History Film / BadSanta

** Gin as well.

%%* DeadpanSnarker: Willie and Marcus both.

* AdultsAreUseless: Thurman mostly has to fend for himself; his parents are either dead or incarcerated and his grandmother is too senile. Willie does partially avert this trope though.

* GrumpyBear: Willie.

* SatiatingSandwich: "What is it with you and fixing fucking sandwiches?"

* SirSwearsALot: Willie, which is no surprise, considering his actor.

* PoliceAreUseless: Justified in that Willie and Marcus always plan out every single half-second of their contingency plans to crack safes and know how to evade arrest, that Willie can even get away with robberies while drunk. Gin came close to busting them, but [[spoiler: Marcus and Lois ram him with a car and dispose of the body]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Once the safe was cracked and he got everything he wanted out of the mall, Marcus decides it's time to off Willie since he's no longer reliable. Marcus]] asserts that Willie's behavior was deteriorating from his alcoholism.

* AssholeVictim: Gin, who blackmailed Willie and Marcus for half their stolen treasure, gets rammed by a 1979 Dodge Van (that Lois was driving) and after Marcus shocks him with a car wire, has his corpse buried in the desert. Marcus later remarks, "Store dick's dead! Fuck the fucking store dick!"

* BullyingADragon: Willie testing [[spoiler:Marcus]]'s temper with daily "Fuck you"s and many insults about his [[spoiler: height and lack of sex life]] leads to [[spoiler:Marcus pulling out a gun on him as soon as he decides Willie helped him rob enough safes for many Christmases to retire]].

* HypocriticalHumor: Willie complains about kids pissing themselves on his lap, while he does that himself about half the time he's in his Santa costume.

Willie Stokes (Creator/BillyBobThornton) is a drunk {{Jerkass}} safe cracker who along with his dwarf 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 (Creator/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.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Gin, who blackmailed Willie and Marcus for half their stolen treasure.]]

* BecomingTheMask: Willie as he tries to deliver the pink elephant Thurman always wanted. Albeit he shoplifted the elephant.

* TheDragon: Lois to Marcus.

* JerkassHasAPoint: When Thurman pierces his hand with a ''huge'' hole in it, Willie tries dousing it with his bottle of beer. Alcohol is an effective remedy for open wounds.

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Lois asks this to Marcus when [[spoiler: the latter decides to shoot Willie at the completion of their heist]].

** Gin, a security officer, tries blackmailing Marcus for half the spoils on the next heist. Marcus rams him with a car, shocks him and has Lois run his head over with a car tire.

%%* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Gin.]]

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Gin is a security chief who penalizes shoplifting, but he's not above stealing either.

* ParentalAbandonment: The kid's mother is dead and his father is off exploring the mountains (read: in prison).
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Marcus despite his dwarfism has no issues tackling Willie with force.

%%* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: Bernie Mac eating an orange.

Willie Stokes (Creator/BillyBobThornton) is a drunk {{Jerkass}} safe cracker who along with his dearf 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 (Creator/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.

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 (Creator/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.

