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** Frigolit Fragile; the 'Fragile' is self-explanatory (even though [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY it's pronounced 'Frah-jill']]), and 'Frigolit' means 'styrofoam' à Súedo. As fragile as styrofoam.
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** Frigolit Fragile; the 'Fragile' is self-explanatory (even though [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY it's [[it's pronounced 'Frah-jill']]), 'Frah-jill'), and 'Frigolit' means 'styrofoam' à Súedo. As fragile as styrofoam.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the penultimate episode, when Nova and Vega have successfully managed to call for the aid of their grandparents, Stålhenrik and Supersnällasilversara head out to fly. Since it presumably was a while ago, they've forgotten the way they used to do it... and the first position they assume looks suspiciously like they're about to start making out, prompting a "Wait..." from Stålhenrik.
** Gjerta's comment to Stålhenrik, during the 'Birthday Wrecking' song, that other superheroes 'admire you, and your body of steel'. Which...[[BallsOfSteel well...]] yeah...
** Also, Stålhenrik and Supersnällasilversara 'tickling' each other.
** Gjerta's comment to Stålhenrik, during the 'Birthday Wrecking' song, that other superheroes 'admire you, and your body of steel'. Which...[[BallsOfSteel well...]] yeah...
** Also, Stålhenrik and Supersnällasilversara 'tickling' each other.
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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the penultimate episode, when Nova and Vega have successfully managed to call for future, please check the aid of their grandparents, Stålhenrik and Supersnällasilversara head out trope page to fly. Since it presumably was a while ago, they've forgotten the way they used to do it... and the first position they assume looks suspiciously like they're about to start making out, prompting a "Wait..." from Stålhenrik.
** Gjerta's comment to Stålhenrik, during the 'Birthday Wrecking' song, that other superheroes 'admire you, andmake sure your body of steel'. Which...[[BallsOfSteel well...]] yeah...
** Also, Stålhenrik and Supersnällasilversara 'tickling' each other.example fits the current definition.
** Gjerta's comment to Stålhenrik, during the 'Birthday Wrecking' song, that other superheroes 'admire you, and
** Also, Stålhenrik and Supersnällasilversara 'tickling' each other.
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* BigBad: Gjerta, naturally.
* BoringInvincibleHero: Played straight at first, with the initial two villains sent out to stop the laughter getting easily dispatched by Supersurasunksara, but subverted by the two following who actually manages to outwit her.
* CannotSpitItOut: Played entirely straight with Stålhenrik's infatuation with Supersnällasilversara. He even got a song about it.
* BoringInvincibleHero: Played straight at first, with the initial two villains sent out to stop the laughter getting easily dispatched by Supersurasunksara, but subverted by the two following who actually manages to outwit her.
* CannotSpitItOut: Played entirely straight with Stålhenrik's infatuation with Supersnällasilversara. He even got a song about it.
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* BigBad: Gjerta, naturally.
* BoringInvincibleHero: Played straight at first, with the initial two villains sent out to stop the laughter getting easily dispatched by Supersurasunksara, but subverted by the two following who actually manages to outwit her.
naturally.* CannotSpitItOut: Played entirely straight with Stålhenrik's infatuation with Supersnällasilversara. He even got a song about it.
* BoringInvincibleHero: Played straight at first, with the initial two villains sent out to stop the laughter getting easily dispatched by Supersurasunksara, but subverted by the two following who actually manages to outwit her.
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* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Gjerta's color scheme, to emphasize her evil.
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* LampshadeHanging: Flemming Flink frequently tries points out Gjerta's rather odd definitions of what is evil and what is not, and he often seems as confused as the wiewers probably are.
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* LampshadeHanging: Flemming Flink frequently tries points out Gjerta's rather odd definitions of what is evil and what is not, and he often seems as confused as the wiewers probably are.
