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* BadassBoast: Saga doesn't mean hers as anything but a matter of course. When offered a bodyguard because she might become a killers next target, she replies that if they want to kill her up-close she can handle it herself, and if they want to shoot her from a distance a bodyguard won't be any help, thus politely declining.
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* {{Utopia}}: Sofia tries to build one in her town by only letting "good people" move there. Saga thinks it won't work. [[spoiler:She's proven right within the week, and her argument that it's hard to define "goodness" is a factor.]]
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* ChocolateBaby: In season four Saga remarks that a baby with brown eyes cannot be the biological offspring of the man who thinks he's the father, since both he and the mother have blue eyes.
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* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Saga makes one to Henrik. She starts it by explaining how serotonin works.
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* RiddleForTheAges: When Henrik tries to talk Saga out of [[spoiler:jumping in front of a train]], and fails, we clearly hear [[spoiler:the train]] hitting ''something''.
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* RiddleForTheAges: RiddleForTheAges:
** We never learn what Elsa did to be in a high-security prison, nor why she is not allowed to have contact with her daughter.
** When Henrik tries to talk Saga out of [[spoiler:jumping in front of a train]], and fails, we clearly hear [[spoiler:the train]] hitting''something''.''something''. But what?
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The police believe the fourth season killer is on one, because they use execution methods to kill their victims. It seems to fall apart when two of the victims are a horse and a child with kidney failure, [[spoiler:but it turns out to be true]].
** We never learn what Elsa did to be in a high-security prison, nor why she is not allowed to have contact with her daughter.
** When Henrik tries to talk Saga out of [[spoiler:jumping in front of a train]], and fails, we clearly hear [[spoiler:the train]] hitting
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The police believe the fourth season killer is on one, because they use execution methods to kill their victims. It seems to fall apart when two of the victims are a horse and a child with kidney failure, [[spoiler:but it turns out to be true]].
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* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: Subverted very cruelly in Season One, when the killer explains [[spoiler: no matter what Martin does to him, he'll never know what happened to August, where his body is, if he suffered or what his last words were.]] Saga spoils this because she actually did figure out where he was, but the end result is still that [[spoiler: August is dead and they were too late to save him.]]
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* WouldYouLikeToHearHowTheyDied: Subverted very cruelly in Season One, when the killer explains [[spoiler: no matter what Martin does to him, he'll never know what happened to August, where his body is, if he suffered or what his last words were.]] Saga spoils this because she actually did figure out where he was, but the end result is still that [[spoiler: August [[spoiler:August is dead and they were too late to save him.]]
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* NoExceptYes: After Astrid has revealed to the new boy in town that [[spoiler:she sometimes pretends that she's a mean girl named Agnes]], and he asks if she was the one to assault a neighbor, she replies "no ({{beat}}) [[spoiler:– that was Agnes]]".
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* OohMeAccentIsSlipping: Taariq speaks Danish with an Iraqi accent… except when he's shouting at a man to let go of a girl, then it's just clean Danish.
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* WhenSheSmiles: Saga smiles for joy exactly once in the entire series. It's when she is certain everything is right between her and Henrik again.
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* WhenSheSmiles: Saga smiles for joy exactly once in the entire series. It's when she is certain everything is right between her and Henrik again. [[spoiler:It results in them having sex for the first time since Saga informed him she had an abortion.]]
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* WhenSheSmiles: Saga smiles for joy exactly once in the entire series. It's when she is certain everything is right between her and Henrik again.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:Emil]] engages in this when he talks to the police. It's subtle, such as translating a Dutch phrase that is almost exactly the same as in Swedish, and claiming not to see the four animals "hidden" in a painting.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: ObfuscatingStupidity:
** [[spoiler:Emil]] engages in this when he talks to the police. It's subtle, such as translating a Dutch phrase that is almost exactly the same as in Swedish, and claiming not to see the four animals "hidden" in apainting.painting.
** Subverted with Elsa's lie about thinking [[spoiler:trying to kill Saga would make her stay]]. It is found plausible enough to not be questioned further, given whatever AmbiguousDisorder she usually displays, but the disorder is genuine.
** [[spoiler:Emil]] engages in this when he talks to the police. It's subtle, such as translating a Dutch phrase that is almost exactly the same as in Swedish, and claiming not to see the four animals "hidden" in a
** Subverted with Elsa's lie about thinking [[spoiler:trying to kill Saga would make her stay]]. It is found plausible enough to not be questioned further, given whatever AmbiguousDisorder she usually displays, but the disorder is genuine.
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** In season three, when Saga's boss informs her [[spoiler:that she will be investigated for her mother's death, and that she is suspended]], she lets her keep her gun.
