Santa Claus (The Nightmare Before Christmas)

Santa Claus (or as Jack Skellington likes to call him, Sandy Claws) is the overarching protagonist of Disney's The Nightmare Before Christmas franchise. He is voiced by Ed Ivory in the original film and by Corey Burton in the videogames.
==History==
While going over his naughty and nice list, he is kidnapped by Lock, Shock and Barrel, who are under the orders of Jack Skellington. The three take him to Jack, who steals his hat to complete his Sandy Claws outfit. He is then taken to their treehouse where they ram Santa into the pipe leading down to Oogie Boogie's lair and force him to fit down it (the pipe is only meant for small packages and Santa is an extra-large man). Oogie Boogie then plans to torture him before adding him as spice to his Snake and Spider Stew. Sally believing what Jack had been doing was very wrong, attempts to rescue Santa by distracting Oogie but Oogie notices this and she is captured as well. After ruining Christmas, Jack is determined to set things right and finds out that Oogie had captured Sally and Santa sets to rescue them from him by ripping apart his sew releasing his bugs and Santa crushes Oogie's head bug. Afterwards, he gives Jack a hefty chewing-out for what he's done and suggests listening to Sally before he attempts to take over another holiday, he magically zips back up the chute he came down by placing his finger on his nose and continues on to salvage a ruined Christmas. He later returns to Halloween Town and makes it snow, which causes the whole town to sing a modified version of "What's This?". His last appearance in the film is him flying in the sky and waving at the town as he returns from saving Christmas. He shouts "Happy Halloween!", and Jack replies "Merry Christmas!" and delivering snow for the residents of Halloween Town to enjoy, showing no hard feelings between him and Jack after everything had gone wrong.
===Kingdom Hearts II===
Taking place some time after the events of the original film, Santa is looking over his list when he is visited by Sora, Donald, and Goofy, along with Jack, who Santa warns to not make a mess of things regarding Christmas again like what happened in the original film. During this time, he ends up finding his way to the Hinterlands outside of Halloween Town, meeting up with Sally again, who suggests he return home to Christmas Town as he's in danger, only for the two to get ambushed by a resurrected Oogie Boogie, who takes Santa captive and returns him to his workshop, where Oogie begins remodeling it to use himself. Maleficent attempts to turn Santa into a Heartless, but Oogie's clumsiness interrupts her spell-casting, and his ignorance due to his retrograde amnesia forces her to leave without finishing it in anger, leaving Sally to rescue Santa while Jack, Sora, Donald, and Goofy fight Oogie and the presents machine he took over, leading to his defeat again, and Donald squashing his brain bug to ensure he doesn't return. Afterwards, despite Sally finishing Jack's new Santa suit, a pep talk from Santa convinces Jack to find new inspiration for Halloween while Santa returns to work on Christmas, but not without giving Sora some encouraging words about finding Riku and Kairi.
Later, Santa learns that some of the presents have been stolen, and Jack offers to help locate the thief for him with Sora, Donald, and Goofy assisting him. After catching Lock, Shock, and Barrel messing around in the workshop, and then learning that Dr. Finkelstein's experiment has been stolen, Santa allows Jack and the others to use his workshop to make some decoy presents to lure the thief out with. The thief is soon discovered to be the experiment itself, hoping to find a heart through the presents. After it is defeated and Jack explains the circumstances to Santa, Santa allows Jack a chance to pilot his sleigh to get a feel for the joy Santa has when delivering his presents. Santa later returns Jack safely to Halloween Town before heading back to Christmas Town, but not without making it snow again in Halloween Town to help Jack learn of the true meaning of the Christmas spirit and gift-giving.
==Trivia==
*It's said by Stan Webb, the editor of The Nightmare Before Christmas, that at the end of "Oogie Boogie's Song", Oogie was supposed to eat him and that after Jack destroyed Oogie, he was set free.
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