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Saving Christmas
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Rather than the typical sort of Christmas Special or Christmas Episode, many series (primarily action cartoons) feature some sort of plot in which the protagonists must "save" Christmas (or their local equivalent) in some manner. Flavors of this plot, which can be mixed and matched with each other, include: | |
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The Moo Family Holiday Hoedown focused on the eponymous cow family helping Santa Cow's top sleigh pilot Chuck Steaker repair Santa's turbo sleigh in order to save Christmas. | |
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The plot of Happyland Adventures: X-mas Edition is that Santa's helpers have all disappeared, and the player is tasked with finding them in time for Christmas Day. | |
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StarCraft has the bonus mission 'Operation Claws'. In it the Zergrinch kidnaps Santa, and the entire mission is based around rescuing him. | |
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Unusual examples in Sluggy Freelance, with Santa being infected by alien spores and his elves having to prevent him from ruining Christmas by adding same spores to all the presents. | |
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In one episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast, after Ghost Planet exploded, fades to black. A line of text then appears, saying "Later... at camp", and then cuts to to Space Ghost, surrounded by a group of (live-action) children, and says: "And so that kids is the story of how I saved Christmas". He then yells at them to get back to work. Then the episode ends. | |
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians is one of the earlier examples of Santa's Been Kidnapped! — the titular Martians want him to bring happiness to their malaise-stricken kids. How will he and two innocent human kids caught up in the plot get back to Earth in time for Christmas? | |
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The Simpsons: The pilot, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire," concerns Homer's attempts to earn enough money for Christmas presents after his Christmas bonus is cut from the budget and Marge's savings are spent removing a tattoo from Bart. In "Grift of the Magi", Homer reviews his Christmas record in a series of Noodle Incidents: In "Bobby, It's Cold Outside", everyone is having their Christmas package deliveries stolen off of their front porches, so Bart teams up with Sideshow Bob to find the culprit (after initially suspecting him of being the culprit). |
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In the Brandy & Mr. Whiskers episode "On Whiskers, on Lola, on Cheryl, on Meryl" Brandy and Whiskers have to take over the gift run after causing Santa's sleigh to crash. | |
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Welcome Back Pinocchio: The Coachman, alongside the Cat, the Fox and his two new henchmen Robot and Harlequin, decide to kidnap Santa Claus in order to use his sleigh and costume to commit frauds and turn his elves into their servants. Why? To show that they're evil. Pinocchio gets caught into one of the aforemented frauds, turns back into a puppet and later on decides to go to the North Pole to save Santa after discovering the whole truth. | |
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Hinatazaka46's Christmas concerts in 2019 and 2020 have a loosely-connected storyline about saving the Christmas Town in the World in the Sky. | |
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The "Jewsploitation" film The Hebrew Hammer centers around a plot by Santa's betraying son, played by Andy Dick. He assassinates his father, becomes Santa, and launches a worldwide campaign to eliminate all other December holidays. Only "The Hammer" can save Channukah. | |
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Invoked, mocked, and parodied in Breakpoint City. Two times. | |
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Camp Lazlo: Santa's elves work overtime in order to get all the presents made early, and give Santa enough time for a vacation. When a meteor destroys all the presents, Santa decides to cancel Christmas to make time for his vacation, but Lazlo convinces him to take a short vacation at summer camp and return in time to finish the presents. Christmas is saved...right? Nope; Santa doesn't want to leave camp. Laz finally convinces Santa to go home. Saved! Except, while Santa was gone, Lumpus hijacked his home and servants. An epic battle ensues, with Lumpus armed with a walking lawn chair and Santa a tether ball. Lumpus is hit by a meteor at the last second, and Christmas is saved. | |
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Denis and Me: In "Santa Who", Denis' recliner accidentally launches Santa Claus head-first into a vat of cookies that Sir Meows-A-Lot made to try and catch him. The end result? Easy Amnesia for Santa. As a result, Denis and Sir Meows-A-Lot have to come along to help Santa finish his Christmas rounds. | |
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In an issue of DC Comics Presents from the early 80's, Superman teamed up with Santa Claus to stop The Toyman from controlling children with his toys on Christmas Eve. It all turned out to be All Just a Dream... or was it? | |
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A Family Circus Christmas uses the Personal Santa variant in an unusual way. Little Jeffy wants Santa Claus to bring back his Granddad — who passed away years ago — down from Heaven for Christmas, and having had a Visit the North Pole dream in which he's assured this will happen, has faith he can do it even as his parents try to explain that isn't possible. While everyone else is asleep on Christmas Eve, however, Jeffy is visited by both Santa and Granddad (both of whom are presented as silent, see-through spirits, as per the comic's conventions), the latter of whom guides him to the location of the beautiful Christmas tree topper he fashioned. As the apparent disappearance of it had been an emotional blow to Jeffy's parents because of its personal significance, this recovery effectively saves the holiday for them. | |
