Basic Trope: A character dresses as Santa to greet children at The Mall.
- Straight: Bob plays Santa at the mall.
- Exaggerated: Bob plays not just Santa, but also Mrs. Claus, an angel, Rudolph, Ded Moroz, and even the Christ child in the Nativity.
- Downplayed: Bob plays one of Santa's elves.
- Justified: Bob needs money, and the mall wants to help the Christmas sales.
- Inverted: Santa Claus plays a normal citizen named Bob.
- Gender-Inverted: Alice plays a Mrs. Claus.
- Subverted: Bob is working as a Mall Santa. Then his Arch-Nemesis robs someone in the mall, and Bob jumps out of his costume to chase after them. Turns out that Bob was just sneaking in behind his foe.
- Double Subverted: But after overcoming his Arch-Nemesis once again, he sits back down and continues with his work as a Mall Santa, since he's grown to genuinely like it.
- Parodied: Bob has two strange, sticky things under his hat. A Christian fundamentalist mom approaches him furiously and tells him that this is an absolutely clear sign that Santa is in fact Satan (because of the anagram). Turns out that those are just two strangely sticky strands of Bob's hair.
- Averted: Bob doesn't play Santa.
- Defied:
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Enforced: The storyboard needs a Christmas Episode.
- Lampshaded: "Ho ho ho! Santa Claus is coming to the mall!"
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: Bob has to sneak into the mall to spy on someone, so he takes a job as a Mall Santa there, which gives him already an good disguise.
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: Bob tells several children that Santa isn't real and that he is in fact... well, Bob. The children end up crying, and their angry parents sue him for traumatizing the kids. Bob has to get out of this trial now.
- Played for Horror: Bob is a monster who uses his Santa persona to lure children in to eat them.
- Implied: Bob has a red coat, a Santa hat, and a white beard in his closet.
- Unparodied: ???
- Untwisted: ???
- Deconstructed: ???
- Reconstructed: ???
Back to Mall Santa.
