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The Nightmare Before Christmas
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Released to cinemas on October 29, 1993, The Nightmare Before Christmas is a Stop Motion animation film produced and conceived by Tim Burton, though actually scripted by Caroline Thompson and directed by Henry Selick (as Burton himself was very busy at the time, shooting Batman Returns and overseeing pre-production for Ed Wood). It starts with the macabre yet kind-mannered citizens of Halloween Town celebrating - you guessed it - Halloween in the grandest fashion possible, due to their love of (er, their unnerving obsession with) scaring everyone senseless. However, Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon), the Pumpkin King and the town’s ruler, has grown rather tired of the same old thing, and yearns for something new in his life.After the current year's celebration of Halloween, the morose Jack goes for a long walk out of town into the forest, where he happens to walk into a circle of trees he's never seen before. Each tree bears a portal which leads to another holiday town. Immediately attracted by the Christmas tree shaped one, he ventures into Christmas Town. There he discovers the wonders of the bright and jolly, and becomes obsessed with understanding Christmas.He returns to Halloween Town and informs the townsfolk of Christmas, but both his and their understanding of the holiday is limited by their experience of Halloween. In a Perspective Flip of the typical Christmas Special plot of "monsters try to steal Christmas," Jack has perfectly good intentions — he thinks taking over Christmas for a year will be great fun for everyone involved, both in Halloween Town and the human world, and it'll give "Sandy Claws" a year off for vacation once some homicidal children kidnap him and bring him to Halloween Town to sit Christmas out.The whole town groups together to create Christmas, but a rag doll named Sally (Catherine O'Hara) who is secretly in love with Jack has a vision that it will be a disaster. But with so many folks pitching in to try something different this time of year, what's the worst that could happen?Throw all that in with a boogeyman fashioned from a burlap sack filled with insects, musical numbers so catchy they're scary, spooks a-plenty for the young ones, and some very striking visuals, and you get one of the most celebrated and beloved holiday classics of all time.From 2006 to 2009, the film received a theatrical re-release once a year at Halloween time, with a somewhat disappointingly light-handed makeover into a 3-D movie. Compare Coraline, which is from the same director. The difference likely has to do with the fact that Coraline was intended to be a 3-D film from the time it began filming, and it was specifically shot for that purpose during filming. The 3-D version of The Nightmare Before Christmas was retrofitted approximately thirteen years after its original release. The film also sees frequent TV airings around both the holidays of Halloween and Christmas.Halloween Town and Jack also appear in the first three entries in the Kingdom Hearts series. Every year during the Halloween season, the denizens of Halloween Town also take over the Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland Haunted Mansion attractions for the Haunted Mansion Holiday overlay. Since 2017, Oogie Boogie has also served as the mascot of Disneyland’s annual Halloween celebrations.Burton would later conceive (and direct this time around) another animated film in the same vein, Corpse Bride. | |
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Fat Flex | |
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Fat Flex: In one part of "The Shadow Dance", a deleted short clip of Oogie Boogie dancing in silhouette, he raises up his girth for a few seconds before it drops back down. | |
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Stop Motion | |
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Stop Motion: It's even widely believed to be the first full-length three-dimensional stop-motion feature, but according to Wikipedia, this is not the case. The animation is of such quality that a viewer unfamiliar with the film's age could easily mistake it for an All-CGI Cartoon. | |
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Rage Against the Reflection | |
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Rage Against the Reflection: When Sally tries to talk Jack out of Subbing for Santa by showing a picture of Jack as the Pumpkin King, Jack simply takes the picture and breaks it over his knee. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Jack undergoes two, once during "Jack's Lament" and again once he realizes that he was accidentally ruining Christmas for the entire human realm. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Yes, even the Anthropomorphic Personification of Halloween can have a mid-life crisis. After Finkelstein awakens from Sally poisoning him for the fourth time in a little over a month he reacts to his doorbell the same way any hung over person would react to a loud noise. He’s even holding a cold pack on his head. | |
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Hero Antagonist | |
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Hero Antagonist: Sally, quite possibly. She's a heroic character who just wants the best for Jack, so when she has a vision that his Christmas will go down in flames, she does everything she can to oppose his goals until the end of the film. | |
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Scene of Wonder | |
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Scene of Wonder: After Jack discovers Christmastown, he runs around singing "What's This?" as he explores the many things he never seen before. | |
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Evil Sounds Deep | |
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Evil Sounds Deep: Oogie Boogie. Jack plays with this trope on both sides, as when he's being extra creepy, his voice goes an octave lower. His regular voice is more or less normal, but there are also times when he gets really shrill. | |
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Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks | |
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Gratuitous Laboratory Flasks: Dr. Finkelstein has some of this kind of stuff in his Mad Scientist Laboratory, most notably a big, globe-shaped flask with a severed hand floating in it. He never uses any of it, but he does loan it to Jack Skellington along with a microscope to use for his Christmas experiments. | |
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Heroes Love Dogs | |
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Heroes Love Dogs: Jack owns Zero, a cute ghost dog. | |
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Not Where They Thought | |
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Not Where They Thought: Jack tells Lock, Shock and Barrel to go through the door leading to Christmastown so they can catch Santa Claus. They come back with the Easter Bunny, having gone through the door leading to Easter by mistake. | |
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Chariot Pulled by Cats | |
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Chariot Pulled by Cats: Dr. Finkelstein creates skeletal reindeer for Jack Skellington. They pull Jack's sleigh when he travels around the world to deliver gifts for Christmas instead of Santa Claus. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The last track on some prints of the soundtrack is a spoken word epilogue where Santa goes to visit Jack a few years later, and we learn Jack and Sally had a few kids. | |
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Artistic License – Biology | |
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Artistic License – Biology: If Finkelstein, especially at his age, removed half his brain like he does to create his "wife", he would lose motion on one side of his body (and since he's already a Genius Cripple, that would mean he has only one working limb) and would, depending on which side he removed, develop speech problems. At the same time, his wife would be equally crippled. Not to mention hemispherectomies are very delicate procedures; you don't break apart a brain like a loaf of bread. It could easily be a case of Bizarre Monster Biology. | |
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Applied Mathematics | |
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Applied Mathematics: Jack puts a number of unconventional "equations" on a blackboard to try and understand Christmas, including various Stealth Puns, like "Roasting Chestnuts/Open Fire". | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: Not in the film itself, per se, but in Tim Burton's original poem that inspired it: | |
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Gone Horribly Wrong | |
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Gone Horribly Wrong: Poor Jack; all he wanted was to try his hand at another holiday. Instead, he ended up ruining Christmas for the poor people back on Earth, and accidentally put Santa's and Sally's lives at risk. | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage | |
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Diegetic Soundtrack Usage: The Mayor finds "This is Halloween" so catchy, we find him humming it later as he brings Jack the plans for next year's Halloween. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer makes a brief apperance during the ending when Santa gives Christmastown the gift of snow after Santa forgvies Jack. However, Rudolph isn't depicted with a red nose and isn't seen glowing. He is seen with his red nose on the cover of a book (implied to be the original story by Robert L. May) that Jack is studying earlier in the film after discovering Christmastown. | |
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Santa Clausmas | |
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Santa Clausmas: The religious roots of both Christmas and Halloween (whose traditions are greatly influenced by the pre-Christian Samhain, but whose name and date are given as the Christian "All Hallows' Eve") are downplayed, as in-universe all holidays "come from" their own Planet of Hats. "God" is mentioned but not specifically Jesus. | |
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Forgotten Phlebotinum | |
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Forgotten Phlebotinum: Oogie Boogie has the ability to suck in everything like a gigantic vacuum, which is how he recaptured Santa and Sally. He never thought to use this in his battle against Jack Skellington, though this is somewhat justified, as Oogie was trying to get away from Jack. | |
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Visual Pun | |
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Visual Pun: The Mayor is two-faced. There are a lot of puns on Christmas songs on Jack's blackboard full of equations, such as "chestnut/open fire". Oogie has some deadly slot machines dressed up like gun-toting cowboys. A slang term for a slot machine is "one-armed bandit". | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Jack wants to understand Christmas, so he makes off with a large bag of stolen holiday goods and runs experiments on the holly berries and candy canes. If actually speaking to the denizens of Christmas Town was ever attempted, we never see it. | |
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership | |
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Jack is the Pumpkin King not just because he's the scariest creature, but because he's also the toughest. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "Oogie Boogie's Song", in which Oogie Boogie gloats about having captured Santa and threatens him with death, tries (and fails) to intimidate him, and generally throws his weight around. It's sung by Ken Page, the same fellow who voiced King Gator in All Dogs Go to Heaven and played Old Deuteronomy in the video version of Cats. As such, it's amazing. A second one, for the Quirky Miniboss Squad, is "Kidnap the Sandy Claws." Although Jack is technically a Villain Protagonist, most of his songs aren't exactly villainous in nature, although the ending of "Jack's Obsession" comes close. In it, Jack decides that the best way to understand Christmas is to try making his own Christmas, which he announces in a very Card-Carrying Villain-esque way. Keep in mind, though, that considering the Blue-and-Orange Morality of Halloween Town, Jack clearly considers this a good thing. | |
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Hamster-Wheel Power | |
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Hamster-Wheel Power: The caroling elves that pass Jack during his "What's This?" song are riding on a sled that's propelled by a penguin in a wheel. | |
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Animated Musical | |
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Animated Musical: Technically an operetta. | |
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Portal Crossroad World | |
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Portal Crossroad World: The grove of trees with doors to various holiday-towns is a small-scale, specialized example. | |
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Watch Out for That Tree! | |
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Watch Out for That Tree!: At the end of "What's This?", Jack unknowingly hits a pole and falls into the snow. He looks up to find the Christmas Town sign on top of it. | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something: Jack the Pumpkin King, who does a good job of running the town, and doesn't hesitate to put things right once he realizes the chaos he's caused. Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, the respective leaders of Christmas Town and Easter Town do the primary work of delivering the relevant treats on their holidays. | |
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Punch-Clock Villain | |
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Punch-Clock Villain: The entirety of Halloween, with the exception of Boogie, counts as this insofar as the world population considers them scary villains. Their Blue-and-Orange Morality means that they frighten and terrify people every year on Halloween, but most of them are shown to be perfectly amicable and even friendly off the clock. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Some of Halloween Town's residents design is this. | |
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Toothy Bird | |
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Toothy Bird: The rolling wooden duck the vampires make for Jack's Christmas. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: Nightmare was originally a poem by Burton, with the only named characters being Jack, Zero, and Santa. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_23473ae7 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_237404cc | type |
Ironic Echo | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_237404cc | comment |
Ironic Echo: The first time Jack sings "And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King" (during Jack's Lament), he is angsting over how Halloween has stopped being special to him. The second time (during the second half of Poor Jack) he is getting over his angst about ruining Christmas and how he "just can't wait until next Halloween". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_237404cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_237404cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_237404cc | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_242b7b18 | type |
First Time in the Sun | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_242b7b18 | comment |
First Time in the Sun: The inhabitants of Halloween Town are overcome with astonishment and wonder when they see snow in their town for the first time. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_242b7b18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_242b7b18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_242b7b18 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_26206ed7 | type |
"Spread Wings" Frame Shot | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_26206ed7 | comment |
"Spread Wings" Frame Shot: Jack sings "Poor Jack" on a statue of an angel holding an open book. On the lines "Why does nothing ever turn out like it should?" he sits directly in front of the statue's head, making it look like he has the angel's wings for a split second. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_26206ed7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_26206ed7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_26206ed7 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_26eb6287 | type |
Funny Background Event | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_26eb6287 | comment |
Funny Background Event: Remember that boy whose parents screamed when they saw his Christmas present was a shrunken head? Next time we see him, his parents have fainted in the hallway. His dad's hand twitches. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_26eb6287 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_26eb6287 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_26eb6287 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27a42ebc | type |
Spiritual Successor | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27a42ebc | comment |
Spiritual Successor: Corpse Bride. Made even more obvious by the fact that its trailer ended up with Recycled Trailer Music from this film. Wreck-It Ralph essentially has the same plot as this film, just set around video games, made in CGI and without the gothic styles. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27a42ebc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27a42ebc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27a42ebc | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27b83210 | type |
Hufflepuff House | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27b83210 | comment |
Hufflepuff House: Doorways to the other holiday worlds are seen, and the Easter Bunny makes an appearance, but they otherwise play no role in the story. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27b83210 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27b83210 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27b83210 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27c09b00 | type |
Camp Straight | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27c09b00 | comment |
Camp Straight: Jack, who is very theatrical and active. At the end of "Making Christmas", he even swings his hips. He and Sally get together in the end. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27c09b00 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27c09b00 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_27c09b00 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_281f09d0 | type |
Defanged Horrors | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_281f09d0 | comment |
Defanged Horrors: Outright stated (in the first song) that the people of the town love to scare, but have no malicious feelings towards people. Their creepy Boogieman (whom even the Halloween folks avoid!) and his rather cowardly cronies are quite the exception. Even though Lock, Shock, and Barrel claim to only work for Oogie out of fear, they sure do show pleasure at the thoughts of mauling 'Sandy Claws' in their star song... | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_281f09d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_281f09d0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_281f09d0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2848e7d2 | type |
Oblivious to Love | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2848e7d2 | comment |
Oblivious to Love: Jack — though to be fair, the only overt gesture Sally is seen to make is easily explained by the fact that they're friends (which they clearly are). And he does catch on eventually. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2848e7d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2848e7d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2848e7d2 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_294ed981 | type |
Bilingual Bonus | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_294ed981 | comment |
Bilingual Bonus: Jack's ghost-dog's name is Zero. In Japanese, Zero can be translated as "Rei", which can also mean "Ghost". Santa is nicknamed "Perce-oreille" in French, which is translated as "earwig". What does Santa stomp on when freed? An earwig. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_294ed981 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_294ed981 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_294ed981 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2a7e7af1 | type |
Limited Wardrobe | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2a7e7af1 | comment |
Limited Wardrobe: The only time Jack ever changed out of his tuxedo is when he imitates Santa Claus (well, and one scene when he's in bed and wearing off-white pajamas, but that's only for a couple of minutes). Possibly even taken up to eleven, since in "Poor Jack", when Jack declares that HE IS THE PUMPKIN KING!!!, he rips off the tatters of his Santa outfit to reveal that he's been wearing his tux underneath the suit all this time. Sally also wears the same dress throughout the film, though considering that either she's locked up by Dr. Finkelstein or stalking Jack, this is more justified. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2a7e7af1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2a7e7af1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2a7e7af1 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2aac0992 | type |
Subhuman Surfacing Shot | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2aac0992 | comment |
Subhuman Surfacing Shot: The film uses this as an Establishing Character Moment for Jack Skellington; to cap off the big "This is Halloween" number, after lighting himself on fire, he jumps into Halloween Town's fountain and unflinchingly rises in all his skeletal glory...all with a big cheery smile on his face. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2aac0992 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2aac0992 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2aac0992 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2ae29c0d | type |
