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* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4666 SCP-4666 ("The Yule Man")]] is a particularly sadistic HumanoidAbomination that acts as a grotesque parody of TheKrampus and BadSanta. He sneaks into people's houses every winter and proceeds to torture the families there in gruesome, unimaginable ways before killing them. In most cases, he will kidnap one of the children alive, forcing them to work inside his secret lair and make toys from human remains, with the toys being given to one of the families he haunts 15% of the time instead of the torture and murder. If the child slave does not fulfill the proper quota of toys, he will either [[ChildEater eat them]], torture them to death, or [[HumanResources use their body parts as materials to make more toys]].
** Not to be confused with SCP-2412-J, which is a more traditional Santa.

SantaClaus is an unusual man, ain't he? He's a spaceless, timeless immortal male senior citizen that seems to change his name and ethnicity depending on whatever country he exists in. He is omniscient (how else would he know if you've been bad or good?) and omnipresent (he can drop the right selection of gifts in every house on the planet with no one ever seeing him despite being a fat man apparently getting in through the chimney) and he can survive things that should kill a normal man his age (eating everybody's cookies and milk, living in [[ChristmasTown the inhospitable wastes of the Northern hemisphere]], nearly getting shot down by the U.S. military every year for being an unregistered airborne entity, etc).

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* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': SCP-4666 (AKA "The Yule Man") is a particularly sadistic HumanoidAbomination that acts as a grotesque parody of TheKrampus and BadSanta. He sneaks into people's houses every winter and proceeds to torture the families there in gruesome, unimaginable ways before killing them. In most cases, he will kidnap one of the children alive, forcing them to work inside his secret lair and make toys from human remains, with the toys being given to one of the families he haunts 15% of the time instead of the torture and murder. If the child slave does not fulfill the proper quota of toys, he will either [[ChildEater eat them]], torture them to death, or [[HumanResources use their body parts as materials to make more toys]].
* {{Creator/Will McDaniel}}'s video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDDCQdpT1C0 The Christmas Grotto]] has a bizarre... ''thing'' that looks like it's made of raw meat pose as Santa to lure Will inside a dirty-looking trailer. [[spoiler: It turns out to be the lure for some kind of subterranean creature that swallows up the trailer with Will inside]].

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': SCP-[[Characters/SCPFoundationSCP4666 4666]] (AKA "The Yule Man") is a particularly sadistic HumanoidAbomination that acts as a grotesque parody of TheKrampus and BadSanta. He sneaks into people's houses every winter and proceeds to torture the families there in gruesome, unimaginable ways before killing them. In most cases, he will kidnap one of the children alive, forcing them to work inside his secret lair and make toys from human remains, with the toys being given to one of the families he haunts 15% of the time instead of the torture and murder. If the child slave does not fulfill the proper quota of toys, he will either [[ChildEater eat them]], torture them to death, or [[HumanResources use their body parts as materials to make more toys]].

* {{Discussed}} in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer:''
-->'''Tara:''' There's a Santa Claus?\\
'''Anya:''' Mm-hmm. Been around since like the 1500s, but he wasn't always called Santa... but you know, Christmas night, flying, coming down the chimney, all true.\\
'''Dawn:''' All true?\\
'''Anya:''' Well he doesn't traditionally bring presents so much as you know, [[EatsBabies disembowel children]], but otherwise...\\
'''Tara:''' The reindeer part was nice.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'': The 2008 Crimbo event (the [=KoL=] version of Christmas) resulted in [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_Crimbomination the Crimbomination]]. It's also about as unbeatable as a typical EldritchAbomination, no [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punching out Cthulhu here]]. [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Ho-ho-ho-hee-hee-hee-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Even the guard that was assigned to the factory has been driven completely insane just from looking at it]]. It was created by human hands, or at least by [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguin flippers]]. The Crimbo factory was taken over forcefully by the Penguin Mafia, and the Crimbo Elves were forced to work in a factory powered by [[GreenRocks grimicite]], which is highly radioactive and caused the elves to mutate. After curing a lot of elves of their mutation, the remaining mutated elves [[FusionDance fused together]] to create the Crimbomination. The Kingdom's adventurers were able to weaken it to the point where the penguins could [[SealedEvilInACan seal it in a gigantic crate.]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' ChristmasEpisode "[[Recap/InvaderZimS2E10TheMostHorribleXmasEver The Most Horrible X-mas Ever]]", Zim downloaded all Christmas and Santa knowledge into a gel-based Santa suit as a means of disguising himself as the titular Santa as a plot to conquer Earth. Unfortunately, AIIsACrapshoot and the suit slowly starts to take control whenever something especially Christmasy happens (like children asking for hugs or when [=GIR=] starts singing Christmas songs). Zim manages to free himself of the suit before it grows into a monster, with Dib banishing it into space. In the distant future, it is revealed that the Santa suit is not only still alive, but it returns every Christmas to wreak havoc, cities since having been enclosed in protective domes with giant milk and cookies left to placate its rage.

