There are plenty of other villains too, like Rudolph’s ashamed father Donner, the head Elf who treats Hermey like garbage for wanting to be a dentist, and almost all of the other elves and reindeer.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer first appeared in 1939 when Montgomery Ward department store asked one of its copywriters, 34-year-old Robert L. May, to create a Christmas story the store could ...