| 1 | [[quoteright:273:[[Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ActionSanta.jpg]]]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:273:[-It's the most action-packed time of the year.-] ]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ->''"Because this is what you think of when you think of Christmas, right? People beating the shit out of each other."'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xnqqK4alFU review]] of ''The [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 He-Man]] and [[WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower She-Ra]] [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas Special]]'' |
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| 7 | A work/episode/story takes place [[ChristmasEpisode during Christmas-time]], and it's action-packed. "Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards man" kind of gets left by the wayside when some people just want some good, old fashioned {{fight|Scene}}s and [[StuffBlowingUp explosions]]. [[WildMassGuessing Maybe they're finding a way to channel their aggression from shopping?]] This is a common occurrence when action/adventure-oriented shows want to do a ChristmasSpecial, but they know the viewers are tuning in expecting some ass-kicking action. If there's a soundtrack, ''The Nutcracker'' will be optional. ''Carol of the Bells'' is [[ChaosOfTHeBells indispensable]]! |
| 8 | |
| 9 | '''This is only about action works. The way to know is if you take the Christmas elements out, it would be straight-up action.''' |
| 10 | |
| 11 | And even if a work isn't directly about Christmas, a lot of action works get some of their best business around this time. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Can overlap with BadassSanta (would be a SubTrope, but sometimes a work with that trope takes place at other times of the year), DidIMentionItsChristmas (if the Christmas elements aren't remotely integral to the story, just mentioned occasionally) and {{Santabomination}} (when the heroes discover the hard way that Santa is a murderous monster and [[TrappedWithMonsterPlot must fight to survive]]). May involve instances of ChaosOfTheBells. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Compare SavingChristmas, TwistedChristmas (especially if it has a DownerEnding). |
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| 18 | !!Examples: |
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| 20 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 21 | |
| 22 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 23 | * ''Anime/BloodPlus'': A tragic example; Saya's [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam War]] [[UnstoppableRage massacre]] occurred on Christmas Day. |
| 24 | * Although it's not heavily focused on, the climactic final battle in the manga version ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' takes place from Christmas Eve to the dawn of Christmas. At one point, Chrono mentions to Rosette that it means they'll have something new to celebrate every year if they're victorious. |
| 25 | * In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', the battle against Freeza occurred on Christmas. Unlike other examples, this one is likely a mere coincidence, as this isn't pointed out in-series, but it's AllThereInTheManual. |
| 26 | ** In ''[[Anime/DragonBallGT GT]]'', the final battle against Baby is on the day before Christmas too. |
| 27 | * ''Manga/GTOTheEarlyYears'': After both Ryuji and Eikichi strike out with girls on the ski trip, they end up fighting a group of delinquents whose car Eikichi wrecked when rescuing Souna. |
| 28 | * The ''Anime/{{Karas}}'' [=OVA=] take place entirely around Christmas-time, [[spoiler:when much of the city's population gets eaten/drained of all their blood by evil robotic demons, which also destroy most of the city]]. |
| 29 | * The final battle of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'', which begins on the episode "{{Christmas E|pisode}}ve" and lasts throughout the night. |
| 30 | * ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'': |
| 31 | ** In ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'', the Battle for Solomon takes place on December 24th, with the Battle of A Baoa Qu taking place on December 31st; as the war comes to an end, it's officially January 1st, 0080. |
| 32 | ** The final battle of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0080WarInThePocket Gundam 0080]]'' takes place on December 25th. What a crummy Christmas present for Al. |
| 33 | ** ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'''s final StoryArc took place in December, with the final battle coming on Christmas Eve; the OVA (and TheMovie) ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'', which takes place a year later, labels the events of the series "the Eve Wars". |
| 34 | *** The final battle of said OVA also takes place on Christmas Eve. [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2020-12-23/beyond-diehard-why-gundam-wing-endless-waltz-is-the-preeminent-christmas-film/.167710 A 2020 Anime News Network article]] even suggest that ''Endless Waltz'' beats out ''Film/DieHard'' as the ultimate Christmas movie, since it has a sentimental element ''Die Hard'' lacks. |
| 35 | * ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': |
| 36 | ** In Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Geto announces to the Jujutsu tech that he will launch a mass scale invasion on December 24th, with the targets being Shinjuku and Kyoto. The rest of the movie takes place between those and the ending, which is December 25th. |
| 37 | ** In the main series. [[spoiler: Gojo and Sukuna agreed have their fight of the strongest]] on December 24th. |
| 38 | * ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' episode "The Cheese Who Stole Christmas". |
| 39 | * In ''Anime/SkyGirls'', the crew of the [[CoolShip Koryu]] has to scramble the [[MiniMecha Sonic Diver]] team when a target approaches on Christmas Eve. |
| 40 | * ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross'' had Giant Alien Terrorist Santa activating bombs after a raid on Christmas Eve. Followed by the survivors singing Silent Night. |
| 41 | * In ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure'' episode 44 has the cures battling a giant snowman MonsterOfTheWeek on Christmas Eve, [[spoiler:which would have defeated them if not for the return of [[RetiredBadass Cure Flower]]]]. Even more? [[spoiler:BigBad Dune returns and promptly puts the Cures in a CurbStompBattle.]] |
| 42 | ** ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' gives us another ass-kicking Christmas Episode. |
| 43 | * The anime of ''Literature/CatPlanetCuties'' has the last three episodes take place at Christmas. The Catian mothership is attacked and taken over by Dogisian forces, and its orbit is set to decay and crash into Earth, forcing the humans to blow the ship up if the main characters can't stop it in time. [[spoiler:They do, and the Catians give humanity a 'Christmas gift' in the form of a space elevator that looks like a giant Christmas tree.]] |
| 44 | * The ''Anime/SailorMoon S'' movie takes place around Christmas, though not explicitly on the day. Bonus points for Tuxedo Kamen dressing up as Santa Claus. |
| 45 | * ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie'' takes place during the holiday season. |
| 46 | * ''Literature/ShakuganNoShana'': The anime adaptation's second season finale takes place during Christmas Eve. |
| 47 | * ''Sorcery In The Big City'' has an attack on Manhattan on Christmas Eve by magical villains with snowman-shaped mooks. The climactic battle takes place in Grand Central Station. |
| 48 | [[/folder]] |
| 49 | |
| 50 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 51 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 52 | ** Characters/{{Batman|TheCharacter}} goes through this all. the. friggin'. time. If there's one hero that never takes the day off during the holidays, it's Batman. His enemies LOVE to stir up crap during Christmas, especially guys like [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker the Joker]], [[Characters/BatmanMrFreeze Mr. Freeze]], and the Calendar Man. |
| 53 | ** In the 2023 mini-series ''Batman/Santa Claus: Silent Knight'', the Bat-Family, plus a few DC superheroes, join forces with Santa Claus to defeat a horde of vampires during Christmas Time. |
| 54 | * ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'': There was a story in the 70s called "2000 Light Years to Christmas!" In it, the League must recover three powerful objects that some aliens have lost on Earth; one of them falls in the hands of a little girl who lost her family in a Middle Eastern war and uses it for revenge against the invaders. While there is plenty of action, in the end, the girl is convinced to surrender the object peacefully by ComicBook/RedTornado. It is later revealed that the objects were actually intended as gifts... for a messiah being born in another world! Oh, and Tornado, who is an android, adopts the little girl as his daughter. |
| 55 | ** There's another one-shot (JLA #60, or in the ComicBook/TerrorIncognita trade paperback) where ComicBook/PlasticMan, helping friends on Christmas Eve, has to tell a story to get their son off to sleep. He spins a yarn of Santa Claus helping the JLA to deal with the demon, Neron, which includes use of his 'heat vision'. Martian Manhunter, listening in on Plastic Man's open communicator, is able to use his powers to convince the son that Santa does have heat vision but still can't believe that Plastic Man came up with the idea of Santa having heat vision [[spoiler:Neither can Santa himself who is revealed at the end to also have been listening in ...]] |
| 56 | * ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': Creator/MarvelComics occasionally publishes {{Christmas Special}}s focused on the Punisher, which usually feature two things; Frank dressing up as Santa, and Frank killing a lot of bad guys. Oftentimes, he does both simultaneously. |
| 57 | * ''ComicBook/SinCity'': The Silent Night chapter. |
| 58 | * ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': |
| 59 | ** In ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 2010 story arc]]'' ''ComicBook/DayOfTheDollmaker'', Supergirl is trying to find a child kidnapper on Christmas Eve. With no concrete leads, she combs Metropolis, beating and interrogating every criminal and super-villain she meets until she manages to catch and beat down the kidnapper. |
| 60 | ** In the ''DC Universe Holiday Special 2008: A Day Without Sirens'', Kara Zor-El and [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]] team-up to gift [[WretchedHive Gotham City]] a crime-free Christmas. [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_pScx8BN4h3s/SU-kKYaVUmI/AAAAAAAACGc/LKdSPl0ht34/s1600-h/holiday-09.jpg Not even a Kryptonian can keep Gotham City's crime down for longer than that.]] |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/TheLoboParamilitaryChristmasSpecial'' |
| 62 | * The original ''[[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' comic had, early in its run, four one-shot "micro-series" that focused on each individual Turtle. Both the ''Michaelangelo'' and ''Leonardo'' one-shots took place at Christmas, and featured lots of action scenes: |
| 63 | ** In the ''Michaelangelo'' one-shot, Mike went out on Christmas Eve to enjoy the Christmas sights, play in the snow, shop for Christmas presents, adopt a homeless cat... and get involved in a high-speed car chase with gun-packing robbers who had run off with a truckload of toys that were being donated to an orphanage. The comic was eventually adapted into the episode "[[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S3E13TheChristmasAliens The Christmas Aliens]]" in the third season of the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 second animated series.]] |
