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[[File:santa_878santa 878.png|framethumb|400px|The results of [[Blatant Lies|a steady diet of milk and cookies]]. (Art by Matataku.)]]

Action Santa is a common variation: he's [[Obfuscating Stupidity|merely playing]] [[Nice Guy]] for the sake of the kids, but [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|when it's time to fight, boy, does he know how!]] Action Santa usually reveals that his bag of toys holds whatever weapon he needs, his sled comes equipped with <s> heat</s> naughty-seeking missiles, and he himself is a [[Genius Bruiser]] underneath the red coat.

A [[SubUsually Trope]]happens ofin [[An Asskicking Christmas]]. By necessity, comes with [[Badass Beard]] and [[Badass Grandpa]], as well as [[Acrofatic]] if he pulls any kung fu stunts.

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* In ''[[Haruhi-chan]]'', we find that the eponymous character's mental image of Santa is of a secret clan of ninja who have near perfect stealth and are trying to shut down the SOS Brigade. That's not a good thing, considering {{spoiler|she's a reality warpingwarper, godand the day she mentions this, one of aher classmates fairlydresses [[Eldritchup Abomination|Lovecraftianas bent]]Santa}}.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150101024504/http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=29%3Aconfounding-comic-covers-index&id=1194%3Asanta-is-qtotally-extreme-d00d&option=com_content&Itemid=24 This. Santa the Barbarian.]

** Also [https://web.archive.org/web/20150101024428/http://superdickery.com/index.php?view=article&catid=29%3Aconfounding-comic-covers-index&id=1191%3Asanta-vs-hulk&option=com_content&Itemid=24 this.] The story features {{spoiler|the supervillain Rhino dressing up as Santa, implying a [[Bad Santa]] scenerio but as it turns out, Rhino was volunteering to hand out toys to kids.}}

{{quote| "He's made it past our atmospheric defenses! He's here..."<br />

"On the planet's surface?"<br />

* ''Lobo's Paramilitary Christmas Special'' featured [[Lobo]] being hired by the Easter Bunny to whack Santa Claus, and a [[Badass Santa]] getting into a machete fight with the alien bounty hunter.

* ''[[Howard the Duck (Comic Bookcomics)|Howard the Duck]] Holiday Special'' evoked high-tech combat elves with Santa as his leader, after a little talk with Howard first.

* ''[[Last Christmas]]'' featured Santa Claus in a post apocalyptic world fighting zombies.

== [[Fan FictionFilm]] ==

* ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]'', despite the title, is NOT''not'' an example of this trope. Santa Claus merely gets kidnapped by Martians, and teaches the kidnappers how not to be emotionless [[Straw Vulcan|Straw Vulcans]]s. That said, Houdini would be proud of how easily Santa shrugs off, laughs at, and escapes deadly peril in this movie.

* In the [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] Mexican kids' movie ''[[Santa Claus (Filmfilm)|Santa Claus]]'', he defeats [[Satan]] with the help of his pal Merlin.

* In Disney's ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]]'', trilogy, an aspect of this happens in each of the three films. The first ''The Santa Clause'' has Tim Allen locked in a [[You Kill It, You Bought It]] scenario when he accidentally causes Santa to fall off the roof; he spends the night in orientation at the North Pole and the next 364 days trying his hardest to shrug it all off as one crazy dream, even in the face of his slow metamorphosis into Saint Nick (down to having "the list" delivered to his house via ''several'' trucks). In the end, having accepted his role as Santa Claus, he's mistakenly arrested as a kidnapper, which is where the movie hews closest to this trope as a squad of high-tech combat elves is sent in to break him out; in the end, everyone's faith in Christmas (and his hold on sanity) is restored, and everybody lives Happily Ever After until the sequel, where the new Santa discovers he has to go back to civilization and get himself a Mrs. Claus. He puts a toy double of himself in charge while he's gone [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot|which promptly goes mad with power]]; the finale, true to the trope, has Santa having to deal with [[Bad Santa|his evil robot duplicate]] in order to [[Saving Christmas|save Christmas]]. The third has it the least, but when Jack Frost and Santa go back in time twice, the second time has Santa beating down Jack Frost with a shovel to prevent a change to the space/time continuum. Unknown if that actually counts though, as in that scene Scott isn't really Santa. Unfortunately Jack Frost isn't defeated this way, and instead gets his due with a...[[Weaksauce Weakness|hug]].

