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* SaintlyChurch: Clearly sees his church as such, and in fairness he’s never portrayed as a ''bad'' person, just as inconsiderate and pushy about his beliefs.
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[[folder: Bror-Ivar Lunne]]
!!Bror-Ivar Lunne
-->'''Played by:''' Per Fritzell
A pastor of the Pentecostal Church who rebuild the station into a huge cathedral. He’s very enthusiastic about his plans, but seems mostly oblivious about the ''lack'' of any such enthusiasm from the people in his immediate surroundings.
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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Towards Mona during his musical number. She is quite uncomfortable with this, and visibly relieved when he leaves.
* PreacherMan: Unsurprisingly, yes. He is very devoted to his church, and is often looking for ways to improve and expand it.
[[folder: Bror-Ivar Lunne]]
!!Bror-Ivar Lunne
-->'''Played by:''' Per Fritzell
A pastor of the Pentecostal Church who rebuild the station into a huge cathedral. He’s very enthusiastic about his plans, but seems mostly oblivious about the ''lack'' of any such enthusiasm from the people in his immediate surroundings.
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* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Towards Mona during his musical number. She is quite uncomfortable with this, and visibly relieved when he leaves.
* PreacherMan: Unsurprisingly, yes. He is very devoted to his church, and is often looking for ways to improve and expand it.
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* LaughablyEvil: They are a bit too bumbling to truly be seen as a threat, even when pointing guns in people’s faces. This is ''especially'' the case when Jack begs his hostades to go easy on them because their ”work isn’t simple!”
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* TrainRobbery: After realizing their mistake, Göte suggests that he and Jack should just — in a InUniverse example of ThrowItIn — take the opportunity to rob s train. However, Jack is so embarrased by the whole thing that he doesn’t even want to attempt it.
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* FailedASpotCheck: They ignore several blatant signs that the building they’re in isn’t actually a bank, and deny any claims otherwise. Göte at least has the excuse of not seeing anything without his glasses.
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* CassandraTruth: Jack refuses to believe any claims that he’s not at a bank. The train station story? That’s just something the staff rehearsed. Axel’s uniform? The guy probably made it himself.
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* BeardOfEvil: Göte has a goatee, which helps making him more distinct from Knut Agnred’s other characters.
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* ThoseTwoBadGuys: A close pair of friends who just happen to be — or at least ''try'' to be — bankrobbers.
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* StupidCrooks: Boy are they ever! Made worse by Jack’s claim that they’ve ''repeatedly'' mistaken other buildings for banks!
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[[folder: Jack and Göte]]
!!Jack and Göte
-->'''Played by:''' Per Fritzell (Jack) and Knut Agnred (Göte)
A pair of bank robbers who hold the station hostage, believing it to be a bank. It takes a ''lot'' for our protagonists to convince them otherwise.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: They are so ridiculously bad at their job that it’s hard to not feel at least a bit of pity for them.
[[folder: Jack and Göte]]
!!Jack and Göte
-->'''Played by:''' Per Fritzell (Jack) and Knut Agnred (Göte)
A pair of bank robbers who hold the station hostage, believing it to be a bank. It takes a ''lot'' for our protagonists to convince them otherwise.
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* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: They are so ridiculously bad at their job that it’s hard to not feel at least a bit of pity for them.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: For starters, they hold “sing-along and animal impersonation events”, and have released a record with the ”catch” title ''[[LongTitle My Father Is Dead And So Is My Mother However My Brother Is Still With Us.'']] Yeah, you could say that they are a bit loopy.
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* DreadfulMusician: Their song is deliberately written to have repetitive music, equally repetitive rhyming and a bizarre subject matter. Torgny is also rather more HollywoodToneDeaf than Per Fritzell’s other characters.
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* CrazyPrepared: Their song features a ''very'' LongList of all the ways you should prepare yourself before venturing out into the forest. While we know that they didn’t write it InUniverse, they do still perform it with no hint of irony.
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* NorthByNorthwest: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Being from a Swedish production, they are a quite accurate portrayal of local traditional musicians, albeit not particularly great ones.
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* AmbiguousSyntax: They and the rest of the community association are celebrating their 80th anniversary. That is, the association itself is 80 years old, not every one of its members, as they want to make very clear.
* HappilyMarried: They may bicker a bit, but they do so without ever raising their voices or losing their respect for one another.
* HappilyMarried: They may bicker a bit, but they do so without ever raising their voices or losing their respect for one another.
