Sophiana Is From Christmas Is Here Again

Christmas is Here Again is a directly to video animated Christmas Special produced in 2007 past Renegade Animation. The story begins one night when Santa Claus' sack is stolen by an evil being named Krad, forcing Santa to cancel Christmas. Thirty years pass by with no visits from Santa.

And then 1 day an orphan named Sophiana finds i of Santa's elves trapped in ice. Later existence freed from the ice, the elf, named Paul Rocco, is shocked to acquire that nobody knows what Christmas is. Together they set off to observe Santa'southward sack and retrive it and so that the world can know Christmas again.

The major characters are:

• Sophiana (Madison Davenport): An orphan girl forced to walk with a cane. She'due south a kind, loving girl, despite never experiencing Christmas. Subsequently running abroad from her orphanage, she discovers Paul Rocco and decides to help him discover Santa's sack so the earth can know Christmas again.
• Mr. Caterpillar (Pamela Zappia): A caterpillar whom Sophiana finds in a tree. He accompanies her on her journey and plays the part of The Voiceless.
• Miss Dowdy (Kathy Bates): The woman who runs the orphanage where Sophianna lives. She isn't a villain; she'due south just a perpetual pessimist.
• Paul Rocco (Daniel Roebuck): Ane of Santa'south elves. When the sack is discovered missing, he goes out to find it, but is frozen in ice for 30 years. Sophiana finds him and the 2 set out to find Santa's sack and bring it dorsum.
• Santa (Andy Griffith): After being out of work for 30 years, Santa has actually allow himself go and has all just given upwards hope.
• Victoria Claus (Shirley Jones): She nevertheless holds out hope and encourages her married man to cheer upwards.
• Dart (Colin Ford): A young reindeer who dreams of being on Santa's team one twenty-four hours, despite the fact that he'south never flown. He goes along with Sophianna and Paul Rocco to help them out.
• Buster (Norm Macdonald): A play tricks who lives on the mountain. Buster is a perpetual schemer, but ends up helping Sophiana anyway.
• Charlee (Brad Garrett): A polar conduct who's friends with Buster. He seems to have an incredibly short attention bridge.
• Krad (Ed Asner): An evil beingness who stole Santa's sack after Santa stopped handing out Krad's coal to bad children.
• The Selves (Michael Norris): Krad'south minions who are forever forced to mine coal for him.

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Christmas Is Here Again contains examples of:

• Artistic License – Organized religion: When Rocco is telling Sophiana well-nigh Christmas in song, he opens with "When the Christ Child was born, gifts were brought from far away," which describes a completely different holiday (Epiphany or Three Kings Day). It would be more appropriate to sing about the fact that Christmas is celebrated because the Christ Child was built-in.
• Purse of Belongings: Santa'southward sack.
• Big "NO!": Krad says this in the climax, just when Sophiana dumps all the coal in Santa's sack that buries him and his Selves.
• Break the Cutie: Miss Dowdy sends Sophiana to her room and when Sophiana pleads with her non to considering it's adoption twenty-four hours, Miss Dowdy says she has no chance of being adopted anyway.
• Bill of fare-Conveying Villain: Krad has a song all virtually how evil he is.
• Convection Schmonvection: Sophiana and the others ride downward a river of lava with no ill furnishings and Krad'southward castle is in the center of a lava lake.

• Crapsack World: Basically, an entire generation of kids grew up without Christmas or Santa Claus.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Miss Dowdy, past the end of the pic.

• For the Evulz: Krad'south main motivation for what he does.
• Go Through Me: Rocco does this inadvertently when he refuses to requite Santa's sack to Krad almost the climax, but later Krad demanded him to paw over the sack by yelling mid-sentence, Rocco gives the sack to Krad, feeling intimidated and nervous.

Rocco: (refusing to requite the sack) I will protect this sack earlier my dying breath!

Rocco: (nervously, giving him the sack) Hither you go.

