Anders (Trevor's friend)

## Anders

* Animated series
* Graphic novel

**Anders** is one of Trevor's friends and a character who appears in the graphic novel series, the animated series and novelization.

## Appearance

Anders is a short and somewhat chubby boy. He is brown skinned and has hair darker than his skin. He wears an orange vest, black pants, and orange white-soled shoes with a light cream bear hat and white glasses.

## Personality

Like Trevor and his other friends, Anders likes to pull pranks and aren't above hurting animals for her entertainment, like throwing rocks at birds.

## Name

Anders is never called by name in the animated series or the graphic novel. His name is only mentioned in the book "Hilda and the Great Parade".

## Biography

### Graphic novel

In "Hilda and the Bird Parade", Anders along with Trevor and the others come to Hilda's house to ask her to hang out with them, rather than Hilda asking them. After the incident where Trevor hits the raven with a rock, they flee the scene and are not seen again for the remainder of the story. Trevor never tries to convince them the Raven can talk.

### Animated series

He first made a cameo in "Chapter 2: The Midnight Giant", where Anders is shown playing with other school kids at recess before the bells rings and they all head back inside.

He makes a major appearance "Chapter 3: The Bird Parade" where Hilda came across them in Trolberg, he welcomed her to hang out with them. However, Hilda soon came to realize these kids were not like her. He later explains the rules about kicking a can that Hilda accidentally kicked over a building.

When Trevor hit a talking raven and tried to prove his friends the bird could talk, they didn't believe him and mocked him for it. His further attempts to prove himself right only resulted in more humiliation.

Anders is also seen in "Chapter 5: The Troll Rock" during the parent's night at The Ahlberg School.

Anders appeared in "Chapter 9: The Ghost", while Frida is handing out flyers for kids to vote.

Near the end of "Chapter 13: The Black Hound", he can be briefly seen along with Trevor, Anders, Bagsy and The Librarian.

In "The Yule Lads", he helps Trevor and the others attack the Sparrow Scout's broth stand with snowballs, and subsequently come under attack themselves from the Yule Lads. For some reason, the Lads don't decide to target him as sacrifices for Gryla, and only take Trevor and his mom.

In the movie, Anders was in Ms. Hallgrim's class while officer Selby shows the students a video about the dangers of trolls. When Frida protests against the highly inaccurate video, Anders is one of the few who believes her and is later seen at Frida's and David's protest against the Safety Patrol.

In "Chapter 8: The Fairy Isle", he and his friends have a brief cameo during the Bird Parade as they run past Gil Jones.

### Novelization

The events from "Chapter 3: The Bird Parade" are adapted into the book "Hilda and the Great Parade", while the events from "Chapter 10: The Yule Lads" are adapted into the book "Hilda and the Time Worm".

## Trivia

* In "Hilda and the Bird Parade", Anders is the one who threw the first rock at the birds, While in the animated series, it was Trevor.

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