History ComicBook / Bamse

* EvilVersusEvil: Reinard manages a glorious feat of [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastardry]] when he manages to scam Kroesus. He starts by pitching a few paintings to Kroesus, claiming them to be worth a lot. Kroesus wants to buy them for a low price, and when he can't he has his minions steal them… only to find out they were under insurance of his own insurance company. By the time this happens, Reinard has already collected the money, so goodbye any hope Krösus had of getting them back.

[[caption-width-right:256:The central PowerTrio.]]

* CheatersNeverProsper: Whenever there is a contest and villains are participating, they will usually try to cheat their way to victory, which almost never works out. They are either discovered and disqualified or the good guys see this and win over them fair and square.

* CriticalResearchFailure: One plotline fatured Krösus Sork trying to get his hands on the Rosetta Stone, with the plan being to cut it into smaller stones and selling them for a fortune. Apparently he (or possibly the writers) thought it was a precious gemstone, and not in fact a massive engraved stele weighing 1,700 pounds.

** One story from 2016 is about Bamse going into a hat shop and trying on all the hats in the shop before deciding he likes his old one best. The shop is full of [[NiceHat nice hats]] from various franchises, and the cover shows a few more. Among them are [[ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio Spirou's]] bell boy hat and a [[Literature/TheCatInTheHat striped top hat]].

The cast has gradually expanded as the series went on, the original PowerTrio of Bamse the bear (mostly the BigGuy even though he's small... almost verging on a CuteBruiser considering that most other adult characters are actually much larger) Skalman the turtle (AbsentMindedProfessor sometimes bordering on MadScientist and also TheSpock) and Lille Skutt the rabbit (FragileSpeedster and CowardlySidekick, although he has enough incidents of bravery that he approaches TheSoCalledCoward) and to some extent their friends and antagonists. The second CastHerd is made up mainly of the triplets of the titular character (artistic Brum, TomBoy Nalle-Maja and BadassBookworm Teddy) and to some extent their friends. But over the years the series has attracted LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.

Now has a [[Characters/{{Bamse}} character page]], but given the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters vast amount of characters]], it could always use more work.

Swedish children's comic (aimed at the very youngest readers) created by Rune Andreasson, started off as a half-page weekly cartoon in 1966. Got its own comic-book in 1973. It has been translated to all the Nordic languages and had short publishing runs in Belgium and the Netherlands, as well as failed attempts to launch it in Great Britain.

* PetTheDog: Reinard has several of these towards Mickelina, his RomanticInterest.

* BilingualBonus: Often overlaps with ParentalBonus. One of the more complicated ones involves Vargen's OldFlame Virginia Varg. Varg=Wolf in Swedish, so her name's [[Film/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf Virginia Wolf]].

*** Mind you, in a 2016 story he actually got a bit badass, using his burglar skills to steal a necklace from a nasty rich person and giving it to the father of a poor wolf girl who reminded him of himself as a child.

* EvilVersusEvil: Reinard manages a glorious feat of [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastardry]] when he manages to scam Kroesus. He starts by pitching a few paintings to Kroesus, claiming them to be worth a lot. Kroesus wants to buy them for a low price, and when he can't he has his minions steal them… only to find out they were under insurance of his own insurance company. By the time this happens, Reinard has already collected the money, so goodbye any hope Kroesus had of getting them back.

** The newest villain, Reinard the fox, is clearly an {{Expy}} of Vargen from his early, villainous days. This is even {{Lampshaded}} by Bamse and Skalman in Reinard's intro story.
*** He's an even bigger {{Expy}} of the villainous fox Martin Mickel, the Teddy(Bamse Prototype series) villain that Vargen AND Kroesus was based on.

** Captain Saber Vole and his crew are pirates just like Captain Buster, but Saber Vole is actually competent and smarter than most of the other villains.

* NoOSHACompliance: Bamse's grandmother lives on an absurdly tall mesa with no fences anywhere. Skalman lives in a house on stilts that loos like they were cobbled together from leftover planks. (Though given his skills, they are likely to be far sturdier than they look.) The kindergarten is located on the edge of a tall cliff, with only a badly maintained board fence to keep kids from falling off. (And yes, ''it broke down'' once when a kid leaned on it, but Skalman was around to catch the kid.)
** Mind you, it was Skalman himself who had tampered with the fence in order to force Burre to rescue Nalle-Maja and thus make peace between them, and it is strongly implied that Nalle-Maja was in on the scheme.

* {{Omniglot}}: Skalman can speak lots of languages. Including fish. And Lion.

** Oh boy, Vargen, full stop. One story that deals with his childhood reveals that [[spoiler: his parents died in a forest fire but managed to save him by putting him in a basket and sending it down a river, where he was found by a trio of criminals, that reluctantly raised him, though they weren't exactly ideal parents. Aside from being abusive, they also taught him to steal.]]

* SeriesContinuityError: Despite establishing previously that there is no way to go further into the future from the starting point with Skalman's time machine, there was recently a comic where they did just that.

* ShoutOut: Pirate Jenny is named after a character from ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera''.

* SpeciesSurname:A common naming convention. The oddest case is probably ''Vargen'' ("The Wolf"), the original villain, who has retained precisely that name, even as most others have gained more "full" names (although usually including some reference to their species). His origin story tries to explain this by claiming that his [[AbusiveParents stepfathers simply never cared enough to bother giving him a proper name.]]