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* '''Halloween:''' Candy, bags for collecting candy, pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns, autumn, dry and falling leaves, spooky vibes, nighttime, cute animal costumes for kids, scary monster costumes for teens, roaming the streets, oranges and purples.
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* '''Valentine's Day:''' Love, lust, chocolate, hearts, reds and magentas, Cupid/Eros.
* '''St. Patrick's Day:''' Green and gold, Irish culture, leprechauns (possibly not the most tasteful), rainbows, beer, clovers/shamrocks.
* '''Easter:''' Springtime, rabbits, easter eggs, candy.
* '''Halloween:''' Candy, pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns, autumn, spooky vibes, nighttime, monsters, oranges and purples.
* '''Thanksgiving:''' Pilgrims, turkey, thankfulness, feasts.
* '''Christmas:''' Reindeer, snow/wintertime, charity and generosity, gift-giving, reds and greens, gingerbread, the Arctic.
* '''St. Patrick's Day:''' Green and gold, Irish culture, leprechauns (possibly not the most tasteful), rainbows, beer, clovers/shamrocks.
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* '''Thanksgiving:''' Pilgrims, turkey, thankfulness, feasts.
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* '''Valentine's Day:''' Love, lust, chocolate, hearts, reds and magentas, Cupid/Eros.
Cupid/Eros with a bow and arrow, flowers, romantic dinner dates.
* '''St. Patrick's Day:''' Green and gold, Irish culture, leprechauns (possibly not the most tasteful), rainbows, beer, Irish songs, clovers/shamrocks.
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* '''Thanksgiving:''' Pilgrims, turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie, cranberries, , drinking alcohol, thankfulness, family get-togethers, feasts.
* '''Christmas:''' Reindeer, snow/wintertime, charity and generosity, gift-giving, reds and greens, gingerbread, theArctic.Arctic, Santa Claus.
* '''St. Patrick's Day:''' Green and gold, Irish culture, leprechauns (possibly not the most tasteful), rainbows, beer, Irish songs, clovers/shamrocks.
* '''Easter:''' Springtime, rabbits, easter eggs,
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* '''Thanksgiving:''' Pilgrims, turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie, cranberries, , drinking alcohol, thankfulness, family get-togethers, feasts.
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* ''Film/ViolentNight'': The wealthy Lightstone family are taken hostage by a gang of mercenaries with holiday themed code names (Scrooge, Candy Cane, Frosty, Krampus). The reason for the code names being ironic given that the ringleader, Scrooge, has a hatred of Christmas and the invasion is happening on Christmas Eve.
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* Creator/TimBurton's take on ''Film/SleepyHollow'' is DRENCHED in Halloween imagery. From scarecrows with Jack-o-lantern heads to the gothic farming town to the classic Hammer Horror inspired visuals to the creepy witches. And don't forget a headless horseman played by Christopher Walken!
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* Creator/TimBurton's take on ''Film/SleepyHollow'' ''Film/{{Sleepy Hollow|1999}}'' is DRENCHED in Halloween imagery. From scarecrows with Jack-o-lantern heads to the gothic farming town to the classic Hammer Horror inspired visuals to the creepy witches. And don't forget a headless horseman played by Christopher Walken!
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** ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': True to their names, the Holidays are a family of anthropomorphic reindeer themed after Christmastime. Noelle is named after Noël, the French word for Christmas, Rudy is named after the title character of ''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'', and "Dess," the name of Noelle's unseen sister, is implied to be short for "December." Rudy occasionally uses Christmas-themed wordplay (e.g. "jingle my bells") and has an angel tree-topper in his hospital room, while the month of December is ironically a TraumaButton for Noelle.
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** ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': True to their names, the Holidays are a family of anthropomorphic reindeer themed after Christmastime. Noelle is named after Noël, the French word for Christmas, Rudy is named after the title character of ''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'', and "Dess," the name of Noelle's unseen sister, is implied to be short for "December." Rudy occasionally uses Christmas-themed wordplay (e.g. "jingle my bells") and has an angel tree-topper in his hospital room, while and Noelle wears a red and green sweater, owns pencils with candy-cane and Christmas-light patterns, and [[spoiler:ends up in a white dress that makes her look like an angel when she ends up in the month of December is ironically a TraumaButton Cyber World]]. As for Noelle.Mrs. Holiday, it's implied that she's the mayor of the town who keeps the air conditioning in her office at full blast.
