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Jack Skellington  is a  character  and the main  protagonist  of the 1993 film  The Nightmare Before Christmas . Jack is the "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town, a  fantasy world  based solely on the  Halloween  holiday. Jack is voiced by  Chris Sarandon .  Danny Elfman  provided Jack's singing voice in the film, although Sarandon has sung as Jack in subsequent productions. His overall appearance is a skeleton dressed in a black pin-striped suit and a bow tie that strongly resembles a black bat. Originally, his suit was meant to be completely black, but it blended with the background too well, so it was changed. At the beginning of the film, Jack makes his grand entrance by emerging out of a fire-breathing dragon-themed fountain. His last name is based on the word "skeleton". He has a ghost dog named Zero for a pet, who has a small glowing nose that looks like a jack-o'-lantern. He is adored by  Sally , a rag doll c...

Deadpool  (Wade Winston Wilson) is a fictional character appearing in  American comic books  published by  Marvel Comics . Created by writer  Fabian Nicieza  and artist/writer  Rob Liefeld , the character first appeared in  The New Mutants  #98 ( cover-dated  February 1991). Initially Deadpool was depicted as a supervillain when he made his first appearance in The New Mutants and later in issues of X-Force, but later evolved into his more recognizable antiheroic persona. Deadpool, whose real name is Wade Wilson, is a disfigured and deeply disturbed  mercenary  and  assassin  with the superhuman ability of an accelerated  healing factor  and physical prowess. The character is known as the "Merc with a Mouth" because of his tendency to joke constantly, including his proclivity for breaking the  fourth wall , a literary device used by the writers for humorous effect and running gags. https://en.wikipe...

The Mandalorian  is a  sobriquet  for Din Djarin, a  character  in the  Star Wars franchise  and the title character of the  Disney+  series  The Mandalorian . Orphaned as a young child, he was adopted into the  Mandalorian  culture and became a  bounty hunter  and warrior. Originally hired to capture an  alien  infant known as " The Child ", the Mandalorian instead protects the Child from a remnant of the fallen  Galactic Empire . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mandalorian_(Star_Wars_character) ------------------------------ The Mandalorian , also known as Star Wars: The Mandalorian, is an American  space Western   web television  series created by  Jon Favreau  and released on  Disney+ . It is the first  live action  series in the  Star Wars  franchise. Set five years after the events of  Return of the Jedi  and 25 years prior...