YMMV / Fatman

• Complete Monster: Billy Wenan is a sociopathic child who uses his wealth to justify and enable his cruel, petty personality. Leeching off his sickly grandmother's bank accounts to prop up his lifestyle while treating his hired help like trash, Billy first showcases his horrible nature when he reacts to losing at a science fair by having the victor kidnapped, nearly torturing her with a car battery, then having her entire family threatened with death if she doesn't claim to have cheated in the fair. When given nothing but coal for Christmas by Santa Claus, Billy hires the trigger-happy "Skinny Man" to hunt down and kill Santa, uncaring of the dozens of innocents the Skinny Man massacres in his path so long as Billy gets "the big man's head", before ending the film by attempting to lethally poison his own grandmother when she catches onto his money skimming.
• Magnificent Bastard:
  • Chris and Ruth Cringle are Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus respectively, using their magical abilities and altruistic natures to pull off the creation and maintenance of the Christmas season every year. Turning Christmas into a billion-dollar industry by working with the government, the Cringles deliver countless presents to children on Christmas Eve night and maintain their elf employees' happiness and healthiness year-round. When the amount of naughty children grows so exponential it impacts their subsidy checks, the Cringles sign up with the United States military to mass produce weapons and technology, which they pull off expertly and to shocking proportions. Working together to take down the murderous Skinny Man, Chris and Ruth track down his sociopathic employer, young Billy Wenan, and inform the boy that the couple are going to be doling out their own punishments to children they deem deserving from here on out, and threaten Billy into being a nicer person lest they do unspeakable things to him.
  • Jonathan Miller, "the Skinny Man", is a dangerous, eccentric hitman with a hatred for Christmas and a unique collection of toys made by Santa that he buys for top dollar from those looking to sell. Able to use his own resources to track down targets by just name and general description, the Skinny Man is hired by Billy Wenan to hunt down and kill Santa Claus, aka Chris Cringle, and proceeds to use deductive reasoning and false charm to follow a trail across the country to Alaska, where the Skinny Man simply stakes out in town until he spots Chris. Following Chris to his "North Pole" base of operations, Skinny Man goes on a lethal, skilled rampage through the area, efficiently killing his way through trained military personnel, bombing the toy shop, and nearly killing Chris and Ruth themselves with tricks. With a sad backstory defined by abuse, a love for his pet hamster, and even a slight tenderness towards children, the Skinny Man contrasts the hateable brat Billy by being a tragic, badass antagonist who gives the Cringles the fight of their lives.
• Questionable Casting: Mel Gibson as Santa Claus.
• Spiritual Adaptation: It's the closest you'll get to a real-life "The Night the Reindeer Died" from Scrooged.

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