How The Homicidal Cyborg Absconded With Christmas! (Johnsonverse)

How The Homicidal Cyborg Absconded With Christmas! is a 2012 animated Christmas special directed by Timothy Hill that aired on WBC. Set in the Monster World franchise, this special is a parody of the many Christmas specials over the years, mainly How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
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==Plot==
The plot involves Cyber-Ritsuko and her army invading the North Pole with a MechaGodzilla left over from the Total War arc of season seven. Memorable moments include Santa Claus using a giant Christmas-themed robot to fight MechaGodzilla, accompanied by rock renditions of Christmas carols provided by AC/DC. Godzilla also appears, breaking through the ice and handing MechaGodzilla his ass. Later, Cyber-Ritsuko and a few of her Cybermen sneak into Tokyo and steal Christmas, a la The Grinch. Instead of her heart growing "three sizes that day", she is found out by Shinji and Asuka, who are awoken as Cyber-Ritsuko rummages around NERV HQ. The two give chase, defeat her, and get the stolen goods back. The special ends with a Christmas party involving characters from Detective Jenny and the Johnson Aligned Universe (the first appearance of the characters in Monster World, as the Johnson Aligned Universe was introduced the same year), in which Shinji breaks the fourth wall by wishing viewers a Merry Christmas, then heads off to read a twisted version of The Night Before Christmas. Throughout the special, hints at the series' 2015 revival (really, blatant announcements saying "Monster World Returns 2015") are made, before a formal announcement was made on Christmas Day 2012. These references were removed in 2014.
== Reception ==
===Controversy===
The original airing drew controversy. Airing just days after the Sandy Hook shootings, the original airing opened with a tribute to the victims. During said tribute, Rei expressed rather strong opinions, chief among them that school shooters should be captured alive, publicly hanged, and their bodies publicly displayed as an example to other would-be school shooters. Of course, Hikari silenced her before she could make any more inflammatory comments, but the damage had been done. While the FCC didn't fine WBC since Rei's statements fell under the First Amendment, the network still got angry phonecalls for airing such extreme views. Things got worse when it was revealed Rei's comments were not in the original script, and in truth, Chloe Johnson had recorded the lines and dubbed them over Michelle Ruff's performance (nobody noticed because Chloe's impersonation of Ruff was dead-on, and Chloe had inserted the lines into the computer minutes before the special went to air on the East Coast), having done so without Tim's knowledge. The original scene, as recorded, had Rei encouraging viewers to donate to a charity fund for the victims' families, then making a side comment about setting up her own fund so people can give money to her (this innocent comment was originally the reason Hikari backhanded her). While Tim and Chloe decided it would be best to immediately drop the subject (mainly because Tim was ultimately at fault for stating said opinions on the day of the shooting, and Chloe becoming rather zealous after seeing pictures of families mourning), the media didn't. WBC's MySpace page was flooded with angry comments until Tim threatened to delete WBC's page wholesale. When the special aired in the remaining American timezones, the original audio was used, with Eastern timezone viewers hearing the original audio in a rerun the next week, and from 2013 onward, the entire tribute was removed due to no longer being relevant.
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