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* PlayingAgainstType: An in-universe example: Barbie's almost always the noble, caring hero in these stories. Here, she's still the protagonist--but as that protagonist is based on Ebenezer Scrooge, she's as nasty and selfish as can be. Kelly lampshades this fact, [[spoiler:but it doesn't stop Barbie from reaching her moral though.]]

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* PlayingAgainstType: An in-universe example: Barbie's almost always the noble, caring hero in these stories. Here, she's still the protagonist--but as that protagonist is based on Ebenezer Scrooge, she's as nasty and selfish as can be. Kelly lampshades this fact, [[spoiler:but it doesn't stop Barbie from reaching teaching her a moral though.]]
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* SnowGlobeOfInnocence: See RealAfterAll above.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''Keep the beauty of Christmas in your heart every day of the year.'']]
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* CatsAreMean: Eden's pet cat Chuzzlewit is about as stuffy and self important as she is and if anything eggs on her behavior. Even in the BadFuture, he outright tries to abandon her to stay with the now wealthy and successful Catherine.

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* CatsAreMean: Eden's pet cat Chuzzlewit is about as stuffy and self important as she is and if anything eggs on her behavior. Even in the BadFuture, he outright tries to abandon her to stay with the now wealthy and successful Catherine.Catherine until she kicks him out.
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* FashionDesigner: This is Catherine's job at the theater but she also offers her services to a nearby orphanage.
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%%* ChristmasSpecial: To the Barbie film series.

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%%* * ChristmasSpecial: To the Barbie film series.



%%* {{Expy}}: Being based on ''A Christmas Carol'', there are a few of these to the original characters.
%%** Eden=Ebenezer Scrooge
%%** Catherine=Bob Cratchit
%%** Aunt Marie=Jacob Marley
%%** Tammy=Tiny Tim

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%%* * {{Expy}}: Being based on ''A Christmas Carol'', there are a few of these to the original characters.
%%** ** Eden=Ebenezer Scrooge
%%** ** Catherine=Bob Cratchit
%%** ** Aunt Marie=Jacob Marley
%%** ** Tammy=Tiny Tim



%%* FinishingEachOthersSentences: The twins.

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%%* * FinishingEachOthersSentences: The Ann and Nan, the twins.



%%* IronicName: Eden means "paradise".

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%%* * IronicName: Eden means "paradise"."paradise", and Eden in this movie is a selfish singer.



%%* SingleMindedTwins: Ann and Nan.

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%%* * SingleMindedTwins: Ann and Nan.
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* GiantWaistRibbon: Eden's red and gold dress has a large gold ribbon on the side.
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* TheGrinch: Eden.
* HappyHolidaysDress: Loads, from Barbie's white dress, to Eden's red and gold dress, and the green Chritmas tree-themed dress the Ghost of Christmas present wears. Eden and Catherine as kids wore nearly identical holiday dresses.

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* TheGrinch: Eden.
Eden despises Christmas; she only sings Christmas songs because it draws in more business and privately states how much she hates the holiday. She demands that her staff keep working even through Christmas and even tells them to take down the decorations. It's revealed she used to enjoy spending Christmas with Catherine and her family, but her aunt Marie put a stop that because she thought it was a waste of time.
* HappyHolidaysDress: Loads, from Barbie's white snowflake-patterened dress, to Eden's red and gold dress, and the green Chritmas tree-themed dress the Ghost of Christmas present wears. Eden and Catherine as kids wore nearly identical holiday dresses.



* LighterAndSofter: When you compare to other ''Christmas Carol'' adaptations, that is.

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* LighterAndSofter: When you compare to other ''Christmas Carol'' adaptations, that is. While it sticks to the same basic themes and messages as ''A Christmas Carol'', the spirits are a lot less intimidating and the content is less grim; e.g. Eden doesn't cheat people out of money like Scrooge but she's still very selfish and arrogant, in the BadFuture Eden isn't dead and unmourned but she is living in poverty and forgotten, and because the orphanage closed due to lack of funding the orphans ended up on the street, though it's not explicitly mentioned that any of them died, unlike with Tiny Tim.

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