Line #173 Characters/TheStationMasterIsOnFire


1	Characters appearing in the stage and movie musical Theatre/TheStationMasterIsOnFire.
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4	[[folder: Axel Hansson]]
5
6	!!Axel Hansson
7
8	-->'''Played by:''' Anders Eriksson
9
10	The eponymous Station Master. When receiving news that the train station has been shut down, he hatches a desperate ZanyScheme to keep it open, no matter the cost.
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12	* AppealToTradition: His response to Bror-Ivar amounts to not wanting to make any pointless changes.
13	* BadLiar: Many of his claims are quite outrageous and generally amount to DiggingYourselfDeeper. Most people InUniverse still find them believable enough for him to get away with them.
14	* BeliefMakesYouStupid: As far as he’s concerned, at least. Axel is an outspoken atheist, who doesn’t under any circumstances want his station to be turned into a church.
15	* HypocriticalHumor: Makes a big deal out of Sören’s constant singing, even though he’s a musical protagonist who sings just as much. Perhaps best demonstrated when he tells Sören that he very much doesn’t want to be a song and dance man... in the form of a song and dance number.
16	* KarmaHoudini: He ultimately receives no punishment for his actions, beyond being forced to tell the truth and spend a few hours worrying about his job.
17	* KickThatSonOfABitch: [[SympatheticPOV From his perspective]], kidnapping and beating up Gerhard is simply just desserts [[DisproportionateRetribution for shutting down his station.]]
18	* LaughablyEvil: Some of his hijinks are quite immoral and even illegal, but they are all PlayedForLaughs.
19	* RailEnthusiast: Is utterly obsessed with trains, which is part of the reason why he fights so hard to keep his job even when others are offered to him.
20	* VillainProtagonist: Albeit purely of the AffablyEvil kind.
21	* WeNeedADistraction: His ''Train Madness'' song is one, and he also has Sören ask Bror-Ivar to sing to facilitate another.
22	[[/folder]]
23
24	[[folder: Sören Skärberg]]
25
26	!!Sören Skärberg
27
28	-->'''Played by:''' Knut Agnred
29
30	The nominal signalman of the station, though in practise he’s more of a JackOfAllTrades. He’s a bit of an oddball, but generally competent at his job, and certainly loyal to Axel.
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32	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Considered quite strange because his constant singing, with Harry even calling him a lunatic directly. Given that this ''is'' a musical, the audience finds it more to be expected.
33	* TheDeterminator: Nothing stops him from singing, not even getting run over by a train, which he seems to have made a full recovery from. [[LiteralMinded At least it wasn’t an evil train.]]
34	* TheDragon: Essentially becomes this following Axel’s kidnappning of Gerhard.
35	* DreadfulMusician: Treated as such InUniverse, though whether or not he’s ''actually'' HollywoodToneDeaf depends on which version you watch.
36	* EveryoneHasStandards: ''He'' covers his ears and leaves the room when Bror-Ivar starts singing. Also, during ''Jerry’s Heavy Song'' he just stares at the eponymous singer in StunnedSilence.
37	* TheLostLenore: His wife left him some time ago, but he copes by singing. Those unfortunate enough to lay their ears on it wish that she would comes back in the hopes that it might make him shut up.
38	* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Is indicated to be a signalman, yet he spends much of the play varnashing a bench, and in the film he also drives the delivery track carrying Rosa’s packages. It helps that he’s the ''only'' station employee to not be a LivingProp.
39	* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Goes along with all of Axel’s plans, but isn’t particularly good at them.
40	* StockholmSyndrome: Loves Axel as a boss, even though he apparently once punished him with riding a bike without a saddle in front of a train. [[UnreliableNarrator Unless he just made that up to scare Gerhard.]]
41	* WideEyedIdealist: His EstablishingCharacterMoment has him act as though he was the inspiring hero of the story — [[WrongGenreSavvy a belief in which he is entirely alone]] — and when Axel becomes depressed, he’s there to try and cheer him up. It’s telling that ''Sören'' himself becoming downtrodden marks the point where the story reaches its DarkestHour.
