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Christmas being the biggest, celebration of love, family, and happiness, it can further increase a single character's personal misery if he experiences totally opposite emotions.
In extreme cases, this can mean [[Death Is Dramatic|death]], [[Cold
See also [[Snow Means Death]], a frequently used motif in such settings, [[Bad Santa]], a more humorous take on the concept, amd [[An Asskicking Christmas]]. The Christmas section of [[Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday]] has some of the most brutal examples. Contrast [[Merry Christmas in Gotham]]. Not to be confused with the same-titled series of Christmas [[Song Parody]] CDs by [[Bob Rivers]].
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* In ''[[Ef:
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Angel Beats
▲* In ''[[Ef a Fairy Tale of The Two]]'', first the earthquake on Christmas, that killed hundreds of people in the town, including the families of Yuu and Yuuko. Then, years later, {{spoiler|Yuuko got raped by her stepbrother on a christmas night for the first time. And ''then'', more years later, she died in a car crash on a third Christmas. }}
* In ''[[Toradora
▲* In ''[[Angel Beats (Anime)|Angel Beats]]!'' it was implied that [[Dead Little Sister|Otonashi's sister]] died on Christmas Eve.
▲* In ''[[Toradora (Light Novel)|Toradora]]'', {{spoiler|Taiga and Minori, both in love with Ryuuji, pushed him away from themselves wanting him to be happy with the other girl}} [[Soundtrack Dissonance|Cue to upbeat christmas song]].
* Lost Christmas in [[Guilty Crown]]
* The dramatic climax of ''[[
* [[Tiger and Bunny|Barnaby]] returns from a fun outing where he went ice-skating with {{spoiler|his family's trusted housekeeper}}, opens the door to the drawing room of their home...and happens upon the dead bodies of both his parents, a burning Christmas tree, ''and the murderer himself''. The house ends up a pile of smouldering rubble while Barnaby himself ends up with {{spoiler|his memories of the murderer's true identity [[Fake Memories|wiped from his mind,]] thus allowing the perpetrator to pose as his [[Parental Substitute]] and [[Mentor]] for the next 20 years}}.
== Film ==
* The movie ''[[
* ''[[Legion]]'' happens in the days before and after Christmas.
* The climax of ''[[Edward Scissorhands]]'' takes place on the night of a Christmas party.
* ''[[
* The first two ''[[
* ''[[
* ''[[Scrooged]]''.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[
* One ''[[
* On ''[[The West Wing]],'' Josh Lyman suffers a complete mental breakdown on Christmas, to the point that the constant cheery Christmas carols flooding the hallways of the White House trigger severe traumatic flashbacks to his recent shooting.
* The first ''[[Scrubs]]'' [[Christmas Episode]] starts off like this, but then goes [[Away in
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''Twelve beaten children,
''Eleven drive-by shootings,
''Ten frozen homeless,
''Nine amputations,
''Eight burn victims,
''Seven strangled shoppers,
''Six random knifings,
''Five suicides,
''Four beaten wives,
''Three ODs,
''Two shattered skulls,
''And a drunk who drove into a tree. }}
** Anyone working in a hospital emergency room will tell you that this is [[Truth in Television]], sadly.
* In the ''[[Star Trek
* An episode of ''[[Perfect Strangers]]'' had Mr. Gorpley being a royal [[Jerkass]] to everyone at Larry and Balki's Christmas party, until everyone (save the resident Mypiat that invited him) had enough and wanted him gone. This prompted Gorpley to snarkly (then emotionally) reveal that many of his personal tragedies happened at Christmas time.
* In a recent (December 2010) episode of ''[[NCIS]]: Los Angeles'', [[Stoic Woobie]] Kenzie reveals to a suspect, and her coworkers, that she was engaged to a man named Jack who suffered from severe post-traumatic stress disorder following a tour of duty in the Middle East. Though she tried her hardest to help him readjust to civilian life, she woke up on Christmas morning and found that he had left her in the night; six years later, she still has no idea where he is.
* The ''[[
* In ''[[
* The ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' episode "Symphony of Illumination" features {{spoiler|Robin having a pregnancy scare and then finding out that she is infertile, while imagining how she might have, at some point in the future, told the story of how she met their father (whose heart in canon she had just broken).}} Possibly the single most depressing example in history that didn't involve someone dying (and also subtly subverts {{spoiler|[[Away in
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* Billy Idol's song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5oX1O4u5Es "Yellin' at the Xmas Tree"]
* "Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" surely qualifies, since the lyrics specifically mention that this unfortunate incident happened on Christmas Eve.
* In 2006, [[Twisted Sister]] released an album called "A Twisted Christmas," which consisted entirely of traditional Christmas carols through the lens of [[
* This is the entire premise of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's third Christmas album, "The Lost Christmas Eve." The story of the album is about a man who has despised Christmas ever since his beloved wife [[Death
* The [[Trope Namer]] may be [[Bob Rivers]], a Seattle-based DJ who is famous for his black-humored Christmas parody albums named Twisted Christmas.
* The Arrogant Worms have an album called Christmas Turkey, which is loaded with similarly dark-humored mayhem.
== Video Games ==
* The fourth case of the first ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' game.
* The Hollijolli Village invasion in ''[[
== Web Original ==
* Her being both [[The Scrooge]] and [[The Grinch]], [[
== Western Animation ==
* The Christmas episode of ''[[Batman:
** ...though a later episode then [[Retcon|Ret Cons]] that to show that he perked up a moment later so that he could have a last happy family moment before his parents were murdered. [[Double Subverted|Wait, is that better?]]
* The legendary "Woodland Critter Christmas" episode of ''[[South Park]]''.
* In an ''[[
* ''[[Doug|Doug's Christmas Story]]'', where after accidentaly biting Beebe Bluff and injuring her leg, Porchop is sentanced to trial and is almost put to sleep. The [[Wham! Episode]] of the series.
== Real Life ==
* The Boxing Day Tsunami of 2004.
* The Cyclone Tracy hit the Australian city of Darwin around 10pm on Christmas Eve, 1974, and dissipated on Boxing Day.
* The storm Lothar that ravaged Europe on December
* [
* On a more personal scale, the Christmas period is well known as a period of peak demand for [[
* [[Truth in Television|It happens.]] It's not uncommon to hear stories about fires on Christmas (either due to putting old, possibly frayed, electric lights on a dead, dry tree, or the rise in deep-frying turkeys having bad consequences.) Barring that, holidays can be a ridiculously stressful time. Women have frequently gone into labor during Christmas (while not twisted, birth is a stressful thing even at the best of times) and there's probably been at least one heart attack on that day. Add to that the fact that, in a lot of areas, Christmas is a damp, snowy, or ''icy'' holiday, and accidents aren't uncommon as well.
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