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2''Snabba Cash'' is a 2021 Swedish crime-drama series from Creator/{{Netflix}}. It follows the young, ambitious businesswoman Leya who has a son called Sami with a deceased drug dealer. Leya used to be a part of the world of crime but decided to become an entrepreneur and founded the tech-company [=TargetCoach=]. Sami's uncle, Ravy is a drug lord who gets into debt with his supplier and relies on Leya to help him. It also follows Salim who is a member of Ravy's gang, but has goal to leave the criminal life style for good. He also engages a romantic relationship with Leya. Then there's Tim, a troubled teenager who wants to become a gangster and eventually starts working as a drug dealer for Ravy's gang. But due to his young age, nobody takes him serious.
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6* AffablyEvil: Salim is a criminal engaging in drug dealing, violence and murder, but outside of that he is very charming, friendly and overall likable. He eventually tries to leave the criminal lifestyle and advices Tim to do the same.
7* AlasPoorVillain:
8** Although he was an aspiring career criminal, Ari was shown to be quite a NiceGuy and good friend of Salim. So it is devastating when he is fatally shot by Dani's forces, and Salim, in tears, desperately tries to save him.
9** Dani's death. Dispite their rivalry, Ravy show [[DueToTheDead respect upon his death]]. Even Leya seems to show some degree of pity and was shocked when Salim killed him. This showcases that this is ''not'' [[WhatASenselessWasteOfHumanLife a life you want to live]].
10** [[spoiler: Ravy's death]] in Season 2. For all his faults, he had humanizing traits, particularly given some in Season 2, and was contemplating leaving the life of crime for his girlfriend and their unborn child. But his hunger for revenge got the better of him, accidently killing a child which he instantly regrets while getting fatally wounded himself, and has [[spoiler: Leya]] mourning over his dead body.
11** [[spoiler: Zaki]]. Even he was shown to have standards, particularly regarding the death of children, and the last thing he felt was immense sorrow that his friends were murdered before he got double-crossed and killed.
12* AmbitionIsEvil: While Leya isn't exactly evil, her pursue to become a successful entrepreneur makes her do som dubious and even criminal things like investing drug-money in her company, throw her friend and business partner Viktoria under the bus and assisting WhiteCollarCrime.
13* AntagonistInMourning: Again, Ravy mourning Dani.
14* AntiVillain: Salim doesn't enjoy criminal activities and tries to leave it for good. He tells Tim that is's a bad life and advices him to stay out of it. Bottom line is that Salim isn't really a bad person, he's a good guy who just ended up on the wrong way in life.
15* AnyoneCanDie: As to be expected in a world taking place in a criminal CrapsackWorld.
16* AssassinationAttempt: Ravy sends Salim on a mission to try to have his rival drug-lord Dani elliminated, but it doesn’t go well.
17* AxCrazy: Nala, one of Ravy's enforcers, is perhaps one of the most ruthless and unpleasant criminals in the series as she clearly [[{{Sadist}} enjoys]] [[JerkAss violently bullying]] others and wave her gun making death threats.
18* BaldOfEvil: PlayedWith. Ravy has a unique haircut in that half his head is shaved while still having some hair that he styles.
19* BeardOfEvil: Played straight. Ravy has a thic beard that somehow serves to make him more intimidating.
20* BigBad: Ravy is the central antagonist for all the conflicts in the series: he drags Leya into his business, is Salim's boss and won't let him leave the criminal lifestyle and his gang recruits Tim and don't exactly treat him very well.
21* BigBadFriend: Ravy to Salim, although he doesn’t care about his depression and won't allow him to leave his gang.
22* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Salim sacrifices himself in order to save Leya, which causes him to get killed by Ravy for which Tim is framed for and put into custody. While Ravy does indeed receive LaserGuidedKarma from Leya, he still is free to go and doesn't receive any real or judical punishment, but owns a great deal of money to Leya after she paid his debts]].
23* CorruptCorporateExecutive:
24** Thomas Storm, Leya's mentor and prime investor, turns out to be a white-collar criminal who uses her company to launder money and sleazy tactics to increase the value of his own stocks.
25** Marko seems to be the chief of some food-distribution company and uses it as a cover to smuggle drugs.
26* CrapsackWorld: The show takes place in the world of crime in Stockholm, and [[GrayAndBlackMorality very few characters are free from sins]].
27* TheDragon: Nala and Osman to Ravy.
