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In your world, Santa Claus, The Grim Reaper, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, or any popular mythical figure actually exists, but something happens which causes them not to be able to actually do their magical duty. Perhaps they fall sick, possibly they've been kidnapped, maybe they've died in an accident or perhaps the legend wishes to teach someone a lesson in humility. Maybe it's a case of Someone Has to Do It and there is only one who can step in when Death Takes a Holiday. Who'll step in? You, of course! Subbing for Santa is when the protagonist of a story takes the mantle of a mythical being and takes over their job, even if it's just temporary. This is not when a character is infected by a creature and so becomes that creature, like with some vampires or some werewolves. The mythical task has to be explicitly given or falls upon the protagonists because of the circumstances of them maybe being in the wrong place at the wrong time or maybe because they're the only one who can at that moment. In the event of an inversion, a character will steal the mantle of the mythical figure in order to reap the benefits or the glory for their own. In such cases, the main characters may need to save Christmas or lives, or the world even in order to set things right. Compare Usurping Santa (for when characters sub for holiday figures for more malicious reasons), Pseudo-Santa (when the gift-bringer of the setting was always someone other than Santa to begin with), You Kill It, You Bought It, Someone Has to Do It, God for a Day, Saving Christmas and Death Takes a Holiday. Supertrope to Relieving the Reaper. This trope may also lead to An Ass-Kicking Christmas. Examples |
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In Mort, Death takes an apprentice who has to substitute for him when he wanders off to go soul-searching. | |
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Inverted in The Smurfs story "Little Peter's Christmas", as Gargamel puts Santa Claus to sleep and dresses up as him so that he could infiltrate the Smurf Village. Some Smurfs get the real Santa awake and back on his feet to stop Gargamel as the fake Santa. | |
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On one of The Simpsons's Treehouse of Horror shorts, Homer takes Death's mantle after Death has a mishap. | |
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A standard Easter bit in Kevin & Kell was characters - not necessarily rabbits - subbing for the Easter Bunny. Rudy and Fiona ended up taking on the role full-time, despite being a wolf and a fox. | |
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In the Looney Tunes short "Easter Yeggs", it turns out the Easter Bunny always gets some poor schlub to do his deliveries for him, and this year's schlub is Bugs Bunny. | |
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The 40th issue of Young Justice has the team forced to deliver Santa's presents in his stead after he sacrificed himself to stop a Khundian suicide bomber's attempt to destroy the Earth. They are unable to finish delivering the presents in time and are met with complaints from everyone about not getting their presents until well after Christmas Day had passed as well as not getting what they wanted, resulting in the adolescent superheroes hoping that Santa Claus will be reborn to resume his gift-giving duties by next Christmas. | |
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In the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "T-Shirt of the Dead", Meatwad accidentally causes Santa to be burned by a giant Easter Egg monster he summons with a magic t-shirt, forcing him and the other Aqua Teens to do Santa's job while he recovers. As you can expect, they don't do a good job at it. | |
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The Grim Reaper is replaced by an impertinent little upstart in issue #9 of Bill & Ted's Excellent Comic Book. | |
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In Cold Days from The Dresden Files, the Erlking and Kringle allow Harry to defeat them so that Harry can lead the Wild Hunt against the Outsiders. | |
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In a Season 2 episode of Doby & Disy, Santa falls sick on Christmas Eve and has Doby, Disy, and Panda deliver presents for him. | |
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Dean becomes Death in an episode of Supernatural, as part of a deal. He finds he can't go through with seeing all the people dying. | |
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In Fred Claus Fred temporarily takes his brother's mantle. | |
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The first Fairly Oddparents Christmas Episode ends with Timmy, Cosmo, Wanda, and the holiday mascots having to deliver Santa's presents while Santa takes a vacation in Hawaii. | |
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Discworld: In Mort, Death takes an apprentice who has to substitute for him when he wanders off to go soul-searching. In Soul Music, Death goes missing. Since Someone Has to Do It, reality sucks Death's granddaughter (yes, the personification of death has a granddaughter, long story) Susan into the role since she's the next closest thing to the real Death. Hogfather: The Hogfather goes missing on Hogswatchnight, and Death has to temporarily take his place. While the circumstances behind it are both dark and serious, the actual results of Death playing the role of Santa, complete with false beard and cushion stuffed up his suit, are downright hilarious. Also leads to a heartwarming moment when Death exploits the fact that if the Hogfather finds The Little Match Girl freezing to death in the snow then he can keep her alive long enough to flag down a passing nightwatchman and get her to safety because that's a Hogswatch miracle, but if he does that in his capacity as The Grim Reaper then Really Bad Things happen. When Bilious was embarrassed to admit to being the Oh God of Hangovers he made up a story about how he does this on a professional basis, substituting for any deity that needs time off. He does decide to take it up as a real job after the events of the book, however. |
