Santa Claws

A promotional artwork for Santa Claws.

List of *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir* episodes

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**"Santa Claws"** is a Christmas-themed episode special in the second season of *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*. It premiered on December 20, 2016, on Netflix. It revolves around that Ladybug mistakes Santa himself as a villain, which Hawk Moth akumatizes him as "Santa Claws".

## Synopsis

### Santa Claws

Because of Ladybug, a Santa Claus gets akumatized by Hawk Moth. Now Santa Claws, he is determined to make this Christmas Eve the worst in Paris’s history. Will Ladybug and Cat Noir manage to save Christmas?

## Trivia

* Internationally, this episode first premiered in France on TFOU.
* This episode is famously advertised as a Christmas special episode due to its Christmas theme and songs.
* The episode was originally advertised as a 40 minute special, called "**Ladybug in Christmas**" when concept art of it was first published by Jeremy Zag. Later concept art listed the name as "A Special Christmas".
* The episode was shown in theaters during its Korean premiere in February 2017.
* The special was originally announced to be 40 minutes long. However, it was finally released as a standard episode with 21 running minutes.
* Ezra Weisz explained in a Periscope that the shortened length was due to deadlines.
* It was stated that the powers of the Turtle Miraculous would be revealed in this episode. However, the Turtle Miraculous was not featured in the episode's final release.
* According to Wilfried Pain, this episode happens somewhere in season 1 and before season 2.
	+ As of May 11, 2018, "Santa Claws" was announced as a season 2 episode, therefore, it is considered to be a part of that season, despite the story of this episode taking place during season 1's timeline.

## See also

* "Santa Claws" on the Miraculous Ladybug Wiki

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=if3jLKJoNuE & https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/zags-miraculous-ladybug-takes-flight-this-christmas-on-netflix-300382072.html
2. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/TFOU/videos/898045886997469/
3. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20210623201452if\_/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/fyt89x/miraculous-tales-of-ladybug-cat-noir-season-2/
4. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20181211194423/https://kidsclick.com/watch/miraculous-tales-of-ladybug-cat-noir-s02e26

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