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Amazing Stories did the Santa's in the Slammer! plot with "Santa '85". Actor Douglas Seale went on to play Santa again in Ernest Saves Christmas (see Films — Live-Action above), which also has a Santa-in-jail stretch. | |
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Completely averted in "A Very Supernatural Christmas." Sam and Dean think at first that they're fighting a creature called "The Anti-Claus," like Black Peter, who punishes naughty people. In one scene, Sam points out how Christmas is just a bunch of pagan rituals smashed together with a Christian excuse for celebration, much to Dean's dismay. It turns out that they're up against a (married) couple of elderly Stepford Smiling pagan gods, whom they kill with Christmas tree branches. They saved innocent lives and maimed and mangled Christmas traditions while they were at it, but Christmas itself was never actually in danger. | |
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The Earthworm Jim Christmas Episode used the "Santa's been kidnapped" variation. As listed on the quote page, Peter Puppy at one point lampshades the overuse of this trope. | |
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The Little Drummer Boy is probably the best known of the "Visiting The Nativity" variations. | |
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Garfield parodies this regularly with specials Garfield is watching, in which crazy characters such as "Bartholomew the Centipede" save Christmas. | |
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The straight-to-video Sesame Street film Elmo Saves Christmas is actually a double-subversion, because the initial saving happens in the first twenty minutes; the rest involves Elmo's wish — for it to be Christmas Every Day — almost destroying Christmas again, but luckily he is shown in a Wonderful Life style series of Flash Forwards how things would pan out in the long run, and he ultimately saves Christmas again by taking back his wish. Elmo saves Christmas again in Elmo's Christmas Countdown, when a clerical error at the North Pole puts Oscar in charge of making Christmas happen, and naturally he decides not to. |
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The Powerpuff Girls, "Twas The Fight Before Christmas": Princess rewrites Santa's "naughty" and "nice" lists to make it look like she's been the only nice child this year, getting her the superpowers she's always wanted while the other kids of Townsville get coal, and the Powerpuff Girls rush to inform Santa of the mistake. | |
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The Spirit of the Century spin-off Spirit of the Season also makes this its central theme, with an entire Rogues Gallery of baddies to threaten it. | |
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Hellsing Ultimate Abridged did it too. Santa startled Alucard on entering the house and got shot, so Alucard had to take his place. Integra was not happy when she realized Alucard planned it. Seen in full here. | |
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An episode of Early Edition had the "Secret Test of Character" plot. | |
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A particularly horrible (in a good way) portrayal is in The Proposition, when Morris and Martha Stanley's Christmas dinner is beset by outlaw Arthur Burns and Side Kick Sam Stote, who have come to rape and murder. Arthur's brother Charlie arrives just in time to save Christmas. | |
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Sensation Comics: In issue 38 the Wonder Woman feature Di goes to a tenament to deliver presents to all the children living there after a boy tells her he and his sister didn't get any presents last year. While there she speaks with the boy's mother and learns his uncle is a criminal, who in a petty fit of rage broke the two toys she'd saved up for all year to give to her children and Wondy replaces the presents and takes down the uncle and everyone else involved in his racket. At the end she gives the message that "Santa Claus is the spirit of love! Santa uses many forms—mothers, fathers, loving people everywhere so he can appear all over the world on Christmas eve!" | |
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In A Country Christmas two children must help the public believe in Santa Claus again or he'll vanish forever. | |
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Powerpuff Girls Z: In "All Ken Wants for Christmas", Mojo Jojo kidnaps Santa and all his helpers, so the Powerpuff Girls have to rescue them. Santa and his helpers are behind schedule because of the kidnapping, so the girls help deliver the presents. | |
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Danger Force: "Down Goes Santa" deals with Chapa accidenatally downing Santa's sleigh, allowing for Santa's evil brother Krampus to try to kill the Christmas spirit by making sure no one cares about the holiday anymore. | |
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In the last third of Elf, the engine on Santa's sleigh falls out, and Buddy and his family must make Manhattan believe in Santa — without a sighting — in order to re-power the sleigh. To make things more complicated, the New York Central Park Rangersnote a bunch of Rabid Cops that got put on the naughty list for life for getting incredibly brutal - although in an unspecified way - in a Simon and Garfunkel concert in 1985 are riding towards Santa's crash site like the Nazgûl to make damned sure Santa gets the slammer… or the wrong end of their batons. | |
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Matt of Two Best Friends Play say that he and Pat's friend, Woolie, has saved four Christmases and ruined seven. | |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero's Journey starts out with Zero getting lost in Christmas Town, then becomes this type of plot when Santa offers to let Zero light the star on the tree and a jealous reindeer tries to sabotage him and through doing so, ends up setting the banquet hall/toy factory on fire. | |
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Somewhat subverted in Amateur Surgeon: Christmas Edition when moronic surgeon Alan Probe causes the destruction of Xmas when he collides his private jet with Santa's Sleigh, further crashing into the North Pole. Alan goes to save the holiday by fixing his mistakes with, you guessed is, back alley surgery. | |
