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A Darker and Edgier version of Christmas in a work, for added irony. Christmas being the biggest celebration of love, family, and happiness, it can further increase a single character's personal misery if he experiences totally opposite emotions. In extreme cases, this can mean death, torture, rape, and more death. In shows with more everyday themes, it might be loneliness, failed relationships, and depression. Sometimes this doesn't just affect one person but everyone. British Soap operas in particular have a reputation for making Christmas a time of death, divorce, infidelity, and violence, which explains why some of them have their own sections below. At least one person will end up dying, getting knocked down, or crying all alone on the happiest day of the year and almost always with a carol or jolly Christmas song over these images just to hammer it home. Maybe somebody's house will go down in flames. Maybe somebody's Genre Blind enough to actually get married. That's the Spirit of Christmas for you. In general, Foils, Keets and other comic relief characters can rest well knowing that they're not likely to die and will get to celebrate Christmas as it should be, but there's still a chance of them getting traumatised in time for Christmas dinner. Or during Christmas dinner. In Doylist terms, this isn't necessarily done just to be depressing and cynical for the sake of it: it's also done so audience members whose own Christmases are miserable in unremarkable ways can have the satisfaction of knowing that someone else's Christmas is even worse than theirs. Having to be hospitable to relatives you resent, graciously receiving presents you neither need nor want, and the inevitable mountain of leftover turkey will feel like lenience by the closing credits. Snow Means Death is a frequently used motif in such settings. Bad Santa and An Ass-Kicking Christmas are more humorous/badass takes on the concept. The Christmas section of Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday has some of the most brutal examples. To fit the theme, the score for tense or scary moments may involve Chaos of the Bells. Crappy Holidays is a downplayed version; characters aren't in any danger but aren't having any fun either. See also Anti-Christmas Song and Did I Mention It's Christmas?. |
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Divine Gate has Blue Christmas, which was a massacre that occurred just two days before the holiday, and left 666 people dead, with a girl named Ruri being the Sole Survivor. | |
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Clock Tower 3 has a young 12-year-old piano prodigy named May Burton, who was brutally murdered by Sledgehammer on the night of Christmas Eve while her father was gone to war, but was killed in an explosion. Little May's body was found on Christmas Morning. The game protagonist Alyssa defeated Sledgehammer and returned the locket to May's ghost, and had her play the special song on the piano for her father, which reunited father and daughter as they descended to heaven. | |
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Adventure Time: The two-part Christmas Episode "Holly Jolly Secrets" was a bit of a downer that revealed the Ice King's incredibly sad and grim back-story, but it ends on a high note when Finn and Jake end up re-inventing Christmas in their efforts to cheer up the Ice King and bond with him. | |
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Limbus Company: When the Sinners make their way to Calw in Canto III, they find that the residents of the town have been massacred and turned into gory Christmas displays, complete with lights, trees and Christmas music. This is just a part of Kromer's torment of Sinclair, as a reminder of the day she killed his family. The "Miracle in District 20" event has the Sinners fight against a bunch of Killer Rabbit gnomes who intend on using them as Human Resources to make their presents with. |
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Cash on Demand takes place on December 23, and features charming but ruthless criminal Colonel Gore Hepburn holding hostage the wife and son of bank manager Harry Fordyce to force Fordyce into helping him rob the bank. | |
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Harry and Hermione visit Harry's parents' graves in Godric's Hollow on Christmas Eve. They end up falling into a trap set by Voldemort, who suspected Harry might visit the gravesite. The duo gets attacked by Nagini, who was horrifically disguised in Bathilda Bagshot's corpse, and nearly captured by Voldemort. Harry's wand is also broken during the attack, leaving them with one less weapon and no leads on the horcruxes. | |
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The Children: Beginning on Christmas Eve, children become infected and start killing their parents. Ending on New Year's Eve, it's revealed that the whole country seems to be affected. | |
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Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections is an entire novel of this. | |
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DEATH BATTLE!: "Omni-Man VS Homelander" takes place during Christmas. Considering that Omni-Man and Homelander two are Beware the Superman incarnate, and the fact that the conflict was caused by Homelander killing Debbie as a message for Omni-Man to stay out of his way, you can already tell this isn't going to be a pleasant holiday for either of them. Or at least not for Homelander, whom Omni-Man subjects to one of the cruelest and most gruesome deaths in series history. | |
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Bones: One episode has a man dressed as Santa robbing a bank shortly before Christmas. The team doesn't seem too put off by it until they find out he was just a victim in someone else's robbery ploy, and Angela even jokes that she won't let Santa ruin Christmas. An earlier episode had Hodgins accidentally exposing the team to a potential biohazard, meaning they all had to stay in isolation during Christmas, getting only a few minutes to see their families through glass. This episode revealed that Brennan, beyond just being an atheist, doesn't celebrate Christmas because her parents went missing shortly before the holiday and her brother Russ had gone out of his way to give her as normal a Christmas as possible- accidentally tricking her into thinking they'd come home. |
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Anna and the Apocalypse is a Zombie Apocalypse movie set during the Christmas season. It's also a musical. | |
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In the House episode "Merry Little Christmas", House refuses a deal (two-month rehabilitation instead of jail) and subsequently detoxes, overdoses on pills, and is left in a pool of his own vomit as Wilson leaves in disgust. He then attempts to take the deal but it's been removed since. | |
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On The O.C., Ryan's memories of Christmas aren't exactly happy, and after a series of bad things inevitably happen, he declares that "if there's cops and crying, well then it must be Christmas!" | |
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Eugenesis is an insanely dark story, where the plot just happens to start just before Christmas Day. A massive amount of death and carnage occur on the actual day, and the story continues on in increasingly bleakness right through to the new year. | |
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Harry Potter and the Endless Night has a Mall Santa on Christmas Eve having been transformed into a Vampire that goes about devouring the Mall-goers to transform them into Ghouls. Draco; who was working as one of the Mall Elves springs into action to help escort the survivors out of the mall and away from the massacre while Integra and Harry show up with the rest of the Hellsing Organization to contain the outbreak and deal with the Ghouls. Alucard finally shows up after Draco and Dobby finished ragdolling the Vampire Santa around before killing him. However, it's revealed that among the victims that were turned into Ghouls were Hermione's parents as their now-orphaned daughter was found with a hollow look in her eyes after seeing her parents killed. | |