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* ''Literature/HolidayHeroes'': Each member of the eponymous superhero team is themed around a certain holiday: New Year's for Baby New Year, Valentine's Day for Miss Cupid, and Christmas for Christmas Girl.
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* The ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'' films have a killer leprechaun and an emphasis on lucky gold coins.
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* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has several duel monsters with [[ HolidayMotif Holiday Motifs]]. A few examples are the [[HalloweenTropes Halloween-themed]] [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ghostrick Ghostrick Archetype]] and the [[ChristmasTropes Christmas-themed]] [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Santa_Claws Santa Claws]].
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* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has several duel monsters with HolidayMotifs. A few examples are the [[HalloweenTropes Halloween-themed]] [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ghostrick Ghostrick Archetype]] and the [[ChristmasTropes Christmas-themed]] [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Santa_Claws Santa Claws]].
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* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has several duel monsters with HolidayMotifs. A few examples are the [[HalloweenTropes Halloween-themed]] [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ghostrick Ghostrick Archetype]] and the [[ChristmasTropes Christmas-themed]] [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Santa_Claws Santa Claws]].
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* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' has several duel monsters with HolidayMotifs. A few examples are the [[HalloweenTropes Halloween-themed]] [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Ghostrick Ghostrick Archetype]] and the [[ChristmasTropes Christmas-themed]] [[https://yugipedia.com/wiki/Santa_Claws Santa Claws]].
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{Rwby}}'', the character of "Big" Nicholas Schnee, late founder of the Schnee dust company, is implied to be a Santa Claus parallel. He was a kind and generous business man operating out of the frozen north of Remnant and had an association with the color red. A picture of the man shows him with a snowy white beard.
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* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist are jack-o-lantern Pokémon. They're both Ghost-types, and their Pokédex entries describe them as particularly active at night, when trick-or-treating would take place. Pumpkaboo even prefer to ferry the souls of deceased children to the afterlife according to the Galarian Dex.
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** Delibird is an avian-like Pokémon that takes on the Christmas motif. It is based on SantaClaus and its dual typing (ice and flying) matches the holiday perfectly.
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** Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist are jack-o-lantern Pokémon. They're both Ghost-types, and their Pokédex entries describe them as particularly active at night, when trick-or-treating would take place. Pumpkaboo even prefer to ferry the souls of deceased children to the afterlife according to the Galarian
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* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'': Hermie III is a giant hermit crab with a shell designed after a Christmas tree, which he decorates with various found objects in the vein of ornaments. Mario and Luigi fight him to obtain a piece of the Beanstar that he's using as a tree-topper, and after defeating him, the brothers can undertake an optional sidequest to replace it with Spangle, an anthropomorphic starfish. The Christmas theming is more explicit in the Japanese and Chinese versions, where Hermie III is respectively named Yadorufu Sansei (a play on ''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'') and Shèngdàn Xiè S'nshì (literally "Christmas Crab III").
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When we think of holidays, there's generally a specific aesthetic that comes to mind for everyone, like the festive reds and greens of Christmas or the spooky nighttime vibes of Halloween. Those associations make them wells for visual motifs. You'll see holiday aesthetics applied on everything from characters, locations, and important items.
The work itself need not be about holidays; having specific characters and locales within the setting that are holiday-themed is the basis of the trope.
This trope often overlaps with more specific holiday figures like SantaClaus and the EasterBunny.
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* '''Valentine's Day:''' Love, lust, chocolate, hearts, reds and magentas, Cupid/Eros.
* '''St. Patrick's Day:''' Green and gold, Irish culture, leprechauns (possibly not the most tasteful), rainbows, beer, clovers/shamrocks.
* '''Easter:''' Springtime, rabbits, easter eggs, candy.
* '''Halloween:''' Candy, pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns, autumn, spooky vibes, nighttime, monsters, oranges and purples.
* '''Thanksgiving:''' Pilgrims, turkey, thankfulness, feasts.
* '''Christmas:''' Reindeer, snow/wintertime, charity and generosity, gift-giving, reds and greens, gingerbread, the Arctic.