42	[[/folder]]
43
44	[[folder: Harry Jernfeldt]]
45
46	!!Harry Jernfeldt
47
48	-->'''Played by:''' Peter Rangmar
49
50	A frustrated passenger who is running late for a very important meeting, and keeps demanding to know when the train will arrive. Is apparently a bigwig within Swedish trade and industry, though his actual profession is unclear.
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52	* BerserkButton: Hates singing — or at least what he considers to be ''bad'' singing — and the trains being late. Too bad he’s in a musical with that very premise.
53	* TheComicallySerious: It takes much to make him lose his composure, which is frequently PlayedForLaughs. This is especially clear in the song ''Hard Love'', where he and Ernst act as the dead serious backup singers/dancers while Gerhard serenades his [=MasterCard=].
54	* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Technically counts, though the only corrupt thing we see him do is conning a stranger into buying an overpriced postcard, simply because ItAmusedMe.
55	* HypocriticalHumor: As much as he hates Axel lying to him about the current state of the station, , he sees no issues with conning Jerry out of some pocket change [[ItAmusedMe just for the saké of it.]]
56	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Does this repeatedly throughout the show, though he eventually comes back just in time to finally catch his train.
57	* SeparatedAtBirth: Turns out to be the long lost [[spoiler: brother of Ernst]], to his great dismay.
58	* StraightMan: Possibly the most ”normal” character in the whole show. He ends up spending much of it frustrated and perterbed by all the weirdness going on around him.
59	* VitriolicBestBuds: Gains such a relationship with Ernst over the course of the story, with a ''big'' emphasis on the “vitriolic” part. They are last seen having a great time together celebrating the reopening of the station.
60	* WhatExactlyIsHisJob: He eventually reveals that he’s a chief executive officer, but we never find out for which company or even within what field.
61	* WhenHeSmiles: For all his grumpiness, even he can’t resist joining into Rosa’s dance session, and he gladly partakes in the celebration once the train actually ''does'' arrive.
62	[[/folder]]
63
64	[[folder: Ernst Ivarsson]]
65
66	!!Ernst Ivarsson
67
68	-->'''Played by:''' Jan Rippe
69
70	Another passenger. He’s trying to visit his sister and surprise her with a cake. Being one of the more proactive visitors to the station, he becomes determined to uncover what’s really going on there.
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72	* ButtMonkey: Is generally ignored by the staff, gets knocked out by a TapOnTheHead, and possibly has his cake ruined by some random pastor.
73	* EveryoneHasStandards: While he is a bit more indulgent than Harry, he also covers his ears during Sören’s song, and flees the room alongside them during Bror-Ivar’s big number.
74	* FunPersonified: Unlike Harry, he is far more willing to just go with the flow. He gladly accepts a drink when the station suddenly transforms into a pizzeria, and seems quite excited about riding the wheel horse train, to say nothing about his reaction when learning who his brother is.
75	* TheGenericGuy: Even the official [=YouTube=] channel mentions his “very neutral appearance.”
76	* NiceGuy: Has a largely friendly demeanor, not to mention that his main goal is to pay his sister a pleasant surprise visit.
77	* NightmareFace: PlayedForLaughs. He gets a creepy closeup of his face while chasing Harry around [[spoiler: after learning that they’re brothers.]]
78	* NotSoAboveItAll: As much as he wants to be the voice of reason, he has a fair number of ComicallyMissingThePointMoments. He gets stuck in OneDialogueTwoConversations during Harry’s phone call, is utterly baffled by Axel being MuggedForDisguise by Gerhard, and fails to get the message when Harry asks him if he knows what an executive is.
79	* OnlySaneMan: The only person around with enough sense and morals to call Axel out for keeping a man prisoner.
80	* OvershadowedByAwesome: He would likely be considered a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} under most circumstances, but in this borderline WorldOfWeirdness he comes across as mostly normal by comparison.
81	* StraightManAndWiseGuy: The WiseGuy to Harry’s StraightMan. Of course, Ernst makes a fine StraightMan himself when faced with even more bizarre station visitors.
82	[[/folder]]
83
84	[[folder: Gerhard Vilén]]
85
86	!!Gerhard Vilén
87
88	-->'''Played by:''' Claes Eriksson
89
90	A division head at ''The Swedish State Railways (SJ)''. He arrives at the station to give the unfortunate news that it has been shut down, but ends up taking on more than he bargained for.