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 pulling 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.

* {{Website/SCP|Foundation}}-[[Characters/SCPFoundationSCP4666 4666]] (AKA "The Yule Man") is a particularly sadistic HumanoidAbomination that acts as a grotesque parody of TheKrampus and BadSanta. He sneaks into people's houses every winter and proceeds to torture the families there in gruesome, unimaginable ways before killing them. In most cases, he will kidnap one of the children alive, forcing them to work inside his secret lair and make toys from human remains, with the toys being given to one of the families he haunts 15% of the time instead of the torture and murder. If the child slave does not fulfill the proper quota of toys, he will either [[ChildEater eat them]], torture them to death, or [[HumanResources use their body parts as materials to make more toys]].

* {{Website/SCP|Foundation}}-[[Characters/SCPFoundationSCP-4666 4666]] (AKA "The Yule Man") is a particularly sadistic HumanoidAbomination that acts as a grotesque parody of TheKrampus and BadSanta. He sneaks into people's houses every winter and proceeds to torture the families there in gruesome, unimaginable ways before killing them. In most cases, he will kidnap one of the children alive, forcing them to work inside his secret lair and make toys from human remains, with the toys being given to one of the families he haunts 15% of the time instead of the torture and murder. If the child slave does not fulfill the proper quota of toys, he will either [[ChildEater eat them]], torture them to death, or [[HumanResources use their body parts as materials to make more toys]].

* ''Website/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4666 SCP-4666]] (AKA "The Yule Man") is a particularly sadistic HumanoidAbomination that acts as a grotesque parody of TheKrampus and BadSanta. He sneaks into people's houses every winter and proceeds to torture the families there in gruesome, unimaginable ways before killing them. In most cases, he will kidnap one of the children alive, forcing them to work inside his secret lair and make toys from human remains, with the toys being given to one of the families he haunts 15% of the time instead of the torture and murder. If the child slave does not fulfill the proper quota of toys, he will either [[ChildEater eat them]], torture them to death, or [[HumanResources use their body parts as materials to make more toys]].

* Walter from the WebVideo/CryptTV series ''Milk & Cookies'' is a hideous, blue-skinned, demonic cross between Santa and Krampus who is constantly drooling blood that is implied to be toxic. He also swallows people whole and regurgitates them as lumps of coal.

* {{Website/SCP|Foundation}}-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4666 4666]] (AKA "The Yule Man") is a particularly sadistic HumanoidAbomination that acts as a grotesque parody of TheKrampus and BadSanta. He sneaks into people's houses every winter and proceeds to torture the families there in gruesome, unimaginable ways before killing them. In most cases, he will kidnap one of the children alive, forcing them to work inside his secret lair and make toys from human remains, with the toys being given to one of the families he haunts 15% of the time instead of the torture and murder. If the child slave does not fulfill the proper quota of toys, he will either [[ChildEater eat them]], torture them to death, or [[HumanResources use their body parts as materials to make more toys]].

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-4666 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]].

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

->''Bow down, bow down, before the power of Santa''\\

''Or be crushed, be crused, by... his jolly boots of doom!''