The Dreaded | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2ae29c0d | comment |
Jolly St. Nick himself. It's fairly startling when Santa Claus squishes what remains of Oogie under his boot. He then gives Jack a harsh dressing down - mind you, Jack is The Dreaded of Halloween Town. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2ae29c0d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2ae29c0d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2ae29c0d | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2b3937ef | type |
Our Hero Is Dead | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2b3937ef | comment |
Our Hero Is Dead: Used with the Halloween Town citizens when Jack's flying sleigh is shot down in the human world. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2b3937ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2b3937ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2b3937ef | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2b9e3fb0 | type |
Give Me a Sign | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2b9e3fb0 | comment |
Give Me a Sign: After an entire song asking "What's This?" while in Christmastown, Jack crashes into the town sign, answering his question. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2b9e3fb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2b9e3fb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2b9e3fb0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2bbe31c9 | type |
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2bbe31c9 | comment |
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Jack. The entire town consists of Nightmare Fetishists, but even Jack's attempts at innocent merriment turn scary. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2bbe31c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2bbe31c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2bbe31c9 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2c385759 | type |
Massive Multiplayer Crossover | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2c385759 | comment |
Massive Multiplayer Crossover: The film combines elements from Halloween, Christmas, and Easter. On a more specific level, the Halloweentown residents are made up of monster types from folklore and pop culture alongside famous literary monsters like Mr. Hyde and Frankenstein's Monster. A witch resembling the old hag form of Queen Grimhilde also makes a brief appearance. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2c385759 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2c385759 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2c385759 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2dc0d2bf | type |
Hidden Depths | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2dc0d2bf | comment |
Hidden Depths: Everyone, save maybe Lock, Shock and Barrel. Even Dr. Finkelstein, who's basically lonely, and likely created Sally for companionship. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2dc0d2bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2dc0d2bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2dc0d2bf | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2e5e04c0 | type |
Must Make Amends | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2e5e04c0 | comment |
Must Make Amends: Jack and Oogie's fight is about Jack trying to fix things. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2e5e04c0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2e5e04c0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2e5e04c0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2ec87029 | type |
Sadly Mythtaken | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2ec87029 | comment |
Sadly Mythtaken: When Jack comes across the trees with the doors to the different holidays, one of the doors has a four-leaved clover/shamrock, presumably to represent St. Patrick's Day. However, St. Patrick's symbol is a three-leaved shamrock. This may seem pedantic, but the whole reason it's the symbol of St. Patrick is because there were three leaves on it - he supposedly used the three leaves to illustrate the Holy Trinity. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2ec87029 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2ec87029 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2ec87029 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2fef0c01 | type |
Twisted Christmas | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2fef0c01 | comment |
Twisted Christmas: Though nobody meant any harm, for a while there, Christmas Eve looked pretty frightening thanks to the goodies Jack leaves as Santa. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2fef0c01 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2fef0c01 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_2fef0c01 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_302d0881 | type |
I Am What I Am | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_302d0881 | comment |
I Am What I Am: After his disaster at being Santa Claus, Jack finds his passion for his calling renewed, as he sums it up in five words: I AM THE PUMPKIN KING! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_302d0881 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_302d0881 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_302d0881 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3036294e | type |
Scary Black Man | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3036294e | comment |
Scary Black Man: Oogie Boogie's voice actor is black, but as he is a sentient sack of insects, he himself has no actual race. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3036294e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3036294e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3036294e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_331d9f32 | type |
Silent Snarker | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_331d9f32 | comment |
Silent Snarker: The saxophone player shakes his head and rolls his eyes as he listens to the Harlequinn Demon boast about what a genius he is while making a hat out of a rat. Being put in the stocks and used as a model for it likely didn't endear the musician to the latter. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_331d9f32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_331d9f32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_331d9f32 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_33d5b7f2 | type |
Adapted Out | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_33d5b7f2 | comment |
Adapted Out: Of all things, the monstrous toy train with tentacle tracks. Perhaps it would have been too much to animate. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_33d5b7f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_33d5b7f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_33d5b7f2 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3517000d | comment |
Mad Scientist: Doctor Finkelstein. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3517000d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3517000d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3517000d | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_356b1efb | type |
Hammerspace | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_356b1efb | comment |
Hammerspace: Sally pulls a slotted spoon out of her sock that is easily double the length of it. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_356b1efb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_356b1efb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_356b1efb | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_38b33e8d | type |
Love Epiphany | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_38b33e8d | comment |
Love Epiphany: Jack has always assumed Sally was his friend and the best seamstress in town. When he finds out that she proactively tried to rescue "Sandy Claws" and said she was doing it to help him, he starts stammering. Then he goes to her at the end of the movie, saying he wants to spend time with her under the stars. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_38b33e8d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_38b33e8d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_38b33e8d | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_38da8916 | type |
Uncommon Time | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_38da8916 | comment |
Uncommon Time: The verses of "What's This?" are in 6/4. "Jack's Obsession" is partly in 7/4 ('Christmas time is buzzing in my skull...'). | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_38da8916 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_38da8916 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_38da8916 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_39f43252 | type |
Villainous Lament | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_39f43252 | comment |
Villainous Lament: "Jack's Lament" and the first half of "Poor Jack", though this trope is subverted by Jack not being evil just wrong about some things. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_39f43252 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_39f43252 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_39f43252 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3a3e76db | type |
Usurping Santa | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3a3e76db | comment |
Usurping Santa: Downplayed. Jack Skellington does try to take over Christmas, but he doesn't seem to have plans to become Santa. There's no mention of him gaining Santa's powers, and although he does have him kidnapped, he doesn't want to harm him, and there's a suggestion that he's only doing it for this year (he tells Santa to "take a break this year"). | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3a3e76db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3a3e76db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3a3e76db | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3a4522df | type |
Pietà Plagiarism | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3a4522df | comment |
Pietà Plagiarism: Nearing the end of the film, Jack lies defeated in the arms of a graveyard statue of an angel. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3a4522df | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3a4522df | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3a4522df | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: In "Jack's Lament", some of the lyrics are thus: "To a guy in Kentucky, I'm Mister Unlucky! And I'm known throughout England and France!" | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3c0a4666 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3c0a4666 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3c0a4666 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3c3f28a5 | type |
Blessed with Suck | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3c3f28a5 | comment |
Blessed with Suck: Jack. He's the King of Halloween, yet it's always about Halloween, every single day, which is problematic when you want something different. Taking a break is not an option, as shown when Jack disappears for only two days (at the start of the slack season, no less) and everyone is in a panic. Jack seems to not be able to give the crown to anyone else if he wanted ("But who here would ever understand/That the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin/Would tire of his crown, if they only understood/He'd give it all up if he only could..."), so he's stuck with the job. And if the scenes after "This is Halloween" is any indication, due to being the biggest in-universe celebrity, Jack can't even have a decent conversation with anyone. Who knows how long Jack's been doing the Halloween job? He could be Really 700 Years Old for all we know. When you think about it, you can't blame the guy for desperately wanting to try out Christmas. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3c3f28a5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3c3f28a5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3c3f28a5 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3d699462 | type |
Curb-Stomp Battle | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3d699462 | comment |
Curb-Stomp Battle: Jack's confrontation with Oogie Boogie is ridiculously one-sided; Jack is never fazed by Oogie's attempts to stop him, and defeats Oogie with an unnerving Tranquil Fury. Foreshadowed by Oogie's Oh, Crap! reaction when he first sees Jack in his lair. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3d699462 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3d699462 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3d699462 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3e848d5c | type |
Cast of Snowflakes | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3e848d5c | comment |
Cast of Snowflakes: The various creatures that populate Halloween Town are quite varied | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3e848d5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3e848d5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3e848d5c | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3f3964dd | type |
"Gaining Confidence" Song | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3f3964dd | comment |
"Gaining Confidence" Song: Jack reaches his Darkest Hour when his attempt to be Santa Claus failed and left him alone in a graveyard. He sings "Poor Jack", which is at first him moaning about how he'll just hide away and die somewhere due to his horrible mistake. Then, he begins to tell himself that he still tried his best and that he still accomplished something amazing- and ends the song declaring that he is, in fact, "The Pumpkin King" and regains his love for Halloween, as well as a determination to rescue Santa. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3f3964dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3f3964dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_3f3964dd | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_40bb59d0 | type |
Blatant Lies | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_40bb59d0 | comment |
Blatant Lies: Lock, Shock and Barrel make a Lying Finger Cross when following Jack's "special assignment": Their true mischievous nature is revealed while singing "Kidnap the Sandy Claws" immediately afterwards, since they have every intention of involving Oogie Boogie in their plans. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_40bb59d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_40bb59d0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_40bb59d0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_40cc0c7e | type |
Bittersweet Ending | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: Jack finds out that, despite his success as the Pumpkin King, he is not suited to be "Sandy Claws" and he nearly ruins Christmas for everyone, but the experience restores his vigor for Halloween. Meanwhile, Santa moves like clockwork to save the holiday and fix the damage, later delivering a gift of snow to Halloweentown, showing no hard feelings and Jack is delighted to share this. He also goes to Sally, expressing he wants to be by her side and sit under the stars. The audio epilogue shows that Jack and Santa became great friends, and Santa visits regularly and sees that Jack and Sally have children. Jack admits that, even though it was a chaotic night, he would do it all over again. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_40cc0c7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_40cc0c7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_40cc0c7e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4160410d | type |
Damsel in Distress | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4160410d | comment |
Damsel in Distress: Sally briefly becomes one when she's captured by Oogie Boogie at the end of the film. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4160410d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4160410d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4160410d | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_43d612b7 | type |
Disney Acid Sequence | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_43d612b7 | comment |
Disney Acid Sequence: Oogie Boogie's Song is a downplayed, and maybe justified, example. In the song, almost everything in Oogie's casino-themed lair, including Oogie himself, glows in bright neon colors as if under a blacklight, only to return to normal tones when the song ends. Considering all the gadgets that Oogie has, it's not unreasonable to assume that he might actually have a blacklight in his lair, but this is never made clear. Played straight with the dancing ghost figures that appear at the very end of the song. Those are harder to explain. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_43d612b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_43d612b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_43d612b7 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_443b78cd | type |
Tranquil Fury | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_443b78cd | comment |
Tranquil Fury: From the moment Jack confronts Oogie, he never loses his affable composure as he dispatches his traps and gruesomely takes out the boogeyman, even scolding him beforehand for being such a shameful host to his friends. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_443b78cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_443b78cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_443b78cd | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_44989f6f | type |
"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_44989f6f | comment |
"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: As Santa berates Jack in the end, listening to Sally would have avoided all of the trouble. Indeed, Sally did warn him that his Christmas would be a disaster. It leads to Jack getting his Love Epiphany as he looks at Sally with wonder in his eyes. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_44989f6f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_44989f6f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_44989f6f | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_44f5d199 | type |
Pretty in Mink | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_44f5d199 | comment |
Pretty in Mink: At the end when it's snowing in Halloween Town, Dr. Finkelstein's new assistant is wearing a winter coat with an ermine collar. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_44f5d199 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_44f5d199 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_44f5d199 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_45300f91 | type |
Bogeyman | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_45300f91 | comment |
Bogeyman: Oogie Boogie's name comes from this, and he decribes himself as such. However, he's a burlap sack filled with bugs and doesn't get out much, instead spending his time torturing captives in his casino-themed dungeon. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_45300f91 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_45300f91 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_45300f91 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4582ef5b | type |
Ultimate Authority Mayor | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4582ef5b | comment |
Ultimate Authority Mayor: The Mayor. Justified as there really isn't any higher authority that exists in... wherever Halloween Town is. And Jack does all the real work anyway. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4582ef5b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4582ef5b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4582ef5b | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4599be49 | type |
CCG Importance Dissonance | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4599be49 | comment |
CCG Importance Dissonance - The short-lived card game had cards for every item and background character in the movie - even ones that didn't have names (which the CCG was mostly comprised of) such as "Gift-Wrapping Elf" and "Ghost on the Left". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4599be49 | featureApplicability |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4599be49 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4599be49 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_46097bd9 | type |
Mistaken for Santa | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_46097bd9 | comment |
Mistaken for Santa: Lock, Shock, and Barrel mistake the Easter Bunny for Santa Claus. Far from the normal example, these kids were trying to kidnap the guy. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_46097bd9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_46097bd9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_46097bd9 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_461defa0 | type |
Two-Faced | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_461defa0 | comment |
Two-Faced: The Mayor, who has two faces — one colorful and happy, one ashen and distressed. It's more of a facial mood ring than a split personality, though. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_461defa0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_461defa0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_461defa0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_47fea76b | type |
Butt-Monkey | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_47fea76b | comment |
Butt-Monkey: Dr. Finkelstein is almost always shown getting hurt in some way every time he's on screen. The mayor also falls victim to this occasionally. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_47fea76b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_47fea76b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_47fea76b | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_48b9731f | type |
Paper-Thin Disguise | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_48b9731f | comment |
Paper-Thin Disguise: Jack must have been really delusional if he thought a red suit and deep voice would hide the fact that he's a seven-foot tall skeleton trying to be Santa. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_48b9731f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_48b9731f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_48b9731f | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4a0ec47a | type |
Cheshire Cat Grin | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4a0ec47a | comment |