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Love Actually: While most of the plot lines, taking place during the Christmas season, end happily, a few of them start or end on a bittersweet note: Daniel's plotline opens on his wife's funeral and his struggles to bond with his stepson, Sam, at the start of the Christmas season. On Christmas Eve, Karen discovers the expensive necklace her husband secretly bought was meant not for her, but for his sexy young secretary. In the Flash Forward at the end, their marriage remains notably strained, though she smiles through it. Sarah attempts to start a relationship with her long-time crush on Christmas Eve, but is unable to due to his inability to put up with the many phone calls from her mentally-ill brother. Her storyline ends on a bittersweet note, as she spends Christmas with her brother in the psychiatric ward. |
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The 1-hour Christmas movie for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia has the gang go through this in spades: Charlie discovers that his mom is a whore, Mac learns that all his Christmas gifts were stolen from other families, and Dennis and Dee go through hell every year since Frank intentionally buys the gifts they want for himself and intentionally ruins them just to harass them. Things suddenly look up near the end when Frank actually undergoes a genuine Heel–Face Turn and actually does try to give the gang a good Christmas, making it look like for the first time they'll receive a happy ending... and then the Cruel Twist Ending sets in since there's no way this series is ever going to allow that. | |
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Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's, "Christmas Eve": Hayate watches as her entire adopted family gets murdered right before her eyes and so is overwhelmed by the power of the Book of Darkness. The Power of Friendship later prevails happily, but still. | |
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A Christmas episode of Castle revealed that Beckett always works on Christmas because she sees it as her duty to keep watch. Her mother was killed in early January, but their Christmas decorations were still up, and when she and her father put them away "it felt like [they] put that box away forever." She does end up deciding that it's time to make new Christmas traditions and gets someone to cover her shift so she can spend the holiday with Castle and his family. | |
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Karen Sees: The game seems to be set around Christmastime. For one thing, there's a "Meet Santa" area on the second floor of The Mall. For another, an exterior screenshot shows Christmas trees in the mall parking lot. | |
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In Toradora!, Taiga and Minori, both in love with Ryuuji, pushed him away from themselves wanting him to be happy with the other girl. Cue to upbeat Christmas song. | |
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The Warrior Christmas Special features The Ultimate Warrior doing several unspeakable things to Santa. WARNING: Not for the faint of heart. | |
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In one episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, Stoic Woobie Kenzie reveals to a suspect, and her coworkers, that she was engaged to a man named Jack who suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder following a tour of duty in the Middle East. Though she tried her hardest to help him readjust to civilian life, she woke up on Christmas morning and found that he had left her in the night; six years later, she still has no idea where he is. | |
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The Day of the Beast: This Spanish Horror Comedy classic depicts the misadventures of a priest who goes on an unhinged quest through a Wretched Hive Madrid in order to find and kill The Antichrist during his birth ceremony, which is presumed to be on the midnight before Christmas of '95. | |
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In the Hannibal episode "Å’uf" we see the Frist household alight with holiday cheer: Christmas decorations on the walls, Christmas tree in the corner, Christmas carols blaring from the stereo, the corpses of the Frists — mother, father, daughter, and son — strewn around the room and another son who had been abducted from his family earlier, trained to kill them, then killed when he couldn't carry it out and burned to charcoal in the fireplace. | |
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"A Slaying Song Tonight" in the anthology book Batman: Black and White opens with a splash panel of a skinny, wild-eyed Santa Claus hiding a machine gun in his sack, going on to reveal that this is a hitman who plans to get near his target by taking the place of a rent-a-Santa hired to put in an appearance for the target's daughter. | |
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Mokku of the Oak Tree: The two final episodes of the series are set on Christmas, and Pinocchio has to struggle against some Knight Templar soldiers that want to destroy him and ventures to an Eldritch Location in order to find the cure to save Gina from dying of an illness. And then getting a Disney Death when the soldiers come back and shoot him down near a Christmas tree to the horror of Geppetto and the others. | |
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The Polar Express: While not in the movie proper, there's a boy named Billy who claims Christmas "doesn't work out" for him. It's implied to be because he's poor and can't afford to have a happy Christmas. | |
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The first Scrubs Christmas Episode starts off like this but then goes Away in a Manger. Still worth mentioning just for the song that plays as Turk's Christmas Spirit gradually gets worn away: Anyone working in a hospital emergency room will tell you that this is Truth in Television, sadly. |
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The Holiday Special of The Batman Adventures, a Mister Freeze story. | |
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Batman: Noël, Yet Another Christmas Carol, where Bruce is Scrooge dealing with the Joker. | |
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Santa Vs. Zombies is about Santa Claus getting caught in a zombie outbreak on Christmas Eve. | |
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Galactic Milieu: In Magnificat the Remillard Dynasty attempt to magically torture their father in order to remove his split personality on Christmas Day, as since he won't be expecting it, it will be easier to get him into the room. | |
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Scrooged, which is a modern take on A Christmas Carol. Frank's resentment of Christmas (and love of television) came as a result of his disinterested parents, especially his father who regarded anyone who didn't work (including his underage son) as lazy. To make things even bleaker, years later around Christmas Frank ended up choosing his career over the love of his life, which left him jaded until the Ghosts came. It wasn't much better for Elliot Loudermilk, who was fired on the spot for questioning Frank, had his wife leave him because of it, got robbed of both his money and his booze (which he sold his blood to pay for), and ended up buying a shotgun to shoot Frank with in revenge. It works out for him in the end. Frank (by now a reformed man) rehires him in a better position and enlists his help in performing a Hostile Show Takeover. |
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Sesame Street: The Christmas special "Elmo Saves Christmas" features a 'what if' scenario that reveals that if a year of nothing but Christmases occurred, then on the next "real" Christmas (December 25th), pines would be out of business, people would be sick of watching TV because only It's a Wonderful Life plays, the Count would be bored of counting the days and be much gloomier than usual as a result, the economy would suffer due to businesses being closed, the carollers would have lost their voices, and Maria would've forgotten how to repair things due to a | |
