History Main / AnAsskickingChristmas

** In Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Geto announces to the Jujutsu tech that he will launch a mass scale invasion on 24 december, with the targets being Shinjuku and Kyoto. The rest of the movie takes place between those and the ending which is december 25.
** In the main series. [[spoiler: Gojo and Sukuna]] agreed have their fight of the strongest on December 24th

* In ''Series/TheFlash2014'' Christmas episode [[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E9RunningToStandStill "Running to Stand Still"]], the Weather Wizard breaks out Captain Cold and the Trickster out of prison over the Christmas period, the three of them [[VillainTeamUp teaming up]] to form the Rogues. Their plan to kill Franchise/TheFlash includes the Trickster dressing up as [[BadSanta Santa Claus]] and explosives disguised as presents.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Two Christmas specials with a [[AIIsACrapshot killer robot]] [[Bad Santa Santa]] and a sack full of ammunition-related puns ("your mistletoe is no match for my T.O.W. missile"). Plus this shows up again in the animated film ''[[Recap/FuturamaM1BendersBigScore Bender's Big Score]]'', including the song "This Trinity's Goin' to War" when Robot Santa used his toy workshop on Neptune to manufacture weapons, with the help of Kwanzaabot and the Chanukah Zombie.
** Not to mention the finale of broadcast season seven "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E13TheFuturamaHolidaySpectacular The Futurama Holiday Spectacular]]" that has not only a Christmas storyline but also action-filled Robanukah and Kwanzaa.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': two Christmas specials with a killer robot Santa and a sack full of ammunition-related puns ("your mistletoe is no match for my T.O.W. missile"). Plus this shows up again in the animated film ''Bender's Big Score'', including the song "This Trinity's Goin' to War" when Robot Santa used his toy workshop on Neptune to manufacture weapons, with the help of Kwanzaabot and the Chanukah Zombie.
** Not to mention the finale of broadcast season seven "The Futurama Holiday Spectacular" that has not only a Christmas storyline but also action-filled Robanukah and Kwanzaa.

* ''VideoGame/{{Extermination}}'' takes place on Christmas Eve 2005 in an antarctic research facility taken over by [[TheVirus an aggressive, mutagenic bacterium]].

* ''Film/FirstBlood'' is set during Christmastime, probably to demonstrate that Rambo is also braving the bitter cold during his ordeal.

* ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' takes place in December, in Switzerland and France. Aside from a wetter Paris, there's a snowy winter throughout the entire film and there are frequently seen Christmas lights and trees, and holiday season markets and events. While on the run from Treadstone assassins in the French countryside, Bourne and Marie stay at a farmhouse of her old friend and his kids, full of Christmas decorations. The five of them spend Christmas Eve dinner together, complete with typical French Christmas hits heard on the radio. Right the next morning, instead of focusing on presents, the people at the farmhouse are besieged by the sameassassinwho shot dictator Wombosi mere days before. Bourne has to get creative to lure him away and take him out, then prepare a plan to go back to Paris and confront Treadstone agents on his own. The finale is set between Christmas and New Year's Eve.

* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} goes through this all. the. friggin'. time. If there's one hero that never takes the day off during the holidays, it's Batman. His enemies LOVE to stir up crap during Christmas, especially guys like [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]], [[Characters/BatmanMrFreeze Mr. Freeze]], and the Calendar Man.

* One ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode was trying to stop some The Delightful Children From Down the Lane from making Christmas only for them. It was also an AffectionateParody of Marvel Comics, complete with Stan Lee-style narration and a SuperTeam of ChristmasElves based on the X-men.

* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' had "Cobra C.L.A.W.s are Coming to Town", which played this for all it's worth. It starts off with [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs Cobra invading the Joes' base on Christmas]], and ends with a showdown between the Joes and Cobra using each other's weapons and equipment.

** The very first South Park ever made, a WebAnimation, was Jesus and Santa having a knock-down, drag-out fight.

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': 'Human Error'. Soundwave reappears for the first time since season one and [[spoiler:traps the Autobots in a LotusEaterMachine simulation in which they are all human, so he can turn them into Decepticons.]] Sari recruits a bunch of second-string characters to help free them, and it all ends in a ''literal'' example of AutobotsRockOut.

* The ''Film/DeathRace'' remake took place during Christmas.

* ''Film/EnemyOfTheState'': Robert Dean's struggle against the NSA begins when he encounters a friend while purchasing a Christmas gift for his wife.

* The first two ''Film/HomeAlone'' movies. Kid defeats gang of thieves by turning his house into a DeathCourse. In the first two movies, it helped set the scene for the conflict between Kevin and his family.

* ''Film/JurassicWorld'', which starts sometime during the Christmas vacation.

