- Awesome Ego: Seth may be arrogant and thinks highly of himself, but his best moments is when he can back those thing up with genuine badassery and some hammy lines as a cherry on top.
- Awesome Music: Many of the soundtracks qualify:
- One of them is "Funeral" by Bengt Nilsson
, which is a remix of "Pavane" by Gabriel Fauré, and is a somewhat sad but still chill song.
- One of them is "Funeral" by Bengt Nilsson
- Complete Monster:
- Original Trilogy: Nikolaus Lehman, from Executive Protection, works in security. After Sven Persson, the film's secondary protagonist, asks Lehman if he could help him by negotiating with a gang of petty criminals who are harassing him, Lehman gives him a price to pay, and Persson pays it. However, instead of negotiating with them like he was supposed to do, Lehman executes all twelve of them for no reason at all. After this, he starts going after Sven, stalking him and constantly ready to kill him. However, things get worse when Lehman starts attacking Sven's innocent wife and daughter, preparing to kill both of them, even kidnapping Sven's wife and placing a bomb on her, and only stopping the bomb if Sven gives him a large amount of money. Sven does this, but the bomb carries on anyway. Once Lehman is caught by Falk, Lehman says that he's a "man of honor", and that he won't bother him if he just leaves him alone. A complete sociopath who only cares about money, Lehman is both egotistical and greedy at the same time, creating what could be Falk's biggest nightmare.
- Leo Gaut: Anton Montay is a sadistic mobster who manages to stand out even in the movie where the victim is a cold-blooded murderer (the titular Leo Gaut). An extremely wealthy restaurant owner, Montay wanted a deal with Leo; this didn't work out, so Montay is now seeking revenge on Leo. At the very start of the film, he places a bomb in a car at a primary school, causing chaos and risking the children's lives, all because Leo's extremely autistic son Johnny goes to the school. There are no injuries, but Montay escapes by car to a shopping center, where he ends up holding an innocent father hostage. Later in the movie, Montay and his gang go to Leo's restaurant, and start insulting him, before viciously beating him. When he's done with abusing Leo, he drives by and sees Leo's daughter. He sets the place on fire, wounding if not killing her. After Leo kills two of Montay's henchmen, Montay kidnaps Leo's son and wife, and holds them hostage. When the police come, Montay runs up to the roof and holds Johnny at gunpoint, constantly messing with him psychologically. Once Falk comes up to the roof, Montay threatens to shoot Johnny if Falk doesn't drop the gun. Falk drops the gun, so Montay lets Johnny go. However, Johnny starts going down the roof and nearly falls, getting saved by Falk. Montay climbs down a ladder, but gets killed by Leo, who in the end gets killed in a car crash, letting Montay posthumously succeed.
- The Child Infiltrator: Heikki Nieminen is an absolutely maniacal crime lord who sells robbery concepts to young criminals. After one of his buyers, Ricky, messes up, Heikki kidnaps Ricky the day after the robbery and throws him into his truck, where he stomps Ricky's head while he's on the ground and forces Ricky to get the money in under twenty four hours. When Ricky desperately tells Seth Rydell about the situation, demanding his help, Seth laughs on how desperate Ricky is, but sets up a meeting with Heikki and his gang. During the meeting, Heikki, for basically no reason at all and smiling the entire time, orders his henchmen to slowly cut off two of Ricky's fingers on his right hand. At the climax, Heikki sends a bunch of criminals to kill Ricky, putting everyone else nearby at risk. During this attack, Heikki breaks into Seth and Felix Rydell's house, and in a final effort demands their money. He then threatens to cut off Felix's fingers as well, and stabs his knife through Felix’s hand. Heikki starts a huge gunfire in their house, and fails to kill Seth. However, while recharging bullets, Felix comes from behind, but gets shot by Heikki. A shocked Seth comes and looks at his near dead brother, and says that Heikki can take the money and leave them. Heikki kills Seth's brother Felix, who was barely involved in the deal. Filled with nothing but utter sadism and greed, Heikki even disturbed Seth with his brutality, with Seth admitting that Heikki is a "sadist" and a "disturbed fuck".
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Seth Rydell quickly became this. He didn’t actually have such a huge role in the first season other than being a recurring antagonist but only appearing in three of the six movies, unlike in the later seasons where he is given alot more to do. In the second season he is given more screentime and a bigger role, and even more so in Season 3 where he has become one of the main characters, likely due to his popularity.
- Conny Lloyd as well, Seth’s most loyal henchman, is quite memorable and had several funny moments despite being a minor character.
- Evil Is Cool: Seth Rydell is one of the most popular swedish bad guys. Intelligent, smooth-talking and badass gangster. It helps that he is portrayed by Jens Hultén who is known in Sweden for portraying good villains.
- Memetic Mutation:
- Moral Event Horizon:
- Lasse, the police officer working for the Russians, crosses it early on in Lockdown when he kills Patrick and then purposely falsely heals him, killing him.
- The Russian Organization itself, or rather its leader "Valdo", crosses it when he explicitly orders Falk's family to be murdered in a maternity hospital while risking the lives of multiple other families, including pregnant women and newborn babies.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Martin Borhuldt, one of the nicest criminals in the series and being played by Martin Wallström, is killed off as soon as in the second film.
- The Woobie: Nina, Johan Falk's stepdaughter. Her biological father was absent, she experienced a cold execution of a completely innocent man when she was only eleven years old, she is brutally tortured by the Russian mob for something that her biological father did, and ends up being forced to give birth while being hunted by hitmen.
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