Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come - Variations

Variations

• In Mickey's Christmas Carol, Christmas Future smokes a cigar, blowing fog all over Scrooge McDuck. After showing Scrooge the grieving Cratchits at Tiny Tim's grave, Christmas Future brings him to a fresh plot being dug by two of the Weasels from Disney's The Wind in the Willows, who mention no mourners attending the funeral nor friends to bid the deceased farewell. Scrooge asks "whose lonely grave is this?" and Christmas Future strikes a match to light up the inscription on the gravestone, which much to Scrooge's horror is revealed to be his own. The ghost subsequently reveals himself to be recurring Disney villain Pete who replies: "Why yours, Ebenezer. The richest man in the cemetery!" As Pete laughs diabolically, he pushes Scrooge into the grave. Scrooge clutches at the sides to keep from falling into a coffin deep below, which belches out smoke and flames like a portal to Hell. Once Scrooge loses his grip and falls, he desperately shouts "I'll change! I'll change!". He wakes suddenly after having fallen out of bed, realizing that he has been given another chance and immediately goes out to spread his newfound cheer.
• In the 1992 film The Muppet Christmas Carol, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is depicted as a large figure in a tattered black hood, walking Scrooge (played by Michael Caine) slowly to each place he must visit. At the end, when he reveals Scrooge's grave, Scrooge grabs onto the Ghost's robe, saying tearily that he is a changed man, and pleading for another chance. The robes fall away, and Scrooge finds that he is gripping onto his bed-curtains, having returned from his visitations and awoken on Christmas morning.
• In Scrooged, Christmas Future is a shrouded figure with a skull-like television screen for a head and a skeletal hand. When Frank Cross opens this spirit's robe, he sees several undead figures trapped in a ribcage, howling in anguish and bathed in demonic red light. The howling and light immediately stop when Cross closes the robe.
• In John Grin's Christmas, Christmas Future is interpreted by Geoffrey Holder as a variation on his popular 007 villain Baron Samedi (from Live and Let Die).
• In The Mask: The Animated Series episode "Santa Mask", The Mask appears as all three ghosts to Dr. Pretorius after trapping him in a nightmare. As the Ghost of Christmas Future, he is vocal, unlike the original mute Dickens version. He warns the scientist that he will receive a "gift from The Mask", which turns out to be a time bomb.
• In the 1998 animated made-for-television film An All Dogs Christmas Carol, Charlie B. Barkin becomes the ghost, and as a reference to The Mask he appears to Carface Carruthers with a Gospel-style song-and-dance.
• In A Diva's Christmas Carol the ghost is portrayed by a miniature television showing a future episode of Behind the Music, about Ebony Scrooge.
• In A Carol Christmas the ghost is portrayed as an ominous looking chauffeur, played by James Cromwell, uncredited.
• In A Christmas Carol: The Musical a blind old beggar woman Scrooge rebuffs later becomes the ghost.
• Taz (Jim Cummings) portrays the ghost in Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas.
• In the 2009 Disney film A Christmas Carol, the ghost is depicted as a shadow of a huge cloaked figure (usually in place of Scrooge's own shadow), capable of reaching out in physical form, usually to point at something. Though necessary to make Scrooge learn his lesson, the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is, unlike in other depictions, more aggressive and even malicious towards him, as the Spirit actively torments Scrooge in ways such as bursting out to knock him over, chasing him from atop a stagecoach pulled by stampeding horses, and shrinking Scrooge down to an extremely small size (particularly when he encounters Old Joe, the fence). In a reference to Mickey's Christmas Carol, his visitation ends with the Ghost revealing on Scrooge's own gravestone that he will die on December 25 of an unspecified (possibly imminent) year, followed by Scrooge falling into an extremely deep grave, seemingly descending all the way to Hell, with a simple pine coffin sitting on top of the glowing red flames. Scrooge falls howling into the coffin, but wakes to find himself tangled up in his bed-curtains, a knot in the wood of his bedroom floor similar in appearance to one in the coffin.
• In "A Little Miracle", a season three episode of the science fiction television series Quantum Leap, the character Al Calavicci dresses in chains and ghostly makeup and appears as a hologram to a greedy industrialist, claiming to be "the Ghost of Christmas Future". The industrialist, at first not believing him, points out that Jacob Marley wore chains, whereas the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come wore "a black robe".
• In The Young and the Restless 2010 episode "Victor's Christmas Carol", the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come is portrayed by Colleen Carlton, Victor Newman's goddaughter and heart donor after taken off life support due to drowning. Faithful to the original Dickens story, she is shrouded in a black cloak completely concealing her and never speaks. Later on, Victor figures out for himself who she is and realizes he has been wasting the heart she gave him.
• In Scrooge, the ghost reveals itself to have a frozen, dirty skeletal face underneath the shrouded robes, as well as bony skeletal hands. This sudden change of appearance scares Scrooge into falling backwards down his grave and into Hell.
• In the second part of the Angry Video Game Nerd Christmas Carol story, he is represented by the Dracula sprite from Castlevania II: Simon's Quest. He shows the AVGN his own future of playing video games for the Wii. He then shows the nerd his grave stone.
• In the 2008 animated film Barbie in A Christmas Carol, the ghost (Gwynyth Welch) is revealed to be a middle-aged woman in a red dress who shows Eden, her potential future if she does not change her ways. Rather than being shown a vision of her death, the ghost reveals a future where Eden is poor and her rival is a popular, but cruel fashion designer.