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* IdiotBall: Alex and Julia react like this regarding Roope InUniverse when they find out that Roope was arrested while trying to escape to Sweden on Alex's boat, even though Alex told him not to try to go hiding in Sweden.



* WhatAnIdiot: Alex and Julia react like this InUniverse when they find out that Roope was arrested while trying to escape to Sweden on Alex's boat, even though Alex told him not to try to go hiding in Sweden.

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* WhatAnIdiot: Alex and Julia react like this InUniverse when they find out that Roope was arrested while trying to escape to Sweden on Alex's boat, even though Alex told him not to try to go hiding in Sweden.
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* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler:Andreas Wolf's girlfriend was exposed to radiation when they discovered the VCON-4 nuclear waste capsules, leading her to die of radiation poisoning. Believing Alex, the creator of VCON-4, to be responsible, Wolf kidnaps him and tries to force him to tell "the truth" on video for everyone to see. Little does he know that [=WeltKraft=] created the test capsules without Alex's knowledge.]]

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* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler:Andreas Wolf's girlfriend was exposed to radiation when they discovered the VCON-4 nuclear waste capsules, leading her to die of radiation poisoning. Believing Alex, the creator of VCON-4, to be responsible, Wolf kidnaps him and tries to force him to tell "the truth" on video for everyone to see. Little does he know that [=WeltKraft=] created the test capsules without Alex's consent or knowledge.]]



* WhamShot: At the end of the fifth episode of season 3, dashcam footage from the truck in Hamburg shows [[spoiler: a blonde figure similar to Karppi's build standing near where the death took place.]]

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* WhamShot: At the end of the fifth episode of season 3, dashcam footage from the truck in Hamburg shows [[spoiler: a blonde figure similar to Karppi's build and hairstyle standing near where the death took place.]]

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* AggressiveCategorism: A clip of Tulisuo's staffer Mikaela Lund in her teenage years engaging in a racist attack [[spoiler: is used by an opposition politician to blackmail her into doing his bidding.]]



* BoyishShortHair: Henna in the third season.



* ChekhovsGunman: The janitor who saves Laura from Krister? Yes, that's [[spoiler: Jouni Paarma/Korento, one of the killers of season 3.]]
* ContinuityNod:
** In the first season, Karppi and Nurmi raids Santeri's home and asks him where the former's stepdaughter Henna is. Come the third, Nurmi employs the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique on him after learning he trafficked his maybe-son Leo.
** Memfi executives Stella Merihaara and Sanna Sirén often mention mayor Sara Tulisuo as a big-name supporter of their drug Rehaxin. [[spoiler: The mayor also gets arrested halfway through the third season for the murder of her erstwhile assistant Henri Kuusinen.]]



* DaChief: Koskimäki. Karppi even jokes that she's messing up his retirement.

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* DaChief: Being Karppi's boss has to be the most volatile position in the series.
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Koskimäki. Karppi even jokes that she's messing up his retirement.retirement.
** His successor Kulju is more of an ObstructiveBureaucrat, whereas his own successor Rautamaa has a much more hands-on style.



* DeadpanSnarker: JP will not exit a scene without making a wisecrack over something around him.



* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Nea Paarma's presumably-dead uncle Jouni isn't, and is responsible for all but one of the symbol killings.]]



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%%* KillerCop:* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Employed by Nurmi in the third season on a man who trafficked Leo into China.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Tulisuo gets away with indirectly causing the events of season 2.]]
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: ...until a news clip in mid-season 3 reports Tulisuo's arrest on light of security footage showing her killing Kuusinen surfaces.]]
* KillerCop: [[spoiler: Season 2's '''main''' killer is none other than the chief of the Helsinki police, Carl Sten.]]



* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler:Andreas Wolf's girlfriend was exposed to radiation when they discovered the VCON-4 nuclear waste capsules, leading her to die of radiation poisoning. Believing Alex, the creator of VCON-4, to be responsible, Wolf kidnaps him and tries to force him to tell "the truth" on video for everyone to see. Little does he know that [=WeltKraft=] created the test capsules without Alex's knowledge.]]



