Krampus is the main antagonist of the 2015 American comedy-horror film Krampus.
Described as "the shadow of St. Nicholas", Krampus is an ancient demonic spirit who teaches important lessons about embracing the Christmas spirit by tormenting his victims with hellish monsters and elves.
Appearance
Krampus is a large hunch-backed creature with enormous, black, segmented ram horns, long fingers with sharp black claws, and goat-like hooves. He wears a large tattered cloaked made of a patchwork combination of different fabric squares; said cloak is also covered in rusty chains and sleigh bells. To obscure his true face, Krampus wears the flayed face of an old man with a white beard and perpetually hanging jaw.
Powers and Abilities
Krampus possesses the following powers and abilities:
- Claws
- Henchman
- High jumping
- Weather manipulation
Fate
Krampus captures the entirety of the Engel family, only for the film to reveal that he gave them a second chance at life and is now spying on them through a surveillance snowglobe.
Trivia
- Krampus is, in reality, a mythological figure from Pagan folklore in the alpine regions of Germany and Austria.
- though only glimpsed his real face seems to be fairly goat like with brown skin and flame orange eyes with black horizontal pupils
- he gifts naughty children slieghbells with their name carved into it
- besides the monsters we see in the movie other monsters shown in krampuses sack include a nutcracker with bloody eyes, a spiked metal hat and a wide fleshy jaw with jagged teeth, a panda version of teddy klaue, a razor beaked white toy duck, a headless doll, a blue and red striped present box with a mouth and a head of a toy goblin with two horns and green skin
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