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So it is not surprising, really, that there are so many instances in fiction where Santa is a [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Hero]], defending the Spirit of Christmas from [[The Grinch|Humbugs]]. This kind of Santa Claus doesn't really need help [[Saving Christmas]], though there may be trouble if an [[Evil Twin]] [[Bad Santa]] shows up.

 

 

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

 

Not to be confused with, but similar in style to, [[Kung Fu Jesus]]. When they team up... run.

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

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

* ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]'', despite the title, is 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]]. That said, Houdini would be proud of how easily Santa shrugs off, laughs at, and escapes deadly peril in this movie.

* In Disney's ''[[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 [[AI 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]].

** Scott's quote at the top of this page comes from the first movie, in a scene in which the corporation he works for tries to revamp the Santa image by putting him in a tank instead of a sleigh. Scott tweaks on them all and tells them that Santa isn't going anywhere without his sleigh.

* One of Nickelodeon's ''[[Oh Yeah Cartoons]]'' was Super Santa, which showed what Santa Claus does for the rest of the year: he fights crime with his Emma Peel-inspired wife.

* ''[[Robotboy]]'' features a Santa who seems pretty standard at first, but when the Christmas of ''one'' child is threatened, [[Let's Get Dangerous|he ties his hair in a ponytail, takes off his red suit to reveal a six-pack and a Rambo-esque outfit, switches to his rocket sled, and goes on a rampage with a variety of insanely destructive weapons.]]

** Bart then walks into the kitchen and does precisely that.

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' has the Full-Assed Christmas Special, opening with Santa going on a [[James Bond]]-like assassination against a particularly naughty child. The kid even plays the part of the big bad perfectly (periodically flashing back to Santa's fight with [[The Dragon]], his mom), right up to ''pulling a handgun from his bedside table'', only for Santa to have already unloaded it.