History Main / DidIMentionItsChristmas

For explosive action in a Christmas-y setting, it's AnAssKickingChristmas. For when it being Christmas ''is'' important, but not in a good way, see TwistedChristmas, CrappyHolidays, or HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday.

This is one of those fairly rare occurrences when a story [[ChristmasEpisode takes place at Christmas time]] or has some heavy Chistmassy elements to it but ''isn't'' about peace, goodwill to men, the birth of Christ, good old Saint Nick, or any of the other usual trappings of a jolly old Christmas tale. In fact, with this trope, the holiday setting has no bearing whatsoever on the story in question (except, perhaps, to lampshade the sheer irony of all this chaos happening when people should be celebrating), and in most of them you'd likely forget it was the holidays entirely (that is, assuming you even noticed it in the first place) if not for the occasional appearance of a Christmas tree or or the presence of some other decorations or music.

This is one of those fairly rare occurrences when a story takes place at Christmas time or has some heavy Chistmassy elements to it but isn't about peace, good-will to all men, the birth of Christ, good old Saint Nick, or any of the other usual trappings of a jolly old Christmas tale. In fact, with this trope, the holiday setting has no bearing whatsoever on the story in question (except, perhaps, for the sheer irony of all this chaos happening when people should be celebrating), and in most of them you'd likely forget it was the holidays entirely (that is, assuming you even noticed it in the first place) if not for the occasional appearance of a Christmas tree or or the presence of some other decorations or music.

This is one of those fairly rare occurrences when a story takes place at Christmas time or has some heavy Chistmassy elements to it but isn't about peace, good-will to all men, the birth of Christ, good old Saint Nick, or any of the other usual trappings of a jolly old Christmas tale. In fact, with this trope, the holiday setting has no bearing whatsoever on the story in question (except, perhaps, for all this chaos happening when people should be celebrating), and in most of them you'd likely forget it was the holidays entirely (that is, assuming you even noticed it in the first place) if not for the occasional appearance of a Christmas tree or or the presence of some other decorations or music.

This is one of those fairly rare occurrences when a story takes place at Christmas time or has some heavy Chistmassy elements to it but isn't about peace, good-will to all men, the birth of Christ, Ol' Saint Nick, or any of the usual trappings of a jolly old Christmas tale. In fact, with this trope, the holiday setting has no bearing whatsoever on the story in question (except, perhaps, for all this chaos happening when people should be celebrating). In fact, in most of these stories, you'd most likely forget or not even notice it's Christmas at all if it wasn't for the occasional appearance of a Christmas tree or or the presence of some other decorations or music.

* ''Film/{{Cobra}}: The movie takes place at Christmas, which is hinted at by some of the grocery store's window dressing, the Christmas lights arranged in a diner where one of the Night Slasher's victims works, and a full-length Toys R Us Christmas ad plays before the news in Cobretti's apartment.

For explosive action in a Christmas-y setting, it's AnAssKickingChristmas. For when it being Christmas ''is'' important, but not in a good way, see TwistedChristmas, CrappyHolidays, or HorrorDoesntSettleForSimpleTuesday. Contrast DoTheyKnowItsChristmasTime.

* Creator/StevenSpielberg's ''[[Film/NineteenFortyOne 1941]]'' is a pretty good example of this. While its December setting makes sense, considering it takes place a few days after the events of Pearl Harbor, outside of some lines said by various characters about the holidays, and references to characters Hollis Woods occupation as a Christmas Tree salesman, all references to the holiday are kept minimal at best. Granted you see a few Santa Clauses in the extended edition of the movie, but that's about it.

** Likewise "[[Recap/DoctorWho2012CSTheSnowmen The Snowmen]]" three years later, following two ''even more Christmassy'' Christmas specials. To the point that [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} the Other Wiki's]] synopsis doesn't even ''mention'' that it's set on Christmas Eve, because it's totally irrelevant.

* Music/{{Eminem}} daughter Hailie was born on December 25th, and he had a near-fatal drug overdose on December 24th 2007. The result of this is that several of his songs take place incidentally at Christmas, but are really about his drug overdose and children; "Rock Bottom" and "Mockingbird" mention struggling financially around Hailie's first birthday ("Mockingbird" even mentions the Christmas tree), and "Mr Mathers (skit)", "Deja Vu", a verse of "Hello" and "Going Through Changes" all discuss his overdose. "Castle" and "Arose" discuss both his overdose and Hailie.

* ''Film/ComfortAndJoy'' takes place during Christmastime, but really has nothing at all to do with the holiday. Move the story to any other time of the year and nothing would change... Except perhaps that the audience might not get the "sanity clause" joke.

** The first two games take place in December of 2005 and 2006 respectively. You have to look pretty hard to see it but there are a few decorations and one or two stores play Xmas tunes. "[[AmazingFreakingGrace Amazing Grace]]" plays over the credits of the first game, while "Silent Night" plays over the credits of the second.
** The third and fourth games avert this tradition.

** The family witnessed the brutal beat-down and murder of a family friend who was a transgender.

** The family witnessed the brutal beat-down and murder of a family friend who was a transsexual.

* ''Literature/BillyBakersDogWontStayBuried'' is set on Christmas, but it's only relevant in one scene and it's not mentioned too much otherwise.

* ''Film/{{Mitchell}}'' actually takes place during the holidays (a Christmas tree is visible in the scenes at Deaney's house, Christmas cards can be seen at the police station, Greta is hired as a "Christmas gift" for Mitchell), but it doesn't really figure into the plot at all.

* Taken to extremes in the Sega Genesis ''Franchise/Superman'' game. The newspapers between levels show that the game takes place on December 22-24, 1992. Absolutely no references to Christmas are made anywhere; no decorations, no carols, not even a single flake of snow!

* Although it takes place on Christmas Eve, Music/ThePogues' "Fairytale of New York" is actually not about celebrating Christmas at all. It is more about the eroding of dreams and the people you've come to hate (but are stuck with). The British keep voting it "Best Christmas Song" in various polls. Something about being stuck with family resonates with us, we think.

* ''VideoGame/ESPRaDe'' takes place around Christmas as evidenced by the Christmas trees in the Shopping Mall stage (and you only see them if you play as J-B 5th or Alice Master) and the stage progress M2 Gadget in the ''ESP Ra.De. Psi'' UpdatedRerelease confirms that the game takes place on December 24-25. However Christmas never factors into the story in-game. That said, the limited edition release of ''Psi'' does feature the protagonists gathering together to open Christmas presents.