28* DragonWithAnAgenda: Ravy tries to kill his rival drug dealer Dani against their supplier Marko's wish.
29* DueToTheDead: Atleast Ravy has the decency to show respect to Dani as he dies.
30* EnemyCivilWar: Both Ravy and Dani get their drugs from their superior Marko, but they hate each-other and eventually start a gang war because of their conflict about territories, which [[PragmaticVillainy Marko]] disapproves and tries to prevent with not-so-successful results.
31* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In his first scene, Salim is doing his job as a wedding singer which he really loves and enjoys doing. Right after this, he goes into his other job as a [[PunchClockVillain career criminal]] by shooting two rival drug-dealers, which he certainly doesn't like.
32* EqualOpportunityEvil: Marko is a drug supplier who employs anyone and pretty much all of his subordinates are of foreign ethnicities.
33* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Even if he is willing to kidnap Leya and prepares to kill her when he believed she was a rat, you can visibly see him struggling to bring it to himself to kill his nephew's mother. The only person Ravy seems to have a genuine soft spot for is his nephew Sami.
34* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Ravy genuinely cannot grasp why Salim wants to leave the criminal lifestyle. He tries to point at the "ghetto-anxiety" and calls Salim whiny when the latter explains that he literally feels sick by living a life doing nothing but committing crimes.
35* EvilIsHammy:
36** Marko screams very loudly whenever he losses his patience.
37** Nala is almost always speaking loudly and foul-mouthed, especially when she gets hostile.
38** Ravy during his occational {{Freak Out}}s.
39* EvilIsPetty:
40** When Tim screws up one of his first deals, Nala says he can only compensate if he loots a grocery store, claiming the owner is a rival. As it turns out, after Tim did what he was told, Nala reveals that it was completely unnecessary as she only wanted to see if Tim could do it.
41** After Ravy has Amina kidnapped and tortured for info, he threatens to hurt her loved ones if she talks about it to anyone and calls her "dirt" before leaving her alone in the middle of nowhere with two bleeding knees.
42* EvilMentor: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Thomas]] for Leya.
43* EvilVsEvil: Ravy and Dani have immense hatred for one another because because of their conflict about their territories.
44* FauxAffablyEvil:
45** Ravy attempts to maintain a friendly and soft-spoken manner, but it doesn’t make him any less disturbing or formidable as it doesn't take much for him to go into violent outbursts or make death threats.
46** While Nala is very open with her JerkAss attitude, even she maintains a friendly or respectful manner whenever it is necessary. But as soon as she gets mad, she gets ''mad''.
47* JerkAss: While alot of characters qualify it's definitely [[EvilIsPetty Nala]] and [[WhiteCollarCrime Thomas]].
48* JerkassHasAPoint: Leya gets infuriated when she finds out that Thomas is using [=TargetCoach=] for his WhiteCollarCrime, but as Thomas points out she [[{{Hypocrite}} herself used drug money to buy her former co-owner out]] which Thomas didn't object to, so she should not talk.
49* {{Gangbangers}}: The show is all about this trope.
50* GanglandDriveBy: Salim does this during the assasination attempt on Dani.
51* GrayAndBlackMorality: As the show takes place in the world of crime, most prominent characters aren't really free of sins. While there are those like Leya, Salim and Tim who are clearly more sympathetic despite being criminals, the antagonists on the other hand are ''really'' bad.
52* GreaterScopeVillain: Marko, as he is the supplier for Ravy and other drug lords. Ravy's debts to Marko causes him to become more stessed and therefore even more ruthless and drags Leya into this to help him against her will.
53* HateSink: Unlike Ravy, who has a few redeeming qualities, his enforcer, [[AxCrazy Nala]] is nothing but a sadistic, smug [[JerkAss jerkass]] with a big mouth who enjoys bullying others, while embracing being scumbag criminal. Subverted in Season 2 since she is given more humanizing traits.
54* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler: Salim tried to reform himself and get out of the gangster life. Unfortunately, he got killed by Ravy before that could happen]].
55* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler: Salim for sacrificing himself to save Leya.]]
56* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Leya has one after Ravy kills Salim]].
57* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: In order to save her from Ravy, Salim takes the blame for Leya telling Dani where Ravy's drug deal would take place. Leya is saved, but at the cost of his own life at Ravy's hands]].
58%% * HonorAmongThieves:
59* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Almost all the criminal antagonists get avoids punishment for their actions. The only exeption is Dani and his entire gang. Although Ravy is in big debt to Leya, even he doesn't receive any greater or judical punishment and is free to go]].
