About Jack
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Jack Skellington is the patron spirit of Halloween, portrayed as being on par with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny within his own holiday. As a living skeleton, he is immortal and can remove parts of his body without harm, as is often demonstrated for comic relief. He is the most important of many Halloween spirits, with the implication that their job is to scare people in the real world on Halloween night.
Jack, as the Pumpkin King, is in charge of Halloween Town's Halloween celebration, a role for which he receives respect and admiration from the other residents. However, monologued with himself reveals he is growing tired of celebrating the same holiday endlessly and is very depressed about it. The only one who understands Jack's feelings is a lonely, sweet-hearted, loyal and very pretty ragdoll girl named Sally who is a very close friend of Jack's and she understands him because she is in a very similar situation herself. Jack's sense of adventure is stimulated when he accidentally discovers Christmas Town, driving him to start a Christmas celebration of his own. While his intentions are good, Jack does not understand the true spirit of Christmas, and he and his friends give it a macabre make-over, however it is destined to miserably fail. This failure is predicted by Sally early on in the film and she does try very hard to warn (and later stop) Jack, but he never listens. As the film goes on it is shown that Jack and Sally become very strongly attracted to one another and by the end have completely fallen for each other.
Cameos
Jack, as the Pumpkin King, is in charge of Halloween Town's Halloween celebration, a role for which he receives respect and admiration from the other residents. However, monologued with himself reveals he is growing tired of celebrating the same holiday endlessly and is very depressed about it. The only one who understands Jack's feelings is a lonely, sweet-hearted, loyal and very pretty ragdoll girl named Sally who is a very close friend of Jack's and she understands him because she is in a very similar situation herself. Jack's sense of adventure is stimulated when he accidentally discovers Christmas Town, driving him to start a Christmas celebration of his own. While his intentions are good, Jack does not understand the true spirit of Christmas, and he and his friends give it a macabre make-over, however it is destined to miserably fail. This failure is predicted by Sally early on in the film and she does try very hard to warn (and later stop) Jack, but he never listens. As the film goes on it is shown that Jack and Sally become very strongly attracted to one another and by the end have completely fallen for each other.
Cameos
- In Vincent, Jack appears as one of the phantasmic imaginisms of the titular character, during the final minutes of the short film.
- During the opening scene of Sleepy Hollow, Jack's scarecrow outfit can be seen.
- In Alice in Wonderland Jack's face can be found on the Mad Hatter's scarf.
- In James and the Giant Peach, Jack appears as the captain, in the pirate scene. Upon seeing him, the Centipede even says "A skellington?". An interesting factor is that in the scene Jack is with a dead skeletal version of Donald Duck wearing his hat and a band of skeletal pirates and that the scene itself is underwater deep in the arctic.
- 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 first volume of the graphic novel series Lenore created by Roman Dirge.
- Jack appears in an episode of The Critic in a short parody called "The Nightmare before Chanukka", done in the same puppet style as the original movie. In this parody, Jack wears a red suit rather than his usual black and white striped one.
- Jack also appears in Adult Swim's show Robot Chicken finding "Chanukka Town" and watches children open up presents, but finding out that it is just socks and pencils for their first day of Chanukka, he says to himself: "Wow, This Sucks..."
- Jack appears in the background of a South Park made-for-TV movie called "Imaginationland"
- Jack also appears in the movie Coraline in the scene where the other mother cracks open an egg, Jacks head is the egg yolk.
- Jack appears in the MAD episode "Kitchen Nightmares Before Christmas". He also makes a cameo appearance in the short it was paired with, "How I Met Your Mummy".
- A parody of Jack Skellington appears in Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery.
- Jack appears in the movie Beetlejuice when Betelguese comes out of the city model with a carousel on his head. Jack's is at the top of the carousel.
- Jack also made an appearance on the anime, Panty and Stocking.