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Santa Claus
"I know a lot of things, Larry. I know you've been on my naughty list since '72. I know that your company has been using my image to promote your products since 1931, and I know I have never seen a dime. And you know what that means, Larry?! I know you are a *beep* thief."
- Voiced by: Seth Green (current), Seth MacFarlane (seasons 1-7)
The holidays' jolly bringer of toys. But a bit more jaded and dickish than usual.
- Accidental Pervert: He tries to hide from a little girl by going back into the chimney, only to get stuck halfway, and his pants to fall off... while wearing no underwear.
- Acrofatic: He has a big belly but also very defined muscles, impressive agility and strength.
- Adaptational Badass: This version of Santa isn't afraid to beat or shoot anyone.
- Adaptational Jerkass: ...nor to berate, hit, or kill his own employees, or to sleep with prostitutes, or to just take a gift from the sled to hide the fact that he forgot to make one for his wife.
- Adaptational Villainy: In "Kill Bunny", where he fights Jesus while on the service of the Easter Bunny. In his own sketches, he qualifies more as a very twisted Anti-Hero.
- All Just a Dream: The Reveal of "One Minute 'til Midnight". This being Robot Chicken, it means things are actually far worse for Santa and company than in his dream. He dreams he has only one minute to deliver all the presents. He's actually choking his wife in his sleep, and being kicked by the Elves to stop.
- Always Someone Better: He's very angry when Superman moves next door, among other things because Mrs. Claus starts placing way too much attention in him.
- Alternate Universe: In sketches set in the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer universe, his appearance is the one he has in the movie unlike in other sketches. But his personality is very much the same.
- Anti-Hero: Surprisingly, he is almost always on the right side of things... despite being also prone to unleashing disproportionate violence. And he clearly loves his wife and his craft.
- Ascended Extra: One of the most recurring characters, yet his first sketch ("Santa's Fall") just showed him falling out of a chimney, with no characterization.
- Badass Santa: RC Santa is not one to mess with. He helped capture Lex Luthor, fought Jason Bourne, and laid waste to a boardroom worth of Coke executives.
- Bad Boss: He often insults and hits his elves and reindeers, and does not care if they are killed. Sometimes, he is the one who has them killed.
- Bad Santa: Zig-Zagged, if not subverted. Unlike most examples of the trope, and despite his flaws (he sleeps with prostitutes, and he often hits and kills people), he's still dedicated to bringing toys to the good, and coals to the naughty on Christmas Night, without Jackass Genie inclinations.
- Bag of Holding: His gift sack, of course.
- Batter Up!:
- He kills half the Coca-Cola boardroom with a baseball bat for using his likeness without permission since 1931.
- In another sketch, a parent knocks him out with a bat after confusing him with a home intruder.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: A World War I soldier jokingly wishes Santa to wipe out the opposing enemy trench as his Christmas gift. So Santa comes, and gives him exactly that... right after the 1914 Christmas Truce
begins. - Being Watched: He knows what everyone does during the year and he's quick to remind people of it.
- Black Comedy:
- In "NORAD Shoots Down Santa", the US Air Force shoots him down because he refuses to identify himself and state his cargo.
- In "A Candy Cane", he is gifted a giant candy cane after he breaks his leg. The candy breaks as soon as he tries to walk with it.
- Blood Is the New Black: By the time he's done killing Coca-Cola executives, he is truly covered head to toe in red.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: He looks into the camera and addresses the audience in "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas".
- Characterization Marches On: In his first speaking role, "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", he is much more passive and good-natured (brief misogynistic joke aside), and his voice sounds weaker and elderly-like.
- The Coats Are Off: He drops his red jacket and reveals his muscled arms before attacking the Coca-Cola executives.
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: He is actually an atheist who believes Christmas is based on consummerism.
- Complaining About Rescues They Don't Like: He slaughters a German trench after a World War I soldier jokingly ask that for Christmas. The soldier is horrified because this happens right after the Germans lay down arms for the 1914 Christmas Truce. Santa can't help be annoyed.
- Deadpan Snarker: Increased with every appearance.
- Death Is Cheap: He dies in one sketch but is resurrected by Jesus.
- Decapitation Presentation: He decapitates Britney Spears and shows her head to the surviving Coke executives when they suggest replacing him with her as their mascot.
- Deconstruction: "The Robot Chicken Lots of Holidays Special" shows him struggling to decide which children deserve gifts and which coal, and getting shocked by the living conditions of children in extreme poverty. It ends with him asking to be left alone to think in the snow.
- Delusions of Eloquence: While tripping on drug-laced cookies, he has a epiphany and phones his elves to apologize. After a few seconds, the show cuts to reveal that he's rambling incoherently.
- Determinator: He will deliver the gifts on time. Nothing else matters.
- Disproportionate Retribution: He beats most Coca-Cola executives to death for using his image without permission... since 1931, as he himself claims. In other words, there is no way those exact executives were old enough to be behind his likeness being stolen and in fact, none of them believed he was real until he walked through their door.