Cheshire Cat Grin: Jack has this mixed with Slasher Smile as his default smile. Sally gets a good one◊ when she tricks the doctor into eating the poisoned soup. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4a0ec47a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4a0ec47a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4a0ec47a | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4b4f6a2f | type |
Mood-Swinger | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4b4f6a2f | comment |
Mood-Swinger: Jack Skellington. Until the third act, he is either depressed, extremely enthusiastic, or concentrating intensely on his obsession. He is at his calmest only at the end, during his and Sally's duet. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4b4f6a2f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4b4f6a2f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4b4f6a2f | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4b8932a4 | type |
Stalking Is Love | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4b8932a4 | comment |
Stalking is Love: It's not played out straight though, since while most of the examples find out and are flattered rather then creeped out, Jack never finds out that Sally stalked him. Then again, he's such a Nightmare Fetishist he probably would love it. Considering everyone in the town is a Nightmare Fetishist, it's very probable that in Halloween Town stalking actually is a way to show love. Not much of what she does is really stalking, either. The first time, she's hiding in the graveyard from Dr. Finkelstein when Jack happens to show up and start singing. The next time they're in the same place, it's in a meeting where the whole town is invited. The next time, she gives him a dinner basket at his home, but he sees her and accepts it, so it's not like he shows any discomfort at the action. Every other time they meet after that is because Jack enlists her to make the "Sandy Claws" outfit, even if he is oblivious to her feelings at this point. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4b8932a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4b8932a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4b8932a4 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4c782fb9 | type |
Gods Need Prayer Badly | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4c782fb9 | comment |
A straight example with Oogie: "Santa Claus, huh? Ooh, I'm really scared!". Whether it's because he's from Halloween Town or because he's a bully (most likely a bit of both), he literally can't imagine someone with power who isn't about being scary. As far as he's concerned, Santa Claus (a Holiday King, mind, and if Gods Need Prayer Badly is in operation in this world, surely the strongest of all) is just weak. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4c782fb9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4c782fb9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4c782fb9 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4da296fc | type |
All Cloth Unravels | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4da296fc | comment |
All Cloth Unravels: Jack uses this to destroy Oogie Boogie. Jack grabs a dangling thread from Oogie's clothing (which is basically just a burlap sack) and tangles it in a rotating blade; the blade's pull quickly unravels enough of the thread that Oogie's clothing comes completely off, revealing that Oogie's "body" is a huge mass of bugs. Without his clothing, Oogie simply falls apart. Justified in that the loose thread is part of the sack's stitching; when the stitches are pulled, the cloth is intact but it can't hold together anymore. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4da296fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4da296fc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4da296fc | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4ebbbd17 | type |
Matryoshka Object | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4ebbbd17 | comment |
Matryoshka Object: The monsters inspired by Mr. Hyde place a dead animal in a small doll, then put the small doll into a larger doll, and again into yet another larger doll. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4ebbbd17 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4ebbbd17 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4ebbbd17 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4fbc0887 | type |
Beneath the Mask | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4fbc0887 | comment |
Beneath the Mask: To the citizens of Halloween Town, Jack's the charismatic, self-confident, terrifying Pumpkin King. What they don't know is that Jack is very unhappy and bored about doing the same thing every year and longs for something different. Then he discovers Christmas Town. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4fbc0887 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4fbc0887 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_4fbc0887 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_508d91a2 | type |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_508d91a2 | comment |
Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Just as Jack is about to kill Oogie, he says, "How dare you treat my friends so shamefully!" | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_508d91a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_508d91a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_508d91a2 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: To misquote CinemaSins, it’s amazing how quickly the town decides that murdering the Santa imposter is the best course of action, considering his biggest crime is delivering scary gifts. Possibly justified if they believe the gifts to be an attack they must defend themselves from instead of a misdeed to punish. After all, it's Christmas. They aren't expecting Jack's frightening "toys". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50b05d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50b05d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50b05d30 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50c3f978 | type |
Dressed in Layers | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50c3f978 | comment |
Dressed in Layers: When Jack rips off his Santa costume, he has his normal tuxedo on underneath. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50c3f978 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50c3f978 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50c3f978 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50ed1af4 | type |
Our Demons Are Different | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50ed1af4 | comment |
Our Demons Are Different: There's the stereotypical Devil for one (though him being The Devil is probably unlikely), and Jack in "Jack's Lament" says he's a "Demon Of Light," indicating he's some sort of Noble Demon. In some of the foreign dubs, Jack actually declares himself the Devil. There's also the Harlequin Demon. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50ed1af4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50ed1af4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_50ed1af4 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_511728ae | type |
Magic Versus Science | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_511728ae | comment |
Magic Versus Science: Sort of. Santa can do magic (flying reindeer, flying away at the end followed by a trail of sparkly magic stuff), while Jack's way of going at Christmas is more scientific (employing Dr. Finkelstein, reading books on The Scientific Method). However, Jack can and does do magic in his own realm. It's probably a question of spheres of influence: Jack has no power over Christmas, so he has to use different tools than Santa. Tim Burton himself has said that magic does not exist in Halloween Town, so Henry Selick employed some loopholes to allow some of the effects he wanted. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_511728ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_511728ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_511728ae | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_512b00e0 | type |
BSoD Song | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_512b00e0 | comment |
BSoD Song: "Poor Jack" starts out this way. It can also count as both a dark and triumphant reprise of "Jack's Lament". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_512b00e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_512b00e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_512b00e0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_518736d6 | type |
Halloween Songs | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_518736d6 | comment |
Halloween Songs: Out of all the songs in a movie set in Halloween Town, "This Is Halloween" describes it and its residence the best. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_518736d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_518736d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_518736d6 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_51c70be6 | type |
Obliviously Evil | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_51c70be6 | comment |
Obliviously Evil: Jack. His actions do drive the central conflict and cause needless strife, but he never acts maliciously in any of them. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_51c70be6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_51c70be6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_51c70be6 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5313c266 | type |
Bookends | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5313c266 | comment |
Book Ends: Jack and Sally on top of the mountain while the other watches and singing is involved. The first is Jack on the mountain singing about how discontent he while Sally silently watches but doesn't intervene. The end has them reversed — Sally is on the mountain and is joined by Jack who realizes he loves her and they share a Big Damn Kiss. In an unusual musical example, the film both begins and ends with the melody of "Sally's Song." This is despite the facts that Sally is not the main character, and she is not present in the opening scene before "This is Halloween" (although, no other characters are in that scene either.) | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5313c266 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5313c266 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5313c266 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Lock, Shock and Barrel. They're the Halloween version of nasty little kids; to them it's all a game. Really, almost everyone in Halloween Town can be considered as this. They never actually do anything more evil than trying to induce the biggest frights, and that can be seen as part of their nature. The only truly malicious character in the entire film is Oogie Boogie, and that might be why he's locked away from the other denizens. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_537dd8fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_537dd8fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_537dd8fe | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_575fd5e2 | type |
Dark Is Not Evil | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_575fd5e2 | comment |
Jack has a nice one—as his natural laugh. A reminder that he is a resident of Halloween Town. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_575fd5e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_575fd5e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_575fd5e2 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_58977071 | type |
Creepy Jazz Music | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_58977071 | comment |
Creepy Jazz Music: Oogie Boogie has loud, swingy music for both his Leitmotif and his Villain Song! This signifies quite a few things about him, such as his love of gambling and his Boisterous Bruiser Scary Black Man personality. But most importantly, the contrast between his jazz music and the rather somber orchestral music associated with the other citizens of Halloween Town highlights how different he is from them - namely, how much more violent he is. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_58977071 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_58977071 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_58977071 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5982199f | type |
Who Even Needs a Brain? | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5982199f | comment |
Who Even Needs a Brain?: Dr. Finkelstein can casually take out half his brain to use as part of Sally's replacement, to say nothing of the fact that his skull cap is on a hinge. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5982199f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5982199f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5982199f | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5a6aeb9e | type |
How the Character Stole Christmas | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5a6aeb9e | comment |
How the Character Stole Christmas: While not a direct parody of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, there are similarities in the plot as Jack and Halloween Town try to occupy the holiday to make it their own - which nearly ruins it for everyone, as the Halloween residents don't get the Christmas spirit right. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5a6aeb9e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5a6aeb9e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5a6aeb9e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5a71be2d | type |
Bad Santa | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5a71be2d | comment |
Bad Santa: Jack, albeit unwittingly. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5a71be2d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5a71be2d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5a71be2d | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5b565147 | type |
Meaningful Background Event | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5b565147 | comment |
Meaningful Background Event: While Oogie Boogie is taunting Sally and Santa Claus, if you look behind him, you can see Jack sneaking into the lair all spider-like. Doubles as a Chekhov's Skill in the scene immediately following. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5b565147 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5b565147 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5b565147 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5bdcc85a | type |
Disney Villain Death | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5bdcc85a | comment |
Disney Villain Death: Oogie Boogie ends up like this when his sack is torn. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5bdcc85a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5bdcc85a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5bdcc85a | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5c9fb18 | type |
Pumpkin Person | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5c9fb18 | comment |
Pumpkin Person: Jack Skellington has a pumpkin on his head in his Pumpkin King costume. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5c9fb18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5c9fb18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5c9fb18 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5da37ab5 | type |
Triumphant Reprise | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5da37ab5 | comment |
Triumphant Reprise: At least two: "This is Halloween" and "Sally's Song" both get them, along with "What's This?" and "Jack's Lament." | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5da37ab5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5da37ab5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5da37ab5 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5fd14ab3 | type |
Sacred Hospitality | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5fd14ab3 | comment |
Sacred Hospitality: Jack sees the kidnapped Santa as his guest for Christmas Eve, and instructs that he be kept comfortable for the duration of his stay. When Jack discovers that Oogie Boogie is not treating Santa properly and is instead trying to eat him, Jack is pissed. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5fd14ab3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5fd14ab3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_5fd14ab3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_609eb275 | type |
Satan Is Good | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_609eb275 | comment |
Satan Is Good: One resident of Halloweentown is a devil...who's every bit as friendly and harmless as the rest of the town's denizens. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_609eb275 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_609eb275 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_609eb275 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_61375e57 | type |
BigDamnKiss | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_61375e57 | comment |
Jack and Sally on top of the mountain while the other watches and singing is involved. The first is Jack on the mountain singing about how discontent he while Sally silently watches but doesn't intervene. The end has them reversed — Sally is on the mountain and is joined by Jack who realizes he loves her and they share a Big Damn Kiss. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_61375e57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_61375e57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_61375e57 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_627264e0 | type |
Death Glare | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_627264e0 | comment |
Death Glare: When Jack arrives at Oogie Boogie's place, he's pretty pissed already, but when Jack hears Sally scream (thus telling him that she was down there), he gives a Death Glare that signed Oogie's death warrant. A slightly scarier example is when Oogie's bugs are falling into the pit, Jack's facial expression quite clearly says, "You deserve this." | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_627264e0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_627264e0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_627264e0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_630203e3 | type |
Shrunken Head | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_630203e3 | comment |
Shrunken Head: The first boy to get a visit from Jack as Santa gets a shrunken head as a present. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_630203e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_630203e3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_630203e3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_63213333 | type |
My Hero, Zero | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_63213333 | comment |
My Hero, Zero: Jack's ghostly dog, who serves as his Rudolph with his jack-o'-lantern nose. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_63213333 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_63213333 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_63213333 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_64e2c7c7 | type |
Lying Finger Cross | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_64e2c7c7 | comment |
Lying Finger Cross: Lock, Shock, and Barrel do this after Jack tells them to leave Oogie Boogie out of their plot to capture Santa Claus. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_64e2c7c7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_64e2c7c7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_64e2c7c7 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_65244998 | type |
Lightning Can Do Anything | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_65244998 | comment |
Lightning Can Do Anything: Like bringing skeletal reindeer to life and in the prequel game heal Jack. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_65244998 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_65244998 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_65244998 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_653c5c73 | type |
Cannot Spit It Out | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_653c5c73 | comment |
Cannot Spit It Out: Sally is unable to tell Jack how she feels about him for fear of rejection, as she details in her song. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_653c5c73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_653c5c73 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_653c5c73 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_66e48100 | type |
The Kindnapper | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_66e48100 | comment |
The Kindnapper: Jack Skellington has part of this being a Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant. His way of indulging himself in his new passion for Christmas not only involves planning to run the show himself, but kidnapping the one who already does to enable his doing so. And he sees it as a favor for Santa, too! Despite Jack's unquestionable status as The Hero, though, his kidnapping is clearly shown as not being a good thing, especially because of what it leads to... | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_66e48100 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_66e48100 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_66e48100 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67a70f33 | type |
Creepy Circus Music | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67a70f33 | comment |
Creepy Circus Music: The climax has some pretty intense carnival-esque music as Oogie Boogie sics his casino-themed deathtraps on Jack. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67a70f33 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67a70f33 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67a70f33 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67f26dcc | type |
Planet of Hats | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67f26dcc | comment |
Planet of Hats: Every (American) holiday has an alternate reality devoted to that one holiday. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67f26dcc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67f26dcc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67f26dcc | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67f88923 | type |
Noodle People | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67f88923 | comment |
