From this point on, she tries to convince Jack that his Christmas plans are a mistake for his safety. She delivers the basket to Jack but runs away before Jack can thank her.Īs she is outside of Jack's house, Sally picks at a flower's petals and has an ominous premonition about Christmas going wrong when she has a vision of a Christmas tree bursting into flames. She escapes her imprisonment by throwing herself from the tower and sewing herself back together after falling apart from the impact. Despite being trapped in her room, she creates a gift basket for Jack, who is busy conducting several experiments. Finkelstein imprisons her upon her return to the laboratory, fed up with her drugging him so many times already. Though she is intrigued by the things Jack has brought from Christmas Town, she already feels that something about this is incorrect. Finkelstein's over-protectiveness and that in the past has slipped deadly nightshade into his tea (at least three times) as a narcotic and then left the house while he was asleep.īefore Jack returns from Christmas Town, she again slips deadly nightshade into Finklestein's soup (secretly using a spoon with holes to convince him it's not drugged), and runs off to participate in the town meeting Jack has called when he returns. While she hides, she overhears Jack's sorrowful song, expressing the weariness of his life, she comes to understand the deeper connection between them and falls deeply in love with him.Īfter returning to the lab, it is revealed that Sally has grown resentful of Dr. However, once Finkelstein catches up to her, she runs off to hide in the graveyard, leaving one of her arms with her creator. It is unknown if she inherently possesses such powers (or if she is capable of accessing them regularly) or simply received one due to the situation at hand.Īppearances The Nightmare Before Christmasĭuring the beginning, Sally has escaped the Doctor again to see the festivities of Halloween, especially to see Jack. Sally seems to have some precognition powers, however, these powers were only shown once when Sally receives the vision of Jack’s ideas of Christmas ending in disaster. Finklestein on more than one occasion, and is an expert seamstress, using a needle and thread to stitch herself back together. Sally has extensive knowledge of potions, having used ingredients such as deadly nightshade to drug her jailor Dr. Her limbs can also move independently from her body, shown when she used one of her legs to distract Oogie Boogie while attempting to save Santa. She also wears black heel boots with black and white striped socks.īeing made of stitched-together body parts, Sally is largely invulnerable to bodily harm, surviving an otherwise deadly fall from Finklestein's tower, albeit in pieces. Sally wears a knee-high, ragged dress with a V-cut neckline, and is presumably made by simply stitching together multi-colored pieces of cloth (it has a sewn pocket for her thread). Sally is also known to be stuffed with fall leaves. Her hair, where she hides a sewing needle, is a reddish color and is kept at tailbone-length. She has large eyes with small black pupils and red lips. Sally has faded blue fabric for skin, with multiple sewing stitches all over her body, and is quite slender. She also has skills at brewing potions, which she uses to poison Finklestein so she can escape and seems to have psychic-like tendencies. Her skills are well appreciated, as evidenced by Jack's request of her to tailor him a Santa suit and his encouraging words to her. Sally is an expert at needlework and keeps a needle and thread on her person at all times. The two refer to each other as "friends", though Jack seems unaware of her true feelings for him, as she is too shy to make them known to him other than through her sweet actions. At the beginning of the movie, she idolizes and admires Jack much like any of the other female members of Halloween Town however, she quickly discovers that they are connected by the desire for something more in their lives, and her feelings for him intensify. It is this restlessness, or, more specifically, this desire for something better in her life, that draws her to Jack Skellington. ![]() However, Sally is restless and is intrigued by the wonders of the outside world. Finkelstein, Halloween Town's resident mad scientist, yet their relationship is rather tense, as Finklestein insists on keeping Sally under lock and key, under the pretext of protecting her from the excitement of Halloween. ![]() Sally is kind, sensible, honest, and incredibly clever. 3.2 The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge.3.1 The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King.
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