| 64 | ** The ''Leonardo'' one-shot is pretty much one long action scene, featuring Leonardo fighting an impossible number of Foot ninjas -- interspersed with small snippets of the three other Turtles, together with April and Splinter (and Klunk the cat) making Christmas preparations. Like the ''Michaelangelo'' special, it was adapted into an episode of the second animated series, but without the Christmas elements. |
| 65 | ** In the loosest sense of the term, the "Return to New York" three part storyline also takes place on Christmas, though it lacks any Christmas elements and is only indicated by a date on a newspaper that's easy to miss. |
| 66 | * In issue #13 of ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' "The Darkest Night", Paperinik had to fight the Evronians on Christmas Eve to rescue the people of a small village near Duckburg. |
| 67 | * ''ComicBook/FrankMillersRoboCop'', the comic adaptation of Creator/FrankMiller's original script for ''Film/RoboCop2'', takes place around Christmas. Like some elements, such as the Rehabs, it was recycled in ''Film/RoboCop3''. |
| 68 | * ''ComicBook/SantaVersusDracula'' has Santa and his allies fighting against {{Dracula}} and his monsters because Drac wants Santa's job to enter any home he pleases without worrying about [[MustBeInvited invites]]. |
| 69 | * Subverted in ''ComicBook/ZombiesChristmasCarol''. After the final ghostly vision, Scrooge shaves, puts on his best suit and cane, and strides into the zombie plague in a splash page that seems it will be this... and he does exactly as he did in the original story, helping them through charity and goodwill. |
| 70 | * Antarctic Press' ''The Last Christmas'' involves Santa Claus doing what may be his toughest assignment: to save the last child that believes in him during a ZombieApocalypse. |
| 71 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Tomahawk}}'' #138, Moon Fawn and Small Eagle get kidnapped and tortured by Indian renegades for celebrating Christmas, and it's up to Hawk and Tomahawk to rescue them. |
| 72 | * The Christmas special of the ''ComicBook/{{Warrior}}'' comic book is an infamous case of this, featuring the Wrestling/UltimateWarrior taking a turn as Santa Claus, as well as... other things. [[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/warrior-xmas/ Horrible, horrible things.]] |
| 73 | * The ''ComicBook/KingInBlack'' event has a one-shot where Doctor Doom and Iron Man have to team up to save a symbiote-infected Santa. |
| 74 | * The 2005 Creator/MarvelComics Holiday Special had a story in which a mechanic who [[FreudianExcuse never really recovered from being told Santa Claus isn't real]] decided to build her own robot Santa to at least help keep the illusion alive for other kids. Unfortunately, she used the body of ComicBook/{{Ultron}} as the base of her creation, and so "Santron" immediately declared all the Avengers to be naughty and attacked their annual Christmas party. For bonus points, the mechanic's name is [[https://www.newseum.org/exhibits/online/yes-virginia-there-is-a-santa-claus/ Virginia.]] |
| 75 | * ''ComicBook/MarvelTwoInOne'': ComicBook/TheThing's first team-up with ComicBook/GhostRider takes place on Christmas Eve and is titled "Silent Night… Deadly Night!" It begins with Johnny Blaze coming across what appears to be the Three Wise Men and seemingly ending up in Bethlehem, while the Thing is busy celebrating Christmas with his loved ones (except ComicBook/MisterFantastic, who's being a workaholic even at this time of year). Eventually, the Thing ends up at the same place as Ghost Rider and helps him solve this mystery. [[spoiler:It turns out this was just a scheme by Miracle Man (a minor ComicBook/FantasticFour villain), who brainwashed the inhabitants of an Indian reservation into believing they were part of the Nativity Story and created a child totally immaculately to show that he was absolute and could obtain godhood.]] |
| 76 | [[/folder]] |
| 77 | |
| 78 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 79 | * In one side story of the ''Fanfic/AlternianNationSeries'', Karkat and Gamzee's first experience with Christmas involved hiding inside a mall during a storm, being discovered and fed by a security guard, and having to later drive off some thugs who had broken in and were attacking him. |
| 80 | * ''FanFic/AGrowingAffection'': Naruto and Hinata's first Yuletide together involves saving Santa from ninja puppeteers who want him to repair and upgrade their puppets. |
| 81 | * ''Fanfic/ACertainCrazyChristmasSpecial'': Touma must save the day when BadSanta starts wrecking the town and kidnapping girls. |
| 82 | * The climax of the first part of ''FanFic/PowerRangersGPX'' ''Supercharged'' takes place on the morning of Christmas Eve at the State Capitol of Wisconsin. It involves as BigBadassBattleSequence, a bomb, hostages and a ''Film/HomeAlone'' reference. |
| 83 | * In ''FanFic/WorldwarWarOfEquals'', a joint American/Canadian operation appropriately nicknamed "Operation Eve'' strikes at vulnerable occupied positions between St. Louis and Jefferson City. Ground forces are inserted into key areas and destroy Race anti-armor and air emplacement. By the time kids were waking up for gifts from old St. Nick, we gave Race forces a gift by relieving them of their territory and leave the lizards on the run. |
| 84 | * [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12290360/1/Star-trek-Frontier-URE-2-Christmas-Special Star trek Frontier URE 2: Christmas Special]] has a pair of elves recruit Ron Pinkerton, Takeshi Yamato, Jaden Takeo, and the crews of their respective ships [[SavingChristmas to prevent Sela from ruining Christmas]]. Hilariously epic combat ensues. |
| 85 | * ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' has rewritten some ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' movies and specials into Christmas versions: |
| 86 | ** ''[[Anime/DragonBallZTheTreeOfMight The Christmas Tree Of Might]]'', the 2010 Christmas special for ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''. |
| 87 | ** Played with in ''Lord Slug Abridged''. It's not Christmas, but Goku thinks it is because of all the snow. |
| 88 | ** Christmas 2017 saw ''[[Anime/DragonBallPlanToEradicateTheSaiyans Plan to Eradicate Christmas]]'', which is not only set during Christmas, [[spoiler:but also [[CompositeCharacter combines Dr. Raichi and Hatchiyack into one character]] -- Santa Claus himself]]. |
| 89 | * ''Fanfic/PrincipalCelestiaHuntsTheUndead'': Celestia, Luna, Sunset and a few of her friends Vs. the human world's King Sombra while Christmas shopping in the mall. |
| 90 | * ''Fanfic/ChristmasEveMurders'': [[Film/{{Collateral}} Vincent]] will commit five hits on Christmas Eve. |
| 91 | * ''Fanfic/TheDisneyLoops'' has "The Christmas War" (recorded in its entirety in chapter 38 of the compilation), in which [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny]] and [[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Adrien]] (both of whom hate Christmas due to family issues that come out during the holidays) create "Team Scrooge" (consisting of other Christmas-hating loopers) in order to attack WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's Christmas party, with a "Team Santa" being formed to stop them. In the end, a third group (led by [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]) stops the fighting and talks some sense into the two of them. |
| 92 | * A Literature/{{Discworld}} fic by Creator/AAPessimal sees Ded Moroz, the [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Rodinian]] version of the Literature/{{Hogfather}}, arriving in Ankh-Morpork. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14004841/1/Negligient-Discharge Negligient Discharge]]'' charts the subsequent mayhem, involving a mischief-minded Sneguroshka, Nobby Nobbs as an air-gunner, and Ankh-Morpork's Rodinian community celebrating their midwinter festival.. |
| 93 | [[/folder]] |
| 94 | |
| 95 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 96 | * ''3615 code Père Noël'' (released in English as ''Film/DialCodeSantaClaus'', ''Deadly Games'', ''Game Over'', and ''Hide and Freak'') is a 1989 French thriller about a young boy named Thomas who, in an attempt to communicate with Santa Claus, accidentally contacts a local criminal who finds out that his mother is the manager of a department store. The drifter sets out to rob Thomas' house while dressed as Santa, forcing Thomas into a cat-and-mouse game of survival. Notable for having allegedly inspired ''Film/HomeAlone'' (a charge that Creator/JohnHughes denied), to the point where writer/director René Manzor considered suing for UsefulNotes/{{plagiarism}}. |
| 97 | * ''Film/AnnaAndTheApocalypse'' -- a zombie musical set at Christmas. The titular heroine wields a candy cane lawn ornament as a zombie-bashing weapon. |
| 98 | * ''Film/BatmanReturns''. The main story begins with the [[GangOfHats Red Triangle Circus]] crashing Gotham's tree-lighting ceremony, complete with clowns with Uzis, a Gatling gun mounted on a barrel organ, a fire breather setting a toy store ablaze, and the strongman beating down a Salvation Army Santa with his own sled. |
| 99 | * ''Film/BehindEnemyLines'': Burnett's troubles begin when Admiral Reigart puts him on a reconnaissance mission, forcing him to miss the Christmas celebration on the ship. |
| 100 | * ''Film/BlackLightning2009'': The movie's climax is set during the winter holidays, and features battles across Moscow with high stakes. |
| 101 | * ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'' takes place in December, in Switzerland and France. Aside from a wetter Paris, there's a snowy winter throughout the entire film and there are frequently seen Christmas lights and trees, and holiday season markets and events. While on the run from Treadstone assassins in the French countryside, Bourne and Marie stay at a farmhouse of her old friend and his kids, full of Christmas decorations. The five of them spend Christmas Eve dinner together, complete with typical French Christmas hits heard on the radio (including the French version of ''Deck the Halls''). Right the next morning, instead of focusing on presents, the people at the farmhouse are besieged by the same assassin who shot dictator Wombosi mere days before. Bourne has to get creative to lure him away and take him out, then prepare a plan to go back to Paris and confront Treadstone agents on his own. The finale is set between Christmas and New Year's Eve. |
| 102 | * Creator/ShaneBlack ''[[http://vodzilla.co/blog/features/whats-up-with-shane-black-and-christmas-or-a-christmas-iron-man-3-carol/ loves]]'' this trope. A few of his films he has written are set during the Christmas season or alludes to it. |
| 103 | ** The first ''Film/LethalWeapon'' which starts off at the beginning of the Christmas Season and a suicide. |
| 104 | ** Darian’s drawing in ''Film/TheLastBoyScout'' has a BadSanta, who is holding the head of a little girl. |
| 105 | ** Parodied in ''Film/LastActionHero'', where the climax of ''[[ShowWithinAShow Jack Slater 3]]'' is explicitly noted as taking place around Christmas. |
| 106 | ** ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'' also takes place in that particular time of the year, and many an ass is kicked by Creator/GeenaDavis and Creator/SamuelLJackson. |
| 107 | ** ''Film/KissKissBangBang'', which even has a weird party where Harmony is dressed in a SexySantaDress. |
| 108 | ** ''Film/IronMan3'' takes place in the lead-up to Christmas. |
| 109 | ** Subverted with ''Film/TheNiceGuys'', where only the last scene, months after all the chaos that happened, is set during Christmas. |
| 110 | ** Averted with ''Film/ThePredator'', where it takes place around and during Halloween. |