Noodle People: Per Burton's style, most of the characters are very skinny. This is averted by Sally, Santa, and Oogie, and taken up to eleven with Jack. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67f88923 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67f88923 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_67f88923 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_68068108 | type |
Evil Laugh | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_68068108 | comment |
Evil Laugh: Jack has a nice one—as his natural laugh. A reminder that he is a resident of Halloween Town. Oogie Boogie gives a villainous laugh at the end of his Villain Song. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_68068108 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_68068108 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_68068108 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_69655022 | type |
Gigantic Moon | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_69655022 | comment |
Gigantic Moon: The moon is pretty big and doesn't have any craters. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_69655022 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_69655022 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_69655022 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6a9c9b41 | type |
Brats with Slingshots | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6a9c9b41 | comment |
Brats with Slingshots: Lock, Shock, and Barrel. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6a9c9b41 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6a9c9b41 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6a9c9b41 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6b31f75 | type |
Scary Scorpions | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6b31f75 | comment |
Scary Scorpions: The box of scorpions in 'Kidnap the Sandy Claws'. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6b31f75 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6b31f75 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6b31f75 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: Jack impersonating Santa provokes news reports and a major worldwide military response. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6b35bdff | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6b35bdff | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6b35bdff | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6bd689ca | type |
Meaningful Echo | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6bd689ca | comment |
Meaningful Echo: Early in the film, Zero plays fetch with one of Jack's ribs. Late in the film, Zero retrieves Jack's detached jaw after his sleigh was shot down and crashed. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6bd689ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6bd689ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6bd689ca | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Jack's name is likely a reference to jack o'lanterns and Skellington is what some Brits call skeletons. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6bda9a30 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6cc2137b | type |
The Scream | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6cc2137b | comment |
One of the statues in the cemetery depicts The Scream. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6cc2137b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6cc2137b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6cc2137b | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6d9bc945 | type |
Babies Ever After | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6d9bc945 | comment |
Babies Ever After: Not in the film proper, but on the original film soundtrack released in 1993, as well as the subsequent re-release "Nightmare Revisited", there's a epilogue poem where Santa visits Jack and Jack has "four or five skeleton children at hand, playing strange tunes in their xylophone band." There is much debate on whether they are Jack and Sally's kids and how they could have them, since, you know, one's dead and the other's a rag doll. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6d9bc945 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6d9bc945 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6d9bc945 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6da1d9ae | type |
Parental Marriage Veto | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6da1d9ae | comment |
Parental Marriage Veto: Implied to be the reason why Jack doesn't see Sally as more than a friend. He highly respects Dr. Finkelstein and knows her as his friend's daughter, so he won't interfere in their fights. When he sees Finkelstein with another creation at the end, Jack seems to realize what this means and goes to Sally. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6da1d9ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6da1d9ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6da1d9ae | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6e92a631 | type |
Four-Fingered Hands | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6e92a631 | comment |
Four-Fingered Hands: Jack is the most noticeable since he's humanoid. The werewolf holds up four fingers ("Three-sixty-*four*!") and it's his entire hand. Some of the human children have four-fingered hands as well. Avoided on Jack's part in the animated short on the DVD of The Nightmare Before Christmas poem narrated by Christopher Lee. Most of Halloween Town has four-fingers. The exceptions seem to be Sally and Big Witch, who both have five, and Oogie, who has none. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6e92a631 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6e92a631 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6e92a631 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6edc54d5 | type |
Here We Go Again! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6edc54d5 | comment |
Here We Go Again!: Outside of the movie. While Jack failed to bring a merry Christmas to the world, he tries again with an already-scary location by bringing it to The Haunted Mansion every year. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6edc54d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6edc54d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6edc54d5 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6ef6417b | type |
Disney Death | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6ef6417b | comment |
Disney Death: Jack. Fortunately, he recovers, which ticks Oogie off. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6ef6417b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6ef6417b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6ef6417b | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6f33059b | type |
Iconic Outfit | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6f33059b | comment |
Iconic Outfit: Jack's pin-striped tuxedo and bat bow-tie; also Sally's dress. Both have even been made available as Halloween costumes for adults through the Disney company. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6f33059b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6f33059b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_6f33059b | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_70862d06 | type |
Traveling-Pipe Bulge | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_70862d06 | comment |
Traveling-Pipe Bulge: Santa's little trip to Oogie Boogie's lair. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_70862d06 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_70862d06 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_70862d06 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_71152dd | type |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_71152dd | comment |
One Dialogue, Two Conversations: Another example is when Jack has a kidnapped Santa in front of him. Jack thinks he's made Halloween Town merry and is recreating Christmas in his own way, so Santa should take a vacation to relax. Santa has been kidnapped and suddenly brought out of a sack to see a skeleton and town full of monsters saying they're taking over his holiday and that he's going on vacation in a less innocent way. Seeing Jack prepare makes us sympathetic to his view, but the results make Santa's interpretation more accurate. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_71152dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_71152dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_71152dd | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7289b368 | type |
Idiot Hero | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7289b368 | comment |
Idiot Hero: Jack is probably one of the more justified examples, as his idiotic moments come from not being an idiot, but from either not understanding concepts outside of Halloween (the whole Christmas fiasco, thinking the shells were fireworks, etc.) or being so excited for Christmas that he doesn't listen to reason (Sally and her prediction). | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7289b368 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7289b368 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7289b368 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_735b4101 | type |
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_735b4101 | comment |
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Christmas Town, Halloween Town, "The Normal World", and the Forest all have different color palettes, making them easier to distinguish from one another. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_735b4101 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_735b4101 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_735b4101 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_73d4b01a | type |
In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_73d4b01a | comment |
In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: Oh, it was Tim Burton by the way. (Conceived rather than written, to be exact; it was expanded by others.) This trope combined with the advertising ("From the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas") inadvertently caused people who aren't aware of Henry Selick's involvement with Nightmare to think that Coraline was directed by Burton (it was Selick who directed that film too). | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_73d4b01a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_73d4b01a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_73d4b01a | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_744ab89c | type |
Holiday Motif | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_744ab89c | comment |
Holiday Motif: The film takes place in a setting in which each holiday has its own town, behind a series of themed doors. Only Halloween Town and Christmas Town are given any focus, but there are apparently also towns based on major holidays such as St. Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day, Easter, and Thanksgiving. This extends to the characters as well; Santa Claus and Easter Bunny have roles in the film as characters that represent their respective holidays, and Jack Skellington (also known as the Pumpkin King) is the physical representation of Halloween. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_744ab89c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_744ab89c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_744ab89c | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_744f2273 | type |
Jar of the Bizarre | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_744f2273 | comment |
Jar of the Bizarre: During the "Jack's Obsession" song sequence, Jack briefly inspects a small series of jars containing preserved possessions. What are these objects that Jack has preserved for study? Christmas toys and a gingerbread cookie. This can be considered an inversion, as creepy things like body-parts or animals would be the norm in a place like Halloween Town, so to have Christmas toys and cookies instead would be appropriate. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_744f2273 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_744f2273 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_744f2273 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_77f956ab | type |
Merry in Minor Key | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_77f956ab | comment |
Merry in Minor Key: This movie is an odd case. Most of the numbers sung by the citizens of Halloween are bouncy, orchestral tunes in minor keys. The monsters sing these songs in a very sinister-sounding way, yet they don't really have evil intentions, and genuinely believe they're doing good. The songs may sound scary to the viewer, but to the characters, this is just ordinary happy music. Examples include: "This is Halloween," in which the citizens of Halloween Town introduce themselves and their town, and explain that they love to scare people, but mean no real harm. "Making Christmas," which is set to the melody of Deathly Dies Irae, in which the citizens make creepy, twisted toys (that they think kids will actually like) for their own version of Christmas. Subverted with "Finale." As Jack returns to the town, having saved Santa Claus and Sally from Oogie Boogie, the song starts with the citizens reprising the tune of "This is Halloween," but it soon switches to a major key version. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_77f956ab | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_77f956ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_77f956ab | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_78c5ce7e | type |
Screw the Rules, I Make Them! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_78c5ce7e | comment |
Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: When making the final roll in his gambling game to decide how many cranks to give the platform about to lower Santa and Sally into the furnace, Oogie Boogie rolls "snake eyes"note A pair of ones. Oogie gets furious and slams the table to reroll the dice and change the result to 11, then cranks the platform as if nothing happened. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_78c5ce7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_78c5ce7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_78c5ce7e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_78e8eba5 | type |
"I Am" Song | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_78e8eba5 | comment |
"Jack's Lament" Also counts as an "I Am" Song, as he describes how he is the Master of Fright and a Demon of Light, amongst other things. It can be divided verse-by-verse into each of those. The verses in 4/4 are almost entirely self-description while the slower, 3/4 time verses are "I Want" verses. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_78e8eba5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_78e8eba5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_78e8eba5 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7a562500 | type |
German Expressionism | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7a562500 | comment |
German Expressionism: The primary art-style in Halloween Town's design. Several of the sets were even covered with clay and etched to create a 3D crosshatching effect. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7a562500 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7a562500 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7a562500 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7abba202 | type |
The Faceless | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7abba202 | comment |
The Faceless: None of the adult humans' faces are seen in the movie. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7abba202 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7abba202 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7abba202 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7b339672 | type |
Bait-and-Switch Compassion | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7b339672 | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Compassion: After Jack is shot down, a police officer announces the terrible news... that there is still no sign of Santa Claus. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7b339672 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7b339672 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7b339672 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7d7a7d0f | type |
Opening Narration | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7d7a7d0f | comment |
Opening Narration: Narrated by Santa, and this would have qualified for Book Ends if they had kept the epilogue under Babies Ever After. (The ending narration can be heard on the soundtrack, and it's read by Patrick Stewart for extra awesome points.) | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7d7a7d0f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7d7a7d0f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7d7a7d0f | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7daab5cb | type |
Don't You Like It? | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7daab5cb | comment |
Don't You Like It?: The reaction of Jack's Christmas. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7daab5cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7daab5cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7daab5cb | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7f080f98 | type |
Vague Age | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7f080f98 | comment |
Vague Age: Jack. He seems to be in his late twenties-early thirties, yet since he's Dem Bones, he could always be Really 700 Years Old. Oogie. Honestly, how can anyone tell exactly how old that guy is? | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7f080f98 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7f080f98 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7f080f98 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7fbb2a3 | type |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Santa Claus is in trouble and Christmas is ruined. Three guesses to who is responsible. First two don't count. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7fbb2a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7fbb2a3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_7fbb2a3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_80a2c2de | type |
Monster Mash | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_80a2c2de | comment |
Monster Mash: The citizens of Halloween Town include living skeletons, ghosts, zombies, witches, vampires, a werewolf, a devil, a Monster Clown and a Mad Scientist with his stitched-together creation, along with many original monsters.note Humorously enough, the song for which this trope is named has a Sequel Song called "Monsters Holiday," the story for which is virtually identical to this one. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_80a2c2de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_80a2c2de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_80a2c2de | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_81bdc398 | type |
He's Back! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_81bdc398 | comment |
He's Back!: "That's right... I AM the Pumpkin King!" | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_81bdc398 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_81bdc398 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_81bdc398 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_81faa798 | type |
Polar Bears and Penguins | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_81faa798 | comment |
Polar Bears and Penguins: There are penguins all over the place in Christmas Town, while a wind-up polar bear gives rides to young elves and Arctic animals appear on the carousel. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_81faa798 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_81faa798 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_81faa798 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_823c6e3e | type |
Large Ham | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Oogie Boogie. Jack is a bit more classy, but is pretty hammy whenever he sings. It's kind of par for the course when one lives in Halloween Town. The Mayor. "The king of Halloween has been blown to smitherEEEns!!! Skeleton Jack is now a PILE of Dust!" | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_823c6e3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_823c6e3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_823c6e3e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8338de89 | type |
"I Want" Song | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8338de89 | comment |
"I Want" Song: "Jack's Lament" Also counts as an "I Am" Song, as he describes how he is the Master of Fright and a Demon of Light, amongst other things. It can be divided verse-by-verse into each of those. The verses in 4/4 are almost entirely self-description while the slower, 3/4 time verses are "I Want" verses. "What's This" climaxes with the line "I want it! Oh I want it! Oh I want it for my own!" | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8338de89 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8338de89 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8338de89 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_83c9369b | type |
Simple Score of Sadness | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_83c9369b | comment |
Simple Score of Sadness: "Sally's Song". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_83c9369b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_83c9369b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_83c9369b | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_83d77d61 | type |
Halloween Trickery | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_83d77d61 | comment |
Halloween Trickery: The characters Lock, Stock and Barrel embody this. They love to cause trouble and play tricks, especially on Halloween. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_83d77d61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_83d77d61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_83d77d61 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8409a385 | type |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8409a385 | comment |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Sally's (or possibly Finkelstein's) potions, and Jack's books take this to a ridiculous extreme. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8409a385 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8409a385 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8409a385 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_84fde8d1 | type |
