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Compare [[Real After All]], [[How Can Santa Deliver All Those Toys?]].
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== Anime & Manga ==
* Subverted in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', Nanoha tells Fate about Santa, hoping that she might believe in him for a little while, but is unsuccessful when [[Arbitrary Skepticism|Fate begins questioning certain aspects of the Santa fairytale, like how he can fly]]. Nanoha notes that few kids believe in Santa in their modern society, that Arisa and Suzuka never believed him, and that her older sister Miyuki believed in him until 4th grade.
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** A better example happens in an issue of ''[[DC Comics Presents]]'', where [[Superman]] tries to foil one of The Toyman's plots on Christmas Eve but temporarily loses the power of flight. He runs into Santa Claus at the North Pole, who gives him a ride and helps defeat the villain. In the end, it seems it was [[All Just a Dream]]... and then Superman finds his favorite childhood toy, ''that was destroyed when Krypton exploded!''
** this is all a moot point anyway, as Santa is a confirmed entity in the DC universe. [[Badass Santa|he fights his way into Apokolips every year to give Darkseid a chunk of coal]].
* And then there's the Marvel story ''Yes, Virginia, There Is A Santron'', where [[Gadgeteer Genius]] Virgie Hanlon, a young woman who never got over being told by classmates that Santa wasn't real when she was 8 decides to build a ''robot Santa''. Unfortunately, unknown to her, the parts she used belonged to [[
== Film ==
* ''[[Miracle on 34th Street]]'', based on the famous editorial. The kid in question doesn't believe because her mother thinks that it's not proper to believe in someone that she doesn't think exists.
* ''[[The Santa Clause (film series)|The Santa Clause]]'' has elements of this. Scott Calvin pretends to believe in Santa for Charlie's sake, but once Santa actually shows up, he desperately tries to find a more plausible explanation for what's going on, breaking the ruse. Later, Charlie's mother and step-father get to discover for themselves that Santa is real.
* In ''Santa's Slay'', [[Bad Santa|Santa]] says "yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" to a woman surprised by him breaking into the house.
* Interestingly enough, ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]'' averts this from the start - Santa's existence is a known fact, and the movie even opens with a reporter visiting the workshop and interviewing him. This isn't a good thing, because [[Aliens Steal Cable]]...
* Likewise, ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' also averts this by having Santa's existence be an known fact, even ''cancelling'' Christmas when Santa can't be found.
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* Parodied on the back of ''[[O Ye Jigs and Juleps]]''
* Subverted in ''Superfudge'', where Peter has never believed in Santa (he caught his parents stacking presents under the tree when he was three) and only humors Fudge under orders from their parents. Fudge goes into ecstasies over his new bike on Christmas morning, thanking Santa "wherever he is", but confides to Peter that he's never believed, either.
* The [[Little House on the Prairie|Ingalls family]] had to do a lot of explaining to their kids about whether Santa Claus was going to make it out to whatever new, barely-settled territory they were living in that year, and if so how, and how much to expect. In one book, when the upcoming Christmas is looking pretty sparse, Ma tells Laura and Mary that they should have realized by now that Santa can't be just one person who goes around to each individual
* Spoofed in ''[[Discworld|Hogfather]]'': '...''yes'', Twyla: there is a [[You Mean "Xmas"|Hogfather]].' Of course, the Hogfather ''does'' exist, and [[Magical Nanny|Susan]]'s preceding speech was about how people are credulous and childish anyway, so this is something of a subversion...
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* ''[[The Nanny]]'' did it in the Christmas episode at the hospital. I don't know which kid believed...
* ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'', covering a somehow uniquely depressing Christmas story, about a "Lapland forest" attraction for children that was so sordid and cheap and grimy that parents starting attacking the performers and demanding their money back.
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'''Paul Merton:''' Yeah. He won't be able to deliver any presents this year, because he's recovering in hospital...
'''Andy:''' He is okay, and he definitely exists, by the way.
'''Paul:''' Definitely exists.
'''Andy:''' Yeah.
'''[[David Mitchell]]:''' Otherwise, how could he have had the shit kicked out of him? }}
* ''[[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air]]''. Simultaneously inverted when it has to be explained to Will that [[Shaft]] was never a real person.
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== Magazines ==
* The famous newspaper response, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."
** It should be noted that that newspaper response did ''not'' verify Santa as a living, breathing creature with a red suit and reindeer that goes "Ho Ho Ho". [[From a Certain Point of View|Rather]], that his ''spirit'' of goodness and generosity embodies the people of Earth around Christmastime every year. [https://web.archive.org/web/20060522192927/http://www.newseum.org/yesvirginia/ Read for yourself.]
*** The article, a man telling a young girl, in the sweetest way, that there is indeed a Santa
** Spoofed in ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'': "Yes, Maya, there is a J. Crew!"
** Spoofed by alt.horror.cthulhu: "Yes Virginia, there is a [[H.P. Lovecraft|Great Cthulu]]!" ([http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/97/Jan/cthulhu.html link])
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Pogo (comic strip)|Pogo]]'' reverses this at one point. A bear is dressed as Santa Claus just as the cast start discovering that there's a Georgia in the (then) Soviet Union. Afraid that the Russians stole a state, the bear reveals he's from Virginia, leading to 'Yes, Santa Claus, there is a Virginia!'.
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* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' has this trope between Jack (who believes), and Maddie (who doesn't). Their bickering over Santa around Christmas, got to the stage where it actually made Danny ''hate'' Christmas.
* A segment of ''Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas.'' Naturally [[Classic Disney Shorts|Goofy]] is an adamant believer, while bully neighbor Pete not only denies the existence of Santa, but also installs doubt into Goofy's son [[Goof Troop|Max]]. In a reversal of the usual situation it's the child Max who gives up hope while Goofy the father continues to try and convince his son otherwise. Naturally, Santa is real, Max becomes a believer, Goofy proves that somehow he is always right in these situations, and Pete gets his.
* The obligatory Christmas episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]].'' Though Christmas is a fairly new holiday in Bikini Bottom, everyone is certain of Santa's existence, especially Spongebob...everyone except (you guessed it) Squidward. Santa of course turns out to be real...and he's scary cheerful.
* ''[[Class of 3000]]'' Kam argues that Santa simply cannot exsist, but it turns our he does! and gives Kam a lifetime membership to the Bigfoot Watchers Society.
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* In ''Santabear's High Flying Adventure,'' Santa sends Santabear to deliver presents to the South Pole, where people have trouble believing in Christmas, let alone Santa. Santabear's mission is slightly thwarted by Bully Bear, who wants revenge on Santa for an earlier slight, and plans to deliver broken presents to completely squash out any belief in Santa.
* This is Candace's plot point for all of 3 seconds in the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' [[Christmas Episode]] before the elves show up.
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== Real Life ==
* Some parents are so determined to instill belief in Santa Claus in their children and preserve that belief that they'll not only tell their children that he exists, but they'll do certain things to "prove" this to them. For example, they'll leave cookies for him and eat them, write a thank-you note supposedly from Santa, look at their childrens' letters to Santa and get the specific things on the list they asked for. And if their children show signs of wavering in this belief, they'll (in some cases) up the ante on this.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110222135423/http://www.noradsanta.org/ Norad tracks Santa.]
* St. Nicholas the Wonderworker was perfectly real.
* And let us not forget the [[Trope Namer]]
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