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I was watching tnbc last week (YES I WATCHED IT IN JUNE LEAVE ME ALONE) and in that final scene when Jack and the others came back from killing Oogie was when I saw someone in the gate and I was like excuse me WHO'S THAT???? I've been literally watching this movie twice every year my whole life and that was the FIRST TIME I SAW HIM??

You Know Who Else I Want to Talk About?

The gatekeeper from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Definitely one of the most forgotten characters in the NBC universe. His role was shoved away in Oogie’s Revenge, given to the Clown with the Tear-Away Face for no real reason, and was never mentioned or seen in the Kingdom Hearts series and The Pumpkin King. All we’ve got are a few snippets of him in the movie, but that’s it.

So, from what I can see, he’s a raven/crow(presumably male, but I don’t know for sure) that wears a trench coat and hat with gloves, often covered up. When working, he’s in a small shack with a diamond-shaped opening that’s right beside the gate. There’s a sign that says, “GATEKEEPER”, and there’s a skull right beside it. It gets decorated with orange Christmas lights later on in the movie.

He’s in charge of the gate that leads into Halloween Town, and is addressed by Jack Skellington 2-3 times in the movie by him either nodding his skull in his direction or even saluting him(a “thank you”, most likely). Judging by the gear that works the gate, I’m guessing that it needs someone to lift and close it when needed. And, obviously, you need someone in charge of it to make sure Oogie Boogie and no other baddies are coming into town. So that’s where the Gatekeeper comes in. He’s pretty useful.

It’s clear that he recognizes The Pumpkin King, and Jack seems to be acquainted with him, as there’s a mutual respect shared between them. So he’s definitely working with the Town. It’s too bad we don’t get insight on him in the movie. He didn’t deserve to get shoved out of the way in Oogie’s Revenge, though. I guess it’s just more proof to us that the game didn’t take much canon into account. Smh.

We don’t get to see him in the Town Meeting or around Halloween Town. My guess is that he’s working a lot, monitoring the gate at all times. The only exception I have seen is that the Crow/Raven leaves during the This Is Halloween song, which explains his absence and why you can see him in the crowd after Jack comes out from the fountain. The guy’s got some Halloween spirit!

We also don’t see The Gatekeeper at the end of the movie, when Sally climbs through the gate to leave to the Spiral Hill. He probably left to play in the snow like the other citizens. But, other than that, he’s always there. It seems like he’s  working early in the morning and late at night. Maybe that’s why he’s bundled up all the time.

You may have been forgotten in every piece of media, but I won’t ever forget you, Gatekeeper of Halloween Town. May you do a better job than the Clown With a Tear-Away Face ever did.

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handholding

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The Idiots - Batman: Rotten

I still want to make this crazy couple in my AU Batman: Rotten.

It's Harv by the way, not Harvey.

Made with a ref silly comic

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mheheh it's an old memе....

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I am excited for this game!

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i love vee very much but terzo will always be my numero uno satanic princess

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I feel like maybe they've done this a few times.

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Viven en mi cabeza rent free

Me encanta rivalidad entre Tezcatlipoca y Quetzalcóatl. Son bien sillies

Miren los hermanoosssss 😭

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Advertisement that i made due to boredom

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He’s been in the storage closet for days

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I cannot stop thinking about Episode 5 of TADC because Ragatha is, however unintentionally, one of the best examples of how isolating and difficult it is to interact with the world as an autistic person I have ever seen. To the point it genuinely makes me sad to think about her. I need to make a post expanding on this at some point but rn just. The way everyone assumes there’s some sinister hidden meaning to everything she does and says but she’s literally just trying to be nice and she doesn’t understand why it’s not working. The way she tries so hard to make connections but it constantly falls flat, she says things that hurt without realising how or why. She follows the rules she’s been taught will make her friends — she’s kind, she’s forgiving, she’s accepting and apologetic when she messes up, but for some reason it’s just not working. She tries to mimic other people, she tries to laugh at past experiences, tries to open up about her past like everyone else is doing, but now everyone’s uncomfortable and looking at her like she’s crazy and she doesn’t get it!! She doesn’t get it!!! Jax is a jerk and he’s mean to everyone but for some reason Pomni likes him and she doesn’t get it, she doesn’t understand! Pomni tells her it’s okay to be a jerk sometimes but Ragatha doesn’t like being mean, she wants to be nice to people, but she does it anyway, she gets mean like Jax and Zooble do but now Pomni’s looking at her like she’s done something wrong but she just did what she asked her to!! She doesn’t get it!! At the end of the episode everyone goes off into their groups and Ragatha is left alone, after having tried so hard to make friends and fit in and make people like her, she’s still alone, and everyone thinks she’s weird and unapproachable and she just has to give up and accept that she is inherently unloveable. Her evil alter ego tells her she’s going to die alone and nobody loves her and the only thing she corrects her on is the fact that they can’t die here. The few that might like her when she’s around don’t miss her when she’s gone, because there’s nothing to miss. Ragatha has spent her whole life systematically stripping away everything that makes her different and unlikeable in order to make herself more palatable to others, and in the process she has made herself a personalitiless blank slate with no unique identity for others to latch onto and appreciate. She has nothing to add to any conversation because she’s too afraid of being disliked to have a memorable personality beyond being generally polite and nice. And just. God. Someone get this girl some noise cancelling headphones and a therapist on speed dial, being this good of a representation of what it’s like to be autistic, especially to be an autistic person with trauma, is not good for the soul. That final shot just destroys me right in the heart. My poor girl.

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The Emperor (upright) - Stability, dependability, protectiveness, authority, logical, practical. The Emperor (reversed) - Abuse of power, excessively controlling, rigidity, stubbornness.

These will be available for the first time at Ropecon in Helsinki! Come say hi and get your own from my table!

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I am done yay!!

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did william hit him with his hulk mobile i need to know.

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CLASSIC MOMENTS OF BARBIE [ 1 / 5 ]

From: Barbie in the Nutcracker 2001 Directed By: Owen Hurley

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