* Spoofed at the beginning of ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'', with a fake trailer for the MadeForTVMovie ''The Night The Reindeer Died'' starring Creator/LeeMajors as he helps a BadassSanta fight off terrorists attempting to take over the North Pole.

* The first ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' game takes place around Christmas 2005. This results in just the occasional SexySantaDress around the red light district. The second game, set InUniverse a year later, follows suit. ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' returns to being set during Christmas 2012, with Sapporo being the most blatant city to celebrate it thanks to their winter festival. ''VideoGame/Yakuza6'' also returns to Christmas, being set during December 2016. Its spin-off subseries ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}'' and the sequel ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'' are also set during Christmas 2018 and 2021 respectively, with both games spilling well into the new year for their finales.

* One ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode was trying to stop some The Delightful Children From Down the Lane from making Christmas only for them. It was also an AffectionateParody of Marvel Comics, complete with Stan Lee-style narration and a superteam of ChristmasElves based on the X-men.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} goes through this all. the. friggin'. time. If there's one hero that never takes the day off during the holidays, it's Batman. His enemies LOVE to stir up crap during Christmas, especially guys like ComicBook/TheJoker, ComicBook/MrFreeze, and the Calendar Man.
* In the ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' comic book series there was a story in the 70s called "2000 Light Years to Christmas!" In it, the League must recover three powerful objects that some aliens have lost on Earth; one of them falls in the hands of a little girl who lost her family in a Middle Eastern war and uses it for revenge against the invaders. While there is plenty of action, in the end, the girl is convinced to surrender the object peacefully by ComicBook/RedTornado. It is later revealed that the objects were actually intended as gifts... for a messiah being born in another world! Oh, and Tornado, who is an android, adopts the little girl as his daughter.
** There's another one-shot (JLA#60, or in the ComicBook/TerrorIncognita trade paperback) where ComicBook/PlasticMan, helping friends on Christmas Eve, has to tell a story to get their son off to sleep. He spins a yarn of Santa Claus helping the JLA to deal with the demon, Neron, which includes use of his 'heat vision'. Martian Manhunter, listening in on Plastic Man's open communicator, is able to use his powers to convince the son that Santa does have heat vision but still can't believe that Plastic Man came up with the idea of Santa having heat vision [[spoiler:Neither can Santa himself who is revealed at the end to also have been listening in ...]]
* Creator/MarvelComics occasionally publishes {{Christmas Special}}s focused on ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'', which usually feature two things; Frank dressing up as Santa, and Frank killing a lot of bad guys. Oftentimes, he does both simultaneously.
* The Silent Night chapter of ''ComicBook/SinCity''.

* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12290360/1/Star-trek-Frontier-URE-2-Christmas-Special Star trek Frontier URE 2: Christmas Special]] has a pair of elves recruit Ron Pinkerton, Takeshi Yamato, Jaden Takeo, and the crews of their respective ships [[SavingChristmas to prevent Sela from ruining Christmas]]. [[HilarityEnsues Hilariously epic combat ensues]].

* The first ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' game takes place around Christmas 2005. This results in just the occasional SexySantaDress around the red light district. The second game, set InUniverse a year later, follows suit. ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' returns to being set during Christmas 2012, with Sapporo being the most blatant city to celebrate it thanks to their winter festival. ''VideoGame/Yakuza6'' also returns to Christmas, being set during December 2016. Its spin-off subseries ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}'' and the sequel ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'' are also set during Christmas 2018 and 2021 respectively, with both games spilling well into the new year for their finales.

** In the ''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Michaelangelo]]'' one-shot, Mike went out on Christmas Eve to enjoy the Christmas sights, play in the snow, shop for Christmas presents, adopt a homeless cat... and get involved in a high-speed car chase with gun-packing robbers who had run off with a truckload of toys that were being donated to an orphanage. The comic was eventually adapted into the episode "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S3E13TheChristmasAliens The Christmas Aliens]]" in the third season of the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 second animated series.]]

* The episode "The Christmas Aliens" of the second ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2003}}'' animated series features Michelangelo going out on Christmas Eve to do some last-minute shopping while his family prepare for a big Christmas party, and ending up fighting against criminals who are stealing toys that were supposed to go to an orphanage. The story's an [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] version of the ''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS Michaelangelo]]'' one-shot comic from [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the original Mirage comic]].

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' takes place on Christmas Eve, with the clock hitting midnight and thus making it actual Christmas Day.

* ''WebAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasWhoSkellingtonsRevenge'', a YoutubePoop that turns ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' into a CrisisCrossover with waves of characters teaming up to stop Jack Skellington from taking over Christmas in a demonic rabbit mecha.