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!!!Sub-tropes include:
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* BeMyValentine
* ChristmasTown
* HalloweenTown
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Can overlap with HolidayPersonification.
Compare HolidayMode where the setting will be altered in the event of a holiday, thereby making the event the focus rather than specific elements of the setting.
!!Examples
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* Manga/{{MAR}}: Halloween is one of the members of a villainous organization: The Chess Pieces. His pumpkin mask and his fire-themed Arm matches his eponymous holiday theme.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** [[Characters/OnePieceTonyTonyChopper Chopper]] has a bit of a Christmas motif, being a talking [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer outcast reindeer]] with a funny colored nose, pulling his master's sleigh around, and being born on December 24th.
** The female agents of Baroque Works are all named after days of the year, with the highest-ranking agents all being named after important holidays. This affects small parts of their designs the more you look. Miss Merry Christmas for example is a talkative old woman with a necktie resembling a Christmas tree, Miss Golden Week is a bored young girl who's abilities are painting-themed-given that Golden Week includes Children's Day and is celebrated with arts and crafts, and Miss Valentine who, according to an ImagineSpot in a side story, is really passionate about being a chocolatier.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'': One of the main allies of the protagonists is Blair, a young witch with the archetypal pointy hat, the ability to turn into a black cat, and pumpkin themed magic-giving her a very spot-on Halloween theme. She even makes her home in a giant pumpkin.
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* In ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'' 12-issue mini-series and its adaptation, Batman tries to discover the culprit behind a series of murders of Gotham mafia bosses that just happen to die on national holidays (e.g., Christmas, New Year, Labor Day, Father's Day, Valentines Day). The true villain depends on the media.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'''s Land of the Dead is built on the aesthetics of Día de Muertos. The world is lit in [[VibrantOrange bright, festive oranges]] and is inhabited by the deceased who resemble living calaveras (a decorative representation of a skull common in Mexico and a key ornament in the holiday).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' takes place in a setting in which each holiday has its own town, behind a series of themed doors. Only Halloween Town and Christmas Town are given any focus, but there are apparently also towns based on major holidays such as St. Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day, Easter, and Thanksgiving. This extends to the characters as well; SantaClaus and EasterBunny have roles in the film as characters that represent their respective holidays, and Jack Skellington (also known as the Pumpkin King) is the physical representation of Halloween.
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* In the prologue for ''Film/HotFuzz'', the narrator states that one of P.C. Nicholas Angel's many commendations was earned for taking an injury apprehending a serial killer dressed as Father Christmas. We see the guy in the act too stabbing Angel in the hand.
* The ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'' films have a killer leprechaun and an emphasis on lucky gold coins.
* ''Film/ThePurge'' movies are traditionally released around or close to the Fourth of July. The second, third, and fourth in particular are filled with twisted takes on patriotic imagery one would expect to see around Independence Day.
* Creator/TimBurton's take on ''Film/SleepyHollow'' is DRENCHED in Halloween imagery. From scarecrows with Jack-o-lantern heads to the gothic farming town to the classic Hammer Horror inspired visuals to the creepy witches. And don't forget a headless horseman played by Christopher Walken!
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* ''Literature/HolidayHeroes'': Each member of the eponymous superhero team is themed around a certain holiday: New Year's for Baby New Year, Valentine's Day for Miss Cupid, and Christmas for Christmas Girl.
* ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow'' and its adaptations have, overtime, adopted Halloweentime aesthetics, especially the Headless Horseman who's a relentlessly creepy figure carrying a Jack-o-lantern in place of his severed head.
* ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' is a Christian themed fantasy work set in a snowy wonderland where the heroes are aided by Father Christmas.
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* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': Each game in the series features sets of furniture themed after various in-game holidays, themselves analogous to real-world holidays in the western world (e.g. Toy Day for Christmas, the Harvest Festival for Thanksgiving, and Festivale for Mardi Gras). In most games, this themed furniture is only obtainable during their respective holidays, while in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'', most of it is instead purchasable during the ''leadup'' to each celebration.
* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'':
** The DLC ''T.K. Baha's Bloody Harvest'' is set in the Haunted Hollow, a retirement destination for the undead of Pandora. The area is a spooky forest filled with decrepit windmills, old graveyards and abandoned churches, and an abundance of both pumpkins and the living dead. The quest giver of the area is a familiar zombie who takes his payment in brain candy. Naturally, this was released around Halloween, though the holiday itself is not referenced.
** The next DLC is the Thanksgiving themed ''The Horrible Hunger of the Ravenous Wattle Gobbler''. Mr. Torgue recruits the player to fight a giant, Ma eating turkey-like monster; to do this, the player prepares it a poisoned meal in a massive kitchen, then battles it in a Hunger Games-style battle with a literal cornucopia. Once again, this was released around Thanksgiving, but the actual holiday isn't referenced.
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'': [[Characters/GuiltyGearJackO Jack-O' Valentine]] is themed around Halloween, her name being a play on "jack-o-lantern''. She dons an iron mask with a jack-o-lantern design-something that's also on her minions and [[EpicFlail ball-and-chain weapon]], a deep love for sweets and candy, and is a twofold reference to the holiday as well as the power metal band Music/{{Helloween}}.
* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'': [=HolliJolli=] Village is a distinctly Christmas themed village with lights in the trees and a Santa-esque Mayor.
* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'': Hermie III is a giant hermit crab with a shell designed after a Christmas tree, which he decorates with various found objects in the vein of ornaments. Mario and Luigi fight him to obtain a piece of the Beanstar that he's using as a tree-topper, and after defeating him, the brothers can undertake an optional sidequest to replace it with Spangle, an anthropomorphic starfish. The Christmas theming is more explicit in the Japanese and Chinese versions, where Hermie III is respectively named Yadorufu Sansei (a play on ''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'') and Shèngdàn Xiè S'nshì (literally "Christmas Crab III").
* ''VideoGame/MediEvil'' is a medieval inspired DarkFantasy game with the odd sprinkling of Halloween friendly imagery. Witches, zombies, magic, bright oranges and purples, Jack-o-lantern enemies' not to mention the player character is a skeleton!
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist are jack-o-lantern Pokémon. They're both Ghost-types, and their Pokédex entries describe them as particularly active at night, when trick-or-treating would take place. Pumpkaboo even prefer to ferry the souls of deceased children to the afterlife according to the Galarian Dex.
* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse'': Introduced in episode 2 is Nicholas St. Kringle, a ruthless early-20th century toy magnate with a red wardrobe, a love of cookies, and a workforce comprised of elves. To drive the point home, the character's appearance is modeled off of Santa's as seen in the previous season.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sdorica}}'': Leah is a cute half-rabbit girl who carries around an egg basket that she can imbue with colorful and explosive magic. In other words, she's an EasterBunny.
* The ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games feature the recurring character Jack-O-Lantern-or Pyro Jack, a tiny figure in a cape with a Jack-o-lantern and witch's hat on its head carrying a lantern.
* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'': The not-too-subtly-named Valentine is loosely themed around the eponymous day. She's ''Skullgirls''' resident MsFanservice (which in a game as risqué as this says a ''lot''), making herself present as desirably as possible to manipulate enemies. She also enjoys dark chocolate and alludes to "heart-stopping" with many of her attacks like her defibrillators and super move that [[StealthPun flatlines]] her enemy. She actually comes from a band of nurses all themed after holidays, including "Christmas", "Patty", "Hallow", and "Easter".
* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' has Pumpkin Hill, a Halloween themed level for Knuckles set at night amongst Jack-o-Lantern shaped mountains and filled with ghosts and graveyards.
* ''Undertale'':
** ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': Snowdin Town is a more downplayed example, but it does have a Christmas tree in the center of town and you might see a reindeer-like monster in the forest outside of town covered in decorations as a prank.
** ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': True to their names, the Holidays are a family of anthropomorphic reindeer themed after Christmastime. Noelle is named after Noël, the French word for Christmas, Rudy is named after the title character of ''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'', and "Dess," the name of Noelle's unseen sister, is implied to be short for "December." Rudy occasionally uses Christmas-themed wordplay (e.g. "jingle my bells") and has an angel tree-topper in his hospital room, while the month of December is ironically a TraumaButton for Noelle.