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*** The villains:
** Sanguine: Anna Flabet and Flemming Flink
** Choleric: Gjerta and Ture Tvestjärt
** Melancholic: Klante Volante and Frigolit Fragile
** Phlegmatic: The Tinnitus Triplets and Uni Sax
** Sanguine: Anna Flabet and Flemming Flink
** Choleric: Gjerta and Ture Tvestjärt
** Melancholic: Klante Volante and Frigolit Fragile
** Phlegmatic: The Tinnitus Triplets and Uni Sax
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* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Supersnällasilversara, Stålhenrik and their grandchildren; Supersnällasilversara (sanguine, until she turns into the super-choleric Supersurasunksara), Stålhenrik (melancholic), Vega (choleric), and Nova (phlegmatic).
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Det tog mig fjorton år innan någon rättade min felsägning an analfabet. Never. Again.
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* MeaningfulName: All of the villains, most of which cross over into [[IncrediblyLamePun incredibly awesome puns]]. A few examples: Anna Flabet. Switch the first letters of that last name, and it becomes pronounced as 'Analfabet'; the Swedish word for 'illiterate'. Sure enough, she can't read. Frigolit Fragile; the 'Fragile' is self-explanatory (even though [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY it's pronounced 'Frah-jill']]), and 'Frigolit' means 'styrofoam' à Súedo. As fragile as styrofoam. Klante Volante; Volante=volatile, and 'Klant' means [[TheKlutz 'klutz']].
** Also, Uni Sax. Which should speak for itself.
** Not to mention the ''actor'' who plays Stålhenrik is named...Henrik Ståhl.
** Also, Uni Sax. Which should speak for itself.
** Not to mention the ''actor'' who plays Stålhenrik is named...Henrik Ståhl.
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* MeaningfulName: All of the villains, most of which cross over into [[IncrediblyLamePun incredibly awesome puns]]. A few examples: puns]]:
** AnnaFlabet. Flabet; Switch the first letters of that last name, and it becomes pronounced as 'Analfabet'; 'Analfabet'[[note]]Why are you snickering? It's pronounced Un-alphabeet![[/note]]; the Swedish word for 'illiterate'. Sure enough, she can't read. read.
** Frigolit Fragile; the 'Fragile' is self-explanatory (even though [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY it's pronounced 'Frah-jill']]), and 'Frigolit' means 'styrofoam' à Súedo. As fragile asstyrofoam. styrofoam.
** Klante Volante; Volante=volatile, and 'Klant' means [[TheKlutz 'klutz']].
**Also, Uni Sax. Which Sax, which should speak for itself.
**Not to mention The Tinnitus twins' apparent hatred for music makes sense if they all suffer from the symptom.
** Meta-wise, we have the ''actor'' who playsStålhenrik is named...Stålhenrik. Henrik Ståhl.Ståhl (with silent h).
** Anna
** Frigolit Fragile; the 'Fragile' is self-explanatory (even though [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY it's pronounced 'Frah-jill']]), and 'Frigolit' means 'styrofoam' à Súedo. As fragile as
** Klante Volante; Volante=volatile, and 'Klant' means [[TheKlutz 'klutz']].
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** Meta-wise, we have the ''actor'' who plays
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''Superhjältejul'' (''Superhero Christmas'') is the Swedish TV Advent Calendar children's series for 2009. It centers around retired superheroes Stålhenrik (Steel-Henrik) and Supersnällasilversara (Superkindsilversara), telling the story about their first adventure to their grandchildren Vega and Nova.
The story is about {{supervillain}} Gjerta who wants to stop the laughter of children, and to this end assumes command over the institution that makes decisions in matters regarding children and gathers a squad of villains to help her.
Since it's a super hero show, it naturally has its fair share of tropes!
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!!''Superhjältejul'' provides examples of:
* AdultsAreUseless: Well, more like [[ThereAreNoAdults Adults Are Nonexistent]]. There seem to be quite a lot of children about, but no parents, and no adults who aren't either kind old people or one of many crazed villains.
* BerserkButton triggering a SuperpoweredEvilSide: Calling Supersnällasilversara dumb makes her literally explode and transform into the green and mean Supersurasunksara. Whether or not she's more superpowered in this state is not entirely clear, but she's far more agressive. It was recently revealed she has lost the ability to transform due to age.
