History Characters / Midsommar

* DisproportionateRetribution: Granted they were going to be killed regardless, but the only thing Simon and Connie do to incur the wrath of the Hårga is react pretty much as any sane outsider would to the suicide of the two elderly cult members. Connie is drowned and appears to have been beaten savagely before she died, and Simon gets likely the worst death in the film due to its savagery and how freaking ''long'' it takes him to die.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Granted they were going to be killed regardless, but the only thing Simon and Connie do to incur the wrath of the Hårga is react pretty much as any sane outsider would to the suicide of the two elderly cult members. Connie is drowned and appears to have been beaten savagely before she died, and Simon gets likely the worst death in the film due to its savagery and how freaking ''long'' it takes him to die.

* NightmareFetishist: Josh's interest in the ''ättestupa'' ritual and the cult as a whole seems to go beyond the merely academic. Though he reacts to [[spoiler:the elder cultists' suicides]] with marked horror, the moment he returns to the commune he starts writing up his observations on his laptop.

-->Played by: Archie Madekwe and Ellora Torchia

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillains: The undercurrent of racism or xenophobia among the Hårga are explicitly meant to be intentional, according to Ari Aster. They ''are'' white supremacists as a whole.

* DistaffCounterpart: To Peter from ''Hereditary''. [[spoiler:She survives the whole family's murder by her sister, who then commits suicide, but she ends up just as broken as Peter does by the end of the story. While arguably Peter's grandmother, rather than sister, is responsible for the death of his whole family, his sister is the ChosenOne and the main accidental instigator of their doom.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After having sex with Maja [[SlippingAMickey while being heavily drugged]], Christian comes to his senses and his clearly ''horrified''.
* NakedPeopleTrappedOutside: After the fertility ritual, he tries to flee in horror while still in the nude.

* CelibateHero: The only male member of the American cast to not get DistractedByTheSexy.

* TheQuisling: Christian forgets about his friends [[spoiler:after their disappearances]], and goes as far to throw Josh under the bus over the missing book. He also agrees to [[spoiler:cheat on Dani with Maja, partly to gain information on the Harga, although also just to get laid]] which ultimately leads to his horrible demise.

* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler:He's genuinely horrified upon finding Simon's vivisected corpse.]]

* SignificantSketchbook: His drawing is introduced as a casual hobby, but actually sheds light on some of his character and motivation.

* DoYouWantToCopulate: This is the essence of Siv's dialogue with [[spoiler:Christian]] and seems to encapsulate the Harga's attitudes towards sex.
* HorrorHippies: They're Swedish pagans rather than hippies, but they still hit a lot of points for this trope. They live in a remote village where they live in harmony with nature, have no reservations about sex, commit ritual suicide at the age of 72, [[spoiler:and have a tradition where they make {{Human Sacrifice}}s every 90 years]].

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Is paralyzed by the cult and chosen as the final sacrifice in their ritual by Dani, stuffed into the corpse of a bear and placed in a temple surrounded by the corpses of the other sacrifices, two of which are his closest friends, and burned alive, all while all he can do is sit and stare, being completely trapped in his own body.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: The May Queen]]

* DesperatelyCravesAffection: She has no family left and, apart from one woman she talked to over the phone at the beginning of the film, seemingly no close friends, so the emotionally-unavailable Christian is her only support system. As she only stays with him for the meager amounts of affection he provides, Pelle and the rest of the Hårga showering her in affection [[spoiler: results in their desired effect of her leaving her old life behind and becoming one of them.]]

* FromNobodyToNightmare: ''Yikes.'' [[spoiler: The fragile, good-intentioned Dani ends up holding Christian's life in her hands.]]
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: None of Christian's friends (sans Pelle) seem to enjoy her company, approve of the relationship, or appreciate her tagging along on the Sweden trip.

** She is also the only one who notices something wrong with the cult and wants to leave, but again Christian doesn't give a damn. [[spoiler: Thus dooming himself, his friends and Dani to either death or something worse]].
* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: [[spoiler: Her entire character arc has her come to consider the cult her true family, culminating in her becoming the May Queen and sentencing her boyfriend to death for a transgression he was essentially forced into committing]].

* SignificantWardrobeShift: For most of the film, she dresses in drab, shapeless clothing and wears her hair in a messy bun, till near the end, when she switches to an embroidered, form-fitting (but still modest) white dress and has her hair in an elaborate updo braid, topped with a flower crown, to signify how [[spoiler: she's being drawn into the Hårga.]]
* SoleSurvivor: Of her family [[spoiler: and her friend group.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: The Lover]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Deconstructed. Christian is a callous {{Jerkass}} and a terrible boyfriend, but the film makes it clear he still doesn't deserve any of the things he's subject to, and his effective murder at Dani's hands is the point she has been fully indoctrinated into the cult's beliefs.]]
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Travels to Sweden mostly so he can have sex with beautiful Nordic women. He eventually ends up being [[spoiler: drugged and essentially raped by the cult, who use him as a GlorifiedSpermDonor for Maja before brutally disposing of him at the May Queen's command]].

