History Main / AnAsskickingChristmas

A work/episode/story takes place [[ChristmasEpisode during Christmas-time]], and it's action-packed. "Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards man" kind of gets left by the wayside when some people just want some good, old fashioned {{fight|Scene}}s and [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]]. [[WildMassGuessing Maybe they're finding a way to channel their aggression from shopping?]] This is a common occurrence when action/adventure-oriented shows want to do a ChristmasSpecial, but they know the viewers are tuning in expecting some ass-kicking action. If there's a soundtrack, ''The Nutcracker'' will be optional. ''Carol O' the Bells'' is indispensable!

* The eponymous creatures in the first ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' wreak havoc at Christmastime, and the heroes have to fight them off.

* The anime of ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'' has the last three episodes take place at Christmas. The Catian mothership is attacked and taken over by Dogisian forces, and its orbit is set to decay and crash into Earth, forcing the humans to blow the ship up if the main characters can't stop it in time. [[spoiler:They do, and the Catians give humanity a 'Christmas gift' in the form of a space elevator that looks like a giant Christmas tree.]]

* A Literature/{{Discworld}} fic by Creator/AAPessimal sees Ded Moroz, the [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}] Rodinian]] version of the Literature/{{Hogfather}}, arriving in Ankh-Morpork. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14004841/1/Negligient-Discharge Negligient Discharge]]'' charts the subsequent mayhem, involving a mischief-minded Sneguroshka, Nobby Nobbs as an air-gunner, and Ankh-Morpork's Rodinian community celebrating their midwinter festival..

* ''Daze Before Christmas'' has Santa saving the holiday from a group of villains.

* In Creator/LFrankBaum's ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndAdventuresOfSantaClaus'', Santa's toys are stolen by creatures who want kids to receive them through evil deeds rather than good. This pisses off the Great Ak and the forest immortals, Santa's chief supporters, and a war between mythical races ensues.

* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch from the [[SeasonalRot 1980-1981 season]] had a fake trailer for a movie called "Kung Fu Christmas", starring Caine (David Carradine's character from the show "Kung Fu," played by Carradine himself) and Bruce Lee (played by Eddie Murphy).

** Or Music/BobRivers's "I Am Santa Claus," a take on Music/BlackSabbath's "Iron Man."

* The infamous ''TabletopGame/{{Risus}}'' adventure "Kringle All the Way," which starts with versions of Santa representing the Seven Deadly Sins setting out to assassinate Ebenezer Scrooge, Jesus, and ''Christmas shopping'' so he'll have the holiday to himself.

* Surprisingly averted in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' proper; despite four straight years of Halloween maps and three annual [[YouMeanXmas "Australian Christmas"/"Smissmas"]] events that add "festive" items to the game, no official map has ever been released that takes place at Christmas. The supplementary comic [[http://www.teamfortress.com/asmissmasstory/ "A Smissmas Story,"]] however, fits the bill pretty well.

* ''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.

* ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' once did a Christmas sketch in which Goku and Gohan from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' go to the North Pole to fight a half-Santa, half-snowman monster. Eventually Mrs. Clause morphs into what Tetsuo becomes at the end of ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' and Santa resolves never to visit Japan ever again.

* ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'''s second season finale takes place during Christmas Eve.

** "The Night Santa Went Crazy" (from ''Music/BadHairDay'') has Santa go on a rampage due to the stresses of the job.

* "[[Music/WeirdAlYankovic The Night Santa Went Crazy]]"
** Alternatively, "Christmas At Ground Zero".

* "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Music/{{Slade}} counts as this sonically, if not lyrically in parts.

* "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Music/{{Slade}} counts as this sonically, if not lyrically in parts.

* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW'' loves this one, as they have the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'' finale set on a year's Christmas day, and the ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic The Second Raid'' finale on the next year's Christmas Eve. They also have levels set on both New Year's Eves, too. And one in St. Valentine.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', the fifth book is [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on a boat]] on Christmas like the movie. This is actually a double ass-kicking holiday, as this is the novel that reveals that all Whispereds, including Tessa and Kaname, were born within three minutes of each other on Christmas Eve. Sousuke actually makes a point of getting Kaname a Christmas present ''and'' a birthday present.

%%* The climax of ''Film/GangsterSquad'' takes place during Christmas time.

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

* ''Series/WonderWoman1975'': "The Deadly Toys", featuring Frank Gorshin as a toymaker who creates robots to duplicate real people - including Wonder Woman! A TwinSwitch saves the day. It finishes with Wonder Woman spray painting "Merry Christmas" on the store window and signing it: W.W..

* Spoofed at the beginning of ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'', with a fake trailer for ''The Night The Reindeer Died''.

* ''3615 code Père Noël'' (released in English as ''Code Name Santa Claus'', ''Deadly Games'', ''Game Over'', and ''Hide and Freak'') is a 1989 French thriller about a young boy named Thomas who, in an attempt to communicate with Santa Claus, accidentally contacts a local criminal who finds out that his mother is the manager of a department store. The drifter sets out to rob Thomas' house while dressed as Santa, forcing Thomas into a cat-and-mouse game of survival. Notable for having allegedly inspired ''Film/HomeAlone'' (a charge that Creator/JohnHughes denied), to the point where writer/director René Manzor considered suing for UsefulNotes/{{plagiarism}}.

* ''AzureStrikerGunvolt3'': The events of "Holy Night XIII" take place on Christmas Eve, when the [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Primal Dragon]] BB went berserk (at least by Kirin's reckoning) due to getting stood up by a possible date. [[TheCorruption Dragon Radiation]] did the rest of the job, and now there's a GrimReaper Adept flying around terrorizing the neighborhood, made worse by how the Sumeragi peacekeepers (annoyed at being called on job during a holiday) and robots that evacuated citizens before things got worse end up infected by his Dragon Radiation and start running amock themselves. This forces Kirin and GV to head in and neutralize/calm down all hostiles.

* [[https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-nakatomi-employee-ponders-is-this-a-christmas-hostage-situation This piece]] from ''[=McSweeney=]’s'' presents the events of ''Film/DieHard'' from [[PerspectiveFlip the perspective a Nakatomi employee]], who questions whether this is "a Christmas hostage situation or a hostage situation that just happens to occur during Christmas?" They ultimately conclude that since Christmas created the conditions for the hostage crisis and [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Holly and John end up getting back together]], it counts as a Christmas hostage situation.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'''s final StoryArc took place in December, with the final battle coming on Christmas Eve; the OVA (and TheMovie) ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'', which takes place a year later, labels the events of the series "the Eve Wars".
** The final battle of said OVA also takes place on Christmas Eve. [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2020-12-23/beyond-diehard-why-gundam-wing-endless-waltz-is-the-preeminent-christmas-film/.167710 A 2020 Anime News Network article]] even suggest that ''Endless Waltz'' beats out ''Film/DieHard'' as the ultimate Christmas movie, since it has a sentimental element ''Die Hard'' lacks.

* In the [[Creator/DomFera Dom Fera's]] Christmas-themed series, ''WebVideo/Deckd'', there are alot of fight scenes in animated form including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1uqLl6E-gA this one]]