** She did manage to pull it off one (presumably) last time, but it took [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K677tyWHCXY an entire song about how dumb she was (delivered by her grandchildren, no less)]] plus the BigBad herself saying it for the transformation to happen. It didn't help, though; see CrazyPrepared below.
* BigBad: Gjerta, naturally.
* BoringInvincibleHero: Played straight at first, with the initial two villains sent out to stop the laughter getting easily dispatched by Supersurasunksara, but subverted by the two following who actually manages to outwit her.
* CannotSpitItOut: Played entirely straight with Stålhenrik's infatuation with Supersnällasilversara. He even got a song about it.
* CatchPhrase: "Vad sa du att jag var, sa du...?" by Supersnällasilversara, right after someone's said the d-word. Translates into something like "What did you say that I was, did you say...?" Or "What did you say that I was, you said...?" If you worry that this isn't completely good grammar, don't worry; [[ComicallyMissingThePoint it wasn't in Swedish, either.]]
* ChewingTheScenery: Klante Volantes [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OSkbjLLeGY song]] definitely has elements of this.
* CrazyPrepared: Gjerta. In the end, she attempts to steal the core of the artificial retirement planet, which would make it fly into space. To this end, she impersonated the custodian of the planet. Vega and Nova discover this, and she traps them in a cage. They manage to call for their grandparents to come to help them... and Gjerta has tailor-made traps for them, including a remote control with their faces on the buttons: A powerful magnet to trap Stålhenrik, a plush kitten above a sticky mess to trap Supersnällasilversara and a whack-a-mole game (with Gjerta's face on the rising things as well as repeatedly saying "dumb") to trap Supersurasunksara.
* CreepyTwins: A mild version, but the tone-deaf triplets Tinnitus have elements of this. The three of them sit on the same chair, by having two of them sit on the knees of the third who is holding them up, and their idea of applause is the two sitting on the knees hitting one hand each together.
* DontThinkFeel: It's eventually revealed that superpowers will only really work if you "don't think, just do".
* DumbIsGood: None of the heroes or the kind characters are particularly bright (heck, Nova and Vega could be chalked up to be brighter than Supersnällasilversara and Stålhenrik).
** To wit: Stålhenrik was successfully duped by Gjerta into believing that ''birthday parties are bad and needs to be wrecked''. Whereupon he does exactly that. Including smashing cakes with a mallet.
*** Despite the fact that Supersnällasilversara is a lot more cool-headed than her alter ego and Stålhenrik, Supersurasunksara might be as bright as them. Which is a scary thought.
* EvilGenius: Gjerta
* GenreSavvy: Gjerta realizes after her first two villains have been defeated that she has to train her remaining ones from villains to supervillains. After the third, she realizes exactly what triggers Supersnällasilversara's transformation to Supersurasunksara. Of course, every villain manages to drop the d-bomb despite the warnings anyway.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the penultimate episode, when Nova and Vega have successfully managed to call for the aid of their grandparents, Stålhenrik and Supersnällasilversara head out to fly. Since it presumably was a while ago, they've forgotten the way they used to do it... and the first position they assume looks suspiciously like they're about to start making out, prompting a "Wait..." from Stålhenrik.
** Gjerta's comment to Stålhenrik, during the 'Birthday Wrecking' song, that other superheroes 'admire you, and your body of steel'. Which...[[BallsOfSteel well...]] yeah...
** Also, Stålhenrik and Supersnällasilversara 'tickling' each other.
* HeelFaceTurn: Every villain, apart from Gjerta. It's a children's show, after all.
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Frigolit Fragile manages to invoke this (as far as it can be invoked in a children's show) on Supersnällasilversara, prompting her to ask what he said. Too bad he replied, since he had called her dumb in french...
* FlyingBrick: Averted. Stålhenrik is a non-flying brick, and Supersnällasilversara is a flying non-brick.
