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A Man Is Not A Virgin is no longer a trope.


* AManIsNotAVirgin: A problem of Thurman's that Willie tries to solve near the beginning. It doesn't go well.
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* GrandparentalObliviousness: The grandma reacts to absolutely nothing around her. When she isn't sitting in her chair watching TV, she's fixing up some sandwiches. She ignores a strange man in a Santa outfit and ski mask in her house and also her grandson screaming in pain with his hand bleeding.
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* AmbigousDisorder: Much like Ralph Wiggum from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Thurman's CloudCuckoolander behavior often makes him appear to be autistic or mentally disabled. It is revealed in the sequel that Thurman is "at the top of the spectrum."

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* AmbigousDisorder: AmbiguousDisorder: Much like Ralph Wiggum from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Thurman's CloudCuckoolander behavior often makes him appear to be autistic or mentally disabled. It is revealed in the sequel that Thurman is not mentally disabled and is "at the top of the spectrum."spectrum" (i.e. has high-functioning autism).
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* AmbigousDisorder: Much like Ralph Wiggum from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Thurman's CloudCuckoolander behavior often makes him appear to be autistic or mentally disabled. It is revealed in the sequel that Thurman is "at the top of the spectrum."
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* MsFanservice: Diane is ''very'' well-endowed.

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* MsFanservice: Diane [[ChristinaHendricks Diane]] is ''very'' well-endowed.
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A sequel called ''Bad Santa 2'' has been announced and will be released in theaters in November of 2016.

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A sequel called ''Bad Santa 2'' has been announced and will be released in theaters in on 23 November of 2016.
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!!The sequel, ''Bad Santa 2'', contains examples of:

* AManIsNotAVirgin: A problem of Thurman's that Willie tries to solve near the beginning. It doesn't go well.
* TheDeterminator: Thurman's loyalty to Willie knows no bounds. He takes a bus cross-country to Chicago without any plans for food or shelter and with no warm clothes, just to spend Christmas with Willie.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Subverted hilariously when Willie refuses to rob a charity...because there's no way they have $2 million.
* FanDisservice: We get a glimpse of Thurman's bare ass as he's changing into a Santa outfit.
* ManChild: Thurman hasn't matured a day since the first film, and is just as wide-eyed and innocent as he was ten years ago.
* MistakenForPedophile: Willie accuses another Santa of being one when the two of them are having [[ItMakesSenseInContext a turf war]]. He may not have been wrong.
* MsFanservice: Diane is ''very'' well-endowed.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Willie's mom is not only willing to shoot Thurman, she shoots ''her own child''.]]

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%%* TheAlcoholic: Willie

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%%* * TheAlcoholic: WillieWillie is drunk for almost the entirety of the film.



* RepetitiveName: The kid's real name is [[spoiler:Thurman Murman]].



%%* UnfortunateNames: The kid, [[spoiler:Thurman Merman.]]
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Willie Stokes (Creator/BillyBobThornton) is a drunk {{Jerkass}} safe cracker who along with his midget accomplice Marcus has a yearly routine of getting jobs as a MallSanta and Elf respectively during the holidays and robbing the mall's safe on Christmas Eve after closing time. During one such stint, Wille meets a kid (who is mostly referred to in the movie as "The Kid") who inadvertently saves him from being raped. After a run in with the mall's unscrupulous security chief (BernieMac) posing as a police officer, Willie, his girlfriend Sue and Marcus move in with The Kid, who lives alone with his senile grandmother ([[ParentalAbandonment his mother is dead and his dad is in jail for embezzlement]]). Willie starts to warm up to the Kid and starts acting as a surrogate father...of sorts.

A sequel, called Bad Santa 2, has been announced and will be released in theaters on November of 2016


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Willie Stokes (Creator/BillyBobThornton) is a drunk {{Jerkass}} safe cracker who along with his midget accomplice Marcus has a yearly routine of getting jobs as a MallSanta and Elf respectively during the holidays and robbing the mall's safe on Christmas Eve after closing time. During one such stint, Wille meets a kid (who is mostly referred to in the movie as "The Kid") who inadvertently saves him from being raped. After a run in with the mall's unscrupulous security chief (BernieMac) posing as a police officer, Willie, his girlfriend Sue and Marcus move in with The Kid, who lives alone with his senile grandmother ([[ParentalAbandonment his mother is dead and his dad is in jail for embezzlement]]). Willie starts to warm up to the Kid and starts acting as a surrogate father... of sorts.

