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''Did NOT!"''|''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (
There seems to be no shortage of things to like about Christmas: [[It Was a Gift|presents]], [[Thicker Than Water|family]], at the very least a little time off. Who could possibly hate this most hallowed of holidays?
▲{{quote|''"Every Who down in Who-ville<br />
▲Liked Christmas a lot,<br />
▲But the Grinch,<br />
▲Who lived just north of Who-ville,<br />
▲Did NOT!"''|''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Literature)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''}}
'''The Grinch''', that's who. He hates Christmas and he'll keep [[Kick the Dog|kicking (Christmas themed) dogs]] until everyone knows it. Most of the time when specials reveal [[Freudian Excuse|why they hate Christmas]], it's often something [[Disproportionate Retribution|petty]] like never gotten the gift they wanted, or something [[Dark and Troubled Past|downright tragic]].▼
▲There seems to be no shortage of things to like about Christmas: [[It Was a Gift|presents]], [[Thicker Than Water|family]], at the very least a little time off. Who could possibly hate this most hallowed of holidays?
Though occasionally [[Truth in Television]], Grinches are primarily found in [[Christmas Special
▲The Grinch, that's who. He hates Christmas and he'll keep [[Kick the Dog|kicking (Christmas themed) dogs]] until everyone knows it. Most of the time when specials reveal [[Freudian Excuse|why they hate Christmas]], it's often something [[Disproportionate Retribution|petty]] like never gotten the gift they wanted, or something [[Dark and Troubled Past|downright tragic]].
▲Though occasionally [[Truth in Television]], Grinches are primarily found in [[Christmas Special|Christmas Specials]], especially the innumerable [[Yet Another Christmas Carol|retellings]] of ''A Christmas Carol''. Regardless of his role as protagonist or antagonist, you can bet the Grinch will change his ways when the [[The Power of Friendship]] throws out [[An Aesop]] that teaches him [[True Meaning of Christmas|'the true spirit of Christmas']].
In a more general sense, the Grinch is any character who is utterly disgusted with something (or many things) that everyone else likes, and whose alienation drives him to be so completely unhappy that he finally decides to spread the misery around.
[[Real Life]] versions will often be fond of [[Anti
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In the anime-only Christmas episode of ''[[Mamotte Shugogetten]]'', Shao becomes an unintentional Grinch by locking Tasuke in his house and (violently) preventing anyone from coming in. {{spoiler|We eventually learn that one of Shao's former masters was killed on Christmas because she left their house and was attacked by hungry wolves, so she's afraid the same thing will happen to Tasuke and is trying to keep him safe.}}
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[The Joker]] takes on the role of the Grinch in ''[[The Long Halloween]]''; complete with his own version of the poem.
* [[Green Lantern
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* [[Horny Devils|Verosika Mayday]] (a character from ''[[Helluva Boss]]'') she [https://www.deviantart.com/bluesplendont/art/Verosika-prefers-Halloween-over-Christmas-935454992 hates Christmas, but ''loves'' Halloween], much like the artist claims she does.
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* [[The Scrooge|Ebenezer Scrooge]] in ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'' is the [[Trope Codifier]].
* The Grinch in ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (
* The White Witch from ''[[The Lion, the Witch
* A tie-in storybook based on the film ''[[Cars]]'' called "Mater Saves Christmas" has Chick Hicks play the Grinch character (he's even painted green!).
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The first Christmas special made by [[Jim Henson]], ''The Great Santa Claus Switch'', has Cosmo Scam, a sorcerer who kidnaps Santa to take his place and steal from every home around the world.
* [[Sesame Street
* [[Scrubs
* Kazran Sardick from the [[
* Sue Sylvester, [[Whole-Plot Reference|quite literally]], in the ''[[Glee]]'' Christmas episode.
* The eponymous character of ''[[
* Britta on ''[[Community]]'' makes a series of rather smug and snide dismissals of the trappings of the festive season, such as Christmas songs, see her come off as a bit of a killjoy. Curiously, in the Christmas episode in season 1 ("Comparative Religion") she came off as a lot more easy-going about it.