* FreudianExcuse: Frigolit Fragile dislikes children because he owns a museum of card towers, and the visiting children constantly ruin them for him.
* IdiotBall: Thrown around a little, but most notably, Gjerta definitely held it when she sent out Ture Tvestjärt, chronically afraid of germs, to steal the children's pets.
** Frigolit Fragile also toyed with it on two occasions; replying to Supersnällasilversara when she asked him what he called her in [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench French]] (''knowing'' what would happen), and dedicating his life to stopping the laughter of the children due to his hatred of them for constantly ruining the exhibits of his museum, when he could have simply, oh, I don't know, ''closed the museum to children.''
* IncrediblyLamePun: The [[AbandonedWarehouse once-populated warehouse taken over by the villains]] is called the 'Children's Department'. Sounds unpunny at first, but in Swedish, this title was 'Barnverket'. Still sounds unpunny? Well, now you'll hear it was only one letter away from 'Banverket', which was, at the time, the name for the governmental agency responsible for Sweden's railways. (Then again, this was also a bit of a ParentalBonus, considering that, while Superhjältejul is appreciated by some adults, the primary target audience was children, and they would not know a lot about railway companies.)
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: All of the villains, aside from Gjerta. (If you're a sympathetic person, then possibly Gjerta too.) I mean, think about it. If a [[HandshakeRefusal germophobic]] pedantic, an [[GlassCannon extraordinarily cautious house-of-cards-museum owner]], an agreeable [[NeverLearnedToRead illiterate]], a [[TheKlutz clumsy]] tightrope walker, a barber with a HandPuppet, and three tone-deaf [[CreepyTwins triplets]] got together under the command of a power-crazy BigBad to [[NarmCharm stop the laughter of the children]], would you take them seriously? Of course not. Unless that barber [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus once wanted to be a lumberjack]], there's really nothing to worry about.
* InformedAbility: The tone-deaf triplets Tinnitus are apparently supposed to hate music, yet they happily participate in every song the villains sing. And their HeelFaceTurn is the result of a [[AssPull song]].
** Stålhenrik is supposed to have super strength, but he only uses it one time in the whole show.
** Frigolit Fragile is supposed to be very, very careful -- and yet, in everyday life around the base, he acts more or less like a spaz.
* TheKlutz: Villainous version with Klante Volante. His entire reason for villainy is because he doesn't like getting laughed at for being a klutz. His name even contains the Swedish word for klutz: klant.
* LimitedWardrobe: Uni Sax. She wears ''three'' identical suits, ties and shirts at the same time. This is also what her life philosophy is: she wants everyone to look exactly the same, with gray and boring clothes and the same haircut.
* MeaningfulName: All of the villains, most of which cross over into [[IncrediblyLamePun incredibly awesome puns]]. A few examples: Anna Flabet. Switch the first letters of that last name, and it becomes pronounced as 'Analfabet'; the Swedish word for 'illiterate'. Sure enough, she can't read. Frigolit Fragile; the 'Fragile' is self-explanatory (even though [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY it's pronounced 'Frah-jill']]), and 'Frigolit' means 'styrofoam' à Súedo. As fragile as styrofoam. Klante Volante; Volante=volatile, and 'Klant' means [[TheKlutz 'klutz']].
** Also, Uni Sax. Which should speak for itself.
** Not to mention the ''actor'' who plays Stålhenrik is named...Henrik Ståhl.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Gjerta's nephew Flemming Flink, sent to Gjerta so he can learn to be evil. He doesn't seem to be getting it. His ''very first scene'' is walking into the AbandonedWarehouse (well, technically, captured warehouse) where the group of villains operate, and ''offering the BigBad a caramel''.
* MyGreatestFailure: Stålhenrik was once fooled by Gjerta into helping her. He has never gotten over it, even in his old age he is terribly ashamed. He doesn't want to talk about it, and even gets a MyGreatestFailure song.
