the brusque it was paired with, "How I Met Your Mummy".
A parody of Jack Skellington, in the course of a character named The Pumpkin Guy, appears in the opening of the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Night Ghoulery".
Jack appears, along with his Halloween Town friends, in one of the cutaway scenes of the Family Guy episode "Peter's Sister". In the scene, a fictional Nightmare sequel entitled Happy 4th of July Jack Skellington, the citizens of Halloween Town sing a short song called "Patriotic Weirdness".
A Jack plush doll also fabricated an appearance in Stocking's room in the anime Panty and Stocking.
Jack is included as 1 of many characters featured in Disney on Ice'due south product Let'due south Celebrate!. Mickey Mouse calls upon him to throw a Halloween political party, which a number of Disney Villains find their way into. During his appearance, a medley of "Jack'due south Lament" and "What'due south This?" are performed, forth with the film'due south opening number "This Is Halloween". Sarandon provided both the speaking and singing for Jack.
In the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 video game Gex 3: Deep Encompass Gecko, the titular grapheme references the chief plot of The Nightmare Earlier Christmas from the point of view of Jack in the winter/Christmas-themed level, "Christmas Land" as he remarks "Christmas Town? I'm Jack Gexington from Halloween..."
In an episode of the children'southward bear witness Tumble Leaf when they are on an adventure to the spider queen's Halloween party. Fig(primary character) and friends stop at a neighbors home. On the door of the neighbors home, which is in a tree, information technology'south shaped like the doors in the opening scene of nightmare before Christmas. On the door, Jack and Emerge's honey, iconic screw mountain superlative.
Some figures of Jack appear on a pavilion in Oh My Disney in the picture Ralph Breaks the Internet.

Toys [edit]

Jack Skellington has been made into a Bendies figure,^[seven] also as various Funko Pop Vinyl figurines with different variants, such every bit a Day of the Expressionless variant. He appeared in the Kingdom Hearts action figure collections, and was also released in Japan's REVOLTECH Sci-fi line in 2010, along with the Japanese monsters, Gamera and Gyaos.^[8] Diamond Select Toys also made many action figures of Jack and other characters.^[ix]

In 2017 a life-size Jack Skellington animatronic prop was released. The prop was six feet alpine and sold exclusively at Spirit Halloween.^[10] But in 2019 the prop became a wholesale item.

In the Disney Infinity toys-to-life serial, Jack appears as part of the second wave of playable figurines.

In 2019, a Lego minifigure of Jack Skellington was released every bit part of the Lego Minifigures Disney Series two. A Lego Brickheadz effigy of Jack was also released alongside a Brickheadz version of Emerge.

Reception [edit]

Jack has become i of Disney's nigh popular characters. Jamie Frater adds, "Jack is perfectly realized as the 'town hero' who seeks more in his life (or death, as it may be), a place nosotros all find ourselves time to time."^[11] UGO Networks listed Jack as 1 of their all-time heroes of all time.^[12]

References [edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c Lammers, Tim (October 29, 2013). "Sarandon remains proud of 'Nightmare Before Christmas' as movie classic turns 20". Strictly Cinema . Retrieved September 25, 2016.
^ "The Nightmare Earlier Christmas". Retrieved 31 January 2020.
^ Vladimir Bogdanov, Chris Woodstra, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide: The Experts Guide to the Best Recordings (Backbeat Books, 2001), 997.
^ "The Nightmare Before Christmas Merchandise & Toys - Hot Topic". Retrieved 31 January 2017.
^ "Site Suspended - This site has stepped out for a bit".
^ Slater, Shawn (August 29, 2016). "The All-New 'Frightfully Fun Parade' Debuts During Mickey'due south Halloween Party at Disneyland Park". Disney Parks Web log . Retrieved September 25, 2016.
^ Frederick J. Augustyn, Dictionary of Toys and Games in American Pop Civilization (Haworth Press, 2004), 18.
^ Frederick J. Augustyn, Lexicon of Toys and Games in American Popular Culture (Haworth Press, 2004), 18.
^ "Shop by Make - The Nightmare Earlier Christmas - Diamond Select Toys".
^ "Spirit Halloween Officially Announces Jack Skellington For Halloween 2017 | AnimatronicHalloween.com".
^ Jamie Frater, "Top Ten Kids' Movies Adults Will Love," The Ultimate Book of Top 10 Lists: A Heed-Extraordinary Collection of Fun, Fascinating and Bizarre Facts on Movies, Music, Sports, Crime, Celebrities, History, Trivia and More (Berkeley: Ulysses Printing, 2010), 380.
^ UGO Team (January 21, 2010). "Best Heroes of All Time". UGO Networks. Archived from the original on June 16, 2011. Retrieved April 3, 2011.

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