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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"Because this is what you think of when you think of Christmas, right? People beating the shit out of each other!"''|''[[
▲{{quote|''"Because this is what you think of when you think of Christmas, right? People beating the shit out of each other!"''|''[[The Nostalgia Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]]'' reviews ''[[Die Hard (Film)|Die Hard]]''}}
A work/episode/story takes place [[Christmas Episode|during Christmas-time]], and it's action-packed. "Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards man" kind of gets left by the wayside when some people just want some good, old fashioned [[Fight Scene|fights]] and [[Stuff Blowing Up|explosions]]. [[Wild Mass Guessing|Maybe they're finding a way to channel their aggression from shopping?]]
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Compare [[Saving Christmas]], [[Soapland Christmas]] (especially if it has a [[Downer Ending]]).
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]!'', the fifth book is [[Die Hard
* ''[[Gundam Wing]]''{{'}}s final [[Story Arc]] took place in December, with the final battle coming on Christmas Eve; the OAV (and [[The Movie]]) ''Endless Waltz'', which takes place a year later, labels the events of the series "the Eve Wars".
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', the Battle for Solomon takes place on December
** The final battle of [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in
* The final battle of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* In ''[[Sky Girls]]'', the crew of the [[Cool Ship|Koryu]] has to scramble the [[Mini-Mecha|Sonic Diver]] team when a target approaches on Christmas Eve.
* ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'' episode "The Cheese Who Stole Christmas".
* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', the battle against Freeza on Christmas. Unlike other examples, this one is likely a mere coincidence, as this isn't pointed out in-series, but it's [[All There in the Manual]].
** In GT, the final battle against Baby is on the day before Christmas too.
* The ''[[Karas]]'' OVAs take place entirely around Christmas-time, {{spoiler|when much of the city's population gets eaten/drained of all their blood by evil robotic demons, which also destroy most of the city.}} [[Sarcasm Mode|And it was the best Christmas ever.]]
** Not [[Sarcasm Mode]] [[Refuge in Cool|for]] [[HSQ|the]] [[Crazy Awesome|viewer]].
* ''Macross'' had Giant Alien Terrorist Santa activating bombs after a raid on Christmas Eve. Followed by the survivors singing Silent Night.
* Although it's not heavily focused on, the climatic final battle in the manga version ''[[Chrono Crusade]]'' takes place from Christmas Eve to the dawn of Christmas. At one point, Chrono mentions to Rosette that it means they'll have something new to celebrate every year if they're victorious.
* In [[Heartcatch Precure]] Episode 44 has the cures battling a giant snowman [[Monster of the Week]] on Christmas Eve,
* The anime of ''[[Asobi
* 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]] ==
* In the ''[[Justice League of America]]'' comic book series there was a story in the 70s called "2000 Light Years to Christmas!" In it, the League must recover three powerful objects that some aliens have lost on Earth; one of them falls in the hands of a little girl who lost her family in a Middle Eastern war, and uses it for revenge against the invaders. While there is plenty of action, in the end the girl is convinced to surrender the object peacefully by [[Red Tornado]]. It is later revealed that the objects were actually intended as gifts... for a messiah being born in another world! Oh, and Tornado, who is android, [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|adopts the little girl as his daughter]].
* [[Marvel Comics]] occassionally publishes [[Christmas Special
* The Silent Night chapter of ''[[Sin City]]''
* ''[[Lobo]]'s Paramilitary Christmas Special''
== [[Film]] ==
* The first two ''[[
* The first ''[[
* ''[[
* Spoofed at the beginning of ''[[Scrooged]]'', with a fake trailer for ''The Night The Reindeer Died''.
* ''[[Enemy of the State]].''
* ''[[
* [[Chuck Norris]]'s classic ''Invasion USA'' takes place at Christmastime. There's a shootout/truck chase inside a mall full of holiday shoppers.
* Events in ''[[Maniac Cop 2]]'' take place during Christmas.
* In ''[[Ernest Saves Christmas]]'', the guy who's slated to replace Santa Claus has an acting gig for a [[Show Within a Show]] movie called ''Christmas Slay'', which appears to be this kind of
* ''[[Santa
* The Stallone movie ''[[
* ''[[Behind Enemy Lines]]'': Burnett's troubles begin when Admiral Reigart puts him on a reconaissance mission, forcing him to miss the Christmas celebration on the ship.
* All three ''[[Home Alone]]'' movies. Kid defeats gang of thieves by turning his house into a [[Death Course]]. In the first two movies, it helped set the scene for the conflict between Kevin and his family. In the third... it was just because.