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Christmas Day 1986: Dennis "Dirty Den" Watts hands divorce papers to his shocked wife, Angie. About 30.15 million people watched. The population of the United Kingdom at the time was about 57 million. (Indeed, one of the Big Fat Quiz of the '80s confirms it was the most-watched single event of the eighties in the UK.) The Trope Maker episode. | |
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Stupid Kids: Boldogat és még boldogabbat (Merry and even more) has a Zombie Apocalypse of people who sold their souls to Facebook because it crashed. | |
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The Long Halloween: Both The Joker on a crime spree and the Holiday killer are active during Christmas in this story. Two years later we have the same thing, except replace Joker with Scarecrow and the Holiday Killer with the Hangman. And the energy Bruce devotes in trying to stop both in turn heavily strains his relationship with Selina Kyle when he winds up standing her up on Christmas Eve. |
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Both of Kyle Hyde's adventures in Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Last Window involve Christmas time. The first game involves a quick plot detour to help Melissa celebrate the Christmas she missed. The second games play it a little more with Kyle dealing with his misgivings about the holiday, due to his father being murdered around that time when he was a kid. | |
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The Apocalypse Virus was unleashed on Tokyo on December 24, 2029, in Guilty Crown. The event came to be known as "Lost Christmas." | |
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In Tiger & Bunny, Barnaby returns from a fun outing where he went ice-skating with his family's trusted housekeeper, opens the door to the drawing-room of their home...and happens upon the dead bodies of both his parents, a burning Christmas tree, and the murderer himself. The house ends up a pile of smouldering rubble while Barnaby himself ends up with his memories of the murderer's true identity wiped from his mind, thus allowing the perpetrator to pose as his Parental Substitute and mentor for the next 20 years. | |
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The second season of Paris Police 1900 (titled Paris Police 1905) begins on Christmas Eve. With the discovery of a bloody corpse in a park, followed by the tragic death of a baby. | |
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The Christmas episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold reveals that Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered on Christmas, while Bruce was sulking over not getting the toy he wanted. ...though a later episode then Retcons that to show that he perked up a moment later so that he could have a last happy family moment before his parents were murdered. Wait, is that better? |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid's Christmas episode features the debut of Genm's Dangerous Zombie form, which he then uses to kill Kiriya, with the latter's death being the show's first major Tear Jerker. | |
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GaoGaiGar plays a little with the trope, showing Mamoru celebrating Christmas with his parents like a normal kid… then he says goodbye to his parents before leaving to join GGG in fighting the Primevals at Jupiter. The resulting battle sees the loss of Leo Shishioh, all but one of the Mic Sounders series, and (seemingly) the J-Ark and its crew. | |
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The Crowner John Mysteries: Crowner's Quest starts with John being called away from a Christmas party being thrown by his to investigate an apparent suicide. So John spends Christmas Eve examining the body of an elderly priest hanging a stinking privy. This leads to a very bad Christmas and New Year for John. | |
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In an American Dad! Christmas Episode, Stan mentions the so-called "Christmas Rapist" (though due to Political Overcorrectness he's been renamed "the Holiday Rapist"). A later episode has Steve accidentally kill Santa, with Santa swearing revenge after being revived. They manage to take refuge in a mountain man's home and fend off his forces long enough for Christmas day to arrive, meaning Santa has to end his onslaught and leave. The next Christmas episode has the Smiths realize that fighting for their lives to survive Santa's wrath has become their Christmas tradition. |
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In Spirit Hunter: NG, the Momoi Department Store was burned down during the lead-up to Christmas, leading to multiple families dying while they were buying presents for their children and loved ones. The main soundtrack of the area is a dark and unsettling version of Jingle Bells. | |
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The X-Files: The first Christmas episode (actually a two-parter) falls victim to this in the worst kind of way. It starts with Scully spending the holidays with her brother and his wife in San Diego. They're expecting a baby and are very exciting, unknowingly digging the proverbial knife deeper for Scully, who has just found out that she is unable to conceive. A mysterious phone call leads Scully to a murder mystery, in which the parents of a sick 3-year-old die in quick succession. The little girl looks an awful lot like Scully's sister, Melissa, who had been killed two seasons before. So, Scully has some DNA tests run. While they run, Scully tries to adopt the orphaned Emily but is denied. When the tests come back and reveal that Emily is actually Scully's daughter, things get worse. The little girl has an incurable form of anemia, which would be bad enough except when taken to the hospital, an entire conspiracy involving surrogate mothers taken from the local nursing home and alien hybrids is discovered after Emily's blood burns an ER doctor. On top of that, Emily has a growth that's shutting down her body systematically. The final scene is her funeral, which happens just after Scully's sister-in-law gives birth to Scully's nephew. Quite possibly one of the most depressing Christmas episodes. Their only other Christmas episode also has depressing themes, though is markedly less Tear Jerker and more comedic. The episode's premise is a lover's murder/suicide pact, which two ghosts are trying to get Mulder and Scully to re-enact. |
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The movie Gremlins is an example (the events happen at Christmas), and contains another one—one of the main characters tells how her father died on Christmas, trying to go down the chimney in a Santa suit. "And that's how I learned there was no Santa Claus." The MAD magazine satire of the movie adds another twist to this unfortunate fate: all the warranties of the gifts he was carrying had expired. | |
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In Tokumei Sentai Go Busters, the "birth" of the series' Big Bad, Messiah, occurred on Christmas Day 13 years prior to the beginning of the series; and he was only rendered a Sealed Evil in a Can thanks to a mass Heroic Sacrifice of the people on-site. During the series itself, Christmas is when Messiah is fully unsealed and threatens to consume the world again. There's a happy ending, though, as the Go-Busters manage to destroy Messiah for good. | |
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Zombie Claus is about trying to survive inside your home while being pursued by a zombie Santa Claus. | |
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Smallville has two Christmas episodes, Lexmas and Gemini. Guess how they turned out. In Lexmas, it started out fine with we seeing Lex's perfect future, then let's just say Lex thinks money and power are the only things that could help him hold on to that, triggering his Start of Darkness. The episode actually starts with Lex being critically injured by a gunshot. In Gemini, Chloe and Jimmy are trapped in an elevator with a bomb, complete with Soundtrack Dissonance. Clark saves them, of course. Only that it is not Clark, but Bizarro, who only wants Chloe alive so she could help him track down Brainiac to defeat Clark. |