* GlorifiedSpermDonor: Literally. His only purpose in the ritual is to [[spoiler: impregnate Maja]], after which they leave his fate for the May Queen to decide.
* FairWeatherFriend: Dani displays more concern over his friends' absences then him, and he's quick to throw Josh under the bus to gain points with the elders in the village.
* {{Irony}}: His main character flaw is that [[NeverMyFault he refuses to accept responsibility for anything he does]] and pushes the blame onto other people, usually Dani. In the movie's climax, [[spoiler: Dani is given the ultimate responsibility as May Queen over Christian and she chooses to use it by selecting ''him'' as the final sacrifice.]]

* NotSoStoic: [[spoiler: He's genuinely horrified upon finding Simon's vivisected corpse.]]

* QuestionableConsent: Given that he was given some unknown drugs to drink without even knowing, him having sex with Maja, was not consensual sending the whole affair into rape territory, [[spoiler:which add even more tragedy to his death]]. He’s horrified when he comes back to his senses.
* TheQuisling: Christian forgets about his friends [[spoiler:after their disappearances]], and goes as far to throw Josh under the bus over the missing book. He also agrees to [[spoiler:cheat on Dani with Maja, partly to gain information on the Harga, although also just to get laid]] which ultimately leads to his horrible demise.

[[caption-width-right:350: The Scholar]]
* AmbitionIsEvil: His passion for his studies, and desire to get published leads to his [[spoiler: demise.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: The Fool]]

* DesecratingTheDead: [[spoiler: In a final act of indignity, Mark has a jester's hat put on the puppet representing him before his body is burned.]]

* EveryoneHasStandards: He's very vocal about his dislike of Dani and wanting Christain to break up with her in the opening scene, but never brings it up after [[spoiler: her parents and sister die]] and more-or-less ignores her.

[[caption-width-right:350: The Piper]]

* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: Gives one to Dani after she becomes May Queen.]]

* LongingLook: Has a habit of directing these at [[spoiler: Dani]], which [[spoiler: she]] never notices.

* VillainousCrush: [[spoiler: On Dani, even planting a kiss on her after she is crowned May Queen, to her bewilderment.]]

** [[spoiler: Subverted in that Simon is still alive, in the most horrific way possible, at the film's climax. Not that he lasts much longer.]]
* BodyHorror: Christian finds Simon, brutally vivisected with his lungs pulled through his back and his eyes removed with flowers placed in the sockets. Connie too as her corpse is seen later, being pushed in a wheelbarrow, its flesh completely pale and distended from being drowned and left underwater. Her arm also appears twisted and broken, possibly indicating she was beaten before being drowned.

* BadLiar: Their attempts to explain Simon's disappearance to Connie [[spoiler: after they kill him]] are almost comically implausible. They try to make her believe that he abruptly left for the train station without telling her, and when she protests that he would never do that, they try to justify it by saying "The truck only seats two people!" It actually makes them ''more'' disturbing, as the village is so isolated they don't actually have to be very convincing to her; there's almost nothing she can do about the situation anyway.
* BigBad: They collectively serve as this for the film.

* WouldHurtAChild: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. It seems like they're going to sacrifice a child by throwing him into a lake with weights chained to him, but stop at the last moment since he's ritually proven his bravery and willingness to die.

* ColorMotif: After Maja loses her virginity [[spoiler: to Christian]], she gets a red vest and cap and bright red lipstick, to symbolize she's now a sexual being.
* EvilRedhead: Maja has long, distinctive red hair, and her job was to ensnare Christian.
* LadyInRed: After she has sex [[spoiler: with a drugged Christian]], she gets a red vest, a red cap and bright red lipstick, to symbolize she's now a sexual being.

* QuestionableConsent: Given that he was given some unkown drugs to drink without even knowing, him having sex with Maja, was not consensual sending the whole affair into rape territory, [[spoiler:which add even more tragedy to his death]]. He id horrified when he comes back to his senses.

* BastardBoyfriend: While he's never physically abusive towards Dani, Christian acts emotionally distant and is passive-aggressive towards her. He wants to believe he's the UnderstandingBoyfriend, and does show some shallow attempts at caring for Dani, but she's aware of how much he seems to resent the job, and he actually comes across as a massive {{Jerkass}} for his total lack of sympathy.

* ItsAllAboutMe: He's mostly just concerned about getting his jollies in Sweden and is unsympathetic to Dani's concerns or need to take things slow, [[BastardBoyfriend gaslighting her and threatening to leave her when she tries to talk things over with him]]. He mostly ignores Dani's anxiety at seeing an upsetting ritual, steals Josh's graduate topic (which Josh is actually passionate about, unlike Christian who spends a couple of days in the village and then decides to stay), and then [[spoiler:is completely unconcerned about Josh and Mark's disappearances, even going so far as to completely disavow Josh to stay in good favor with the elders. And even though he's drugged into having sex with Maja, even before then he's flattered by the attention from women despite traveling with his girlfriend.]]

* BitchInSheepsClothing: He is a spiteful manipulator, especially in his relationship with Dani, but just in case you wondered if it was relationship-specific, instantly betrayed Josh - who was passionate about studying folk rituals - to compete with him over the Hårga.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Deconstructed. Christian is callous {{Jerkass}} and a terrible boyfriend, but the film makes it clear he still doesn't deserve any of the things he's subject to, and his effective murder at Dani's hands is the point she has been fully indoctrinated into the cult's beliefs.]]

* NervousWreck: Constantly on the brink and acts like one after her FreakOut in the opening minutes, which is justified by her trauma but then taken UpToEleven by the trip.

[[folder:Dani]]

[[folder:Christian]]