History Series / Fortitude

* KickTheDog: Dan shoots [[spoiler: Professor Stoddart's]] dog before it can attack Vincent.

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Fortitude is strongly based in the real-life town of Longyearbyen on the Svalbard archipelago.

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoilers: DCI Morton]].

** Also when Frank tortures [[spoiler: Markus]].

* ScaryBlackMan: Occasionally Frank, especially so when he is brutally torturing [[spoiler: Markus]].

* LoveConquersAll: Subverted. Despite his infatuation with Elena, Dan does not hesitate to [[spoiler: shoot her square in the chest when she attacks little Carrie Morgan]].

* GoodCopBadCop: Early in the series, a character asks whether Dan Anderssen is a good cop or a bad cop, and is told that nobody knows, since there's never been any crime in Fortitude before and he's never had to do anything. After [[spoiler:Stoddard's murder]], Anderson becomes very much the bad cop (or at least, the CowboyCop) to Morton's good cop.

* ImpromptuTracheotomy: Natalie performs one on [[spoiler: Vincent]] after he [[spoiler: is stung by the wasps, sending him into anaphylactic shock. Worth mentioning he has also just survived a gas explosion powerful enough to launch Dan several feet]].

* MercyKilling: Played with. At the very start of the show, Henry Tyson comes across Billy Pettigrew being eaten alive by a bear, and shoots him in the head in what appears to be a mercy killing. However, Henry was actually aiming for the bear, and thus holds himself responsible for Pettigrew's death, despite Anderson trying to convince him that he did the right thing in putting Pettigrew out of his misery.

* YourCheatingHeart: Instead of looking after his ill son Liam, Frank Sutter chooses to go off with his mistress Elena and have sex. This comes back to bite him in the ass ''big time''. While he's gone, Liam escapes from his room, [[spoiler:somehow ends up at the scene of Charlie Stoddard's murder,]] and ends up with serious frostbite on his feet. When Frank returns and finds Liam covered in [[spoiler:Stoddard's]] blood, he panics, and in the process of cleaning Liam up he ends up covering his own shirt in blood. When the frostbite is discovered, his wife Jules is furious at him, and when she realizes why he was gone, she kicks him out. Frank's discarded, bloody shirt is later found, implicating him in [[spoiler:Stoddard]]'s murder, and when Dan Andersen arrives at Elena's apartment to arrest him, he loses his temper and beats him senseless. With the bloody shirt, and his alibi hinging on the testimony of [[spoiler:a convicted murderer]], he's an inch away from being charged with [[spoiler:Stoddard's]] murder before a repentant Anderson realizes exactly ''how'' the blood got onto Frank's T-shirt and his HumiliationConga ''finally'' comes to a halt... for now.

** Eric, Hildur's husbandand one of the cops investigating [[spoiler:Stoddard's]] murder, has been sleeping with his widow, Trish. Hildur is oblivious until Trish, angry at Hildur for deleting a voicemail Stoddard sent her, tells her before leaving the town.

* FakeBrit: Played with. DCI Morton works for the London Metropolitan Police, but is from New York, has an American accent and previously worked for the FBI. This is even commented on by Trish.
** Subverted when it is later revealed he moved to the UK in the 80's after investigating the Lockerbie Bombing, and presumably got British citizenship.
* FakeNationality: The Irish Richard Dormer plays Dan Anderssen, a Norwegian.
** The British-Italian actress Alexandra Moen plays Officer Petra Bergen, also Norwegian.

** Eric, Hildur's wife and one of the detectives investigating [[spoiler:Stoddard's]] murder, has been sleeping with his widow, Trish. Hildur is oblivious until Trish, angry at Hildur for deleting a voicemail Stoddard sent her,

Sky/Starz co-production (2015-present), '''''Fortitude''''' is what you get when you take a Scandi noir drama, do it in English and take it even further north. Oh and chuck in Creator/StanleyTucci as a British cop just for the co-prod money.

* AssholeVictim: Dr Allerdyce. Although she may be a bitch to Jules, the Governor and even her own daughter, its hard not to feel sorry for her when [[spoiler: she is hacked open with a fork and later ''eaten alive from the inside'' by prehistoric parasitic wasps.]]

-->'''DCI Morton:''' Does the governor [his wife] know that you are fucking [the victim's widow]?

** In Episode 1, Vincent asks Elena whether Dan Andersen is a [[GoodCopBadCop good sheriff or a bad sheriff]]. She tells him that since there's never any crime in Fortitude, he's never had to do anything, so nobody knows. In Episode 5, she angrily confronts him about his beating of Frank and tells him, "You're a bad sheriff".

* CowboyCop: DCI Anderson fits the bill quite nicely.
* DarkReprise: In Episode 6, "Tainted Love" can be heard playing at one point during the party scene. At the end of the episode, after [[spoiler:Dr. Margaret is brutally murdered]], a far more chilling [[TheCoverChangesTheMeaning cover]] of the song is played over the end credits.