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Season 2 of Danger 5 takes place entirely around Christmas, and is much darker and weirder than the first season. | |
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A series 3 episode of Ambulance (2016) focuses on the last Saturday before Christmas. The call handlers and paramedics know it is going to be a bad night, but then the panicked calls start coming in. The ambulance crews have to rush to a multi-car road traffic collision, complete with a fallen truck. By the time they get there, three people are dead, two more die on scene, and another dies in hospital. And due to the severity of the accident, there's a backlog due to the lack of crews, leaving one elderly patient being left without medical care for over six hours. | |
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The mission Suffer with Me in Call of Duty: Black Ops II occurs shortly before Christmas. Hudson dies, Alex Mason may also die, Woods is crippled, and David Mason is traumatized. | |
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Brave Police J-Decker very briefly features some Christmas celebrations before the Fahrzeugs' master plan takes centre stage. | |
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An issue of The Flash has his arch-enemy Abra Kadabra manipulating things so Wally has a particularly sour Christmas where he's forced to spend the day chasing after some drug peddlers, and by the end of it he winds up getting sued. | |
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In ef - a fairy tale of the two., first the earthquake on Christmas, that killed hundreds of people in the town, including the families of Yuu and Yuuko. Then, years later, Yuuko got raped by her stepbrother on a Christmas night for the first time. And then, more years later, she died in a car crash on a third Christmas. | |
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Zombies Christmas Carol is A Christmas Carol in the middle of a zombie apocalypse caused by Scrooge himself. Lines from the original story are distorted and played with at times, and the setting isn't exactly cheery. | |
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In John Corey Whaley's novel Where Things Come Back, Benton Sage commits his suicide on Christmas. | |
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Citadel of the Heart, in a Mythology Gag to the aforementioned example from Sword Art Online, depicts a flashback of such events dating back to December 24th, 1954 in the fic Sword Art Online: Special Edition. The circumstances, however, are vastly different from the canon Twisted Christmas. Grandis, one of the Ultimorian Deities, is captured and given some strange microchip into his system, which promptly awakens him and causes him to go berserk, eventually going from his near undead looking Phase 1 form to his Humongous Mecha Phase 4 form, in an attempt to escape from the experimentation done to him by his Arch-Enemy Dr. Devoniak. While Dr. Devoniak manages to subdue Grandis with the laboratory's own machines, eventually breaking his will to struggle further to escape, Grandis, in an increasingly sobbing tone, cries himself to sleep as narcotics take effect, quoting "Frosty the Snowman" in doing so.note (Grandis is only familiar with the story and song in 1954 because of the fact he has all of the author's knowledge on such media (among who knows what else), since the author was born in 1994 and this chapter was posted in 2017) | |
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On General Hospital, as local mobster Sonny, his lawyer Alexis, his errand boy Zander, and Zander's girlfriend Emily left the police station (they'd just posted bail for a wrongly accused Zander), they were attacked by gunmen. Sonny and Zander ended up injured as they simultaneously moved to protect Alexis and Emily. | |
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Ebenezer (1998) is one of the few A Christmas Carol adaptations to show Scrooge directly killing someone, and his character in general is extremely villainous. | |
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Yes, Batman gets his own folder. Christmas is NEVER a happy time for Batman. Not only is it an emotional time for him since the loss of his parents, but supervillains LOVE to stir up crap during Christmas time (especially guys like The Joker, Mister Freeze, and the Calendar Man). Here's a few examples of Batman stories set in Christmas time, both in comics and other media: The Long Halloween: Both The Joker on a crime spree and the Holiday killer are active during Christmas in this story. Two years later we have the same thing, except replace Joker with Scarecrow and the Holiday Killer with the Hangman. And the energy Bruce devotes in trying to stop both in turn heavily strains his relationship with Selina Kyle when he winds up standing her up on Christmas Eve. Batman: Noël, Yet Another Christmas Carol, where Bruce is Scrooge dealing with the Joker. The Holiday Special of The Batman Adventures, a Mister Freeze story. Detective Comics #826, in which Tim Drake ends up accidentally driving around Christmastime Gotham with The Joker. Legends Of the Dark Knight #79 "A Slaying Song Tonight" in the anthology book Batman: Black and White opens with a splash panel of a skinny, wild-eyed Santa Claus hiding a machine gun in his sack, going on to reveal that this is a hitman who plans to get near his target by taking the place of a rent-a-Santa hired to put in an appearance for the target's daughter. The very second episode of Batman: The Animated Series, Christmas With the Joker, and the later episode Holiday Knights. Batman Returns opens with Penguin being dumped in the river on Christmas. The film's present-day is set during Christmas time as well. Batman The Animated Series for the Game Boy sees the third level take place during Christmas, right as Poison Ivy takes a pre-Two-Face Harvey Dent hostage while Batman gets tangled up with Catwoman when he crosses her path during a robbery. The Christmas episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold reveals that Bruce Wayne's parents were murdered on Christmas, while Bruce was sulking over not getting the toy he wanted. ...though a later episode then Retcons that to show that he perked up a moment later so that he could have a last happy family moment before his parents were murdered. Wait, is that better? Batman: Arkham Origins is set during Christmas in Batman's second year as a crimefighter. There are 8 assassins in town, he's dealing with 2 mob bosses, the hopelessly corrupt police force want him dead, the Mad Hatter makes his first appearance, Anarky wants to destroy the city, there are two prison riots, and the Joker is behind it all For the Evulz. This Christmas is downright brutal. |
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The Dragnet episode ".22 Rifle for Christmas" sees Friday and Smith taking on the case of a young boy who accidentally shot and killed himself with the rifle his parents were planning to give him for Christmas. | |
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Eyes Wide Shut takes place over the holidays and involves Bill, the protagonist, becoming embroiled in a sex cult that may or may not be murderous and everywhere. | |
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One M*A*S*H Christmas, BJ insisted on keeping a critically wounded soldier alive so the soldier's children wouldn't remember Christmas as "the day Daddy died." Despite their efforts, he died with roughly 35 minutes left to go - so Hawkeye moved the hands of the clock and said, "Look at that, it's not Christmas anymore." | |