Big Entrance | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_84fde8d1 | comment |
Big Entrance: The song "This is Halloween" is ostensibly a description of the nature of Halloween Town, but its real purpose in the film is to build up to Jack's grand appearance. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_84fde8d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_84fde8d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_84fde8d1 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8504b817 | type |
Where the Hell Is Springfield? | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8504b817 | comment |
Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The unnamed city Jack visits. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8504b817 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8504b817 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8504b817 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8741b74 | type |
Playing with a Trope | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8741b74 | comment |
Jack plays with this trope on both sides, as when he's being extra creepy, his voice goes an octave lower. His regular voice is more or less normal, but there are also times when he gets really shrill. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8741b74 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8741b74 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8741b74 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_87ede6fc | type |
That Man Is Dead | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_87ede6fc | comment |
That Man Is Dead: "But you're the Pumpkin King!" "Not anymore!" *breaks picture* "I feel so much better now!" Makes one wonder what Jack's long-term plans for Christmas were... | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_87ede6fc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_87ede6fc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_87ede6fc | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_889cff96 | type |
Quirky Miniboss Squad | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_889cff96 | comment |
A second one, for the Quirky Miniboss Squad, is "Kidnap the Sandy Claws." | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_889cff96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_889cff96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_889cff96 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_898ff050 | type |
Villain Protagonist | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_898ff050 | comment |
Although Jack is technically a Villain Protagonist, most of his songs aren't exactly villainous in nature, although the ending of "Jack's Obsession" comes close. In it, Jack decides that the best way to understand Christmas is to try making his own Christmas, which he announces in a very Card-Carrying Villain-esque way. Keep in mind, though, that considering the Blue-and-Orange Morality of Halloween Town, Jack clearly considers this a good thing. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_898ff050 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_898ff050 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_898ff050 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_89c664ac | type |
Villainous Advice Song | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_89c664ac | comment |
Villainous Advice Song: There's Oogie Boogie "advising" Santa Claus to be afraid in "Oogie Boogie's Song" which isn't really much good given that he is at his mercy already and fear won't help him in any way apart from apparently making him tastier. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_89c664ac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_89c664ac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_89c664ac | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8a6caa19 | type |
UptownGuy | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8a6caa19 | comment |
Uptown Guy: Jack is the Pumpkin King and Sally is merely a resident. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8a6caa19 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8a6caa19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8a6caa19 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8a7f43e7 | type |
Pivotal Wake-up | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8a7f43e7 | comment |
Pivotal Wake Up: Jack moves in this way when rising out of his completed sleigh, which is built around a coffin. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8a7f43e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8a7f43e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8a7f43e7 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8b68d9a7 | type |
Stalker with a Crush | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8b68d9a7 | comment |
Stalker with a Crush: Sally is a good-natured version; she accidentally overhears Jack's lament in the graveyard but is too shy to reveal herself. She later goes to his house, delivers some food and a gift of colored lights in a bottle. This leads to... | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8b68d9a7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8b68d9a7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8b68d9a7 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8d0785d5 | type |
Didn't Think This Through | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8d0785d5 | comment |
Didn't Think This Through: Oogie and the gunmen. When he hits the button for the saw, a thread gets caught. Jack's plan. Let's have a town who has only known scares for their afterlife take over a cheerful holiday that you barely understand. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8d0785d5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8d0785d5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8d0785d5 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8de7402d | type |
Measuring the Marigolds | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8de7402d | comment |
Measuring the Marigolds: Jack borrows scientific equipment from Dr. Finkelstein in an attempt to uncover the magic of Christmas: he examines a holly berry under the microscope and accidentallly squishes it, dissolves the stripes off a candy cane, attempts to make a snowflake by cutting paper (and ends up with a paper spider), cuts open a teddy bear to analyze its plush stuffing, and crushes a glass ornament into tiny pieces and puts them into a beaker, and they emit a green glow. After perplexing research, he has a "Eureka!" Moment when he realizes he's been overthinking the magic of Christmas and decides to spread his own brand of Christmas cheer, presenting his findings to the citizens of Halloween Town, which leads the Mayor to endorse Jack's plan to bring a Halloween themed Christmas to the world. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8de7402d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8de7402d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_8de7402d | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_90965cc7 | type |
Hive Mind | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_90965cc7 | comment |
Hive Mind: Oogie Boogie is made of insects and worms and yet he manages to move, speak and do all kinds of evil stuff. It's debatable if there is a Hive Queen (if there is, it's probably a little, white, earwig-like bug). This is confirmed in Oogie's Revenge. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_90965cc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_90965cc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_90965cc7 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_91ba819e | type |
Chimney Entry | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_91ba819e | comment |
Chimney Entry: During his Santa Claus impersonation, the first time Jack Skellington delivers presents he's shown going down the house's chimney. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_91ba819e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_91ba819e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_91ba819e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_932da128 | type |
Monster Clown | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_932da128 | comment |
Monster Clown: One of the recurring townsfolk. Subverted in that he is not actually evil. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_932da128 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_932da128 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_932da128 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_94b3e515 | type |
Cock-a-Doodle Dawn | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_94b3e515 | comment |
Cock-a-Doodle Dawn: True to form, a rooster crows with the rising sun in Halloween Town. A completely skeletal rooster who doesn't even have the chords to crow with. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_94b3e515 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_94b3e515 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_94b3e515 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_957e5fc2 | type |
Villainous Breakdown | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_957e5fc2 | comment |
Villainous Breakdown: Oogie Boogie after he loses his burlap covering and his true form falls apart. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_957e5fc2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_957e5fc2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_957e5fc2 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9591377d | type |
Heel Realization | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9591377d | comment |
Heel Realization: In "Poor Jack". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9591377d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9591377d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9591377d | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_95b7c400 | type |
Faux Affably Evil | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_95b7c400 | comment |
Faux Affably Evil: Oogie Boogie likes to put on an air of charm and style, but in reality he's a coldblooded killer and a cheating jerk. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_95b7c400 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_95b7c400 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_95b7c400 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_960810e8 | type |
Recycled Trailer Music | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_960810e8 | comment |
Recycled Trailer Music : The song "What's This?" is used in lots of trailers. The trailers for the movie itself were scored with John Williams's theme to Hook and "The End" from Edward Scissorhands. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_960810e8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_960810e8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_960810e8 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_962e6260 | type |
You Are Grounded! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_962e6260 | comment |
You Are Grounded!: Dr. Finkelstein to Sally constantly. This is the source of the friction in their relationship. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_962e6260 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_962e6260 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_962e6260 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_967edd3a | type |
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_967edd3a | comment |
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Several, but one that takes the cake is Sally picking the flower which transforms into a tiny Christmas tree, and then tragically bursts into flames right before her eyes. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_967edd3a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_967edd3a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_967edd3a | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_96fbeaf | type |
There Are No Therapists | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_96fbeaf | comment |
There Are No Therapists: Seriously, just look at Jack. He's dealing with both depression and a mid-afterlife crisis, and possibly bipolar disorder and ADD. The bone man is in desperate need of a therapist | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_96fbeaf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_96fbeaf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_96fbeaf | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Oogie Boogie. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_970c790a | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_982037d0 | type |
Tickle Torture | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_982037d0 | comment |
Tickle Torture: Oogie becomes distracted by Sally's leg and he proceeds to remove her shoe before tickling it. The foot is shown to be fidgeting, meaning Sally is indeed ticklish. Unfortunately, this causes the leg to slip out of the doorway, revealing that it is not attached to a body. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_982037d0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_982037d0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_982037d0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_985795ab | type |
Medium Blending | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_985795ab | comment |
Medium Blending: A minor case. The majority of the film is created with stop-motion animation, but the ghosts in Halloween Town are animated in 2D and composited into the scene. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_985795ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_985795ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_985795ab | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_991a3be9 | type |
Ridiculously Alive Undead | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_991a3be9 | comment |
Ridiculously Alive Undead: At one point, Sally sends a basket of snacks up to Jack (a living skeleton) while he's working. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_991a3be9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_991a3be9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_991a3be9 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_997392ec | type |
Killer Teddy Bear | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_997392ec | comment |
Killer Teddy Bear: One of the dolls (the one that's seen along side the wooden duck with painted on bullet holes) is stated in the original poem to be a vampire teddy bear. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_997392ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_997392ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_997392ec | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9a0870ae | type |
Screw Yourself | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9a0870ae | comment |
Screw Yourself: Not only does the wife Dr. Finkelstein made for himself look like a female version of himself, he gave her half of his own brain. Jack's shocked expression upon seeing them is pretty understandable, really. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9a0870ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9a0870ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9a0870ae | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9aaad071 | type |
HA HA HA—No | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9aaad071 | comment |
HA HA HA—No: Invoked three times in Oogie Boogie's Song. Oogie keeps going back and forth between mocking Santa Claus out of sheer disbelief that he's "the one everybody's talkin' about", and threatening him, showing him who's boss. Note that he only goes back to mocking mode whenever Santa tries to stand up to him. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9aaad071 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9aaad071 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9aaad071 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9adcd93a | type |
Bizarre Alien Locomotion | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9adcd93a | comment |
Bizarre Alien Locomotion: One odd little Halloween Town demon "walks" on the tips of its long bat-like wings, with its plump short-legged body suspended between them. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9adcd93a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9adcd93a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9adcd93a | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9bca83eb | type |
Death by Irony | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9bca83eb | comment |
Death by Irony: Oogie planned to make Santa and later Sally into snake-and-spider stew and ends up having all his bugs fall into the concoction, becoming stew himself. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9bca83eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9bca83eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9bca83eb | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9bf3470e | type |
Santa Claus | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9bf3470e | comment |
Santa Claus: The unwitting MacGuffin is the king of Christmas Town. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9bf3470e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9bf3470e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9bf3470e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9c464123 | type |
Saving Christmas | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9c464123 | comment |
Saving Christmas: Subverted in that the hero is the one to kidnap Santa, but then played straight after things go pear-shaped. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9c464123 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9c464123 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9c464123 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9c748cd4 | type |
Comedic Strangling | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9c748cd4 | comment |
Comedic Strangling: After Lock, Shock, and Barrel realize that they've kidnapped the Easter Bunny instead of Santa Claus, Shock briefly starts strangling Lock while scolding him for his incompetence, which he is entirely unharmed by. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9c748cd4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9c748cd4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9c748cd4 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9d12bbc1 | type |
Foreshadowing | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: While Jack wanders out of Halloween Town, Zero pesters him to play fetch. When Jack throws a rib into a tree hollow, we see Zero using the light of his Jack-o'-lantern nose to find it, demonstrating this attribute of Zero's and setting up its use to guide Jack's reindeer through the fog Rudolph-style later on. Jack's first visit to Christmas Town in the song, "What's This?" Among other things, we see him unintentionally smashing a snowflake, destroying a snowman and scaring a little sleeping elf - a taste of the unwitting destruction that Jack's curiosity in Christmas will bring. When he's trying to understand Christmas scientifically, he attempts to cut a paper snowflake and finds that he's made a spider. The rest of the same scene, his attempts to understand the paraphernalia of Christmas only result in the items of his experiments being destroyed. "Jack's Obsession" also ends with him smashing several Christmas ornaments, and causing a string of lights to explode. During the Town Hall meeting in which Jack reveals the inhabitants of Halloween Town what Christmas is, the Mayor says cheerfully, "How horrible our Christmas will be", thinking this is a good thing. There's Sally's premonition with the burning Christmas tree. "This is Halloween" has the "shadow of the moon at night" taking the form of Oogie Boogie. This is later confirmed to be his shadow in Oogie's Revenge. Also, if you listen closely to the instrumental part when the Shadow sings, it almost sounds like the opening to Oogie Boogie's Song. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9d12bbc1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9d12bbc1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9d12bbc1 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9d17b859 | type |
Made of Iron | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9d17b859 | comment |
Made of Iron: Jack manages to get shot down by flak guns without being blown to pieces. This could be justified, however, by the coffin sleigh taking most of the blow. However, this does not explain how at least a mile-high fall onto a stone angel didn't break any of his bones (the impact from the fall did seem to be strong enough to knock off his jawbone, however). This all still could be justified by the fact that Jack's undead, so he would not feel pain, if it weren't for an earlier scene where Sally accidentally pokes Jack's finger with a needle, and he yelps in pain. It's a little confusing. Perhaps it's important that he was caught by an angel. Also, he's already dead and clearly magical, so... Sally - while she's made of cloth and stuffed with leaves, she's very hard to hurt. At one point she throws herself out of a window, and then puts herself back together again. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9d17b859 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9d17b859 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9d17b859 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9e0c3153 | type |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9e0c3153 | comment |
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: WHAT! IS! THIS! (smack) | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9e0c3153 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9e0c3153 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9e0c3153 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9e9203e1 | type |
Dramatically Missing the Point | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9e9203e1 | comment |
Dramatically Missing the Point: When Jack makes his preparations to take Santa's place, and asks Sally to make his Santa costume, Sally tells him "This isn't right Jack" as she realizes that Jack and the others are out of their depth trying to recreate Christmas and replace Santa, but he mistakes it as her feeling unable of making his Santa clothes and tries to reassure her that she's capable of doing it. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9e9203e1 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9f6fb586 | type |