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* RiddleForTheAges: When Henrik tries to talk Saga out of [[spoiler:jumping in front of a train]], and fails, we clearly hear [[spoiler:the train]] hitting ''something''.
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* TogetherInDeath: Invoked by Henrik. [[spoiler:When they find Alice's remains but not those of their daughters, he says he suspected they were dead, but he thought at least they'd be together.]]
-->'''Henrik:''' Without their mother, how will they manage?
-->'''Henrik:''' Without their mother, how will they manage?
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** Emil Larsson seems to be schizoid, depressed, and sociopathic all at once.
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* {{Irony}}: Freddie Holst [[spoiler:donated sperm to a sperm bank in his youth]]. Thirty years later, when he wants to have a child with his wife, she is sterile and they have to get a surrogate.
* IRegretNothing: [[spoiler:Jens]], who says he'd do it again.
* IRegretNothing: [[spoiler:Jens]], who says he'd do it again.
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* IronicEcho: Subverted, since we never hear Emil's foster parents tell him that they are [[InsistentTerminology not punishing him, they're correcting a mistake]] by putting him in time-out in the basement for hours. Saga just implies it when she explains the practice to Henrik while investigating said basement. [[spoiler:Emil echoes it when he explains to his biological father why he's killing him.]]
* {{Irony}}: Freddie Holst [[spoiler:donated sperm to a sperm bank in his youth]]. Thirty years later, when he wants to have a child with his wife, she is sterile and they have to get a surrogate.
* IronicEcho: Subverted, since we never hear Emil's foster parents tell him that they are [[InsistentTerminology not punishing him, they're correcting a mistake]] by putting him in time-out in the basement for hours. Saga just implies it when she explains the practice to Henrik while investigating said basement. [[spoiler:Emil echoes it when he explains to his biological father why he's killing him.]]
* {{Irony}}: Freddie Holst [[spoiler:donated sperm to a sperm bank in his youth]]. Thirty years later, when he wants to have a child with his wife, she is sterile and they have to get a surrogate.
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* {{Pun}}: A Swedish one, quite naturally. The Swedish word "fall" can mean both "fall" (downward tumbling motion) and "situation", so when a season three victim says that the baby won't survive the fall, the killer replies that no, not everyone survives the situation.
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* CannotTakeCriticism: Subverted with Saga, who takes it, but doesn't know what to do with it. Even when Linn tells her upfront that a lot of people perceive her as unpleasant, she can only reply that she is unable to do anything about that.
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* LukeYouAreMyFather: [[spoiler:Emil]]'s revelation of this is delivered holding a gun to [[spoiler:his newborn baby brother]]'s head.
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* InternalAffairs: Saga ends up being investigated by Internal Affairs in the third season [[spoiler:for allegedly murdering her mother]].
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* InternalAffairs: Saga ends up being investigated by Internal Affairs in the third season [[spoiler:for allegedly murdering [[spoiler:on suspicion that she murdered her mother]].own mother]].
* ItsAllAboutMe: Åsa expresses genuine surprise that the police would expect her to care about murders that don't affect herself or anyone she knows. [[spoiler:In a case of dramatic irony, it turns out the killer is out to hurt her husband specifically.]]
* ItsAllAboutMe: Åsa expresses genuine surprise that the police would expect her to care about murders that don't affect herself or anyone she knows. [[spoiler:In a case of dramatic irony, it turns out the killer is out to hurt her husband specifically.]]
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* FakeStatic: When Claes's secretary calls him to tell him the police have been asking for him, he pretends he can't hear her and tells her "in case she can hear him" that he'll call her back later.
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* NatureVsNurture: Never really comes up in the investigations themselves, but the season three killer is mad that [[spoiler:his]] father likes art as much as [[spoiler:himself]].
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** Henrik's roughly translates to "for fuck's sake, man!"
--->'''Henrik:''' Men for helvede, mand!
** Saga's: "Saga Norén, länskrim Malmö.
** Henrik's roughly translates to "for fuck's sake, man!"
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* ShoutOut: Martin reads ''Mio, min Mio'' by Creator/AstridLindgren to his son.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
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** When Saga gives John a book about handling PTSD to pass on to his eight-year-old daughter Julie, who is in the hospital after being grazed by a bullet, John points out that Julie still struggles with ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' books.
** Martin reads ''Mio, min Mio'' by Creator/AstridLindgren to his
** When Saga gives John a book about handling PTSD to pass on to his eight-year-old daughter Julie, who is in the hospital after being grazed by a bullet, John points out that Julie still struggles with ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' books.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A season three suspect lives this trope, describing himself as "not a particularly curious man". Henrik feels the need to explain to him that when most people discover large quantities of blood they want to know what happened.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: A season three suspect lives this trope, describing himself as "not a particularly curious man". Henrik feels the need to explain to him that when most people discover large quantities of blood in a car they want to know what happened.