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In the Alone in the Dark Gaiden Game Jack in the Dark, you play as Grace Saunders — a young girl who would be important in the then-upcoming Alone in the Dark 2 — and have to rescue Santa Claus from a Living Toy version of the Big Bad of Alone in the Dark 2. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged The Team Four Star crew turned The Tree of Might movie into this. In this version, the heroes had to stop the titular tree from sucking all the Christmas Joy from the earth. Goku spent the majority of the abridged Lord Slug movie believing it was another Christmas special, until Lord Slug set him straight. Plan to Eradicate Christmas has the cast, much to Goku's dismay, save Christmas — and the planet — from Santa Claus. |
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The Eek! The Cat episode "It's A Very Merry Eek's-Mas" had Eek and Sharky seek out Santa's help reuniting the latter with his family. As it happens, Elmo tells them that Santa has problems of his own: the reindeer are on strike, the elves are intimidated into not crossing the picket line, Mrs. Claus walks out on him, and he breaks his leg in a banana peel accident. Santa becomes depressed, invoking the sorry state of the world and questioning if anyone even cares about Christmas anymore, but Eek says they can't let the children of the world down. Eek, Sharky, and Elmo finish the toys and set about delivering them (by attaching a giant rocket to the sleigh). Hilarity Ensues, but they actually do manage to save the holiday. | |
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Frostval in the world of Lore is in constant need of saving by the various heroes of AdventureQuest, DragonFable, AdventureQuest Worlds and others. | |
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Songdrops: In "Skunkles the Christmas Skunk", Santa's sleigh gets stuck, but a Smelly Skunk named Skunkles saves the day by spraying the reindeer so that they'll get a rush of adrenaline and pull him out. | |
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In Jackie Chan Adventures, Evil Sorcerer Daolon Wong assaults the North Pole workshop and the Chan Clan has to intervene before Wong can bust in and murder Santa. Wong seeks to fatally drain Santa of his magic to increase his power. While the good guys make a rescue attempt, Tohru goes Subbing for Santa. | |
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Axe Cop features an incredibly bizarre take on the "Bad Santa" variant of the story. Bad Santa, Good Santa's Evil Twin, plans to kill God in order to become Jesus. Good Santa gives Axe Cop "The Power of Christmas" (which is an actual transformation magic power-up) to stop Bad Santa. Even stranger, it's not a Christmas episode. The episode aired in August and it appears to be set in the summer. Axe Cop only wants to fight Bad Santa because Bad Santa accidentally killed Axe Cop's parents (he was trying to kill Axe Cop, since as Bad Santa, it's his job to kill kids who are on the nice list). | |
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This Halo fanfic is properly named Master Chief Saves Christmas, where Master Chief, The Arbiter and a Cajun marine named "Candy" save the Christmas from a Flood possessed Santa Claus and discover the True Meaning of Christmas, delivering gifts for all children in the world. It also has a sequel, Master Chief Saves Easter. | |
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In Zombies Christmas Carol, thanks to a Zombie Apocalypse he himself caused, if Scrooge doesn't shape up, mankind and its Christmases are doomed. The Ghost of Christmas Present laments what should be happening on the holiday, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is now the Ghost of Christmases That Will Never Come, represented as Scrooge himself. | |
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The third issue of the black-and-white 64-page version of Howard the Duck had Howard save Christmas from being taken over by an anthropomorphic lightbulb named Greedy Killerwhatt. | |
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A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift Of All plays with this trope by having Stephen trapped in his mountain cabin by a bear. He laments: | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Phineas and Ferb had Doofensmirtz use a device to make it so everyone in Danville was deemed naughty on Santa's list. Not only do the kids go out to prove everyone wrong and eventually fill in for him, but it turns out the whole thing was planned by Santa so everyone's wishes came true. In a hilarious subversion, Doofensmirtz is completely ambivalent to Christmas ("I have an intense, burning indifference!") In fact, he probably would have left it alone (going against all tradition) if he hadn't gotten a perfectly good plan as a gift (from Santa) and a bunch of carolers hadn't barged into his house and refused to leave until they got figgy pudding. (For those who are wondering, Doofensmirtz also got his wish, which was to hate Christmas.) Heck, at the end, Santa explains that the main reason he caused it all to happen was that Phineas said his greatest wish was to be like him, so Santa gave him that very chance. | |
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The first Christmas episode of The Flintstones had Fred chosen to stand in for a sick Santa. The plot was repeated for a later TV special where Santa is injured at Fred's home, forcing Fred and Barney to complete his deliveries while Santa guides them at Fred's house by radio contact. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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This Trope has become a tradition on The Life of Nob T. Mouse when Santa operated on wave-particle duality to arrive at every house at the same time; and something was stealing all the presents. | |
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The Ice Age TV special "A Mammoth Christmas" has Sid, Peaches, Crash, and Eddie heading off to the North Pole to try to get Sid off of Santa's then non-existent naughty list, followed by Manny, Ellie, and Diego to find them. They all end up ruining Santa's work with an avalanche, which gets them on his first ever naughty list, but Manny rallies everyone to fix the mess. Their result turns out to be the origins of Santa's little helpers (mini-sloths rather than elves), his reindeer (one of whom, Prancer, accompanied Sid, Peaches, Crash, and Eddie in their trip), and why he delivers gifts around the world. | |
