Santa Claus (Love, Death & Robots)

The Creature, also known as Santa Claus is a crimson-skinned abomination that appears in Love, Death, and Robots episode All Through the House. 
It's voiced by Fred Tatasciore. 
==Personality==
The Creature is perhaps the enigmatic take on Santa Claus everyone familiar with. Despite its terrifying appearance, it is still gentle at heart, praising Leah and Billy for their good track records and rewarding them with gifts. Still, the grateful siblings speculate that The Creature won't be someone to cross, especially with implication of the way it disciplines naughty kids would be less pleasant than receiving coal.
==Biography==
On Christmas night a little boy named Billy was awakened by Leah because she heard a sound from downstairs and claims it's Santa. The kids went downstairs to get a closer look they start to see a shadow and their stocking filled. They then hid behind two armchairs and quietly gestured to be quiet and Leah peeked from behind the chair. When the audience saw the shadow that looks like Santa spotting the plate of cookies and milk, instead of walking towards, a long monstrous tongue start to come out and absorbed the like a sponge and grabbed the plate and ate it until the plate was left. The kids were terrified at what they saw they tried to hide, but we see long arms crawling towards to the chairs. The arms pushed the chairs away to reveal a long armed monster with fangs. The kids were so scared they tried to back away but the creature kept crawling toward.
But to their surprise, the Creature spoke to the scared Leah after sniffing her, "Leah, good." He then proceeds to cough up a saliva-covered present and hand it to her. Afterwards, it's Billy's turn and like his sister. The Creature judges him "good" before reguritate his. He then made his leave, but not before gently patting Billy while reassured him, "Stay good." As soon as the Creature was no longer on sight, Billy cautiously unwrapped his gift, revealing "Turbo Express" train set he always wanted for Christmas.
Returning to the bed, the siblings were understandably shakened by the encounter with supposed Santa despite of him indeed as gentle as everyone claimed. Leah asked Billy what will likely happen had the Creature judged them naughty. The camera zoomed out to reveal the Creature one last time as the audience hear his growls as the episode concluded.
==Trivia==
*The creature might be an amalgamation of both Santa Claus and Krampus. Design-wise however, he reused the CG design of ghouls from previous season's short "The Secret War" with minor changes such as a pair of hands in place of eyes.
*At the end, the two children wonder what would have happened if they'd been bad. Given Christmas traditions, it's entirely possible that the monster would have simply coughed up lumps of coal for them.
*It's possible the Creature being a disguise Santa Claus assumed to teach Leah and Billy a lesson; staying up to try and catch a glimpse of Santa Claus is generally frowned upon in most culture's interpretation of the legend pertaining Santa Claus, which is the exact offense Leah and Billy did.
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