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Monk: Monk's wife was murdered during the Christmas season. By the time the sixth season rolls around and it marks ten years since her death, he's very bitter about the holiday. Specifically in the four Christmas episodes themselves, the series has this thanks to operating on a Victim of the Week basis. "Mr. Monk and the Secret Santa" (2005): One of Stottlemeyer's detectives drinks a bottle of poisoned port that had seemingly been addressed to Stottlemeyer, and is initially suspected to have been sent by an ex-con with a grudge against Stottlemeyer. Making it worse is that the detective is a family man who had just gotten back together with his wife, and the reason he was killed was that he'd been having an affair with the cop who organized the Secret Santa exchange, and she wasn't happy about him dumping her. "Mr. Monk Meets His Dad" (2006): Monk is reunited with his dad, who has become a truck driver out of Texas since leaving his family. It's an awkward reunion that is further compounded when it turns out Jack's boss has been skimming from the trucking company, accidentally murdered another colleague who found out about it, and is having Jack be his patsy driving the truck he used that day so as to get rid of evidence linking him to the crime. "Mr. Monk and the Man Who Shot Santa" (2007): It's the tenth anniversary of Trudy's death, so Monk is already in a bad mood when, whilst stuck in traffic with Natalie and Julie, a man in a Santa suit begins tossing presents down on the street below. Monk goes up to confront the guy, but things go from bad to worse as the Santa has a gun on him, and Monk is forced to shoot him in self-defense with said gun after a fight breaks out. Monk thus finds himself being made a social pariah by the press as he tries to clear his reputation and solve the crime. "Mr. Monk and the Miracle" (2008): A homeless man is murdered, and his friends come to Monk to ask for help solving his death. While this is going on, Stottlemeyer is having back problems and is distanced from his family to the point his son doesn't pick up the phone. And the fountain at a monastery has begun to instantly cure anyone who drinks water from it. It all turns out to be a scam run by Stottlemeyer's pharmacist, who killed a partner who stole money from him years prior and buried his body where the fountain was erected. With the monastery planning to construct new classrooms on the fountain site, he enacted a major fraud using his patients as patsies, and he also killed the homeless man Monk is investigating because said man caught him painting a sign on Stottlemeyer's front door. |
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The very second episode of Batman: The Animated Series, Christmas With the Joker, and the later episode Holiday Knights. | |
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: The film adaptation of the novel added a Death Eater attack on the Burrow during Christmas break, ending with the beloved Weasley family home in flames. | |
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The fourth case of the first Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney game features a murder happening in the middle of a lake in the foggy night between December 24 and 25. Phoenix takes the case and discovers that another murder happened 15 years ago on December 28. | |
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Brave Command Dagwon has the the Dagwon team fight take on Mado Warugaia and later Genocide in an all-or-nothing battle around Christmas, with Mado on the verge of destroying the earth with a Gravity Beam followed by Genocide attempting the same with a Colony Drop. | |
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Demo Reel gives us this gem from "The Blair Witch Hangover": | |
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The Elf: The movie is about a young couple and their families trapped in a house on Christmas Eve with a killer elf doll targeting them. | |
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A few Brave Series entries feature this to an extent, as the times they aired meant that they were approaching their Grand Finale by the holidays, so sometimes they included plot developments leading up to them. Averted in Brave Exkaiser's Christmas Episode, where it seems like typical Exkaiser fare, but holiday themed. However, the raffle tickets Kouta's mom wins lead to the Hoshikawa family vacationing to Egypt, which is where the show's final arc is set into motion. The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird's Christmas Episode features Draias and his minions holding the world for ransom by infecting millions with a disease. It actually seems like it might work for a while. Additionally, it also marks the point where Inspector Satsuda finds out the Amanos are working with Fighbird and co.. The show's final arc kicks off on the next episode. Brave Police J-Decker very briefly features some Christmas celebrations before the Fahrzeugs' master plan takes centre stage. Brave Command Dagwon has the the Dagwon team fight take on Mado Warugaia and later Genocide in an all-or-nothing battle around Christmas, with Mado on the verge of destroying the earth with a Gravity Beam followed by Genocide attempting the same with a Colony Drop. GaoGaiGar plays a little with the trope, showing Mamoru celebrating Christmas with his parents like a normal kid… then he says goodbye to his parents before leaving to join GGG in fighting the Primevals at Jupiter. The resulting battle sees the loss of Leo Shishioh, all but one of the Mic Sounders series, and (seemingly) the J-Ark and its crew. |
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A Christmas Carol (2019) is quite possibly the darkest adaptation to date. Just for starters, Scrooge is far more evil in this version, from his past as a criminal (where he and Marley preyed on impoverished small businesses, buying them for low prices via blackmail before demolishing them for profit) to blackmailing Mrs. Cratchit to strip for him in exchange for the money needed for Tiny Tim's operation. | |
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An issue of Hitman (1993) has Tommy and Natt hunting a radioactive homicidal maniac in a Santa suit at Christmas. That's Gotham. And the narration is verse in the meter of "The Night Before Christmas". | |
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In Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl, Mai is run over and killed by a car on Christmas Eve as she ran into the street to save Sakuta. | |
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Batman Returns opens with Penguin being dumped in the river on Christmas. The film's present-day is set during Christmas time as well. | |
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Moral Orel: The (intended) first season finale, ironically titled "The Best Christmas Ever" is about Orel's parents deciding to separate after Clay confronted Bloberta with the (completely true) accusation that Shapey wasn't his son. Ultimately they choose to stay together for appearance's sake, despite both of them being miserable. This was the show's first hint of its oncoming Cerebus Syndrome. The ending is Orel waiting for God to grant a Christmas Miracle (with two minutes left) while looking up at the sky. It's implied nothing happens. A year later was slightly better for Orel, in which he found a true father figure in Coach Daniel Stopframe, but he still had to deal with the fact that his father is an abusive jerk and that he'll be limping for the rest of his life because of his father's neglect. (Then again, those facts are true because Orel had a Twisted Easter weekend where his father shoots him and then was too drunk to get Orel medical treatment for an entire day, so it evens out.) It's arguably worse for Clay; he finally comes to terms with his bisexuality and confesses his love for Daniel, only for Daniel, who by this point also knows how abusive Clay is, to reject him, potentially ruining his marriage to Bloberta in the process. Ultimately, it doesn't end up spoiling Christmas for Orel, as he's seen in the Distant Finale celebrating it with his childhood sweetheart Christina, his son, and his newborn daughter. |
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In Futurama, Christmas is a time of getting together... to take shelter from Robot Santa, a robot version of Santa Claus who was programmed with exceedingly high standards of "nice" and whose idea of punishing "naughty" people is to kill them, preferably with heavy artillery. | |
