Santa Claus

Legendary Figure: Saint Nicholas

One theory of Earth people is that Santa Claus' origin came from a 4th-century man named Saint Nicholas. Saint Nicholas was born near the coast of modern-day Turkey, and became the bishop of Myra in his life. Many miracles were attributed to him, and he was known to to be very kind, to be very generous, and to have a great love of children. Some of his miracles include appearing to Emperor Constantine in a dream once to save three wrongly accused soldiers from execution, and restoring three beheaded children of sailors back to life. The most famous story told of the bishop Nicholas is how he attempted to give money anonymously to a family of daughters whose father could not pay their dowries for them to get married. He tried tossing a bags of gold into their house on the nights the girls were to get married, and it is said that on the third night he dropped the bag through the chimney, where it landed in a stocking hanging out to dry. Despite Nicholas' wishes, word of his good deeds spread, and eventually whenever anyone received an unexpected gift, they began thanking Nicholas as custom. After Nicholas' death, a church was built in dedication of him.


Hundreds of years later, after Myra's end, the Russian Emperor Vladimir decided to make Bishop Nicholas the patron saint of Russia after visiting Constantinople and hearing all the wonderful stories of him. These stories eventually spread to the Laplands, to the people of the reindeer sleds. In the Netherlands, the name Sint Nicolaas was contracted into Sinterklaas, which inspired the name Santa Claus. The day before the anniversary of Nicholas' death, December 5th, became a time of giving, which eventually became linked to Christmas, the December 25th Christian celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

Legendary: Odin

Other sources believe the origin of Santa Claus was simply inspired by the all-father of the Asgard (the realm of the gods), Odin after a special night where he saved a village's Midwinter's feast from not happening. Hundreds of years ago, an Asgardian Troll named Grylak the Greater was attempting to blackmail Odin to give him control of Asgard, threatening to destroy it with a giant asteroid otherwise. At the same time on Earth, a fisherman named Sigurd was sailing home to his village's Midwinter's feast, but was caught in a storm that blotted out the stars and stopped Sigurd from being able to navigate home. Sigurd's wife, Sia, prayed to Odin to help her husband. In answer, Odin commanded his son, Thor, to not attack Grylak but to first gather some of Asgard's finest wines, linens, and foods. Afterward, killing two birds with one stone, Odin ordered Thor to hurl his magic hammer, Mjolnir, at the Troll's asteroid; destroying it in a blinding flash of light that appeared as a bright star in the sky to Sigurd and his crew on Earth, allowing them to navigate home.


Later that night at Sigurd's village, his wife Sia heard a strange sound that caused her to rush to the hearth and find an unknown man (Odin) wearing furs and holding a huge bundle. The man vanished in a flash of light, leaving behind the goods collected by Thor, and at that same moment Sigurd returned home. Sigurd and Sia looked outside to see Odin, in furs, riding a sleigh driven by two flying rams and crying "A good Midwinter to all! And to all a good life!"[4][1]
Possible Origin: British Elders

Santa Claus a Barbarian or Mutant?

Another theory is that the origin of Santa Claus comes from pre-medieval Britain. It is said that there was a custom among tribes for the community elder to dress up in furs as a character called "Old Winter", and go from dwelling to dwelling delivering food and drink. It was thought that if someone was hospitable to Old Winter, the winter season to be kind to them. This tradition survived for many, many, years, and after the introduction of Christianity, Old Winter began to be known as "Old Christmas", "Old Father Christmas", and eventually just "Father Christmas"


The discovery that Santa is a mutant occurred in 1991's Marvel Holiday Special - specifically in the issue's "A Miracle a Few Blocks Down From 34th Street" story by Scott Lobdell and Dave Cockrum. While the X-Men were decorating their Christmas tree, Cerebro alerted them to the presence of the most powerful mutant ever registered - and, sure enough, it turned out to be Santa Claus, who was in Manhattan at the time.