• Handicapped Badass: She'southward non a fighter, merely Sophiana doesn't allow her limp slow her down at all. Even before the big adventure, she'south seen climbing trees to rescue animals.
• Happily Adopted: Sophiana at the end. Past Santa and Mrs. Claus, of all people.
• Hoist past His Own Petard: Krad and his minions are crushed past a load of coal from the roof of his mine.
• Home Run Hitter: Happens in the climactic boxing when Sophiana uses her branch pikestaff to striking Krad's robotic owl minion far towards the cavern walls, exploding.
• Inevitable Waterfall: When the bridge they're crossing over a lava of river collapses, they are predictably faced with said lava cascading down a steep cliff. Dart gains the ability to fly merely in fourth dimension before they're burned to a well-baked.
• Informed Ability: Sophiana spends all her free fourth dimension reading cookbooks and is actually pretty good at cooking.
• Informed Deformity: For all of Sophiana'due south dependence on her walking stick, she can walk quite long distances and climb on trees without much of a fuss.

• Wiggle with a Heart of Jerk: Hoo male child, Buster. He only helps Sophiana after she gives him her gold locket. He was planning to ditch her, which was ruined by Charlee. He then tempts Sophiana with wealth after finding jewels. He steals some of the jewels which leads to the grouping beingness trapped on a river of lava. And finally he pretends to sell Sophianna out to Krad then he can become close to the sack.
• Jesus Taboo: Averted. Jesus' name is surprisingly mentioned quite a few times and Santa'southward sack is made from the same textile that was used to swaddle the baby Jesus subsequently being built-in in a manger.
• Kids Are Cruel: Bullies who are perfectly enlightened of Sophiana'due south condition pelt her with snowballs until she falls from a tree and steal her walking stick.
• Orphanage of Fear: Miss Dowdy has the orphans practice all her chores and feeds them gruel despite having good nutrient like bacon and eggs in the kitchen.
• Sdrawkcab Proper name: Krad's proper noun is "night" spelled backwards. Subtle.
• Spell My Name with an "South": The main character'south name is spelled with two Ns in almost sources, including the official website, simply one N in the movie itself.
• Subverted Rhyme Every Occasion: The engraved warning in the precious stone cavern reads:

  To all who enter, take heed

  Peculiarly those almost in demand

  Although your wealth may exist improved

  For every gemstone from hither removed

  A terrible fate you volition endure

  You won't exist happy, and that'southward for existent

• That Reminds Me of a Vocal: Happens to Krad afterwards Sophianna asked him why he would do such terrible things like stealing Santa's sack, causing Krad to break into a villain song, I'm Evil.

Sophianna: Why would you exercise such a terrible affair similar steal Santa's sack?

Krad: (breaks into song) Why practise zebras take stripes? Why do the Scottish play bagpipes? Some things simply are. Me? I'm evil. Always accept been, ALWAYS will be...evil...

• Tiny Tim Template: Sophiana is an orphan whose parents were killed in a car crash. Said machine crash likewise injured her leg, forcing her to walk with a pikestaff, which gets her a lot of bullying from other orphan kids who know of her condition. She also grew upwardly not knowing what Christmas is, and the orphanage she lives in is run by a woman with a fairly dim view of the world who subjects the kids to harsh treatment. In spite of all of this, Sophiana manages to go along a positive attitude even when more hardship is thrown her way throughout the movie.
• Tragic Keepsake: Sophiana keeps a picture of her parents in a heart-shaped locket.
• Viewers Are Goldfish: The narration often points out things as they are already happening on-screen or accept just happened not that long agone.
• Villain Song: Krad gets two. The showtime is called I Stole Santa'southward Sack, which was the second office to the Who Stole Santa's Sack? vocal in the opening. The second is chosen I'yard Evil, with the song only telling how he became evil, what evil things he did (which would make The Grinch vocal better than this one), and what he would rather do than become nice, laconically lacking free energy or enthusiasm in the villain vocal.

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