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The Wacky Races (2017) episode "Dashing Thru the Snow" had Santa Claus put out of commission, forcing Peter Perfect, Penelope Pitstop, I.Q. Ickley, the Gruesome Twosome, Dick Dastardly, and Muttley to do his job in delivering presents. They all mess up, but Santa fortunately recovers in time to fix everything. | |
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In The Powerpuff Girls special "'Twas The Fight Before Christmas", the title trio try to stop Princess Morbucks who has put everyone except herself on Santa's naughty list, which entitles her to get her wish of being a Powerpuff Girl granted and everyone else getting coal. They stop her later, but the North Pole is severely damaged from their fight, and there isn't enough time for Santa to repair his workshop and deliver the presents by morning. The solution? Have the super fast Powerpuff Girls deliver them. Oh, and Princess? She gets put on Santa's permanent naughty list. | |
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The Bonkers episode "Miracle on the 34th Precinct" had Lucky Piquel tasked with filling in for Santa Claus after he went missing while Bonkers searched for the real Santa. | |
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In Thomas' Night Before Christmas, a Little Golden Book based on Thomas & Friends, a sick Santa Claus arrives at Tidmouth Sheds and tells Sir Topham Hatt that he is too sick to deliver presents to all the good little boys and girls on Sodor. Santa gets Sir Topham Hatt to dress up as him and deliver the presents, and Thomas, Percy, Bill, Ben, Edward, James, Gordon, and Henry to pull Santa's sleigh. | |
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The Twilight Zone (1959)'s "The Night of the Meek" involves a drunken department store Santa finding a magical bag that allows him to give everyone in town what they want. At the end of the episode, he ends up becoming the actual Santa. | |
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DuckTales (2017): In the season 3-episode "How Santa Stole Christmas!" a broken-legged Santa is coming to McDuck Manor asking his former friend and partner Scrooge for help delivering all the presents. An unwilling Scrooge (and Webby) agree to come along with Scrooge acting as a Santa-sub. However, it turns out Scrooge has his own goals to deliver coal to the children to teach them a lesson in resources being more important than toys. It doesn't turn out as Scrooge hoped, so he was told the lesson that love is sometimes more powerful than any resource like coal. Furthermore, Santa actually faked his injury in hope to rebound with Scrooge showing him the spirit of Christmas. In the end, Scrooge and his whole family help Santa in delivering all the presents and change them for the coal Scrooge gave them before. | |
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Like the above movie, Toothless has Kirstie Alley's character take up the mantle of Tooth Fairy when she goes to Limbo. Other beings you have to become in Limbo include Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Cupid, Cinderella, a Boogeyman, and Sleeping Beauty. | |
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In the Jackie Chan Adventures Christmas Episode, Santa is kidnapped by the Big Bad and Tohru has to fill in for the night. Jade and Paco join him as elves, keeping them out of trouble, for once. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Due to Doofenshmirtz' Naughtyinator, Santa won't be visiting Danville to deliver gifts, so Phineas, Ferb, and company decide to deliver the presents themselves. Subverted at the end. Santa knew what was going on all along. In fact, he set up the whole thing, because he knew that Phineas wanted to try this. | |
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The Flintstones In a Christmas special (yes, prehistoric cavemen celebrate Christmas) centered around Fred filling in for Santa with Barney helping as an elf. In this case, Santa has a leg injury and has to stay at Fred's house, but maintains radio contact with the sleigh when the two need advice. In "Christmas Flintstone" (an episode of the actual show), Fred's been working as a mall Santa at Macyrock's department store. He takes a nap at quitting time and is awakened by elves who ask him to take Santa's place while Santa has a bad cold. (This would seem to indicate it was All Just a Dream but the rest of the episode is played straight.) At the end Fred realizes he hasn't any gifts left for his own family, only to hear sleigh bells overhead and "Merry Christmas, Fred! Aaaa-choo!" |
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An issue of the Looney Tunes comic book featured a story where Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck substitute for Santa Claus and one of his reindeer after the latter injures them. | |
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In the RuneScape quest "Missing, Presumed Death", a Token Human member of the Four Horsemen clan named Frank takes Death's place when the latter is kidnapped. | |