* MeanBoss: Henna's boss in the restaurant is a short-tempered, creepy asshole. She escapes his clutches with the help of Venni, another [[spoiler: ex-convict]] who worked under him as well.
* MentorOccupationalHazard:
** [[spoiler: Koskimäki]] gets killed at the start of the second season.
** [[spoiler: Koskimäki's successor Kulju]] becomes a corpse at the end of the same season. Subverted in that he's more obstructive than his predecessor.
* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler:Andreas Wolf's girlfriend was exposed to radiation when they discovered the VCON-4 nuclear waste capsules, leading her to die of radiation poisoning. Believing Alex, the creator of VCON-4, to be responsible, Wolf kidnaps him and tries to force him to tell "the truth" on video for everyone to see. Little does he know that [=WeltKraft=] created the test capsules without Alex's knowledge.]]



* PapaWolf: As much as Nurmi doesn't want the responsibility of being [[MamasBabyPapasMaybe Leo's dad]], the guy pulls all stops to rescue him once he learns the child was on his way to be sold off in China.



%%* RoomFullOfCrazy: Korento's room is full of religious imagery.



* RunningGag:
** Karppi needs several times help in opening the door of Nurmi's car.

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RunningGag: Karppi needs several times help in opening the door of Nurmi's car.car.
* SeasonFluidity: The only plot points to make it past the first season were the mystery behind the death of Karppi's husband Jussi and the one-shot presence of Santeri. The third season is more fluid, with some scenes acting as a post-script to the events of the previous one.



* SickbedSlaying: [[spoiler: Rannikko]] tries to murder the comatose Andreas Wolf by turning off his ventilator. Fortunately, the nurses arrive on time to save him.

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* SickbedSlaying: SiblingRivalry: A one-sided one at that with [[spoiler: Sanna implied to dislike being at the shadow of the more affable and popular Tuuli.]]
* SickbedSlaying:
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[[spoiler: Rannikko]] tries to murder the comatose Andreas Wolf by turning off his ventilator. Fortunately, the nurses arrive on time to save him.him.
** Also attempted by [[spoiler: Krister Merihaara]] on Laura, before a janitor foils that attempt.


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* StartMyOwn: Tulisuo [[spoiler: starts her own party after the Pro-Change party votes to have Mikaela Lund stand for the mayoral elections in place of her. She wins, given that Tulisuo remains mayor by the next season.]]
* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: Venni chooses to die via SWAT team after Henna tips their warehouse to the police.]]


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* VigilanteMan: [[spoiler: Carl Sten]] starts their killing spree of junkies after [[spoiler: failing to kill Koskimäki's daughter, who was one herself.]]


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* WhamShot: At the end of the fifth episode of season 3, dashcam footage from the truck in Hamburg shows [[spoiler: a blonde figure similar to Karppi's build standing near where the death took place.]]


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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The Italian restaurant Nurmi frequents does not appear beyond the first season.

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* ChekhovsGun: Early in Season 3, Nurmi and Peltola are both shot, and Peltola only survives because she was wearing a vest, something that both Nurmi and Karppi note that they never do. [[spoiler: In the season finale, Karppi shoots Nurmi, who only survives because for once he chose to also wear a vest.]]



* DefectiveDetective: Both Karppi and Nurmi have more than their fair share of personal problems, though this has yet to impact on their work.



* FakeStatic: Karppi in Episode 5 when Nurmi tries to tell her to leave Alex Hoikkala alone.

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* FakeStatic: FakeStatic:
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Karppi in Episode 5 when Nurmi tries to tell her to leave Alex Hoikkala alone.alone.
** Season 3 has Karppi use this excuse to disregard her boss's orders to not chase an armed suspect.



** [[spoiler: Emil]] is kidnapped by Korento.



* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: In Season 2, Laura shows Nurmi a boy named Leo, claiming that he's Nurmi's son. He takes a paternity test in Season 3, which reveals [[spoiler: he isn't Leo's father, though it's implied he will adopt Leo anyway]].



* ParentalIssues: Alex had a turbulent relationship with his father. After graduating, he travelled the world partly out of defiance towards his father who wanted to make Julia Tempo's CEO.

