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* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Children fathered by German soldiers were shunned in Norway. Oh, Frida.

* [[Animal Stereotypes]]: Sort of; in some videos (notably "Eagle") Frida and Agnetha wear dresses with the images of a fox and a rabbit on them, respectively. There are 2 other more famous dresses, which have a yellow cat and a blue cat, but that is more a case of [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]. (You can see the cat dresses in the "S.O.S." video.)

* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Quite a few outfits.

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Check out Frida and Benny getting on each other's nerves in the "Summer Night City" video.

* [["I Am" Song]]: "Thank You For The Music"

** "I Am An A", in a different way.

* [[Important Haircut]] / [[What Do You Mean Its Not Symbolic]]: You could say Agnetha's haircut in the late 70s symbolized ABBA going downhill...

* [[Instrumentals]]: "Arrival" and "Intermezzo no. 1".

* [[The Rival]]: Tabloid-wanking aside, both girls have acknowledged that they did, in fact, compete on-stage for the audience's attention.

* [[Sanity Slippage Song]]: "I'm A Marionette", "Get on the Carousel", "Me and I", "The Visitors".

* [[Sensual Spandex]]: Frida's and Agnetha's costumes in 1979. They can be seen in the "Voulez-Vous" video.

* [[Ship Tease]]: Even while the actual couples were still together, there was occasionally a bit of Benny/Agnetha and Bjorn/Frida flirting on stage.

** Bjorn/Frida was especially played with during their duet performances of "Why Did It Have to Be Me?" in the 1977 tour, as can be seen in ''ABBA: The Movie.'' You can also see it in the video for "Head Over Heels", wherein Bjorn plays Frida's [[Henpecked Husband|Henpecked Boyfriend]] who's dragged everywhere by Frida on her shopping trip and is forced to carry her purchases.

** In ''[[Guilty Gear (Video Game)|Guilty Gear]]'', which is already rife with musical references, there's a character named A.B.A.

** ''[[Jo Jo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]''<ref>Like Guilty Gear, it has loads of musical references.</ref> has a weird history with referencing ABBA. In the Japanese version, they haven't been mentioned, [[Long Runners|yet]]. In the official English version, the name of the character [[Enya]] was blended with ABBA, supposedly to avoid legal issues, resulting in Enyaba. Then there's the fluke of Abbachio, whose name is an actual Italian word<ref>It's a colloquial term which roughly means 'lamb that will be sent to the slaughterhouse'; and now you know.</ref>, [[Averted Trope|and isn't meant to reference ABBA at all]].