- Distressed Dude: In "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", he is introduced after the Composite Santa steals his reindeer, presents, and pants.
- The Dragon: To the Easter Bunny in "Kill Bunny", a Kill Bill spoof where he plays the part of O-Ren Ishii.
- Going Commando: In "Up the Chimney", his pants fall while he is stuck halfway into a chimney, revealing he has no underwear.
- Hammerspace: In "Santa and Coke" he produces a baseball bat in his hand out of thin air, showing he doesn't even need his Bag of Holding.
- HAHAHA No: In "Santa and Coke", he says his iconic "Ho, Ho, Ho" in a sarcastic fashion.
- Happily Married: To Mrs. Claus. She's less enthusiastic.
- I Have Your Wife: A literal example in "Don't forget about terrorism", where terrorists take his wife and some elves hostage to force him to deliver bombs instead of toys.
- I Lied: He allows Hermey the Elf to return to his job making toys before having him executed for leaving it before.
- It's All About Me: He promised a gingerbread woman nightclub singer to finance her first music album, then hijacked the recording to produce his own rap album with her as cover decoration.
- Mistaken for Thief: In "Santa Poops", he wakes up a family while he is using their bathroom and is attacked by the father with a bat, who then calls the cops.
- More Dakka: Fond of using submachine guns. In one sketch, he also was transporting a bazooka for a kid in his sled (but had to use it against NORAD).
- My God, What Have I Done?: After eating marijuana cookies at the Nerd's house, he realizes how awful he is to his elf workers and calls to apologize.
- One-Man Army: He is capable of beating and killing dozens of enemies without getting a scratch, from Coca-Cola executives to World War I German soldiers to zombie elves.
- Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: The image quote, said sarcastically to the Coca-Cola boardroom.
- Santa Clausmas: His sketches seldom have to do with Christianity. When he dies, he's actually surprised to discover that Jesus and Heaven exist, and still insists that Christmas is a consumerism-driven sham.
- Santa's Existence Clause: Spoofed in "NORAD Shoots Down Santa" and "Santa and Coke". In both cases, a number of adults who don't believe in Santa Claus discover that he really exists. And in each case, with different horrific consequences (he is killed in the former, killing Christmas in the process; in the latter, Santa kills them for using his image without paying).
- Sarcasm Failure: After sex, he thanks a whore for sucking his "candy cane". She answers that she's sucking a lollipop, not a cane.
- Saving Christmas: "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas" is a straight example with Goku and Gohan taking on Santa's enemies after they steal everything from him (and threaten Christmas, implicitly). Averted in "NORAD Shoots Down Santa", which goes to credits while showing children sad because the military killed Santa Claus and left them without presents.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: In "Santa and Coke", he murders half a dozen people while a Christmas carol plays.
- The Straight Man: To Goku, Superman, the Nerd, and his own reindeer in different sketches.
- Stronger Than They Look: As seen in the image. His red jacket hides very muscled arms and he can swing a bat with enought force to pulverize a skull.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Neither elves nor reindeer are particularly bright.
- Teeny Weenie: A (resentful) gingerbread woman he slept with claims that he has a small penis.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: His drug-induced prompt to videocall his elves and apologize for treating them horribly. From his point of view, he's delivering a hearfelt apology, but from them, he's just rambling incoherently.
- Took a Level in Badass: Though "Kill Bunny" already showed him double-wielding katanas earlier, his first speaking role, "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", actually had him as a Neutral Distressed Dude. Later sketches, on the other hand, have him fighting all sorts of enemies with nearly as much weapons.
- Took a Level in Kindness: The second sketch pitching him against Superman subverts expectations by having them become friends.
- Unexplained Recovery: He is killed in "NORAD Shoots Down Santa", only to turn up again without explanation. Though in another sketch, he's revived by Jesus after being killed so maybe this also happened the other time.
- Wham Line: Two in "Santa and Coke". First he leaves an executive speechless by recalling a gift he never brought him. Then he says "I know you are a fucking thief" and everything breaks loose.
- Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Zig-Zagged in "Santa and Coke". He destroys most male executives while leaving the women untouched, and only kicks one after she breaks a painting on him. But then he pulls out Britney Spears' severed head from his sack. And on a whole different level there is "Santa Royale", a recreation of the first scene in Casino Royale (2006) but with Santa playing the part of Bond and the other guys being played by a boy and his mother.
- You Have Failed Me: He orders Hermey's murder because he dared leave his service to become a dentist.
Martha Claus
"I hate Christmas. You heard me!"
Santa's wife. And yes, she has a personality besides that.
- Adaptational Villainy: In "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", where she is The Man Behind the Man and turns into an Eldritch Abomination.
- Awful Wedded Life: She is unhappy with her marriage, at least to a degree.
- Beware the Nice Ones: She's the The Man Behind the Man in "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas", and can morph into a Kaiju-esque monster similar to the one in AKIRA.
