Jack Skellington’s Jaw

I think one thing us TNBC fans tend to forget about the most is the fact that Jack does have a jaw. It’s there, it exists. His stitched smile makes it look like his face/skull is one complete mass, but it’s the opposite??? Like, the animators blended the scene where it comes back on his skull so smoothly we don’t even question it. It just…forms back into a circular shape.

It’s there. It’s square. It’s properly shaped, too, with his bottom teeth! Jack kinda’ looks like half a face without it. Does this mean that his jaw covers half of his head???? And, if so ,where are the indents??? There are none. His jaw is hidden until it comes off. It’s such an anomaly.

Jack without his jaw is…so intriguing to see. He looks so scary! Imagine that sucker coming at you instead of his usual goofball face. And how do his stitches form??? No way could they be indents of his teeth like in the concept art. I’m very much confused, but I am very much intrigued. We only got 3 seconds of him without his jaw, so I don’t know. I don’t know. Burton, you’re so crazy.

Not to mention that his face can be stretched/manipulated??? His teeth can go from a square shape to a triangle shape, and the amount can change anytime. There’s implication that he has a vestibule, too. But Jack Skellington simply can’t have cheeks - his mouth can expand to beside his eye sockets! Wha…what even is this? The stitches simply come around his mouth, yet they can disappear if he expands his lips enough????

This here, folks, is why Jack is the scariest in Halloween Town. He can change his features to look like something else if he wanted to. Imagine all the things you can do with a stretchy-yet-somehow-still-a-skull face! We really don’t know what Jack is capable of. He can be so much more scarier than any of us could fathom. He was just acting like such an adorable dork the whole movie, so we couldn’t really see his capabilities.

But I should also bring up the big question: How the hell does Jack have a tongue??? It’s long, and it comes out of his larynx??? Or whatever the hell that black hole in the back of his throat is. It isn’t seen anywhere when he loses his jaw. It comes outside of his mouth, which means…he could probably do what the Mayor did at the end of the movie with that snowflake?

He’s terrifying, and I love him.