History Main / DidIMentionItsChristmas

* In ''TheWalkingDead'', Dale off-handedly notes to Rick that, by counting the days, they've guessed that it is Christmas Day. Rick angrily tells him not to spread it around, as he doesn't want to disappoint his already traumatized son.

* ''{{Prometheus}}'' is actually set at Christmas time and captain Janek even sets up a christmas tree. It has nothing to do with the plot and nobody else cares.

->'''Argyle''': If this is their idea of Christmas, I ''gotta'' be here for New Year's.

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* ''TheOdessaFile'' is a political thriller about a German reporter trying to find a former Nazi concentration camp commandant in 1963. The movie opens on November 22, 1963 (the day of JohnFKennedy's assassination) with said reporter (Jon Voight) driving through streets lined with Christmas decorations as Perry Como's song "Christmas Dream" plays over the credits.

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** HideoKojima also did this in ''VisualNovel/{{Policenauts}}'', possibly as a reference to ''Snatcher'', or perhaps to make [[SpaceStation Beyond Coast's]] perpetual summer more surreal to the American characters.

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* ''{{Yakuza}}'', the first game at least is set at christmas. you have to llok pretty hard to see it but there is a few decorations and one or two store play xmas tunes.

* ''Film/TheApartment'' takes place around Christmas and New Year's.

* In ''MobileSuitGundam'' the Battle of Solomon, featuring the iconic Mobile Armor Big Zam, takes place on Christmas Eve, though you could be forgiven for not noticing this.
** Similarly, in ''GundamWing'' both Zechs' attempt to blow up the Earth and the Mariemaia Army's insurrection two years later both take place around the holiday season.

* ''{{Condemned}}'' has a level set in a mega-store which is decrepit and abandoned. From the décor and the faint ghostly music you can hear playing, it's evident that the store closed down one Christmas. This is arguably one of the most atmospheric levels of the game largely due to the out of place Xmas setting.
* ParasiteEve is a great example of getting to watch the good people of Manhattan celebrate Xmas 1996 through spontaneous combustion and mass melting.
* Raw Danger is a sequel to Disaster Report which is all about a city flooding and the peoples attempt to escape alive. The Xmas themes are pretty heavy with storee around the city playing xmas music and decoration being all over, plus at the start of the game you are working as a waiter at a big fancy party that has costumed santa cluses walking around entertaining the guests. Other than cosmetic themes though the fact its Christmas seems to be purely incidental.
* The only indication that ''{{Snatcher}}'' takes place on December is the billboards and stock Christmas music that plays in the downtown street scene. Later on, you find one of your contacts disguised in a Santa costume.
** HideoKojima also did this in ''{{Policenauts}}'', possibly as a reference to ''Snatcher'', or perhaps to make [[SpaceStation Beyond Coast's]] perpetual summer more surreal to the American characters.
** [[AllThereInTheManual According to the manual of]] ''MetalGear 2: Solid Snake'', the events of the game take place between the 24th and 25th of December, 1999. There's little reference to this other than the name of [[MeaningfulName Holly White]] and her asking Snake to take her out to Christmas dinner.

* During ''{{Lost}}'' Season 4 episode ''TheConstant'' the characters only find out it's Christmas Eve when they spot the date on a calendar, being too busy with much more important things.

* ''Film/Prometheus'' is actually set at Christmas time and captain Janek even sets up a christmas tree. It has nothing to do with the plot and nobody else cares.

* ''{{Brazil}}'' presents the perfect Christmas present: a decision making machine for business executives! Good to know that your odds of being fired on a whim are a solid 50/50.

* From the JaneAusten canon, ''PrideAndPrejudice, SenseAndSensibility'', and ''{{Emma}}'' all contain scenes which take place over the Christmas season, but it has next to no bearing on any of their plots. The closest it comes is in ''Emma'', in which it's mentioned that the bad weather gives Emma an excuse not to go to church on Christmas after the minister's uncomfortable overtures to her in the carriage a few days prior.

* ''BatmanReturns'' probably fits this trope as well.

* ''{{Psycho}}'' begins on "Friday, December the Eleventh" according to an onscreen graphic during the opening shot, and Christmas decorations can be seen in downtown Phoenix as Janet Leigh's character leaves town. This was a case of ThrowItIn, since they didn't notice there were Christmas decorations in their on-location takes until after filming had concluded, and then they just mentioned it was mid-December in the opening to properly compensate.
** ''[[{{Rambo}} First Blood]]'' is another film where Christmas decorations are visible in several scenes, although no mention of the holiday is ever made by the characters.

->-- ''Film/DieHard''

* ''TheApartment'' takes place around Christmas and New Year's.

* Raw Danger is a sequel to Disaster Report which is all about a city flooding and the peoples attempt to escape alive. Did I mention it's set at Christmas?

* The PC adventure game ''VideoGame/{{Darkstone}}'' has absolutely nothing to do with Christmas. It therefore remains unexplained (except perhaps by RuleOfCool or RuleOfFunny -- YourMileageMayVary) how SantaClaus ends up in the world of the game and must be rescued from one of the higher-level dungeons.

->-- ''DieHard''

* ''DieHard'' would probably be the most famous example of this Trope in that other than a few mentions here and there and the film generally being adorned with Xmas decorations its all out action and senseless violence which in a direct juxtaposition to what the seasons all about.

* The first part of the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "The End of Time" was broadcast on Christmas (and the second on New Year's). Whereas each year of the revived ''Series/DoctorWho'' had had a very Christmassy Christmas special, this one barely mentioned it.