Bamse: Difference between revisions

* [[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 -- 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 of the Other Reindeer]]: Both Krösus and Vargen. Also, "Bamse och Kalle Svartskalle", which is explicitly about this trope.

* [[Always Chaotic 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.

* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Averted with Katten Jansson, who may occasionally be selfish and mischevious, but is genuinely kind and helpful in his role as [[Team Pet]], and even has a mouse as a best friend. Played straight with the bigger alley cats he sometimes tries to impress, though.

* [[Chaste Toons]]: Completely averted; both Bamse and Lille Skutt have over the course of the comic married and had children.

* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Bamse's grandmother.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Krösus Sork. He's one of the few villains of the comic that has never had any kind of [[Heeö Face Turn]].

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Bamse and Brummelisa's youngest child, Brumma. She even is a friend to all dead things, one of her best friends being a broom.

* [[Funny Animal]]

* [[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]], although most of them only talk among themselves -- 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]] 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'']].

* [[Meaningful Name]] and [[Species Surname]]: These are the most common naming conventions. Often combined in various ways. The oddest case is probably ''Vargen'' ("The Wolf"), the original villain, who has retained precisely that name, even as most others have gained more "full" names (although usually including some reference to their species). His origin story tries to explain this by claiming that his [[Abusive Parents|stepfathers simply never cared enough to bother giving him a proper name.]]

* [[Never Say That Again]]: Skalman really, really hates it when people tells him to hurry or hurry up and considers hurry to be the foulest word there is.

* [[Nothing Is the Same Anymore]]: Subverted, a lot of characters claimed this when Reinard appeared. Things are still [[Status Quo Is God|pretty much the same]], though.

* [[Omniglot]]: Skalman can speak lots of languages. Including fish.

** Bamse's triplets form a somewhat different [[Power Trio]], with Teddy as the superego, Brum as the ego, and Nalle-Maja as the id.

* [[Power-Up Food]]: ''Dunderhonung'', naturally.

** In another story, they briefly visit some of his relatives. Their reactions would suggest that a period of ten years are like a weekend to them.

* [[Series Continuity Error]]: Despite establishing previously that there is no way to go further into the future from the starting point with Skalman's time machine, there was recently a comic where they did just that.

* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Vargen is this.

* [[Vague Age]]: Bamse has always been shown as living in his own house, and going on various adventures, in a way that suggests adulthood. But in the early comics, he would also frequently play with friends (outside the main trio, e.g. Mickelina Fox and later Brumelisa) who were depicted as being Bamse's own age (and height), yet ''living together with their twice as tall parents''. Similarly, Bamse's grandmother being twice the height of him suggested that he was still a child. His age stabilised at adupthood around 1980 though, with his marriage and getting children.

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