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So you're checking your DVR for all those recorded reruns of this show; maybe there's a somewhat more humorous episode where the villains play poker, but you'd say this show's pretty dark, right? So what do they do when Christmas rolls around with all that holiday cheer? [[Executive Meddling|The Producers]], heck, maybe even the people who typically write the show don't want you to air yet ''another'' dark episode with a [[Downer Ending]], or even a [[Bittersweet Ending]], it's Christmas! And thus this trope happens.
[[Merry Christmas in Gotham]] is when the tone of a [[Darker and Edgier]] series becomes [[Lighter and Softer]], usually due to [[Executive Meddling]] resulting in a holiday episode. This can cause serious [[Mood Whiplash]]. The result is usually a strange Aesop-y episode in a series featuring at least some Gray morality of some sort. Whether or not this Mood Whiplash throws the episode into [[Narm]] territory is [[Your Mileage May Vary|your call]].
Note: This trope does not apply only to Christmas episodes, but holiday episodes of all sorts, but not any episodes that have nothing to do with holidays. That's just plain-jane Lighter and Softer taking effect.
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Ending Trope: [[You Have Been Warned|Spoilers Unmarked.]]
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* ''[[The Big O]]'''s Christmas special starts out grim as usual. We have a blind girl whose caretaker brother is a garbageman by day, and musician by night. They are starving, barely able to afford food at all. Then a mad scientist leaves a biological weapon in the boy's tip jar and it turns out the "weapon" is a massive self-growing Christmas tree made to teach people to love nature and each other. While the tree grows, everyone hears the boy's music and he is discovered. It's implied that they'll never need to worry about money ever again. D'awww.
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