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92	* BearerOfBadNews: It’s a bit more complicated than him being just the messenger though, as shutting down the station ''was'' his idea in the first place, even if he wanted to avoid it.
93	* ChangedMyMindKid: Reopens the station by the end of the story. Of course, being a wannabe politician, he would never ''admit'' to changing his mind.
94	* GoodAllAlong: He eventually reveals that he never really wanted to shut down the station at all, and was willing to take another option the moment one became available. [[PoorCommunicationKills Our protagonists just never gave him the chance to explain himself.]]
95	* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Not only does he personally return to the station to inform everyone that it isn’t closing after all, he also drives the train there himself. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] in the movie, where this results in his father getting stuck in his office for hours waiting for him to return.
96	* MoneyFetish: In the stage version, he performs a heartfelt love song to his [=MasterCard=], which he has stronger feelings for than any woman.
97	* MuggedForDisguise: Ends up stealing and Donning Axel’s station master uniform during his escape attempt.
98	* ShootTheMessenger: Calls out Axel for abusing him when all he did was reporting the decision the board had made.
99	* StockholmSyndrome: He becomes very chummy with Axel and Sören by the end, considering that they ''did'' kidnap him.
100	* TookALevelInKindness: Becomes far more humble and friendly after being called out for supposedly only caring about money.
101	* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYouAreDealingWith: His rather justified reaction to being put in a bag and then beaten.
102	[[/folder]]
103
104	[[folder: Mona Hansson]]
105
106	!!Mona Hansson
107
108	-->'''Played by:''' Kerstin Granlund
109
110	Axel’s beloved wife. She is concerned and loyal towards her husband, but there are some secrets he’s keeping from her.
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112	* AwfulWeddedLife: Axel is introduced arguing with her over the phone. No he did ''not'' call her fat, [[DiggingYourselfDeeper there are after all skinny cows.]]
113	* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther:?Once Axel gives up his ruse and becomes very downtrodden, she does her best to comfort him.
114	* TheComicallySerious: Has her moments. Much like Harry, she remains dead serious while riding the wheel horse train.
115	* DespairEventHorizon: Just about crosses it during TheElevonOClockNumber, describing herself as “the Station Master’s now useless wife.” It takes a SurprisinglyHappyEnding to snap her out of it.
116	* LockedOutOfTheLoop: To her great frustration, Axel doesn’t have the heart to tell her the truth about the situation until the end of the play.
117	* RelationshipReveal: [[Spoiler: Sören]] turns out to be her brother, and both [[Spoiler: Gerhard [[SurpriseIncest and Axel]] ]]are implied to be her half-brothers as well, something both spouses are surprisingly fine with.
118	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Gets very uncomfortable when Bror-Ivar starts singing, and briefly leaves the room along with the rest of his audience.
119	* [[UnderstandingBoyfriend Understanding Wife]]: Remains supportive of Axel, despite everything he has done.
120	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Doesn’t have too much of a reaction upon meeting a department head from ''The Swedish State Railways'' without his pants on.
121	* WhenSheSmiles: Becomes just as enthusiastic as her husband when the station is finally reopened.
122	[[/folder]]
123
124	[[folder: Stellan Larsson]]
125
126	!!Constable Stellan Larsson
127
128	-->'''Played by:''' Per Fritzell
129
130	A police officer who also wishes to catch a train. He is generally friendly, but not particularly competent.
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132	* ActorAllusion: Per Fritzell played very similar-looking policemen in both ''Film/{{Leif}}'' and ''Macken''. Might count as a straight-up RecurringCharacter.
133	* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Almost goes without saying. He seems rather confused about how crime investigations are actually carried out.
134	* BookEnds: at least song-wise. He is only heard singing during the opening and the closing number.
135	* DumbIsGood: Despite his obvious incompetence, he appears to be a fairly decent person.
136	* InsaneTrollLogic: How he typically operates. He even believes Axel’s obvious lie that the man trapped in the sack was actually a chicken in an elephant condom on her way to visit a brothel.
137	* KnowNothingKnowItAll: Claims to be perfectly capable of breaking down doors, but his actual track records do little to reiterate this.
138	* MusicalNumberAnnoyance: Hates Sören’s opening number about as much as the other characters on the platform. In the movie, he also shots the window to his Office when Jerry sings outside. He gladly joins in on the closing number though, unless that was his brother.
