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'''''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131104022213/http://nielsg.com/ Niels]''''' is a web comic done by [[Humon]], of ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]'' fame.
Niels Gyldensted is a Danish mob boss in America who has a relationship with married couple Duncan and Natalie. The comic mainly focuses on Niels' life as both a [[Villain Protagonist|violent criminal]] and a lover and father figure, as well as exploring the polyamorous relationship between Niels, Duncan, and Natalie.
Other important characters include Elliot ("Kiddo"), Duncan and Natalie's child; Peter, an insane hippie rapist and leader of a cult; Agent 300, a [[Affectionate Parody|James Bond-esque]] secret agent who flirts with Niels [[Ho Yay|just a little too much]]; Thomas, a detective who lost all interest in catching Niels when his [[Heroic BSOD|wife died]]; Wendy, Thomas's daughter; and Caron, Thomas's partner who is determined to re-motivate him and defeat Niels. Then there is new character Billy, a very masculine woman who apparently also sleeps with Niels, is attracted to Natalie, has a girlfriend named Rose, and at least makes out with Duncan. [[Word of God|Humon]] calls her a 'family friend.' Another recent character is Agent 250, a tough man who is friends with Agent 300 - and who, eventually, is the one to
The strip ran from September 11, 2009 to June 28, 2015.
[[Needs More Love]].
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Niels. He does everything his job entails with a smile.
* [[Affectionate Parody]]: Agent 300 is a parody of suave secret agent womanizers such as James Bond.
** Perhaps not so affectionate, as the author has mentioned disliking the character archetype.
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* [[Armored Closet Gay]]: Agent 250, who was a cold and distant husband and father because he took extreme lengths to prevent them from finding out about his homosexuality.
* [[Art Shift]]: Thomas's dream about Niels and Agent 300 was rendered in manga style art.
* [[A
* [[Berserk Button]]: Shooting Agent 250 is 300's [[Berserk Button]]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141104171226/http://humon.deviantart.com/art/All-Very-Simple-216240060 Niels hits it]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20130414224205/http://humon.deviantart.com/art/Nothing-Serious-216488069 The result] is [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|fucking awesome]]. [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome|And we see none of it]]. Also it's not very convenient to threat Duncan's family.
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Agent 300 is mild-mannered and calm, but if somebody presses his [[Berserk Button]] he will {{spoiler|shoot them in the head with their own gun}} and send half of their team to the hospital.
** In a more harmless way, Robert is a [[Shrinking Violet]]... with a penchant for bondage and really dominating in bed.
* [[Big Bad]]: Niels is this
* [[Bigger Bad]]: Peter seems to be meant as this.
* [[Bilingual Backfire]]: Niels is talking on the phone to his mom, in Danish. Duncan, getting impatient, tells Niels to hurry up in a... rather vulgar way. Turns out that even though Niels is speaking to his mom in Danish, she also speaks English. Oops!
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* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: Agent 250's teenage daughter is more than a handful. For no clear explainable reason she once tried to bite off 300's penis. And nearly succeeded.
** Humon's latest relationship chart shows that she seems to genuinely hate every character besides her parents.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]:
{{quote|
'''Duncan:''' Well...
'''Niels:''' And then they put a cat in a barrel and beat it to death with a bat! }}
* [[Breakout Character]]: Agent 250, who starred in several Niels comics by himself shortly after being introduced, and was the main focus in one of the longest continuous story lines so far.
** To some extent, Jacob, the demon that Peter and his cult worship. Humon enjoys drawing him so much that the majority of drawings featuring him are completely unrelated to the Niels universe in any way.
*** He and his girlfriend now star in their own webcomic, ''[[Manala Next Door]]''.
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* [[Characterisation Marches On]]: Nearly everyone, to some extent, evolves into a much more fleshed out character over time.
** Referenced in one comic, where Duncan thinks Niels poisoned some chocolate. Humon said the joke came from when she didn't know if Niels loved Duncan and Natalie or was just using them and would kill them when done. Now she knows he'd just give them chocolate with chili in it.
