| “ | Are you a gamblin' man, Sandy? Let's play. | „ |
| ~ Oogie Boogie to Santa Claus. |
| “ | Oogie Boogie: As much fun as our little games are, Jack, this will be your last. Tomorrow, the town will be reborn as "Bug Town" and I shall be its king! Jack Skellington: I won't let that happen! This is Halloween Town! And I am the Pumpkin King! Oogie Boogie: Prepare to be dethroned, Jack! |
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| ~ Oogie to Jack in The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King. |
The Oogie Boogie Man, better known as Oogie Boogie, is the main antagonist of The Nightmare Before Christmas franchise. He is the personification of the common child's nightmare of the "Boogie Man", resembling a large burlap sack full of bugs, spiders, and snakes, and has a love for gambling. He is also Jack Skellington's arch-nemesis.
He was voiced by the late Ken Page.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
In General[]
- He is shown to be the only truly evil resident of Halloween Town, especially since the whole town which loves scaring is scared of him.
- While he may seem fearful of Jack, he's not afraid to fight him and kill him and it doesn't take long to happen.
- Him being made of insects represents his frightening nature in addition to having next to no redeeming qualities, further symbolizing his evil.
- While he has some comedic moments such as him constantly mocking Santa Claus throughout the film, or lustfully tickling Sally's leg, these moments are only funny to the audience and do not detract from his serious moments, as the characters and the narrative still take him seriously.
Movie[]
- At the beginning of the film, he claims to be "the shadow on the moon at night" that fills your dreams to the brim with fright. Granted the vivid clarity that he enjoys causing people nightmares, it’s beyond assured to assess he does so every night.
- During the same intro song, the others state “we’re monsters, but we’re not mean!”, referring to Halloween Town’s general population apart from him.
- As such, he’s been an outcast since long before the Main story’s events, having been excluded from Halloween Town for his harmful and cruel ways of scaring.
- During the song "Kidnap the Sandy Claus" song, it is shown that he is a cannibal as he regularly makes his "Snake and Spider Stew": his own special, despite being made out of multiple bugs.
- Lock, Shock, and Barrel themselves seem vividly familiar with his cruelty, even calling him “the meanest guy around” in their words.
- When he met Santa Claus, he mocked and tortured him for no reason other than sadism.
- When Sally put her foot in his door as a distraction so she can save Santa, he tickled it in an unpleasant manner.
- After landing Snake Eyes on his dice, he flipped the dice over to get a victory, showing that he's a cheater.
- He attempted to kill Sally and Santa by dropping them into lava. Given his nature, he even well implies his eagerness was more to do something horrible to them than actual “hunger”.
- After Jack saved Sally and Santa, he tried to kill Jack by having him shot to death with his firing-squad wildcards and mutilate him with a giant buzz saw blade.
Kingdom of Hearts[]
- He ate the orb Jack and his friends needed and laughing in their faces for it. Oogie then spawns two creatures called Heartless to attack Jack and his friends.
- Forcing Santa to be put into a killing chamber before Sally distracts Oogie.
- Assaulting Sally by body-slamming into her once Jack and his friends enter a factory room of his.
- Attempts killing Jack, Goofy, Donald, and Sora with Oogie's lethal maze games.
Oogie’s Revenge[]
- Once he got resurrected, he immediately began planning to seize power and vengeance.
- He creates traps during his song numbers.
- He takes over Halloween Town and turned it into "Oogie Town". Just for Jack to come back the next year on December 24th, to see his reigning dictatorship rising.
- He lies to everyone in Halloween Town of Jack's absence bringing a bad name to their town.
- He tried to become the "Seven Holidays King".
- He sends minions for Jack to combat, as well as using two shadows of his to distract Jack from facing the actual Oogie and trick him into thinking he was chasing after Oogie the whole time.
- He turns into a gigantic, junk-filled version of himself named "Mega-Oogie", a ten-story-high giant version of himself in order to fight Jack.
- One of his shadows includes an "Oogie Casino", which he bets Jack's life on it.
Why Doesn't He Stand Out?[]
- While he passes the baseline through committing cannibalism by eating the bugs that compose of his sack, the rest of his actions do not stand out past this; additionally, while he does have skeletons in his lair, it's unclear if they're actually the skeletons of people he killed or not.
- Also, Lock, Shock, and Barrel have firm lucidity to know better as well as sadistic personalities to torture innocents in their own excessively cruel ways entirely on their own accord, this causes him to fail to stand out enough from them. Resources don’t help him in comparison, as he not only supplies them, the three themselves are literally part of his arsenal supply.
Trivia[]
- If the skeletons in his lair are dead bodies of living people, he would qualify as Pure Evil as it would be more than kill-the-heroes villainy.
- Additionally, his Oogie's Revenge counterpart is currently under debate because his IH proposal wasn’t rejected or approved, but is left undetermined instead.
- Oogie Boogie is the first 3D Villainous Benchmark since Nightmare Before Christmas is an 3D Animation film.
- It’s been theorized that after Edgar died, he possessed Oogie Boogie’s body and given how we see his spirit go to Oogie Boogie’s lair and had bugs inside him ,and if the comic or Oogie’s Revenge are canon, it would would make him tragic due being used by Edgar and forced to kill his friend Jack.
External Links[]
- Oogie Boogie on the Villains Wiki
- Oogie Boogie on the Disney Wiki
- Oogie Boogie on the Kingdom Hearts Wiki
- Oogie Boogie on the Shonen Villains Wiki
- Oogie Boogie on the Entertainingly Detestable Wiki
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