60* KickTheDog: Ravy has Amina, Dani's girlfriend, kidnapped and tortured for info. She breaks down in tears when she hear that Dani's dead and is completely defenceless while Ravy continues to have her tortured. And then he threatens to hurt her loved once if she talks about it before leaving her alone in the middle of nowhere with two broken knees.
61* LaserGuidedKarma: After killing her boyfriend, [[spoiler: Ravy's debt to Marko is paid off by Leya, which now means that she practically owns him until he pays her off]].
62* LeanAndMean: Marko is tall, lean and a crime lord.
63* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Tim becomes a small-time crook in Ravy's gang even though he is ineffective, inexperienced, young and don't belong there.
64* MobWar: Their rivalry results in a gang war between Ravy's gang and Dani's gang. [[spoiler: Which Dani eventually looses]].
65* MoeGreeneSpecial: [[spoiler: Salim is killed this way]].
66* NWordPrivileges:
67** Leya uses the word "Babbe" at one point, which is a Swedish slur for non-Western immigrant.
68--> '''Leya:''' [Talking to Salim on the phone] Are you singing at some ''babbe''-wedding, or what?
69** Salim uses the word "Blatte" which has the same meaning. It can be compared to the actual N-word.
70--> '''Salim:''' [To Ravy] Can't you just get another ''blatte''?
71* NiceGuy: Salim.
72* NotSoDifferentRemark: Leya learns that the tech-business isn't so different from the criminal underworld. While there may not be drug-dealings or murders going on, the tech-business is full of betrayal and WhiteCollarCrime like money laundering and fraud. When Leya calls out Thomas for using [=TargetCoach=] for stock manipulation, Thomas tells her that she shouldn't talk considering she used Ravy's drug-money to fund the company.
73* PlotArmour: [[spoiler: Leya and Salim conspire to have Ravy killed, but before that his mother Noella shows up at Leya's home expressing her worries about Ravy. Leya's conscience gets the better of her, preventing Ravy from ever being killed]].
74* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Although very subtle, it is implied that Ravy is particularly upset with [[spoiler: Leya paying off his debts because it now means that he is "owned" by a woman]].
75* PragmaticVillainy: Marko tries his best to prevent casualties from his dealers as he believes it is bad for business.
76* PunchClockVillain: Salim works for drug lord Ravy, but doesn’t hold any ill will towards anyone and eventually tries to leave, which Ravy won't allow.
77* RagsToRiches: Leya started off as a restaurant waitress in the suburbia, but through her entrepreneurship (and some shady business) she becomes wealthy.
78* RichesToRags: Downplayed; Ravy is a very wealthy drug lord and owns several businesses. But after some deals went wrong he lost alot of money and was in debt to Marko, which he wouldn’t be able to pay. [[spoiler: Leya used this and paid-off his debts meaning that she owns him]].
79* TheRival: Dani to Ravy. Both are deug distributors who are in a conflict about territories.
80* SmugSnake: Ravy tries to take out Dani while at the same time being Marko's costumer, who disapproves his methods. Despite Marko's repeated warnings, Ravy disobeys him anyways and tries to take out his rival, which only results in Marko demanding them both money in damage compensation, which Ravy cannot pay for. As a result, Ravy becomes very stressed and eventually becomes economically dependent on Leya.
81* TheSociopath: Nala definitely qualifies. While Ravy seems to be capable of genuine affections for people, making it more ambiguous in his case, Nala doesn’t have any empathy at all and clearly enjoys bringing harm upon others and is just as ruthless as her boss.
82* TrappedInVillainy: Salim tries to leave the criminal lifestyle but it doesn’t exactly work very well.
83* VillainRespect: Marko really admires the way Leya handles Ravy's debts in that she pays them all and Marko tells Ravy to respect her.
84* VillainousBreakdown:
85** Ravy gets one when Salim tells him that it was he who ratted him out to Dani, costing them a drug deal. Ravy really wasn't expecting one of his closest gang-members to do that (which he didn't, he just took the blame to save Leya). He desperately tries to talk sense into Salim at first, [[spoiler: but ends up killing him as a result]].
86** Ravy has another one when he finds out Leya has paid off his entire debt to Marko, meaning that she practically owns him until he pays her off. Ravy becomes so stressed he walks around cluelessly in the room while Marko gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

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