| 111 | * ''Film/AChristmasHorrorStory'' has a segment that switches from straight horror to action-horror, featuring a BadassSanta battling [[ZombieApocalypse zombified elves]] and eventually TheKrampus at his North Pole workshop. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that he's actually a delusional MallSanta who had a psychotic break and went on a rampage at TheMall. The elves were his co-workers and shoppers, and Krampus was the mall's manager.]] |
| 112 | * The 2002 made-for-TV action flick ''Christmas Rush'', also known as ''Breakaway''. It plays out [[DieHardOnAnX very much like Die Hard]], only in a Chicago mall instead of a Los Angeles office building. |
| 113 | * The Stallone movie ''Film/{{Cobra}}'' takes place during the Christmas season, but [[DidIMentionItsChristmas you'd never know it]] unless you noticed the occasional Christmas decorations or the [[ProductPlacement full-length Toys R Us ad]] that runs before a news segment. |
| 114 | * Film/{{Deadpool|2016}} seems convinced that it's Christmas in the movie. Subverted, however, when taxi driver Dopinder says it's actually April. |
| 115 | * The ''Film/DeathRace'' remake took place during Christmas. Lampshaded as a PreMortemOneLiner during one of the races. |
| 116 | -->[[KillItWithFire "Merry Christmas, asshole!"]] |
| 117 | %%* ''Film/DeathWishVTheFaceOfDeath'' also takes place in Christmas. |
| 118 | * The first two ''Film/DieHard'' movies. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic actually named the first film the greatest Christmas movie ever (the second time he made such a list). Website/{{Cracked}} had the same opinion. As a result, it's become a popular "alternative" Christmas movie for people who think that the usual holiday classics are a bit too saccharine, such that it's even been turned into [[https://www.amazon.com/Die-Hard-Christmas-Illustrated-Holiday/dp/1608879763 an illustrated storybook.]] The first movie actually gave it a justification, as Hans Gruber specifically targeted Nakatomi Plaza on Christmas Eve because the Christmas party being held that day made it that much easier to round everyone up and take them hostage. |
| 119 | --> ''"Now I have a machine gun. Ho ho ho."'' |
| 120 | * The climax of ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'' takes place on the night of a Christmas party. |
| 121 | * ''Film/EnemyOfTheState'': Robert Dean's struggle against the NSA begins when he encounters a friend ([[ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin who is carrying video evidence of the NSA's misdeeds]]) while purchasing a Christmas gift for his wife. |
| 122 | * In ''Film/ErnestSavesChristmas'', the guy who's slated to replace Santa Claus has an acting gig for a ShowWithinAShow movie called ''Christmas Slay'', which appears to be this kind of movie--and a SlasherMovie to boot. Obviously intended as satire. |
| 123 | * ''Film/FirstBlood'' is set during Christmas time, probably to demonstrate that Rambo is also braving the bitter cold during his ordeal. |
| 124 | * ''Film/TheFrenchConnection'' doesn't make a big deal out of it, but little holiday elements like Popeye undercover dressed as Santa Claus, different store windows loaded with Christmas decorations and the bitter winter cold continually pop up. |
| 125 | * The climax of ''Film/GangsterSquad'' takes place during Christmas time. Including the BigBad yelling "here comes Santy Claus!" [[PreAsskickingOneLiner before going to town with a machine gun]]. |
| 126 | * In ''Film/{{Getaway}}'', Brent and his wife Leanne went to her hometown of Sofia, Bulgaria for a Christmas vacation, only for her to be kidnapped and him forced to drive around performing the kidnapper's orders to get her back. |
| 127 | * ''Film/GhostbustersII'' takes place during the December holidays, with the climax taking place on New Year's Eve and ending on New Year's Day. |
| 128 | * The eponymous creatures in ''Film/Gremlins1984'' wreak havoc at Christmastime, and the heroes have to fight them off. |
| 129 | * ''Film/TheHebrewHammer'' is a parody of this, being a [[BlaxploitationParody Jewsploitation film]] about a Jewish PrivateDetective who has been brought on to save Hanukkah after a very progressive and tolerant Santa Claus is murdered and usurped by his son Damian, who wants to make it mandatory that EveryoneIsChristianAtChristmas. He ends up SavingChristmas on the way, with the help of the Kwanzaa Liberation Front. It's that kind of movie. |
| 130 | * One scene in ''Film/HighlanderEndgame'' shows that the events of the film take place around Christmastime. |
| 131 | * The majority of the ''Film/HomeAlone'' movies takes place around Christmastime. Kid defeats gang of thieves by turning his house into a DeathCourse. In the first two movies, it helped set the scene for the conflict between Kevin and his family. |
| 132 | ** Oddly, the third averts this. There are visible Christmas decorations in the airport at the beginning, and a toy given as a gift to the main character helps set the plot in motion. However, the movie is explicitly said to take place on and shortly after January 8th. |
| 133 | * Creator/ChuckNorris' classic ''Film/InvasionUSA1985'' takes place at Christmastime. There's a shootout/truck chase inside a mall full of holiday shoppers. |
| 134 | * ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'' is the only ''Film/JamesBond'' film to also be a Christmas movie. For bonus points, it had a DownerEnding. |
| 135 | * ''Film/JingleAllTheWay'' mixes this with action comedy as Arnold and Sinbad go through a series of increasingly wild misadventures in the pursuit of the toy of the year. |
| 136 | * ''Film/JurassicWorld'', which starts sometime during the Christmas vacation. But Jurassic World is placed in UsefulNotes/CostaRica and if you removed the opening scene (which is where this fact is explicitly shown) [[DoTheyKnowItsChristmasTime you could place it at any time of the year]]. |
| 137 | * ''Film/TheLegendOfFrenchieKing'', which culminates in a CatFight between the two leads, takes place in Christmas-time, although it's painfully obvious that it was shot in Summer-time. |
| 138 | * The action movie ''Film/{{Legion}}'' happens in the days before and after Christmas. |
| 139 | * Events in ''Film/ManiacCop2'', which has a crazy killer killing and shooting up people, take place during Christmas. |
| 140 | * ''Film/NightOfTheComet'', where radiation from a passing comet causes an apocalypse, takes place during the week between Christmas and New Years. |
| 141 | * ''Film/NoEscape1994'': The Insiders are shown celebrating Christmas at one point, and during the party, that's when the Outsiders attack. |
| 142 | * ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'' takes place in late December, around Christmas time. The ship's captain Janek sets up a tabletop Christmas tree to give a sense of time and remind himself of the season. |
| 143 | * ''Film/RareExportsAChristmasTale'' and the short films that preceded it. The real reason Mall Santas exist is... shall we say... more eldritch than you would expect. |
| 144 | * ''Film/RoboCop3'' takes place around the Christmas season, as there are Christmas decorations throughout the film and the famous [[DonutMessWithACop botched attempt to rob a donut shop scene]] has "Here Comes Santa Claus" playing over the speakers when the would-be robber walks in. |
| 145 | * The climactic bout between Rocky Balboa and Ivan Drago in ''Film/RockyIV'' takes place on Christmas Day. |
| 146 | * The Creator/LiamNeeson action-thriller ''Run All Night'' takes place on Christmas night. |
| 147 | * ''Film/SantaWithMuscles'': Wrestling/HulkHogan saves an orphanage from {{Mad Scientist}}s... while having EasyAmnesia and believing he's Santa Claus. |
| 148 | * Spoofed at the beginning of ''Film/{{Scrooged}}'', with a fake trailer for the MadeForTVMovie ''The Night The Reindeer Died'' starring Creator/LeeMajors as he helps a BadassSanta fight off terrorists attempting to take over the North Pole. |
| 149 | * ''Film/Shazam2019'' takes place shortly before Christmas, including a very stressed (and distressed) MallSanta. |
| 150 | * ''Film/SilentNight2023'': The film's prologue occurs on December 24 when Brian Godlock loses his son (and his voice) in a GanglandDriveBy. After getting out of the hospital, he decides to spend the rest of the year [[TrainingMontage training]] and [[LockAndLoadMontage getting ready]] to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge kill every single member of the responsible gang]] on the next December 24. |
| 151 | * ''Film/{{Soldier}}'' takes place during Christmastime, when Sgt. Todd (played by Creator/KurtRussell) fights his former allies to protect a village. |
| 152 | * ''Film/ViolentNight'' is an action thriller set on Christmas Eve where Santa Claus himself gets caught in the crossfire of a home invasion. |
| 153 | [[/folder]] |
| 154 | |
| 155 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 156 | * In Creator/LFrankBaum's ''Literature/TheLifeAndAdventuresOfSantaClaus'', Santa's toys are stolen by creatures who want kids to receive them through evil deeds rather than good. This pisses off the Great Ak and the forest immortals, Santa's chief supporters, and a war between mythical races ensues. |
| 157 | * "Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R." by Creator/HarlanEllison. When he's not wearing the red suit, Kris looks and acts something like James Bond. And the red suit's got body armor, rockets in the boots to jump long distances, machine guns, and high-pressure flamethrowers up the sleeves.... "Ho ho ho." |
| 158 | * Zigzagged in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}''. The driving plotline involves TheGrimReaper and his badass granddaughter SavingChristmas - and apparently [[TheStarsAreGoingOut ensuring the Sun will continue to rise]] - after a PsychopathicManchild assassinates the Disc equivalent of Santa on the orders of an [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Always Frighteningly Lawful Neutral]] CelestialBureaucracy. It does, however, contain something of a TrueMeaningOfChristmas message with the revelation of what would have happened ''instead'' of the Sun rising: [[spoiler:"A mere ball of flaming gas would have illuminated the world." They haven't been saving the world, they've been saving people's ability to make heartwarming poetry out of an uncaring universe. You have to believe in the little lies - like the Hogfather - to make the big ones -- like truth, justice and mercy -- a reality]]. |
| 159 | * ''Legacies'' is a Literature/RepairmanJack novel set shortly before Christmas; one early incident features Jack dressing up as Santa to beat the living crap out of a scumbag who stole toys from a children's [=AIDS=] clinic. |
| 160 | * ''Literature/{{Sharpe}}'': The second act of ''Sharpe's Enemy'' takes place on Christmas Eve, as Sharpe and the Rifles take advantage of the deserter army's drunken state to launch their RoaringRampageOfRescue. |
| 161 | -->The line of the Christmas hymn kept going through his head, another unwelcome visitor to his thoughts. "Goodwill to sinful men in shewn." Not tonight. |
| 162 | * ''[[Literature/RiversOfLondon Whispers Under Ground]]'' takes place over the Christmas season, and includes some exciting chase sequences and gun-play. |
| 163 | * The fifth book in the ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' series, ''Mortal Coil'' takes place around Christmas. |
| 164 | * MonsterMash neo-noir ''Literature/WolfmanConfidential'' features an extended homage to both ''{{Film/Labyrinth}}'' and ''{{Film/Legend Legend}}'' taking place on Christmas Day. |
| 165 | * The fifth volume of ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'' is [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on a boat]] on Christmas like the movie. This is actually a double ass-kicking holiday, as this is the novel that reveals that all Whispereds, including Tessa and Kaname, were born within three minutes of each other on Christmas Eve. Sousuke actually makes a point of getting Kaname a Christmas present ''and'' a birthday present. |