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* ParentalIssues: ParentsAsPeople: Although it's clear that Karppi loves her children very much, it's also clear that she finds it incredibly difficult to balance them and her work. She confesses to Nurmi that she envies that he has the option to choose if he wants to be part of Leo's life. For his part, Nurmi struggles with the idea of someone being completely dependent on him.
* ParentalIssues:
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Alex had a turbulent relationship with his father. After graduating, he travelled the world partly out of defiance towards his father who wanted to make Julia Tempo's CEO.CEO.
** Karppi has difficulties with both her children; her single-minded focus on her work tends to put victims first and her own family a rather distant second. As of Season 3, her stepdaughter has cut all contact with her, and social services are involved with her son, who explicitly states that he would rather live with his grandfather.



* RecoveredAddict: Nurmi is one, based on Laura telling him that he knows how hard it is to give up on drugs.

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* RecoveredAddict: Nurmi is one, based on Laura telling him that he knows how hard it is to give up on drugs. [[spoiler: Season 3 reveals that he has begun using heroin again intermittently to help with chronic pain.]]



* RunningGag: Karppi needs several times help in opening the door of Nurmi's car.

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* RunningGag: RunningGag:
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Karppi needs several times help in opening the door of Nurmi's car.


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** A third raids the drug warehouse thanks to Henna's tip-off, where they effortlessly take down the dealers.


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* WillTheyOrWontThey: The question is perhaps not so much ''if'' Karppi and Nurmi will get together, but rather if the world will stop getting in the way for long enough to ''allow'' them to do it.


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* YoungerThanTheyLook: Nea Paarmi was only 17 when she died, something that greatly rattles [[spoiler: Nurmi, who hooked up with her at a nightclub the day before. His defense is that she definitely looked older, and the nightclub was supposed to be adult-restricted]].
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* CrusadingWidower:CrusadingWidow:
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* AccidentalMurder: The third season finale reveals that [[spoiler:Peltola met Karppi's husband the night he was run over by a car in Germany. When he told her they weren't continuing their affair like she thought, she snapped and punched him, causing him to stumble on the road just as the car came over]].


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* RiddleForTheAges: It's not revealed [[spoiler:who's the man who gives Karppi the phone call which leads her to discover the truth about her husband's death]]. Karppi admits she doesn't care to find it out.

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Adult Fear is now a disambig, and this is misuse which boils down to "listing all the scary stuff without context"


* ActionGirl: Karppi, in spades.
* AdultFear: Several.
** The death of a significant other or parent.
** Being lured into making a sex tape without one's knowledge.
** Being exposed to radiation without one's knowledge.

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* ActionGirl: %%* Action Girl: Karppi, in spades.
* AdultFear: Several.
** The death of a significant other or parent.
** Being lured into making a sex tape without one's knowledge.
** Being exposed to radiation without one's knowledge.
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The first season was released in 2018. The second season was released in 2020, and the third season's shooting is scheduled to be started in autumn 2020.

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The first season was released in 2018. The second season was released in 2020, and the third season's shooting is scheduled to be started season in autumn 2020.
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It was not produced by Netflix, source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadwind


''Deadwind'' (''Karppi'' in its native UsefulNotes/{{Finland}}) is a 2018 NordicNoir PoliceProcedural series, co-produced by Creator/{{Netflix}}. The series follows widowed Helsinki homicide detective [[ActionGirl Sofia]] [[CowboyCop Karppi]] on her first case back from bereavement leave, the murder of public relations consultant Anna Bergdahl. She finds herself saddled with a [[NewMeat new partner]], Sakari Nurmi, transferred from the financial crimes division. Meanwhile, her home life with step-daughter Henna and son Emil is still fragile after her husband's death, and her new case turns out to be much more complex than it appears at first blush.

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''Deadwind'' (''Karppi'' in its native UsefulNotes/{{Finland}}) is a 2018 NordicNoir PoliceProcedural series, co-produced internationally distributed by Creator/{{Netflix}}. The series follows widowed Helsinki homicide detective [[ActionGirl Sofia]] [[CowboyCop Karppi]] on her first case back from bereavement leave, the murder of public relations consultant Anna Bergdahl. She finds herself saddled with a [[NewMeat new partner]], Sakari Nurmi, transferred from the financial crimes division. Meanwhile, her home life with step-daughter Henna and son Emil is still fragile after her husband's death, and her new case turns out to be much more complex than it appears at first blush.
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* RedHerring: After all that buildup around [[Tempo and [=WeltKraft=]]], it ultimately turns out that Anna's killer [[spoiler:has nothing to do with either. Only with Anna's own past]].

