History YMMV / ALittleNightMusic

* BreakawayPopHit: 'Send In the Clowns.'

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Fredrik married an 18-year-old that he had known since she was a little girl, gets frustrated when she won’t have sex with him, and then thinks that the best solution is to cheat on her with an old flame even though he knows how emotionally sensitive she is. And said old flame calls her “unfeeling” and “simple” for this most horrid of crimes.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Frederic married an 18-year-old that he had known since she was a little girl, gets frustrated when she won’t have sex with him, and then thinks that the best solution is to cheat on her with an old flame even though he knows how emotionally sensitive she is. And said old flame calls her “unfeeling” and “simple” for this most horrid of crimes.

!!The fanfic:
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Enfer. Even though the author loathed her, her popularity kept him from killing her for a long time.
* TearJerker: The DownerEnding.

!!The fanfic:
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Enfer. Even though the author loathed her, her popularity kept him from killing her for a long time.
* TearJerker: The DownerEnding.

* LesYay: Petra and Anne's "I'm a boy" scene, complete with rolling around partially clothed on Anne's bed.
* MomentOfAwesome: Carl-Magnus tells his wife, Charlotte, that a man can take his wife having an affair, but if it's his ''mistress'', he becomes a '''tiger'''. Near the end, Carl-Magnus catches Charlotte consoling Fredrik over something, and mistakes it for an affair, and goes berserk.
--> '''Charlotte''': "You became a '''tiger''' -- for me!"

The fanfic:

The musical:

* {{Wangst}} - Henrik's lamenting is supposed to be at least partially this. Depending on how sympathetic the actor plays him, however, it can/should be partly genuine pitiable Angst. Probably because what he sees as "profound" torment is really just the result of bad decision making and major UST.

--> '''Charlotte''': "You became a '''tiger''' -- for me!"

* MomentOfAwesome: Carl-Magnus tells his wife, Charlotte, that a man can take is wife having an affair, but if it's his ''mistress'', he becomes a '''tiger'''. Near the end, Carl-Magnus catches Charlotte consoling Fredrik over something, and mistakes it for an affair, and goes berserk.

* LesYay: Petra and Anne's "I'm a boy" scene, complete with rolling around partially clothed on Anne's bed.

* CompleteMonster: Jerry Tagger, for the majority of his life, has believed himself to be "superior" to ordinary men, and, as such, he does not care what effect his actions have on other people. To test his belief, when he was [[EnfantTerrible 8 years old]], he reasoned that a truly superior being would be able to kill without feeling anything, so he set his own sister on fire to see how he would react. He felt nothing.

* CompleteMonster: Jerry Tagger. For the majority of his life, he has believed himself to be "superior" to ordinary men, and, as such, he does not care what effect his actions have on other people. Here's how he tested his belief: when he was 8 years old, he reasoned that a truly superior being would be able to kill without feeling anything, so he set his own sister on fire to see how he would react. He felt nothing.

* {{Wangst}} - Henrik's lamenting is supposed to be at least partially this. Depending on how sympathetic the actor plays him, however, it can/should be partly genuine pitiable Angst. Probably because what he sees as "profound" torment is really just the result of bad decision making and major UST.

* CompleteMonster: Jerry Tagger. For the majority of his life, he has believed himself to be "superior" to ordinary men, and, as such, he does not care what effect his actions have on other people. This may not sound so bad, but wait till you hear how he tested his belief: when he was 8 years old, he reasoned that a truly superior being would be able to kill without feeling anything, so he set his own sister on fire to see how he would react. He felt nothing.

* CompleteMonster: Jerry Tagger. The list of his heinous exploits is long, but the earliest stated example is in chapter 13, where it's explained that he set fire to his sister when he was eight. This is also his EstablishingCharacterMoment.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Enfer. Despite the fact that the author loathed her, her popularity kept him from killing her for a long time.