Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 12 - An Asskicking Christmas

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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!

Yesterday's trope, How the Character Stole Christmas, was won by How the King Stole Christmas (Brawl in the Family), which got 3 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)
Signature Move - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Badass Santa - Santa Christ (Nostalgia Critic)

Today's trope is An Ass-Kicking Christmas. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnAssKickingChristmas

A work/episode/story takes place during Christmas-time, and it's action-packed. "Peace on Earth, Goodwill towards man" kind of gets left by the wayside when some people just want some good, old fashioned fights and explosions. Maybe they're finding a way to channel their aggression from shopping? This is a common occurrence when action/adventure oriented shows want to do a Christmas Special, but they know the viewers are tuning in expecting some ass-kicking action.

This is only about action works. The way to know is if you take the Christmas elements out, it would be straight up action.

And even if a work isn't directly about Christmas, a lot of action works get some of their best business around this time.

TL,DR: An action story that takes place around Christmas time. It can be either a minor detail, or pivotal to the story.

Nominations:
Die Hard
Batman: Arkham Origins
Red Sleigh Down (South Park)

One more thing, this will be the last of the holiday tropes I do. From tomorrow, I will be going back to selecting from the list, so feel free to submit some trope nominations if you like.

Die Hard
Batman: Arkham Origins
Any of the Punisher Christmas one-shots
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For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls (American Dad)
The Christmas Tree of Might (DBZ Abridged)
Bayonetta 2
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For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls (American Dad)
Die Hard
How the Saints Saved Christmas (Saints Row IV)
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For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls (American Dad)
Die Hard
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Die Hard
Jingle all the Way

Die Hard
Jingle All the Way
Red Sleigh Down
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Rankings so far:
Die Hard - 6 votes
For Whom the Sleigh Bell Tolls (American Dad) - 3 votes
Batman: Arkham Origins - 2 votes
Red Sleigh Down (South Park) - 2 votes
Jingle All the Way - 2 votes
Any of the Punisher Christmas one-shots
The Christmas Tree of Might (DBZ Abridged)
Bayonetta 2
How the Saints Saved Christmas (Saints Row IV)

American Dad: Season's Beatings
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Invasion of the Secret Santas! (Batman: The Brave and the Bold)
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Christmas with the Joker (Batman: The Animated Series)
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Die Hard
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Die Hard
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