* OffscreenTeleportation: While not exactly used for horror purposes, Supersnällasilversara (along with Stålhenrik) somehow managed to get from the back of a pickup into the passenger's seat. ''While it was moving.'' I'm sure that this is ''some'' kind of Crowning Moment, I just can't decide if it's funny or awesome.
* OldSuperhero: Stålhenrik and Supersnällasilversara live on an artificial planet, constructed to be a retirement home for superheroes. It's been said it's not the only one.
* SuperheroesWearCapes: Literally. Vega and Nova wants to get the hang of their powers so they can become real superheroes and get their capes.
** Which they, of course, got in the final episode after they were pivotal to ruining the plan of the BigBad. Their superhero names became Supernova and Megavega.
* SuperpowerLottery: Maybe. Stålhenrik's only superpower seems to be that he's literally made of steel, while Supersnällasilversara doesn't seem to have much past flying. Their daughter can at the very least fly, and is apparently appropriate for joining in stopping a comet. One of their granddaughters also has the power to fly, and is training, while the other one supposedly has the power to move objects with her mind, which she hasn't gotten the hang of yet either. It's possible this power comes from her father, who isn't seen, but superpower genetics seem to be working in strange ways.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Actually Theme Triplet Naming. Nina, Tina and Tuss Tinnitus.
* TrainingMontage: Unless they were all turned into supervillains by simply working out for a few minutes, the song ''Supervillain'' was this. Though it wasn't much of a montage, and more of a TimeSkip.
* VillainSong: Every episode contains a song. Every villain has gotten at least one, and there was also a song that was about going from being a mere villain to a supervillain.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Stålhenrik is afraid of... house sparrows. The first time he landed on Earth, he was also hesitant to speak to children, and believed that a lamp post looked cocky.
The story is about {{supervillain}} Gjerta who wants to stop the laughter of children, and to this end assumes command over the institution that makes decisions in matters regarding children and gathers a squad of villains to help her.
Since it's a super hero show, it naturally has its fair share of tropes!
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!!''Superhjältejul'' provides examples of:
* AdultsAreUseless: Well, more like [[ThereAreNoAdults Adults Are Nonexistent]]. There seem to be quite a lot of children about, but no parents, and no adults who aren't either kind old people or one of many crazed villains.
* BerserkButton triggering a SuperpoweredEvilSide: Calling Supersnällasilversara dumb makes her literally explode and transform into the green and mean Supersurasunksara. Whether or not she's more superpowered in this state is not entirely clear, but she's far more agressive. It was recently revealed she has lost the ability to transform due to age.
** She did manage to pull it off one (presumably) last time, but it took [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K677tyWHCXY an entire song about how dumb she was (delivered by her grandchildren, no less)]] plus the BigBad herself saying it for the transformation to happen. It didn't help, though; see CrazyPrepared below.
* BigBad: Gjerta, naturally.
* BoringInvincibleHero: Played straight at first, with the initial two villains sent out to stop the laughter getting easily dispatched by Supersurasunksara, but subverted by the two following who actually manages to outwit her.
* CannotSpitItOut: Played entirely straight with Stålhenrik's infatuation with Supersnällasilversara. He even got a song about it.
* CatchPhrase: "Vad sa du att jag var, sa du...?" by Supersnällasilversara, right after someone's said the d-word. Translates into something like "What did you say that I was, did you say...?" Or "What did you say that I was, you said...?" If you worry that this isn't completely good grammar, don't worry; [[ComicallyMissingThePoint it wasn't in Swedish, either.]]
* ChewingTheScenery: Klante Volantes [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OSkbjLLeGY song]] definitely has elements of this.
* CrazyPrepared: Gjerta. In the end, she attempts to steal the core of the artificial retirement planet, which would make it fly into space. To this end, she impersonated the custodian of the planet. Vega and Nova discover this, and she traps them in a cage. They manage to call for their grandparents to come to help them... and Gjerta has tailor-made traps for them, including a remote control with their faces on the buttons: A powerful magnet to trap Stålhenrik, a plush kitten above a sticky mess to trap Supersnällasilversara and a whack-a-mole game (with Gjerta's face on the rising things as well as repeatedly saying "dumb") to trap Supersurasunksara.
