For a fat guy in a velour tracksuit with a belly like a bowl full of jelly, Santa sure gets around. He's been immortalized in more movies, TV shows, video games and comic books than we can count, and everybody has their own take on the Fat Man. The advantage to being a mythological character is that it opens you up for all kinds of creative interpretations. What follows is a patented UGO Top Eleven where we trot out our favorite depictions of Santa Claus from all kinds of media. From the traditional role as a present-giving chimney chubadub to Jedi warriors, homicidal robots, and murderous hitmen, this is UGOs Favorite Fictional Santas. You had better leave out some cookies and milk if you know what's good for you. And Tim Allen - you came close, but didn't make the final cut.
Favorite Fictional Santas
We select our favorite fictional Santas from movies, TV, games and comics.
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By K. Thor Jensen December 3, 2007 |
Futurama - Robot Santa
In the 2001 Christmas episode of the late, lamented Futurama, A Tale of Two Santas, we are treated to a grim, dystopian vision of the winter holidays of the future, where a cruel robotic Santa Claus lords over his fortress on Neptune. When the Planet Express crew is hired to deliver a bundle of children's letters to the dented despot, they trap Robot Santa in ice, leaving the universe without a Claus. Leave it to the drunken Bender to take over, usurping Robot Santa's position and embarking on his traditional Christmas Eve rampage of wholesale murder. Of course, Bender is captured and put to trial for Robot Santa's crimes, but before he can be executed by magnetic dismemberment, the real Robot Santa attacks, having been freed by Fry and Leela. The two homicidal droids then team up for an old-fashioned Yuletide meatbag massacre. It's enough to warm our cold metal hearts.
