Terkel Mogensen

* Terkel
* Drip
* Musical
* Ternet Ninja

## International Actors

Mike Olsen

Adrian Edmondson

Simone D'Andrea

Aksel Hennie

Felix Herngren

## International Names

Mike Olsen

Adrian Edmondson

Simone D'Andrea

Aksel Hennie

Felix Herngren

**Terkel Mogensen** is the son of Beate Habakuk Stenstrøm and Leon Gungadin Mogensen, the older brother of Rita and is the main character of *Terkel I Knibe,* and a minor character in *Ternet Ninja*. He is voiced by Anders Matthesen in the Danish original release of both films.

## Biography

Terkel is the main character of Terkel I Knibe. As the main character he's probably the most basic one, and he acts as the movie's straightman, being the only character that acts anywhere close like a real person. He is also an anti hero, as he is isn’t necessarily a good guy either. Not only is he a nervy wimp, but he was partially why Dorit committed suicide, not to mention he ditched Jason for Sten and Saki. However, he regrets the former and he redeems the latter.

Terkel is a 6th grade student who attends Chestnutlane school with his best friend Jason. One day the two boys meet a man named Gunnar who points out that Terkel has sat on a spider, but Terkel says his jeans can be washed.

## Terkel I Knibe

Terkel's teacher is fatally ran over and the replacement is Gunnar. Following his parents's wedding, Terkel is manipulated by his class's bullies Sten and Saki to steal beer for them at the party. However, Terkel's uncle Stewart arrives and beats up Sten and Saki, to which they blame Terkel and start to bully him. One day at school, an overweight girl named Dorit gives Terkel a love letter, but Sten and Saki see this and tease them and call them a couple. Despite wanting to defend Doris, Terkel decides to save his face and tells Sten and Saki that he's not in love with Doris and calls her a "fat cow". This statement, greatly upsets Doris, who commits suicide by jumping out of the classroom's window. After this, Terkel begins to receive death threats,

One day, Gunnar takes the class on a school trip to study salamanders where on the bus there, Sten and Saki invite Terkel to sit with them, which angers Jason. The two also want him to share a tent with them, which he does. Later, Saki arrives in the tent with a black eye, saying Jason beat him up. Terkel thinks Jason has been acting strange and is told by Sten that Doris was Jason's sister, making Terkel believe that Jason is the one sending him to death threats as Terkel had caused his sister's death.

When getting into bed, Terkel finds a dead cat in his sleeping bed and receives a text from Jason's phone which says "I'm coming to kill you". Sten and Saki advise Terkel to go to Gunnar, which he does. However, when Terkel tries to call Jason, he sees that Gunnar has it and realises that it was Gunnar that was sending the death threats in revenge for sitting on the spider. Just when Gunnar is about to kill Terkel, Jason arrives and attacks Gunnar with an iron pipe he carries around and smashes it through his head. Terkel and Jason reconcile and walk away in the sunset, only to be scared by the narrator and music teacher Arne who is wearing a hockey mask and holding a chainsaw.

## Ternet Ninja

In Ternet Ninja where he is an adult, he appears at the main character Aske' birthday party who he is related to. He is shown to be as awkward as ever. He has a new baby sister named Dorit, implying that Terkel insisted on that being her name as he felt guilty for inadvertently causing Fede Dorit’s suicide.

Terkel also appears in a promo for the movie, where he acts as the imaginary actor for Terkel, also named Terkel. The promo is some sort of parody of the "MeToo" movement, painting Anders Matthesen as a sort of "Harvey Weinstien" figure, that abused Terkel as a child, with the joke being that Anders is the voice of Terkel.

## Terkel the Motherfårking Musical

In the musical Terkel is almost literally the same character with no real differences. In the one and only production of it he was played by Ruben Søltoft.

## Appearance

Terkel is seen to have brown curly hair and has a longsleve shirt with blue stripes, blue jeans, and orange shoes with the letter T on them.

## Narrative purpose

Terkel's normal, relatable nature works well as a parallell to the chaotic world around him.