* In ''The Night The Reindeer Died'', one of the Films Within A Film in ''[[Scrooged]]'', there's a short version of this. Terrorists attack the workshop at the North Pole, and the Clauses and the elves apparently have well-established emergency procedures and lots of guns. They also have Lee Majors on their side.

* ''[[Santa Withwith Muscles]]'' features [[Hulk Hogan]] as a man who, after getting amnesia, thinks he is Santa Claus and then proceeds to beat up bad guys in order to save an orphanage.

* Despite being the namer for [[Bad Santa|another trope]], [[Billy Bob Thornton]]'s character in ''[[Bad Santa (Filmfilm)|Bad Santa]]'' ends up being more [[Badass Santa]], at one point teaching Thurman to stand up for himself.

* ''[[Santa Vs The Snowman]]''. [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]].

* ''[[Arthur Christmas (Animation)|Arthur Christmas]]'' has Steve, Santa's eldest son, controlling the massive Christmas operation involving thousands of elves aboard a giant spaceship-like sleigh while walking around wearing military fatigues and sipping coffee. No matter the snag, he calmly guides the elves through the task of delivering presents without anyone knowing. The start of the film makes it seem like Santa himself is one, wearing something that is more akin to a red uniform than Santa's clothes with a red beret appearing more like a general than Santa. Then it turns out he's just a figurehead with Steve running the entire operation. Also, unlike his family members who are either portly (Santa, Grandsanta, Mrs. Santa) or scrawny (Arthur), Steve is in excellent shape.

* In the upcoming2012 movie ''[[The Guardians of Childhood (Literature)|Rise of the Guardians]]'', Santa dual-wields sabres, apparently associates with yetis, has Naughty and Nice tattooed on his forearms and by his accent in the trailerappears isto probablybe a [[Husky Russkie]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok0M25mpJl8 Enjoy.]

{{quote| '''Santa:''' Buckle up!<br />

'''Easter Bunny:''' Where are the bloody seatbelts?<br />

* [[JRRJ. TolkienR. (Creator)R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]]'s ''[[The Father Christmas Letters]]'' (originally written to his children) depict a version who leads armies of Elves to war against Goblins at the North Pole. Also a case of [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]], as Tolkien depicts him as being literally as old as Christmas itself (about 1,930, at the time).

* ''[[The Guardians of Childhood (Literature)|The Guardians of Childhood]]'' has North, a swordsman and outlaw who becomes one of the early members of the titular group when he has his first encounter with the Nightmare King Pitch.

* In the ''[[Santa Claus (Filmfilm)|Santa Claus]]'' episode of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', Santa shows up in Deep 13 and challenges Pitch to a fistfight. Notably, he also invokes [[Chew Bubblegum]] when he shouts "I'm here to eat candy canes and kick ass, and I'm all outta candy canes!"

** In the [[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]] episode featuring the above-mentioned ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]'', Joel and the bots make several jokes implying that Santa fought in the war in Vietnam, and may in fact be concealing weapons during his stay on Mars.

* The ''[[Good Eats]]'' cookie recipes episode had one that could qualify. He wears a bandanna under the cap and manipulates the the time stream and the episode begins with him saying in a bad ass manner, "Here's Santa." On a cooking show! But this is the same cooking show that had both [[The Igor|an Igor]] and the lady of the refrigerator.

* [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] made a song called "The Night Santa Went Crazy" you can find an animated version [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb-Mce9VpmY here.] It never really says why, but Santa destroys his factory and kills pretty much every reindeer, although in the end it repeats the phrase "Something must have snapped in his brain".

** It specifically says in the song "{{quote|All those toys, for some milk and cookies? Something finally must've snapped in his brain."}}

* The pill-popping, rent-a-cop fighting Mall Santa from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t2TzJOyops music video] for Skillex's ''"Ruffneck- Full Flex".''

