Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 10 - Badass Santa

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Walking Spoiler

Without further ado, let's get started!

The winner of yesterday's trope, Signature Move, was Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.), which scored 4 votes.

Previous Winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)
The Gunslinger - Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower)
Interface Screw - Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
Cold Sniper - Widowmaker (Overwatch)

Fun fact - Falcon Punch is the first winner in Season 2 to win two tropes.

Today's trope is Badass Santa. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BadAssSanta

If you stop and think about it, Santa Claus isn't that much different from Superman. Both have amazing powers that defy the laws of physics as we humans know them. Both can fly around the world with no problem. They both like the color red, they both have their headquarters hidden in the Arctic Circle, and they both starred in movies that involved producer Ilya Salkind. The two characters even met once!

So it is not surprising, really, that there are so many instances in fiction where Santa is a Big Damn Hero, defending the Spirit of Christmas from Humbugs. This kind of Santa Claus doesn't really need help Saving Christmas, though there may be trouble if an Evil Twin Bad Santa shows up.

TL,DR: Santa is hard as nails and will end anyone who tries to mess with Christmas.

Nominations:
North (Rise of the Guardians)
Santa with Muscles
Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)

Santa Christ
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Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)
Santa (Santa's Slay)
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Santa (American Dad)
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Santa Christ

Honorable mention:

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North
American Dad Santa
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Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7YFH--VouA" data-time="

Santa / North (Rise of the Guardians)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9uP9znP-mA" data-time="

Santa (Robot Chicken)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKeL5638sXQ" data-time="
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Rankings so far:
Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic) - 5 votes
North (Rise of the Guardians) - 3 votes
Santa (American Dad) - 2 votes
Santa With Muscles
Santa (Santa's Slay)
Santa (I am Santa Claus) (I'll allow this despite being an honourable mention because FBike1 only used 1 of their nominations)
Santa (Robot Chicken)

I'll also take this opportunity to wish everyone an enjoyable December 25th celebration of choice!

Santa / North (Rise of the Guardians)
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GavsEvans123 posted...

Santa (I am Santa Claus)

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