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Line 31: * In [[Heartcatch Precure]] Episode 44 has the cures battling a giant snowman [[Monster of the Week]] on Christmas Eve, {{spoiler\|which would have defeated them if not for the return of [[Retired Badass\|Cure Flower]]}}. Even more? {{spoiler\|[[Big Bad]] Dune returns and promptly puts the Cures in a [[Curb Stomp Battle]]}}. * The anime of ''[[Asobi ni Iku yo!\|Asobi Ni Iku Yo]]'' has the last three episodes take place at Christmas. The Catian mothership is attacked and taken over by Dogisian forces, and its orbit is set to decay and crash into Earth, forcing the humans to blow the ship up if the main characters can't stop it in time. {{spoiler\|They do, and the Catians give humanity a 'Christmas gift' in the form of a space elevator that [[Awesome Yet Practical\|looks like a giant Christmas tree.]]}} * While [[War Is Hell\|hardly glorified]], ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket]]'' is set during the lead-up to Christmas and has plenty of action which often destroys season appropriate decorations and kills bystanders doing their shopping. {{spoiler\|The final battle takes place on Christmas, and involves a weaponized giant inflatable Santa.}} == [[Comic Books]] == Line 57 ⟶ 58: * In [[L. Frank Baum]]'s ''[[The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus]]'', Santa's toys are stolen by creatures who want kids to receive them through evil deeds rather than good. This pisses off the Great Ak and the forest immortals, Santa's chief supporters, and a war between mythical races ensues. * "Santa Claus vs. S.P.I.D.E.R." by [[Harlan Ellison]]. When he's not wearing the red suit, Kris looks and acts something like James Bond. And the red suit's got body armor, rockets in the boots to jump long distances, machine guns and high-pressure flamethrowers up the sleeves.... "Ho ho ho." * Zig-zagged in [[~~Discworld/Hogfather\|~~Hogfather]]. The driving plotline involves [[The Grim Reaper]] and his [[Badass]] granddaughter [[Saving Christmas]] - and apparently [[The Stars Are Going Out\|ensuring the Sun will continue to rise]] - after a [[Psychopathic Manchild]] assassinates the Disc equivalent of Santa on the orders of an [[Exclusively Evil\|Always Frighteningly Lawful Neutral]] [[Celestial Bureaucracy]]. It does, however, contain something of a [[True Meaning of Christmas]] message with the revelation of what would have happened ''instead'' of the Sun rising: {{spoiler\|"A mere ball of flaming gas would have illuminated the world." They haven't been saving the world, they've been saving people's ability to make heartwarming poetry out of an uncaring universe. You have to believe in the little lies - like the Hogfather - to continue believing in the big ones - like truth, justice and mercy.}} * ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'' has ''two'' episodes back-to-back. In the first, Minshus is born while Syuthan blows up [[Monster of the Week\|Ruktarusk]] in an [[Nuke'Em\|exceedingly glorious fashion]]. Then, [[Badass Santa\|Nicklo DiMyral]] rescues three maidens who were kidnapped by [[Hookers and Blow\|a pimp]]-by [[Qurac\|convincing a team of Arnabs on horseback to help out]]. * ''Legacies'' is a [[Repairman Jack]] novel set shortly before Christmas; one early incident features Jack dressing up as Santa to beat the living crap out of a scumbag who stole toys from a children's AIDS clinic. Line 116 ⟶ 117: == [[Web Comics]] == * ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' had some epic confrontations between Santa Clause and Bun-Bun, culminating in the Holiday Wars where Bun-Bun attempted to take over all of the holidays. This annual event has been quiet for several years now; [[It's Quiet... Too Quiet\|too quiet]]... * ''[[Far Out There]]'' has [https://web.archive.org/web/20170421101321/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1090288/bridget-and-alphonses-horrifying-christmas-page-1/ "Bridget and Alphonse's Horrifying Christmas"]. == [[Web Original]] == Line 152 ⟶ 153: == [[Real Life]] == * [[George Washington]] crossing the Delaware.{{context}} * The [[w:Battle of the Bulge\|Battle of the Bulge]].{{context}} * Awesomely defied by The [[wikipedia:Christmas truce\|Christmas truce]], a combination [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] during the first year of [[World War I]] wherein the soldiers on both sides got out of the trenches and voluntarily stopped the war without orders from command (and in some cases against orders), to have a real Christmas. They played football (European style) in the no-man's lands between the trenches. There are also stories of exchanging gifts (including German and Canadian soldiers near Vimy Ridge) and decorating trees. One group took advantage of this to capture a strategic point, to the shock of everyone. There's also a story of a group of American and German soldiers meeting in a forest on Christmas, both seeking shelter from a snowstorm, the elderly German woman who lives there doesn't allow them to fight in any way, and it ends with them singing Christmas carols together even though they don't understand each other's language. * Hanukkah, a minor Jewish holiday that happens to take place near Christmas, devoted to remembering [[wikipedia:Maccabees\|a ''major'' asskicking]]. * The [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/battle-of-ortona Battle of Ortona], one of the major events in the Italian Campaign of [[WWII]]. It took a month and over ~~2300~~500 Canadian lives (the German casualties were never counted) to take the town from the Fascists. {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Christmas Tropes]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Asskicking Christmas, An}} ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]