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* ''WesternAnimation/AceVenturaPetDetective'': The plot of "The Reindeer Hunter" is Ace tracking down Santa Claus's reindeer after they're abducted so he can finish making his deliveries.



* ''WesternAnimation/AxeCop'' features an incredibly bizarre take on the "BadSanta" variant of the story. Bad Santa, Good Santa's EvilTwin, plans to [[InsaneTrollLogic kill God in order to become Jesus]]. Good Santa gives Axe Cop "The Power of Christmas" (which is an actual transformation magic power-up) to stop Bad Santa.
** Even stranger, ''it's not a Christmas episode.'' The episode aired in August and it appears to be set in the summer. Axe Cop only wants to fight Bad Santa because Bad Santa accidentally killed Axe Cop's parents (he was trying to kill Axe Cop, since as Bad Santa, it's his job to kill kids who are on the nice list).

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* ''WesternAnimation/AxeCop'' features an incredibly bizarre take on the "BadSanta" variant of the story. Bad Santa, Good Santa's EvilTwin, plans to [[InsaneTrollLogic kill God in order to become Jesus]]. Good Santa gives Axe Cop "The Power of Christmas" (which is an actual transformation magic power-up) to stop Bad Santa.
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Santa. Even stranger, ''it's not a Christmas episode.'' The episode aired in August and it appears to be set in the summer. Axe Cop only wants to fight Bad Santa because Bad Santa accidentally killed Axe Cop's parents (he was trying to kill Axe Cop, since as Bad Santa, it's his job to kill kids who are on the nice list).
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* ''WesternAnimation/WelcomeBackPinocchio'': The Coachman, alongside the Cat, the Fox and his two new henchmen Robot and Harlequin, decide to kidnap Santa Claus in order to use his sleigh and costume to commit frauds and turn his elves into their servants. Why? [[ForTheEvulz To show that they're evil]]. Pinocchio gets caught into one of the aforemented frauds, turns back into a puppet and later on decides to go to the North Pole to save Santa after discovering the whole truth.
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* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheSeasons'': The premise of the game is that Utania Village needs to hire mercenaries to protect them during Christmas Eve, due to Gobi's anti-Christmas coalition declaring war on them.
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* Subverted in Bethlehem - the birthplace of Christ - in 2023, where [[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/25/no-room-for-the-people-of-gaza-the-persecution-mirrors-that-of-jesus-birth-says-popes-patriarch most traditional Christmas festivities were cancelled]] in the wake of the Israel-Gaza war, as it was seen as inappropriate to celebrate Christ's birth in the face of the brutal suffering of other children in the region.
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* In an issue of ''ComicBook/DCComicsPresents'' from the early 80's, Comicbook/{{Superman}} teamed up with Santa Claus to stop The Toyman from controlling children with his toys on Christmas Eve. It all turned out to be AllJustADream... [[OrWasItADream or was it]]?

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* In an issue of ''ComicBook/DCComicsPresents'' from the early 80's, Comicbook/{{Superman}} ComicBook/{{Superman}} teamed up with Santa Claus to stop The Toyman from controlling children with his toys on Christmas Eve. It all turned out to be AllJustADream... [[OrWasItADream or was it]]?



* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' had a truly bizarre episode: "Have a Very Morlock X-Mas", where ComicBook/{{Storm}}, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, and Jubilee encounter some rampaging Morlocks while they're Christmas shopping--and then discover that the Morlocks just wanted medicine because one of them was deathly ill. So Storm and Wolverine rush off to get the medicine, and Jubilee tells the ill Morlock girl that, yes, she believes in Christmas miracles.

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* ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' had a truly bizarre episode: "Have a Very Morlock X-Mas", where ComicBook/{{Storm}}, ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}}, ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, and Jubilee encounter some rampaging Morlocks while they're Christmas shopping--and then discover that the Morlocks just wanted medicine because one of them was deathly ill. So Storm and Wolverine rush off to get the medicine, and Jubilee tells the ill Morlock girl that, yes, she believes in Christmas miracles.
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* ''Snail Bob 6: Winter Story'' has Bob on a quest to rescue Snail Santa from an evil rabbit.

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* After eighty years, WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse has finally gotten around to saving Santa...in a direct-to-video episode of a preschool show. ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOntheTin Mickey Saves Santa]]''.

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* After eighty years, WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse has finally gotten got around to saving Santa...in a direct-to-video episode of a preschool show. ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse: show (''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOntheTin Mickey Saves Santa]]''.Santa]]'').
** The standalone stop-motion special ''Mickey Saves Christmas'' is a lower-stakes example: Due to an accident involving Mickey's decorated cabin, Santa's sleigh crashes and the bag of gifts for the residents of Hot Dog Hills is lost. Since the elves have already been dismissed for the holiday, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and Pluto head to the North Pole to create a replacement set of gifts for Santa to deliver, while Santa and Mrs. Claus try to track down a stray reindeer who makes a beeline for the cabin.
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* The plot of ''VideoGame/HappylandAdventures: X-mas Edition'' is that Santa's helpers have all disappeared, and the player is tasked with finding them in time for Christmas Day.
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** ''Film/TheSantaClause3TheEscapeClause'' has the "other kind of Santa flavour: Santa is betrayed by [[BadSanta Jack Frost]], who takes over from Scott and proceeds to turn the North Pole into a theme park and hotel.

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** ''Film/TheSantaClause3TheEscapeClause'' has the "other kind of Santa flavour: Santa is betrayed by JackFrost, [[BadSanta Jack Frost]], who takes over from Scott as new Santa]] and proceeds to turn the North Pole into a theme park and hotel.

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