5 Offbeat Christmas Cartoon Episodes to Watch This Year

 As a fan of the weird and obscure, I like to cover the stuff that is not covered as much.

Most of these are quite recent to boot.

Let's begin with...

This Disney XD Show made during the peak of the MCU's rise.

The team- Hulk, Red Hulk, She-Hulk, Skaar and A-Bomb get their Christmas dream life...but there's a catch.

As a bonus, check out The Guardians of the Galaxy in their Comic form, since this Show was made before their Film in 2014.

Ultimate Spider-Man is another Disney XD Show that had a Christmas Episode...or two.

In the first one, Spidey *also* gets his dream life, but it comes with bad consequences.

This one has a fun aspect where he sees his early adventures done in the style of the 1960's Cartoon (which is also on Disney +).

In the second one, he experiences Christmas alongside a new Hero- Moon Knight.

This Moon Knight is played up like a (more) crazy Batman and is voiced by Brave & The Bold's Deidrich Bader.

Isn't he Jewish though?

In one that I'd forgotten about for a good 25+ years, there's 'We Wish You A Morlock Christmas' from the classic X-Men Show.

In this Holiday Episode, they learn that Leech- one of the Morlocks (Mutants who are too freaky-looking/acting to live on the surface)- is sick.

Storm- who won leadership of the Morlocks but is not around- is guilt-tripped while they find a way to heal the Mutant.

Let's end on a Christmas Episode from last year that I didn't get around to watching until this Year.

It is...

The Plot is bonkers.  When you realize that Dave Jesser and Matt Silverstein- who created Drawn Together- work on this Show, it makes sense.

In one Plot, their Pupa (too long a story) helps a kid on Christmas, while the rest of them...end up in a post-apocalyptic hellscape in the World of Jingle All the Way.

Merry Christmas!

These are all fun and silly in their own way.  All but the X-Men one are pretty balanced out with humor, action and the like.

I should note that the Solar Opposites one is 100% not for kids, so don't share it with the kids unless they like animated blood and jokes about cannibalism.

The X-Men one is very heartwarming and so saccharine (do people still use that word) that it made my teeth hurt.  You get Cyclops trying to sing Christmas songs, Wolverine facing survivor's guilt (hi, kids!) and Storm being berated by the Morlocks (and rightly so).

It all wraps up sweetly with the gang celebrating Christmas...in the Sewers with the Morlocks as the C-Plot is wrapped up.  That one involves Jean Grey and Gambit arguing in the kitchen over cooking Christmas Dinner.  It even almost comes to blows.

So, when you think of Christmas, think of giving, helping others, loving your family and... threatening someone with a head of broccoli.

Ho Ho Ho.