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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The second ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' movie (''Manatsu no Eve'') depicts a Juraian holiday called "Startika" which bears a suspicious resemblance to Christmas, at least as it is celebrated by the Japanese. Somewhat subverted because actual Christmas is also celebrated in the same story.
** Startika is more their version of Summer Solstice, as it is celebrated in the middle of June, and has nothing to do with exchanging gifts, if I remember correctly from the second movie.{{verify}} The big celebration is that they eat 'shou-jen' (vegetarian) for the night
* ''[[The Big O]]'' episode "Daemonseed" introduced "Heaven's Day", and had the [[Humongous Mecha]] beaten by a mutant Christmas tree! Subverted at the very end of the episode, where Alex Rosewater remarks on how mutated Heaven's Day had become, and how nobody remembers that its origins were to celebrate the birth of God's Son—although Alex is ego maniacal to the point that he could be referring to [[A God Am I|himself]]. Another possibility is that this is to illustrate that Alex has recovered memories from before "40 years ago", which would logically include the significance of the holiday.
* Episode 7 of ''[[So Ra No Wo To]]'' features the ''Fiesta des Lumiéres'', which is pretty much a Japanese Obon festival [[Memetic Mutation|in a French-speaking Spanish town in Switzerland]].
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== [[Film]] ==
* [[The Film of the Book]] version of ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* Not quite [[Older Than Television]], but in 1954 [[C. S.
* Hogswatchnight, along with its patron spirit the Hogfather, from [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld]]'' books, though this is used more to examine and comment on Christmas and winter solstice holidays in general.
** The name is a combination of New Year's Eve being "Hogmanay" in Scotland and "Watch Night" in traditionalist Christian communities (and possibly also "hogwash"); it is also on the Discworld (at least around the Circle Sea) the culmination of the pig-slaughtering season.
** It has other equivalents, too; for instance, the Soul Cake Days are a mix of Halloween ("trickle-treating" is mentioned by a small girl in ''[[Reaper Man]]'') and Easter (there's a "Soul Cake Duck" who lays chocolate eggs).
* Winterfair on the planet Barrayar in [[Lois McMaster Bujold]]'s [[Vorkosigan Saga|Miles Vorkosigan]] books, which involves gift-giving and family get-togethers. The Barrayarans are non-theists (if a bit superstitious) and there's no spiritual aspect. The Emperor's birthday celebrations are at roughly the [[Thanksgiving Day]] time of year, also—at least for the current emperor.
** Complete with a [[Captain Ersatz]] [[Santa Claus]], Father Frost.
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* The [[Alternative Calendar]] in the appendices of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' shows that the hobbits also celebrate Yuletide, or at least that's how [[J. R. R. Tolkien|JRR Tolkien]] [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|chose to translate the name of their midwinter holiday]].
== [[Live
* ''[[The Star Wars Holiday Special]]'' is rather infamous for its "Life Day." Among other things. Yes, we went there.
* In the ''[[Seinfeld]]'' episode "The Strike" George Costanza, in a miserly effort to avoid giving Christmas gifts at the office, celebrates Festivus. A holiday previously created by George's father, Festivus was a response to the over-commercialization of Christmas.
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* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has the simply named Winter Event, during which for a month the city gets randomly attacked by giant monster snowmen and the Ski Chalet in Pocket D, [[Inn Between the Worlds|the interdimensional dance club]], is open for business.
* Toy Day and other real-world holidays in ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' for [[Game Cube]]. A reindeer (the only deer in the game) brings toys on a day in late December. This event, along with most other real-world holidays, were taken out of ''Wild World'', probably because of the online nature of the game. Toy Day and other [[The Theme Park Version|theme park'd]] holidays were added back to ''City Folk'', and the issue of having single-region holidays was fixed by giving region its own holidays; if a Japanese player wants to come to Explorer's Day (Columbus Day), they have to make an American friend, for example.
* In the ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' game series, the Saturnalia festival is a holiday that happens right on the 25th of December, and is even explicitly described as a 'time of gift giving'.
