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{{quote|''[[Saving Christmas|Christmas needs saving]]; who's up to the task?

''Why Santa, of course, No need to ask!'' }}

 

 

If you stop and think about it, [[Santa Claus]] isn't that much different from [[Superman]]. Both have amazing powers that defy the laws of physics as we humans know them. Both can fly around the world with no problem. They both like the color red, they both have their headquarters hidden in the Arctic Circle, and [[Superman (film)|they]] [[Santa Claus the Movie|both]] starred in movies that involved producer Ilya Salkind.

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* In ''[[Justice League of America|JLA]]'', Plastic Man tells his kid a bedtime story where Santa Claus has heat vision for some reason.

* One ''DC Comics Holiday Special'' features a strip in which Santa Claus breaks through the formidable defences of the [[Polluted Wasteland]] Apokalips in order to deliver to its ruler, the evil god [[Darkseid]], a lump of coal for being naughty. It's implied he does this every year. And then he escapes to do it again next year. And what makes this especially badass is that the Santa who does this is just the traditionally jolly, friendly old man version.

** [[Complete Monster|Knowing Darkseid]], that coal was very well deserved.

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

 

* In the [[Spice Girls]] Fic, ''[[Astral Journey: It's Complicated]]'', He's called Nick but it's clearly a [[Badass Pacifist]] as he gives both [[Spice Girls| Emma and Melanie]] a prep talk.

 

== [[Film]] ==

** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|That totally, totally didn't work, Santa]].

* In the [[So Bad It's Good]] Mexican kids' movie ''[[Santa Claus (film)|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 [[A.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]].

* ''[[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.

* ''[[The French Connection]]'' features a brief scene in which the main character, Detective Popeye Doyle, is dressed as a mall santa while on the job.

{{quote|'''Santa:''' Buckle up!

'''Easter Bunny:''' Where are the bloody seatbelts?

'''Santa:''' Ha! That was just expression. }}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* ''[[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.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

* 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]]''.

** 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]].

* [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=231 This] ''[[VG Cats]]'' strip contains a bit different version...

** Isn't that closer to [[Bad Santa]]?

* ''[[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] [[5-Second Films|sun?]]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZdsifrMMTg&feature=relmfu Also] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-2U82a2Abk this.]

* [http://www.everydaynodaysoff.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/machine-gun-santa-m60.jpg This].

* ''[[Ask a Ninja]]'' had, as their first Christmas special, a telling of the story of "Red Death, the On Fire Paindeer". Part of the plot is that Santa, his elves, and his "Paindeer" are all ninja.

* 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 The Glasses|Santa. Christ.]]

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Mucha Lucha]]'' had a fight between Santa Claus and the evil Rudo Claus.

* ''[[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.

* Parodied in ''[[Pucca]]'', where Santa once was a badass ninja thief but then pulled a [[Heel Face Turn]] and became Santa... and the [[Butt Monkey]].

* ''[[Fairly Oddparents]]'' - Santa was like this at the end of Christmas Every Day and Have a Merry Wishmas. He was fighting the other holidays in CED and in Wishmas, he used it on Jorgen Von Strangle because Jorgen Von Strangle tried to replace Christmas with Wishmas. He was using Christmas magic.

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

* Santa Claus from "The Fight Before Christmas" ''[[Powerpuff Girls]]'' Christmas special. We might not see him fight any baddies, but the verbal beat down and [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]] he gave Princess was made of win.

 

== Other ==

== [[Real Life]] ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5DKdOJmz0A Badass Santa]

* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12073135 Italian policeman uses a Santa disguise to catch a mafioso]

 

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