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* RedHerring: After all that buildup around [[Tempo [[spoiler:Tempo and [=WeltKraft=]]], it ultimately turns out that Anna's killer [[spoiler:has nothing to do with either. Only with Anna's own past]].
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''Deadwind'' (''Karppi'' in its native UsefulNotes/{{Finland}}) is a 2018 NordicNoir PoliceProcedural series, co-produced by Creator/{{Netflix}}. The series follows widowed Helsinki homicide detective [[ActionGirl Sophia]] [[CowboyCop Karppi]] on her first case back from bereavement leave, the murder of public relations consultant Anna Bergdahl. She finds herself saddled with a [[NewMeat new partner]], Sakari Nurmi, transferred from the financial crimes division. Meanwhile, her home life with step-daughter Henna and son Emil is still fragile after her husband's death, and her new case turns out to be much more complex than it appears at first blush.

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''Deadwind'' (''Karppi'' in its native UsefulNotes/{{Finland}}) is a 2018 NordicNoir PoliceProcedural series, co-produced by Creator/{{Netflix}}. The series follows widowed Helsinki homicide detective [[ActionGirl Sophia]] Sofia]] [[CowboyCop Karppi]] on her first case back from bereavement leave, the murder of public relations consultant Anna Bergdahl. She finds herself saddled with a [[NewMeat new partner]], Sakari Nurmi, transferred from the financial crimes division. Meanwhile, her home life with step-daughter Henna and son Emil is still fragile after her husband's death, and her new case turns out to be much more complex than it appears at first blush.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: It turns out in the second season finale that [[spoiler:when Jimi Aho was believed to have drowned, Mayor Tulisuo pulled strings to prevent further investigations because she didn't want her daughter's suicide attempt (which Jimi prevented) to leak to the media. This led to [[MamaBear Mari Routa]] targeting and killing people whom she believed to be responsible for her son's murder and preventing justice from taking place. While Karppi doesn't rise charges against Tulisuo, she nonetheless tells her that she caused people to die by trying to protect her daughter]].

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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: It turns out in the second season finale that [[spoiler:when Jimi Aho was believed to have drowned, Mayor Tulisuo pulled strings to prevent further investigations because she didn't want her daughter's suicide attempt (which Jimi prevented) to leak to the media. This led to [[MamaBear Mari Routa]] targeting and killing people whom she believed to be responsible for her son's murder and preventing justice from taking place. While Karppi doesn't rise charges against Tulisuo, she nonetheless tells her that she caused people to die by trying to protect her daughter]].daughter, she caused people to die]].
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* RedHerring: It ultimately turns out that Anna's killer [[spoiler:has nothing to do with Tempo or [=WeltKraft=]. Only with Anna's own past]].

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* RedHerring: It After all that buildup around [[Tempo and [=WeltKraft=]]], it ultimately turns out that Anna's killer [[spoiler:has nothing to do with Tempo or [=WeltKraft=].either. Only with Anna's own past]].
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Your Cheating Heart is an index, not a trope.


* YourCheatingHeart: Alex Hoikkala had a relationship with Anna Bergdahl and made her pregnant. After he tells his wife Linda the truth, she sleeps with Roope in retaliation.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:Jarkko/Johannes]] recalls an incident in which [[spoiler:his father tasked him with keeping watch while he had his way with Anna. When Anna started running, Pusenius ordered Johannes to stop him, but he let her go. His father slapped him for that, something that makes Johannes flinch as he recalls that]].

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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:Jarkko/Johannes]] recalls an incident in which [[spoiler:his father tasked him with keeping watch while he had his way with Anna. When Anna started running, Pusenius ordered Johannes to stop him, her, but he let her go. His father slapped him for that, something that makes Johannes flinch as he recalls that]].
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* IdentifyingTheBody:
** Usko identifies Anna in the first episode.
** It turns out in the second season that [[spoiler:Jimi Aho's stepfather was called to identify his stepson's body, but since he couldn't look at the young man's face, he failed to notice that the corpse wasn't that of Jimi. He realizes his error when he's told that Jimi had a tattoo on his chest, and he saw himself that the corpse had no such tattoo. When the corpse is exhumed, he confirms it isn't Jimi]].

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