Returning to his family hometown, awkward teenager Magne discovers his strange new powers. Still, the hamlet's natural beauty cloaks dark secrets.
Tropes:
- The Alleged Car: Turid's car has shades of this, with the engine having problems to start and the window crank breaking off.
- And Show It to You: Vidar kills a reindeer and rips its heart out. Then he takes the heart to a cliff over the fjord and bites into it.
- Big Brother Bully: Inverted with Magne's younger brother Laurits. When Magne asks him to proof-read something he wrote, Laurits changes the entire text, making Magne look stupid. Later, when Magne is hiking with Isolde, Laurits texts him saying that something happened to their mother even though she is perfectly fine. Magne hurries back home and Isolde has a deadly accident with her paraglider.
- Character Death: Isolde is flying too low with her paraglider and she ends up flying into a power line and falls several meters to the ground.
- Dictionary Opening: The episode begins with an entry defining Ragnarok.
- Disappeared Dad: It is mentioned that Magne and Laurit's father died in an accident at age 32.
- Death Wail: Magne screams when he walks home after Isolde dies.
- First Day of School Episode: Magne and Laurits have their first day at Edda Secondary School.
- Gaydar: How Laurits knows that Isolde is a lesbian.Laurits: My gaydar never fails!
- The Glasses Gotta Go: Played with. Magne's mother thinks that he doesn't want to wear his glasses anymore because he is ashamed, but Magne really doesn't need them anymore after getting his powers.
- Grade Skipper: Laurits skipped a few years ahead in school and goes in the same class as Magne.
- Gray Rain of Depression: It starts to rain heavily when Magne walks home after Isolde dies, fueled by his new powers.
- "L" Is for "Dyslexia": When one of the teachers writes "Individ og Myndighet" on the blackboard and asks Magne to read it out loud, there is a shot simulating his experience, and the words say "Dndivdni og Dyndighgh" instead.
- Love Doodles: Isolde has drawn Saxa's name with hearts in her diary.
- Missing Mom: Isolde tells Magne that her mother died of cancer at age 38.
- Mythology Gag: The hammer that Magne encounters earlier in the episode and throws far away at the end of the episode invokes Mjølnir, Thor's hammer.
- Neck Snap: Vidar kills the reindeer by twisting its neck 180°.
- New Transfer Student: Magne and Laurits are the new students at the school.
- Sickening "Crunch!": There is a crunching sounds when Vidar breaks the reindeer's neck.
- Super-Strength: Vidar, being able to kill the reindeer like that.
- Title Drop:
- One of the teachers calls Magne "new boy". Isolde calls Magne this a few times as an affectionate nickname.
- For the entire series: the episode begins with a dictionary entry defining Ragnarok.
- Weather Manipulation: While he doesn't control it purposefully and it is instead fueled by strong emotions, Magne can make it rain and summon a thunderstorm with his newly obtained powers. He also can predict the weather.