139	* OutOfFocus: Gets far less screentime than the other passengers, and leaves for the police station partway through the show, not returning until the finale. This allows actor Per Fritzell to appear as other characters.
140	* PoliceAreUseless: Completely fails to uncover the kidnapping plot, and is nowhere to be seen when the station is later robbed.
141	* RelationshipReveal: In the movie, he is ''also'' revealed to have a brother who is a fellow policeman — as well as a twin — and boards the train right before he does.
142	[[/folder]]
143
144	[[folder:Rosa Flodqvist]]
145
146	!!Rosa Flodqvist
147
148	-->'''Played by:''' Kerstin Granlund
149
150	A woman with a ''very'' extensive family, and plenty of packages to send them all. You may have read about her in the papers.
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152	* [[AGirlInEveryPort A Man In Every Port]]: A RareFemaleExample. Her ex-husbands are distributed across the world, being found in UsefulNotes/{{Munich}}, UsefulNotes/{{London}}, UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}}, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne Cologne]], UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}, UsefulNotes/{{Dubai}}, [[UsefulNotes/{{Greece}} Crete]], UsefulNotes/{{Bonn}}, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjo Hjo]], [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Horn Cape Horn]] and [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malibu,_California Malibu.]]
153	* AmiableExes: PlayedWith. She’s still sending all of her ex-husbands their favorite alcohol brands, but only because she would rather have them DrinkAwayTheirSorrows in peace than bother her in person.
154	* DotingMom: Towards all twenty two of them. Children never grow up in the eyes of their mother, after all.
155	* EarlyBirdCameo: Appears at the very beginning as a prominent but nondescript extra. It’s only in the third song that she gets any proper characterization.
156	* HatesBeingChased: As Sören can attest to. Mind you, given what a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and a WildCard he is, it’s unclear what — if anything — he planned to actually ''do'' had he caught her.
157	* MrsRobinson: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], but Teddy Roos — her current lover — is clearly portrayed as being younger than her.
158	* MusicalNumberAnnoyance: Is very annoyed by Sören’s opening number, a sentiment she shares with the other characters on the platform.
159	* NiceGirl: Seems to be a sweet old lady, and everybody at the station — even the normally grumpy Harry — are swept up in her song and gladly help her carry all of her packages.
160	* ReallyGetsAround: She has had eleven sons and eleven daughters with eleven husbands, and is presumably on her twelth now.
161	* YouMightRememberMeFrom: Assuming the claim that ”she’s a mama whom you read about in [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Året_Runt Året Runt]]” is meant to be taken literally, then she’s constantly bringing up the fact that she’s been featured in a popular newspaper.
162	[[/folder]]
163
164	[[folder: Jerry Kopp]]
165
166	!!Jerry Kopp
167
168	-->'''Played by:''' Claes Eriksson
169
170	A country fan with big dreams. Wants to leave Svedum to find ”some place where [he’s] got room.”
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172	* BadButt: Has the esthetic of a Swedish [[GreaserDelinquents raggare]], seemingly mostly for RuleOfCool reasons. The only ”bad” thing he’s ever shown doing is turning down some toffee from an old girlfriend.
173	* ChivalrousPervert: By all accounts. He’s still on good terms with his first girlfriend, who calls him ” shy little Mickey Mouse” just to seal the deal.
174	* HalfWittedHillbilly: Harry assumes him to be one, [[TakeThat partially because he listens to country.]] The fact that he gets conned into buying a postcard ”ticket” for 200 kr (”[[BlatantLies Half prize!]]”) isn’t exactly doing him any favours.
175	* KidANova: Claims that he ”became a casanova already as a confirmand” presumably around the age of fifteen.
176	* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Describes his desire to leave town in a series of increasingly bizarre metaphors.
177	--->'''Jerry Kopp''': This is a bag. In bags lie cheese. I am not a cheese, so I’m leaving now!
178	* TheOneWhoMadeItOut: Yearns to become this, as he considers his hometown to be a dump which he’s outgrown.
179	* RealMenLoveJesus: Is quite proud of his religious upbringing, perhaps mostly because his younger self got to score with the girl confirmands.