* CreepyTwins: A mild version, but the tone-deaf triplets Tinnitus have elements of this. The three of them sit on the same chair, by having two of them sit on the knees of the third who is holding them up, and their idea of applause is the two sitting on the knees hitting one hand each together.
* DontThinkFeel: It's eventually revealed that superpowers will only really work if you "don't think, just do".
* DumbIsGood: None of the heroes or the kind characters are particularly bright (heck, Nova and Vega could be chalked up to be brighter than Supersnällasilversara and Stålhenrik).
** To wit: Stålhenrik was successfully duped by Gjerta into believing that ''birthday parties are bad and needs to be wrecked''. Whereupon he does exactly that. Including smashing cakes with a mallet.
*** Despite the fact that Supersnällasilversara is a lot more cool-headed than her alter ego and Stålhenrik, Supersurasunksara might be as bright as them. Which is a scary thought.
* EvilGenius: Gjerta
* GenreSavvy: Gjerta realizes after her first two villains have been defeated that she has to train her remaining ones from villains to supervillains. After the third, she realizes exactly what triggers Supersnällasilversara's transformation to Supersurasunksara. Of course, every villain manages to drop the d-bomb despite the warnings anyway.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In the penultimate episode, when Nova and Vega have successfully managed to call for the aid of their grandparents, Stålhenrik and Supersnällasilversara head out to fly. Since it presumably was a while ago, they've forgotten the way they used to do it... and the first position they assume looks suspiciously like they're about to start making out, prompting a "Wait..." from Stålhenrik.
** Gjerta's comment to Stålhenrik, during the 'Birthday Wrecking' song, that other superheroes 'admire you, and your body of steel'. Which...[[BallsOfSteel well...]] yeah...
** Also, Stålhenrik and Supersnällasilversara 'tickling' each other.
* HeelFaceTurn: Every villain, apart from Gjerta. It's a children's show, after all.
* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Frigolit Fragile manages to invoke this (as far as it can be invoked in a children's show) on Supersnällasilversara, prompting her to ask what he said. Too bad he replied, since he had called her dumb in french...
* FlyingBrick: Averted. Stålhenrik is a non-flying brick, and Supersnällasilversara is a flying non-brick.
* FreudianExcuse: Frigolit Fragile dislikes children because he owns a museum of card towers, and the visiting children constantly ruin them for him.
* IdiotBall: Thrown around a little, but most notably, Gjerta definitely held it when she sent out Ture Tvestjärt, chronically afraid of germs, to steal the children's pets.
** Frigolit Fragile also toyed with it on two occasions; replying to Supersnällasilversara when she asked him what he called her in [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench French]] (''knowing'' what would happen), and dedicating his life to stopping the laughter of the children due to his hatred of them for constantly ruining the exhibits of his museum, when he could have simply, oh, I don't know, ''closed the museum to children.''
* IncrediblyLamePun: The [[AbandonedWarehouse once-populated warehouse taken over by the villains]] is called the 'Children's Department'. Sounds unpunny at first, but in Swedish, this title was 'Barnverket'. Still sounds unpunny? Well, now you'll hear it was only one letter away from 'Banverket', which was, at the time, the name for the governmental agency responsible for Sweden's railways. (Then again, this was also a bit of a ParentalBonus, considering that, while Superhjältejul is appreciated by some adults, the primary target audience was children, and they would not know a lot about railway companies.)
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: All of the villains, aside from Gjerta. (If you're a sympathetic person, then possibly Gjerta too.) I mean, think about it. If a [[HandshakeRefusal germophobic]] pedantic, an [[GlassCannon extraordinarily cautious house-of-cards-museum owner]], an agreeable [[NeverLearnedToRead illiterate]], a [[TheKlutz clumsy]] tightrope walker, a barber with a HandPuppet, and three tone-deaf [[CreepyTwins triplets]] got together under the command of a power-crazy BigBad to [[NarmCharm stop the laughter of the children]], would you take them seriously? Of course not. Unless that barber [[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus once wanted to be a lumberjack]], there's really nothing to worry about.
