Edgar is the overarching antagonist of The Nightmare Before Christmas. He is the main antagonist of the prequel comic, The Battle for Pumpkin King. He is the previous pumpkin king.
What makes him a Hate Sink?[]
- He ruins the friendship of Jack Skellington and Oogie Boogie, driving Oogie Boogie to become competitive and sending him down his path of villainy.
- He convinces Oogie that Jack will cheat in the challenges, and gets Oogie himself to cheat.
- He helps Oogie cheat by summoning a powerful wind to knock down Jack's bone tower, allowing Oogie to win the bone tower competition.
- He serves the role of being a character the readers can hate for driving Oogie down his path of villainy.
- He lacks Oogie's entertaining qualities that made him memorable, and is just a corrupting influence and a cheater.
- Aside from Oogie forcefully taking his lair as his own, Edgar gets no comeuppance for ruining Jack and Oogie's friendship and driving Oogie to become a villain, making him a Karma Houdini.