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{Rwby}}'', the character of "Big" Nicholas Schnee, late founder of the Schnee dust company, is implied to be a Santa Claus parallel. He was a kind and generous business man operating out of the frozen north of Remnant and had an association with the color red. A picture of the man shows him with a snowy white beard.
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* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic has the recurring character Santa Christ. As the name implies, he is a amalgam of two particular Christmas related characters - a kindly old man with a candy-cane staff who goes around giving gifts and can resurrect three days after getting killed.
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* Cupid is a recurring character on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''. He is, of course, the god of love, has the magic bow and arrows that induce love, is associated with pink, white, and heart imagery, and plays an important part of the Valentines Day special.
* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': The principal of K.O.'s school is distinctly modeled around Santa, being a jolly old man in red who is often seen only once a year.
* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': Episode two finds the main characters in Pottsfield, a town celebrating a mildly Halloween-esque harvest festival by dressing up in costumes made from pumpkins, complete with Jack-O-Lantern like heads. [[spoiler:It is revealed at the end of the episode that beneath their costumes, the townsfolk are all skeletons.]]
** [[spoiler:Any further parallels to Halloween are explained in episode nine: the boys are dreaming after nearly drowning in a river on Halloween night.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Due to the world's alternate history, most real world holidays do not exactly exist in the series. However, there are special episodes themed to specific holidays, such as Christmas (Greg, the Gems, and baby Steven in Greg's van during a snowstorm resembling a Nativity scene) and Thanksgiving (The Gems preparing a family dinner for one of Greg's conservative relatives), to name a few.
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The work itself need not be about holidays; having specific characters and locales within the setting that are holiday-themed is the basis of the trope.
This trope often overlaps with more specific holiday figures like SantaClaus and the EasterBunny.
[[folder:Common Holiday Associations]]
* '''Valentine's Day:''' Love, lust, chocolate, hearts, reds and magentas, Cupid/Eros.
* '''St. Patrick's Day:''' Green and gold, Irish culture, leprechauns (possibly not the most tasteful), rainbows, beer, clovers/shamrocks.
* '''Easter:''' Springtime, rabbits, easter eggs, candy.
* '''Halloween:''' Candy, pumpkins/jack-o-lanterns, autumn, spooky vibes, nighttime, monsters, oranges and purples.
* '''Thanksgiving:''' Pilgrims, turkey, thankfulness, feasts.
* '''Christmas:''' Reindeer, snow/wintertime, charity and generosity, gift-giving, reds and greens, gingerbread, the Arctic.
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!!!Sub-tropes include:
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* BeMyValentine
* ChristmasTown
* HalloweenTown
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Can overlap with HolidayPersonification.
Compare HolidayMode where the setting will be altered in the event of a holiday, thereby making the event the focus rather than specific elements of the setting.
!!Examples
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* Manga/{{MAR}}: Halloween is one of the members of a villainous organization: The Chess Pieces. His pumpkin mask and his fire-themed Arm matches his eponymous holiday theme.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** [[Characters/OnePieceTonyTonyChopper Chopper]] has a bit of a Christmas motif, being a talking [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer outcast reindeer]] with a funny colored nose, pulling his master's sleigh around, and being born on December 24th.
** The female agents of Baroque Works are all named after days of the year, with the highest-ranking agents all being named after important holidays. This affects small parts of their designs the more you look. Miss Merry Christmas for example is a talkative old woman with a necktie resembling a Christmas tree, Miss Golden Week is a bored young girl who's abilities are painting-themed-given that Golden Week includes Children's Day and is celebrated with arts and crafts, and Miss Valentine who, according to an ImagineSpot in a side story, is really passionate about being a chocolatier.
* ''Manga/SoulEater'': One of the main allies of the protagonists is Blair, a young witch with the archetypal pointy hat, the ability to turn into a black cat, and pumpkin themed magic-giving her a very spot-on Halloween theme. She even makes her home in a giant pumpkin.