** TheHero: Dan Anderson

* GoodCopBadCop: Early in the series, a character asks whether Dan Anderson is a good cop or a bad cop, and is told that nobody knows, since there's never been any crime in Fortitude before and he's never had to do anything. After [[spoiler:Stoddard's murder]], Anderson becomes very much the bad cop (or at least, the CowboyCop) to Morton's good cop.

* LocationDoubling: They wanted to film in Svalbard, but the logistics were against them, so Iceland was used instead.

** The underground scan. We don't know what it shows, but we know that whatever it is, it's extremely valuable, and may hold the key to Pettigrew's death.

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: Fortitude is strongly based in the real-life Svalbard archipelago.

* PapaBear: After Ronnie Morgan (who is on anti-psychotics) is suspected of [[spoiler:Stoddard]]'s murder, his overriding fear is not that he'll be arrested, but that his daughter Carrie will be taken away from him. He proceeds to flee
* PoliceBrutality: When Dan Andersen goes to arrest Frank Sutter, he ends up losing his temper and beating him senseless. He regrets it afterwards, admitting to Henry that "I fucked up".

* WhamEpisode: Episode 6, in which [[spoiler:Shirley]], apropos of ''absolutely nothing'', [[spoiler:gruesomely offs Dr. Margaret]] in an almost identical manner to [[spoiler:Stoddard's murder]].

Sky/Starz co-production (2015-present), ''Fortitude'' is what you get when you take a Scandi noir drama, do it in English and take it even further north. Oh and chuck in Creator/StanleyTucci as a British cop just for the co-prod money.

* DeadStarWalking: The promotional material for the show heavily featured [[DoctorWho Christopher Eccleston]], since he's one of the better known actors in the show, after Stanley Tucci and Michael Gambon. [[spoiler: Sadly he's the murder victim, and dies in the first episode.]]
** Actually a DoubleSubversion. [[spoiler:Ecclestone's character, Charlie Stoddard, appears to be dead when he is first found after the attack, but is then discovered to still be alive. He's quickly rushed to hospital, and it looks like he might make it, but he ultimately succumbs to his injuries]].

* DeadStarWalking: The promotional material for the show heavily featured [[DoctorWho Christopher Eccleston]], since he's one of the better known actors in the show (second to Stanley Tucci and Michael Gambon). [[spoiler: Shame he's the murder victim, and dies in the first episode.]]

* GoodCopBadCop: Early in the series, a character asks whether Dan Anderson is a good cop or a bad cop, and is told that nobody knows, since there's never been any crime in Fortitude before and he's never had to do anything. After [[spoiler:Stoddard's murder]], Anderson becomes very much the bad cop to Morton's good cop.

* {{Macguffin}}: The mammoth tooth, and later, the mammoth itself. It may or may not have been what got [[spoiler:Charlie Stoddard]] killed.

* PoliceBrutality: When Dan Anderson goes to arrest Frank Sutter, he ends up losing his temper and beating him senseless. He regrets it afterwards, admitting to Henry that "I fucked up".

* YourCheatingHeart: Instead of looking after his ill son Liam, Frank Sutter chooses to go off with his mistress Elena and have sex. This comes back to bite him in the ass ''big time''. While he's gone, Liam escapes from his room, [[spoiler:somehow ends up at the scene of Charlie Stoddard's murder,]] and ends up with serious frostbite on his feet. When Frank returns and finds Liam covered in [[spoiler:Stoddard's]] blood, he panics, and in the process of cleaning Liam up he ends up covering his own shirt in blood. When the frostbite is discovered, his wife Jules is furious at him, and when she realizes why he was gone, she kicks him out. Frank's discarded, bloody shirt is later found, implicating him in [[spoiler:Stoddard]]'s murder, and when Dan Anderson arrives at Elena's apartment to arrest him, he loses his temper and beats him senseless. With the bloody shirt, and his alibi hinging on the testimony of [[spoiler:a convicted murderer]], he's an inch away from being charged with [[spoiler:Stoddard's]] murder before a repentant Anderson realizes exactly ''how'' the blood got onto Frank's T-shirt and his HumiliationConga ''finally'' comes to a halt... for now.
** Eric, Hilda's wife and one of the detectives investigating [[spoiler:Stoddard's]] murder, is sleeping with his widow, Trish. Whether Hilda knows about it is unclear, but DCI Morton does.

* NoCommunitesWereHarmed: Fortitude is strongly based in the real-life Svalbard archipelago.

* Blackmail: When Eric continues to act hostile to DCI Morton and refuses to let him into the investigation, Morton resorts to blackmailing him thusly:

* NorseByNorsewest: There are Scandinavian people. They like heavy metal, sex and saunas in the buff.