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== Literature ==
* 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 [[
* ''[[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.
== [[Live
* Unlike ''[[Power Rangers]]'',
** ''[[Engine Sentai
▲* Unlike [[Power Rangers]] The series where it get's it's footage [[Super Sentai]] plays with this quite often.
▲** [[Engine Sentai Goonger]] sees the heroes team up with Santa using his magic sack to fight one of the main generals of the Gaiark
** Power Rangers did have the season 3 episode "I'm Dreaming of a White Ranger". However, we haven't seen a [[Christmas Episode]] in a ''long'' time because the seasons begin in February and end in November.
* Every time the new series of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has a Christmas Episode, something disastrous happens. Aliens invade (the Sycorax), giant spaceships threaten to crash and destroy the Earth, weird robot Santas go around murdering people, and more alien invasions in the form of the Racnoss and her children. In fact, Christmas episodes are ''extra-long'' and twice as epic as normal episodes, second only to season finales in terms of how they'll go all-out.
** Lampshaded in "Voyage of the Damned" - The Doctor and Astrid land on Earth at Christmas time and find the city deserted. Just when you think ''that's'' the mystery of the episode, [[Bernard Cribbins]] tells him the reason that the city is empty is that everyone has evacuated the city thinking that something awful is going to happen. (They're right.)
*** Lampshaded again later on in the same episode:
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* A Very ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' Christmas.
* Both ''[[
* The ''[[
** Riff by Tom Servo: "Big John Call ''IS'' Santa Claus in "O Little Town of ''DEATH''lehem!"
* ''[[Chuck]] versus Santa Claus''.
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== Music ==
*
* [[wikipedia:Yogi Yorgesson|Yogi Yorgesson]] "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4uW2PT-190 I Yust Go Nuts At Christmas]":
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And over the racket Gabriel Heater is saying
"Peace on earth everybody and good will toward men"
And yust at that moment someone slugs Uncle Ben. }}
* "Santa's Gonna Kick Your Ass" by [[The Arrogant Worms]]
* On Mp3.com, a comedy team called ''Prime Example'' did a spoof advertisement for the ultimate Christmas TV special "Violent Night" in which Santa Claus, Rudolph, Frosty, Charlie Brown, and the Little Drummer Boy team up to save Christmas from a war on Christmas by the Grinch, Ebeneezer Scrooge, the Abominable Snowman, and Satan. Arnold Schwartzenegger plays a Terminator-esque Santa Claus with an assault rifle, and Clint Eastwood plays a Dirty Harry-esque Ebeneezer Scrooge with a shotgun... coming up next on Fox!
* ''[[Gothic Christmas]]'' by [[Within Temptation]] is a joke over-the top variety.
{{quote|Rudolph, he will change his name
'Cause rudolph just sounds pretty lame.
Now we'll call him Ragnagord, the evil reindeer overlord. }}
== Radio/Audio Drama==
* The Charles Russell era [[Christmas Episode]] of ''[[Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar]]'' titled "How I Played Santa Claus and Almost Got Left Holding the Bag" has Johnny pursue a criminal (who's a thief and a murderer) at a store during Christmas, and end up in a long protracted fight scene with the criminal.
** The Bob Bailey era serial, ''The Nick Shurn Matter'', has, in the fourth part, Johnny Dollar engage in a brief shootout in a blizzard against Nick Shurn's henchman Benny Stark, in order to save the life of a witness to one of Nick Shurn's crimes.
== Religion and Mythology ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]], in ''[[
** And Tsion Ben-Judah gets to witness it in the [[Left Behind]] book ''The Indwelling''.
** Even older than that, although not by much: the original birth of Christ in the Gospels took place against a backdrop of Roman occupation, mass infanticide, parents fleeing the country to save their baby...
== Tabletop Gaming ==
* ''Santa's Soldiers'' from Deep 7 Games. It's a parody of the Rankin-Bass Christmas specials where you are playing a paramilitary strike team of cute Christmas elves.
== Video Games ==
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* ''[[Parasite Eve]]'' begins on Christmas Eve, though the game itself takes place over the course of five days.
* ''[[Death Smiles]] II'' and its console version ''IIX'' are [[Danmaku]] shooters themed around and set during Christmas. If they don't count, nothing does.
* The first [[Ryu ga Gotoku|Yakuza]] game takes place around Christmas. This results in just the occasional [[Sexy Santa Dress]] around the red light district.
* The bombing of Valais Airbase and the subsequent Operation Valkyrie in ''[[Ace Combat Zero]]'' take place on December 25, 1995.