Leitmotif | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9f6fb586 | comment |
Leitmotif: "This is Halloween" for the citizens of Halloween Town. "Kidnap The Sandy Claws" for Lock, Shock, and Barrel. Sally's leitmotif plays every single time she's onscreen. (at one point, even when she's not: it's the street band's first tune) About 3/4ths into the movie she finally sings to the tune of it. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_9f6fb586 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a08199ec | type |
The Dog Was the Mastermind | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a08199ec | comment |
The Dog Was the Mastermind: Averted, [it was originally planned that Dr. Finkelstein was actually Oogie Boogie's true identity, leaving Jack Skellington confused, but it was cut because apparently Tim Burton acknowledged the reveal would have been too confusing. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a08199ec | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a16d511d | type |
Insecure Love Interest | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a16d511d | comment |
Insecure Love Interest: Sally is extremely shy and insecure towards Jack Skellington, probably due to the physical and emotional abuse she receives from Doctor Finkelstein. In her number "Sally's Song," she admits she hasn't much hope to be noticed by him, because "she is not the one". | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a16d511d | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a1a1491e | type |
Homage | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a1a1491e | comment |
Homage: Halloween Town looks an awful lot like Holstenwall. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a1a1491e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a1b141f4 | type |
My God, What Have I Done? | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a1b141f4 | comment |
My God, What Have I Done?: Sung pretty much word-for-word at the beginning of "Poor Jack." | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a1b141f4 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a42d348c | type |
Snow Globe of Innocence | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a42d348c | comment |
Snow Globe of Innocence: Jack shakes a snow globe with a snowman inside as he comes to realize that the citizens of Halloween Town just don't understand Christmas, lamenting that "They'll never know that special sort of feeling of Christmasland." Unbeknownst to him, he doesn't understand Christmas all that well either: he has innocent intentions, but doesn't know how to act on them. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a42d348c | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a6123b72 | type |
Enfant Terrible | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a6123b72 | comment |
Enfant Terrible: A trio of them: Lock, Shock, and Barrel, three professional trick-or-treaters and kidnappers. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a6123b72 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a65288e2 | type |
Ascended Extra | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a65288e2 | comment |
Ascended Extra: Almost all of the secondary characters in the film are derived from the background characters in the original poem's illustrations, including Sally, Finkelstein, Lock, Shock, Barrel, the Mayor, Oogie Boogie and the majority of the other residents of Halloween Town are also taken from the original drawings. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a65288e2 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a6e8221e | type |
Status Quo Is God | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a6e8221e | comment |
Status Quo Is God: First deconstructed and by the end of the movie reconstructed. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a6e8221e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a70223 | type |
Karma Houdini | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a70223 | comment |
Karma Houdini: Lock, Shock and Barrel receive precisely no comeuppance for trying to feed Santa to Oogie Boogie, although admittedly they were serving him out of fear, and did go and get the Mayor to show that Jack was alive. The closest they came to comeuppance is in a deleted scene, in which Jack scared Lock, Shock and Barrel when they were watching Oogie Boogie trying to put Sally and Santa Claus in the stew. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a70223 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a7de3c30 | type |
Anti-Christmas Song | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a7de3c30 | comment |
Anti-Christmas Song: Kidnap. The. Sandy. Claws. And this is made even more disturbing by Korn. | |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a7de3c30 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a8e6393d | type |
Nose Tapping | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a8e6393d | comment |
Nose Tapping: Having freed Santa Claus from Oogie Boogie's deathtrap, Jack Skellington hands Santa his hat, saying, "I hope it's not too late." Santa dons the hat, and replies, "To save Christmas? Of course not. I'm Santa Claus!" At that moment, Santa lays his finger alongside his nose, and promptly zooms up the pipe that leads into Oogie's lair. Moments later, news reports come in that Santa is undoing all the chaos that Jack wrought, running the every-household-in-one-night drill despite having been delayed by a few hours. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_a8e6393d | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ab24b030 | type |
Red Alert | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ab24b030 | comment |
Red Alert: Occurs twice, when Jack goes missing (he's in Christmas Town) and while he's delivering toys on Christmas Eve. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ab24b030 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ab8e26e2 | type |
Slipping a Mickey | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ab8e26e2 | comment |
Slipping a Mickey: Sally's preferred method of sneaking away from Finkelstein is to sneak deadly nightshade into his tea and food. Because they're in Halloween Town and Finkelstein may or may not already be dead, all it does is lay him out snoring. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ab8e26e2 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_abe1e24e | type |
Good Cannot Comprehend Evil | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_abe1e24e | comment |
Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Santa's innocent pleas to Oogie Boogie to release him or face the consequences (during "Oogie Boogie's Song") have a whiff of this trope - Santa is literally too good and pure to comprehend that Oogie Boogie actually is rotten to the core and wants him dead, and certainly doesn't care if the children are expecting him. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_abe1e24e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ac546cd4 | type |
Worth It | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ac546cd4 | comment |
Worth It: In the ending narration of the soundtrack, Santa visits Jack a few years after the events of the film and asks whether Jack would do it all again if he knew what he does now. Jack in turn asks Santa "Wouldn't you?" | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ac546cd4 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_acecb17d | type |
Chekhov's Skill | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_acecb17d | comment |
Chekhov's Skill When Jack gives in and plays fetch with Zero, his nose lights up where Jack's rib landed. When Doctor Finkelstein is holding Sally's detached arm, she (specifically, her arm that he's holding) bops him on the head repeatedly while the rest of her escapes. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_acecb17d | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ad1db87c | type |
Oh, Crap! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap!: Jack, when he falls into the portal to Christmas Town. Santa, when he sees Lock, Shock, and Barrel at the door and he realizes that they're about to stuff him into a bag. Sally, when she realizes that the military is going to shoot down Jack's sleigh. Jack, when he realizes that those shells are not fireworks. "They're trying to hit us!" Oogie gets two big ones: 1) when he sees Jack on the platform instead of Sally and Santa and 2) when Jack pulls the thread that keeps him together. He has several smaller ones as Jack passes each of his deathtraps, but these may be feigned, as he always has another trap ready. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ad1db87c | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_adfd3165 | type |
For the Evulz | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_adfd3165 | comment |
For the Evulz: Oogie Boogie's motivation. During his Villain Song he carefreely sings out that he does all the bad things because "It's much more fun" when "lives are on the line". | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_adfd3165 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ae1c0901 | type |
The Blind Leading the Blind | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ae1c0901 | comment |
The Blind Leading the Blind: Jack: "At least they're excited but they don't understand/that special kind of feeling in Christmasland." | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ae1c0901 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ae3d6438 | type |
Deadpan Snarker | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Jack is sarcastic a couple times. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ae3d6438 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_af616e40 | type |
Accidental Misnaming | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_af616e40 | comment |
Accidental Misnaming: Jack, and by extension everyone in Halloween Town, calls Santa Claus "Sandy Claws". In a deleted scene and in the dialogue when Jack first meets Santa, it's shown that Jack took the "Claws" part literally. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_af616e40 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b0cd3349 | type |
Fridge Brilliance | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b0cd3349 | comment |
Jack is lit on fire at the beginning of the film without expressing any sign of pain and later falls hundreds of feet, landing hard enough to knock off his jaw bone, yet he still says "ow" when he pricks his finger on a needle. This may be Fridge Brilliance, given that it's Sally using the needle; Sally is the only one who could hurt Jack emotionally. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b0cd3349 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b39def3c | type |
Deathly Dies Irae | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b39def3c | comment |
"Making Christmas," which is set to the melody of Deathly Dies Irae, in which the citizens make creepy, twisted toys (that they think kids will actually like) for their own version of Christmas. | |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b39def3c | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b4754f84 | type |
The Worm That Walks | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b4754f84 | comment |
The Worm That Walks: Throughout most of the movie, Oogie Boogie is a humanoid shape made out of cloth. Near the end it's revealed that, inside the cloth, his body is made of insects in a humanoid shape. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b4754f84 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b4eff8a8 | type |
Epic Fail | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b4eff8a8 | comment |
Epic Fail: Instead of giving presents that give children joy during his Christmas run, Jack Skellington gives them presents that traumatize them. | |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b4eff8a8 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b53077b3 | type |
Take That! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b53077b3 | comment |
Take That!: "I'm only an elected official here, I can't make decisions by myself!" The DVD Commentary and the Mayor's actual two-faced head draws parallels with the Mayor to two-faced politicians. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b53077b3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b58b4e3c | type |
Too Dumb to Live | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
After Finkelstein awakens from Sally poisoning him for the fourth time in a little over a month he reacts to his doorbell the same way any hung over person would react to a loud noise. He’s even holding a cold pack on his head. | |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b58b4e3c | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b680713e | type |
Melancholy Musical Number | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b680713e | comment |
"Sally's Song" is primarily a Melancholy Musical Number, but also has elements of this trope. It starts off with Sally singing about how she's anxious because she's the only one who realizes that Jack's Subbing for Santa plan is not going to end well. | |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b680713e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b7a18b59 | type |
Opening Chorus | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b7a18b59 | comment |
Opening Chorus: "This is Halloween". | |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b7a18b59 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b7bc7d28 | type |
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b7bc7d28 | comment |
Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: "What's this?!" Jack having ADD is actually a fairly popular fan theory. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b7bc7d28 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b9e8ad28 | type |
The Multiverse | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b9e8ad28 | comment |
The Multiverse: There's apparently a dimension for every holiday celebrated in America (though it's not clear if any of these dimensions consist of much more than one town). | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_b9e8ad28 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ba0ff694 | type |
You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ba0ff694 | comment |
You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me!: This is Oogie Boogie's reaction to Santa almost word-for-word. | |
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1.0 | |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ba0ff694 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bbc77bb5 | type |
Hard Truth Aesop | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bbc77bb5 | comment |
Hard Truth Aesop: You've uncovered a new passion in life and yearn to express this newfound aspect of yourself? Well, think long and hard before you do — you may be making a terrible mistake. Perhaps you should just stick with what you know, instead. Although your new source of inspiration can help you rekindle an old passion if things have been feeling stale lately. | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bbc77bb5 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bc3b029b | type |
Impairment Shot | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bc3b029b | comment |
Impairment Shot: Used after Jack runs face-first into a candy-cane-striped pole. And when Santa first sets eyes on Halloween Town, having been roughly hauled out of a sack previously. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bc3b029b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bc3b029b | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bd3b726e | type |
Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bd3b726e | comment |
Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: While they're not evil, the people of Halloween Town do favor using horror descriptors for things they like, such as gleefully praising their latest Halloween celebration as "their most horrible yet." This of course leads to some poor communication later on, when Sally tries to warn Jack about her "terrible vision," which he takes as good news. | |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bd3b726e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bd4264a3 | type |
Slasher Smile | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bd4264a3 | comment |
Slasher Smile: Oogie Boogie and Barrel. Jack's is a borderline between a Slasher Smile and a Cheshire Cat Grin. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bd4264a3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bd4264a3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bdc16524 | type |
Weird Sun | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bdc16524 | comment |
Weird Sun: The sun has the face of a jack-o-lantern. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bdc16524 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bdc16524 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bdc16524 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bdd4c302 | type |
Perky Goth | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bdd4c302 | comment |
Perky Goth: Jack, if not most of the citizens of Halloween Town. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bdd4c302 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bdd4c302 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bdd4c302 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_beb91a53 | type |
Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_beb91a53 | comment |
Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: In the "artificial creation" sense of "daughter". Other theories are that he made her as a housemaid, or even with the intention of wooing her. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_beb91a53 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_beb91a53 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bef696dd | type |
Mind Screw | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bef696dd | comment |
Mind Screw: "This is Halloween". It's so surreal that bats have strings attached to them. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bef696dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bef696dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bef696dd | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bf1edb7e | type |
Comforting Comforter | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bf1edb7e | comment |
Comforting Comforter: Sally takes the time to tuck Dr Finkelstein in after she drugs him unconscious so she can leave. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bf1edb7e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_bf1edb7e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c180f1cb | type |
Advertising by Association | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c180f1cb | comment |
Advertising by Association: Early previews began by recounting Disney's "tradition of innovation" in animation — with help from excerpts of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, 101 Dalmatians, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Beauty and the Beast — before announcing that the studio had collaborated with "Tim Burton, the creative genius behind Batman, Beetlejuice, and Edward Scissorhands" to produce a similarly-large achievement for stop-motion. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c180f1cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c180f1cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c180f1cb | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c2ecf3b8 | type |
Show Some Leg | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c2ecf3b8 | comment |
Show Some Leg: Played with: Sally shows off a bit of leg to attract Oogie's attention, but it later turns out the leg is unattached, serving to distract Oogie while the rest of Sally unties Santa. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c2ecf3b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c2ecf3b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c2ecf3b8 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c39a5ef0 | type |
Willing Suspension of Disbelief | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c39a5ef0 | comment |
Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Jack and Sally can walk, talk, feel pain, and are implied to have a need for nourishment? Why not. Jack and Sally having children, particularly through being able to have sex? The fandom is divided by this. Some say why not, while others think Jack and Sally either lack certain parts for successful reproduction or shouldn't have kids at all. And this isn't getting into the Squick aspect of the argument. Jack is lit on fire at the beginning of the film without expressing any sign of pain and later falls hundreds of feet, landing hard enough to knock off his jaw bone, yet he still says "ow" when he pricks his finger on a needle. This may be Fridge Brilliance, given that it's Sally using the needle; Sally is the only one who could hurt Jack emotionally. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c39a5ef0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c39a5ef0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c39a5ef0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3bc970f | type |
Seers | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3bc970f | comment |
Seers: Sally has a vision representing Jack's Christmas going to hell by a Christmas Tree going up into flames. It's unclear if this is a one-time thing or not; however, she does remark to Jack that she had a vision, and the implication seems to be that this has happened before. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3bc970f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3bc970f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3bc970f | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3c18143 | type |
Hope Spot | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot: When Sally is trapped in Oogie Boogie's lair with Santa Claus, she is about to tell Oogie what will happen when Jack gets ahold of him, only to be interrupted by the Mayor's announcement of Jack's demise; subverted when Jack enters Oogie's lair for the climactic showdown between Jack and Oogie. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3c18143 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3c18143 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3c18143 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3f3d57c | type |
