History Main / Santabomination

** ''Discworld/SoulMusic'' offhandedly mentions the Hogfather, the local SantaClaus equivalent who goes around giving gifts of meat to good children, and bags of bloody bones to bad children.

** ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'' uses him as a central figure (or rather the central victim of the Auditors' plots). It turns out that his sleigh is drawn by massive boars instead of cute little pigs and he lives in a castle made entirely of bones, and started out as a human king sacrificed to ensure the winter would end soon.

* SCP-4666 "The Yule Man" from ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' is a particularly sadistic HumanoidAbomination that acts as a grotesque parody of TheKrampus and BadSanta. It sneaks into people's houses and proceeds to torture the families there in gruesome, unimaginable ways before it kills them. In most cases, it will leave one of the children alive, kidnapping them and forcing them to make toys from human remains, with the toys being given to one of the families it haunts 15% of the time instead of the torture and murder. If its child slave does not fulfill the proper quota of toys, it will either [[ImAHumanitarian eat them]], torture them or [[HumanResources use their body parts as materials to make more toys]].

* Surreal gothic browser game ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' has Mr. Sacks, aka "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Crimson Beast of Winter]]", a hooded, faceless, only vaguely HumanoidAbomination who appears every December. He doesn't give people gifts; the people of London are instead supposed to give gifts to him. He accepts anything from abstract things like your "best regards", to fine wines, to parts of your body... or even ''you'', if you're foolish enough not to have anything else to offer. But something of yours WILL end up in his sack. And unlike Santa, he doesn't just appear on the Christmas eve. No, Mr. Sacks visits you on each of the twelve days before Christmas. And he expects a gift with each visit. In the SpinOff game ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'', your captain may be called upon to perform three deliveries for Mr. Sacks. Refusing him is [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse implied to be bad]] for your long-term well-being. Accepting is [[MortonsFork likewise likely to be bad]] for you short-term. Accepting and taking too long with it is likely to be the worst (and last) idea you'll ever have.

Often times this trope applies to Santa if it involves less the Christian side of Christmas (that is unless Yahweh is more the eldritch-horror type unsurprisingly) and more with the various Pagan traditions that applies to the holiday, various rituals of protection that have long since lost their original purpose over the years and have become modern Christmas traditions, meaning that the {{The Fundamentalist}}s were right and Santa is a Pagan idol that could possibly destroy the Earth. Children don't give him milk and cookies as a "please and thank you" for the presents; they are offerings to appease his ever slumbering rage, waiting for the day when he reigns jolly [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom doom]] upon the world.

'''"Santa":''' [[AC:[[VoiceOfTheLegion That's because I'm not the Santa you know, Space Ghost! I'm Bizarro Santa!]]]] (''[[OneWingedAngel transforms into a screaming pile of flesh, claws and teeth]]'')

* The Dutch horror movie ''Sint'' involves a man discovering the hard way that Sinterklaas is the ghost of a psychotic KnightTemplar who reappears alongside his army every thirty-five years to inflict mass murder on cities and towns. While the heroes manage to give the ghost a bloody nose this time, it’s all but flat out stated that it didn’t stop him.

* The Dutch horror movie “Sint” involves a man discovering the hard way that Sintkerlaas is the ghost of a psychotic KnightTemplar who reappears alongside his army every thirty-five years to inflict mass murder on cities and towns. While the heroes manage to give the ghost a bloody nose this time, it’s all but flat out stated that it didn’t stop him.

* The in-universe equivalent to Santa Claus from ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' is Knish Kringle, a caterpillar-esque creature that travels around the world [[YouMeanXmas Knishmas]] night. He comes down a chimney and if the Shmingerbread House (a life-size gingerbread house) left for him tastes good, he'll regurgitate gifts for the owners. If he doesn't like it, he'll go into an UnstoppableRage and destroy the house.
* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' introduces the disturbing Mr. Chimney in the spin-off comics. He's a strange, man-shaped creature with dozens of insectoid legs who [[TheOmniscient sees and knows everything]], [[ChildEater eats lost teenage boys]], and [[PedoHunt isn't allowed within 100 feet of a school]].

* In the Finnish DarkFantasy {{Horror}} film ''Film/RareExportsAChristmasTale'', Joulupukki (the Finnish equivalent of Santa Claus) is portrayed as a massive goat-like entity comparable to TheKrampus frozen in a massive block of ice, having long since been imprisoned in Korvatunturi by the Saami people. It is served by a race of {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that all look like identical skinny, bearded old men that are its ChristmasElves, who are implied to have been ordinary people before being turned into identical AmbiguouslyHuman

* The Finnish horror movie “Sint” involves a man discovering the hard way that Sintkerlaas is the ghost of a psychotic KnightTemplar who reappears alongside his army thirty-five years to inflict mass murder on cities and towns. While the heroes manage to give the ghost a bloody nose this time, it’s all but flat out stated that it didn’t stop him.