* The Badass Santa theme song: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRW2poUfJ34 "I am Santa Claus"] by Bob Rivers.

* Inverted in the table-top game ''Santa's Soldiers''. Santa is quite formidable, but ''really'' naive. Therefore, it's your crew's job to protect the big guy from his many enemies, but also from realizing he has them. The paramilitary elves are headed by ''Mrs. Claus,'' whose stats make [[Chuck Norris]] look like a wimp.

** Also, there's one point where the Penguin Mafia takes over Crimbo (as Uncle Crimbo failed to pay them the money he owes them). At one point that year, you fight Don Crimbo, who now wears the magical Crimbo hat. It is impossible to beat him, no matter what level you are.

* [http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/santa-fu/ Santa-Fu]. [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|As the name suggests]], Santa knows kung-fu, enemies include gingerbread men, elves, and naughty children, and bosses include [[Jingle All the Way|Turbo Man]], Rudolph, and [[Kung Fu Jesus|Jesus himself]].

* ''[[Killing Floor (Video Game)|Killing Floor]]'' has Bill "Baddest Santa" Weeks.

{{quote| ''Bill Weeks didn't think he could stoop any lower than a part-time job as the Mall Santa. But the little girl weeing on him screaming "He's the Baddest Santa Evuh!", followed by being fired, took it down yet another notch, so Bill went down the pub to drown his sorrows. Coming out to the next morning he had no job, a filthy headache and a truly evil temper. And the world was full of monsters. Bill picked up a handy shottie and waded in. "I'll show you the Baddest Santa, you BEEEEEEEEP"''}}

* In a ''Team Fortress 2'' update's backstory, they explain the origin of Australian Christmas being started by Nicholas "Old Nick" Crowder. He was sailing to Australia, got disgusted at the sight of it, and sailed away on a personal mission to conquer the South Pole instead. Every December he comes to Australia to judge if children have been naughty or nice. The nice ones get the greatest gift of all: not being kidnapped and enslaved by Old Nick and being forced to build hats for him. He sells the duplicate hats online "practically giving them away."

* ''[[Hyper Princess Pitch (Video Game)|Hyper Princess Pitch]]'' gives us Mecha-santa. On the harder difficulty setting his attacks become [[Bullet Hell]] level, of particular note is Death Metal Disaster Zone, anyone that can pull off an attack with such a name is automatically badass.

* ''[[Ghouls vs. Humans]]'' used to have Santa Claus as one of the classes for the human team. You have to admit, Santa vs. a cadre of giant floating carnivorous killer heads is quite badass. The class was removed for being [[The Scrappy]], however.

* The premise of the ''[[Doom]]'' [[Game Mod]] ''[http://doomworld.com/idgames/index.php?id=1173 XMAS DOOM]''. Santa takes on the role of a gun-toting demon slayer to fight back an invasion of [[The Legions of Hell]] on his workshop.

* There's [https://web.archive.org/web/20090410061039/http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/index.php?date=2008-12-03 this] strip of ''[[Full Frontal Nerdity]]''.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120213024358/http://www.pvponline.com/2007/12/10/kringus-risen-part-8/ This] arc of ''[[Pv PPvP (Webcomicwebcomic)|Pv PPvP]]''.

** Which is nothing compared to how badass he looks in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120213024443/http://www.pvponline.com/2009/12/16/pec-the-halls/ this later strip].

* The Santa v. Bun-Bun fights in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. Santa here is particularly powerful because he can use his ability to slow down time (in order to deliver all the presents in one night) to fight in [[Bullet Time]].

*** He was pretty [[Badass]] before he became an alien, though not as tough as [[Badass Grandma|Mrs. Claus]].

* [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20060212231114/http://killroyandtina.com/images/bhg20021225.jpg This] ''[[Killroy And Tina]]'' guest strip shows Santa as a [[Retired Monster|retired]] evil alien warlord who dosn't appreciate active evil alien warlords ruining his season.

* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20130518140020/http://www.beaverandsteve.com/index.php?comic=141 this] ''[[Beaver and Steve]]'' strip (plus the following one), Santa saves Steve from no other than Count [[Dracula]].

