Line #8 YMMV/TheBrothersLionheart


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HtOFUF7SCQ The entire score]] by Björn Isfält. The usage of an organ as the main instrument elevates the score even further, given how organs are often played at funerals and the bulk of the movie takes place in the afterlife.
2	* CompleteMonster: [[EvilOverlord Tengil]] is a cruel oppressor who takes over the Briar Rose Valley in the pastoral afterlife world of Nangijala. Those who refuse to obey him are [[FedToTheBeast fed to the dragoness Katla]] whom he controls. Tengil forces people to work on his grandiose building projects with enormous overload and abysmal work conditions, so that even many of those who try to do their job for him get killed. Tengil is fond of inventing cruel and meaningless laws just to give himself more excuses to execute and terrify his subjects, and he plans to take over the neighboring Cherry Valley to instill the same regime there. Even the fact that one of his main opponents from Cherry Valley is [[KidHero teenaged Jonathan]] doesn't deter Tengil from ordering his death, so when Jonathan manages to turn Katla on [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating Tengil]] himself, [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing nobody mourns him]].
3	* MemeticMutation: ''"All makt åt Tengil, vår befriare! / All power to Tengil, our liberator"''
4	* NarmCharm: The movie. It's very much a product of the seventies and has its corny moments but that's really part of the charm. And even with all that it's still an incredibly gripping movie.
5	* NightmareFuel:
6	** [[BigBad Tengil]], the cold and ruthless Lord of Karmanjaka, who has conquered Briar Rose Valley and reduced its entire population into his thralls whom he or his troops harshly oppress and enslaves; sometimes seemingly for no other reason because [[ForTheEvulz they feel like it]]. Some of the oppressive policies that Tengil has forced upon Briar Rose Valley include the heavy taxation of almost all the properties of the citizens, leaving them with the bare minimum and reducing them to starvation and poverty, the usage of forced labour for his constructions back in Karmanjaka where slaves work themselves to death, as well as the liberal usage of capital punishment for the sligtest offense. And when Tengil himself appears, he's portrayed as a physically imposing warrior-king and a silent and stoic ruler who never uses his voice, speaking to his subjects and slaves through [[MouthOfSauron an alderman who loudly voices the words Tengil whispers in his ear]] and whose hard eyes never look directly at the people of Briar Rose Valley, making his contempt for them blatantly clear. And if that wasn't enough, he's also able to summon [[DragonsAreDemonic Katla]] and sic her at anyone who tries to actively rebel against him. A terrifying monster of a human being, one wouldn't be all that wrong to describe Tengil as the [[Literature/TheLordoftheRings Sauron]] of Swedish literature.
7	** Katla in the [[SpecialEffectFailure movies]] may seem [[{{Narm}} silly]] by modern standards, yet countless children have had nightmares because of her.
8	** The artwork of her in the book is exactly as bad. [[https://nordicwomensliterature.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/kvindfo-3-sv-188.jpg Black as empty night, with big, glowing, cold eyes.]]
9	** To this day, "Katla kommer" (Katla is coming) is instant terror to a ''huge'' segment of the population, to the point that the term is basically interchangeable for any mortal danger.
10	* SpecialEffectFailure: The matte paintings are not exactly discreet.
11	** Then there is Katla, who looks like she was made from papier-mache. Which makes for an amusing bit of irony since back when the movie was made, her animatronic was actually considered quite advanced from a technological standpoint due its sheer size and mechanical complexity - the model was four meters tall, required three people to operate and even had a built-in flamethrower!
12	* TearJerker: Well, it's Creator/AstridLindgren.

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