So by now, seeing something Nightmare Before Christmas/Tim Burton related in these countdowns (or just in general) is nothing special, but my focus tends to stick to the actual villain roles, like Oogie Boogie and Lock, Shock and Barrel, or instead on Jack Skellington himself as he's the literal representative of this holiday, but in that I've always overlooked another character. One with an actual official title! Sure, he may only be an elected official, but he's still the mayor of the entire holiday of Halloween! He deserves some recognition for that and what better then to kick start this year's Top Ten!
Honestly, the mayor has always been one of my favorite supporting characters from Nightmare Before Christmas, which is funny as when I first saw art of him when I was a kid he scared me shitless! Yes, there was a time when the mere thought of Nightmare Before Christmas scared the Hell out of me! Yes! Me! Can you believe it! Granted a lot of that fear came from the films overall negative reception when it first came out, due to just how unorthodox it is... but another big part was that I was unbelievably squeamish and easily frightened as a child; funny how things change.
That said, I distinctly remember the first time I watched Nightmare Before Christmas and gearing myself up for when the mayor would show up. By then I had seen a good deal of the characters and found them all perfectly fine, but I still retained a bit of that childhood fear of the mayor... only to immediately laugh upon his intro. In a fraction of a second that one character changed from something that creeped me out to something I loved! Some of this I do blame on the fact that in Tim Burton's art, the mayor looks a lot more disturbing, the stop-motion model did him much more justice and made him look more silly! He has a great design, that rotating head was such a unique look and a great way to convey the two-faced politician, so of course I had to give him the most fitting number of 22~
