There Was No Inn in the Room

Every good story needs a villain—even a Sunday-School Christmas pageant.  Of course, the original Christmas story from Matthew and Luke had a super-villain: King Herod.  But for a Sunday School production, it doesn't really work to have grade-school kids acting out the Slaughter of the Innocents, so there isn't room for a Herod.  In his place, therefore, a new villain must be found.