List of The Nightmare Before Christmas characters

The filmmakers constructed 230 puppets to represent the characters in the film, with Jack Skellington having "around eight hundred heads", allowing the expression of every possible emotion.

Their relationship is rather tense, as Finkelstein insists on keeping her imprisoned under the pretext of protecting her from the outside world and not wanting her to discover her original parents who reside in Dream Town in another realm.

On the album to the film, it is mentioned that years later, Sandy Claws returned to Halloween Town and saw Jack had four or five skeleton children.

While not confirmed in the original film, the official sequel novel, Long Live the Pumpkin Queen, reveals that she married Jack.

[11] Ken Page claims that he based his performance as Oogie as "somewhere between Bert Lahr in The Wizard of Oz and the voice of the demon in The Exorcist".

Elfman ended up referencing the Betty Boop cartoon The Old Man of the Mountain (1933), which also featured Calloway; Santa's line "Well, what are you going to do?"

He lives in an underground lair full of torture devices, each of which features a casino-like appearance, which along with his use of dice suggest an addiction to gambling.

In the film, Lock, Shock and Barrel kidnap Santa Claus and send him down to Oogie Boogie's lair, where Sally attempts to rescue him after learning of his fate, but is captured.

Oogie then tortures and tries to kill Sally and Santa Claus, but is foiled by Jack, who pulls a thread loose from him, ripping off the sack covering him and causing most of his bugs to fall into the lava.

His plans are foiled by Jack, but he puts up a fight in the Holiday Trash Hill by turning into a gigantic junk-filled version of himself named "Mega-Oogie."

Oogie Boogie also appears in the video game Kingdom Hearts as a member of Maleficent's team of Disney villains.

James Whale's Frankenstein is quoted in his line "I made you with my own hands" which he says to Sally to prevent her from remembering her past life.

Unlike Dr. Frankenstein, Finkelstein takes full responsibility over Sally and acts as an over-protective father by keeping her imprisoned under the pretext of sheltering her from the world's hidden dangers and not wanting her to discover her original birthplace and family.

Although he is strict towards Sally, he is also shown to be kind and helpful towards Jack, as he allows him to borrow some of his equipment to conduct experiments with Christmas objects.

At the end of the film, Finkelstein, deciding that Sally might be ready to take on the world's dangers after all, lets her go free and creates a wife for himself using a portion of his own brain.

Their initial experiment fails, and Dr. Finkelstein sends Jack off with Sora and the group to retrieve two more ingredients, memory and surprise and complete the heart.

In The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge, the Mayor is seen in the opening cut scene congratulating Jack on another "horrible" Halloween.

[13] Although they pride in their work for Oogie Boogie and speak of their desire to please him whilst causing mischief, they appear to not harbor any particular loyalties towards him.

After his death, the trio help the Mayor bring Jack and Sally out of Oogie Boogie's lair and have fun when it begins to snow in Halloweentown.

Presumably due to their lust for trouble, or to provide conflict for Jack, they have shown no protest and even happiness when their master was revived in the spinoffs, and reanimated him themselves in "Oogie's Revenge".

Jack sends Lock, Shock, and Barrel to kidnap Santa Claus while ordered to not include Oogie Boogie in their assignments, but they accidentally capture the Easter Bunny.

In chapter 15, they try to stop Jack a final time in their mobile bathtub atop the Mayor of Halloween Town's house.

In Kingdom Hearts II, Lock, Shock, and Barrel start off working as Doctor Finkelstein's assistants until they encounter Maleficent, who revives Oogie Boogie and gives them the "Prison Keeper" Heartless to hold off Sora and company.

After the battle, the three claim they did not steal the presents, as they regard Christmas toys to be boring, and reveal they were looking for parts for Doctor Finkelstein's Experiment, forcing Sora to let them free.

The three then take Santa to Oogie Boogie, where his life is threatened until Jack and Sally manage to save him and the holiday of Christmas.

Sora, Donald Duck, and Goofy meet Santa Claus when they follow Jack Skellington to Christmas Town.

In The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge, he will disappear and reappear depending on whether the player has completed the Halloween Town story.

The following toys were created by the citizens of Halloween Town: The owners of the franchise have undertaken an extensive marketing campaign of these characters across many media.

Some have wondered which real-life company failure the movie is based on: Sergio Zyman's New Coke or Merck's launch and subsequent withdrawal of Vioxx.

Danny Elfman was worried the characterization of Oogie Boogie would be considered racist by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).