Curiosity Causes Conversion | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3f3d57c | comment |
Curiosity Causes Conversion: Deconstructed, as this didn't turn out so well. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3f3d57c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3f3d57c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3f3d57c | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3f6e68 | type |
Dem Bones | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3f6e68 | comment |
Jack. He seems to be in his late twenties-early thirties, yet since he's Dem Bones, he could always be Really 700 Years Old. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3f6e68 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3f6e68 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c3f6e68 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c691d3f4 | type |
Offscreen Teleportation | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c691d3f4 | comment |
Offscreen Teleportation: When Jack goes to rescue Sally and Santa from Oogie Boogie. Last we see Jack before the Final Battle, he was sneaking in behind Oogie's back, quite a ways away from the platform where Santa and Sally were. With the way the scene is set up, it would have been impossible for Jack to get to the platform without Oogie seeing him, no matter what sneaking skills being the Pumpkin King would get you. Perhaps Jack's powers operate on Rule of Scary. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c691d3f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c691d3f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c691d3f4 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c75df49a | comment |
Another Shout-Out /Punny Name can be found on a gravestone that reads "Witch Hazel". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c75df49a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c75df49a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c75df49a | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c7f294da | type |
Large and in Charge | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c7f294da | comment |
Large and in Charge: Easy to overlook due to his bean-pole physique, but when one really sizes him up to his surroundings, Jack appears to be around 7-8 feet tall! Santa Claus is normal human size, perhaps even a bit short, but he still towers over the elves. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c7f294da | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c7f294da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c7f294da | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c93d5bc3 | type |
Dr. Fakenstein | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c93d5bc3 | comment |
Dr. Fakenstein: The creatively-named Dr. Finkelstein. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c93d5bc3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c93d5bc3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c93d5bc3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c949edd4 | type |
Magic Pants | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c949edd4 | comment |
Magic Pants: Jack's outfit may count. When he rises out of the fountain and his collar visibly straightens. When Jack is shot down, the Sandy Claws outfit is shredded, but the tux is completely unscathed, as is Santa's hat. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c949edd4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c949edd4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c949edd4 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c99a8a57 | type |
Formula for the Unformulable | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c99a8a57 | comment |
Formula for the Unformulable: Jack tries to find a formula for Christmas when he tries to figure out the meaning of this intriguing holiday. The equation on his blackboard is quite elaborate and it includes a snowman multiplied by bracket that has chestnuts divided by open fire (Stealth Pun for "Roasting Chestnuts/Open Fire"), the whole thing is divided by a bell multiplied by 12th root of December 25th plus Sandy Claws. And some sugar plum visions and eggnog and holly and ice or snow should be there as well. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c99a8a57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c99a8a57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c99a8a57 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c9c317cd | type |
Last-Minute Hookup | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c9c317cd | comment |
Last-Minute Hookup: Jack and Sally, although it's heavily foreshadowed. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c9c317cd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c9c317cd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_c9c317cd | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca1f534a | type |
Fear Song | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca1f534a | comment |
Fear Song: Played with. The song "This is Halloween" has the residents of Halloween Town singing about themselves, because they're scary and that's their job. "Sally's Song" is primarily a Melancholy Musical Number, but also has elements of this trope. It starts off with Sally singing about how she's anxious because she's the only one who realizes that Jack's Subbing for Santa plan is not going to end well. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca1f534a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca1f534a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca1f534a | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca85e684 | type |
Power Trio | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca85e684 | comment |
Power Trio: Lock is in the middle role, with female Shock being the smartest and Barrel as the dumb one who gets smacked, or the Hyper-Competent Sidekick, depending on who you ask. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca85e684 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca85e684 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca85e684 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca87e3ec | type |
No Name Given | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: The Mayor (though some of the merch calls him Hizzonor). Most of the citizens also seem to not have names (The Clown With The-Tear-Away-Face, The Wolf Man, etc). Awesomely used with one off-screen horror who proclaims "I am the "who" when you call "Who's there?"". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca87e3ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca87e3ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca87e3ec | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca967579 | type |
Torture Cellar | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca967579 | comment |
Torture Cellar: Oogie's lair contains several torture devices including an iron maiden as revealed during his Villain Song. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca967579 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca967579 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ca967579 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cbef1592 | type |
Scary Stitches | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cbef1592 | comment |
Scary Stitches: Sally is a rag doll covered in these, and can undo them to allow her limbs to operate on their own. Jack's smile has been mistaken for these on a DVD cover. Oogie Boogie's seams and mouth feature prominent stitching. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cbef1592 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cbef1592 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cbef1592 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cc4b45f6 | type |
Word of God | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cc4b45f6 | comment |
According to Word of God, Sally was partly inspired on The Little Match Girl. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cc4b45f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cc4b45f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cc4b45f6 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ccb2a89c | type |
Melancholy Moon | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ccb2a89c | comment |
Melancholy Moon: The primary image in "Jack's Lament". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ccb2a89c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ccb2a89c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ccb2a89c | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ceabe589 | type |
Incoming Ham | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ceabe589 | comment |
Incoming Ham: "Well, well, well! What have we here? Santa Claus?! Ha! Oooooh, I'm really scared!" | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ceabe589 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ceabe589 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ceabe589 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cf48c17 | type |
Nightmare Face | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cf48c17 | comment |
Nightmare Face: Expected from the King of Halloween. For example, there's that scary face Jack does to scare Lock, Shock and Barrel into doing their job right. And "the clown with the tear-away face". Oogie's face at the beginning of his song. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cf48c17 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cf48c17 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cf48c17 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cf92fea8 | type |
Cassandra Truth | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: Sally tries to tell Jack that his Christmas will be a disaster. Guess what happens. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cf92fea8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cf92fea8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cf92fea8 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cff53786 | type |
Cover Version | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cff53786 | comment |
Cover Version: As part of the 2006 re-release marketing thing, Nightmare Revisited was released. It is a full album's worth of covers of varying quality. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cff53786 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cff53786 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_cff53786 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d00fa9ec | type |
Myth Prologue | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d00fa9ec | comment |
Myth Prologue: The first minutes introduces the land of (American) holidays. It's a circle of trees, each with a door representing its respective holiday - an Easter egg for Easter, a turkey for Thanksgiving, a shamrock for Saint Patrick's Day, a Christmas tree for Christmas and a jack-o-lantern for Halloween. The narrator suggests that the viewer may have seen this land in their dreams and, if they never asked where the holidays come from, it's time to begin, as the Halloween door opens to introduce the dark, scary but also amusing Halloweentown. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d00fa9ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d00fa9ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d00fa9ec | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d028ca10 | type |
Deliberately Monochrome | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d028ca10 | comment |
Deliberately Monochrome: According to the special features of the DVD re-release, Halloween Town. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d028ca10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d028ca10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d028ca10 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d08577eb | type |
Broken Base | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d08577eb | comment |
Jack and Sally can walk, talk, feel pain, and are implied to have a need for nourishment? Why not. Jack and Sally having children, particularly through being able to have sex? The fandom is divided by this. Some say why not, while others think Jack and Sally either lack certain parts for successful reproduction or shouldn't have kids at all. And this isn't getting into the Squick aspect of the argument. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d08577eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d08577eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d08577eb | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d0a26edf | type |
A Love to Dismember | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d0a26edf | comment |
A Love to Dismember: Perhaps the only unwitting example yet - see Show Some Leg below. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d0a26edf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d0a26edf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d0a26edf | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d129e13e | type |
"Eureka!" Moment | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d129e13e | comment |
"Eureka!" Moment: "Jack's Obsession" leads to one. Jack even shouts "EUREKA!" | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d129e13e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d129e13e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d129e13e | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d21a93f4 | type |
Hand Gagging | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d21a93f4 | comment |
Hand Gagging: Sally's disembodied hand does this to Santa Claus when she's rescuing him. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d21a93f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d21a93f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d21a93f4 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d323d090 | type |
Incendiary Exponent | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d323d090 | comment |
Incendiary Exponent: Jack sets himself on fire, while dressed as a scarecrow, at the end of "This is Halloween". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d323d090 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d323d090 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d323d090 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d371868b | type |
Precious Puppy | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d371868b | comment |
Precious Puppy: Santa gives one to the boy who received a severed head. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d371868b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d371868b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d371868b | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Santa gives Jack a hefty chewing-out when he comes to apologize. In the original poem, he's much more understanding (maybe because he hadn't just escaped from a sapient burlap sack gloating about how it intended to turn him into stew and eat him). | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d39e327f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d39e327f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d39e327f | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d67f0a23 | type |
Modest Royalty | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d67f0a23 | comment |
Modest Royalty: Jack, the Pumpkin King. He wears a snappy tuxedo, but no crown or other royal insignia. Santa Claus, leader of Christmas Town, who wears his traditional cold-weather gear. Played with with the Easter Bunny. He wears only a banner that says "Happy Easter", but as a non-anthropomorphic rabbit, one assumes that he wouldn't usually wear anything. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d67f0a23 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d67f0a23 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d67f0a23 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d8d22bb0 | type |
Dutch Angle | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d8d22bb0 | comment |
Dutch Angle: Several, from the subtle to the very obvious. Granted that it's a Tim Burton-produced film. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d8d22bb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d8d22bb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d8d22bb0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d95766ba | type |
HalloweenTown | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d95766ba | comment |
Halloween Town: The Trope Namer! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d95766ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d95766ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d95766ba | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d99a228f | type |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d99a228f | comment |
Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Apparently none of the citizens of Christmas Town find a singing skeleton wandering around to be unusual. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d99a228f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d99a228f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d99a228f | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d9e946ae | type |
Cute Monster Girl | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d9e946ae | comment |
Cute Monster Girl: Sally the rag doll, who still looks very pretty despite having blue skin, being covered with stitches and having a Glasgow Grin. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d9e946ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d9e946ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_d9e946ae | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_daead778 | type |
Tear Off Your Face | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_daead778 | comment |
Tear Off Your Face: There's a clown with a tear-away face. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_daead778 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_daead778 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_daead778 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_db4b76d1 | type |
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_db4b76d1 | comment |
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: When Jack encounters Oogie in the Final Battle, he quips "Hello, Oogie." | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_db4b76d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_db4b76d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_db4b76d1 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_db88b941 | type |
Malevolent Masked Men | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_db88b941 | comment |
Malevolent Masked Men: Subverted. As trick-or-treaters, Lock, Shock and Barrel wear costume masks all the time, but in their introductory scene they take them off, revealing faces that look exactly the same as (or worse than) their masks. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_db88b941 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_db88b941 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_db88b941 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_dd60caca | type |
Severed Head Sports | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_dd60caca | comment |
Severed Head Sports: The vampires are seen playing hockey with a shrunken head. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_dd60caca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_dd60caca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_dd60caca | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_dfb675b | type |
Dangerously Garish Environment | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_dfb675b | comment |
Dangerously Garish Environment: Oogie Boogie, the only monster in Halloween Town who actually kills people, lives in a casino-themed lair. This lair has blacklights that can cause everything to glow vibrant neon colors. This fits with the Creepy Jazz Music associated with Oogie to show that he's Bright Is Not Good to contrast the rest of Halloween Town's Dark Is Not Evil. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_dfb675b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_dfb675b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_dfb675b | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e034faef | type |
Limited Animation | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e034faef | comment |
Limited Animation: A rather subtle example, as the animation was entirely filmed on threes to replicate the rather jerky stop motion of the animated Rankin/Bass Productions before being smoothed out. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e034faef | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e0b6edec | type |
OnlySaneWoman | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e0b6edec | comment |
Only Sane Woman: Sally seems to be the only denizen of Halloween Town who even approaches the realization that people don't want to be scared or attacked on Christmas. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e0b6edec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e0b6edec | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e135b3de | type |
Pass the Popcorn | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e135b3de | comment |
Pass the Popcorn: In a deleted scene, Lock, Shock, and Barrel grab candy, pop, and — yes — popcorn to eat while they watch Oogie tormenting Sandy and Sally. This scene was deleted due to both timing issues and that Burton and Selick feel that having Lock, Shock, and Barrel enjoying Sandy and Sally's torture would put the trio beyond just "playful tricksters" to "evil little bastards"note okay, they didn't say bastards, but the point is still there. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e135b3de | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e135b3de | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e25ae563 | type |
Final Love Duet | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e25ae563 | comment |
Final Love Duet: Jack and Sally. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e25ae563 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e25ae563 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e25ae563 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e27bdc50 | type |
Expressive Skull | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e27bdc50 | comment |
Expressive Skull: Jack Skellington uses this trope, although it's questionable whether he is actually a skeleton or is a living creature that happens to resemble a skeleton. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e27bdc50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e27bdc50 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e34400ab | type |