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In the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book The Titan's Curse, Atlas forces both Annabeth Chase and the goddess Artemis into holding up the sky for him so he can lead the Titan army. Percy Jackson then temporarily takes the sky from Artemis so she can fight Atlas. | |
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How Murray Saved Christmas: Murray is coaxed into it after one of the elves accidentally knocks out Santa and he's the only one capable enough to do the job. | |
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In the ChalkZone Christmas episode "When Santas Collide", Rudy takes over for Santa #8 (due to the amount of Santas that kids draw near Christmas, ChalkZone has eight santas) after he gets frozen solid, and has to deliver presents along with Snap to various areas of ChalkZone. | |
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Hogfather: The Hogfather goes missing on Hogswatchnight, and Death has to temporarily take his place. While the circumstances behind it are both dark and serious, the actual results of Death playing the role of Santa, complete with false beard and cushion stuffed up his suit, are downright hilarious. Also leads to a heartwarming moment when Death exploits the fact that if the Hogfather finds The Little Match Girl freezing to death in the snow then he can keep her alive long enough to flag down a passing nightwatchman and get her to safety because that's a Hogswatch miracle, but if he does that in his capacity as The Grim Reaper then Really Bad Things happen. When Bilious was embarrassed to admit to being the Oh God of Hangovers he made up a story about how he does this on a professional basis, substituting for any deity that needs time off. He does decide to take it up as a real job after the events of the book, however. |
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The The Tooth Fairy film with Dwayne Johnson. | |
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In the Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi episode "Tooth Decay", Ami and Yumi have to fill in for the tooth fairy after Yumi accidentally injures him. | |
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In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius episode "Holly Jolly Jimmy", Jimmy brings his friends to the North Pole and accidentally zaps Santa with his invention, scrambling his atoms. After being told Christmas has to be called off, Jimmy (who doesn't believe in Santa) offers to deliver all the toys with his rocket, claiming that if a mere mortal can succeed in delivering all the toys in one night, it's proof that Santa doesn't exist. He fails before he can get to Retroville, and Santa, who has gotten better, steps in at the last moment to finish the job. | |
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In the Futurama episode "A Tale of Two Santas", Bender has to take the place of Robot Santa in an effort by Fry to make a much jollier Xmas for everyone. The problem is everyone still thinks he's evil. | |
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Wishfart: In their Christmas Episode "Christmas Times the Max", Dez, Puffin, and Akiko get to do Santa's job (with approval from the man himself) in order to fulfill a wish for Christmas in July. However, they do an abysmal job due to being both overly enthusiastic and very incompetent at organizing Christmas, and only succeed in ruining things for everyone. | |
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A Fairly Odd Christmas involves Timmy Turner filling in for Santa Claus after accidentally injuring him and causing him to lose his memory and go nutsy coo-coo. | |
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Bruce Almighty Jim Carrey's character is given the powers of the Christian God in order to teach him a lesson in humility. In its sequel Evan Almighty, Steve Carrell's character is bestowed the fantastic non-powers of Noah. He can make a boat and animals like him! |
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Minion Masters: The Master Mordar has a Santa skin. | |
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The Santa Clause movie and its follow-up films: In the first film, the Santa Sub is Scott Calvin for Santa Claus. In the first sequel, the Santa Sub is Principal Newman in that she must become the new Mrs. Claus, through a Mrs. Clause binding magical contract. The third film has an inversion in that Jack Frost becomes Santa by tricking Scott Calvin into giving up the role. |
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Saturday Night Live: "The Night Hanukkah Harry Saved Christmas." Santa is sick so Hanukkah Harry steps in to help out. In a sequel he and the Prophet Elijah step in for the Easter Bunny after the bunny gets caught in a steel trap. | |
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The Cuphead Show!: In the episode "A Very Devil Christmas", the Devil wants to get on the Nice List so he can get a toy train set as a present. Considering he's, well, the Devil, Santa Claus decides the best way to redeem him on short notice is to have him personally deliver presents on Christmas Eve (complete with going through a Painful Transformation into Santa). Despite his reluctance and initial refusal to deliver gifts to Cuphead's house, the Devil does complete the task and get his gift from Santa: the joy of doing something nice, much to his chagrin. He still gets a train set anyway thanks to Henchman building him one. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Will takes over for Davy Jones, who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife. This doubles as a case of You Kill It, You Bought It, as Davy Jones was The Dragon and Will (with help from Jack) is the one who killed him. | |