* A common characteristic of ''[[Power Rangers]]'' villains:
** In the original ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', Lord Zedd complains about Christmas every year, according to Rita, but one year he decides to invade Santa's workshop and impose his ideal Christmas on the world. The heroes naturally are in hot pursuit, despite Zordon's warning that the North Pole [[Eldritch Location|has a "unique polarity"]] that leaves them unable to morph. Fortunately, the bad guys have the same disadvantage, and are defeated via a snowball fight.
** King Mondo from ''[[Power Rangers Zeo]]'' is even worse. In the Christmas episode, he robs the presents from Angel Grove to please his [[Spoiled Brat]] of a son, and imposes a [[Hate Plague]] upon the heroes to make them argue.
** In ''[[Power Rangers Dino Charge]]'', Poisandra has a personal grudge against Santa, stealing his computer after being denied presents. Santa, it seems, keeps his "naughty/nice list" on it, and never made a backup, meaning he'd have to cancel Christmas if he can't get it back.
* Count Dregon, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Masked Rider]]''. One of his evil plans is an attempt to set an ambush for Santa Claus. He is confirmed as this Trope when the plan fails, when he says outright that he "hates Christmas".
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* In the ''[[Garfield]]'' strip [https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2020/12/13?ct=v&cti=1502255 seen here], Jon gets a Christmas card from the Homeowners' Association with a fine for $75 due to his ugly lawn Santa.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Guild Wars]]'' [[You Mean "Xmas"|Wintersday]] celebrations, Grenth and his followers work to spoil the holiday for everyone else. There are a pair of [[Shout
* "Operation Claws", a non-canon scenario for ''[[
* The [[Villain Protagonist|protagonists]] and supporting characters of ''[[
* In ''[[DC Universe Online]]'', Larfleeze stole a bunch of Christmas presents, which Hal Jordan tasks the players with recovering.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has two that are problems during Winter's Veil, Azeroth's equivalent of Christmas:
** The Abominable Greench not only steals presents during Winter's Veil, he kidnaps Metzen the Reindeer, and unlike the guy he's a parody of, is very, very dangerous. As in, he's a Raid Boss, and should not be confronted alone. However, actually fighting him is not required to complete the daily quest.
** Far more malicious is [[The Krampus| Grumpas]], who can only be fought by players who can access the Broken Isles. Legends state that he kidnaps naughty children and creates his minions using their tears. Of course, he's no legend, and makes his lair in the frozen wasteland of Frostfire Ridge, a dangerous arctic region with volcanic activity.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Goblin Hollow]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20100823084158/http://www.rhjunior.com/GH/00102.html as told by Ben Bruin's buddy Fred], about a Wiccan employee, who even used the [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] as leverage, to stop the store and the employees that work there from celebrating Christmas because it offended her.
{{quote|
'''''Ben Bruin:''''' Are you kidding? She'd ban snow if it didn't fall fall out of the sky on a regular basis. }}
* Third Character from [http://www.jaydenandcrusader.com Jayden and Crusader] hates Christmas. He starts off by attacking Christmas carollers and it only gets worse.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[True Capitalist
* [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Quillgin, the villain of ''[[Regular Show]]'''s [[Christmas Special]]'s goal is "to destroy christmas forever". However one could make the case he doesn't really care about Christmas itself and only wants to destroy it as a way of hurting Santa.
* ''[[
* Professor Hinkel, the magician who wants to steal his hat back from ''[[Frosty the Snowman]]''.
* The 90's cartoon ''[[X-Men (
* Bowser Koopa, [[Mario]]'s nemesis, is this kind of character in the ''[[Super Mario Bros Super Show]]'' [[Christmas Episode]]. He doesn't reform at the end, though oddly in the later ''[[Super Mario World (
* Dr. Doofenshmirtz in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]] Christmas Vacation'' is a subversion. He admits (via musical number) that he ''really doesn't hate Christmas''; despite having a [[Freudian Excuse]] for practically everything, Doofenshmirtz is at worst, apathetic about Christmas and in fact wishes he ''did'' have a good reason [[Card-Carrying Villain|to try and ruin Christmas.]] He only built a device to destroy it because he received the kit for it in the mail. {{spoiler|But by the end of the special he ''does'' come to hate Christmas, because of carolers pestering him for figgy pudding (which he was surprised to find he actually had) and Perry defeating him again... until he gets a gift from Santa Claus in the end. He's then seen celebrating Christmas again and exchanging gifts with Perry the Platypus.}}
* Bushroot in the ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' Christmas episode. His motivation for being a Grinch, though, is that he has great difficulty doing his Christmas shopping and swears to make everyone else feel his pain.
