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* In ''[[Majokko Tsukune-chan]]'', Santa is first bombed, then sniped by Devil Santa, who wants to deliver the presents himself. Santa is then reincarnated as [[Humongous Mecha|Mecha Santa]], who proceeds to battle Devil Santa.
* In ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'', Hayate's work ethic is represented by an obnoxious, sarcastic Santa Claus.
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* The horror manga ''[[Presents]]'' portrays Santa Claus as being able to see how the future will be affected by giving what a child most wants on Christmas. The scenarios we see all involve the children growing up to be criminals, horribly negligent gold-diggers, or (in one case) {{spoiler|instigators for nuclear holocaust.}} Santa responds to these cases by gruesomely killing the then-totally innocent children with their own presents to prevent those futures from happening. Unlike some other examples here, this Santa is sometimes doubtful if he did the right thing. It does nothing to lessen the horror.
* In ''[[The Big O]]'' there is an episode with a crazed man in a Santa suit that unleashes a giant, evil Christmas tree on the city.
* In ''[[
* Dr. Hell becomes [[The Grinch]] in a Christmas-themed episode of ''[[Mazinger Z]]'', unleashing the [[Robeast]] Satan Claus P10, who resembled an evil Santa riding a jet-propelled sleigh, using a whip that fired missiles.
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* The first volume of Alan Moore's ''[[Top Ten]]'' features a "Santa" who turns out to be a delusional class two psychokinetic - kidnapped reindeer from the zoo and everything.
* A [http://joysweeper.livejournal.com/53460.html Christmas issue] of ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'' had a disturbed, possibly [[Mad Scientist]] with a childhood Christmas fixation attempting to create a robotic Santa Claus to make the myth into reality. But she used an Ultron robot as the basis, and as all [[Marvel Comics]] fans know, Ultron is one of those genocidal kill-all-humans robots. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
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* The ''[[Hitman (Comic Book)|Hitman]] Christmas Special'' involves the titular Hitman hunting down a radioactive murderer in a Santa suit on Christmas eve in Gotham, all with surreal narration meant to resemble "Twas the Night Before Christmas."
{{quote|'''Narrator''': 'Word', said his homie; 'I've got my nine. Now let's go bust a cap in that nuclear swine.'}}
* ''[http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=archive2004-12-24&query=barbarian Santa The Barbarian]''.{{Dead link}}
* In ''[[Hack Slash|Hack/Slash: Entry Wound]]'', one of the holiday-themed villains Cassie mentions she and Vlad had recently disposed of was "Rudolph" - a creepy-looking Santa-esque man with [[Black Eyes of Evil]].
* [[Marvel Comics|The Rhino]] once tried to go straight by taking a job as a department-store Santa, but one too many bratty kids sent him over the edge and he went on a rampage. It took the [[Incredible Hulk|Grey Hulk]] and one crying little girl to stop him.
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{{quote|'''Santa''': "Marry christmas everyone! '''Ho ho ho'''".}}
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* The ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'' fic ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120417144543/http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6594253/1/A_Certain_Crazy_Christmas_Special A Certain Crazy Christmas Special]'' by [
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* ''[[Bad Santa (film)|Bad Santa]]'' stars Billy Bob Thornton as a [[Child-Hater|child-hating]] [[Mall Santa]] who robs the stores afterwards. [[Heel Face Turn|He gets better though.]] [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|Somewhat.]]
* ''[[Jacob's Ladder]]'': A street Santa robs an injured Jacob Singer of his wallet. Jacob vows revenge.
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* ''Kazuo Umezu's Horror Theater: Present'' is a live-action Asian take on this concept, being neatly summed up by one review as "''Silent Night, Deadly Night''... [[Recycled in Space|IN JAPAN!]]".
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* ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (novel)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'': While not evil in the way of some of these examples, the Grinch started out as an ill-intentioned Santa-impersonator.
* Definitely not evil, but Death in the [[Discworld]] book ''[[
{{quote|'''Parent''': You can't give her that! It's not safe!
'''Death''': {{smallcaps|It's a sword. They're not ''meant'' to be safe.}}
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'''Death''': {{smallcaps|That will be an important lesson.}} }}
* The children's book ''Santa's Twin'' by [[Dean Koontz]] details the attempts of two girls to rescue Santa from his sadistic and mischievous twin brother Bob Claus and stop Bob's plot to ruin Christmas by handing out nasty presents. It was followed up by ''Robot Santa'', which has Bob trying to make up for the trouble he caused last Christmas by building a robotic Santa Claus... who, unfortunately, [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|quickly goes haywire]].