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* SelfParody: See ManChild above. More generally, [[NationalStereotypes they are the most stereotypically Swedish characters in the play,]] and are presented as rather ridiculous.
* SpoofAesop: Their song ''My Brother And Me And The Policeman'' ends with the stated aesop “Never call the police if your brother has gone lost in the forest for a year.”
* SpoofAesop: Their song ''My Brother And Me And The Policeman'' ends with the stated aesop “Never call the police if your brother has gone lost in the forest for a year.”
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* ManChild: Torgny can come off as such with his dorky mannerisms and appearance. Per Fritzell stated that he based him on himself as a teenager ([[TakeThatMe an aspect of self he normally tried suppressing.]])
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* ImmigrantPatrionism: They love Sweden enough to incorporate the opening lines of the national anthem into their song, albeit mostly because they see it as a breeding ground for their own business and culture.
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[[folder: Torgny and Rigmor Assarsson]]
!! Torgny and Rigmor Assarsson
-->'''Played by:''' Per Fritzell (Torgny), Kerstin Granlund (Rigmor)
A traditional musician couple who check out the station on behalf of the local community association.
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* OutdatedName: ”Torvald” and ”Rigmor” are very old fashioned names, which fits with them wanting to turn the station into a historic museum.
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!! Torgny and Rigmor Assarsson
-->'''Played by:''' Per Fritzell (Torgny), Kerstin Granlund (Rigmor)
A traditional musician couple who check out the station on behalf of the local community association.
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* OutdatedName: ”Torvald” and ”Rigmor” are very old fashioned names, which fits with them wanting to turn the station into a historic museum.
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* ChickMagnet: Their song ''Daddy I Want An Italian'', is mainly them boasting about being this, while amassing enough female admirers to show for it.
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* ForeignCultureFetish: They claim that Swedes love everything and everyone Italian. There is some truth to this, as pizzerias had only gotten popular in the country since the previous decade, and were still thought of as something of a novelty.
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* GratituousItalian: Their song unsurprisingly features this, with the phrases ”Mamma Mia” and ”O Sole Mio” thrown in on occasion.
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* TheAce: Consider themselves such, and their fangirls tend to agree.
* CoolCar: They briefly mention Italy’s perchant for designing these, and of course drive one in the film.
* TheDividual: Have no individual traits, being pretty much two copies of one character.
* CoolCar: They briefly mention Italy’s perchant for designing these, and of course drive one in the film.
* TheDividual: Have no individual traits, being pretty much two copies of one character.
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* SharpDressedMan: They wear fancy suits with ridiculously oversized shoulder pads.
* SpagettiAndGondolas: Basically a collection of as many Italian stereotypes as could be squeezed into about three minutes.
* SpagettiAndGondolas: Basically a collection of as many Italian stereotypes as could be squeezed into about three minutes.
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!! Emilio and Angelo
-->'''Played by:'''Knut Agnred (Emilio), Per Fritzell (Angelo)
A pair of Italian businessmen who plan on turning the station into a pizzeria. They are quite popular with the local girls, and not-so-popular with their fathers.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Supposedly based on Swedish-American dancer Emilio Ingrosso, or at least on the EstrogenBrigade he accumilated.
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!! Emilio and Angelo
-->'''Played by:'''Knut Agnred (Emilio), Per Fritzell (Angelo)
A pair of Italian businessmen who plan on turning the station into a pizzeria. They are quite popular with the local girls, and not-so-popular with their fathers.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Supposedly based on Swedish-American dancer Emilio Ingrosso, or at least on the EstrogenBrigade he accumilated.
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* [[UnderstandingBoyfriend Understanding Ex-girlfriend]]: Is the only person we see who is actually supportive of Jerry’s desire to look for something better.
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* LarynxDissonance: PlayedWith. The film still has her old boyfriend quote her, but shows the lady herself saying her lines, to similar effect. Apparently Jerry got all of her inflections exactly right.
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* TheGhost: In the stage version. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the film, where ''Jerry’s Heavy Song'' is a filmed flashback.
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* AffectionateNickname: Calls Jerry ”shy little Mickey Mouse” which really indicates what a big softie he is on the inside.
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* ThrowItIn: In the film, her groceries are implied to be the inspiration for Jerry’s cheese metaphor. ItMakesSenseInContext, mostly.
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* SweetTooth: Seems to have a bit of this, as she offers Jerry some toffe.
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* ShesAllGrownUp: She and Jerry were presumably teenagers when they dated. After reuniting decades later, he says that “she was more beautiful than ever.”