| 166 | [[/folder]] |
| 167 | |
| 168 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 169 | * ''Series/BrooklynNineNine'': |
| 170 | ** In the Cold Open of "The Pontiac Bandit Return", Det. Jake Peralta is undercover, dressed as Santa on a stakeout. Then suddenly his nemesis Doug Judy appears and Jake chases him in the very impractical costume. Then he and his partner Rosa Diaz search for him in a lot where they sell Christmas trees. After Jake gets him, they knock down a heater and some of the trees immediately catch fire. Jake, happy to have caught Judy & still dressed as Santa, sees a couple of kids that happen to be in the lot and yells at them: "Take a good look, kids. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU'RE NAUGHTY!" |
| 171 | ** In "Yippee Kayak", Jake, Charles, and Gina are trapped in a department store on Christmas Eve as it's being robbed. Being a huge ''Film/DieHard'' fanboy, Jake geeks out over the chance to try and live the film out for real. |
| 172 | %%* ''Series/{{Chuck}} versus Santa Claus''. |
| 173 | %%** Also, ''Chuck versus The Santa Suit'' from Season 5. |
| 174 | %%* Both ''Series/{{Community}}'' holiday episodes have a scene of this. |
| 175 | * The Season 3 finale of ''Series/CobraKai'' is set a week before Christmas, on the anniversary of Johnny's defeat by Daniel decades earlier. In the episode, the [=LaRusso=] home is attacked by Kreese's students, leading to a brawl between them and the other two dojos. The attack ultimately forces Daniel and Johnny into a [[TeethClenchedTeamwork reluctant truce]] against Kreese. |
| 176 | * The made-for-TV movie ''Film/TheCrossing'' depicts the below-mentioned crossing of the Delaware and Battle of Trenton, including the [[HollywoodHistory popular but untrue]] notion that the efficacy of the ambush was due to the Hessians being fantastically hungover after a German Christmas. (In truth they were undermanned, despite several requests for British backup, and moreover did not expect Washington to throw his ''entire army'' at them in one go.) |
| 177 | * Series 2 of ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' features the eponymous team fighting Hitler at Christmas. A man in a Santa-suit is pivotal to the action. [[spoiler:Because he's Hitler.]] |
| 178 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'' Christmas Episodes tend to have plots involving things like alien invasions, crashing spaceships, etc. In fact, Christmas episodes are ''extra-long'' and twice as epic as normal episodes, second only to season finales in terms of how they'll go all-out. |
| 179 | ** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoTVMTheTVMovie the McGann movie]], near the end, the Doctor warns [[spoiler:Chang Lee]], "Next Christmas, take a vacation. Don't be here." However, here the Doctor is referring to San Francisco, not London. |
| 180 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion "The Christmas Invasion"]], the first proper Christmas special, features an alien invasion and a CombatByChampion for the fate of the Earth. |
| 181 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride "The Runaway Bride"]] features aliens hungry enough to eat all of humanity, and the climax involves an actual tank shooting down the villain's spaceship. |
| 182 | ** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned Voyage of the Damned]]": The Doctor and Astrid land on Earth at Christmastime and find the city deserted. Just when you think ''that's'' the mystery of the episode, Wilf tells him the reason that the city is empty is that everyone has evacuated the city thinking that something awful is going to happen. (They're right.) |
| 183 | *** Lampshaded again later on in the same episode: |
| 184 | ---->'''The Doctor:''' Actually, that's not true. Christmas is a time of - of peace and thanksgiving and... What am I on about? My Christmases are always like this. |
| 185 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWho2013CSTheTimeOfTheDoctor The Time of the Doctor]]" has it to [[ExaggeratedTrope an extreme level]]. [[spoiler:Christmas is the name of the ''town'', it is under constant siege by the Doctor's enemies. He teams up with the bloody ''Silence'' to fend off the horde, it is so bad. Narration indicates the siege of Christmas went on for over ''nine hundred years'' before the aged, dying Doctor decides to take them all out with TheLastDance... before, of course, getting a loophole in the laws of regeneration (much to his surprise)]]. |
| 186 | * ''Series/{{Eureka}}'' became fond of doing Christmas Episodes about halfway through its run. While minor examples compared to most they could still qualify. The first had the town preparing for an air-raid when an unidentified bogie breached its airspace, cue Santa flying through town crashing into several buildings [[spoiler:it was Taggert pioneering the scientific field of Santology]]. The second featured an antagonist sninja, snowman-ninja, complete with anime-style ass-kicking climax. |
| 187 | * Christmas happens during the ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "Terra Firma". Since it's ''Farscape'', a murderous creature kills two people and literally crashes Christmas dinner at John's dad's house. |
| 188 | * ''Series/TheFlash2014'': The Christmas episode [[Recap/TheFlash2014S2E9RunningToStandStill "Running to Stand Still"]], the Weather Wizard breaks out Captain Cold and the Trickster out of prison over the Christmas period, the three of them [[VillainTeamUp teaming up]] to form the Rogues. Their plan to kill ComicBook/TheFlash includes the Trickster dressing up as [[BadSanta Santa Claus]] and explosives disguised as presents. |
| 189 | * In the ''Series/HartToHart'' episode "'Tis the Season to Be Murdered", Jonathan and Jennifer spend the holidays investigating industrial espionage at Hartoy, a toy company Jonathan owns. Two people are murdered along the way, while Jonathan and Jennifer are attacked by killer toys such as an electronic game that's rigged to explode and a radio-controlled model airplane that fires real ammo. |
| 190 | * ''Series/Hawkeye2021'' has Clint Barton meeting his successor Kate Bishop during the holiday season, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qoc7nSQuQM the trailer]] makes sure to highlight the Christmas setting. |
| 191 | * Any episode of ''Franchise/KamenRider'' that airs around Christmas is bound to have some Rider kicking of ass. |
| 192 | ** ''Series/KamenRider'' had the franchise's first Christmas episode, which saw Kamen Rider dropping a mountain on a bunch of Nazis. It also featured the FinalBattle with one of the major villains of the series Colonel Zol. |
| 193 | ** The Christmas episode of ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'' saw Wizard meeting Santa, saving Christmas for a bunch of orphans and kicking [[ClimaxBoss Phoenix]]'s ass again while doing so. |
| 194 | ** A more infamous example would be the Christmas episode of ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'', which featured [[spoiler:Kiriya Kujo]] [[MoodWhiplash getting killed by Genm]]. |
| 195 | * The ''Series/{{Monk}}'' Christmas episode ''Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa'', the end of which features Monk pursuing a jewel thief and beating him with a giant candy cane yard decoration. |
| 196 | * ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': |
| 197 | ** The episode featuring ''Film/SantaClausConquersTheMartians'' features a host skit in which Crow presents his very own Christmas song: "Let's Have a Creator/PatrickSwayze Christmas", which combines holiday sentiment with allusions to Swayze's role in ''Film/RoadHouse1989''. |
| 198 | --->''It's my way or the highway, this Christmas at my bar.\ |
| 199 | I'll have to smash your kneecaps if you bastards touch my car!\ |
| 200 | I got the word that Santa has been stealing from the till.\ |
| 201 | I think that that right jolly old elf had better make out his will!'' |
| 202 | ** Riff by Joel Robinson: "Big John Call ''IS'' Santa Claus in "O Little Town of ''DEATH''lehem!" |
| 203 | ** Meanwhile, in the other ChristmasEpisode, ''Film/SantaClaus1959'', the last host segment has Santa Claus and the devil duking it out in a wrestling match right in the middle of Deep 13. Dr. F and TV's Frank are pleased. |
| 204 | --->'''Santa Claus:''' [[ChewBubblegum I'm here to kick ass and eat candy canes, and I'm all out of candy canes!]] |
| 205 | * A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' sketch from the [[SeasonalRot 1980-1981 season]] had a fake trailer for a movie called "Kung Fu Christmas", starring Caine (David Carradine's character from the show "Kung Fu", played by Carradine himself) and Bruce Lee (played by Eddie Murphy). |
| 206 | * A Very ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' Christmas. In the middle of dealing with pagan spirits that murder people at Christmas in order to stay alive for one more year (and are dissonantly jolly about it), we get to see (or get mentions of) a number of CrappyHolidays that the Winchesters have suffered throughout their lives. |
| 207 | * ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' plays with this quite often - ''Franchise/PowerRangers'', not so much. |
| 208 | ** ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' sees the heroes team up with Santa using his magic sack to fight one of the main generals of the Gaiark. In ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'', Gai goes the extra mile and merges the Red and Green Ranger Keys so he can become "Gokai Christmas". ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' had the Kyoryugers fight against [[BadSanta Debo Yanasanta]], an evil Santa monster who planned to revive the BigBad [[ItMakesSenseInContext by giving kids bad presents containing his cells.]] |
| 209 | ** ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'' did have the season 3 episode "I'm Dreaming of a White Ranger". However, we didn't see a ChristmasEpisode for a ''long'' time because the seasons begin in February and end in November. ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'' had the first ones in a long time, one each for both years it ran, but the first was a ClipShow. |
| 210 | ** The epilogue of ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'' took place in Christmas, where they fought a Christmas/Winter themed BadSanta monster called Heximas who turned out to be the last survivor of Sledge's outlaws. |
| 211 | ** The last episode of the first season of ''Series/PowerRangersBeastMorphers'' takes place during Christmas and has [[EvilGenius Scrozzle]] going into a festivity-ruining rampage in the city over the rangers destroying his Cyber Dimension in a previous episode ("Tis the season for REVENGE!"). After trapping the Grid Battleforce Rangers inside holiday ornaments, it's up to their Beast Bots must save them and the city. |
| 212 | * The ''Series/{{Supergirl 2015}}'' Season 3 midseason finale "Reign" features [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]]'s first [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown confrontation]] with the titular villain, which happens on Christmas. |
| 213 | * ''Series/UltramanAce'' has an episode entitled ''Resurrection! The Father of Ultra'', in which Yapool sends the ice monster Snowgiran with the {{youkai}} Namahage to freeze Earth on Christmas Eve. Fortunately, Ultraman Ace is here to save the day, and so is [[PapaWolf his adoptive father]] who [[BadassSanta disguises himself as Santa!]] |
| 214 | * ''Series/UltramanTaro'' had an episode called "The Ultra Christmas Tree", in which Ultraman Taro battles an evil alien named [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Terrorist]], who has come to Earth on Christmas Eve for some destruction-wreaking and murders the friendly, Christmas-loving alien Miracle. |
