Despite its horrific content, Midsommar also features some notable examples of Black Comedy.
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- The film derives a lot of laughs from Christian's grip of the Idiot Ball.
- Prior to leaving for Sweden, Christian informs the rest of the group that he has invited Dani to accompany them on the trip, but she won't come. Then he says that she actually did say yes, but insists that still doesn't mean that she's actually coming, and demands that the group should all act like they want her to come, all while she's standing at the door waiting to be let in.
- After Pelle reminds Christian that he forgot Dani's birthday, he runs off and finds a birthday candle and a piece of bread, insisting that he was only thrown off by the constant daylight. Dani's unimpressed face when he can't even light the candle properly is priceless.
- While Christian is interviewing an elder for his thesis paper, Dani approaches him worried about Simon and Connie's whereabouts. Christian holds her hand and says a sympathetic word, only to immediately turn back to ask the elder about the Hårgans' attitude towards incest without even letting go of her hand.
- After Josh, Mark, and the Hårga's sacred text all disappear, Christian immediately denounces them without a moment's hesitation to save his own skin with the most obvious faux outrage imaginable.
- When interviewing the village priestess, Christian is abruptly cut off and informed that Maja wishes to mate with him. Christian is not surprised:Christian: I think I ate one of her pubic hairs.
Priestess: That sounds right, yes. - Arguably Christian's most sympathetic moment in the whole film, but hilarious nonetheless - after Dani has been crowned the May Queen and begins performing their rituals more and more eagerly, cut back to Christian, who has been silently experiencing a nightmarish Mushroom Samba this whole time while watching his girlfriend being paraded around in a flower crown, fed a whole herring, and dictated ritualistic chants. He leans over to the random old man sitting next to him...Christian: Excuse me... What's happening?
- The old man then claps in front of his face, and Chris's hallucinations wobble from the impact as he asks in a tearful voice, "Why'd you do that...?"
- During the fertility ritual, Christian shows complacent Dull Surprise towards this bizarre circumstance only to abruptly snap out of it when Maja remarks that she feels the baby inside her.
- Despite realizing that the Hårga have been killing his friends and that he is in deadly peril, Christian still does his best to cover himself as he runs around the village buck naked.
- Mark serves as the film's comic relief due to his complete obliviousness to the point where his effigy is dressed in a jester hat when sacrificed.
- When the group first takes mushrooms, Mark insists that everyone lies down with him and gets visibly and petulantly upset when no one joins him.
- Just Mark's first trip in general.
Christian: (deadpan, upon seeing a villager) Oh fuck, it's a new person.
Mark: What? I don't want new people right now! - During the hike, Mark fixates on bugs due to his uncle having Lyme disease. Cue the rest of the group reporting that the region has a serious tick problem.Josh: My grandparents both died from ticks. They had to have a closed-casket funeral.
- Nothing compares to the kerfuffle that erupts when Mark decides to take a piss on the Rotvälta.Ulf: He pissed on my ancestors!
- After missing the ättestupa to take a nap, Mark complains that he "misses all the cool stuff".Mark: Dude! Of all the things to let me sleep through!
Christian: ...what? - Following the mysterious and creepy disappearances of Simon and Connie, and Connie voicing her well-founded suspicions about the villagers, the setup to lure Mark away from his friends to be killed — Inga, the girl he had been gawking at, essentially walking up to him and saying "Come, I show you," — is hilariously low-effort. Mark's last words in the film are "Hey, I'm going with her. She's going to show me..."
- When the group first takes mushrooms, Mark insists that everyone lies down with him and gets visibly and petulantly upset when no one joins him.
- During the tour of the idyllic village, Simon abruptly interrupts to ask if they're just going to ignore the bear. Quick pan over to a random bear sitting in a cage just a few feet off screen.
- Ingemar: It's a bear.
- Not long after their tour of the idyllic rural village seemingly straight out of a medieval storybook, the group are invited to go watch Austin Powers with some of the children.
- The villagers' excuse to Connie about why her fiancee left the commune without her is that the truck only had spots for two. When she counters that she would've sat on his lap, the villager sheepishly responds that they have to obey traffic laws.
- The shenanigans of the maypole scene, with dancers crashing into each other at high speed. Particularly when Dani bumps into another girl who goes reeling, leaving Dani staring in confusion for a moment before she goes right back to dancing.
- Dani encountering Swedish food.Villager: You have to eat the herring.
Dani: (confused and frightened) ...Why? - The director's cut extends Josh's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Christian, including the line "You didn't even know how to use JSTOR!"
- In what is otherwise an intense and disturbing scene, when Dani attempts to walk amongst the wailing villagers while the temple is burning, she 100% evokes imagery of some disgusting ridiculous flower-slug.
- Meta example: Ari Aster had a Reddit AMA a week after the film's release, which led to this exchange:Top comment: You ok?
Aster: Nope