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The West Wing did these quite frequently in its early days, frequently using its Christmas episodes to tackle personal tragedies head-on—producing some of its most effective Tearjerkers in the process. Season 1's "In Excelcis Deo", for example, revolves around Toby organizing a military funeral for a homeless Korean War veteran. Season 2's "Noël" is about Josh reluctantly seeing a therapist for help in coping with PTSD after he suffers a complete mental breakdown on Christmas, to the point that the constant cheery Christmas carols flooding the hallways of the White House trigger severe traumatic flashbacks to his recent shooting. Season 3's "Bartlet for America" is a flashback episode involving Leo's alcoholism and Bartlet's multiple sclerosis. Season 4's "Holy Night" has Toby dealing with an unexpected visit from his estranged, former career criminal father, and CJ and Leo trying to stop a news story proving the Bartlet administration's involvement in Shareef's assassination. |
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The festive time-themed Metro Square stage from the 2012 Twisted Metal game. During the pre-stage dialogues in Sweet Tooth's story mode for this level, Calypso invokes this trope with: "Do you like the holidays Sweet Tooth? I do. I, I love to see the people so happy. So excited. Because when they die violently, they're so surprised. Am I right? No one expects to die on Christmas". | |
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Surely one of the most famous examples would be A Christmas Carol. A big part of the reason for Scrooge's hatred and resentment of Christmas is that his father often left him at school for the Christmas holidays, where he had to spend the festive season by himself. During the story, he sees some pretty horrifying sights, starting with the miserable, wailing spirit of his dead friend and ending with his own grave. | |
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In 7 Seeds, the final events of the Ryugu Shelter, meaning Maria locking herself and the other infected Arcia X people into a freezer to prevent them from spreading, as well as Saruwatari and Mark committing suicide took place on Christmas. | |
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An episode of Perfect Strangers had Mr. Gorpley being a royal Jerkass to everyone at Larry and Balki's Christmas party until everyone (save the resident Mypiat that invited him) had enough and wanted him gone. This prompted Gorpley to snarkily (then emotionally) reveal that many of his personal tragedies happened at Christmas time. | |
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"Dead Winter Dead," by the related group Savatage, is a concept album about the horrific Bosnian War. The story's climax happens one Christmas Eve when the old cellist who plays in the town square is killed by an artillery barrage. | |
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Babe, despite being a family film, doesn't show Christmas in a positive light. We see Farmer Hoggett take Ferdinand's girlfriend Rosanna to the chopping block to be their meal, half of the sheep be stolen by rustlers, and the bratty granddaughter reject a homemade dollhouse. | |
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Six Feet Under opens with family patriarch Nate Fisher Sr. dying in a car crash while trying to make it to Christmas dinner. Things spin out of control from there. | |
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Dexter: New Blood: "Family Business" is set on Christmas, with Dexter confessing that he's a Serial-Killer Killer to Harrison, then killing Kurt, the Runaway Killer. | |
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Nuclear war docudrama Threads includes a grim parody of a Nativity scene. The main character, Ruth, who has recently given birth in a barn, spends Christmas Day huddled around a fire with other survivors, seemingly indifferent to her baby's cries. Not only that, the narration makes it clear that many children and elderly people will not make it through the first post-holocaust winter as they are more vulnerable to the effects of cold and radiation. | |
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In South Park: The Fractured but Whole, this is revealed to be Mitch Conner's ultimate plan: By getting himself elected as Mayor through the drug epidemic he started, he wants to turn every day into Christmas in a town where things get weirder during the holidays. When the kids travel to a Bad Future in which he succeeded, the town is in utter chaos due to the adults being wasted on cat piss and the Woodland Critters murdering everyone they see. | |
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First Blood involves Rambo coming home from Vietnam looking for a friend, only to find that he died of Agent Orange following the war. When Rambo tries to go to a diner, Sheriff Will Teasle drives him away but Rambo tries to go back to town, only to be arrested. Rambo eventually snaps while at prison and goes on a one-man war against Teasle and the police. In the end, after Rambo severely wounds Teasle in a gunfight, Rambo is confronted by his former commander Col. Trautman and he is told to surrender. Rambo breaks down and cries as he tells Trautman about what happened in Vietnam and when he returned home, before surrendering to Trautman and put into state custody while Teasle is carried to the hospital. All of this happened on Christmas. | |
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In Space: Above and Beyond, Cooper Hawkes, an InVitro who until he joined the Marines, had been homeless with no family, described Christmas as being the one time of the year when he was even lonelier than usual. Meanwhile, the squad spends Christmas in a crippled transport drifting in space, with no means of calling for help or getting homenote until the Chigs choose to give them information to help them get home rather than leave them to die. | |
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Space Battleship Yamato 2202 has the Human and Gamilan Colonists of Planet 11 celebrating Christmas Eve, only for a recently-arrived Gatlantean Fleet to start attacking the planet; killing the majority of the Colonists before sending down Killer Robots to wipe out the few remaining survivors before assembling their fleet around Planet 11s' Artificial Sun as a space cannon in an attempt to destroy Earth with. | |
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Roys Bedoys: Downplayed in “Christmas is the Season of Giving, Roys Bedoys!�, where Wen mainly has a happy Christmas, but one downside is that she receives no presents (until her friends sacrifice part of their own presents). | |
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Jake and the Fatman: In "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", it's Christmastime, but McCabe isn't feeling so jolly as an ambitious assistant DA helps Jake find a murderous Santa Claus. | |
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At the beginning of An American Tail, the Mousekewitzes spend Hanukkah 1885 watching their village being destroyed in a pogrom by Cossack cats. | |
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In 2006, Twisted Sister released an album called "A Twisted Christmas," which consisted entirely of traditional Christmas carols through the lens of Heavy Metal. | |
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Empath: The Luckiest Smurf plays with the trope two times: It takes "Haunted Smurfs" (a semi-dark 1980s cartoon show episode) and turns it into "A Haunted Christmas", with the Smurf Village tragedy of losing the storehouse to a fire happening sometime prior to Christmas, which makes things pretty dismal for Smurfette since this would be her first Christmas with the Smurfs. Fortunately, as the story unfolds, things turn out for the better and the trope is ultimately averted... although in the Framing Story's end Smurfette mysteriously disappears when the lights in the dining hall go out. "A Wild Winter Solstice" sets itself up for a possible Twisted Winter Solstice, as Empath during his first visit to the Smurf Village is lost and injured somewhere in the Smurf Forest and is being taken care of by Wild Smurf, whom Empath first encounters but keeps his existence a secret for years, while the Smurfs search the forest for days in the hopes of finding him. Again, things work themselves out in the end and the trope is ultimately averted. Played straight in a mini-story where an elderly Tapper passes away around Christmas and the Smurfs have a memorial service for him. |