- The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: She does not like Christmas, and is disappointed in being married to Santa Claus.
- Eating the Eye Candy: She does not hide her interest when Superman moves next door.
- Eldritch Abomination: Turns into one at the end of "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas".
- Evil Old Folks: As the villain of "A Very Dragon Ball Z Christmas".
- I Have Your Wife: In one sketch, she's threatened by terrorists to make Santa deliver bombs instead of toys.
- The Man Behind the Man: She enlisted Composite Santa, the Nutcracker, and Little Drummer Boy to rob Santa and ruin Christmas.
- No Periods, Period: She stopped having hers "centuries ago".
- Shout-Out: Her transformation into Eldritch Abomination elicits screams from Goku, Gohan... and a cameoing Tetsuo.
- Stepford Smiler: She hides not being happy in her marriage.
- Unexplained Recovery: Despite turning into an Eldritch Abomination and then into a snowflake (eaten by a reindeer), she's back as Santa's wife in following sketches.
- Wham Line: She makes the elves gasp by exclaiming she hates Christmas.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
"You didn't think there was a reason it glows red?"
- Voiced by: Seth Green
The red-nosed reindeer guide in Santa's sled.
- Adaptational Badass/External Retcon: In his first appearance, his red nose is revealed to be capable of shooting lasers at will.
- Animal Superheroes: He can fly, shoot lasers out of his nose, and leads the final fight against the monster Mrs. Claus.
- Eaten Alive: In "The Robot Chicken Christmas Special: The X-Mas United", he is eaten alive by zombie elves.
- Negative Continuity: He appears first as an average looking reindeer, then as the little one in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (who is killed in one sketch).
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In "The X-Mas United" special, he enthusiastically offers to guide Santa while they flee from zombie elves. Santa replies by throwing him to them.
- Talking Animal: The non-anthro variety.
Comet
"How's the view back there, buddy? The light at the end of the tunnel, is my ass!"
- Voiced by: Breckin Meyer
An incredibly stupid reindeer in Santa's sled. Yet also successful.
- Crazy Enough to Work: Zig-Zagged. He throws himself into a well to rescue a trapped boy, claiming there is no time to wait for rescue services; as a result, he gets stuck in the middle. He suggests then to liberate him by throwing a hand grenade into the well and then another to get them both out of the well (nevermind that he can fly). The grenade kills a bunch of reindeer and destroys his legs, but succeeds in propelling him to the bottom of the well and the boy considers Comet his savior. Yet the rescue services are the ones who actually take both out of the well.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander/The Ditz: Of Santa's reindeer, which are not much intelligent themselves.
- Leeroy Jenkins: He flies into the well despite Santa's objections, getting stuck. The other reindeer then follow on his advice to liberate him with a grenade, again ignoring Santa.
- Major Injury Underreaction: He doesn't mind losing his legs as he can fly, and doesn't seem to be in pain at all.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Unlike the other reindeer which are more or less naturalistic (even Rudolph), Comet is cartoony and has buck teeth.
- Shout-Out: He offers the boy his piss claiming that they said you can drink it in Man vs. Wild, and paraphrases the ending line of Back to the Future, replacing "wheels" with "legs".
- Sole Survivor: Implied Trope. Two reindeer listen to his advice of throwing a hand grenade in the well and are killed. In the next scene, Santa returns to the North Pole by riding Comet alone like he was a horse, with no sled or other reindeer.
- Talking Animal: Non-anthro, like the other reindeer.
Hermey the Elf
"I want to be... a dentist!"
- Voiced by: Seth MacFarlane
The elf from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, who longs to leave Santa's workshop to become a dentist.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Blonde in the original, Brunette in Robot Chicken. Oddly, the sketch features other blonde Elves.
- Crippling Overspecialization: The reason he fails at every endeavor he tries is because he knows nothing about anything but working at the North Pole for Christmas.
- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: He is introduced jumping on a gigantic yeti and pulling out one of his fangs despite not being a dentist yet.
- Giftedly Bad: He fails at all of his endeavors, forcing him to return and beg Santa for his old job.
- Hope Spot: Santa welcomes him back, then has him murdered.
- Make an Example of Them: Santa lets him back into the North Pole only to have him killed as an object lesson to all the other elves that they're free to leave whenever they please, but they'll suffer the consequences.
- No-Respect Guy: After failing at all of his new jobs, he is yelled "You know nothing about" the given subject, and slapped.
- Rule of Three: He leaves Santa to become a dentist, then a baker, then a millionaire. Everytime he precedes it by saying "I want to be a X", then gets yelled at and slapped for knowing "nothing about" it.
- Shout-Out: His plan to become a millionaire is to contest in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and his ultimate fate spoofs Fredo's in The Godfather Part II.
- Why Do You Keep Changing Jobs?: He leaves to become a dentist, then a baker, then to contest in Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, then goes back to Santa.
