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== Anime & Manga ==
* 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 ''[[Angel Beats!]]!'' it was implied that [[Dead Little Sister|Otonashi's sister]] died on Christmas Eve.
* In ''[[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]]
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has its yearly Christmas episodes, that occasionally are rather sad. Voyage of the Damned comes to mind most readily.
* 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 a Manger]]. Still worth mentioning just for the [[Anti-Christmas Song|song that plays]] as Turk's Christmas Spirit gradually gets worn away:
{{quote|On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me,
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* 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 by Childbirth|died in childbirth]] on Christmas Eve; he gave his mute son up for adoption and turned his back on the entire holiday. Naturally, events transpire to make him rethink his position.
* 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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== 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 26th, 1999.
* [[wikipedia:Ronald Simmons|Ronald Simmons]]'s killing spree, which lasted from December 22nd to the 28th.
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