| 215 | * ''Series/WonderWoman1975'': "The Deadly Toys" features Frank Gorshin as a WickedToymaker who creates robots to duplicate real people -- including Wonder Woman! A TwinSwitch saves the day. It finishes with Wonder Woman spray-painting "Merry Christmas" on the store window and signing it: W.W. |
| 216 | * An episode of ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' that takes place around Winter Solstice, with her and Gabrielle acting out Scrooge's Christmas story. |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 220 | * Music/WeirdAlYankovic: |
| 221 | ** "Christmas At Ground Zero" (from ''Music/PolkaParty'') has a nuclear war happen on Christmas. The lyrics mix the festivities of the season with the horror of nuclear war. |
| 222 | ** "The Night Santa Went Crazy" (from ''Music/BadHairDay'') has Santa [[GoingPostal go on a rampage due to the stresses of the job]]. |
| 223 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Yorgesson Yogi Yorgesson]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4uW2PT-190 "I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas":]] |
| 224 | -->''Back in the corner the radio is playing\ |
| 225 | And over the racket [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Heatter Gabriel Heatter]] is saying\ |
| 226 | "Peace on earth everybody and good will toward men"\ |
| 227 | And yust at that moment someone slugs Uncle Ben.'' |
| 228 | * "Santa's Gonna Kick Your Ass" by The Arrogant Worms |
| 229 | * On [=mp3=].com, a comedy team called ''Prime Example'' did a spoof advertisement for the ultimate Christmas TV special "Violent Night" in which Santa Claus, Rudolph, Frosty, Charlie Brown, and the Little Drummer Boy team up to save Christmas from a war on Christmas by the Grinch, Ebeneezer Scrooge, [[WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer1964 the Abominable Snowman]], and Satan. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a Terminator-esque Santa Claus with an assault rifle, and Clint Eastwood plays a Dirty Harry-esque Ebeneezer Scrooge with a shotgun... coming up next on Fox! |
| 230 | * "Uncle Bernie's Farm" by [[Music/FrankZappa The Mothers of Invention]] on their Music/AbsolutelyFree album largely consists of an inventory of dangerous, violent toys. |
| 231 | * The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Shelton fatal shooting]] that apparently inspired the classic folk song "Stagger Lee" happened on December 25, 1895 in St. Louis. |
| 232 | * Just take any Christmas song, and make it metal or hard rock. |
| 233 | ** For example, [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uC3O_ztCWOM the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's rendition of ''Carol of the Bells'']]. (Though if you take [[Music/DeadWinterDead the album it was first released on]] into account, the "ass-kicking" in this song is not a good thing.) |
| 234 | ** Or Music/BobRivers's "I Am Santa Claus", a take on Music/BlackSabbath's "Iron Man". |
| 235 | ** Music/TheKinks' "Father Christmas" embodies the spirit with the mention of machine guns and threatening to beat up the title character. |
| 236 | ** "Merry Xmas Everybody" by Music/{{Slade}} counts as this sonically, if not lyrically in parts. |
| 237 | * A Christmas revision of ''Convoy'' by C.W. [=McCaul=] has the truckers running a roadblock set up by the Grinch. |
| 238 | * Music/MxPx's "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Christmas Night of Zombies]]" |
| 239 | * The gory and hilarious [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDDAybCe1uI claymation video]] for "Mr Frosty Man" by Music/SufjanStevens, about a snowman protecting a boy from a horde of zombies. |
| 240 | * The song "Oi to the World" (originally done by The Vandals and later CoveredUp by Music/NoDoubt) details the story of a punk and a skinhead who get into a massive brawl on Christmas day. While they both end up abandoned by their comrades, the spirit of the holiday wins out; the punk patches up the skinhead's wounds and they end up burying the hatchet at the pub after escaping from the police. |
| 241 | [[/folder]] |
| 242 | |
| 243 | [[folder:Mythology and Religion]] |
| 244 | * OlderThanFeudalism, in ''Literature/TheBible'', no less. [[http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation+12&version=NIV Chapter 12 of the book of Revelation]] is hardly serene -- on that day, a war goes down in Heaven leading to the fall of [[{{Satan}} you know who]]. |
| 245 | ** And Tsion Ben-Judah gets to witness it in the Literature/LeftBehind book ''The Indwelling''. |
| 246 | ** Even older than that, although not by much: the original birth of Christ in the Gospels took place against a backdrop of Roman occupation, mass infanticide, parents fleeing the country to save their baby... |
| 247 | [[/folder]] |
| 248 | |
| 249 | [[folder:Professional Wrestling]] |
| 250 | * A time honored tradition in professional wrestling is putting on a show in front of soldiers for Christmas, such as when Wrestling/TheWildSamoans' World Xtreme Wrestling Promotion started going on tour to Afghanistan in 2002, though the most famous of these was WWE Smackdown's ''Christmas in Iraq'', which got its own television special, where the requested present of several troops was "Choke slam me Wrestling/BigShow''. |
| 251 | * Wrestling/{{WCW}}'s biggest PPV of the year, Starrcade, was regularly held around Christmastime in December. They also had a Wrestling/ClashOfChampions special in December 1988 called "Season's Beatings". |
| 252 | * [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] has its ''Silent Night, Bloody Night''. [[GimmickMatches Christmas chaos in a cage, Double north pole match, Santa's workshop knockout street fight, Grab the reindeer, a tree made of barbed wire in the titular silent night bloody night match]]. |
| 253 | * V.I.P. Wrestling's ''Jingle Brawl''. |
| 254 | * UCW Zero's ''Seasons Beatings'' |
| 255 | * While not on Christmas specifically, ''Ring Warriors Bombshells and Jingle Bells'' December 15th, 2012 show was Christmas themed, and it was also the show where Chief Operating Officer Howard Brody cut ties with the Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance, including the wrestlers they kept beating the NWA's. |
| 256 | * Vendetta Pro Wrestling's ''Winter Wonder Slam'' had/has a Christmas theme with the {{tagline}} "It will be anything but a silent night.'' Vintage Dragon also came up with his own {{gimmick match|es}}, the Holiday Havoc match. |
| 257 | * On December 27, 1989, the WWF broadcast the PPV event ''Film/NoHoldsBarred: The Match/The Movie.'' Following the film was a steel-cage match taped on December 12, where Wrestling/HulkHogan and [[Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake]] took on The Mighty Zeus and "Macho Man" Wrestling/RandySavage. One of the ad taglines was, "Why have a Merry Christmas....''when you can have a No Holds Barred Christmas!?"'' |
| 258 | * On the December 20 (taped December 18), 2001 ''Wrestling/{{WWE SmackDown}}'', [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]] cut a promo on Wrestling/{{Test}} set to "The Twelve Days of Christmas.": |
| 259 | -->"On the night Test faces The Great One\ |
| 260 | This is what he'll see\ |
| 261 | 12 Sharpshooters stinging\ |
| 262 | 11 Eyebrows raising\ |
| 263 | 10 Spines-a-busting\ |
| 264 | 9 Noggins knocking\ |
| 265 | 8 Kicks-a-kicking\ |
| 266 | 7 Punches punching\ |
| 267 | 6 Suplex smashing\ |
| 268 | 5 Seconds of the people chanting The Rock's name\ |
| 269 | [Rocky, Rocky, Rocky]\ |
| 270 | 4 Rock Bottoms\ |
| 271 | 3 People's Elbows on your\ |
| 272 | 2 Buck teeth\ |
| 273 | and an ass-kicking all over UsefulNotes/NewOrleans" |
| 274 | [[/folder]] |
| 275 | |
| 276 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 277 | * ''Santa's Soldiers'' from Deep 7 Games is a parody of the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials where the player characters are paramilitary commandos...that happen to be cute little Christmas Elves. The whole idea is that Santa is a seemingly naive fellow oblivious to the many threats on his head. ''[[NeverMessWithGranny Missus Claus]]'', however, is a terrifying spymaster and combatant who wants to make sure her husband is well-protected but remains sweet and innocent. |
| 278 | * The infamous ''TabletopGame/{{Risus}}'' adventure "Kringle All the Way", which starts with versions of Santa representing the Seven Deadly Sins setting out to assassinate Ebenezer Scrooge, Jesus, and ''Christmas shopping'' so he'll have the holiday to himself. |
| 279 | * The ''TabletopGame/SpiritOfTheCentury'' supplement ''Spirit of the Season'' allows you to apply a Christmas (and/or Hanukkah) theme to all the [[TwoFistedTales two-fisted action]] of the original. |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 283 | * Music/{{Tsukiuta}} Stage Act 7: Cyber-Dive Connection is this, in sexy UsefulNotes/CyberGoth costumes with [[CoolSword new cyber swords]], scythes, bows, etc. The main characters, 12 world-hopping boy band members [[MoeAnthropomorphism based on the months of the year]], are asked to enter a digital world to [[SavingChristmas save Santa]] - it's heavy on video game references, light on plot, and more of a playground for the series to experiment with combining technology and live theatre. |
| 284 | [[/folder]] |
| 285 | |
| 286 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 287 | * The prologue to ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'' takes place on a freezing December night in 2004. In Ludendorff, North Yankton's bank, decorations festoon the lobby, and a snowstorm is moving through town. It's a perfect night for a heist that culminates in an epic gunfight and police chase into the countryside. |
| 288 | * The ''VideoGame/RedOrchestra2HeroesOfStalingrad'' map Commissar's House takes place on Christmas Day. For bonus points, successfully capturing an area as the Soviets nets you an achievement called "Fighting The War on Christmas". |
| 289 | * ''VideoGame/MerryGearSolid'' is the result of giving a Christmas theme to the twisted world of ''VideoGame/MetalGear.'' |
| 290 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'' takes place on Christmas. |
| 291 | * ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' begins on Christmas Eve, though the game itself takes place over the course of five days. |
| 292 | * ''VideoGame/{{Deathsmiles}} II'' and its console version ''IIX'' are {{Danmaku}} shooters themed around and set during Christmas. |
| 293 | * The first ''VideoGame/Yakuza1'' game (and [[VideoGame/YakuzaKiwami its remake]]) takes place around Christmas 2005. This results in just the occasional SexySantaDress around the red light district. The second game, set InUniverse a year later, follows suit. ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' returns to being set during Christmas 2012, with Sapporo being the most blatant city to celebrate it thanks to their winter festival. ''VideoGame/Yakuza6'' also returns to Christmas, being set during December 2016. Its spin-off subseries ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}'' and the sequel ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'' are also set during Christmas 2018 and 2021 respectively, with both games spilling well into the new year for their finales. |
| 294 | * The bombing of Valais Airbase and the subsequent Operation Valkyrie in ''VideoGame/AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar'' take place on December 25, 1995. |
| 295 | * ''VideoGame/GardenGnomeCarnage'', it's all about beating down Christmas elves who are trying to scale your building and deliver Christmas presents. And its sequel ''VideoGame/HyperPrincessPitch'' where you invade mecha-Santa's toy factory and [[StuffBlowingUp kill/destroy everything you see.]] |