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The Bump in the Night Christmas special "Twas the Night Before Bumpy" features a rare example of this being done unintentionally. Mr. Bumpy steals Santa's bag of presents purely for his own personal gain (he later learns the importance of giving), but during his escape from the North Pole's elves, he ends up accidentally dropping the presents down everyone's chimneys. He even put on a Santa hat before he left. | |
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Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series did this quite a few times where Herc had to sub for quite a few gods, such as driving Apollo's chariot, or covering the land with Morpheus' blanket of sleep. | |
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The My Life as a Teenage Robot episode "A Robot for All Seasons" begins with Jenny covering for Santa while he's in a full-body cast. | |
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An episode of Johnny Bravo has Johnny having to deliver the gifts after he attacked and beat up Santa, mistaking him for a burglar. | |
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Rise of the Guardians has an interesting twist where Santa, the Sandman, the Easter Bunny, and Jack Frost all pitch in to help the Tooth Fairy, since the Boogeyman kidnapped her army of smaller tooth fairies who normally do the job. | |
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The Grim Reaper being a job in TGAOBAM, other people can take that job. In the Movie, Grim is fired, and is replaced by Numbuh Three, before he gets his job back. | |
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In its sequel Evan Almighty, Steve Carrell's character is bestowed the fantastic non-powers of Noah. He can make a boat and animals like him! | |
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Snow Miser and Heat Miser are forced to fill in for Santa after their older brother North Wind breaks his back in A Miser Brothers Christmas, a sequel of sorts to The Year Without a Santa Claus. | |
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T.U.F.F. Puppy: In the climax of "A Doomed Christmas", Dudley and Kitty have defeated the villains and sent them home, but the clock strikes midnight meaning Santa's reindeer have lost their flying magic for the year, meaning no Christmas. Then Dudley and Kitty come up with an ultimate solution last minute — they turn the T.U.F.F. mobile into a sleigh so they can deliver the presents for Santa. | |
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In Soul Music, Death goes missing. Since Someone Has to Do It, reality sucks Death's granddaughter (yes, the personification of death has a granddaughter, long story) Susan into the role since she's the next closest thing to the real Death. | |
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Santa Baby: Santa's daughter takes the reign. | |
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Merry Madagascar: The cast of Madagascar has to deliver the presents after Santa comes down with a case of Easy Amnesia. | |
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Family Guy Peter takes over as Death when he twists his ankle. Brian and Stewie sub for Santa when they discover that all the deliveries are killing him. Hilarity Ensues. The events that play out can be viewed as a brutal Deconstruction of this trope, if not the entire concept of Santa Claus in general. However, it does do a heartwarming Reconstruction by the end of the episode. |
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Olive, the Other Reindeer: A variation. Olive takes over for one of the reindeer after he breaks his leg. | |
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Charmed: In "Styx Feet Under", when Piper became the Angel of Death. In "Nymphs Just Wanna Have Fun", Paige was once turned into a nymph to replace one that just died. The show also had many inversions of demons and warlocks and other bad guys stealing the powers of good magical creatures for their own gain. Just to name a few: In "Heartbreak City", a Demon steals Cupid's ring and starts breaking up relationships in revenge. In "Muse To My Ears", a warlock steals a ring which allowed him to harness the powers of Muses. In "Blinded By The Whitelighter", a warlock stole the powers of a Whitelighter in order to get into heaven and kill all the elders. In "Sand Fransisco Dreamin'", a demon once used a Sandman's dust in order to bring the Charmed One's dreams to life. |
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One or two episodes of Sabrina the Teenage Witch has the title character delivering presents at Christmas time. And one time Sabrina takes a local Sandman duty as a summer job. | |
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An inversion occurs with The Nightmare Before Christmas: The King of Halloween, Jack, wishes to take over the job for Santa, so has him kidnapped. Despite his good intentions, Jack forcefully takes Santa's mantle and the entire Holiday, making this also a downplayed and slightly oblivious case of Usurping Santa. Even worse, because he fails to consider how horrifying his Halloween-based presents are, it results in the military shooting him out of the sky. | |
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Parry Gripp: In "Reggie the Christmas Hamster", the song is about Reggie delivering all the presents because Santa broke his sleigh. | |
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