* While explaining the concept of summoning fairies and trapping them in magic circles in
** Subverted, when it's later revealed that while Santa Claus is another face of Odin, and while Odin can be
* The books ''Father Christmas'' and ''Father Christmas Takes a Holiday'' by [[Raymond Briggs]] has a
** Later made into a TV animation with the voice of [[Mel Smith]].
* In Orson Scott Card's [[Ender's Game|Enderverse]] novella ''War of Gifts'', a fundamentalist preacher gives a sermon denouncing the commercialization of Christmas in which he declares that "SANTA is really SATAN!"
* In F. Paul Wilson's [[Repairman Jack]] novel ''Legacies'', Jack dresses up as Santa and beats up a thief that stole toys from a children's hospital. He then tied the thief to the front of the truck containing the toys, put antlers on him, and drove him through traffic. After the police found the abandoned truck in front of the hospital with the thief still tied to it, the only thing the thief could tell them was "Santa did it!"
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* Not exactly bad, but in the [[Neil Gaiman]] (very) short story "Nicholas Was..." the titular character is an ancient man forced to perform his duties by strange dwarfish creatures from the Arctic who [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|will never let him die]].
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* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Anya mentions in passing that Santa Claus does exist - but that he's really a demon that disembowels children.
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' Christmas specials "The Christmas Invasion" and "The Runaway Bride" featured killer robot Santas.
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* ''[[Sisters]]'' had the kids interested in the ''Santacide'' movies, about people being killed by Santa.
* A sketch on ''[[Alexei Sayle's Stuff]]'' parodying historical documentaries such as ''The World At War'' has Santa as brutal Stalinist dictator, who has a network of spies and informants betraying their comrades to him ("He knows when
* The Santa-themed [[Serial Killer]] in the ''[[Tales from the Crypt]]'' episode, "And All Through the House", although in this case, whether he is truly the greater evil here is debatable, as his intended victim is a [[Black Widow]] who has just murdered her husband (after putting her daughter to bed no less) and prefers to take her chances with the killer rather than call the police and risk them discovering her crime.
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* [[Bob Rivers]]' "Santa Claus is Foolin' Around", a parody of "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" in which [[Your Cheating Heart|a jealous husband]] accuses Santa of a string of extramarital affairs with the local wives.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Discussed in one ''[[Peanuts]]'' strip, where Linus questions how Santa can fund himself; Lucy warns him not to dwell on it too much, claiming that "if the truth were brought out, you'd find that [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|he's being financed by some big eastern chain!]]" Charlie Brown, however, assures him the next day that such rumors come out every year and insists Santa is clean.
** This joke was later recycled for ''[[A Charlie Brown Christmas]]''; given the general theme about Christmas becoming commercialized, Lucy's assumption here may be justified.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Santa_Claws Santa Claws] in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' Card Game. Though he has a fiendish appearance, he has the [[Light Is Not Good|LIGHT attribute.]] Note the Scores of this monster, 1,200 ATK and 2,500 DEF. A reference to December 25th, the date of Christmas.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In one bonus mission from ''[[Hitman]]''. Agent 47 has to dress as Santa to get close to a mark. Even worse, he gets the Santa suit by mugging the ''real'' Santa. Yeah, he uses [[Mugged for Disguise|that method]] a lot to get a disguise, but still...
* Sumo Santa from ''[[Clay Fighter]]'' is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
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* ''[[Saints Row (series)|Saint's Row 4]]'' has Clawz, an evil doppelganger of Santa and a villain in a DLC.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Robot Santa from ''[[Futurama]]''. He had originally been programmed to act like the regular Santa, to keep a Naughty and Nice List, and give gifts to the latter. However, his standards were accidentally set ''way'' too high, and he became a murderous [[Knight Templar]] who emerged on X-Mas to hunt down those on his Naughty List (which was now almost everyone) with a small arsenal of munitions.
* ''[[The Late Show]]'' presents, "The Indict-Mare Before Christmas", where [[Donald Trump]] tries to usurp Santa. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O93omtrnFy0 watch it here.]
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Proving that reality can often be darker than fiction, [https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/12/27/father-who-worked-as-santa-at-walmart-arrested-after-bodies-of-2-children-found-buried-in-yard/23628105/ a Georgia man working as a Walmart Santa] was arrested in 2018 for the murder of his own daughters.
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{{quote|''You'd better watch out...''}}
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[[Category:Christmas Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Bad Santa]]
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