All The Tropes

The Grinch: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

The Grinch (view source)

Revision as of 04:06, 9 January 2014

7 bytes removed ,  10 years ago
m
Mass update links
VisualWikitext
(Import from TV Tropes TVT:Main.TheGrinch 2012-07-01, editor history TVTH:Main.TheGrinch, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported license)
 
m (Mass update links)
Line 1:
{{trope}}
[[File:Grinch.jpg|link=How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Animation)|right|[["The Villain Sucks" Song|You're a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce.]]]]
 
 
Line 19:
[[Real Life]] versions will often be fond of [[Anti Christmas Song|Anti Christmas Songs]].
 
{{examples|Examples}}
 
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
Line 47:
* [[Scrubs (TV)|I don't like bambastoodles, I loathe dinklewallows, I hate snagtomgoppers, I say, do you follow?]]
* Kazran Sardick from the [[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]] 2010 [[Christmas Episode]], "A Christmas Carol".
* Sue Sylvester, [[Whole -Plot Reference|quite literally]], in the ''[[Glee]]'' Christmas episode.
* The eponymous character of ''[[Monk (TV)|Monk]]'' hated the Christmas season, although he had a very sympathetic reason for doing so, as it was around that time of year that Trudy, his wife and pretty much the only person who ever had him see the positives of Christmas, was murdered via Car Bomb, and his early experiences with Christmas were admittedly quite horrible (for instance, in 1964, his mother fell ill, his dad was what he usually was, and Ambrose Monk locked himself in the basement for the whole Christmas season [Monk implies by saying "he was no fool" that Ambrose did this deliberately], and he himself received [[Convenience Store Gift Shopping|only one walkie talkie out of a set]], which his dad explained that he gave the gift to him because he only ever needed one because he didn't really have any friends).
* 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.
Line 60:
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Goblin Hollow]]'', [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| '''''Roz Poodle:''''' She wouldn't DARE ban my handcrafted singing Santa cookie jar!<br />
'''''Ben Bruin:''''' Are you kidding? She'd ban snow if it didn't fall fall out of the sky on a regular basis. }}
Line 77:
* The 90's cartoon ''[[X-Men (Animation)|X-Men]]'' had a [[Christmas Episode]] where [[Wolverine]] took on this role.
* 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 (Animation)|Super Mario World]]'' Christmas episode, he doesn't seem to hate the holiday as much (although he does rip off the [[Trope Namer]]).
* 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 (Animation)|Yogi's First Christmas]]''.
* [[Peanuts|Charlie Brown]]'s [[Sadist Teacher|teacher]] definitely qualifies for making him read ''[[War and Peace]]'' during Christmas vacation.
* [[The Simpsons (Animation)|Homer Simpson]] stole gifts in "'Tis the Fiftheenth Season" accompanied by a variation of the Grinch song. The twist is that Homer [[Well -Intentioned Extremist|believed he was doing a good thing]] by getting rid of excess materialism, which would allow people to have [[True Meaning of Christmas|a more emotionally meaningful holiday]]. Not surprisingly, it just pissed people off.
** 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.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/504214"