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Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake takes place on Christmas. This is the game where Snake has to kill his best friend and estranged father in utterly cruel and unusual ways (Throwing the former into a minefield after beating him with his bare fists and the latter by setting him on fire) and ends up becoming a PTSD-ridden, alcoholic mess isolated in Alaska for six years before Metal Gear Solid rolled around. | |
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Forever: The Christmas motif fills "Skinny Dipper" with caroles, decorations, cars bringing home a bundled up Christmas tree on the roof, ice skaters, and more caroles. It also includes Henry trapped in the back of a taxi as it sinks into the river, desperately fighting to escape until he drowns; getting arrested; being framed for murder by his stalker; and a seriously Downer Ending where The Bad Guy Wins by tricking Henry into killing someone after avoiding doing so for 235 years, leading to a Heroic B So D as the stalker reveals himself to be someone Henry had liked and started to confide in. | |
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Parodied/subverted in one well-known short story. Superman chooses to spend that Christmas giving presents to poor children and helping out around the community. Batman catches him as he's leaving and tells him off, stating that Supes' time would be better spent making sure supervillains don't cause problems. Superman hesitantly agrees and heads back to the Fortress Of Solitude, only to decide to at least drop off the presents he already picked up. He opens the door to the family's house and finds Batman in Santa Claus garb, having lied to Superman in order to give out presents and take the credit for himself. Cue Superman decking Batman in front of a couple of terrified children. | |
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In Heavy Object, the first chapter of Volume 17 has the protagonists and their unit dressing up in Christmas-colored uniforms and head to the North Pole to rescue a boat of sick children! Along the way they need to kill a lot of enemy soldiers, "accidentally" kill some soldiers on their side, use Elise's increasingly stripped body as a distraction, and ultimately deal with the nobles using said sick children as mules for contraband. | |
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The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird's Christmas Episode features Draias and his minions holding the world for ransom by infecting millions with a disease. It actually seems like it might work for a while. Additionally, it also marks the point where Inspector Satsuda finds out the Amanos are working with Fighbird and co.. The show's final arc kicks off on the next episode. | |
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In Eleutherophobia: Ghost in the Shell, Tom recalls a Christmas Eve (which was also the first night of Hanukkah) when his Yeerk used his bare hands to snap a child's neck for singing "O Come Emmanuel". | |
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Veronica Mars" "An Echolls Family Christmas" has a light-hearted A-plot involving stolen poker winnings, but the B-plot sees Keith investigating death threats against Aaron Echolls. They turn out to be genuine, and he's stabbed by a spurned lover at his family's Christmas party - he survives, but the fallout and scandal breaks up his marriage and drives his wife Lynn to suicide two episodes later. Topped in season 2's Christmas episode, One Angry Veronica. The tape of Aaron having sex with Lilly is stolen from the Neptune sheriff's department and destroyed, which ends up helping him escape conviction later in the season. Leo is forced to resign (having revealed in the same episode that he's under severe financial strain looking after his disabled sister). And having survived the season-opening bus crash, Meg dies in hospital from a blood clot, leaving her newborn baby in the hands of her abusive, fanatical parents. |
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"Helliday," issue #29 of The Powerpuff Girls, depicts a Christmas-like holiday that Him is orchestrating. Buttercup is the only person not buying into it. | |
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The Hollijolli Village invasion in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time. The music is a twisted version of Christmas music to drive the point home. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Amends". Angel gets psychologically tortured by Satan into recognising his essentially evil nature and is prevented from suicide only by divine(?) intervention. | |
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Batman: Arkham Origins is set during Christmas in Batman's second year as a crimefighter. There are 8 assassins in town, he's dealing with 2 mob bosses, the hopelessly corrupt police force want him dead, the Mad Hatter makes his first appearance, Anarky wants to destroy the city, there are two prison riots, and the Joker is behind it all For the Evulz. This Christmas is downright brutal. | |
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In Angel Beats!, it was implied that Otonashi's sister died on Christmas Eve. | |
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The eleventh episode of the anime series of Devilman Lady takes place on Christmas and it is just as dark and bitter as the rest of the series. | |
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Nameless has every route's end take place on Christmas, in an amusement park. And in every route, either Eri or one of the dolls disappears at the blink of an eye. | |
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Amphibia's Christmas Episode "Froggy Little Christmas" features King Andrias hijacking a giant Santa parade float robot with nanobots and controlling it in an attempt to kill Anne. Fortunately, Anne and her team manage to defeat it. | |
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Doug's Christmas Story, where after accidentally biting Beebe Bluff and injuring her leg, Porkchop is sent to trial and is almost put to sleep. The Wham Episode of the series. | |
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Watchmen has the White Night, a Christmas Eve massacre in which members of the Seventh Kalvery snuck into the homes of various members of the Tulsa police and killed them on site (with Angela Abar being one of the only cops to survive the incident). The attack would eventually lead to police officers being forced to keep their occupations a secret and to wear masks when on duty. | |
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Averted on offbeat British soap Night and Day. Since the show progressed at a slower pace than real life and therefore hadn’t actually reached Christmas by real-time December 2001, it used the episodes that aired over that period to explore the events of the previous Christmas in Thornton Street, through the power of flashback. A refreshing change from the usual festive soap misery, which also provided an opportunity to bring more depth to many of the characters and storylines. | |
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: Played with. The Grinch, who hates Christmas, tries to make it a sad Christmas for the Whos below by stealing all their presents, decorations, and food. But the Whos, despite being robbed, are still happy because they can still sing and be together on Christmas. This causes the Grinch to understand the true meaning of Christmas and give everything back. | |
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Sword Art Online has the episode "Red-Nosed Reindeer", which culminates in Kirito breaking down over Sachi's pre-recorded message after having let Sachi and his other comrades die at the hands of high-level monsters. | |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Mortal Coil" (which in real life aired one week before Christmas), the crew is preparing to celebrate the Talaxian equivalent Prixin, when Neelix is killed in a shuttle accident. Seven of Nine revives him, but Neelix has no memory of experiencing the afterlife which all his life he has believed in, and later has a dream that says all his beliefs are a lie and there's no point in living. As Neelix is almost driven to suicide, Chakotay convinces him that the dream might have simply been Neelix's own fears being reflected back to him and it is not meant to be taken as the truth. | |
