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* BaitAndSwitch: Kyle assumes the story is going to end with Santa killing him with the Anti-Christ in his body to save Christmas. Cartman tells him that's not the ending and he's telling the truth. The lion cubs actually remove the Anti-Christ from Kyle and Santa then kills it. However, Kyle still dies at the end from [=AIDS=].
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* BaitAndSwitch: Kyle assumes the story is going to end with Santa killing him with the Anti-Christ in his body to save Christmas. Cartman tells him that's not the ending and he's telling the truth. The lion cubs actually remove the Anti-Christ from Kyle and Santa then kills it. However, Kyle still dies at the end from [=AIDS=].[=AIDS=] (ironically Kyle gets [=AIDS=] for real thanks to Cartman in "Tonsil Trouble").
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* DropTheHammer: After the abortion is performed, this is how Santa finishes the Anti-Christ.
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* HyperspaceMallet: After the abortion is performed, this is how Santa finishes the Anti-Christ.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After the mountain lion dies, Stan thinks his ordeal is over. Then he sees the lion cubs, one of whom asks, "Mommy?" Stan subsequently feels horrible.
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* DropTheHammer: After the abortion is performed, this is how Santa finishes the Anti-Christ.
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* FlatWhat:
** Stan's reaction to the narrator saying he is going to take the cubs to the abortion clinic.
** Santa's reaction to Stan saying the lion cubs know how to perform an abortion.
** Stan's reaction to the narrator saying he is going to take the cubs to the abortion clinic.
** Santa's reaction to Stan saying the lion cubs know how to perform an abortion.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After seeing the three cubs react to their mother's death and ask him why he did this, Stan can only mutter "Ah... ah!" in a disappointed tone. Between that and learning the Woodland Critters' true nature, Stan holes up in his room and facepalms.
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* RedEyesTakeWarning: Kyle when he becomes a host for the Anti-Christ.
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* RecycledSoundtrack: During the opening and closing scenes, some of the score from the ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' episode "[[Recap/CloneHighS1E11SnowflakeDayAVerySpecialHolidayEpisode Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Episode]] can be heard, which was also scored by Jamie Dunlap and Scott Nickoley (who they took over from Adam Berry as the main composers of ''South Park'' since season 5).
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* RecycledSoundtrack: During the opening and closing scenes, some of the score from the ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' episode "[[Recap/CloneHighS1E11SnowflakeDayAVerySpecialHolidayEpisode Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Episode]] Episode]]" can be heard, which was also scored by Jamie Dunlap and Scott Nickoley (who they took over from Adam Berry as the main composers of ''South Park'' since season 5).
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* RecycledSoundtrack: During the opening and closing scenes, some of the score from the ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' episode "[[Recap/CloneHighS1E11SnowflakeDayAVerySpecialHolidayEpisode Snowflake Day: A Very Special Holiday Episode]] can be heard, which was also scored by Jamie Dunlap and Scott Nickoley (who they took over from Adam Berry as the main composers of ''South Park'' since season 5).
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* WouldHitAGirl:
** Stan kills the female Mountain Lion. Although it's unknown if he knew her gender. Not that it matters as he though she was an evil critter killer.
** Some of the Critters are female, but that doesn't stop Santa from blowing their brains out with a gun.
** Stan kills the female Mountain Lion. Although it's unknown if he knew her gender. Not that it matters as he though she was an evil critter killer.
** Some of the Critters are female, but that doesn't stop Santa from blowing their brains out with a gun.
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* RhymingEpisode: Everything the narrator says is spoken in rhyme, with the Critters occasionally speaking or singing in rhyme as well.
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* ADogNamedDog: The names of the various critters are just their respective species with a "y" on the end.
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* ThemeNaming: The Woodland Critters are all unimaginatively named after their species with a "Y" on the end (Squirrely, Porcupiney, Chickadee-y, et cetera). After all, the creator of these critters is [[FatIdiot Eric Cartman]].
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* ThemeNaming: The Woodland Critters are all [[ADogNamedDog unimaginatively named after their species species]] with a "Y" on the end (Squirrely, Porcupiney, Chickadee-y, et cetera). After all, the creator of these critters is [[FatIdiot Eric Cartman]].
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* ADogNamedDog: The names of the various critters are just their respective species with a "y" on the end.
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* MetaphoricallyTrue: When the other kids tell Kyle they want to hear how the story ends, Kyle claims that Cartman's story will obviously end with Kyle being killed by Santa to destroy the anti-Christ and save Christmas. Cartman tells him that's not how it ends and he's telling the truth. The story ends with the anti-Christ being removed from Kyle's body and then destroyed... but Kyle then dies from AIDS two weeks later.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Even early on in the story, the Christmas critters seemed a little...off. They described very serious things, such as the possibility of the mountain lion eating the baby or Stan being killed, in the exact same chipper tone that they always have.
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* NoSell: It is safe to assume that the Mountain Lion is immune to the Critters satanic powers, otherwise they would have killed her themselves instead of sending Stan. Santa is later shown to be immune as well, when Suirrely fails to kill him.