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* TheAlcoholic: Willie

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* AnythingThatMoves: Willie, pretty much.
* AsianRudeness: Lois.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Gin.]]
* AutoErotica: The first time Willie and Sue have sex.
* BadSanta: Duh.

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* %%* AnythingThatMoves: Willie, pretty much.
* %%* AsianRudeness: Lois.
* %%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Gin.]]
* %%* AutoErotica: The first time Willie and Sue have sex.
* %%* BadSanta: Duh.



* ChildHater: Willie is one at first.

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* %%* ChildHater: Willie is one at first.



* DeadpanSnarker: Willie and Marcus both.

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* %%* DeadpanSnarker: Willie and Marcus both.



* MallSanta

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* UnfortunateNames: The kid, [[spoiler:Thurman Merman.]]
* VillainProtagonist

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* %%* UnfortunateNames: The kid, [[spoiler:Thurman Merman.]]
* %%* VillainProtagonist
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* HelloNurse: The attractive, pear-shaped woman in the mall whom Willie lustfully admires.
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A sequel, called Bad Santa 2, has been announced and will be released in theatets on November of 2016


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* HartmanHips: The shapely woman whom Willie admires in the mall has these.
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* HartmanHips: The shapely woman whom Willie admires in the mall has these.
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** The movie plays itself as one for Christmas movie tropes. No actual Santa Clause or the magical nature other Christmas films usually carry, by the end of the film it still ends on a rather idealistic note that you don't need any of that cliched stuff to be a better person.
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* OnlySaneMan: Marcus spends most of his time doing damage control for Willie and giving him a TheReasonYouSuck speech now and then. Subverted [[spoiler:when he betrays Willie]].

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* OnlySaneMan: Marcus spends most of his time doing damage control for Willie and giving him a TheReasonYouSuck speech TheReasonYouSuckSpeech now and then. Subverted [[spoiler:when he betrays Willie]].
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* MoralityPet: The kid serves as this for Willie. Curiously enough, Zwigof removed most of the scenes with him and Willie in the Director's Cut, making it ''shorter'' than the theatrical release. The ending is still one massive PetTheDog sequence for Willie.

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* MoralityPet: The kid serves as this for Willie. Curiously enough, Zwigof Zwigoff removed most of the scenes with him and Willie in the Director's Cut, making it ''shorter'' than the theatrical release. The ending is still one massive PetTheDog sequence for Willie.
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* LyricalDissonance: The slow, soothing classical score that always picks up in tempo during the film's more audacious moments.


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** Not to mention the soothing, almost hypnotizing classical score that always picks up in tempo during the film's more audacious moments.
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* LyricalDissonance: The slow, soothing classical score that always picks up in tempo during the film's more audacious moments.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:At the end of the final mall job, the only thing Willie has in his possession is a pink stuffed elephant. And the police positively riddle him with bullets as he attempts to deliver the gift.]]

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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:At the end of the final mall job, the only thing Willie has in his possession is a pink stuffed elephant. And the police positively absolutely riddle him with bullets as he attempts to deliver the gift.]]
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* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler:At the end of the final mall job, the only thing Willie has in his possession is a pink stuffed elephant. And the police positively riddle him with bullets as he attempts to deliver the gift.]]
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* TheMillstone: Marcus begins to view Willie as this, since his unprofessional behavior has almost gotten them fired or arrested on numerous occasions. [[spoiler:This ultimately leads to him turning against Willie at the end]].
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* DeadpanSnarker: Willie and Marcus both.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Starting as a pure JerkAss, Willie eventually becomes this.

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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Starting off as a pure JerkAss, {{Jerkass}}, Willie eventually becomes this.
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* ButtMonkey: Thurman, until Willie teaches him to stick up for himself.


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* HeelRealization: Willie has one when he remembers that he ate all the candy in Thurman's advent calendar and realizes how low that was.
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* AirventPassageway: More justified than most examples, given that the person doing the crawling through the vents is a dwarf.

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* AirventPassageway: AirVentPassageway: More justified than most examples, given that the person doing the crawling through the vents is a dwarf.
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* AirventPassageway: More justified than most examples, given that the person doing the crawling through the vents is a dwarf.
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* ExtremeDoormat: Bob Chipeska, who lets Willie and Marcus race-card him into not firing them for inappropriate workplace conduct.

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