A Christmas Carol by No-Life

A Christmas Carol by No-Life is the eighth installment in Spyman's Cosmos Universe, created by The Philmer and the first one of No-Life specials, as well as The Philmer's Christmas 2016 special. It features one of his most popular characters, No-Life and is a loose adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. First intended to be a one-shot, not connected to any of the creator's universes, it was incorporated into Spyman's Cosmos thanks to Dr Saturn adding the main and titular character to his Us vs. Us series.
Originally, it was supposed to be released on Christmas of 2015 as The Philmer's first ever video. However the production on it started too late and the video was finished a year later, with The Philmer remastering the frames he already had and changing the story a little.
It was uploaded on December 24 (Polish language version) and December 25, 2016 (English language version).
== Synopsis ==
No-life is an eight-year-old who loves playing video games 24/7 and behaves horrible, because violent games made him agressive. In addition, he doesn't like Christmas, because everything is always against him. However, when three ghosts visit him one Christmas Eve, he gets a chance to change.
== Plot ==
The story begins on Christmas Eve of 2017. After waking up No-Life complains that there's no snow and he decides to make it snow by convincing a mysterious force from behind the fourth wall. When it's finally snowing, No-Life becomes very excited, but his happiness is quickly interrupted by his mom, telling him to come downstairs, as his grandma has arrived for the Christmas Eve supperIn Poland Christmas is mainly celebrated on the Christmas Eve. At that day, families meet to share an evening meal together. The supper usually consists of twelve dishes, which vary depending on the family.. The boy refuses, calling his grandma with uncensored words. This is however overheard by his grandma herself, who complains about the boy's behaviour with her very Polish attitude.
Finally, No-Life surrenders and comes down, only to sit on the couch in his living room and turn on the television. However he immediately turns it off with anger, seeing that the movie Home Alone, which he hates with a passion, is being broadcasted. That way he decides to listen to the radio, only to hear the song Last Christmas, which is also hated by him. After that he goes to the fridge to cool off and sometime alter finally joins his family at the supper. No-Life is excited, because he is very hungry, but after looking at the food, he immediately gets disgusted and doesn't want to eat anything. This makes his father angry, so he warns No-Life and says he has one warning left and has to behave well. Two hours later, it is finally time to unpack the presentsUnlike most of the world, in Poland the presents are unpacked on Christmas Eve.. No-Life is excited to get a Playstation 4 console, but his hype is soon brought down when he unpacks the first present and realizes he just got socks. He rages again and complains about the present. No-Life's Mom has had enough of his behaviour, so he tells her son to spend rest of the evening in his room. No-Life reluctantly obeys.
After midnight, No-Life is sleeping, but is soon woken up by a mysterious blue figure, who refers to him as a soldier. The figure itself has a major's beret. When No-Life is shocked by it, the figure intorduces itself as the Ghost of the Past Christmas. The ghost says No-Life is bringing shame to his homeland and starts reminding the boy his past. He reminds him how he got a smartphone for his sixth Christmas, which led to No-Life becoming addicted to every electronic device and starting to behave badly. No-Life complains that he knows how it was, as it's his past and drives the ghost away. No-Life is trying to convince himself that it was only a dream, only to be visited by another ghost. The Ghost of the Present Christmas. The phantom presents his power by creating a time window to the past evening. No-Life is confused by everything happening around him and tries to drive this ghost too, but the spirit does not let it and starts building up the feeling of guilt in him. While No-Life remains adamant, the ghost says he will regret his mistakes eventually. Before he leaves, he shows off his powers one more time, by showcasing the boy how will he look in five seconds. Five seconds later this is confirmed to be true, which makes No-Life even more angry and call the ghost crazy.
Almost immediately, the third ghost - Ghost of the Future Christmas - appears and tells No-Life that if he won't stop his bad behaviour, he will die soon. No-Life does not want to die young, so phantom suggests changing his attitude at least during Christmas. No-Life agrees, but before he can finish what he has to say, everything goes white and time is reversed. It is the Christmas Eve morning again and No-Life starts it the same way as he did previously, but soon realizes it's the same day once more and gets excited because of the second chance he got. What's more, when he looks out of the window, he sees that this time it's actually snowing, which causes a massive extacy in him. The boy screams happily that this is a lucky combo and the video ends.
== Characters ==
=== Main ===
* No-Life (debut)
=== Secondary ===
* No-Life's Mom (debut)
*No-Life's Dad (debut)
* Ghost of the Past Christmas (debut)
* Ghost of the Present Christmas (debut)
* Ghost of the Future Christmas (debut)
=== Episodic ===
* No-Life's Grandma (debut) (voice)
* Phil (mentioned)
== Trivia ==
=== General ===
* Just like many of The Philmer's videos in that period, this one was also released in Polish. Actually, the Polish version was supposed to be the main version, as it premiered twelve hours earlier than the English one. Thus, the video has a lot of jokes refering to creator's nation's culture and memes.
** The following No-Life specials did not get Polish versions and became videos that were meant to be in English. Still containing a few Polish inside jokes and references though.
*** However, both have the Polish captions.
* The majority of this video was made on the Christmas Eve itself.
* The Philmer's least favourite special out of all three.
*While the blink-or-miss image, after No-Life mentioned Phil, shows The Philmer's YouTube picture at the time and was supposed to be a reference to him, it was changed after No-Life was incorporated into Spyman's Cosmos, to reference Phil as a character. This was able to work, after the special's plot was retconned to be set in 2017, so after Phil and No-Life's first meeting on-screen. However, the option of them already knowing each other before Us vs. Us isn't impossible.
=== Continuity ===
* No-Life's debut by production, but fifth appearance chronologically.
** The special takes place in 2017, due to some later retcons and timeline corrections, to get rid of a one year gap between it and No-Life's Home Alone. That way, it is set after Us vs. Us and Hurricane Inbound 3/4.
=== References ===
* Ghost of the Present Christmas' line "Do you even have a mind and human's dignity?" is a reference to a Polish meme, which literally translates into that.
* Ghost of the Present Christmas showing No-Life how he'll look like in a few seconds is inspired by Bill Cipher doing that in the Gravity Falls episode Sock Opera.
== Footnotes ==
Category:Spyman's Cosmos series
Category:No-Life specials
Category:Specials
Category:Episodes
Category:Hypnothis Era