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Girl Genius: In the 2020 Christmas side-story the Heterodyne gets called out of town at the last minute and the Revelsmeister has to find someone to sub for her in the local mid-winter festival the Jagerstomp as the kids and tourists are all quite excited for the first Jagerstomp in decades to be done properly with a Heterodyne leading the festivities. | |
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective: The plot of “The Reindeer Hunter� is Ace tracking down Santa Claus’s reindeer after they’re abducted so he can finish making his deliveries. | |
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Evil, Inc.: Spoofed several ways. Lightning Lady has to do this after Santa gets arrested, and after she says she's saving Christmas, she has to take a number in a line of all the other fictional characters who have done so, (as pictured above). Then the elves produce a Sexy Santa Dress variation of her Leotard of Power for her to do it in. |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The original webcomic version of Axe Cop features a different saving Christmas story than the television show. This time a race of grinch expies steal all the presents in the universe. Axe Cop has to recover all the presents before Christmas is ruined, only to find out the monsters only stole the presents because Santa never visited their planet and they wanted to have Christmas for once. Axe Cop returns the stolen presents, but also gives each of the Xmas monsters their own present, each of which is a bomb. Enough in total to blow up their entire planet. | |
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A bit of a variation occurs in The Real Ghostbusters episode "X-Mas Marks The Spot" where the Ghostbusters go back in time into the events of A Christmas Carol and accidentally capture the Spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Future before they can reform Ebeneezer Scrooge. Upon return, the present has been changed to a very grim place. This forces some of them to go back and take the spirits' place for Scrooge, while other members go into their ghost containment unit to rescue the Spirits. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Red vs. Blue: Donut tells a story as a distraction, which ends with him concluding that he saved Christmas. | |
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Kim Possible's "A Very Possible Christmas" used a unique twist. Plucky sidekick (and good Jewish boy) Ron sets off to save the world on Christmas Eve, by himself, to give Kim her favorite night of the year with her family. It doesn't go too well, but the Possibles all go to rescue him from a crash landing near the North Pole, and spend Christmas together after all. Also joked about in an earlier episode, in which Ron cannot be convinced that Dr. Drakken isn't trying to "steal Christmas" (Drakken has seized a video game factory, intending to use the equipment in his plan to Take Over the World). |
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The Evil Con Carne episode "Christmas Con Carne" had an animate snowman enlist the help of a green-nosed reindeer named Rupert to stop Hector Con Carne's plan of ruining Christmas by taking control of Santa's body and putting mind control devices in all the toys Santa was going to deliver. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Another origin story is Frank L. Baum's The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus, which has had several Animated Adaptations. Its sequel A Kidnapped Santa Claus features just that. |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: In the Christmas episode, Jimmy accidentally puts Santa out of commission and has to fill in for him by delivering the presents from his rocket. The warp drive conks out just before he can finish the deliveries, but Santa shows up at the last minute to finish the job. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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A Christmas episode of Ben 10 (yes, it takes place during summer vacation) has a variant: the Tennysons must make and deliver Christmas presents or be trapped in a bizarre time-defying Christmas dimension forever. Grandpa Max dons the beard and drives the sleigh, complete with a suspiciously stinky flying "reindeer". | |
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The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause has the "other kind of Santa flavour: Santa is betrayed by Jack Frost, who takes over as new Santa and proceeds to turn the North Pole into a theme park and hotel. | |
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Regular Show has a good one in which Mordecai, Rigby and the others must destroy a gift able to grant anyone their hearts desire. However, it was created with black magic and brought out the worst in people. All while having a badass Santa give it to them when he was wounded and saving them from the elf who made said gift. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The first season Ojamajo Doremi had one of these aired as a Christmas special. | |
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In EverQuest, there are a number of quests to save Santug Claugg, the red suited ogre who gives out presents on Frostfell. | |
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A unique take on Santa's Origin story is the 2007 Finnish film Joulutarina (Christmas Story — not that one! — in English), which posits that Santa was once Nikolas, an orphaned boy of Lapland (which, in much European lore, is where Santa lives rather than the North Pole) whose affection for the families of his village who took turns raising him to adolescence is manifested with him leaving hand-carved toys to their kids. As he turns the heart of a grouchy hermit woodcutter and slowly expands his mission to surrounding villages, elements such as helpers and reindeer are slowly brought in. Notably has no fantasy elements until the very last scene, when on what looks to be his very last run due to old age, he Ascends to a Higher Plane of Existence, making his dream of the gift-giving tradition lasting forever a reality. | |
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Magician's Academy had a Personal Santa and a Secret Test of Character scenario. The episode involved finding a toy Takuto wanted as a kid through a Chain of Deals, culminating in a high speed explosive car chase. | |
