History Film / TheTrollHunter

* TheStoic: ''Hans.''

* BolivianArmyEnding: Debatable, but the finale certainly doesn't bode well for the filmmakers and Han.

* BolivianArmyEnding: Debatable, but the finale certainly doesn't bode well for the filmmakers.

* MundaneFantastic: It is highlighted several times that the passage of time has turned troll hunting (a job for heroes in epic fantasy tales) into a mundane, thankless and furthermore soul-crushingly ''boring'' (yet still highly dangerous, which makes it "soul-crushing" in other ways) kind of animal control, including such details as having to fill after-action forms in triplicate and having to wipe out incredible animals for reasons as stupid as assisting with civic construction projects.

* MundaneFantastic: It is highlighted several times that the passage of time has turned troll hunting (a job for heroes in epic fantasy tales) into a mundane (yet highly dangerous) and furthermore ''boring'' kind of animal control, including such details as having to fill after-action forms in triplicate.

* InUniverseCamera

* LiteraryAgentHypothesis

* TheMasquerade

* {{Mockumentary}}

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Hans reminisces about slaughtering numerous trolls to clear land for development. This also meant killing troll women and troll children; it's clear from how he speaks that he isn't proud of what he did.

* BigBad: [[spoilerFinn Haugen, the ruthless government agent covering up the trolls' existence.]]

** The only exception being the [[spoiler: Jotnar]] they encounter at the end, which is met in the middle of a snowy field

* UrbanFantasy

** Kalle at one point states that [[{{Deliverance}} if they meet any in-bred hillbillies in the woods]], Thomas is getting it first.

* TheHunter: Hans, as per the title, hunts trolls. Though he's come to hate the job.

** This can also be taken as commentary on how Christianity's arrival in Norway (and the rest of Scandinavia) started to push out the old beliefs - the trolls see Christians as a threat to their existence/habitat.

* ArmourIsUseless: Completely subverted. Hans dons a full suit of what appears to be homemade plate armor, complete with helmet ("I hate this crap," Hans grumbles) in order to go toe-to-toe with a mammoth bridge troll and get a blood sample. The beast smacks him around pretty good, but he emerges bruised but mostly unscathed thanks to his protective armor.

* [[YourVampiresSuck Your Trolls Suck]]: Hans explicitly mentions the Norwegian stories about trolls collected by Asbjornsen and Moe (the Norwegian equivalents to the Brothers Grimm) as being mostly fairy tales with wildly inaccurate information.

* TheMole: The "seismologist" they meet in the mountains near the end. [[spoiler: It's implied he's a TSS agent who tipped them off on where the filmmakers would be]].

** Kalle's death also falls into this nebulous realm. While it's stated that trolls can smell the blood of Christians, Kalle really didn't do himself any favors by going into a full blown panic mode in his final moments and making big enough of a racket that the trolls pretty much became alerted to his presence anyways. While it is possible that the trolls smelled his blood during his last minute confession that he was a Christian, it's equally as likely that they became alerted to him because, well... he just started panicking and making enough noise to give away their location.

''The Troll Hunter'' (Trolljegeren) is a Norwegian FoundFootage film released in 2010. The movie [[LiteraryAgentHypothesis purports to be found footage]], sent in to the film studio, [[BookEnds and opens and closes with comments from the film studio about the fate of the footage and the film makers]]. The film follows three film students from a journalism college -- Thomas (presenter), Kalle (camera) and Johanna (sound) -- who are planning to make a documentary about a possible bear poacher and local eccentric identified only as "Hans". Hans turns out to be in the employ of TST, [[GovernmentConspiracy the Norwegian troll-safety department]], as their government-sanctioned troll hunter (of the Norwegian folklore kind of troll) who hunts and kills trolls who come into contact with people.

* CastingGag: Knut Nærum, a Norwegian comedian known for delivering sometimes odd jokes with a deadpan tone and facial expression and being fond of the GovernmentConspiracy as a topic of humor, plays a clueless power plant worker who has no idea why certain power lines are set up in a useless circle and tries to (futilely) rationalize it on-screen.

* {{Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever}}: The troll on the poster.

* GlobalWarming: At one point, there is a radio broadcast about global warming and it's affects on wildlife, heavily insinuating that the warming is causing the change in the behaviour of the trolls. [[spoiler: But that turns out to be a RedHerring when it is revealed the trolls have rabies.]]

* MisplacedWildlife: Invoked. Finn complains that the bear planted by the Polish contractors after the first encounter is ''Croatian'', a fact to which they remain hilariously nonchalant. Later on, we see him awkwardly explaining to a group of journalists that a rampaging Russian bear is behind a recent series of mysterious goat butchery.

* GovernmentConspiracy