| 296 | * ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsW'' loves this one, as they have the ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'' finale set on a year's Christmas day, and the ''Literature/FullMetalPanic The Second Raid'' finale on the next year's Christmas Eve. They also have levels set on both New Year's Eves, too. And one in St. Valentine. |
| 297 | * In ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'', the titular VehicularCombat BloodSport is held annually on Christmas day by [[BigBad Caly]][[SatanicArchetype pso]]. Naturally, this results in a lot of vehicular death and destruction. |
| 298 | * Surprisingly averted in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' proper; despite four straight years of Halloween maps and three annual [[YouMeanXmas "Australian Christmas"/"Smissmas"]] events that add "festive" items to the game, no official map has ever been released that takes place at Christmas. The supplementary comic [[http://www.teamfortress.com/asmissmasstory/ "A Smissmas Story",]] however, fits the bill pretty well. |
| 299 | * In ''VideoGame/TheFiremen'' The D-sector fire brigade spend their merry Christmas time avoiding and extinguishing all manner of fire and explosions, as well as busting up rampaging security robots. |
| 300 | * ''VideoGame/CrisisBeat'' takes place on Christmas Eve. |
| 301 | * ''VideoGame/{{Infected}}'' starts with zombies crashing the Tree Lighting Ceremony in New York City and keeps going from there. |
| 302 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'' takes place on Christmas Eve, with the clock hitting midnight and thus making it actual Christmas Day about halfway through the story. |
| 303 | * ''VideoGame/BoogieWings'' have a stage titled "Merry Merry Christmas", set in Christmas Eve, with plenty of Christmas ornaments and decorations dotted all over the stage while you destroy hordes and hordes of enemies in the foreground. With a cheery 8-bit rendition of "Joy to the World" as background music and a gigantic Robot Santa called "''Satan'' Claus" serving as the boss. |
| 304 | * ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'': The Edonia chapters of Chris and Jake's respective campaigns all take place on Christmas Eve and end on Christmas Day. It's not given much attention, since they're on the other side of the world and in a war zone. |
| 305 | * ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' has the DLC missions "How the Saints Saved Christmas", which applies the series's action insanity to this trope, from a BadSanta to Boss turning from TheGrinch to SavingChristmas for a story of, well... Christmas has everything you could possibly want. |
| 306 | * ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' has the endgame Frost Moon event, where the player has to fight off waves of Christmas-themed enemies, with notable mentions going to the bosses: a living Christmas tree, an Ice Queen, and a mechanized "Santank" |
| 307 | * ''VideoGame/ResonanceOfFate'': Chapter 13 has a Christmas-themed mission in which TheTrio gives presents to orphans in the square, in their ass-kicking GunFu flair. |
| 308 | * Every December is Crimbo in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' (even though the in-game calendar can march on for 2-3 months during it.) During the event, it's regarded as tradition that Uncle Crimbo (the local version of Santa Claus) will royally screw things up and call upon adventurers to pull his chestnuts off the fire. This has included fighting off two different {{Alien Invasion}}s, a hostile takeover by mutants, a hostile *corporate* takeover where the ass-kicking came from physically fighting the boredom of an office job, giant robots, and a massive protest over the entire thing that culminates in fighting an EldritchAbomination representing Nature and the AnthropomorphicPersonification of [[DirtyCommunists Communism]]. Stocking stuffers are usually buffing items and a couple collectibles, Uncle Crimbo's gifts are usually useless novelty items, but nicer rewards come directly from doing what adventurers do -- beating things up and taking their stuff. |
| 309 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta 2}}'', the game opens with Bayonetta doing Christmas shopping. In fact, the entirety of the game after the Prologue takes place on Christmas Day. |
| 310 | * The third headhunter DLC from ''{{VideoGame/Borderlands 2}}'', "How Marcus Saved [[YouMeanXmas Mercenary Day]]." What else would you expect from Christmas on [[DeathWorld Pandora]]? |
| 311 | * ''[[Literature/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon DanMachi]]: VideoGame/BattleChronicle'': During a Christmas event, a distorted ice sculpture of Loki comes to life and starts attacking, leading to a boss fight where it needs to be destroyed. |
| 312 | * Although the exact date in ''Videogame/TheWalkingDead'' Season 2 is left unclear, it is implied that one of the game's episodes takes place on Christmas since it's winter time, the group is huddled together near the fireplace, the Christmas tree is decorated, and Clementine's group is fighting for their lives against zombies and [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters threatening people]] out in the snow. |
| 313 | * ''VideoGame/DeadRising4'' is to take place around Christmas time, with the reveal trailer playing a cover of ''Jungle Bell Rock'', and showing Frank West tying zombies to a Christmas tree with the lights. However, in the actual game, the zombies wiped out Willamette during Christmas time, but Frank and Brad don't investigate the town until January. With few living people left, the Christmas decorations are still there. |
| 314 | * In ''VideoGame/FearEffect 2'', the game takes place at or around Christmas, before ending just after New Year's has started. |
| 315 | * The final boss battle of ''VideoGame/Persona5'' takes place on Christmas Eve. [[spoiler:The protagonist's EleventhHourSuperpower being the persona Satanael has spawned jokes about Satan saving Christmas.]] |
| 316 | * The deadline for the [[spoiler:quasi-]]final confrontation against [[spoiler:Adachi and Ameno-Sagiri]] in ''VideoGame/Persona4'' shares the same date as final boss battle of ''Persona 5'', also during Christmas Eve. |
| 317 | * ''VideoGame/Extermination2001'' takes place on Christmas Eve 2005 in an antarctic research facility taken over by [[TheVirus an aggressive, mutagenic bacterium]]. |
| 318 | * A mission pack for the original ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' was a retelling of ''How the Grinch stole Christmas'' with the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Zerg Swarm]] standing in for the Grinch and a terran colony for Whoville. |
| 319 | * The Tempest Trial event "A Gift Of Peace" in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'' takes place during the Ylissean Winter Festival and sees Winter Chrom, Robin, Lissa, and Tharja team up with Masked Marth to save it from the Tempest. |
| 320 | * The "Falling Wonder" story of ''[[VideoGame/{{SUGURI}} Acceleration of SUGURI]] [[ExpansionPack X-Edition]]'', the [[spoiler:former]] Shifu Brand -- Saki, Iru, Nanako, Kae, and Kyoko -- try to throw a party for Suguri and Hime to make amends taking part in [[BigBad Shifu]]'s schemes, only for an android duplicate known as [[LovableSexManiac NoName]] that he created prior suddenly crashes the party and orders his creator's subordinates around to fight each other as part of [[HaremSeeker his harem]]. |
| 321 | * The free (and [[NintendoHard brutal]]) expansion to ''VideoGame/QPShooting'', ''[=Xmas=] Shooting'' and its commercial modernized remake, takes place during Christmas Eve as its protagonist, a bunny girl Santa Claus apprentice named Aru, tries to retrieve the stolen Christmas present in time for delivery. |
| 322 | * The true ending of ''VideoGame/{{Ray|Series}}Crisis'' reveals that [[spoiler:[[DoomedByCanon Operation: RAYFORCE]], a mission to destroy the Earth after the Con-Human took over it, takes places during Christmas Eve]]. |
| 323 | * The final two chapters of the Soviet campaign in ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: Finest Hour'' take place on December 24, 1942. |
| 324 | * ''VideoGame/DazeBeforeChristmas'' has Santa saving the holiday from a group of villains. |
| 325 | * ''VideoGame/ESPRaDe'' begins on Christmas Eve of 2018 and ends on the day itself, as evidenced by the Christmas trees in J-B 5th's intro and the InUniverseGameClock if you turn on the stage progress widget in the [=PS4=] and Switch ports. |
| 326 | * While ''VideoGame/DragaliaLost'' had a [[CrystalDragonJesus Dragonyule]]-themed event starting out, its sequel - The Great Dragonyule Offensive - is this. [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Lily]] and [[ShellShockedVeteran Victor]] are dispatched to a remote lake to protect the nearby villages from invading [[TheEmpire Imperials]], and both of them dress up as [[BadassSanta Saint Starfall]] while they dispense [[MyLittlePanzer exploding presents]] and all manner of badassery to the invaders... and actual presents to the villagers and surrendering soldiers. |
| 327 | * While ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'' likely does not take place during Christmas time, the Rickety Town level has a distinct Christmas theme throughout most of it, likely having being pulled from somewhere else and added to the AmusementParkOfDoom. It has elf monster enemies, festive background music, and a BadSanta boss at the end of it. |
| 328 | * Referenced in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' with [[FakeBand the in-universe band]], the Midnight Riders, and their Christmas song you can find in-game. [[AllThereInTheManual According to background info]], the band had always hated the idea of doing charity music, but years later they were forced into making a Christmas album in exchange for avoiding 30 ''thousand'' hours of community service, cramming it out in an hour. The end result is the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrZdvW6BBkc "All I Want For Christmas (is to kick your ass)"]], which is about kicking Santa's ass after he steals your girl. |
| 329 | * The ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' expansion ''Duke: Nuclear Winter'' has Duke Nukem going out to [[SavingChristmas save Christmas]] when the aliens join forces with the Feminist Elven Militia and Santa Claus ends up becoming BrainwashedAndCrazy. |
| 330 | * ''VideoGame/AzureStrikerGunvolt3'': The events of "Holy Night XIII" take place on Christmas Eve, when the [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Primal Dragon]] BB went berserk (at least by Kirin's reckoning) due to getting stood up by a possible date. [[TheCorruption Dragon Radiation]] did the rest of the job, and now there's a GrimReaper Adept flying around terrorizing the neighborhood, made worse by how the Sumeragi peacekeepers (annoyed at being called on job during a holiday) and robots that evacuated citizens before things got worse end up infected by his Dragon Radiation and start running amock themselves. This forces Kirin and GV to head in and neutralize/calm down all hostiles. |
| 331 | [[/folder]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 334 | * ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'' takes place in the last week of December, Jingle Bells plays in the Alton Plaza area and your contact, Napoleon, appears before you dressed in a Santa outfit at one point. |
| 335 | * ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvAlternative'': When's the best time "A single child could give hope to humanity"... by deploying a massive army of mecha onto a BETA controlled island in Japan '''and''' using a giant floating weapon armed with a [[WaveMotionGun Charged Particle Cannon]] to kill thousands upon thousands of said BETA? Why that'd be Christmas Day, 2001. Of course, [[FinaglesLaw nothing going right ever]]. |