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* In ''ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'' 12-issue mini-series and its adaptation, Batman tries to discover the culprit behind a series of murders of Gotham mafia bosses that just happen to die on national holidays (e.g., Christmas, New Year, Labor Day, Father's Day, Valentines Day). The true villain depends on the media.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'''s Land of the Dead is built on the aesthetics of Día de Muertos. The world is lit in [[VibrantOrange bright, festive oranges]] and is inhabited by the deceased who resemble living calaveras (a decorative representation of a skull common in Mexico and a key ornament in the holiday).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' takes place in a setting in which each holiday has its own town, behind a series of themed doors. Only Halloween Town and Christmas Town are given any focus, but there are apparently also towns based on major holidays such as St. Patrick's Day, Valentine's Day, Easter, and Thanksgiving. This extends to the characters as well; SantaClaus and EasterBunny have roles in the film as characters that represent their respective holidays, and Jack Skellington (also known as the Pumpkin King) is the physical representation of Halloween.
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* In the prologue for ''Film/HotFuzz'', the narrator states that one of P.C. Nicholas Angel's many commendations was earned for taking an injury apprehending a serial killer dressed as Father Christmas. We see the guy in the act too stabbing Angel in the hand.
* The ''Film/{{Leprechaun}}'' films have a killer leprechaun and an emphasis on lucky gold coins.
* ''Film/ThePurge'' movies are traditionally released around or close to the Fourth of July. The second, third, and fourth in particular are filled with twisted takes on patriotic imagery one would expect to see around Independence Day.
* Creator/TimBurton's take on ''Film/SleepyHollow'' is DRENCHED in Halloween imagery. From scarecrows with Jack-o-lantern heads to the gothic farming town to the classic Hammer Horror inspired visuals to the creepy witches. And don't forget a headless horseman played by Christopher Walken!
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* ''Literature/HolidayHeroes'': Each member of the eponymous superhero team is themed around a certain holiday: New Year's for Baby New Year, Valentine's Day for Miss Cupid, and Christmas for Christmas Girl.
* ''Literature/TheLegendOfSleepyHollow'' and its adaptations have, overtime, adopted Halloweentime aesthetics, especially the Headless Horseman who's a relentlessly creepy figure carrying a Jack-o-lantern in place of his severed head.
* ''Literature/TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe'' is a Christian themed fantasy work set in a snowy wonderland where the heroes are aided by Father Christmas.
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* ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'': Each game in the series features sets of furniture themed after various in-game holidays, themselves analogous to real-world holidays in the western world (e.g. Toy Day for Christmas, the Harvest Festival for Thanksgiving, and Festivale for Mardi Gras). In most games, this themed furniture is only obtainable during their respective holidays, while in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'', most of it is instead purchasable during the ''leadup'' to each celebration.
* ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'':
** The DLC ''T.K. Baha's Bloody Harvest'' is set in the Haunted Hollow, a retirement destination for the undead of Pandora. The area is a spooky forest filled with decrepit windmills, old graveyards and abandoned churches, and an abundance of both pumpkins and the living dead. The quest giver of the area is a familiar zombie who takes his payment in brain candy. Naturally, this was released around Halloween, though the holiday itself is not referenced.
** The next DLC is the Thanksgiving themed ''The Horrible Hunger of the Ravenous Wattle Gobbler''. Mr. Torgue recruits the player to fight a giant, Ma eating turkey-like monster; to do this, the player prepares it a poisoned meal in a massive kitchen, then battles it in a Hunger Games-style battle with a literal cornucopia. Once again, this was released around Thanksgiving, but the actual holiday isn't referenced.
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'': [[Characters/GuiltyGearJackO Jack-O' Valentine]] is themed around Halloween, her name being a play on "jack-o-lantern''. She dons an iron mask with a jack-o-lantern design-something that's also on her minions and [[EpicFlail ball-and-chain weapon]], a deep love for sweets and candy, and is a twofold reference to the holiday as well as the power metal band Music/{{Helloween}}.
* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime'': [=HolliJolli=] Village is a distinctly Christmas themed village with lights in the trees and a Santa-esque Mayor.
* ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'': Hermie III is a giant hermit crab with a shell designed after a Christmas tree, which he decorates with various found objects in the vein of ornaments. Mario and Luigi fight him to obtain a piece of the Beanstar that he's using as a tree-topper, and after defeating him, the brothers can undertake an optional sidequest to replace it with Spangle, an anthropomorphic starfish. The Christmas theming is more explicit in the Japanese and Chinese versions, where Hermie III is respectively named Yadorufu Sansei (a play on ''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'') and Shèngdàn Xiè S'nshì (literally "Christmas Crab III").