Ambiguously Gay | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e34400ab | comment |
Ambiguously Gay: The Mayor. He is voiced by Glenn Shadix, who was openly gay. The vampires are a bit effeminate and they seem to crush on Jack. That one monster. You know, the one that was going to make a hat out of a rat. Have you heard its voice? Voiced by Greg Proops and its name is Harlequin Demon. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e34400ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e34400ab | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e3f7524b | type |
Dice Roll Death | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e3f7524b | comment |
Dice Roll Death: A literal example. Oogie Boogie has Sally and Santa Claus tied up and lying on a tilting platform before a fiendish deathtrap. Oogie rolls a pair of dice to determine how much he will tilt the platform to send his victims to their doom. The dice come up "snake eyes," which wouldn't tilt the platform enough to be deadly. Oogie then invokes this by pounding the table to jiggle the dice to a new number, eleven. With wicked delight, Oogie Boogie begins cranking... and then the trope is subverted since Sally and Santa are rescued. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e3f7524b | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e3f7524b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e3f7524b | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e43c66bd | type |
Art Evolution | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e43c66bd | comment |
Art Evolution: As the majority of the characters in the film are derived from filler monsters in the original poem's illustrations, this happened for them- it's possible to pick them up in the Burton artwork, but they look more sophisticated in final form. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e43c66bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e43c66bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e43c66bd | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e5120d | type |
The Igor | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e5120d | comment |
The Igor: Mad Scientist Doctor Finkelstein has his own hunchbacked assistant aptly named this. He likes doggy treats. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e5120d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e5120d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e5120d | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e52a0cac | type |
He Who Must Not Be Seen | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e52a0cac | comment |
He Who Must Not Be Seen: The faces of the adults in the human world are not shown. Oogie Boogie, who appears as the shadow on the moon in "This is Halloween" and as a shadow on the wall in "Kidnap the Sandy Claws", but he himself doesn't appear himself until his own song. Compared to the skeletal reindeer, Santa's eight reindeer (later nine with Rudolph's cameo during the ending) are only seen in silhouette format. Notably the "Making Christmas" musical number where it cuts between the citizens of Halloweentown and Christmastown preparing for Christmas Eve. The reindeer do make a full appearance in the Kingdom Hearts series (specifically Kingdom Hearts II) and Oogie's Revenge. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e52a0cac | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e52a0cac | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e52a0cac | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e6521611 | type |
Creepy Long Fingers | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e6521611 | comment |
Creepy Long Fingers: Jack. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e6521611 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e6521611 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e6521611 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e6558beb | type |
Artistic License – Space | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e6558beb | comment |
Artistic License – Space: If the moon is full on Halloween, then it will be waxing on Christmas Eve, not full again. Granted, this is meant to be a fairy tale. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e6558beb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e6558beb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e6558beb | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e733f177 | type |
GuileHeroine | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e733f177 | comment |
Guile Heroine: Sally uses her brain most of all to get out of tight spots. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e733f177 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e733f177 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e733f177 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e7eb0474 | type |
Hub Level | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e7eb0474 | comment |
Hub Level: The circle of trees with holiday-themed doors, which allow passage between the various holidays' realms. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e7eb0474 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e7eb0474 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e7eb0474 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e8e56799 | type |
Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e8e56799 | comment |
Subverted, since the people of Halloween Town are not actually evil; however, due to their existence revolving around (good natured) fear and horror, their innate inability to really understand the concept or point of Christmas is a big part of the reason that Jack's plans don't pan out. Even Jack himself, for all he desperately wants to, does not truly understand the niceties of Christmas. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e8e56799 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e8e56799 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_e8e56799 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_eb716c8c | type |
Big Electric Switch | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_eb716c8c | comment |
Big Electric Switch: Jack uses one to turn on his electric chair (which is covered with festive Christmas lights). | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_eb716c8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_eb716c8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_eb716c8c | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_eb81c601 | type |
Big Damn Heroes | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_eb81c601 | comment |
Big Damn Heroes: "Hello, Oogie!" Badass. It's unusual that you have a BDH moment where the bad situation is the hero's fault in the first place, but even so. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_eb81c601 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_eb81c601 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ecc634fa | type |
The Dead Have Eyes | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ecc634fa | comment |
The Dead Have Eyes: Jack has no problem seeing and hearing, though he obviously has no eyes or ears. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ecc634fa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ecc634fa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ecc634fa | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ece07747 | type |
Bright Is Not Good | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ece07747 | comment |
Bright Is Not Good: In contrast to most of Halloween Town being Dark Is Not Evil, Oogie Boogie has a bright, colorful death-themed casino and appears to be bright green at times. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ece07747 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ece07747 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ece6f910 | type |
Moment Killer | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ece6f910 | comment |
Moment Killer: The Mayor near the end, with a spotlight. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ece6f910 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ece6f910 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ece6f910 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_edf8db61 | type |
Oh, My Gods! | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_edf8db61 | comment |
Oh, My Gods!: Averted, as during "Poor Jack", Jack refers to God twice ("And, by God, I really tasted something swell!" "And, by God, I'm really going to give it all my might!"). | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_edf8db61 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_edf8db61 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_edf8db61 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ee9018f6 | type |
Origami Gag | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ee9018f6 | comment |
Origami Gag: While studying Christmas, Jack tries to make a simple paper snowflake. He folds a piece of paper into a triangle and cuts it up, then opens it to reveal a hexagon with a spider in the middle. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ee9018f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ee9018f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ee9018f6 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f0089082 | type |
Early-Bird Cameo | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f0089082 | comment |
Early-Bird Cameo: Jack appears in Tim Burton's 1982 short stop-motion film Vincent and as a skull on top of Beetlejuice's carnival hat. Jack is the scarecrow on the sign pointing the way to Halloween Town, though it's not clear until the end of the song. The black cat Sally sings to could very well be the same from Coraline given how closely they resemble each other and the cat's ability to walk in and out of other worlds. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f0089082 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f0089082 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f10d3363 | type |
Distracted by the Sexy | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f10d3363 | comment |
Distracted by the Sexy: Sally takes off her shapely, slim leg to distract Ooogie so her hands can untie Santa. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f10d3363 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f10d3363 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f10d3363 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f16f631d | type |
Crowd Song | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f16f631d | comment |
Crowd Song: "This is Halloween", "The Town Meeting Song", "Making Christmas", and "Finale/Reprise". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f16f631d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f16f631d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f16f631d | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f36c4f98 | type |
Easily Forgiven | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f36c4f98 | comment |
Easily Forgiven: Lock, Shock and Barrel receive no comeuppance for going against Jack's orders to keep Oogie Boogie uninvolved. He even gives a good natured chuckle when one of them throws a snowball at him. Played with. Although Santa does chew Jack out for messing with his holiday, he later calms down and brings a little Christmas to Halloween Town after he's set things right. While Santa was rightfully pissed with Jack for hijacking Christmas and leaving him at Oogie's mercy, once Santa reverses the havoc Jack caused, he returns to Halloween Town with a flurry of snow, giving its denizens their first snow day. He even shouts "Happy Halloween" to them, conveying that there are no hard feelings. The audio epilogue reveals he visits Jack and Sally regularly. Justified in that if anyone could tell whether Jack was truly behaving maliciously or not, it'd be Santa Claus. | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f36c4f98 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f36c4f98 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f3aa6298 | type |
Sealed with a Kiss | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f3aa6298 | comment |
Sealed with a Kiss: The movie ends with Jack and Sally sharing their first kiss. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f3aa6298 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f3aa6298 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f3aa6298 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f3d5d15f | type |
Creepy Child | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f3d5d15f | comment |
Creepy Child: Lock, Shock, and Barrel, being between the apparent ages of 4 and 6, are the youngest residents of Halloween Town seen in the film. They're also some of the creepiest, and some of the few who are actually malicious (although this may be because of Oogie Boogie's influence). | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f3d5d15f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f3d5d15f | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f44ea9dc | type |
Howl of Sorrow | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f44ea9dc | comment |
Howl of Sorrow: When the Halloween Town residents believe than Jack has been killed, the werewolf throws back his head and cuts loose with one of these, tears in his eyes. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f44ea9dc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f44ea9dc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f44ea9dc | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f482730a | type |
No Peripheral Vision | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f482730a | comment |
No Peripheral Vision: After Oogie Boogie realizes that the knife-wielding king cards wasn't going to stop Jack from kicking his ass, Oogie pulls a rope that stops the murderous cards. Jack goes for Oogie, never noticing the gun-wielding gambling game cowboy skeletons approaching to his left and nearly getting shot. However, considering that Jack doesn't have proper eyeballs, it's entirely possible that Jack really doesn't have peripheral vision, therefore justifying him not seeing the weapons. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f482730a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f482730a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f482730a | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f64a9cf7 | type |
Earn Your Happy Ending | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f64a9cf7 | comment |
Earn Your Happy Ending: Sally is a rebellious creation who has to run away to get a semblance of freedom from her father Dr. Finkelstein. She spends a portion of the movie warning her crush Jack about his plans, trying to sabotage the sleigh launch, and eventually attempting to rescue "Sandy Claws". Jack then looks at her with new eyes after he rescues her and Santa, and says that he wants to sit with her under the stars. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f64a9cf7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f64a9cf7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f64a9cf7 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f76b8969 | type |
Anthropomorphic Personification | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f76b8969 | comment |
Yes, even the Anthropomorphic Personification of Halloween can have a mid-life crisis. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f76b8969 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f76b8969 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f76b8969 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f781cf43 | type |
The Anti-Grinch | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f781cf43 | comment |
The Anti-Grinch: Jack Skellington (and by extension, the rest of Halloween Town) loves Christmas so much that he tries taking over for the year, only to terrify the ignorant masses with his gifts mail-order from Halloween Town. It gets so bad the human authorities try (and succeed) to shoot him out of the sky, literally knocking Jack to his senses. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f781cf43 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f781cf43 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f781cf43 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f7eda5d8 | type |
Snow Means Love | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f7eda5d8 | comment |
Snow Means Love: Jack and Sally kiss on the snow-covered Spiral Hill. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f7eda5d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f7eda5d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f7eda5d8 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f8604a3c | type |
The Darkness Gazes Back | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f8604a3c | comment |
The Darkness Gazes Back: One of the characters in the opening song "This is Halloween" is the monster devoted to this "job". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f8604a3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f8604a3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f8604a3c | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f8e010ce | type |
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f8e010ce | comment |
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Subverted, since the people of Halloween Town are not actually evil; however, due to their existence revolving around (good natured) fear and horror, their innate inability to really understand the concept or point of Christmas is a big part of the reason that Jack's plans don't pan out. Even Jack himself, for all he desperately wants to, does not truly understand the niceties of Christmas. A straight example with Oogie: "Santa Claus, huh? Ooh, I'm really scared!". Whether it's because he's from Halloween Town or because he's a bully (most likely a bit of both), he literally can't imagine someone with power who isn't about being scary. As far as he's concerned, Santa Claus (a Holiday King, mind, and if Gods Need Prayer Badly is in operation in this world, surely the strongest of all) is just weak. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f8e010ce | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f8e010ce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f8e010ce | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f9375414 | type |
FacePalm | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f9375414 | comment |
Face Palm: Jack covers his face with his hand after Lock, Shock, and Barrel bring back the Easter Bunny instead of Santa and start fighting over it. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f9375414 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f9375414 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f9375414 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f9e16ef | type |
Distressed Dude | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f9e16ef | comment |
Distressed Dude: Santa, when he's captured by Oogie-Boogie. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f9e16ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f9e16ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_f9e16ef | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fbd285b7 | type |
Comically Missing the Point | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fbd285b7 | comment |
Comically Missing the Point: Things might have gone more smoothly if Jack and the Halloween Town citizens actually understood Christmas before jumping straight to remaking it. (Mind, Jack tries to understand it, and tries very hard. But he just can't quite get it right...) | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fbd285b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fbd285b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fbd285b7 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fcadd0e3 | type |
Impact Silhouette | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fcadd0e3 | comment |
Impact Silhouette: When Jack hits the Christmas Town sign and falls into a foot of snow. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fcadd0e3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fcadd0e3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fcadd0e3 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fccd06b6 | type |
Beware the Nice Ones | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fccd06b6 | comment |
Beware the Nice Ones: Jack is extremely genial, but even Oogie is frightened when Jack is pissed at him. Jolly St. Nick himself. It's fairly startling when Santa Claus squishes what remains of Oogie under his boot. He then gives Jack a harsh dressing down - mind you, Jack is The Dreaded of Halloween Town. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fccd06b6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fccd06b6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fccd06b6 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fe0330fb | type |
Brick Joke | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Brick Joke: Jack tasks Dr. Finkelstein to build him a team of flying reindeer after seeing a silhouette illustration in a Christmas Town book. Of course, since Jack used a silhouette for reference, the finished reindeer are skeletons, not living flesh, and Jack doesn't realize that's incorrect. | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fe0330fb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fe0330fb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_fe0330fb | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ffd5b598 | type |
The Song Before the Storm | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ffd5b598 | comment |
The Song Before the Storm: "Making Christmas". | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ffd5b598 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ffd5b598 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_ffd5b598 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_name | type |
ItemName | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_name | comment |
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| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_name | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_name | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_name | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas / int_name | itemName |
The Nightmare Before Christmas |
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