History YMMV / MartinBeck

** [[BigBad Lennart Gavling]], also known as [[ManOfWealthAndTaste The Money Man]], is a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and the ArchEnemy of Martin Beck and his colleague Gunvald Larsson. Gavling was evil even when starting his career as a mercenary, as a flashback scene shows him breaking into a drug dealer couple's home and demanding money, at first trying to kill them, only to later [[WouldHurtAChild kill their newborn baby]] and blackmailing the mother, later resulting in the father being DrivenToSuicide, something Gavling takes full [[CardCarryingVillain credit]] for. Gavling first appears in the season one episode "White Nights", where he kills [[spoiler:Martin's biological son Micke for not completing a drug deal]], something that emotionally breaks Martin for the rest of the series, sad that he never got to talk the latter out of criminal activity. Later appearing in "Guesthouse Pearl", Gavling is now dealing with the equally monstrous Gorzi, where they smuggle explosive cerium--which can explode at any time--using immigrants. In his final appearence, in "The Money Man", he kills his homosexual police source for [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much]] about his deals, paying the police officer's boyfriend Leonard to write a fake suicide text, only to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness later kill him]] when he starts talking to Martin, not even fully knowing if Leonard actually was talking about their deal. To scare Martin, Gavling orders his mercenary to confront Martin's daughter Inger, and then grabs her newborn baby and hides it from her. Near the end, Gavling learns that the mom whose baby he killed may be taking the case to court again, and confronts her in her home, where he uses a syringe to torture her. When the police come right in time, Gavling nearly succeeds in [[CopKiller killing Beck himself]].

* CrazyAwesome: Dag is the very definition of this trope.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: It's hard to classify [[PluckyComicRelief Beck's Neighbour's]] jokes as this, since they are so frequent that they have become a standard for the series. However, one that surely qualifies as this is in ''Buried Alive'', where Gunvald is looking for [[spoiler: Erik Stark]], who supposedly kidnapped Beck. He goes to Beck’s appartment, and suddenly the Neighbour comes and starts rambling about a Finnish cucumber-game.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: It's hard to classify Beck's Neighbour's jokes as this, since they are so frequent that they have become a standard for the series. However, one that surely qualifies as this is in ''Buried Alive'', where Gunvald is looking for [[spoiler: Erik Stark]], who supposedly kidnapped Beck. He goes to Beck’s appartment, and suddenly the Neighbour comes and starts rambling about a Finnish cucumber-game.

** [[LackOfEmpathy Gorzi]], from season 1's "Guesthouse Pearl", is a greedy former human trafficker turned human smuggler who, while not initially heinous, stands out due to his cruel methods and overall disregard for the people he is smuggling. His ways of smuggling consists of him using vulnerable immigrants, taping a bottle of cerium on them, which can explode at anytime, and then placing them on cruisers, not caring if the cerium blows up. In his final scene, he abuses one of the people he was smuggling, and threatens to kill him for no reason.
** [[AxCrazy Dag Sjöberg]], from the season 2 premiere "The Price of Revenge", is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced]] killing two cops after stealing bombs and weapons with his two main associates, the first cop Dag had previously tried to arrest due to "assault", the second one being completely innocent. Both of his associates are shocked by this, debating on whether or not they should really cooperate with him. Dag proceeds to taunt [[AntiHero Gunvald Larsson]], who was friends with the cop Dag killed. He then threatens to kill his own associate Santos, just because the latter thought Dag went too far. The trio's true goal is to bomb an entire building just so that they can see the explosion. The next time Dag is shown, he is disguised as a policeman and kills three policemen, not caring when the true police come and arrest his two associates Santos and Victor. He manages to run away in the woods, until he sees a farm, where he kills the farmer who lives there and then threatens his wife inside the house, terrorizing her and her child Elin. When the police finally come, he [[WouldHurtAChild holds the child hostage]], and even when the police offer to make him torture Gunvald instead of the child, he takes the offer, only to [[ILied still keep her]]. He reminds Gunvald of his friend dying and how he wasn't able to help him, playing Russian roulette with him, terrorizing the little girl, all with [[PsychopathicManchild childish glee]]. Once he realizes that he'll get arrested either way, he does the one thing Gunvald didn't want him to do: commit suicide.
** [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Klas Mellgren]], from the season 2 finale "The Last Witness", is the security chief for a big company named Landexa, which is trying to find a cure for AIDS. [[spoiler:Forcing one of the top scientists of the company, Lillemor "Limo" Franson, to charm Beck and manipulate Beck into giving them information about how the case is going]], Klas is behind five murders which included him testing the cure on prostitutes, despite fully knowing that the cure wasn't ready, and then making them blind from the medicine, effectively ruining their lives, He then hires a man named [[AxCrazy Teddy]] to brutally disfigure the girls' faces in order to cover the fact that the medicine made them blind, and then kills them. When one of the girls tell the truth, one of Teddy's assassins, [[TheStoic Juri]], gets hired to kill her and do the same thing to her. When [[spoiler:Limo]] tells Beck about everything, Klas nearly strangles her to death and tells her that it is [[NeverMyFault all her fault]]. When he realizes he will never make it, he [[TakingYouWithMe blows up the entire Landexa building]] using his lighter. While lacking the body count of other villains, Klas makes up for it by being responsible for some of the most gruesome and brutal murders in the entire series.