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* FiveStagesOfGrief: Saga references these when she describes herself as "between shock and denial" with regards to [[spoiler:Hans]].
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* HateBeingTouched: Despite enjoying sex with men, Saga does not want them to touch her, as she informs Henrik before having sex with him.
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* InternalAffairs: They get involved in season three.
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** Marc just happens to steal an ipad belonging to [[spoiler:the very person who is looking to kidnap his pregnant girlfriend]].
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** Saga manages to [[spoiler:shoot Jens's bomb vest off him]].
** The season three killer always shoots people with three bullets in a triangle pattern on their chest.
** Saga manages to [[spoiler:shoot Jens's bomb vest off him]].
** The season three killer always shoots people with three bullets in a triangle pattern on their chest.
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* BrutalHonesty: Zig-zagged by Saga, who uses this to shoot down both optimism ("we can't promise that we will find your missing daughter as there's a good chance she is dead") and pessimism ("I can't say we're going to find your son, you can't say we're ''not'' going to find him").
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* BrutalHonesty: BrutalHonesty:
** Zig-zagged by Saga, who uses this to shoot down both optimism ("we can't promise that we will find your missing daughter as there's a good chance she is dead") and pessimism ("I can't say we're going to find your son, you can't say we're ''not'' going to findhim").him").
** Freddie tells Jeanette that she will always be Marc's second priority. She doesn't want to hear it.
** Zig-zagged by Saga, who uses this to shoot down both optimism ("we can't promise that we will find your missing daughter as there's a good chance she is dead") and pessimism ("I can't say we're going to find your son, you can't say we're ''not'' going to find
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** Marc just happens to steal an ipad belonging to [[spoiler:the very person who is looking to kidnap his pregnant girlfriend]].
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* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: The photographer who outed Benjamin and Anna's affair ([[spoiler:which it turns out Benjamin anonymously tipped her about]]) goes to Benjamin's grieving mother's apartment and blurts out: [[spoiler:"It was not my fault that your son killed himself!"]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Åsa is seconds away from getting kidnapped when the killer receives photos proving that her pregnant belly is just a prosthetic.
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** Åsa is seconds away from getting kidnapped when the killer receives photos proving that her pregnant belly is just aprosthetic.prosthetic, [[spoiler:causing the kidnapper to abandon their mission as it was the babay they wanted.]]
** Just when Henrik needs Lucas to [[spoiler:lose his photos of Henrik buying illegal drugs]], he gets killed in a drive-by, and [[spoiler:Henrik steals the phone]].
** Åsa is seconds away from getting kidnapped when the killer receives photos proving that her pregnant belly is just a
** Just when Henrik needs Lucas to [[spoiler:lose his photos of Henrik buying illegal drugs]], he gets killed in a drive-by, and [[spoiler:Henrik steals the phone]].
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* HateBeingTouched: Despite enjoying sex with men, Saga does not want them to touch her, as she informs Henrik before having sex with him.
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** Discussed when Hanne refers to genderless kindergardens as "very Swedish", and Saga asks if she's referring to the Danish perception that Swedes are very politically correct.
** Most of the couples are made up of one Swede and one Dane, for the sake of contrast.
** Most of the couples are made up of one Swede and one Dane, for the sake of contrast.
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* CannotTakeCriticism: Subverted with Saga, who takes it, but doesn't know what to do with it. Even when Linn tells her upfront that a lot of people perceive her as unpleasant, she can only reply that she is unable to do anything about that.
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* InsistentTerminology: In the second season: It's a ship, not a boat, and Saga will never let you forget it. And, it's not a toad, it's a frog.
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* InsistentTerminology: In the second season: It's a ship, not a boat, and Saga will never let you forget it. And, it's not a toad, it's a frog. Also, as she tells Linn, when the blog is in video format it's called a vlog.
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* FollowTheLeader: to {{Series/Forbrydelsen}}. Both are Scandinavian co-productions featuring a RaisedByWolves protagonist who will always pursue a lead over anything as profane as social interaction or eating. The former was about a murder implicating the aspiring mayor of Copenhagen. The latter starts with the mayor of Malmö... found (half) dead on the bridge connecting the city to Copenhagen.
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* AsYouKnow: Frequently subverted. Because of Saga's AmbiguousDisorder (and sometimes just unwillingness to share information), she often explains proper police procedure to other police.
