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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-Blooded Torture|torture]], [[Rape
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.
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== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Ef:
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Toradora
* Lost Christmas in [[Guilty Crown]]
* The dramatic climax of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Nanoha A's]]'' plays during Christmas Eve.
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== 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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* One ''[[MASH]]'' Christmas, BJ insisted on keeping a critically wounded soldier alive so the soldier's children wouldn't remember Christmas as "the day Daddy died." Despite their efforts he died with roughly 35 minutes left to go - so Hawkeye moved the hands of the clock and said, "Look at that, it's not Christmas anymore."
* 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
{{quote| On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me,<br />
Twelve beaten children,<br />
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* 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.
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== Video Games ==
* The fourth case of the first ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' game.
* The Hollijolli Village invasion in ''[[Mario and Luigi Partners In Time
== 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.
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