* [[Closet Key]]: Niels for Agent 300. Stated directly [https://web.archive.org/web/20131024225534/http://nielsg.com/dancing-around-the-subject here].
** And it appears that 250 might take over. He's kinda out and proud and trying to get into 300's pants.
** [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] with Duncan -- Natalie made him realize he was bisexual, not gay.
* [[Convenient Miscarriage]]: The fate of Natalie's first child.
* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: Agent 250 seems to be this, for good or ill. Every now and then he'll have a silent conversation with God, in which the good old Almighty actually answers him.
* [[Crossover]]: Various fanarts incorporate a fan's original character.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Niels gets a lesson on what happens when you [https://web.archive.org/web/20131128063349/http://humon.deviantart.com/#/d3kw39h push 300 a bit too far.]
* [[Crowbar Combatant]]: Duncan's weapon of choice.
* [[Cult]]: Peter runs one.
* [[
* [[Dark Messiah]]: Peter.
* [[Death
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: Duncan and Niels may be likable and polite, but they are still horrible people who do horrible things, and the artist would like to remind us that they are the ''bad guys''.
** Also, Peter, though he's more of a Depraved [[Anything That Moves|Pansexual]].
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* [[Gayngst]]: Duncan was severely depressed in his teens because of his homophobic environment, and clung to Natalie as a desperate attempt to make himself purely straight. Luckily for Niels it didn't work, and Duncan's now much more at ease with himself.
* [[Gayngster]]: Niels, Duncan ''slightly'' less openly. Though technically both are bisexual, not gay.
* [[Girl
* [[Groin Attack]]: See example for Bratty Teenage Daughter
* [[Happily Married]]: Natalie and Duncan. Legally, anyway.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: Of a sort. The reason Caron doesn't appear in the comics much at all is because she is too professional in her job protecting the law to play around with Niels and the other bad guys, and would simply shoot them on the spot.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Agent 300 has two, one where he realizes that yes, he is crushing on Niels, and no, it is not a case of [[Stupid Sexy Flanders]] or [[Even the Guys Want Him]], and the other where he's fired for fraternizing with Niels.
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* [[Hot Dad]]: Duncan and Agent 250 could count. ... Peter has a daughter but that's a whole 'nother can of beans...
* [[Hot Mom]]: Natalie and Irene.
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]: Though more of partner, 250 acts this way for 300 when dealing with Niels.
* [[If
* [[Informed Ability]]: Humon states that 300 is actually very competent at his job, but is distracted by Niels. His relationship with 250 actually helps because 250 isn't distracted and has an interest in keeping 250 safe.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Niels shooting Agent 250 for getting too close to 300.
** Before 250 was revealed to be alive, some fans treated this as crossing the [[Moral Event Horizon]].
* [[Klingon Promotion]]: How Niels took over the crime syndicate.
* [[Knife Nut]]: Elliot shows signs of being one in the future.
* [[Laser
* [[Laughably Evil]]: Peter may be a [[Complete Monster]], but when he shows up, it's usually funny.
* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: It happened to Niels with Mercia's son.
* [[Malcolm Xerox]]: Duncan's cousin. He later disowned Duncan for being with Niels, and for Niels coming to his 'African Pride' party as a European Colonist then verbally tangling with Agent 300.
* [[Male Frontal Nudity]]: Just once, [https://web.archive.org/web/20131025105510/http://nielsg.com/do-the-underwear-dance here] (needless to say, NSFW).
* [[Mama Bear]]: Natalie.
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: Peter is tormented by a demon that only he can see. Whether or not it is real or just a hallucination is up for the reader to decide.
** It's been shown that other members of Peter's cult seem to see him too, and some even claim to have slept with him. Though Humon states that with all the images of him they have combined with their mental state, it is still far from conclusive.
** And it seems Jacob is definitely real, it's just a matter of whether he's real in the univers of Niels or not that's in question.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Niels Gyldensted, or "golden place," versus Thomas Yellowfield.
