Mother Nature as she appears in A Miser Brothers Christmas.
Mother Nature is a common personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature, who has managed to appear as a character in a few Christmas productions.
Appearances
The Year Without a Santa Claus
Mother Nature is most notably featured as the mother of Snow Miser and Heat Miser in the Rankin/Bass special The Year Without A Santa Claus. (Like Heat Miser and Snow Miser, she did not appear in the original book that the special is based on.) In the special, she administers her duties from an isolated island-like location among the clouds where she serves tea to visitors and keeps forest animals as company. She is shown to possess great power illustrated in the form of physical displacement transportation by way of lightning. Mrs. Claus comes to visit Mother Nature during the special in order to settle a dispute between Heat Miser and Snow Miser concerning the weather in Southtown.
This version of Mother Nature reappears in A Miser Brothers' Christmas, in which she is also shown to be the mother of Earthquake, Thunder and Lightning, the Tides, and the special's villain, North Wind. In the special, Mother Nature tells Heat Miser and Snow Miser that they must take over for Santa after an sled accident.
The Santa Clause
Mother Nature also appears as a supporting character in the second and third films of The Santa Clause trilogy. Here, she is shown as the head of the Council of Legendary Figures.