* In the Finnish DarkFantasy {{Horror}} film ''Film/RareExportsAChristmasTale'', Joulupukki (the Finnish equivalent of Santa Claus) is portrayed as a massive goat-like entity comparable to TheKrampus frozen in a massive block of ice, having long since been imprisoned in Korvatunturi by the Saami people. It is served by a race of {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that all look like identical skinny, bearded old men that are its ChristmasElves, who are implied to have been ordinary people before being turned into identical AmbiguouslyHuman creatures.

Often times this overlaps with BadSanta and TheKrampus. Compare BadassSanta and TheGrinch. See also AdorableAbomination and DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu.

* SCP-4666 "The Yule Man" from ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' is a particularly sadistic HumanoidAbomination that acts as a grotesque parody of TheKrampus and BadSanta. It sneaks into people's houses and proceeds to torture the families there in gruesome, unimaginable ways before it kills them. In most cases, it will leave one of the children alive, kidnapping them and forcing them to make toys from human remains, with the toys being given to one of the families it haunts 15% of the time instead of the torture and murder. If its child slave does not fulfill the proper quota of toys, it will either [[ImAHumanitarian eat them]], torture them or use their body parts as materials to make more toys.

->''My name is Claus, king of kings;\\

Now the kind of EldritchAbomination would depend on the kind of traditions that would placate him. As a HumanoidAbomination, it is pretty much self-explanatory. The fact that he is able to survive whatever diabetic coma that keeps him away the other 364 days of the year speaks for itself. As an AnimalisticAbomination, he does not have flying reindeer pull the sleigh, he ''is'' the flying reindeer, or at least some kind of Yule-Goat commonly confused for his more [[TheKrampus malicious counterpart]]. As a BotanicalAbomination, christmas trees can act as an effigy in its likeness, the various christmas ornaments his many eyes or eggs or something.

* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': In the abridged version of ''Plan to Eradicate The Saiyans'', re-titled to ''Plan To Eradicate Christmas'', Doctor Raichi and Hatchiyak are adapted as being Santa Claus, who has grown fed up with all the naughtiness in the world and decides to destroy the Earth. The main cast also refer to Santa's second form (being Hatchiyak) as Super Santa.

* Surreal gothic browser game ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' has Mr Sacks, aka "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Crimson Beast of Winter]]", a hooded, faceless, only vaguely HumanoidAbomination who appears every December. He doesn't give people gifts; the people of London are instead supposed to give gifts to him. He accepts anything from abstract things like your "best regards", to fine wines, to parts of your body... or even ''you'', if you're foolish enough not to have anything else to offer. But something of yours WILL end up in his sack. And unlike Santa, he doesn't just appear on the Christmas eve. No, Mr. Sacks visits you on each of the twelve days before Christmas. And he expects a gift with each visit. In the SpinOff game ''VideoGame/SunlessSea'', your captain may be called upon to perform three deliveries for Mr. Sacks. Refusing him is [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse implied to be bad]] for your long-term well-being. Accepting is [[MortonsFork likewise likely to be bad]] for you short-term. Accepting and taking too long with it is likely to be the worst (and last) idea you'll ever have.

* The in-universe equivalent to Santa Claus from ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' is Knish Kringle, caterpillar-esq. creature that travels around the world [[YouMeanXmas Knishmas]] night. He comes down a chimney and if the Shminger Bread House (a life size ginger-bread house) left for him tastes good, he'll regurgitate gifts for the owners. If he doesn't like it, he'll go into an unstoppable rage and destroy the house.

* In ''VideoGame/CookieClicker'', Santa was introduced in the Christmas update, appearing in an icon in the corner. It starts off as a Festive test tube, before becoming holiday decorations (tree ornament, wreath Christmas tree) becoming elf (from a fetus to old age), to the actual Santa Claus before it evolves into an EldritchAbomination of unfathomable horror.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': [=SoulMusic=] offhandedly mentions the Hogfather, the local SantaClaus equivalent who goes around giving gifts of meat to good children, and bags of bloody bones to bad children.

** Hogfather uses him as a central figure (or rather the central victim of the Auditors' plots). It turns out that his sleigh is drawn by massive boars instead of cute little pigs and he lives in a castle made entirely of bones, and started out as a human king sacrificed to ensure the winter would end soon.

-> ''My name is Claus, king of kings;''
-> ''Look on my toys, ye Mighty, and despair!''

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* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'': In the abridged version of ''Plan to Eradicate The Saiyans'', re-titled to ''Plan To Eradicate Christmas'', Doctor Raichi and Hatchiyak are adapted as being Santa Claus, who has grown fed up with all the naughtiness in the world and decides to destroy the Earth. The main cast also refer to Santa's second form (being Hatchiyak) as Super Santa.
* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'': Kirito fights a giant evil Santa called Nicholas the Renegade for the Christmas event, following a rumor that it drops an item that can resurrect a dead player. [[spoiler:It's a hat.]]
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