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The characters have grown and developed as the series went on, both Bamse and Lille Skutt are married and have children, and for a while their kids aged almost in [[Real Time]], although they [[Comic Book Time|stopped aging]] when they started school.
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=== ''[[Bamse]]'' provides examples of: ===
* [[Abusive Parents]]: Vargen's stepfathers. Burre's dad initially had some traces of this as well, but is treated more sympathetically in his latter appearances, being not so much genuinely abusive as simply temperamental and suffering from a slight gambling addiction.
* [[A Day in Her Apron]]: Nowadays, Bamse and Brummelisa are both working parents, since the children have started school... but some years ago, when Brummelisa was a stay-at-home housewife with three children, she did occasionally express a wish to not ''only'' having to work at home, leading to one story where she and Bamse swapped jobs -- shejobs—she substituted for him as a lumberjack while he stayed home with the kids. Of course, he made a huge mess of things (though it has to be said that he suffered from some bad luck; one of the kids got unexpectedly sick and needed extra care, which got his schedule a bit out of whack). Still, the trope wasn't played ''completely'' straight, as Bamse even after a catastrophe of a day still suggested to his wife that they occasionally switch jobs in the future as well, so that she could get out of the house more.
* [[All Deserts Have Cacti]]: In one comic, Bamse dug next to a cactus, hoping to find water. He instead found oil, which was spotted by ''bedouins'', who then came to his aid.
* [[All Myths Are True]]: There are trolls, goblins, witches, giants, dragons and they have run into [[Ramayana|Rama and Sita]] a couple of times. Ghosts and other forms of undead are the only exception, it seems, as ghosts always turns out to be something else and the main characters are very insistant that there is no such things as ghosts.
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Both Krösus and Vargen. Also, "Bamse och Kalle Svartskalle", which is explicitly about this trope.
* [[Always ChaoticExclusively Evil]]: Wolves were treated as this in the comic's early years, but with Vargen's [[Heel Face Turn]] and the growing anti-racism tone of the comic, their portrayal got more nuanced and the trope [[Subverted]] more than once. Eventually it was established that wolves on the whole are quite decent people, and that Bamse's home tracts was simply unlucky enough to have more bad ones than good ones living there. Similarly subverted for the voles, who become ruthless and greedy by working for [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Croesus]], and examples of good vole characters show up occasionally.
* [[And Knowing Is Half the Battle]]: "Bamse's school".
* [[Badass Grandma]]: Bamse's grandmother. One time some of the strongest villains tried to prevent her from returning home from a trip so Bamse wouldn't have any dunderhonug before they could deal with him. Grandma responded by forcibly moving them out of the way.
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* [[Funny Animal]]
* [[Fun with Palindromes]]: Lille Skutt's wife is called "Nina Kanin" (meaning "Nina Rabbit").
* [[Furry Confusion]]: Kinda. There are anthro animals and non-anthro animals. To further confuse the issue many of the non-anthro animals are Non-Morphic [[Talking Animal|Talking Animals]]s, although most of them only talk among themselves -- thethemselves—the most notable example being Katten Jansson (Bamse's grandmother's pet cat) and his best friend Husmusen ("the House Mouse"), who on occasion play the roles as [[Team Pet|Team Pets]]s and often engage in friendly banter among themselves.
* [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Skalman has just about any convenient doohickey tucked away in his shell. A common favorite is the inflatable helicopter. Yes, an [[Crazy Awesome|''inflatable helicopter'']].
** In the early TV movies, it was explicitly stated that Skalman does ''not'' have transoceanic steamships or lunar rockets tucked away in his shell (but hinted that he might have pretty much anything up to that).
** His own favourite is the "Food-and-Sleep clock" which always rings at inconvenient times, see [[Holding Back the Phlebotinum]] below.
* [[G-Rated Drug]]: somewhat averted in ''The Wizard's Red Flower'' while the drug is never named, said red flower seems to imply that it is opium. The [[Sdrawkcab Name|Sdrawkcab Names]]s of both the wizard and his henchmen (the wizard's name is Eragord, which backwards is a word for "drug drealer," while the henchmen are called "Nioreh" and "Nifrom" -- backwards—backwards spellings of the Swedish words for "heroin" and "morphine") doesn't help.
** In fact,the Norwegian translator was so concerned about the implications that she changed the names to "Malonkus," "Milus" and "Nilus," which are pure fantasy names.
* [[G-Rated Sex]]: In an early Bamse comic, Bamse is shown making babies with his wife: They lie in bed, fully clothed in pajamas and under the sheets, hugging each other.
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