| 336 | * In ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'', Ren's final fight against [[BigBad Reinhard]] takes place during Christmas Eve. Given that this fight is something Reinhard has been looking forward to for decades, he can't help but cheer Ren on. |
| 337 | -->'''Reinhard:''' Frohe Weihnachten. (Merry Christmas) |
| 338 | [[/folder]] |
| 339 | |
| 340 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 341 | * ''Webcomic/FarOutThere'' has [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1090288/bridget-and-alphonses-horrifying-christmas-page-1/ "Bridget and Alphonse's Horrifying Christmas"]]. |
| 342 | * The current page image [[http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=308 comes from]] ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity''. |
| 343 | ** They later played [[http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=1134 as competing Santas]] vying for dominance as "Krampitallica", "Santa Copypaste", and "[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Claus Capital LLC]]". |
| 344 | * [[http://www.egscomics.com/sketchbook.php?id=691 This]] ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', sketchbook strip features Ellen and Nanase each wearing a SexySantaDress and fighting elves. |
| 345 | * ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'': [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2098#comic Captain Chanukah vs. Santa Claus]]. |
| 346 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' has some epic confrontations between Santa Claus and Bun-bun, starting with Bun-bun trying to kill Santa every Christmas because of an unspecified grudge, and culminating in the Holiday Wars where [[ItMakesSenseInContext Bun-bun attempts to take over all of the holidays and fights a final battle against an alien monster Santa]]. |
| 347 | [[/folder]] |
| 348 | |
| 349 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 350 | * ''WebAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmasWhoSkellingtonsRevenge'', a YoutubePoop that turns ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' into a CrisisCrossover with waves of characters teaming up to stop Jack Skellington from taking over Christmas with the help of a demonic rabbit monster. |
| 351 | * ''[[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/santa-fu/ Santa-Fu]]'' |
| 352 | * ''[[http://www.vendettachristmas.com/videos.html Vendetta: A Christmas Story]]'' |
| 353 | * The Literature/WhateleyUniverse authors really like this trope. "Christmas Elves" has Fey and Generator in a fight to the death inside a Syndicate hardsite. "Ayla and the Grinch" has Phase against a serial killer [[spoiler:that turns out to actually be a demon]]. "Silent Nacht" has Nacht in a half-dozen battles, being manipulated by her mother, and [[spoiler:temporarily ascending to Godhood and freeing herself of [[EvilMatriarch the Bell Witch]]'s domination]]. "There's an Angel in Father John's Basement" has Seraphim, "Christmas Crisis" has Tennyo, "Have Yourself an Evil Little Christmas" has most of the Bad Seeds (except Nacht, of course, and Dragonrider is elsewhere as well), "Summoning Sweeties" has Gateway and Bladedancer, "The Case of the Poisonous Patent" has Loophole and her friends, "Have Yourself a Monkey Little Christmas" has Chaka and Bladedancer, hell, even [[AscendedExtra Aquerna]] takes on a mugger in "Straight From the Squirrel's the Mouth"... And all of these take place during the ''same'' Christmas break, and that's not even counting the waking nightmare that came at the end of Outcast Corner's trip to Australia, during which [[spoiler:they had to fight a running battle with an immortal A-List supervillain bent on slaughtering the entire city of Darwin]]! |
| 354 | * ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnBhHywwQ24 Santaman: The Patron Saint of Justice.]]'' |
| 355 | * The fourth arc of ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' takes place on [[YouMeanXmas Candle Nights]], after the Bureau's MadScientist accidentally transmogrifies his lab into the titular Crystal Kingdom. Snow and ice are a recurring hazard throughout the adventure, but the date is largely forgotten about until the very end. |
| 356 | ** Additionally, ''The Candlenights in Tacoma!'' liveshow, where Merle becomes Santa and the three have to enter a dangerous ice dungeon to give presents to a sad, lonely ogre boy living there. |
| 357 | * The 2017 [[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Nostalgia Critic]] Christmas Month Cold Open features Critic, Tamara, and Malcolm in a spectacular, grueling battle to save Earth from the "Christmasians" (half-skeleton half-[[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]] creatures). |
| 358 | * The season one finale of ''Podcast/{{Wolf359}}'' takes place on Christmas, with Minkowski broadcasting that she's used the last of the turkey for Christmas dinner. However, things go south VERY fast after that as [[spoiler:Hilbert mutinies, takes over [[AIIsACrapshoot Hera]], attempts to kill Minkowski and nearly knocks out Eiffel]]. |
| 359 | * The FinalBattle of ''Roleplay/DinoAttackRPG'' took place only a few days before Christmas. This was acknowledged by several Dino Attack agents who, fearing they might not survive the battle, decided to celebrate Christmas during the battle. |
| 360 | * In ''Roleplay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'', the fight against Nihilist Soul and Noir (evil aspects of Tagg and Fool) [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind inside Tagg's mindscape]] takes place on Christmas Eve. |
| 361 | * ''Podcast/TheChroniclesOfOz'''s adaptation of ''The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus'' takes the war between the Immortals and Awgwas a step further and has it actually take place on Christmas Eve in conjunction with Claus's first Christmas toy run in the Emerald City, as making children happy weakens the Awgwas and their powers. This scale tipping ultimately forces King Awgwa to try and kill Claus himself in the Emerald City palace. |
| 362 | * The first installment of ''[[WebAnimation/BloodyBunny Ayupan x Bloody Bunny]]'' takes place during a Christmas concerrt for Ayupan. The Vampire Lord and his minions try to ambush her during the concert, but she and Bloody Bunny are able to push back against them while also [[AllPartOfTheShow keeping the audience fooled]]. |
| 363 | * [[https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-nakatomi-employee-ponders-is-this-a-christmas-hostage-situation This piece]] from ''[=McSweeney=]’s'' presents the events of ''Film/DieHard'' from [[PerspectiveFlip the perspective a Nakatomi employee]], who questions whether this is "[[HostageSituation a Christmas hostage situation or a hostage situation that just happens to occur during Christmas?]]" They ultimately conclude that since Christmas created the conditions for the hostage crisis and [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther Holly and John end up getting back together]], it counts as a Christmas hostage situation. |
| 364 | * In the [[Creator/DomFera Dom Fera's]] Christmas-themed series, ''WebVideo/{{Deckd}}'', there are alot of fight scenes in animated form including [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1uqLl6E-gA this one]] |
| 365 | * The Creator/TomSka sketch, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpY4ym5fspQ "Christmas Demolition".]] |
| 366 | * ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': [[ComicBook/{{Invincible}} Omni-Man]] and [[ComicBook/TheBoys Homelander]] duke it out on Christmas Day. The victor even uses "Merry Christmas" as a BondOneLiner. |
| 367 | [[/folder]] |
| 368 | |
| 369 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 370 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSamAndMaxFreelancePolice'': In "Christmas, Bloody Christmas", the Freelance Police team up with Sam's Granny Ruth to contain a prison break on Christmas Eve. |
| 371 | * ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'': |
| 372 | ** The show typically has a rather surreal ChristmasEpisode, but Season 5's "Rapture's Delight" takes the cake, with a bizarre crossover parody of ''Literature/LeftBehind'' and homage to ''Film/MadMax1'' and ''Film/EscapeFromNewYork''. After the Rapture, badass Jesus recruits a grizzled, bitter, hook-handed Stan on one last mission to raid the Antichrist's lair and rescue Francine using lots of guns and explosives. It must be seen to be believed. |
| 373 | ** In season 6, Steve accidentally killed Santa, so the family buried his body in the woods. Only, Santa [[NotQuiteDead wasn't quite dead]], and using the [[WeCanRebuildHim powers of science]] Santa was healed, only to swear revenge on the Smiths. This eventually led to a bloody battle between the family and Santa and his army of elves. Although the battle was cut short because he had to leave at daybreak, he promised to return to kill them next year. |
| 374 | ** In the Season 10 episode "Minstrel Krampus" Steve's excessive brattiness causes him to be taken by Krampus, with whom he forms a kind relationship with. Santa comes and kills Krampus because the latter punishes naughty children and thus cut into Santa's children count. In the end Stan's dad Jack takes Krampus's place. |
| 375 | ** The Season 14 episode "Ninety North, Zero West" shows that Santa is a complete maniac. He kidnaps children to use as forced labor in order to dig out a hug mine so he can summon [[Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh Humbaba]] and become all-powerful. Jack takes over Santa's palace while the Smiths leave with the surviving children and Santa crawls out of the ruins. |
| 376 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': The episode “Froggy Little Xmas” culminates in Anne, her parents, and the Plantars battling a giant Santa robot controlled by King Andrias. |
| 377 | * ''WesternAnimation/ArthurChristmas'' has elements of this. A variety of misunderstandings lead to NORAD thinking that Arthur's attempt to deliver a present for a kid that was (accidentally) left out of Santa's list is an alien invasion, which leads to the armies of the world unleashing all of their available firepower in order to "save Christmas". |
| 378 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' spoofed this with them flipping through channels, including a show where Franchise/{{Robocop}} saves Christmas. |
| 379 | * ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' has the episode "Holiday Time". It's a generic "villain steals Christmas" plot with a fight scene between Zurg and Buzz Lightyear featuring BulletTime and backed by a pounding techno track. |
| 380 | * One ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode was trying to stop some The Delightful Children from Down the Lane from making Christmas only for them. It was also an AffectionateParody of Creator/MarvelComics, complete with Creator/StanLee-style narration and a SuperTeam of ChristmasElves based on the ComicBook/XMen. |
| 381 | * WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom did a lot of fighting on Christmas... Although it ''was'' all in rhyme. |
| 382 | * The ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' ChristmasEpisode, "It's a Wonderful Leaf". Sure enough, it ''is'' aggression from Christmas shopping that drives Bushroot to be TheGrinch. |
| 383 | * Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse: |
| 384 | ** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': |
| 385 | *** "And now, the Christmas Special nobody wants to see, but ''everyone'' will watch. It's Christmas with the Joker!" |
| 386 | *** There's also the second Christmas special, with three stories set over the Christmas to New Year period. The first story has ComicBook/HarleyQuinn and Poison Ivy kidnap Bruce Wayne, the second has ComicBook/{{Batgirl}}, Harvey Bullock and Renee Montoya fighting Clayface in a shopping mall on Christmas Eve, and the third has Franchise/{{Batman}} and Robin stopping ComicBook/TheJoker from killing thousands of people at the New Year countdown in Gotham Square. |