* ''[[
* ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'' loves this one, as they have the ''[[Gundam Wing]]: Endless Waltz'' finale set on a year's Christmas day, and the ''[[Full Metal Panic!]] The Second Raid'' finale on the next year's Christmas Eve. They also have levels set on both New Year's Eves, too. And one in St. Valentine.
== [[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]] ==
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* ''[http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/santa-fu/ Santa-Fu]''
* ''[http://www.vendettachristmas.com/videos.html Vendetta: A Christmas Story]''
* The ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' authors really like this trope. "Christmas Elves" has Fey and Generator in a fight to the death inside a Syndicate hardsite. "Ayla and the Grinch" has Phase against a serial killer. "There's an Angel in Father John's Basement" has Seraphim, "Christmas Crisis" has Tennyo, "Have Yourself an Evil Little Christmas" has the Bad Seeds, "Summoning Sweeties" has Gateway and Bladedancer, "The Case of the Poisonous Patent" has Loophole and her friends, "Have Yourself a Monkey Little Christmas" has Chaka and Bladedancer, ... And all of these take place during the ''same'' Christmas break!
* In the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', the Denver Defenders once defended the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of Christmas, in the form of Santa Claus, from a group of rampaging nihilistic teenaged supervillains known as the Young Gods.
* ''The Christmas Tree Of Might'', the 2010 Christmas special for ''[[
** Played with in ''Lord Slug Abridged''. It's not Christmas, but Goku thinks it is because of all the snow.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[South Park]]'' parodied this with "Red Sleigh Down".
* ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' spoofed this with them flipping through channels, including a show where [[
* [[Danny Phantom]] did a lot of fighting on Christmas... Although it ''was'' all in rhyme.
* ''[[
** The show typically has a rather surreal [[Christmas Episode]], but Season 5's "Rapture's Delight" takes the cake, with a bizarre crossover parody of ''[[Left Behind]]'' and homage to ''[[Mad Max]]'' and ''[[Escape
** In season 6, Steve accidentally killed Santa, so the family buried his body in the woods. Only, Santa [[Not Quite Dead|wasn't quite dead]], and using the [[We Can Rebuild Him|powers of science]] Santa was healed, only to swear revenge on the Smiths. This eventually lead to a bloody battle between the family and Santa and his army of elves. Although the battle was cut short because he had to leave at daybreak, he promised to return to kill them next year.
* Parodied on ''[[Family Guy]]'' with Kiss Save Santa, because everyone knows "Pterodactyls hate nothing more than the screech on an electric guitar."
* The ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' [[Christmas Episode]], "It's a Wonderful Leaf". Sure enough, it ''is'' aggression from Christmas shopping that drives Bushroot to be [[The Grinch]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Kim Possible]]:'' In "A Very Possible Christmas", Ron goes off on his own to stop Dr. Drakken so [[Saving Christmas|Kim can spend the holiday with her family]]. It doesn't go too well, but [[Status Quo Is God|everything works out in the end]].
* ''[[Batman: The
** "And now, the Christmas Special nobody wants to see, but ''everyone'' will watch. It's Christmas with the Joker!"
** There's also the second Christmas special, with three stories set over the Christmas to New Year period. The first story has [[Harley Quinn]] and Poison Ivy kidnap Bruce Wayne, the second has [[Batgirl]], Harvey Bullock and Renee Montoya fighting Clayface in a shopping mall on Christmas Eve, and the third has [[Batman]] and Robin stopping [[The Joker]] from murdering thousands of people at the New Year countdown in Gotham Square.
* There's the ''[[Justice League]]'' Christmas special where Green Lantern and Hawkgirl spend their holiday in an alien bar, asskicking.
* ''[[
* In addition to the ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' examples above, ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' once did a Christmas sketch in which Goku and Gohan go to the North Pole to fight a half-Santa, half-snowman monster. Eventually Mrs. Clause morphs into what Tetsuo becomes at the end of ''[[
* ''[[
* One ''[[Codename
* ''[[
* ''[[
** Not to mention the finale of broadcast season seven The Futurama Holiday Spetactular that has not only a Chirstmas storyline but also action filled Robanukah and Kwanzaa.
* [[Regular Show]]'s [[Regular Show/Recap/S4/E11 The Christmas Special|Christmas Special]]. The action doesn't only consist of combat (such as chase scenes).
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[George Washington]] crossing the Delaware.{{context}}
* The
* 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]]
** 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
* Hanukkah
* 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 500 Canadian lives (the German casualties were never counted) to take the town from the Fascists.
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