Steven Claus

Steven Claus is a major character in the 2011 computer animated film, Arthur Christmas. He is the older brother of Arthur Claus, the oldest son of Malcom and Margaret Claus, and the oldest grandson of GrandSanta.

Trivia

• He is often mistaken as a villain; this is false since he did not do anything evil.
• Steve’s goatee is in the shape of a Christmas tree.
• It is revealed that Steve has hacked highly secure military databases to inform the HOHO’s databanks.
• Steve’s voice can be heard in all the HOHOs and HOHOPads.
• According from “The art of Arthur Christmas“ book, Steve inherited his intelligent and a calming personality from his mother.
• Steve’s Santa suit is redesigned into Versace Armani.
• Steve has the Christmas tree logo all over his military attire and the bottom of his boots.
• Steve loves to drink espressos.
• Steve lifts his pinky whenever he drinks a beverage (which of course all fancy and rich people do and he thinks that he’s a CEO himself)
• On one of his flashcards one of the titles say "take over Easter", possible that Steve may have history with the Easter Bunny himself or his son.
• Steve's contact list are:
  • 1. Lapland hair
  • 2. Santa Claus
  • 3. Peter
  • 4. The S1
  • but now has five due to Arthur now being Santa Claus.
• In Steve's contacts it says Lapland. Lapland is an actual town in Finland where Santa Claus village is; it's possible that it‘s a secret town in the film‘s universe and that Steve goes there for the hair salon.
• It appears that Steve doesn’t have any friends of his age, as shown on his contact list.
• Steve‘s eye is shown to twitch.
• Both Steve and GrandSanta don't seem to be fond of the elves: Steve is annoyed, disgusted, and creeped out by the elves showing or talking about their inappropriate love urges.

• During the missed gift session, it appears that Bryony wants Steve’s attention (formally), showing that female elves also want his attention as well.
• Steve shows us that he’s not into elves, even if they are females.
• Steve seems to be a fan of Versace clothes line.
• Both Steve and Arthur are the only male Clauses who have not said any sexist or inappropriate things about women, showing that both brothers respect women and both have shown to feel uncomfortable when someone speaks negative about them.
  • Though not a Claus, Ernie the elderly elf told Steve that he can’t rush the signalator and had to play “her” gentle while at the same time he is seen twisting two black key (referencing them to be nipples) in front of Steve, which he is not comfortable with.
• Steve’s room, along with the whole North Pole base and the S1, is voiced by a woman’s computer voice. This could be a reference of Steve viewing the North Pole base as a big corporation (since big businesses corporations do have a computer‘s voice to make announcements or to warn danger, mostly female voice).
• Steve is the only Claus family member to have the woman’s computer voice in his bedroom, once he touches the icon on his HOHO screen, she can be heard saying things like: “lights out”, “curtains” or anything related in his bedroom to him (though some fans are wondering why Steve is using this voice and not his own voice in his room)
  • It might be a reference to him not having a wife.
• In the Art of Arthur Christmas book, It's been revealed that during reading the job article Steve would've applied to either the British railways or FedEx.
• Steve is the only one of the Clauses who do not speak to Mrs Claus.
• The reason why Steve hates kids is because kids are the ones who keeps getting his father's attention and neglecting him and Arthur.
• For some reason, Steve likes to wear his boots while on his bed.
• Steve’s appearance might’ve been inspired by his voice actor: Hugh Laurie but his younger version, especially how both men have the same pissed off stare. However both men are quite the opposite, for example: Hugh has a wife and kids and Steve doesn’t.
• According from the Art of making Arthur Christmas, Steve's bedroom is a mix of a rich boy's room and some Asian Feng Shui.
• There have been hints in the film and from the director that Steve was originally going to have a love interest.
  • There have been hints in the film that Steve was meant to have a female love interest but got removed, probably the crew didn’t want his character growth to be undone by having a girlfriend (at least not yet).
• Steve has become popular with the female fans and gay male fans.
• It has been shown that Steve feels very uncomfortable whenever Peter tries to be flirtatious towards him.
• Steve is showing to be metrosexual.
• During the film, Steve shows a lot of references to his bachelor status:
  • Steve's bedroom has the whole bachelor décor going on. There‘s even a lava lamp which is one of the many popular items that single men would have in their room or pad.
  • Steve is seen still fully dressed in his military uniform while sitting or laying on his bed. It’s usually what single men do, sleeping on the furniture fully dressed.
  • Steve is very protective of the S1 and gets angry when someone tries to take it or damages it. Very similar how any single man would react if someone takes his new fancy car.

Cultural References

• During his chatting with Arthur on the HOHO, Steve is shown grinning, a smile that is similar to the Grinch's smile from Dr. Seuss’s “How the Grinch stole Christmas”.
• Steve shares the same first name with Wonder woman's love interest, Steve Trevor. Coincidentally, both characters wear military attire.
• Steve shares the same name with founder of Apple inc, Steve Jobs.
  • Both have invented phones and tablets.
• The way Steve finds Peter's flirtatious attitude towards him to be annoying is an accurate reference of the main villain who always has a gay sidekick who is infatuated with him or her.
• Steve’s appearance is similar to a British celebrity, Paul Hollywood.
• Though both Christmas animation films were out in the same year (Arthur Christmas and Prep & Landing: Naughty vs Nice), both Steve and Mr. Thistleton share many similarities: However, unlike Steve, Mr. Thistleton has a crush and keeps on flirting with a female Elve name Magee.
• The Christmas tree logo that Steve design shares a similar style to the Apple Inc’s logo.
• Steve may have inspired the main villain of Warner Bros 2016 animated film “Storks”, Hunter as both characters share some similarities including having assistant admirer.
• Steve is very similar to King Julian from DreamWorks franchise Madagascar:
  • Both characters have a male character admirer
  • Both are vain.
  • Both just want their parents' attention and approval.
  • Both Steve and Julian find their assistants useful at times but mostly find them annoying.
  • Both Steve and Julian notice that the male admirer has feelings for them but ignore it and don't return these feelings due to many reasons (as seen in the movies).
• Steve shares many similarities with E.Aster Bunnymund a character from another DreamWorks animation film, "Rise of the Guardians":
  • Both take great pride of their holiday,
  • Both seem to dislike the opposite holiday that shares some similarities: Steve hates Easter and E.Aster hates Christmas.
  • Both don't like kids. (However, E.Aster slowly comes to care for children later on)