* ''[[Virtual Shackles (Webcomic)|Virtual Shackles]]'' plays with this, and makes the Skyrim version of [https://web.archive.org/web/20131116055110/http://www.virtualshackles.com/272 Santa] an ancient magician, capable of speaking Dragon tongue.

* [http://5secondfilms.com/watch/operation_mistletoe Can Santa] [http://5secondfilms.com/watch/operation_mistletoe_part_deux destroy the] [[Five 5-Second Films|sun?]]

* [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20190821192020/https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmvh7_superhero-santaman-extended-trailer_autoxmvh7 Santaman.] [http://gilmec.deviantart.com/art/SANTAMAN-Christmas-Movie-133362650 That is all.]

* One year on ''[[Fur Affinity]]'', the Christmas banner showed the site's mascot beating up Santa Claus. After many complaints, the following year's banner did not include Santa himself, but a group of angry, muscular reindeer. Guess there're more than one reasons no one should mess with Santa.

* Two words. [[That Guy With theThe Glasses|Santa. Christ.]]

* A series on Newgrounds is all about Zanta Claws, a fake zombie santaSanta who is eventually killed for good by the real Santa and some random guys.

* In an episode of ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'', Steve accidentally kills a mall Santa. In retaliation, Santa goes to kill the Smith family using a huge array of snowmen, elves and reindeer.

* In the Christmas episode of ''[[Earthworm Jim (Animationanimation)|Earthworm Jim]]'', after recovering from a mind-control chip implanted by Queen Pulsating Bloated Festering Sweaty Pus-filled Malformed Slug-for-a-Butt, Santa tears open his red suit and reveals that in his previous job he was [[Horny Vikings|"Woden, Norse god of judgment!"]] In the ensuing [[Battle Discretion Shot]], Jim remarks, "Yes, Virginia, there ''is'' a Santa Claus. ''And he kicks butt!''"

* ''[[Codename Kids Next Door (Animation)|Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' had a Santa Claus as a parody of Professor X from the X-Men who with his X-Men parody elves, helped defeat the Delightful Children from down the Lane.

** The episode references ''X2: X-Men United'' and the "Dark Phoenix Saga", with Numbah Three as Jean Grey. Mr. Warburten is known to be [[Author Appeal|a ''big'' X-Men fan.]]

* In the ''[[Rugrats]]'' Hanukkah special, there was mention of a Christmas movie called ''Santa Vs the Alien''.

* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' has an evil robotic bazooka-wielding Santa. Not nice, but definitely [[Badass]].

* ''[[My Life As a Teenage Robot (Animation)|My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'' "A Robot For All Seasons", Santa defends the North Pole using his skills as an ex-ninja, complete with cookie shuriken.

* An episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' featured a video game commercial around Christmas time: Two children are bored playing a bloodless knock-off of ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'', when Santa's sleigh (pulled by two snarling reindeer) bursts through their living room wall. Santa is bulging with muscles and is heavily armed. ''"YOU WANT EXCITEMENT?!?! STICK '''THIS''' UP YOUR STOCKING!!!"'' He fires a video game cartridge via RPG into their port. It is an incredibly bloody [[Beat 'Em Up]] and the children (and Bart) are instantly enthralled. He closes the commercial saying ''"TELL YOUR PARENTS TO BUY YOU '''BONESTORM''', OR GO TO HELL!!!"''

** 'James Bond-like'? It was straight from Casino Royale. (The newer one)

* St.[[w:Saint Nicholas|Saint Nicholas]], upon whom Santa is based, was actually fully capable of being badass. Examples include an incident of Nicholas whacking Arius at the Council of Nicaea, or when he raised three brutally murdered children from death, or when he rescued three men sentenced to death and scared the Prefect who had sentenced them into confessing to taking a bribe.

** A recent2004 examination of his relics disclosed a partially-healed fracture in his cheekbone, close to hisbroken nose; at some point, this guy took a roundhouse punch in the face, but given the evidence, no doubt he could give it back in spades.

*** He could also have received it while a prisoner of the Roman empire during the Diocletianic Persecution. Bishops were not treated very nicely.

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