[[folder:Tropes found in the sequel ''Bad Santa 2'']]
* AbusiveParents: Willie's mother is a terrible person. She got him involved in all sorts of crimes at a young age, even making him take the fall for her when he was eleven. It's no wonder he turned out the way he did.
* AirVentPassageway: Marcus uses a garbage chute and an air vent in order to spy on the charity's CEO.
* TheAlcoholic: Willie yet again, but also Diane to the point they attend an AA meeting.
* AnythingThatMoves: Willie is so promiscuous his own mother claims that even as a child he would "try to fuck anything with a butt."
* BadSanta: The entire film's premise is that the main character portrays Santa for most of the film in order to rob an arguably corrupt charity.
* BigWhat: Willie after Thurman asks him if he's going to pop his cherry now that he's 21.
* 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.
* DistractedByTheSexy: In the very first scene, Willie gets fired from his valet job for ogling a breastfeeding mother and crashing into the valet stand. Doubles as a the UnReveal, as the audience discovers [[spoiler: Willie isn't driving his car, and is not doing as well as it seems he is in the opening few moments.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Willie tries this in the film's first five minutes. First by sticking his head in an oven (before realizing it's electric, not gas), then by hanging himself with a toaster's power cord.
* 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.
* HappyEndingOverride: The reasonably happy ending of the first film didn't last for Willie, and he ended up becoming just as miserable as before, even attempting suicide.
* KavorkaMan: Willie still has his inexplicable sexual magnetism and he seduces Diana and Gina without even trying.
* 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. His speech and vocabulary did improve, not that he puts this new ability to good use..
* 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: [[Creator/ChristinaHendricks Diane]] is ''very'' well-endowed.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Willie gives one to an overenthusiastic Santa during the MistakenForPedophile scene mentioned above.
* SatiatingSandwich: Just like the first film, Thurman is obsessed with sandwiches, and now works at a sandwich shop which he constantly reminds people of.
* SexAsARiteOfPassage: Willie promises to get Thurman laid on his 21st birthday by setting him up with his favorite hooker, Opal. It doesn't go well.
* ShoutOut: Willie meets a gamer whose wish list includes ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', ''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'', ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTombRaider'', ''[[VideoGame/ProjectXZone Project X Zone 2]]'', ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedChronicles'', ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII'', and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV''.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler:Willie's mom is not only willing to shoot Thurman, she shoots ''her own child''.]]
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Both Marcus and Willie's own mother try to pull this on Willie.]]
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A sequel called ''Bad Santa 2'' had been released in theaters on November 23, 2016.

* BullyingADragon: Willie testing [[spoiler:Marcus]]'s temper with daily "Fuck you"s and many insults about his height and lack of sex life leads to [[spoiler:Marcus pulling a gun on him as soon as he decides Willie helped him rob enough safes for many Christmases to retire]].

!!The first film contains examples of:

* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Thurman will not leave Willie alone. Ironic in the case that Willie is the guest in need of housing assistance.

!!The sequel, ''Bad Santa 2'', contains examples of:

* DrivenToSuicide: Willie tries killing himself twice in the film's first five minutes. First by sticking his head in an oven (before realizing it's electric, not gas), then by hanging himself with a toaster's power cord.

* 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. His speech and vocabulary did improve, not that he uses this new ability to good use..

* BadSanta: Literally the entire film's plot. He's a Santa who is a bank robber.

* DoesNotLikeSpam: Willie seriously hates sugar, dairy and non-alcoholic carbs. He prefers salads and meat over milk and cookies.

* GoodFeelsGood: For a given value of good anyway, but Willie comes to this conclusion when he [[BullyHunter beats up some bullies]] who had been harassing the Kid.
* 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.

* 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.

!!This film contains examples of:

%%* AnythingThatMoves: Willie, pretty much.
%%* AsianRudeness: Lois.

* BadSanta: Literally the entire film's plot. He's a Santa who is a criminal.

%%* ChildHater: Willie is one at first.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The kid.
-->''The Kid'': "Now I don't want an elephant at all. I want a gorilla named Davy for beating up the skateboard kids who pull on my underwear. And he can take his orders from the talking walnut, so it won't be my bad thing."

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: About halfway through the movie, Willie tries to kill himself through carbon monoxide poisoning. Fortunately, he snaps out of his funk when the kid comes to check on him.]]

* FreeRangeChildren: The kid wanders around the city and even takes regular trips to the mall all by himself. Justified in that the only person around to raise him is his senile grandmother.

* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: Bernie Mac eating an orange.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:Once the safe was cracked and he got everything he wanted out of the mall, Marcus decides it's time to off Willie since he's no longer reliable.]]

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 (Creator/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.

* BadSanta: Literally the entire film's plot. He's a Santa. Who is a criminal.

** [[spoiler: When Marcus and Lois kill Gin at the end by smashing him between two cars, they seemingly impale him right in the crotch, but it's off camera so it's hard to tell.]]

** Unlike most Christmas films though, his personality is still foulmouthed and sarcastic. But now a better person.

* 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]].