180	* SameClothesDifferentYear: His flashbacks shows that he’s work the same cap — and ''[[BeardedBaby moustache]]'' — ever since he was a baby.
181	* SmokingIsCool: He probably thinks so, at the very least.
182	[[/folder]]
183
184	[[folder: Jerry’s First Girlfriend]]
185
186	!!Jerry’s First Girlfriend
187
188	-->'''Played by:''' Kerstin Granlund
189
190	Jerry Kopp’s first (now ex-) girlfriend. He ran into her again randomly on his way to the station.
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192	* AffectionateNickname: Calls Jerry ”shy little Mickey Mouse” which really indicates what a big softie he is on the inside.
193	* AmiableExes: She and Jerry are genuinly pleased to see each other, and get along fairly well.
194	* TheGhost: In the stage version. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in the film, where ''Jerry’s Heavy Song'' is a filmed flashback.
195	* 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.
196	* NoNameGiven: Her name is never mentioned, not even in the credits.
197	* ShesAllGrownUp: She and Jerry were presumably teenagers when they dated. After reuniting decades later, he says that “she was more beautiful than ever.”
198	* SweetTooth: Seems to have a bit of this, as she offers Jerry some toffe.
199	* ThrowItIn: In the film, her groceries are implied to be the inspiration for Jerry’s cheese metaphor. ItMakesSenseInContext, mostly.
200	* TimeShiftedActor: Possibly, assuming that she is meant to be an older version of one of the church girls shown earlier in the flashback.
201	* [[UnderstandingBoyfriend Understanding Ex-girlfriend]]: Is the only person we see who is actually supportive of Jerry’s desire to look for something better.
202	[[/folder]]
203
204	[[folder: Emilio and Angelo]]
205
206	!! Emilio and Angelo
207
208	-->'''Played by:'''Knut Agnred (Emilio), Per Fritzell (Angelo)
209
210	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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212	* TheAce: Consider themselves such, and their fangirls tend to agree.
213	* ChickMagnet: Their song ''Daddy I Want An Italian'', is mainly them boasting about being this, while amassing enough female admirers to show for it.
214	* CoolCar: They briefly mention Italy’s perchant for designing these, and of course drive one in the film.
215	* TheDividual: Have no individual traits, being pretty much two copies of one character.
216	* 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.
217	* GratituousItalian: Their song unsurprisingly features this, with the phrases ”Mamma Mia” and ”O Sole Mio” thrown in on occasion.
218	* 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.
219	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Supposedly based on Swedish-American dancer Emilio Ingrosso, or at least on the EstrogenBrigade he accumilated.
220	* SharpDressedMan: They wear fancy suits with ridiculously oversized shoulder pads.
221	* SpagettiAndGondolas: Basically a collection of as many Italian stereotypes as could be squeezed into about three minutes.
222	[[/folder]]
223
224	[[folder: Torgny and Rigmor Assarsson]]
225
226	!! Torgny and Rigmor Assarsson
227
228	-->'''Played by:''' Per Fritzell (Torgny), Kerstin Granlund (Rigmor)
229
230	A traditional musician couple who check out the station on behalf of the local community association.
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232	* 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.
233	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: For starters, they hold “sing-along and animal impersonation events”, and have released a record with the ”catch” title ''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.
234	* 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.
235	* 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.
236	* HappilyMarried: They may bicker a bit, but they do so without ever raising their voices or losing their respect for one another.
237	* 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.]])
238	* NorthByNorthwest: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. Being from a Swedish production, they are a quite accurate portrayal of local traditional musicians, albeit not particularly great ones.
239	* OutdatedName: ”Torvald” and ”Rigmor” are very old fashioned names, which fits with them wanting to turn the station into a historic museum.
240	* SelfParody: See ManChild above. More generally, [[NationalStereotypes they are the most stereotypically Swedish characters in the play,]] and are presented as rather ridiculous.
241	* 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.”
242	[[/folder]]
243
244	[[folder: Jack and Göte]]
245
246	!!Jack and Göte
247
248	-->'''Played by:''' Per Fritzell (Jack) and Knut Agnred (Göte)
249
250	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.
251	----
252	* BeardOfEvil: Göte has a goatee, which helps making him more distinct from Knut Agnred’s other characters.
