The Titans trick Starfire into believing in a Second Christmas with a Second Santa.
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- Bait-and-Switch Comment: Robin’s reaction to Starfire’s Second Christmas decorations.Robin: Wow, what an incredible…waste of energy. Our generator can’t take this kind of strain!
- Broken Tears: Starfire bursts into tears after learning about her friends’ lie.
- Christmas Episode: The first one of the series.
- Christmas Miracle: Parodied. The Titans don't want to wait a whole year for the next holiday, so they invent a "Second Christmas". They overload the generator, which explodes and puts them in a coma. They wake up almost a year later, just in time for next year's Christmas — essentially what they wished for.Robin: ...This was a Second Christmas miracle!
- Chunky Updraft: Starfire does this with snow on the roof of Titans Tower when she begins her tirade on the other Titans.
- Didn't Think This Through: Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy were only focused on getting to celebrate Christmas again, and didn’t consider how Starfire would react when she didn’t get a visit from Second Christmas Santa.
- Disapproving Look: Robin gives one to the other Titans when they fail to tell Starfire the truth about Second Christmas.
- Disproportionate Retribution: How does Starfire respond to being lied by Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy about the Second Christmas? By throwing starbolt-empowered snowballs to them. When Robin wonders why he is also targeted when all he did is trying to get his teammates to come clean to her, she responds that he is "the grouch".
- Fictional Holiday: Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy create Second Christmas, a holiday that’s even fictional In-Universe.
- Foreshadowing: Robin telling Starfire that the generator can’t handle all the energy her Christmas lights are using foreshadows the generator exploding later in the episode and putting all the Titans in a coma.
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Starfire emits this during her rampage against the Titans for being lied about the Second Christmas.
- Good-Times Montage: Of the Titans enjoying both their first and second Christmases.
- The Grinch: The other Titans dub Robin as the “Second Christmas Grouch” to try to keep him from revealing to Starfire that the holiday doesn’t exist.
- Guilt by Association Gag: Robin, despite spending the episode trying to convince Starfire that Second Christmas isn’t real, is not exempt from her fury.Robin: What did I do?! Don’t Shoot the Messenger!Starfire: You are the Grouch!
- Hope Spot: As shining light glows upon her, Starfire believes Second Santa has come, only for her to hear Robin trying to get Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy to tell her the truth.
- Human Snowball: Starfire throws a giant snowball at Cyborg, which rolls and picks up Beast Boy, and then Raven and Robin too.
- Human Snowman: Cyborg first invokes this by taking off his head and putting it on top of the snowman Starfire is building. Then his body blasts Robin and Beast Boy with a bunch of snow, turning them into one.
- Improbably Quick Coma Recovery: The Titans and Silkie wake up in the hospital after the Titan Tower exploded, and it's revealed that they were unconscious for 363 days. They then immediately jump up in excitement, with only Robin being seen briefly using a cane.
- It's All My Fault: Starfire begins blaming herself for Second Santa not showing up.
- Jerkass Ball: It’s not enough that Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy make Starfire believe in Second Christmas and miss an important holiday on her home planet, they also make her cook dinner, buy them presents, and decorate the whole tower.
- Oh, Crap!: The Titans, when they found out Starfire doesn't take it well of being lied about Second Christmas.
- Pillar of Light: One shoots up into the sky from Titans Tower due to the generator exploding because it couldn’t handle all of Starfire’s Second Christmas lights.
- Real After All: At the end of the episode, the narrator is revealed to have been Second Christmas Santa and Starfire sees him as he goes flying off in his jetpack, writing “Happy 2nd Xmas” in the sky.
- Snowball Fight: One-sided example where Starfire is the one throwing the snowballs while the Titans flee from her.
- Surrender Backfire: Cyborg attempts to surrender, only for Starfire to throw a large snowball at him.
- Unstoppable Rage: Starfire goes into one the moment she found out Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy lied to her about Second Christmas, effectively making her miss her planet's holiday."You made me miss the Great Kergoff FOR THIS?!"
