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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5DKdOJmz0A Badass Santa]
* 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.
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12073135 Italian policeman uses a Santa disguise to catch a mafioso]
 
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