Santa Claus has a surprising range in terms of his mythology, appearance, and portrayal in media.
For a figure with a pop-cultural image shaped in large part by Coca-Cola commercials, Santa Claus has a surprising range. His mythology has become almost completely secularized — his origin as a Christian saint replaced with jolly whole-cloth hokum. He can be an immortal demigod who pals around with Merlin and Jesus, the harried CEO of a toy-manufacturing company based at the North Pole, or the dignified figurehead of a hereditary monarchy whose title is passed down through the generations.
He can have different levels of magical power — from godlike omniscience to a Batman-like dependency on gadgetry. He can be tall or short, fat or thin. He is almost always portrayed as a white man in mainstream live-action media, and the broad beats of the character’s appearance — big white beard and red suit — make the transformation easy enough for whoever has been chosen to embody hi
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