* Herman the Hermit and Snively in ''[[Yogi Bear
* [[Peanuts|Charlie Brown]]'s [[Sadist Teacher|teacher]] definitely qualifies for making him read ''[[War and Peace]]'' during Christmas vacation. This was actually an exaggerated version of a storyline that ran in the comic strip, where his teacher assigned ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' during Christmas break (not as long, but still way too advanced for grade school) and Charlie Brown didn't help matters by procrastinating.
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
**
** The Simpsons family also attempted to steal some Funzos before Christmas Day. Subverted in that they actually had a very ''good'' reason for doing so, as apparently the toy company that created Funzo also programmed it to destroy any and all toys that are not part of its own line, meaning allowing them to survive would have made Christmas worse.
** Mr. Burns in one episode was also stated to have stolen Christmas in 1986.
*** In one [[Distant Finale|future episode]], a character again alludes to Mr. Burns having stolen Christmas, this time apparently permanently.
** Another [[Distant Finale|future episode]] shows that Milhouse - married to Lisa - really doesn't like Christmas because he's allergic to mistletoe, holly, and the red part of candy canes. He encourages Lisa and their daughter to spend Christmas with her folks while he takes a trip to somewhere that doesn't celebrate it.
* Turns out ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' is a Grinch. Growing up with two erratic parents who spend their holidays too busy arguing about Santa's existence gave him a deep hatred of Christmas and probably the only child negligence story involving possessed turkey. He gets over, though.
* [[Shrek]] starts out as one of these in ''Shrek the Halls''.
* The Beast in ''[[Beauty and
* Princess Morbucks in ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[George Washington]]. What time did he choose to Cross the Delaware? Nice job ruining people's Christmas!
** This was largely for pragmatic reasons; at the time most American Protestants didn't really consider Christmas a festive holiday, while the Hessians did and thus spent the day enjoying themselves, thus letting their guard down.
* Admiral Yamamoto. Striking just at the beginning of the holiday season on Dec 7. Of course you know [[This Means War]].
* Some people, while not actually disliking Christmas itself, [[Hype Backlash|get irritated by the constant barrage of Christmas advertising]], and businesses shoving Christmas down your throat as early as possible, up to and including stores putting their Christmas decorations on display ''in the [
** Also, some Christmas songs are ''extremely'' annoying. Particularly bad offenders are "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer," and "12 Days of Christmas."
*** Even the Christmas songs that aren't on this level of annoyance tend to get old very quickly, as every year there are always about a million different remixes and covers of the same "classic" songs, and they get just as annoying. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is not a bad song, but when you've heard over 100 different versions of it, you quickly reach the conclusion that you never want to hear it again.
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** Historically this would include the Puritans, in both early America and Cromwellian England, who not only refused to celebrate Christmas but actually made it punishable by law to do so.
** In our own era, "secular-progressives" (ironically, in many ways the complete opposites of the Puritans) are often accused of trying to ruin Christmas, though their meddlings are usually limited to the promotion of more culturally neutral terms like "holidays" or "seasons," or trying to keep Christmas celebrations strictly private.
* One of many messages released on social media by [[Donald Trump]] on Christmas Day 2023:
{{quote|""Merry Christmas to all, including Crooked Joe Biden’s ONLY HOPE, Deranged Jack Smith, the out of control Lunatic who just hired outside attorneys, fresh from the SWAMP (unprecedented!), to help him with his poorly executed WITCH HUNT against 'TRUMP' and 'MAGA' Included also are World Leaders, both good and bad, but none of which are as evil and 'sick' as the THUGS we have inside our Country who, with their Open Borders, INFLATION, Afghanistan Surrender, Green New Scam, High Taxes, No Energy Independence, Woke Military, Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Iran, All Electric Car Lunacy, and so much more, are looking to destroy our once great USA. MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN, MERRY CHRISTMAS!"}}
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