253	* 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.
254	* 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.
255	* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: They are so ridiculously bad at their job that it’s hard to not feel at least a bit of pity for them.
256	* 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!”
257	* StockingMask: Jack wears one, but Göte couldn’t find any stockings and has to make do with a ’’wooly sock'', which he of course can’t see anything out of.
258	* StupidCrooks: Boy are they ever! Made worse by Jack’s claim that they’ve ''repeatedly'' mistaken other buildings for banks!
259	* 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.
260	* YouLookFamiliar:While Knut Agned and especially Per Fritzell already play several characters in the show, their casting as Jack and Göte stand out as they also played Emilio and Angelo, ''another'' pair of ThoseTwoGuys.
261	[[/folder]]
262
263	[[folder: Bror-Ivar Lunne]]
264
265	!!Bror-Ivar Lunne
266
267	-->'''Played by:''' Per Fritzell
268
269	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.
270	----
271	* GracefulLoser: Happily joins in on Axel’s song, even though it was meant as a response against him. This could be taken as him gladly supporting the continued existance of the station, once it turns out that it may not be closing down, after all.
272	* JumpedAtTheCall: Gleefully joins in on Axel’s you horse train. While he may disagree with the man on quite a few topics, it seem like he at least appreciates his love of hijinks.
273	* NeverRecycleABuilding: Completely [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. He specializes in doing just this, having previously helped turning a library into an organ store and pub, a city hotel into a radio club, and a cinema into a cafeteria and chapel.
274	* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: Towards Mona during his musical number. She is quite uncomfortable with this, and visibly relieved when he leaves.
275	* ObliviouslyEvil: ”Evil” is probably too harsh of a word, but it never seems to dawn on him just how ''little'' the other people at the station actually like him.
276	* OffTheShelfFX: InUniverse. He uses Harry’s newspaper and Ernst’s cane box as props to illustrate his song. They are very much ''not'' okay with this.
277	--->'''Harry:''' What the hell?!
278	* PreacherMan: Unsurprisingly, yes. He is very devoted to his church, and is often looking for ways to improve and expand it.
279	* 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.
280	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Never actually leaves the station on screen. He just kinda disappears between acts. Granted, his participation in Axel’s Ballad Waltz ''could'' perhaps indicate that he’s put his plans for the station on hold.
281	* WrongGenreSavvy: Basically sees himself as an inspirational visionary. Everyone else find him unbearable, and his entire audience [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere dart out of the room]] midway through his musical number.
282	[[/folder]]
283
284	[[folder: Sven Sidney]]
285
286	!!Sven Sidney
287
288	-->'''Played by:''' Peter Rangmar
289
290	A self-proclaimed RenaissanceMan who has just finished working on a statue for the station.
291	----
292	* ArtsyBeret: Never seen without it.
293	* AscendedExtra: Gets an extra scene (and a much happier ending) in the film, where he gets to partake in the celebratory reopening of Swedum Station.
294	* CampStraight: Very flamboyant, though the one person he has NoSenseOfPersonalSpace with is Mona.
295	* CreatorBreakdown: ''Embraces'' these, feeling that they improve his art. [[StylisticSuck Given what we see of his work,]] this seems quite questionable.
296	* HesBack: At the end of the film, after realizing that the station has been reopened, he regains all of his gleeful optimism and returns there with his statue, finally getting to install it.
297	* {{Keet}}: During his more lighthearted moments.
298	* LargeHam: Quite an emotional fellow, to say the least. Made only more apparent with his severe MoodSwings and tendency for MilkingTheGiantCow.
299	* ScheduleSlip: Axel calls him out on delivering his statue two years past the deadline, completely missing the anniversary it was meant to celebrate. Sven defends his delay by arguing that art takes time.
300	* TerribleArtist: His statue is amazingly lifelike ([[PlayingATree for obvious reasons]]) but his paintings are rather... simplistic.
301	* WaitingForABreak: Relies on his laundry company to support himself, and does in fact use his company car to transport his statue.
302	[[/folder]]
303
304	[[folder: Rafael]]
305
306	!!Rafael
307
308	-->'''Played by:''' Jan Rippe
309
310	Sven Sidney’s assistant and pupil, who doesn’t seem to share his teacher’s passion for the arts.
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312	* BeleagueredAssistant: It’s indicated that he very much doesn’t have an easy time dealing with Sven Sidney’s mood swings.