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The film Krampus is about an evil deity, torturing a family whose son loses his faith in the holiday. | |
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D'LIRIUM begins with little Ponies celebrating New Year's Eve.note The game developers are Ukrainian, where most of the traditions associated with Christmas were moved to New Year's Eve during the days of the Soviet Union However, When the Clock Strikes Twelve all the protagonist's friends are killed and gutted, and the festive mansion is transformed into an Eldritch Location crawling with demons. Only the occasional holiday tree and present box, or a series of lights hanging limply from the ceiling juxtaposed against bloody sigils and mutilated bodies remind the player of what the holiday they were supposed to be celebrating was before it all went to hell. To hammer the point home, if you get a game over, you get a shot of the corpse of the player character hung from holiday lights. | |
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Subverted in the Mog story "Mog's Christmas Calamity", where Mog accidentally causes a house fire around Christmas, but the neighbours pitch in to repair the damage. | |
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The How I Met Your Mother episode "Symphony of Illumination" features Robin having a pregnancy scare and then finding out that she is infertile while imagining how she might have, at some point in the future, told the story of how she met their father (whose heart in canon she had just broken). Possibly the single most depressing example in history that didn't involve someone dying (and also subtly subverts Away in a Manger.) | |
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Merlin (2008): While not technically a Christmas episode, the show's Grand Finale aired on Christmas Eve 2012. How did it end? Arthur dies in Merlin's arms after finally recognizing Merlin for all he did, leaving Gwen to rule Camelot alone and Merlin to await his destined return, up to the modern day. In addition, Gwaine dies after being tortured for information, and Morgana finally dies by Emrys/Merlin's hand, a fate she had tried to avoid. | |
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It takes "Haunted Smurfs" (a semi-dark 1980s cartoon show episode) and turns it into "A Haunted Christmas", with the Smurf Village tragedy of losing the storehouse to a fire happening sometime prior to Christmas, which makes things pretty dismal for Smurfette since this would be her first Christmas with the Smurfs. Fortunately, as the story unfolds, things turn out for the better and the trope is ultimately averted... although in the Framing Story's end Smurfette mysteriously disappears when the lights in the dining hall go out. | |
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The Christmas episodes of Frasier feature some of the most vicious fights in the entire series. | |
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Two years later we have the same thing, except replace Joker with Scarecrow and the Holiday Killer with the Hangman. And the energy Bruce devotes in trying to stop both in turn heavily strains his relationship with Selina Kyle when he winds up standing her up on Christmas Eve. | |
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8 Women: In which a family gathers for the Christmas festivities, but their patriarch dies and they have to figure out who did it instead. | |
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Babylon 5 ended up with this due to the gimmick of each season covering exactly one calendar year in show chronology, and its desire for big end-of-season cliffhangers. First season: The President of the Earth Alliance is assassinated by a fascist conspiracy, Mollari begins to seriously fall into evil, Delenn enters a cocoon, and Garibaldi is shot in the back by a treacherous underling. Second season: The Earth Alliance continues to descend into fascism and appeases the Centauri, Sheridan gets into trouble with the government by attacking a Centauri ship to defend a fugitive Narn one, the Centauri try to kill Sheridan, and the Vorlons and Shadows are outed in public. Third season: Sheridan launches a suicidal attack on the Shadow capital city, and Garibaldi is abducted by an unknown force. Fourth season: Nothing much happens, but if J. Michael Straczynski had got confirmation of a fifth season early enough that he didn't have to potentially wrap up the story, the season would have ended with a Christmas Episode consisting entirely of Sheridan being tortured and ending with it continuing indefinitely. |
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How to Survive Camping: The campgrounds are closed during winter, and for good reason, as ancient powers converge during that time. The creatures that appear during the season are even more threatening than usual, from a gigantic cat that will devour you if you haven't received new clothing, to a woman who will stuff your intestines with stones and straw for being "wicked" (which includes being messy around the house), to warriors in chainmail armor that will drag you to be drowned if you're not merry enough around Christmas. | |
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Friday Night Funkin' plays it for dark comedy: Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest battle the protagonist on the Mall Santa's throne while pointing a gun on him and the crowd only cares about the rap battle. The comedy becomes much darker when Monster takes over and makes a Christmas song about how he's going to cook the protagonist and his girlfriend for his holidays recipe. | |
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Christmas Blood: The movie is about a Serial Killer who dresses up as Santa Claus and murders people around Norway every Christmas Eve. After spending five years in jail, the killer busts out of prison and makes his way to a house where a bunch of young people are partying to hack them up. | |
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A lighthearted example happens in The Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack Skellington and the well-meaning citizens of Halloweentown volunteer their services at Christmastime, but since their idea of a fun holiday varies wildly from that of Santa and his helpers and they don't know what the holiday is actually about, the end result involves a skeletal impostor Santa, toys that frighten children, tentacled Christmas wreaths, and a giant, tree-eating snake, all of which ruin Christmas for everyone. It gets better once Santa is saved, but still. | |
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In the first part of the Alien Nackle 2-parter in Return of Ultraman, two of Hideki Goh's closest friends are murdered by Nackle Agents and Jack suffers a painful defeat at the hands of the main alien and his pet Kaiju Black King, before being dragged off by two Nackle ships for execution on the alien planet. All of this happened on Christmas Eve. | |
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Nutcracker Massacre: The film is about a bunch of people celebrating Christmas together under one roof... while a six-foot tall nutcracker kills them one by one. | |
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In Psycho-Pass, Makishima Shougo murders Akane's friend Yuki on December 24, 2112. | |
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Downton Abbey's series 3 Christmas special ended with Matthew Crawley being killed off in a car accident, just after Mary had given birth to his son. | |
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"Circle of Steel" by Gordon Lightfoot is about an unfit mother getting drunk while waiting for CPS to come take her child, contrasted with the cheerful Christmas imagery outside her dirty tenement. | |
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The Cold Case episode Sabotage opens around Christmas and depicts a department store being bombed as Wham!'s "Last Christmas" plays. | |
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