Joogie

Joogie is the slash ship between Jack Skellington and Ooogie Boogie from the Nightmare Before Christmas fandom.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Jack and Oogie Boogie have an unexplained mutual hatred for one another in the movie. Jack is the most popular citizen in Halloween Town, being the very embodiment of Halloween himself, while Oogie appears to be the equivalent of Public Enemy #1, to the point where he lives in hiding underground. When Jack finds Christmas Town and intends to make their own version with the Halloween citizens as a big town project, "Boogie's Boys" consisting of the trick-or-treater kids Lock, Shock and Barrel appear, with the Mayor of Halloween Town warning Jack ahead as he's giving tasks to every citizen. Despite his dislike of Oogie Boogie, Jack is very kind to the kids and gives them the special task of kidnapping Santa Claus (or "Sandy Claws"). However, he notes that under no circumstances shall they ever tell Oogie of his plan.

So the three of them sing about Jack's plan instead, making Oogie aware of it anyway. After some initial misunderstandings, Jack finally meets Santa face-to-face and tells the three of them to hide him until Christmas is over, so they bring him to Oogie, who considers Jack being occupied with filling in for Santa as a freebie for torturing an innocent soul.

However, when Jack's takeover of Christmas goes horribly wrong, with Sally being the only one concerned for Jack's safety as he's being chased by the police and military, she gets the idea of saving Santa in hopes he could fix everything. However, when she sneaks into Oogie's lair, she also gets found and captured by Oogie when trying to free Santa. When news of Jack's death reach Halloween Town, with all of the citizens in mourning, Oogie sees no reason not to kill Santa and Sally as a last hurrah. However, Jack had survived by a miracle and immediately rushes to Oogie's hideout to take matters into his own hands. Sneaking up on Oogie just as he prepared to slide Santa and Sally into a magma pool, Jack manages to help remove them from the slide and push them to safety without Oogie noticing. When Oogie is disappointed at the lack of screaming, he checks the sliding table, only to find a very angry Jack Skellington glaring at him. Though Oogie tries to play it cool at first, when he realizes he's been caught in the act of attempted murder, Oogie challenges Jack to a fight. However, despite Oogie turning his lair into an arena, Jack effortlessly dodges all of the traps he laid out and that one of the strings holding Oogie's burlap sack body together had come lose. Jack pulls on the string, revealing Oogie's body to be composed of a mass of bugs, who fall apart, revealing Oogie's true form to be a small earworm. When Santa steps on the worm to finish the villain off, Jack apologizes for all the trouble he caused him, luckily, he's Santa, so can fix everything.

Fanon
Joogie is a rarepair in the fandom, largely because Oogie ships tend to be rare to begin with. Nonetheless, it has some supporters due to the uniquely fun Hero/Villain dynamic, as well as people wanting to fill in backstory for how their rivalry started. With supplementary material revealing that Oogie himself is the spirit of a forgotten holiday, people have begun seeing him and Jack as true equals.

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