Santa Claus is the main protagonist of the several Christmas myths and legends.
His Good Ranking[]
His Heroic Deeds[]
- Dedicates his entire life giving well-behaved children gifts and presents of toys.
- He's a jolly old man that treats both children and people with kindness, at least in most interpretations.
- In some versions, he helps his elves in the making of toys in his factory, and treats them as well as his other helpers and loved ones, including his wife Mrs. Claus and his reindeer.
- While he does technically break and enter into people's houses, either through the door or the chimney, he does this in order to secretly deliver their presents, something that it's clearly known and even wanted by the house owners, who give him things such as cookies and milk as a Christmas ritual. Furthermore, he can even appear directly at Christmas time as a house guest while openly giving the presents to kids, teens and adults, something they're more than excited and grateful.
Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- While giving well-behaved children presents is a nice gesture, this is mostly bog-standard acts of kindness, causing him to fail the baseline.
- Depending on the interpretation, while Santa is generally portrayed as a genial person, some versions of his character are more unforgiving or even antagonistic.
Trivia[]
- He's so far the oldest Heroic Benchmark in all of media. However, considering there's a vast amount of other heroic characters in legends, myths and folklore who fail the Admirable Standard in their stories and came out way before him, this might change in the future.
- Originally, Santa used to be Pure Good due to his benevolent personality. As the admirable standards changed, it was revealed that his acts of giving nice children presents was merely simple acts of kindness, causing him to fail the baseline, causing him to be removed from Pure Good later on.
- While A Visit from Saint Nicholas is thought to be the first appearance of what would later be the specific American Santa (or, even earlier, the 1809's satire Knickerbocker's History of New York, both of these depictions being parodies of Nicholas instead of an alias for the actual saint), there are multiple figures which are believed to have directly and indirectly influenced in shaping the archetype of a jolly bearded gift-bringer who would later be known as Santa Claus in the 19th century, both the historical Saint Nicholas (and probably Basil of Caesarea) and folklore figures related to him (the English Father Christmas, the German Belsnickel, the Dutch Sinterklaas, and so forth), as well as non-Christian figures such as Saturn, Odin and Thor. While each of these have both heroic and corrupting factors on their own, neither of these can count as Santa's deeds or preventions since they're from separate characters.
External Links[]
- Santa Claus on the Heroes Wiki
- Santa Claus on the Love Exalted Wiki