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Decades later, Plastic Man tells a story to his sidekick's nephew how Santa saved the Justice League from the demon Neron by giving Neron woolen socks and itchy underwear for Christmas. Given that Plas is a habitual liar who rarely takes things seriously, this was presumably a tall tale. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd and Captain S once had to team up to save Christmas while trapped in a video game. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Heroes of the Seasons: The premise of the game is that Utania Village needs to hire mercenaries to protect them during Christmas Eve, due to Gobi's anti-Christmas coalition declaring war on them. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The 7th Tsukiuta stage play, Cyber-Dive Connection: The main characters have to Save Santa, who's been kidnapped by the Digital World, which grew more powerful than the Fairy World because children believe in technology more than in fairies nowadays (Santa is considered a fairy in the Tsukipro verse, apparently). So, they rescue Santa... in sexy Cyber Goth costumes. And then they sing Christmas songs. | |
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We Are Our Adventuring Avatars: The mercenaries get hired to rescue Santa Karn and Glistmas from the Phyrexians. The Phyrexians plan on transforming him into the Father of Machines, so they can take over Mirrodin. | |
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The Fairly OddParents! has two instances. The first one is in the episode "Christmas Every Day", where Timmy wishes for Christmas everyday, ending in an overworked Santa, powerless fairies (they give most of their magic to Santa) and peeved mascots of the other holidays. Timmy has to save Santa from the wrathful folk before convincing the other kids to wish for the day after Christmas. In "Merry Wishmas" Timmy ends up replacing Christmas with Wishmas after giving everyone a "one wish coupon", leaving Santa out of business and replaced by Jorgen, Cosmo and Wanda. Now Timmy has to find a way to revive Christmas and get Santa to leave his house. |
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In Santa Claus and the Magic Drum, a mysterious, poltergeist-like force starts sabotaging Santa's workshop shortly before Christmas, and Santa and his helpers (who are more like gnomes than elves in this case since the film is Finnish) must figure out what's going on. Things take a turn for the worse when Santa catches a bad cold when pursuing the man behind the magical attacks, and it looks like he won't recover in time to work on Christmas. | |
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Parodied in VG Cats where Krug accidentally boils Santa alive when putting a cauldron to cook under the chimney and announces its his time for him to save Christmas...only to realize how late it was and decides to watch TV instead. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Plague Inc. has the Christmas scenario "Santa's Little Helper", where the world has become sad and miserable since fun and happiness is outlawed and it's up to the Neurax Worm (with the default name of XMA-3) to bring happiness back to the world the only way it knows: by infecting everyone on earth and brainwashing them into being happy. If you invest in the right abilities, you can bring Santa and Rudolph out of retirement so they can start delivering presents again, causing happiness levels to skyrocket. | |
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Double subverted in The Amazing World of Gumball's Christmas special. After the Watersons run over a Santa look-alike on Christmas Eve, Gumball, Darwin, and Anais try to restore his memory, to no avail. When Nicole tells three that Santa's not real, they give up on saving Christmas, only for Richard to inadvertently restore the man's memory, who was Santa all along. | |
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The Santa Clause features Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, a divorced man who must become the new Santa when the old one is killed falling off the roof of his house. It's a slight variant: He has an entire year to transform. The sequel, The Santa Clause 2, has Scott/Santa to find and marry a Mrs. Claus in order to keep his Santa magic. He also has to face a toy Santa gone made who takes over the North Pole and wants to punish every child in the world. The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause has the "other kind of Santa flavour: Santa is betrayed by Jack Frost, who takes over as new Santa and proceeds to turn the North Pole into a theme park and hotel. |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The sequel, The Santa Clause 2, has Scott/Santa to find and marry a Mrs. Claus in order to keep his Santa magic. He also has to face a toy Santa gone made who takes over the North Pole and wants to punish every child in the world. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Rainbow Magic has had several Christmas-based special books over the years, and they all follow the same structure: Jack Frost steals the three items used by (insert Christmas-themed fairy here) in order to ruin the holidays for some petty reason, the fairies contact Rachel and Kirsty to help them get the items back, the girls do that and save Christmas, and Santa gets mentioned and/or makes a brief appearance. | |