** [[BigBad Lennart Gavling]], also known as [[ManOfWealthAndTaste The Money Man]], is a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and the ArchEnemy of Martin Beck and his colleague Gunvald Larsson. Gavling was evil even when starting his career as a mercenary, as a flashback scene shows him breaking into a drug dealer couple's home and demanding money, at first trying to kill them, only to later [[WouldHurtAChild kill their newborn baby]] and blackmailing the mother, later resulting in the father being DrivenToSuicide, something Gavling takes full [[CardCarryingVillain credit]] for. Gavling first appears in the season one episode "White Nights", where he kills [[spoiler:Martin's biological son Micke for not completing a drug deal]], something that emotionally breaks Martin for the rest of the series, sad that he never got to talk the latter out of criminal activity. Later appearing in "Guesthouse Pearl", Gavling is now dealing with the equally monstrous, below-mentioned Gorzi, where they smuggle explosive cerium--which can explode at any time--using immigrants. In his final appearence, in "The Money Man", he kills his homosexual police source for [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much]] about his deals, paying the police officer's boyfriend Leonard to write a fake suicide text, only to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness later kill him]] when he starts talking to Martin, not even fully knowing if Leonard actually was talking about their deal. To scare Martin, Gavling orders his mercenary to confront Martin's daughter Inger, and then grabs her newborn baby and hides it from her. Near the end, Gavling learns that the mom whose baby he killed may be taking the case to court again, and confronts her in her home, where he uses a syringe to torture her. When the police come right in time, Gavling nearly succeeds in [[CopKiller killing Beck himself]].

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: It's hard to classify Beck's Neighbour's jokes as this, since they are so frequent that they have become a standard for the series. However, one that surely qualifies as this is in ''Buried Alive'', where Gunvald is looking for [[spoiler: Erik Stark]], who supposedly kidnapped Beck, and suddenly the Neighbour comes and starts rambling about a Finnish cucumber-game.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Suddenly, out of nowhere, in a dark episode about rape, a character named "Mehmet", who's entire character is a dumb but relatively nice but arrogant guy, appears. Obviously, he gets more serious later on, as he is involved in the rapes, but he helps the police, and is definitely the nicest yet dumbest of the rapists.
** It's hard to classify Beck's Neighbour's jokes as this, since they are so frequent that they have become a standard for the series. However, one that surely qualifies as this is in ''Buried Alive'', where Gunvald is looking for [[spoiler: Erik Stark]], who supposedly kidnapped Beck, and suddenly the Neighbour comes and starts rambling about a Finnish cucumber-game.

** [[BigBad Lennart Gavling]], also known as [[ManOfWealthAndTaste The Money Man]], is a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and the ArchEnemy of Martin Beck and his colleague Gunvald Larsson. Gavling was evil even when starting his career as a mercenary, as a flashback scene shows him breaking into a drug dealer couple's home and demanding money, at first trying to kill them, only to later [[WouldHurtAChild kill their newborn baby]] and blackmailing the mother, later resulting in the father being DrivenToSuicide, something Gavling takes full [[CardCarryingVillain credit]] for. Gavling first appears in the season one episode "White Nights", where he kills [[spoiler:Martin's biological son Micke for not completing a drug deal]], something that emotionally breaks Martin for the rest of the series, sad that he never got to talk the latter out of criminal activity. Later appearing in "Guesthouse Pearl", Gavling is now dealing with the equally monstrous, below-mentioned Gorzi, where they smuggle explosive cerium--which can explode at any time--using immigrants. In his final appearence, in "The Money Man", he kills his homosexual police source for [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much]] about his deals, paying the police officer's boyfriend Leonard to write a fake suicide text, only to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness later kill him]] when he starts talking to Martin, not even fully knowing if Leonard actually was talking about their deal. To scare Martin, Gavling orders his mercenary to confront Martin's daughter Inger, and then grabs her newborn baby and hides it from her. Near the end, Gavling learns that the mom whose baby he killed may be taking the case to court again, and confronts her in her home, where he uses a syringe to torture her. When the police come right in time, Gavling nearly succeeds in [[CopKiller killing all six of the police officers]].

** [[BigBad Lennart Gavling]], also known as [[ManOfWealthAndTaste The Money Man]], is a CorruptCorporateExecutive, and the ArchEnemy of Martin Beck and his colleague Gunvald Larsson. Gavling was evil even when starting his career as a mercenary, as a flashback scene shows him breaking into a drug dealer couple's home and demanding money, at first trying to kill them, only to later [[WouldHurtAChild kill their newborn baby]] and blackmailing the mother, later resulting in the father being DrivenToSuicide, something Gavling takes full [[CardCarryingVillain credit]] for. Gavling first appears in the season one episode "White Nights", where he kills [[spoiler:Martin's biological son Micke for not completing a drug deal]], something that emotionally breaks Martin for the rest of the series, sad that he never got to talk the latter out of criminal activity. Later appearing in "Guesthouse Pearl", Gavling is now dealing with the equally monstrous, below-mentioned Gorzi, where they smuggle explosive cerium--which can explode at any time--using immigrants. In his final appearence, he kills his homosexual police source for [[HeKnowsTooMuch knowing too much]] about his deals, paying the police officer's boyfriend Leonard to write a fake suicide text, only to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness later kill him]] when he starts talking to Martin, not even fully knowing if Leonard actually was talking about their deal. To scare Martin, Gavling orders his mercenary to confront Martin's daughter Inger, and then grabs her newborn baby and hides it from her. Near the end, Gavling learns that the mom whose baby he killed may be taking the case to court again, and confronts her in her home, where he uses a syringe to torture her. When the police come right in time, Gavling nearly succeeds in [[CopKiller killing all six of the police officers]].