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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.
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Not to be confused with, but similar in style to, [[Kung Fu Jesus]]. When they team up... run.
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* ''[[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 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]]'', 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.
* 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.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* There's [http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/index.php?date=2008-12-03 this] strip of ''[[Full Frontal Nerdity]]''.
* [http://www.pvponline.com/2007/12/10/kringus-risen-part-8/ This] arc of ''[[
** 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]].
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