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Saturday Night Live did a Santa Is Sick! parody Christmas special, "The Night Hannukah Harry Saved Christmas". | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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X-Men: The Animated Series had a truly bizarre episode: "Have a Very Morlock X-Mas", where Storm, Wolverine, and Jubilee encounter some rampaging Morlocks while they're Christmas shopping—and then discover that the Morlocks just wanted medicine because one of them was deathly ill. So Storm and Wolverine rush off to get the medicine, and Jubilee tells the ill Morlock girl that, yes, she believes in Christmas miracles. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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In "The Worst X-mas Ever" of Invader Zim fame, Dib makes an attempt at this. Not saving Santa, mind you, just Christmas. He fails spectacularly. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The My Friends Tigger & Pooh film Pooh's Super Sleuth Christmas Movie is about the Super Sleuths (Winnie the Pooh, Tigger and series-exclusive character Darby) and most of the rest of the cast going on a quest to bring Holly the reindeer back to the North Pole after she finds Santa's magic sack of toys, which he dropped while flying over the Hundred Acre Wood. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Critical Role: "The Night Before Critmas" one-shot involves a group of Santa's elves going on a mission to save him after he is kidnapped on Christmas Eve (in a scenario not dissimilar to The Nightmare Before Christmas). | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants The episode "Christmas Who?" has SpongeBob getting everyone hyped up into believing they'll get presents from Santa Claus on Christmas Day, except for Squidward who angrily does not want to get into the holiday cheer. But then Santa's a no-show, and everyone is mad that Santa never delivered them the presents that SpongeBob promised them. Squidward is at first quick to rub salt on SpongeBob's wounds, before the heartbroken sponge gives him a present that turns out to be a wooden clarinet that can play miniature versions of Squidward, Squidward has a change of heart and the present is enough to make Squidward dress up as Santa Claus and fulfill the promised presents (albeit by stripping down his house to do so). The special Its A Sponge Bob Christmas has Plankton getting SpongeBob to distribute fruitcake laced with jerktonium, an element that causes people to become highly irritable, so that everyone else in Bikini Bottom ends up on the naughty list while he looks nice by comparison and gets the Krabby Patty formula from Santa. It works until he's exposed for building a robot SpongeBob to make the real one look bad. |
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Animal Crossing: Both the New Leaf and New Horizons Toy Day events have elements of this trope. In the former, Jingle simply doesn't want to deliver presents and asks the player to take his place instead; in the latter, he realizes that he's run out of festive wrapping paper and asks the player to make more for him so he can wrap everything, then asks them to deliver presents. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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In El Goonish Shive Tedd recounting how he saved Christmas is presented as an Orphaned Punchline. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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"A Trash Truck Christmas" from Trash Truck is about the main character Hank volunteering for Trash Truck to fill in after Santa's sleigh crashes due to being too overloaded with toys. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) was made by the producers of the original run of live-action Superman films and critics noted its similar structure: it first presents Santa's Backstory, then moves on to what was then The Present Day as a Corrupt Corporate Executive solely interested in making money off of the holiday draws upon the talents of a well-meaning but naive elf who ran away from the North Pole to prove himself. While Santa does get upstaged for one Christmas, the story ends with things put to rights for the future. Thus it counts as Santa's Origin Story and Taking Over Christmas, is probably the first use of The Elf Who Tried Too Hard (hence the name), and for bonus points works The Sleigh Is Broke! into the climax (which takes place a few weeks after Christmas; two reindeer have come down with the flu, making Santa's race to rescue the elf and a homeless boy harder). | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The author of Springhole seems to really hate this trope as they listed it on a list of Christmas Tropes that "need to die". | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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One strip of The Non-Adventures of Wonderella involved Santa getting knocked out, so Jesus saved Christmas. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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In The Santa Trap a girl captures Santa to prove he exists, but ends up getting him sent to jail. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The Team Four Star crew turned The Tree of Might movie into this. In this version, the heroes had to stop the titular tree from sucking all the Christmas Joy from the earth. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Empath: The Luckiest Smurf does its own take on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer with Empath giving Mr. Nicholas a reindeer with a shiny nose as part of his reindeer team when Chlorhydris makes the night sky very foggy on Christmas Eve. In "A Boy Named Nicholas", the Smurfs first encounter the toymaker when he was just a boy who was lost in the forest around the time of the Winter Solstice, and the Smurfs must safely deliver the child home while avoiding a mysterious stranger who's looking to deliver the child unto Satan to prevent him from fulfilling his destiny. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The Stroker and Hoop Christmas episode combined the first two variations on this type with a subverted Yet Another Christmas Carol set-up. Talking car Carr was the Santa substitute, and Stroker saved Santa's life by exploiting the Time Travel powers of the three spirits. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The special Its A Sponge Bob Christmas has Plankton getting SpongeBob to distribute fruitcake laced with jerktonium, an element that causes people to become highly irritable, so that everyone else in Bikini Bottom ends up on the naughty list while he looks nice by comparison and gets the Krabby Patty formula from Santa. It works until he's exposed for building a robot SpongeBob to make the real one look bad. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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One Johnny Bravo episode had Santa force Johnny to take his place after Johnny mistook him for a burglar and broke his arm. Another one featured Johnny rushing to the North Pole after forgetting to mail off his and his mother's letters to Santa. The second has a Continuity Nod when Johnny tells him how he accidentally hit him last Christmas. Santa claims that he doesn't remember, but he gives him a punch in the face anyway since it sounded like he deserved it. