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{{trope}}
[[File:
''I can show you how to party too!''|Inga From Sweden, "My Name is Inga"}}▼
A sort of generic northern blend of Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland.
▲{{quote|''My name is Inga, and I'm from Sweden,<br />
▲I could fall in love with you!<br />
▲If you meet me, on Ibiza,<br />
▲I can show you how to party too!''|Inga From Sweden, "My Name is Inga"}}
▲A sort of generic northern blend of Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. <ref>In a few truly horrible examples, Sweden and ''Switzerland'' are conflated, even though Switzerland is Alpine, not even vaguely Scandinavian. The same thing occasionally happens to Denmark and the Netherlands.</ref> Everyone is liberal, [[People of Hair Color|blond]] and absolutely gorgeous. The streets are clean, the people are intelligent and creative, it always snows, they have Ikea and saunas, and the area pumps out an amazing amount of hot foreign exchange students (both male and female) with cute accents [[Anything That Moves|to tempt American high school students]]. The chances of meeting a pair of beautiful, buxom, blonde twins who won't rule out a [[Twincest|Twincestuous]] [[Twin Threesome Fantasy|threesome]] with any given tourist is [[Europeans Are Kinky|uncannily high]].
Everyone either skis or snowboards, and eats a lot of chocolate. About the only other thing anyone remembers is that [[LEGO]] was invented here.
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Named for a certain port of ''[[The Lost Vikings]] II''.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] Nordics in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' are rather attractive, both purposely by the creator and in countless fanarts.
** Subverted with Sweden and Denmark. While both are handsome, tall and blond, Sweden is [[The Stoic|reserved]] and [[Face of a Thug|sort of]] [[Death Glare|terrifying]], while Denmark is an alcoholic that [[Your Mileage May Vary|may or may not]] be a [[Ax Crazy|crazy]] [[Stepford Smiler]].
== Commercials ==▼
▲== Commercials ==
* The Swedish Bikini Team, who first appeared in Old Milwaukee beer commercials and became something of a pop-culture phenomenon in the early '90s.
== Film ==▼
▲== Film ==
* ''[[Beowulf (film)|Beowulf]]''. More trolls, fewer Ikeas. The 2007 film even has Grendel speak Old English, and one or two references to "sea raiders".
** And an awful lot of mountains. [[The Mountains of Illinois|In Denmark]]. Uh, no.
* ''[[Trading Places]]'', the Sweden/Switzerland confusion is [[Lampshaded]] in this conversation on the train on New Years Eve:
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Coleman (Disguised, more accurately, as a priest): But you're wearing...[[Oktoberfest|Lederhosen..?]] }}
* In ''[[Earth Girls Are Easy]]'', it's Finland that seems to be confused with Switzerland. The movie features a TV ad where two bikini-clad blonde woman invite the viewer to come Finland, whilst showing scenes of Alpine skiing and yodeling. While skiing is indeed quite popular in Finland, yodeling most certainly isn't.
* Ulla Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swanson from Mel Brooks's ''[[The Producers]]''.
** Played in the remake by actual Norse woman (well, Norse-American, anyway) [[Uma Thurman]].
* It's possible that the now mostly-forgotten [[Trope Maker]] for the portrayal of Sweden (and by extension the rest of the Norselands) as "sexy" was the [[Mondo Movie]] ''Sweden: Heaven And Hell''. Now much more infamous for being the original source of ''[[The Muppets]]''' "Mah Na Mah Na".
* ''[[King Ralph]]'' features the King and Queen of Finland as minor characters. Unlike Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Finland is not (and has never been) a monarchy. When questioned about it by the Finnish media, the film-makers claimed this was supposed to be an intentional [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshading]] of [[Hollywood Atlas]].
== Literature ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* Terry Jones's book ''The Saga of Erik the Viking'' which lent its name but not its plot to Terry Jones's film ''[[Erik the Viking]]''.
* In [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Mike Nelson's]] Death Rat!, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|by Mike Nelson]], a group of Danish agents pursue the protagonist at the behest of his rival. They are portrayed as brave, intelligent, and exceptionally capable in matters of surveillance and hand-to-hand combat, but woefully awkward, excessively proper, and prone to apologizing profusely for things like using "sauna" as both a noun and a verb.
== Music ==▼
▲== Music ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DgO6Ttn7rU Inga From Sweden,] the page quote.
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[Hagar the Horrible]]''
== Webcomics ==
* ''[[Scandinavia and The World]]'' manages to both avert this and play it straight. The comic shows the Nordic countries' stereotypes of ''each other'' rather than the Hollywood stereotype of them, and goes out the way to show that the countries have their own distinct cultures.
** Out of all the characters, Sister Sweden plays this trope the straightest, although [[Anything That Moves|that's possibly not the best word choice in this context]].
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* Othar from [[Girl Genius]] is orignially from Norway. He's blond, handsome and utterly insane.
== Western Animation ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Vicky The Viking]]''
* UK children's animated series ''[[The Saga of Noggin the Nog]]''. (As told by the Men of the North Lands.)
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