But there is one thing that can make even Marvel’s Man of Merriment go bad. In the 2009 Marvel Holiday Spectacular, Santa finds himself unable to complete his usual rounds. The Illuminati, the secret team of super-geniuses like Doctor Strange and Iron Man, make the decidedly un-genius decision to give Santa the one object powerful enough to deliver presents to all the world’s children in one night: the infinity gauntlet. Overwhelmed by the gauntlet’s power, Santa becomes perfectly unbalanced and turns on the heroes. But despite sexist taunts like “Come and take it, you little girls!”, the heroes prevent Santa from becoming another Thanos, and send him on his way with Stark Industries reindeer.  

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Reference: https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-ancient-traditions/real-santa-claus-0011161
Reference: https://www.quora.com/Who-is-the-strongest-in-Norse-mythology
Reference: https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-x-men-meet-santa-claus-mutant-back-issues-christmas-2021/
Reference: https://bloody-disgusting.com/comics/3598156/remember-santa-wore-infinity-gauntlet-look-scariest-santas-comic-books/
Reference: https://www.instagram.com/robliefeld
Reference: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Santa_Claus_(Earth-616)

All is quiet in the house of sleeping human female "Anna Log", head of peace-keeping on Earth, on the night of December 37th. Traditional beverages and biscuit-based foodstuffs have been left out for the arrival of Santa Claus, but a rumble from the chimney does not herald the arrival of this mythical figure... but rather Megatron, dressed in a Santa suit, who fires his fusion cannon at the startled Anna!



The next day, private detective Thundercracker and his partner Buster get the call to investigate Anna's murder. Reviewing security camera footage of the killing, Thundercracker believes Santa Claus to be responsible, and he and Buster take to the skies and head straight for the jolly old elf's fortress at the North Pole. Hacking and slashing his way through a squadron of antimatter-powered cybernetic reindeer, Thundercracker smashes into Claus's citadel and engages the magical old man in a fist-fight. Thundercracker demands to know why he killed Anna, but Santa professes his innocence... at which point Megatron appears to confirm that he, not Santa, was the do'er of the foul deed. Thundercracker understands why Anna would be an obvious target for the conquering Megatron, but is confused as to why he chose to frame Santa. Megatron holds up the answer... a present to him, from Santa... containing only a lump of coal! Thundercracker proceeds to punch Megatron out, then he and Santa make amends, and use Megatron's tank mode to deliver presents all around the world.



Thundercracker finishes reading Marissa Faireborn and Ayana Jones the first draft of his new Christmas children's book. Marissa takes umbrage at the fact she died on page 2, to say nothing of the fact that Thundercracker has no idea how the Twelve Days of Christmas work, or any sense of comedic timing. Cheerfully oblivious to her criticisms, Thundercracker is sure he can get his work published, while Jones just laughs and decides that she and Buster had best just leave them to argue.

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Reference: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Day_of_Christmas

Function ID: Robot Santa Claus
Faction: Regnegade Decepticon Dissidents [RDD]
Subfaction: Dark Transformers
Function: Jolly Fat'bot
Alternate Mode: Robot Santa Claus *of course*

- STR: XX -
- INT: XX -
- SPD: XX -
- END: XX -
- RNK: XX -
- CRG: XX -
- FRP: XX -
- SKL: XX -

[Profile] Robot Santa Claus is a four-ton robot designed by The Friendly Robot Company, possibly a precursor to Mom's Friendly Robot Company, in 2801 to judge whether people were naughty or nice? and sort out presents accordingly. Due to a programming error, Robot Santa's standards were set way too high and the Santa Bot invariably judges everyone naughty at least once.


Every year on X-mas Eve, Robot Santa emerges on his robot-reindeer sleigh to punish the naughty with extreme prejudice. It's said if someone is on the Naughty List and Robot Santa finds them or they, Robot Santa will chop them or their head off and stuff them or their neck holes with toys from Robot Santa's sack of horrors. Usually, though, he kills them using a variety of X-Mas-themed murder devices and heavy ordnance.

