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Barrel is one of the three secondary antagonists in The Nightmare Before Christmas. He is part of the trick-or-treating trio with Lock and Shock, who all work for Oogie Boogie.

He is voiced by Danny Elfman,

Background[]

Personality[]

Barrel is is five years old, Oogie's "star pupil," and mistakenly considered the most stupid of the three troublemakers, despite his protests to the contrary. He is the butt of many jokes made by his siblings but usually gets even through his own tricks at which he always gets away with. However, Barrel isquick to stand up for either of his siblings and appears in fact to be the most intelligent of the three. He also unintentionally bothers Jack when asking him a number of annoying (and somewhat embarrassing) questions.

Physical Appearance[]

Barrel is the shortest and youngest of the trio, sporting the same pale grey skin and blue lips as his siblings. His head is spherical and he has short, pale green hair. His nose is very small when compared to Lock and Shock's, and it is upturned. His eyes are quite close together and appear to be sunken in, though this could just be an illusion created by the dark makeup around them. Barrel dresses up like a skeleton, wearing tattered purple pants and a like-colored shirt. Both of these pieces of clothing are decorated with bones roughly corresponding to their locations in the human body. Unlike his friends, Barrel doesn't seem to wear gloves, but his feet are oddly shaped, with three toes of the same length. It isn't clear if they are part of his costume or his real feet. His mask is that of a skull; a simple, round, white mask with the mouth being bare teeth set in a wide grin, reflecting the fact that Barrel himself is usually grinning.

Role in the film[]

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Trivia[]

  • Barrel likes to eat pumpkins.
  • Barrel is voiced by Danny Elfman.
  • Barrel is usually the pilot of the walking bathtub the trio use as transport.
Villains

Animated Features
Oogie Boogie | (Lock, Shock and Barrel) Aunt Sponge | Aunt Spiker | Rhino | Skeleton Pirates | Robot Shark | Barkis Bittern | (Maudeline Everglot and Finis Everglot) 1 | 8 | Fabrication Machine | Machines (Cat Beast, Winged Beast, Seamstress, Steel Behemoths, Seeker Drones & Spiderbots) | The Chancellor's Party (Chancellor Ferdinand) | Mr. Whiskers | Shelley | Were-Rat | Sea Monkeys | Mr. Burgermeister
Live-Action Features
Francis Buxton | Andy | Betelgeuse | Sandworms | The Joker | Bob Hawkins | Joker Goons | Alicia Hunt | Carl Grissom | Max Eckhardt | Antoine Rotelli | Vinnie Ricorso | Joe Chill | Harvey Dent | Jim | Penguin | Red Triangle Circus Gang (Organ Grinder, Poodle Lady, Tattooed Strongman, Terrifying Clown, Thin Clown, Fat Clown, Sword Swallower & Knifethrower Dame) | Max Shreck | Riddler | Two-Face | Sugar | Spice | NygmaTech (Frogmen) | Neon Gang (Neon Gang Leader) | Salvatore Maroni | Aunt Sponge | Aunt Spiker | Rhino | Skeleton Pirates | Robot Shark | Martian Leader | Martians (Martian Ambassador & Martian Girl) | Poison Ivy | Mr. Freeze | Bane | Snowy Cones Thugs | Golums | Jason Woodrue | Lady Mary Van Tassel | Headless Horseman | Reverend Steenwyck | General Thade | Colonel Attar | Limbo | Zaius | Don Price | Arthur Slugworth | Sweeney Todd | Mrs. Lovett | Judge Turpin | Beadle Bamford | Jonas Fogg | Adolfo Pirelli | Red Queen | Knave of Hearts | Card Soldiers | Jabberwocky | Jubjub Bird | Hamish Ascot | Angelique Bouchard | Julia Hoffman | Adam | Jack Barts | Vadoma | Walter Keane | Mr. Barron | Malthus | V.A. Vandevere | Neils Skellig | Rufus Sorghum | Delores | Rory | Jeremy Frazier
Animated Television
Sandworms | Claire Brewster | Bully the Crud | Scuzzo | Fuzzo
Live-Action Television
Evil Moroccan Magician | Laurel Gates | Tyler Galpin | Joseph Crackstone | Isaac Night | Francoise Galpin | Judi Stonehearst | Barry Dort