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* NoSell: It is safe to assume that the Mountain Lion is immune to the Critters satanic powers, otherwise they would have killed her themselves instead of sending Stan. Santa is later shown to be immune as well, when Suirrely Squirrely fails to kill him.
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* OneHandedShotgunPump: Santa does this before killing the critters.
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* OneHandedShotgunPump: Santa does this before killing the critters.critters and again when he's about to shoot Kyle.
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* OneHandedShotgunPump: Santa does this before killing the critters.
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Whenever the Woodland Critters use their powers, their eyes [[RedEyesTakeWarning glow red]].
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* KillerRabbit: The Woodland Critters are cute animals who celebrate Christmas... by engendering the Anti-Christ and having orgies in the blood of a comrade (who funnily happens to be the rabbit) they sacrificed to Satan as a celebration.
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* WhamShot: After an epic fight with the Mountain Lion, Stan celebrates his victory... only to see the cubs coming out of the mountain and surprising their mother lying on the ground. This is the point where the nativity story takes a darker turn, as Stan starts questioning the legitimity of his actions.
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* ContinuityNod: Stan finally got [[Recap/SouthParkS7E15ItsChristmasInCanada his own "Christmas adventure"]].
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* AscendedToCarnivorism: Deery, Beavery and Porcupiney are all herbivores, but that doesn't stop them eating Rabbity's flesh.
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* GoodIsNotNice: The mountain lion is the BigGood, but she attacks Stan when he confronts her instead of trying to explain things to him (she ''can'' talk; she does briefly when Santa revives her). It's possible she mistook him as a servant of Satan and was [[MamaBear protecting her cubs]], but everything prior to the reveal makes her appear exclusively intimidating.
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* GoodIsNotNice: The mountain lion is the BigGood, but she attacks Stan when he confronts her instead of trying to explain things to him (she ''can'' talk; she does briefly when Santa revives her). It's possible she mistook him as a servant of Satan and was [[MamaBear protecting her cubs]], but everything prior to the reveal makes her appear exclusively intimidating. Also, Santa, who talks very harshly towards Stan and was willing to kill Kyle, even after the later showed regret towards allowing the Anti-Christ to possess him.
* NoSell: It is safe to assume that the Mountain Lion is immune to the Critters satanic powers, otherwise they would have killed her themselves instead of sending Stan. Santa is later shown to be immune as well, when Suirrely fails to kill him.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Both the Christmas Critters and the Mountain Lion will gladly maim or try to kill Stan at the first sign of interference. Comes with a heavy case of NotHelpingYourCase with the Mountain Lion, who is actually the BigGood.
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* WouldHurtAChild: WouldHurtAChild:
** Both the Christmas Critters and the Mountain Lion will gladly maim or try to kill Stan at the first sign of interference. Comes with a heavy case of NotHelpingYourCase with the Mountain Lion, who is actually theBigGood.BigGood.
** Santa was willing to kill Kyle after he was possessed by the Anti-christ.
** Both the Christmas Critters and the Mountain Lion will gladly maim or try to kill Stan at the first sign of interference. Comes with a heavy case of NotHelpingYourCase with the Mountain Lion, who is actually the
** Santa was willing to kill Kyle after he was possessed by the Anti-christ.
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* KilledOffscreen: We don't see Mousey or Chickadee-y get shot on-screen, but we do see their corpses later on, so he know they were killed.
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* WouldHitAGirl:
** Stan kills the female Mountain Lion. Although it's unknown if he knew her gender. Not that it matters as he though she was an evil critter killer.
** Some of the Critters are female, but that doesn't stop Santa from blowing their brains out with a gun.
** Stan kills the female Mountain Lion. Although it's unknown if he knew her gender. Not that it matters as he though she was an evil critter killer.
** Some of the Critters are female, but that doesn't stop Santa from blowing their brains out with a gun.
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* ButThouMust: Stan wants absolutely nothing to do with the story, but is forced to do it anyway by the narrator (who happens to be Cartman in a disguised voice). Ironically, Stan who is being told the story himself as a third-person is curious about and entertained by what he's hearing.
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* ButThouMust: Stan wants absolutely nothing to do with the story, story but is forced to do it anyway by the narrator (who happens to be Cartman in a disguised voice). Ironically, Stan the real Stan, who is being told the story himself as a third-person along with the rest of the class, is curious about and entertained by what he's hearing.hearing and how it ends.
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* TheGhost: Despite Satan being both an established character and mentioned prominently throughout the episode, he never actually appears in-person. This makes some sense, as even leaving aside the fact that it's a story being told in-universe by Cartman, Satan's long-established SissyVillain characterization wouldn't mesh very well with this story's events.
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* TheGhost: Despite Satan being both an established character and mentioned prominently throughout the episode, he never actually appears in-person. This makes some sense, as even leaving aside the fact that it's a story being told in-universe by Cartman, Satan's long-established SissyVillain characterization wouldn't mesh very well with this story's events.
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!This episode contains examples of:
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'''Airdate:''' December 15, 2004
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'''Original air date:''' 12/15/2004