* [[Mistaken Nationality]]: Agent 300 is often mistaken for English for being a parody of the [[James Bond]]-type character and his overall politeness and manner of speaking. In reality, he's Scottish. [http://fav.me/d3j8z2h And very good at log-throwing, thankyouverymuch.]
* [[Nobody Over
* [[Oedipus Complex]]: Part of the reason Niels was attracted to Johnny was because of his [[Parental Abandonment]] issues, he was looking for mother and father figures. When Johnny didn't reciprocate, Niels burned him alive.
** He also lost his virginity to a black woman he looked up to as a mother.
** And parental issues are a reason he hooked up with Duncan and Natalie.
** There's a possibility that this might happen between Elliot and Niels, depending on circumstances when Elliot turns eighteen.
* [[Only Known
* [[Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?]]: What happens when Niels and Ed reunite in prison: Ed apologizes, saying that Niels was soft and his girlfriend had left him.
* [[Pals
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Cemented a huge part of Niels's adolescence. His parents were never there for him, and were more concerned about their image than anything, brushing off concerns about Niels not being 'right in the head'.
** Oddly, it would appear their relationship warmed up, as they're shown to be on good terms now and even invite Niels and Natalie over and recently have come to visit. However, the author has said they still block out his weirder actions (ie. being bisexual and a horrible murder/crime boss).
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** Also, Niels and 300 stealing each other's clothes.
* [[Sensitive Guy and Manly Man]]: Agent 300 and Agent 250, Niels and Duncan, respectively
* [[Sinister Minister]]: In the [https://web.archive.org/web/20131025105457/http://nielsg.com/victorian-line-up 19th Century re-imagining], Peter is a Swedish priest who ' is grossly abusing his position and people’s faith in him" who is rumoured to have fled to the Danish West Indies (where the story takes place) after his bad reputation chased him out of both Sweden and Denmark.
* [[The Sociopath]]: Niels is the [[Affably Evil]] variety, Peter is the [[Evilly Affable]] variety.
* [[
* [[Stalker
** Also, Peter for Niels.
* [[
* [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]]: Thomas, before his wife's death caused him to quit the case. Caron is the [[Replacement Goldfish]] of this, and tried to bring Thomas back to this.
** Agent 300, as well, before he got fired.
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* [[Token Minority]]: Inverted, of the three main characters, the white Niels is the odd man out. Likewise with the crime syndicate, the only other white person with a high ranking position is Harold.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Milk for Niels.
* [[
* [[Transvestite]]: Mistaken For Transvestite, technically, Niels thinks Thomas is one, since he kept all of Anni's makeup and clothes.
* [[Triang Relations]]: Of the Type 8 variety.
* [[The Un
* [[Villain Protagonist]]: Niels and Duncan.
* [[Villainy Discretion Shot]]: Almost always averted by Niels. In fact, most of the original pictures of him were eerie graphic drawings of him torturing or murdering innocent people. Though this is pretty much played straight with Peter, as the kind of evil ''he'' commits is just a little too graphic and sickening for both Humon and Deviantart to handle.
* [[Violently Protective Girlfriend]]: {{spoiler|Agent 300 is a Violently Protective [[Spear Counterpart|Boyfriend]].}}
* [[Wham! Episode]]: This strip: [https://web.archive.org/web/20150416051901/http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/183/0/6/all_very_simple_by_humon-d3kqrwc.jpg
** And now this one: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131103073752/http://humon.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4gwp3d\] {{spoiler|a strange, black boy claims Niels is his father.}}
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Humon shows [https://web.archive.org/web/20120712031240/http://humon.deviantart.com/art/Niels-Sketches-244014697 just what Niels, Natalie, and Duncan's life] would have been like if none of them had met. It's depressing to say the least, although the rest of the world would probably be better off.
* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]: Deconstructed [https://web.archive.org/web/20131025014815/http://nielsg.com/according-to-manga-land here.]
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