Jack Skellington In the "Disney Infinity" video game series, Jack appears as part of the second wave of playable characters. Two of the possible names of the Skeleton Merchant NPC are "Jack " and "Skellington". Also, two of the paintings in the game are titled "Skellington J. Skellingsworth" and "Jacking Skeletron". Jack appears as a meetable character at several Walt Disney Parks and Resorts including Disneyland, Hong Kong Disneyland, Disneyland Paris and Walt Disney World. At Disneyland during the holidays, Haunted Mansion is taken over by the cast of "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and is turned into Haunted Mansion Holiday. Jack and
Tim Burton of the film helped establish Burton as a profitable director, and it proved to be a huge influence on future superhero films, which eschewed the bright, all-American heroism of Richard Donner's "Superman" for a grimmer, more realistic look and characters with more psychological depth. It also became a major inspiration for the successful 1990s cartoon "", in as much as the darkness of the picture and its sequel allowed for a darker Batman on television. Burton claimed that the graphic novel "" was a major influence on his film adaptation of "Batman": I was never a giant comic book fan,