The Clown with the Tear-Away Face is one of the minor protagonists in Disney's 1993 stop-motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Personality
One of the film's minor characters is an obese clown who tears his face off.
Appearances
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Clown with the Tear-Away Face is a fat clown who rides a unicycle and can tear off his face to reveal complete darkness and disappear into a puff of smoke. When his face is on, he speaks in a high voice. But when his face is off, he speaks in a deep, booming voice.
Video Game Appearances
The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King
The Clown with the Tear-Away Face appears in the game and rewards Jack with the Pumpkin Bomb, the final weapon of the game.
The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge
He also appears in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Oogie's Revenge where Jack finds him the sewers upon his return. The Clown then unlocks the gate so that Jack could proceed to the graveyard. In the residential areas, the Clown's unicycle was out of control causing Jack to use one of Dr. Finklestein's inventions to stop the unicycle. He is voiced by Danny Elfman in the movie and by Dee Bradley Baker in the video game spin-off.