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The evident plot of the Bunsen Is a Beast Christmas Episode "Bunsen Saves Christmas", where Bunsen and Mikey have to stop Amanda Killman from ruining the holiday after she takes over the North Pole. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The Looney Tunes Show: In "A Christmas Carol", Lola attempts to restore the town's Christmas spirit after a heatwave hits town by staging a production of A Christmas Carol, while Foghorn Leghorn attempts to save Christmas by installing a giant fan at the North Pole in order to make it snow. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Rise of the Guardians has a rare variant where the gang has to save Easter. Of course, Santa and other folklore spirits have tagged along, and the existence of all of them (including Christmas) is at risk. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Codename: Kids Next Door did this in "Operation: NAUGHTY", when the Delightful Children from Down the Lane stole Santa's toy-making equipment and framed the KND for it. Then the whole thing degenerates into a parody/homage of Marvel Comics' Dark Phoenix Saga, with superpowered elves that parody the X-Men, as well as Santa using a Cerebro-like computer that teleports presents (or coal) towards Christmas trees (and which, if used greedily, turns the user into Grinch-like creatures). | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Sam & Max: Freelance Police: Episode 1 of Sam and Max Beyond Time And Space, "Ice Station Santa", has the duo go to the North Pole to stop a plot that may jeopardize Christmas as well as the world. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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The South Park episode "Red Sleigh Down" had the boys and Jesus rescuing Santa after he had been shot down over Iraq. | |
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After eighty years, Mickey Mouse finally got around to saving Santa...in a direct-to-video episode of a preschool show (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa). The standalone stop-motion special Mickey Saves Christmas is a lower-stakes example: Due to an accident involving Mickey's decorated cabin, Santa's sleigh crashes and the bag of gifts for the residents of Hot Dog Hills is lost. Since the elves have already been dismissed for the holiday, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, and Pluto head to the North Pole to create a replacement set of gifts for Santa to deliver, while Santa and Mrs. Claus try to track down a stray reindeer who makes a beeline for the cabin. |
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In "Christmas: Impossible" from Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, Huey, Dewey and Louie decide to go to the North Pole to try and write their names on the nice list, only to accidentally cause a huge mess at Santa's workshop. Deciding to redeem themselves, the trio help the elves put everything back together in record time, and write Scrooge's name onto the list instead of theirs, saving Christmas and finally leading Santa to place them on the nice list too. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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In SantaKid, Christmas is placed under threat when a Corrupt Corporate Executive barges in and purchases it, with even Santa losing the Christmas spirit as a result. Luckily, Santa's child manages to save the day by subbing in for him. | |
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| Saving Christmas / int_dec34a89 | type |
Saving Christmas | |
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Santa Baby: Jenny McCarthy (yeah, that Jenny McCarthy) is Santa's daughter and has to take over the family business when dad is sick. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Ducktales 2017: "How Santa Stole Christmas!" has a Double Subversion as its main plot. Scrooge finds himself being recruited by his old rival Santa to save Christmas when he asks him to take over the delivery of gifts while he's injured. However, Santa isn't injured and was trying to get Scrooge to enjoy Christmas for what it is: the giving and joy of seeing others enjoy it. However, Scrooge being Scrooge, decides to hijack it by trying to turn it into a business by giving everyone a lump of coal with an invoice, not realizing that coal today is meant to be a gag gift for naughty children. Scrooge has a Heel Realization after he encounters a young girl in a rundown house and is once Santa and Scrooge realize each other's feelings, the two recruit the rest of the Duck-McDuck clan to fix Scrooge's mistake. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: "A Calvin and Hobbes Christmas!" has Calvin trying to clear his name by traveling to the North Pole, only to find himself having to deliver the presents himself (which he barely pulls off with the help of the Time Pauser). | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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One Looney Tunes comic had Santa break his leg at Daffy's house, forcing him and a visiting Bugs to take over. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Ernest Saves Christmas was probably the first film to use the Legacy Character Santa plot. Cab driver Ernest is helping the current Santa contact his successor, a doubtful children's performer. At one point Santa ends up in jail and Ernest has to break him out; the latter's worried what will happen to Santa locked in a cell with a bunch of hardened criminals. Ironic Echo Cut to Santa leading the hardened criminals in singing "The Twelve Days of Christmas". Also contains one of the most badass lines ever said by Santa: | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Daze Before Christmas is an obscure Platformer game where the player assumes the role of a chibi-Santa out to save Christmas by collecting assorted presents stolen by an evil mouse. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Merry Madagascar begins when Santa and his sleigh crash-land on the island, giving the jolly gentleman a case of amnesia. So it falls to Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria — along with the ever-inventive Penguins — to deliver the presents and save Christmas. | |
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Saving Christmas | |