** ''Bloodmoon'' even includes a Santa Claus figure named Uncle Sweetshare, though he has no connections to Saturnalia. The game's files include an unused version of Sweetshare named Grandfather Frost, who was even more Santa-like. Supposedly he was replaced for being ''too much'' like Santa.
** Only instead of presents, he gives you drugs. (No, really).
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* [[Rhett and Link]], who are Christians, played around with this trope on a collection of fake outtakes from a fake commercial. Rhett also mentioned in one podcast that he celebrates the Harvest Season as opposed to Halloween.
* ''[[Trinton Chronicles]]'' has Yule instead of Christmas, though it’s essentially the same minus the Christian overtones: there is no Christ or reason to have a mass for such a figure. Instead it’s modeled after the Germanic celebration of Winter Solstice, complete with Yule Log and giant effigy burning.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The
* ''[[Dragonball Z Abridged]]'', Santa never came to the Saiyans on Planet Vegeta, they heard of the joy he brought to children, of the presents, of the merriment, that they were denied. Planet Vegeta never got Christmas, all they got was Freeza Day.
{{quote|'''Dogku:''' What happened on Freeza Day?
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* ''[[My Little Pony]]: Twinkle Wish Adventure'' has the Winter Wishes Festival, which has all the trappings of Christmas, but is never referred to anything other than "holiday." The main attraction of the festival is placing the Twinkle Wish Star on top of the Ever-Forevergreen tree, a huge pine tree in the center of town, decorated with ornaments and colored lights. Once the star is up there, it grants everyone "one holiday wish."
** This seems to be a unicorn thing as the ponies in Ponyville celebrate Christmas, as shown in ''A Very Minty Christmas''.
* You ''could'' probably put ''[[My Little Pony:
** The season 2 episode "Luna Eclipsed" takes place on "Nightmare Night", which appears to be Equestria's answer to Halloween.
** The very first episode centered about the "Summer Sun Celebration" (the longest day of the year), which seems to be analogue to Summer Solstice or Midsummer festivities held in some cultures.
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** It is a similar case in Turkey which is Muslim, but has a Westernised culture. Christmas is not observed but all the usual Christmas paraphenelia (gifts, Santa, trees) are linked to New Year celebrations.
* In the USA, Hanukkah has become the ersatz Christmas for Jews. It's not a particularly holy or important day, but because it happens to fall around Christmas, it receives extra attention from many Jewish families who are feeling left out of the holiday season. Some families have even added trees to the celebration, calling them "Hanukkah Bushes," but this is itself a [[Dead Horse Trope]] among Jews. Christmas Day spent seeing a movie and eating Chinese food is [[Peking Duck Christmas|its own trope]].
** The "Hanukkah Bush" was featured in an early-1970s newspaper column by American humorist [[Art Buchwald]]. I don't know if this was the first recorded instance of this seasonal shrub, but the author's intention was definitely one of satire.
* [[Christmas in Japan]] is actually very popular, even though most Japanese aren't Christians. However, Japanese Christmas isn't anything close to Western Christmas. It's more like Valentine's Day with elves, Santa Claus hats and [[Christmas Cake|cake]]. New Year's has a closer emotional associations, being a very family-and-home oriented holiday, and most TV channels will ring in the new year with beautiful solemn images of shrines tolling bells in remote, snow-covered locations.
* For the entire Southern Hemisphere, Christmas is a summer holiday, but it's still celebrated with the full Victorian paraphernalia. It's not unusual for an Australian Christmas (for example) to involve roast turkeys and fake snowmen during a 40 degree Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) day.
** And Surfer-Santa!
* Related to the above, most of the southern United States sees Christmas the same way that the Southern Hemisphere does due to it not getting cold enough to snow down there except in particularly high-altitude areas or during a freak cold-snap that coincides with both an incoming low-pressure system and the holiday itself. This has led to certain sights such as Florida flamingo lawn ornaments decorated with Santa hats and lights, snowmen made from sand on the beach and decorated with seashells, and the ever-present Surfer Santa or Santa in beach attire chilling on a lounge chair with a delightful beverage.
** Same for Southern Vancouver Island (a.k.a. "Greater Victoria" or the "Capital Regional District"), British Columbia, Canada, due to global warming.
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