* ''VideoGame/MediEvil'' is a medieval inspired DarkFantasy game with the odd sprinkling of Halloween friendly imagery. Witches, zombies, magic, bright oranges and purples, Jack-o-lantern enemies' not to mention the player character is a skeleton!
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist are jack-o-lantern Pokémon. They're both Ghost-types, and their Pokédex entries describe them as particularly active at night, when trick-or-treating would take place. Pumpkaboo even prefer to ferry the souls of deceased children to the afterlife according to the Galarian Dex.
* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxTheDevilsPlayhouse'': Introduced in episode 2 is Nicholas St. Kringle, a ruthless early-20th century toy magnate with a red wardrobe, a love of cookies, and a workforce comprised of elves. To drive the point home, the character's appearance is modeled off of Santa's as seen in the previous season.
* ''VideoGame/{{Sdorica}}'': Leah is a cute half-rabbit girl who carries around an egg basket that she can imbue with colorful and explosive magic. In other words, she's an EasterBunny.
* The ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' games feature the recurring character Jack-O-Lantern-or Pyro Jack, a tiny figure in a cape with a Jack-o-lantern and witch's hat on its head carrying a lantern.
* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'': The not-too-subtly-named Valentine is loosely themed around the eponymous day. She's ''Skullgirls''' resident MsFanservice (which in a game as risqué as this says a ''lot''), making herself present as desirably as possible to manipulate enemies. She also enjoys dark chocolate and alludes to "heart-stopping" with many of her attacks like her defibrillators and super move that [[StealthPun flatlines]] her enemy. She actually comes from a band of nurses all themed after holidays, including "Christmas", "Patty", "Hallow", and "Easter".
* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' has Pumpkin Hill, a Halloween themed level for Knuckles set at night amongst Jack-o-Lantern shaped mountains and filled with ghosts and graveyards.
* ''Undertale'':
** ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'': Snowdin Town is a more downplayed example, but it does have a Christmas tree in the center of town and you might see a reindeer-like monster in the forest outside of town covered in decorations as a prank.
** ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': True to their names, the Holidays are a family of anthropomorphic reindeer themed after Christmastime. Noelle is named after Noël, the French word for Christmas, Rudy is named after the title character of ''Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'', and "Dess," the name of Noelle's unseen sister, is implied to be short for "December." Rudy occasionally uses Christmas-themed wordplay (e.g. "jingle my bells") and has an angel tree-topper in his hospital room, while the month of December is ironically a TraumaButton for Noelle.
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{Rwby}}'', the character of "Big" Nicholas Schnee, late founder of the Schnee dust company, is implied to be a Santa Claus parallel. He was a kind and generous business man operating out of the frozen north of Remnant and had an association with the color red. A picture of the man shows him with a snowy white beard.
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* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic has the recurring character Santa Christ. As the name implies, he is a amalgam of two particular Christmas related characters - a kindly old man with a candy-cane staff who goes around giving gifts and can resurrect three days after getting killed.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Cupid is a recurring character on ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents''. He is, of course, the god of love, has the magic bow and arrows that induce love, is associated with pink, white, and heart imagery, and plays an important part of the Valentines Day special.
* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': The principal of K.O.'s school is distinctly modeled around Santa, being a jolly old man in red who is often seen only once a year.
* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheGardenWall'': Episode two finds the main characters in Pottsfield, a town celebrating a mildly Halloween-esque harvest festival by dressing up in costumes made from pumpkins, complete with Jack-O-Lantern like heads. [[spoiler:It is revealed at the end of the episode that beneath their costumes, the townsfolk are all skeletons.]]
** [[spoiler:Any further parallels to Halloween are explained in episode nine: the boys are dreaming after nearly drowning in a river on Halloween night.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Due to the world's alternate history, most real world holidays do not exactly exist in the series. However, there are special episodes themed to specific holidays, such as Christmas (Greg, the Gems, and baby Steven in Greg's van during a snowstorm resembling a Nativity scene) and Thanksgiving (The Gems preparing a family dinner for one of Greg's conservative relatives), to name a few.
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