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[[File:santa 878.png|frame|The results of [[Blatant Lies|a steady diet of milk and cookies]].]]
{{quote|''[[Saving Christmas|Christmas needs saving]]; who's up to the task?
''Why Santa, of course, No need to ask!'' }}
{{quote|''Well, kids, I hope you've been good this year, because it looks like Santa just took out the Pierson home! '''INCOMING!'''''|'''Scott Calvin''', ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]]''}}
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.
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.
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* ...And then there's the ''Ultimate Warrior Christmas Special''. It's ... '''really''' "special".
* [[Transformers|Optimus Prime]] has [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Christmasprime.jpg donned a Santa costume on occasion].
* ''[[Last Christmas]]'' featured Santa Claus in a post apocalyptic world fighting zombies.
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** [[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]]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 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 [[
** 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.
* 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.
** "This Jolly Old Elf is goin' out the front door!"
* ''[[Santa with 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 (film)|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 on the Tin]].
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* The Hogfather in ''[[Discworld]]'' is that world's equivalent of Santa Claus, and like our Santa is partly derived from old pagan gods...just a little more ''literally''. As they say, ''You'd better watch out...''
** And when [[Death]] fills in for the Hogfather, you know he's [[Badass]] then. And [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming.]]
* [[J. R. 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).
* In the [[All Myths Are True]] universe of ''[[The Dresden Files]],'' a lot of creatures not normally considered 'fairies' are part of the local version of [[The Fair Folk]]. When talking about trapping a fairy in a circle, Harry mentions in passing that while the method ''might'' work on anyone up to and including Santa Claus, nobody had ever ''dared'' try to trap one so powerful.
** Also one of the potential members of the Senior Council was Klaus the Toymaker
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* In the ''[[Santa Claus (film)|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 [[Mystery 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.
* Earlier episodes of ''[[Dai Sentai Goggle Five]]'' features a Santa who used to be a [[Heel]] wrestler, thus he is formidable on his own. Too bad this being an earlier [[Super Sentai]] series, he can only take down maybe two mooks before he is taken down by himself. But at least, he did participate in a [[Fastball Special]] attack with Goggle Black...
* In ''[[Ultraman]]'', Santa Claus was once revealed to be the Father of Ultra, who at the very least would count as a [[Retired Badass]]. Sure, it's not revealed whether or not he always does this, and in this instance he doesn't do anything amazing, but this is the guy that lead the Ultras to overthrow a monster army that once took over the Land of Light.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* 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.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Parodied in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''. Uncle Crimbo is a lazy-ass, alcoholic [[Bad Santa]] who is nonetheless great at making toys. His brother, Father Crimbo, was a [[Badass]] and made good toys, but {{spoiler|that's not such a good thing when robots have reanimated his corpse.}}
** 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 on 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]]'' 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 ''[[Secret of Mana]]'', Santa Claus is the true form of the boss Frost Gigas. See, Santa was frustrated by children no longer believing in the true meaning of Christmas, so he tried to create an amazing Christmas tree by planting the Mana Seed of Fire. This doesn't exactly work out, and the Seed's power turns the jolly old elf into an insane hulking giant with amazing snow and ice magic. Yes. This is a thing that actually happens.
* 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]]'' 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.
* While this could be a [[YMMV]], Any game with character customization in general, expect Jolly St. Nick to join in the [[World of Badass]], especially in [[WWE]] and [[Soul Calibur]].
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* [http://www.pvponline.com/2007/12/10/kringus-risen-part-8/ This] arc of ''[[PvP (webcomic)|Pv P]]''.
** Which is nothing compared to how badass he looks in [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's also an alien overlord, which does give him an edge.
*** He was pretty [[Badass]] before he became an alien, though not as tough as [[Badass Grandma|Mrs. Claus]].
* O in ''[[Commissioned]]'' believes Santa is actually the Jolly Red Roof-lurker, a violent supernatural psychopath that steals cookies.
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20060212231114/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.
* [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=231 This] ''[[VG Cats]]'' strip contains a bit different version...
** Isn't that closer to [[Bad Santa]]?
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [http://5secondfilms.com/watch/operation_mistletoe Can Santa] [http://5secondfilms.com/watch/operation_mistletoe_part_deux destroy the] [[5
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZdsifrMMTg&feature=relmfu Also] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-2U82a2Abk this.]
* [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmvh7_superhero-santaman-extended-trailer_auto Santaman.] [http://gilmec.deviantart.com/art/SANTAMAN-Christmas-Movie-133362650 That is all.]
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* ''[http://www.vendettachristmas.com/videos.html Vendetta: A Christmas Story]''
* Of course, the Finnish people know [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei69bYwwCvc where Father Christmases really come from] and also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkyqODDF-LUthat you really, really want to be nice around them.] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RQlikX4vvw And the prequel will hit the movies soon.])
* 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.]]
* A series on Newgrounds is all about Zanta Claws, a fake zombie santa who is eventually killed for good by the real Santa and some random guys.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* There is no Santa Claus who is more of a [[Badass]] than Santa from ''[[South Park]]''. He gets into a huge fight with Jesus in the South Park debut short "The Spirit of Christmas," goes totally Rambo in "Red Sleigh Down," brutally slaughters the demonic Woodland Critters with a shotgun in "Woodland Critter Christmas," and wields a huge axe against the forces of Evil Imagination in "Imaginationland."
* In an episode of ''[[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 (animation)|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!''"
* ''[[Mucha Lucha]]'' had a fight between Santa Claus and the evil Rudo Claus.
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* 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.
* In the ''[[Rugrats]]'' Hanukkah special, there was mention of a Christmas movie called ''Santa Vs the Alien''.
* ''[[Futurama]]'' has an evil robotic bazooka-wielding Santa. Not nice, but definitely [[Badass]].
** Heck one song they sing about him is called "Santa Claus Is Gunning You Down."
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** 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.
** '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.
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