* InformedAbility: The tone-deaf triplets Tinnitus are apparently supposed to hate music, yet they happily participate in every song the villains sing. And their HeelFaceTurn is the result of a [[AssPull song]].
** Stålhenrik is supposed to have super strength, but he only uses it one time in the whole show.
** Frigolit Fragile is supposed to be very, very careful -- and yet, in everyday life around the base, he acts more or less like a spaz.
* TheKlutz: Villainous version with Klante Volante. His entire reason for villainy is because he doesn't like getting laughed at for being a klutz. His name even contains the Swedish word for klutz: klant.
* LimitedWardrobe: Uni Sax. She wears ''three'' identical suits, ties and shirts at the same time. This is also what her life philosophy is: she wants everyone to look exactly the same, with gray and boring clothes and the same haircut.
* MeaningfulName: All of the villains, most of which cross over into [[IncrediblyLamePun incredibly awesome puns]]. A few examples: Anna Flabet. Switch the first letters of that last name, and it becomes pronounced as 'Analfabet'; the Swedish word for 'illiterate'. Sure enough, she can't read. Frigolit Fragile; the 'Fragile' is self-explanatory (even though [[ItIsPronouncedTroPAY it's pronounced 'Frah-jill']]), and 'Frigolit' means 'styrofoam' à Súedo. As fragile as styrofoam. Klante Volante; Volante=volatile, and 'Klant' means [[TheKlutz 'klutz']].
** Also, Uni Sax. Which should speak for itself.
** Not to mention the ''actor'' who plays Stålhenrik is named...Henrik Ståhl.
* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Gjerta's nephew Flemming Flink, sent to Gjerta so he can learn to be evil. He doesn't seem to be getting it. His ''very first scene'' is walking into the AbandonedWarehouse (well, technically, captured warehouse) where the group of villains operate, and ''offering the BigBad a caramel''.
* MyGreatestFailure: Stålhenrik was once fooled by Gjerta into helping her. He has never gotten over it, even in his old age he is terribly ashamed. He doesn't want to talk about it, and even gets a MyGreatestFailure song.
* OffscreenTeleportation: While not exactly used for horror purposes, Supersnällasilversara (along with Stålhenrik) somehow managed to get from the back of a pickup into the passenger's seat. ''While it was moving.'' I'm sure that this is ''some'' kind of Crowning Moment, I just can't decide if it's funny or awesome.
* OldSuperhero: Stålhenrik and Supersnällasilversara live on an artificial planet, constructed to be a retirement home for superheroes. It's been said it's not the only one.
* SuperheroesWearCapes: Literally. Vega and Nova wants to get the hang of their powers so they can become real superheroes and get their capes.
** Which they, of course, got in the final episode after they were pivotal to ruining the plan of the BigBad. Their superhero names became Supernova and Megavega.
* SuperpowerLottery: Maybe. Stålhenrik's only superpower seems to be that he's literally made of steel, while Supersnällasilversara doesn't seem to have much past flying. Their daughter can at the very least fly, and is apparently appropriate for joining in stopping a comet. One of their granddaughters also has the power to fly, and is training, while the other one supposedly has the power to move objects with her mind, which she hasn't gotten the hang of yet either. It's possible this power comes from her father, who isn't seen, but superpower genetics seem to be working in strange ways.
* ThemeTwinNaming: Actually Theme Triplet Naming. Nina, Tina and Tuss Tinnitus.
* TrainingMontage: Unless they were all turned into supervillains by simply working out for a few minutes, the song ''Supervillain'' was this. Though it wasn't much of a montage, and more of a TimeSkip.
* VillainSong: Every episode contains a song. Every villain has gotten at least one, and there was also a song that was about going from being a mere villain to a supervillain.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Stålhenrik is afraid of... house sparrows. The first time he landed on Earth, he was also hesitant to speak to children, and believed that a lamp post looked cocky.
