# Evil characters who've tried to kill Santa/destroy Christmas

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 18, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-characters-whove-tried-to-kill-santa-destroy-christmas/384578 "2006-12-18T02:27:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-characters-whove-tried-to-kill-santa-destroy-christmas/384578/41 "2006-12-19T02:03:27Z")

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[QUOTE=simster]  
[**Lobo**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobo_(comics)) , in the Paramilitary Christmas Special.  
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Is that in continuity? The whole incident was related in a children’s story book\* within the framing story.  
\*A “one-reading only” book

> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> I don’t know if it’s ever made clear who is shooting at Santa in the Movie-within-a-movie “The Night the Reindeer Died” in Scrooged

I may be wrong, but I thought it was Soviet commandos.

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**Author:** ![minionkat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@minionkat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minionkat)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-characters-whove-tried-to-kill-santa-destroy-christmas/384578/42 "2006-12-19T12:37:43Z")

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Damian Claus in The Hebrew Hammer.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-characters-whove-tried-to-kill-santa-destroy-christmas/384578/43 "2006-12-19T12:57:41Z")

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But don’t do it until Cal looks up at post #18.  
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Gotcha.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2006, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evil-characters-whove-tried-to-kill-santa-destroy-christmas/384578/44 "2006-12-19T14:54:52Z")

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Well, turn about is fair play:

We Jews believe it was Santa Claus that killed Jesus Christ–Kinky Friedman’s “They Ain’t Making Jews Like Jesus Anymore.”

And then there’s the Great Pumpkin

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