When Nudist Alien Scammers gained possession of Earth in 3007, they also scammed Robot Santa Claus out of his Naughty List, leaving him unsure as to whom he should kill, so he joined forces with his holiday counterparts Kwanzaa-bot and Chanukah Zombie forming the Holiday Trinity along with the Planet Express crew to retake the planet by helping with both weapon construction and the battle itself.

Whispered rumors and stories of a Jolly 'Fat' Bot of Destruction and the events of Nudist Alien Scammers caught the curiosity of Invidia Primia. Needing needing a replacement for Hexfire, Robot Santa Claus was asked to move his base of operations to Neo Kaon. Robot Santa Claus, now equipped with a new and improved Naughty 'Bot List, spreads chaos and mayhem across Seibertron to all the "good" 'Preds &'Cons.


[Abilities] Robot Santa Claus has proven quite resilient: having survived burning spaceship exhaust, explosions, as well as even survived listening to logical paradoxes - something which destroys other robots - thanks to "paradox-absorbing crumple zones" built into his head.

When not on his X-mas mass spark-murder spree, Robot Santa Claus spends most of the year living in his Death Fortress at the northern pole on Neo Kaon, where he watches the beings of Seiberton doing naughty things on a series of giant monitors 1984-style.

A shantytown village named Jolly Junkion lies at the base of Robot Santa's fortress, inhabited by unpaid, undersized and underfed elf-dressed Neptunians. These workers growth is stunted by the lack of food, so they reach an adult height equivalent to the height of a human knee (as opposed to a healthy Neptunian, such as Elzar, who is comparable in height to a human) and they are all unemployed since the toy factory closed down because of Robot Santa's malfunction & relocation to Neo Kaon.

[Weakness] Robot Santa Claus' Naughty 'Bot List is the main source of direction for his programing. Without the 'list', programming does not allow Robot Santa Claus to activate offensive and counter-defensive sub-routines rendering him physically inert.

Reference: https://futurama.fandom.com/wiki/Robot_Santa_Claus
Reference: https://www.seibertron.com/heavymetalwar

Hogfather, a mythical creature akin to Father Christmas, who grants children's wishes on Hogswatchnight (December 32) and brings them presents.

The Hogfather is originally a winter god. In the deep winters, people of old feared that spring might never again come, so they gave bloody sacrifice of hogs to the Hogfather. Nowadays, the Hogfather is expected to travel in a sleigh pulled by hogs and every Hogswatchnight to bring gifts to all the children, or at least, those who believe in him; this yields a worshipper range of most of the Discworld except for the Counterweight continent and the continent of Klatch. Despite this impressive range, crass commercialization of the holiday compromised the belief in Hogfather, and then interference from the Auditors of Reality severely threatened his existence (chronicled in Hogfather).

His residence is the Castle of Bones near the hub. The Hogfather is an ancient being, who has seemingly kept his present form for some time; in Hogfather, Albert reminisces about his childhood memories of the Hogfather, more than 2000 years ago. The only difference in the Hogfather in that time seems to have been that he did not bring presents, but sausages and black puddings if you were lucky. But you always got a pink sugar piglet in the toe [of your stocking].

He parodies the Roundworld Father Christmas (the UK version of Santa Claus)

In the land of pine trees and deep snow and long winters, when the sun is below the horizon most of the day, in the piercing cold it can become a real question whether or not the sun will rise again in the morning. The voice of reason says it will rise, but there are many unreasonable voices in a person. In response to this question, the anthropomorphic wossname called the Hogfather arose. He had many forms throughout the centuries, and the man in the red suit was only the last of them. Susan saw them one after another. His first form was properly speaking porcomorphic, or pig-shaped. It was to this point that he retreated when ambushed by Mr Teatime. Despite his apparent task of distributing presents in the season of goodwill, sustained by the belief of children, on the longest night of the year it is still the role of the Hogfather to ensure that the Sun rises in the morning (comparable to Teppic’s dynasty). It is no small thing to make the Sun rise. When he was able to resume his role, the Hogfather seemed to salute Death as an equal. He did not thank him. “Ho Ho Ho,” notwithstanding, he was not a personification of many words.

Reference: https://wiki.lspace.org/Hogfather