313	* ClothingReflectsPersonality: Unlike Sven, he’s still wearing his cleaner’s uniform to the statue presentation, showing his lack of commitment to his artistic endeavors.
314	* HeroicSelfDeprecation: His sung lines consist of him calling himself the most incomparably useless out of everyone present.
315	* MessyHair: He has long, unkempt (likely prematurely) grayed hair.
316	* TheQuietOne: Gets only a single line of dialogue.
317	* RedOniBlueOni: The blue oni to Sven Sidney’s red.
318	* TheSingingMute: Just about. His one line is practically forced out of him by his boss, but he casually expresses his feelings during TheElevenOClockNumber.
319	* SmarterThanTheyLook: Nothing about him indicates that he would be particularly intelligent, but he ''does'' successfully answer Sven Sidney’s quiz.
320	* SnobsVersusSlobs: The slob to Sven Sidney’s snob.
321	* TakeThat: Provides an affectionate one to painter [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Liljefors Bruno Liljefors]]. When Sven asks him what this artist said after painting the Mona Lisa, the answer turns out to be ”Damn it! It became a fox!” [[DontExplainTheJoke The joke being that he couldn’t not make an animal painting if he tried.]]
322	[[/folder]]
323
324	[[folder: Rudolf; The Eternal Train Traveller]]
325
326	!! Rudolf; The Eternal Train Traveller
327
328	-->'''Played by:''' Per Fritzell
329
330	A statue Sven Sidney has spent the last couple years of his life sculpting.
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332	* AscendedExtra: Gets an additional scene in the film, where both he and his creator finally get to [[EarnYourHappyEnding earn their happy ending.]]
333	* BelatedHappyEnding: Gets one in the film, where he is ''finally'' installed at the station once it reopens.
334	* HeroicSelfDeprecation: As he comes to life right as Axel has confirmed that the station has been shut down, his song has him bemoan that he has become completely useless as a statue.
335	* LivingStatue: He inexplicably comes to life just in time to sing.
336	* MagicalRealism: One of few supernatural elements in an otherwise fairly realistic — if ''incredibly'' wacky — story.
337	* MinorCharacterMajorSong: To the point of not even being ''sapient'' outside of his one song.
338	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: Played by a nude Per Fritzell, with only [[SceneryCensor a strategically placed suitcase]] to avoid MaleFrontalNudity.
339	* StylisticSuck: [[AvertedTrope Averted.]] He’s the sole art piece of Sven Sidney that we see which is actually well-made. Being played by a real actor half the time helps.
340	* TalentDouble: An unusual combination of this and FakeShemp. He’s ”played” by an actual statue for much of his screentime in the film, but replaced by an actual actor when he needs to sing and well, ''be alive!''
341	* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Nobody seems to be the least bit surprised to see a singing statue. Contrast this with the possibly imaginary ensamble from the ''Daddy, I want an Italian'' number, which the characters ''do'' react to.
342	[[/folder]]
343
344	[[folder: The Visitor]]
345
346	!! The Vistor
347
348	-->'''Played by:''' Folke Lindh
349
350	A man who shows up at Gerhard Vilén’s office, waiting in Bain for him to return.
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352	* AscendedExtra: Only ever mentioned in the stage version. However, in the film he shows up in a brand new minor subplot.
353	* CloudCuckoolander: His preferred method of helping his children get in touch with each other is to give them all half of a bag. He’s either done this ''a lot'', [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike or many others have had the same idea.]]
354	* DisappearedDad: He apparently has a tendency to abandon his children shortly after they’re born.
355	* DoorstopBaby: As it turns out, [[spoiler: he is at Gerhard’s office to deliver him one.]]
356	* FakingTheDead: Faked his death as an excuse to adandon his family. It’s implied that he’s done this ''many'' times over.
357	* TheGhost: In the stage version.
358	* TheReveal: His identity and goals are a mystery until the very end of the film.
359	* TheVoiceless: Never says a word. His only “dialogue” comes in the form of the letter he leaves behind.
360	* WalkingSpoiler: You really can’t say much at all about him without giving away the TwistEnding of the story.

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