Oogie Boogie is boisterous and vile, with flamboyance to his mien. He is very good at making a concoction known as Snake and Spider Stew and tends to use people as ingredients. Despite his confinement, Oogie has amassed numerous victims thanks to his lackeys, Lock, Shock, and Barrel, who covertly provide Oogie with food and sacrifices as a means of appeasing him. Instead, he remains in his lair and is disallowed from interacting with the outside world by order of Jack. Oogie's scheme was foiled by Jack, who punished Oogie by confining him to his lair beneath Lock, Shock, and Barrel's treehouse.Īs a consequence of his vile and treacherous nature, Oogie does not participate in the annual holiday festivities, unlike the other ghouls of Halloween Town. His manner of doing so developed into a coup to take over Halloween and rebranding it as 'Crawloween'-a holiday dedicated to bugs. After hearing stories about the supposed 'Pumpkin King' of Halloween Town, an envious Oogie Boogie became obsessed with outclassing Jack as the scariest ghoul there is. The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King reveals that Oogie and Jack Skellington's rivalry traces back to one year before the events of the film. His burlap sack of a body is animated by a hive mind of insects and other creatures.
Oogie is the embodiment of a child's worst nightmare.