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--> There is a song about him. It begins: "You'd better watch out..."
** ''Literature/{{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.

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 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 rains jolly [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom doom]] upon the world. After all, "Santa" is an anagram of "Satan"...

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.

** ''Literature/{{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.

'''Anya:''' Mm-hmm. Been around since like the 1500's, but he wasn't always called Santa... but you know, Christmas night, flying, coming down the chimney, all true.\\

* 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. It's also heavily implied that Mr. Sacks is actually a title, rather than the name of one being. On the 9th night of Sacksmas, this reaches peak horror, when [[spoiler: it is, somehow, the mostly dead Mr. Eaten who appears as Mr. Sacks. It reveals as much if you are in its service, as a Seeker. If on the 9th night, you offer it Mr. Eaten's name, it confirms this by saying:]]

* {{Creator/Will McDaniel}}'s video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDDCQdpT1C0 The Christmas Grotto]] has a bizzare... ''thing'' that looks like it's made of raw meat pose as Santa to lure Will inside a dirty-looking trailer. [[spoiler: It turns out to be the lure for some kind of subterranean creature that swallows up the trailer with Will inside]].

* 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.

* A [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14004841/1/Negligient-Discharge Christmas-themed fic]] in the Literature/{{Discworld}} written by Creator/AAPessimal deals with the [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinian]] version of Santa, [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/RussianHolidays Ded Moroz, and his faithful grand-daughter, Sneguroschka]], when they visit Ankh-Morpork to manifest to Rodinians there. A six-year-old girl, daughter of a witch and one who is developing magic herself, sees the essential truth: for all but this one night of the Winter, Ded Moroz and Sneguroschka have their primal true selves, who are not the generous benevolent Lord Frost and his grand-daughter who is Friend To All Good Children. Tatiana Popova speaks their true names. She then looks, largely unafraid, at Morozko, the Winter King, and Maslenitsa, the terrible and inhuman Goddess Of Winter Storm and Blizzards. [[note]]Maslenitsa commends Tatiana on her discernment and on showing a brave face, then returns to her Sneguroschka-form[[/note]].

* A [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14004841/1/Negligient-Discharge Christmas-themed fic]] in the Literature/{{Discworld}} written by Creator/AAPessimal deals with the [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinian]] version of Santa, Ded Moroz, and his faithful grand-daughter, Sneguroschka, when they visit Ankh-Morpork to manifest to Rodinians there. A six-year-old girl, daughter of a witch and one who is developing magic herself, sees the essential truth: for all but this one night of the Winter, Ded Moroz and Sneguroschka have their primal true selves, who are not the generous benevolent Lord Frost and his grand-daughter who is Friend To All Good Children. Tatiana Popova speaks their true names. She then looks, largely unafraid, at Morozko, the Winter King, and Maslenitsa, the terrible and inhuman Goddess Of Winter Storm and Blizzards. [[note]]Maslenitsa commends Tatiana on her discernment and on showing a brave face, then returns to her Sneguroschka-form[[/note]].

* A [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14004841/1/Negligient-Discharge Christmas-themed fic]] in the Literature/{{Discworld}} written by Creator/AAPessimal deals with the [[UsefulNotes{{Russia}} Rodinian]] version of Santa, Ded Moroz, and his faithful grand-daughter, Sneguroschka, when they visit Ankh-Morpork to manifest to Rodinians there. A six-year-old girl, daughter of a witch and one who is developing magic herself, sees the essential truth: for all but this one night of the Winter, Ded Moroz and Sneguroschka have their primal true selves, who are not the generous benevolent Lord Frost and his grand-daughter who is Friend To All Good Children. Tatiana Popova speaks their true names. She then looks, largely unafraid, at Morozko, the Winter King, and Maslenitsa, the terrible and inhuman Goddess Of Winter Storm and Blizzards. [[note]]Maslenitsa commends Tatiana on her discernment and on showing a brave face, then returns to her Sneguroschka-form[[/note]].