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Subverted in an exceedingly horrible way in the Risus adventure A Kringle In Time, in which the only way to save Christmas is to kill Santa. Seven times. ...and that's not even mentioning the Cranulon Replacement Baby Jesus, or the one that's actually a cleverly-disguised time bomb. | |
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Sonic Stopmotion Adventures: Sonic lampshades in Christmas Special how every holiday special is about the heroes saving Santa Claus from a kidnapper. But Tails corrects him they only have to save him because he got corrupted by a chaos emerald. | |
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In Family Guy: This is how Joe became a wheelchair user in the episode "A Hero Sits Next Door". Yes, it had a certain Dr. Seuss character cameo. Though it's later revealed to be a cover-up story in the episode "Joe's Revenge", Parodied with the Christmas special KISS Saves Santa that Peter wants to watch. The bits we see are all disconnected Noodle Incidents; one danger that KISS must save Santa from is pterodactyls. In the episode "Road to the North Pole", Stewie and Brian attempt to do this, because Santa is exhausted to near-death due to the ever-increasing number of people on Earth and resultant demands for presents. Predictably, they fail catastrophically at taking Santa's place, but in a way they do save Christmas for the next year by convincing everyone in the world to ask for only one present apiece. Peter brings up a Noodle Incident about saving it himself in "Bango Was His Name Oh". |
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A variation in Clock Suckers where the main characters have to keep Santa and Mrs. Claus' marriage from falling apart. Mrs. Claus goes on to have sex with the Grinch, but Santa kills him with a baseball bat and they go back together. | |
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The fourth episode of The Librarians 2014, "...And Santa's Midnight Run" has the Serpent Brotherhood kidnap Santa and the Librarians have to rescue him. And then ensure he's at the North Pole in time to convert all the goodwill he's collected over the year into hope ("The Gift"). | |
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This is the entire point of the Saints Row IV DLC, How The Saints Save Christmas. For good measure, it even includes your character as The Grinch of the story. | |
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This is how Joe became a wheelchair user in the episode "A Hero Sits Next Door". Yes, it had a certain Dr. Seuss character cameo. Though it's later revealed to be a cover-up story in the episode "Joe's Revenge", | |
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Olive, the Other Reindeer. One of Santa's reindeer is injured and can't make the Christmas run. Santa gets on the television and pleads for "all of the other reindeer" that can fly to come and try to replace him. A dog named Olive mishears him and is convinced that she's actually a reindeer, so she strikes out for the North Pole to try and save Christmas. Matt Groening executive produced and Michael Stipe shows up for a musical number. Olive is an interesting case because it has two varieties of the Saving Christmas plot. In addition to the injured reindeer, there's a disgruntled postman trying to "cancel" Christmas because of both the extra work the Christmas season creates for the post office and his own long-standing personal grudge against Santa. | |
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Kingdom of Loathing has done this, to varying extents of actually saving the holiday, with its special Crimbo events. Since 2005 Crimbo has needed saving from a workers' strike, a takeover by the Queen of Halloween, assimilation by the Crimborg, radiation-induced mutations, the Penguin Mafia, bland and inoffensive corporate culture, a candy trade embargo, a Humongous Mecha, heavily-armed bears, rebellious robots, a turf war between commie reindeer and hippie elves, Uncle Crimbo's inner demons, joy-sucking evil mimes, and more. | |
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The premise of The Star as described in previews: "On November 17, one donkey, three camels, a dancing bird, and one pygmy gerboa are teaming up to save the first Christmas." | |
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The Smurfs (1981) episode "Baby's First Christmas" involved the Smurfs working to save Christmas after their Santa Expy Mr. Nicholas had his heart poisoned by hate when Chlorhydris the evil witch kissed him under mistletoe that was used with an evil spell. | |
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch more or less had to save Christmas once a year. In one instance, she accidentally injures an old friend of her aunts', who turns out to be a clean-shaven Santa, having shed his winter pounds, and must fill in for him. In another, a magical remote control erases Christmas from existence, and she must engender enough Christmas spirit to restore it before time runs out. Santa is again a key factor in this one. | |
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Men in Black: The Series: A gang of aliens kidnaps Santa and his elves. It turns out that the elves are aliens, and Santa... well, some entities are outside even MiB's jurisdiction. Zed regards the jolly old elf as highly as a king. | |
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Pokémon: The Original Series: The episode "Holiday Hi-Jynx" has the characters going to return Santa's lost Jynx to the North Pole. The Team Rocket trio follows them and tries to steal all of Santa's presents because Jessie wants to get back at Santa for stealing her dolly. This turns out to be a misunderstanding; Santa's Jynx took the broken doll to be fixed and couldn't bring it back because Jessie no longer lived in the same place. | |
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In the Halloween Town world of Kingdom Hearts II, Sora, Donald, and Goofy have to help Jack save Santa from a resurrected Oogie Boogie, and later stop a robot who is stealing all of Santa's presents. | |
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Numberjacks: Downplayed in "Counting Down to Christmas", where the Numberjacks must prevent the Meanies from spoiling the Christmas of one little girl (known as Agent 20). | |
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