| 387 | ** Zig-zagged in the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' Christmas episode. Clark brings Martian Manhunter to the Kent farm, Flash finds some orphans the year's most popular toy but had a fight with the Ultra-Humanite in the process, and John (Green Lantern) takes Shayera (Hawkgirl) sledding, which turns into a super-powered SnowballFight. Shayera then shows John what ''she'' does for fun - visit alien bars and [[BarBrawl start fights]]. The episode ends with them (and the rest of the brawlers) passed out, sleeping peacefully. |
| 388 | * The Christmas episode of ''WesternAnimation/EvilConCarne'' is this. Hector the brain [[GrandTheftMe steals Santa's body]] in a plan to take over the world with mind control devices in all the toys. [[SpannerInTheWorks He didn't count on]] [[ParodyNames Rubert]] [[Literature/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer the muscular green-nosed reindeer]] helping to save the day and Santa [[HeroicWillpower managing to break free of his control]] thanks to [[IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight Rubert's words.]] |
| 389 | -->'''Rubert''': Merry Christmas, suckers! |
| 390 | * Parodied on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' with Kiss Save Santa, because everyone knows "Pterodactyls can't stand the screech on an electric guitar." |
| 391 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Two Christmas specials with a [[AIIsACrapshoot killer robot]] [[BadSanta Santa]] and a sack full of ammunition-related puns ("your mistletoe is no match for my T.O.W. missile"). Plus this shows up again in the animated film ''[[Recap/FuturamaM1BendersBigScore Bender's Big Score]]'', including the song "This Trinity's Goin' to War" when Robot Santa used his toy workshop on Neptune to manufacture weapons, with the help of Kwanzaabot and the Chanukah Zombie. |
| 392 | ** Not to mention the finale of broadcast season six "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E13TheFuturamaHolidaySpectacular The Futurama Holiday Spectacular]]" that has not only a Christmas storyline but also action-filled Robanukah and Kwanzaa. |
| 393 | * ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' had "Cobra C.L.A.W.s Are Coming to Town", which played this for all it's worth. It starts off with [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs Cobra invading the Joes' base on Christmas]], and ends with a showdown between the Joes and Cobra using each other's weapons and equipment. |
| 394 | * The ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983''/''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'' crossover [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas Movie]] had the twins and their allies fighting to protect two Earth children from Horde Prime because of the villain's fear of their "Christmas Spirit." (To be fair, when being evil is your stock in trade you don't want people to be happy, anyway.) The day is saved, of course... by [[spoiler:Skeletor]]! Apparently, Horde Prime was right to worry about the Christmas Spirit being infectious. |
| 395 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Episodes 103 and 104, a MultiPartEpisode, takes place during Christmas and has Kaeloo, Stumpy and Mr. Cat try to rescue Quack Quack, who had been kidnapped by [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Olaf]]. |
| 396 | * ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible:'' In "A Very Possible Christmas", Ron goes off on his own to stop Dr. Drakken so [[SavingChristmas Kim can spend the holiday with her family]]. It doesn't go too well, but [[StatusQuoIsGod everything works out in the end]]. |
| 397 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' "Twas the Fight Before Christmas". |
| 398 | %%* ''[[WesternAnimation/RegularShow Regular Show]]'''s Christmas Episode. Full stop. |
| 399 | * ''Franchise/RoboCop: Alpha Commando'' has the episode, "Oh Tannenbaum, Whoa Tannenbaum", where Neumeier's psycho ex-girlfriend created robotic elf dolls to make actual shopping miserable in order to boost online sales and goes after Neumeier. |
| 400 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' once did a Christmas sketch in which Goku and Gohan from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' go to the North Pole to fight a half-Santa, half-snowman monster. Eventually Mrs. Claus morphs into what Tetsuo becomes at the end of ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' and Santa resolves never to visit Japan ever again. |
| 401 | * The one-shot Christmas special ''WesternAnimation/SantaVsTheSnowman'' features the eponymous snowman, envious of Santa's popularity, and his armies of minions facing off against Santa's elves and nutcracker mecha. It's all played as over-the-top comedy, and other than the non-sentient snow minions nobody really gets hurt. |
| 402 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 403 | ** The very first ''South Park'' ever made, a WebAnimation, was Jesus and Santa having a knock-down, drag-out fight. |
| 404 | ** Parodied with "[[Recap/SouthParkS6E17RedSleighDown Red Sleigh Down]]". |
| 405 | ** Also "[[Recap/SouthParkS8E14WoodlandCritterChristmas Woodland Critter Christmas]]", where [[spoiler:not only does Stan battle a mountain lion, but a bunch of animals give birth to the Antichrist, forcing Santa to gun them all down with a shotgun. Subverted, though, as it's all a story Cartman is telling in class]]. |
| 406 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' has an episode where Spidey has to fight the entire Sinister Six on Christmas Eve. And thanks to burning his tongue on some hot chocolate, the villains can't understand what he's saying. |
| 407 | * The episode "The Christmas Aliens" of the second ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2003}}'' animated series features Michelangelo going out on Christmas Eve to do some last-minute shopping while his family prepare for a big Christmas party, and ending up fighting against criminals who are stealing toys that were supposed to go to an orphanage. The story's an [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] version of the ''Michaelangelo'' one-shot comic from [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the original Mirage comic]]. |
| 408 | * ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': "Human Error". Soundwave reappears for the first time since season one and [[spoiler:traps the Autobots in a LotusEaterMachine simulation in which they are all human, so he can turn them into Decepticons.]] Sari recruits a bunch of second-string characters to help free them, and it all ends in a ''literal'' example of AutobotsRockOut. |
| 409 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' Christmas special has Brock, dressed as Santa, in a no-holds-barred fight with the party-crasher Krampus. |
| 410 | [[/folder]] |
| 411 | |
| 412 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 413 | * UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington leading the Continental Army across the Delaware Christmas Night 1776 before attacking and decisively winning the Battle of Trenton the next morning. Popular legend claims the Hessians were too hungover from their boozy German Chistmas to put up a good fight, but in spite of some Continental officers speculating that this would help, it is only a legend. The Hessians had been tipped off that Washington was up to something and were on their guard, but unfortunately for them, the British had written off the Continental Army as NotWorthKilling and refused Hessian requests to reinforce Trenton. The Hessians were both undermanned and caught off-guard by the sheer magnitude of the Continental assault, and the resulting CurbStompBattle made the story easy to believe. |
| 414 | * The "Battle of the Bulge" began the week before Christmas 1944 and ended in January 1945. |
| 415 | ** Defied for at least one night by a group of American and German soldiers meeting in the Ardennes forest on Christmas, both seeking shelter from a snowstorm, the elderly German woman who lives there doesn't allow them to fight in any way, and it ends with them singing Christmas carols together, even though they don't understand each other's language. It was made into a movie, titled [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Night_(2002_film) Silent Night]]. |
| 416 | * Defied during the first year of UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, wherein the soldiers on both sides got out of the trenches [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce voluntarily stopped the war,]] without any such orders from command, to have a real Christmas. They played football (European style) in the no man's lands between the trenches. There are also stories of decorating trees and exchanging gifts. |
| 417 | ** One group took advantage of this to capture a strategic point, to the shock of everyone. |
| 418 | ** Also averted in 1916, when German and Canadian soldiers near Vimy Ridge exchanged gifts. |
| 419 | ** Usually played straight in the later years, as the officers would not allow the soldiers to fraternize with the enemy. Especially on the Italian front, where [[ItsPersonal the Austro-Hungarians were furious at their Italian allies staying neutral at the start of the war and later entering on the other side]] and were fighting to defend their homeland from an invasion, while on the final Christmas (about two months after the Austro-Hungarians broke through at Caporetto) the Italians were fighting like possessed to take back their own invaded lands. |
| 420 | * Hanukkah: if you don't know, this is a UsefulNotes/{{Jewish holiday|s}} at about the same time of the year as Christmas (and tends to absorb elements thereof by cultural osmosis) that ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabees commemorates]]'' ass-kicking. Ass-kicking might happen in {{Hanukkah Episode}}s in fiction too. |
| 421 | * The Battle of Ortona, where Canadian troops drove out a German detachment based in the town. |
| 422 | * During UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar, General Sherman captured Savannah, GA days before Christmas 1864 and presented it to President [[UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln Lincoln]] as a Christmas present. |
| 423 | * The Battle of Hong Kong during the Pacific War. The Japanese captures it from the British on December 25, 1941 |
| 424 | * The Battle of Wake Island |
| 425 | * In the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendling%27s_Night_of_Murder Sendling Christmas Massacre of 1705]], almost three thousand [[UsefulNotes/TheSixteenLandsOfDeutschland Bavarian]] [[LaResistance rebels]] tried to storm the city of Munich while it was occupied by Austrian troops, only to be betrayed, surrounded, forced to surrender, and massacred in the same night. Still widely known as the ''Sendlinger Mordweihnacht'' (Sendling Murder Christmas). |
| 426 | * The Battle of Stalingrad lasted from summer 1942 to February 1943 without any Christmas truce. |
| 427 | * Even though it involved two Communist countries with deep Buddhist heritages, it's worth mentioning that Vietnam sent about 150,000 troops in to invade Cambodia on Christmas Day 1978. It took the Vietnamese just two weeks to overthrow the Khmer Rouge government. |
| 428 | * The Romanian Revolution, which started as a series of protests before it escalated to fighting in the streets where revolutionaries overthrew the Communist regime lasted from the 15th to 25th of December 1989. Ending with the executions of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu on Christmas Day. |
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