History Main / TwistedChristmas

* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': "[[Recap/DeathBattleS09E05OmniManVSHomelander Omni-Man VS Homelander]]" takes place during Christmas. Considering that [[ComicBook/{{Invincible}} Omni-Man]] and [[ComicBook/TheBoys Homelander]] two are BewareTheSuperman incarnate, ''and'' the fact that the conflict was caused by Homelander killing Debbie as a message for Omni-Man to stay out of his way, you can already tell this isn't going to be a pleasant holiday for ''either'' of them. [[spoiler:Or at least not for Homelander, whom Omni-Man subjects to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath one of the cruelest and most gruesome deaths in series history]].]]

* ''Series/DexterNewBlood'': "[[Recap/DexterNewBloodE09TheFamilyBusiness Family Business]]" is set on Christmas, with Dexter [[spoiler:confessing that he's a SerialKillerKiller to Harrison]], then killing [[spoiler:Kurt]], the [[SerialKiller Runaway Killer]].

* In the ''Series/{{Hannibal}}'' episode Œuf we see the Frist household alight with holiday cheer: Christmas decorations on the walls, Christmas tree in the corner, Christmas carols blaring from the stereo, the corpses of the Frists -- mother, father, daughter, and son -- strewn around the room [[spoiler:and another son who had been abducted from his family earlier, trained to kill them, then killed when he couldn't carry it out and burned to charcoal in the fireplace.]]

* The ''Series/{{Dragnet}}'' episode "The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas" sees Friday and Smith taking on the case of a young boy who accidentally shot and killed himself with the rifle his parents were planning to give him for Christmas.

* ''Series/DexterNewBlood'': "Family Business" is set on Christmas, with Dexter [[spoiler:confessing that he's a SerialKillerKiller to Harrison]], then killing [[spoiler:Kurt]], the [[SerialKiller Runaway Killer]].

* An issue of ''ComicBook/{{Hitman}}'' had Tommy and Natt hunting a radioactive homicidal maniac in a Santa suit at Christmas. That's Gotham. And the narration was verse in the meter of "The Night Before Christmas".
* "Helliday," issue #29 of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' depicts a Christmas-like holiday that Him is orchestrating. Buttercup is the only person not buying into it.

* In ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', the fight between [[ComicBook/{{Invincible}} Omni-Man]] and [[ComicBook/TheBoys Homelander]] takes place during Christmas. Considering these two are BewareTheSuperman incarnate, ''and'' the fact that the conflict was caused by Homelander killing Debbie as a message for Omni-Man to stay out of his way, you can already tell this isn't going to be a pleasant holiday for ''either'' of them. [[spoiler: Or at least not for Homelander, whom Omni-Man subjects to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath one of the cruelest and most gruesome deaths in series history]].]]
* David Firth's original cartoon short made for Charlie Booker's Screenwipe Christmas Special was considered so violent offensive that he had to air another video instead. The short involved a crazed man digging up dead bodies to feed to his family. He shoots his wife and son when they are against this idea. He then beats his wife's body with a large log and saws through her head, among other things...

* The movie ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' is an example (the events happen at Christmas), and contains another one--one of the main characters [[spoiler: tells how her father died on Christmas, trying to go down the chimney in a Santa suit. "And that's how I learned there was no Santa Claus."]]
** The ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' magazine satire of the movie adds another twist to this unfortunate fate: [[spoiler:all the warranties of the gifts he was carrying had expired.]]

* 2020: It is revealed that Sharon has known all along about Ian's involvement in her son Dennis's death, as he had left her a voicemail shortly beforehand. She is also revealed to have gotten Phil to attack Ian weeks earlier. When Phil refuses to kill Ian on the grounds of him being family, Sharon takes matters into her own hands and begins poisoning his food.

** The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangiwai_disaster Tangiwai train wreck]], which claimed 151 lives on Christmas Eve, 1954 in what remains New Zealand's worst rail disaster.

* Christmas Day 1986: Dennis "Dirty Den" Watts hands divorce papers to his shocked wife, Angie. About 30.15 million people watched. The population of the United Kingdom at the time was about 57 million. (Indeed, one of the ''[[Series/BigFatQuizOfTheYear Big Fat Quiz of the '80s]]'' confirms it was the most-watched single even of the eighties in the UK.) The TropeMaker episode.

** On December 16, 1960, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_New_York_mid-air_collision two airliners collided over New York]], killing 127 people on both planes and six people on the ground. [[HopeSpot There was one survivor from one of the planes – an eleven-year-old boy on his way to visit relatives for Christmas]], but despite doctors' best efforts, he died the next day.

* Only four days before Christmas 1988, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103 Pan Am Flight 103]] crashed in the small Scottish town of Lockerbie after a bomb detonated in the cargo hold, killing all 259 onboard and 11 people on the ground.

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penlee_lifeboat_disaster The Penlee lifeboat disaster]], in which a merchant ship and the RNLI search-and-rescue boat sent to take her crew off were both wrecked with the loss of all hands.

* In the early hours of Christmas Eve 1910, Hawes Junction station on the Settle to Carlisle line was a hive of activity. Several locomotives that were used to assist trains on the steep climbs were due to head back, two of them northbound. However, the signalman forgot about them, and likely had trouble seeing them with the driving rain. He cleared the line for an overnight express to Glasgow, and the two locomotives, on the same line, set off. The express, with clear signals, passed the station and caught up to them a mile further on. The front two coaches were crushed, and the gas lighting caught fire. Twelve passengers died.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangiwai_disaster Tangiwai train wreck]], which claimed 151 lives on Christmas Eve, 1954 in what remains New Zealand's worst rail disaster.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_8969 Air France Flight 8969]] (as featured in ''Series/{{Mayday}}''), which was hijacked on Christmas Eve 1994 by terrorists who managed to kill three passengers before they were dispatched by French special forces in Marseilles.
* On 20 December 1987, the ferry ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Doña_Paz Doña Paz]]'', [[NoOSHACompliance which was loaded with far more passengers than it was designed to carry]], many of them visiting relatives for the holidays, collided with the ocean tanker ''Vector''. Both ships caught fire and sank, with more than 4,300 casualties and only 25 survivors -- the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history.

* A Christmas episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' revealed that Beckett always works on Christmas because she sees it as her duty to keep watch. Her mother was killed in early January, but their Christmas decorations were still up, and when she and her father put them away "it felt like [they] put that box away forever." [[spoiler: She does end up deciding that it's time to make new Christmas traditions and gets someone to cover her shift so she can spend the holiday with Castle and his family.]]

* On 20 December 1987, the ferry ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Do%C3%B1a_Paz Doña Paz]]'', [[NoOSHACompliance which was loaded with far more passengers than it was designed to carry]], many of them visiting relatives for the holidays, collided with the ocean tanker ''Vector''. Both ships caught fire and sank, with more than 4,300 casualties and only 25 survivors -- the deadliest peacetime maritime disaster in history.