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8''Anders Loves Maria'' is a webcomic by Rene Engstrom about the lives of Anders von Silfersked and Maria Holm, starting from the time they decided to have a baby. Take FinaglesLaw, dial it up, toss in a LoveDodecahedron, and as a finishing touch sprinkle Swedish royalty on top. Began 9/11/2006, ended 2/5/2010. The website is currently under maintenance and cannot be read, though the pages are being redrawn and uploaded to tumblr [[http://www.anderslovesmaria.com/ here.]]
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10[[http://anderslovesmaria.reneengstrom.com/ It can be found here.]] '''Spoiler Alert!!!'''
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12[[http://anderslovesmaria.reneengstrom.com/2006/09/11/2006-09-11/ The first page. Start here.]]
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14!!This webcomic provides examples of:
15%%* TheAlcoholic: The Holm parents
16%%* AllLoveIsUnrequited
17%%* ArtEvolution
18* TheBabyTrap: Tina does this in an attempt to hold onto Anders, hiding the fact that [[spoiler:she's miscarried]].
19%%* BigOlEyebrows: Johan.
20%%* BittersweetEnding
21%%* ButtMonkey: Anders, Maria, really anyone who gets involved in this hurricane.
22* TheCasanova: Anders, to the misfortune of Maria and most suitors.
23* ConvenientMiscarriage [[spoiler:Tina with Anders]].
24* DeadGuyJunior: [[spoiler:The younger Maria]] is named for her mother, who dies after giving birth to her.
25* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler:Maria]] does not survive giving birth to her daughter.
26* DistantFinale: The sequence with [[spoiler:Maria's daughter]] finding a baby bird out in the woods. Also happens to be a CallBack an early part of the story when a similar event from Anders' childhood was described.
27%%* DoggedNiceGuy: Bjorn to Maria.
28%%* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Tina.]]
29* FanDisservice:
30** [[spoiler:Anders sleeping with Little Shit.]] It seems implied that they don't actually have sex; Anders just needs to cuddle. Still.
31** Anders' aged mother sitting around without a shirt is certainly not put in for titillation.
32%%* FinaglesLaw
33* FunetikAksent: In flashbacks, Maria's thick northern Swedish accent is represented in English by a phonetic representation of a Yorkshire accent.
34* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Averted: [[spoiler:Tina]] goes through with the procedure as a teenager. According to Rene, Maria also had one with Bjorn.
35* HandOnWomb: See page image.
36%%* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Maria, pre-pregnancy.
37* IdenticalGrandson: Aside from Anders's hair color, [[spoiler:Maria]] looks and has a similar mannerism to her mother [[spoiler:Maria]]. Enough that her first appearance was essentially HiddenInPlainSight for the audience, in a sequence that seemed to be a flashback to her ''mother's'' childhood but was really a flash-''forward'' to the DistantFinale.
38* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Johan and Bjorn are classic examples. Anders (usually) means well, but poor impulse control paired with worse personal judgement gets you here.
39* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Johan to Maria, having had to look after her since childhood.
40%%* LadykillerInLove: Anders to Maria.
41* LongestPregnancyEver: Maria is pregnant for nearly all of the comic's run.
42%%* LoveDodecahedron: Anders. Jeph Jacques of ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' suggested the title "Anders Has Sex With Everyone".
43* NoodlePeople: A single character example: Anna is unrealistically thin compared to the other characters.
44%%* SeriesHiatus: Every now and then.
45%%* SliceOfLife
46* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Averted; Johan and Maria were placed in a foster home as children due to neglect.
47* TwistEnding: Anders ''does'' love Maria, [[spoiler:his daughter. He does truly love Maria, his girlfriend, it's just... complicated]].
48* WhamEpisode: The ending, in which [[spoiler:Maria dies in childbirth, and the Maria in the FlashForward scenes from earlier in the story is her and Anders' daughter]], caught a lot of people off guard.
49* WhamLine: The obstetrician visits Anders after the birth of his daughter and tells him, [[spoiler:"Maria never woke up."]]

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