Gunvald Larsson

"I was also bullied when i was in middle school, but i don't walk around and kill 42-year olds. (Why were you bullied?) Because i had such a huge p*nis."

- Gunvald Larsson's most famous quote.

Gunvald Larsson is the secondary protagonist of the long-running thriller TV Show, Martin Beck. He is a police officer and the Colleague of the main protagonist, Martin Beck.

He was portrayed by Mikael Persbrandt in the majority of the franchise, but also by Thomas Hellberg in the 1976 movie The Man on the Roof, Bruce Dern in The Laughing Policeman (1973), and Rolf Lassgård in the 1993 episodes.

Personality
Gunvald is an imposing man, he strikes fear within every criminal, even colleauges may be scared of him because of his cold personality. He despises people who damage other people or atleast are jerks to people, which can be seen as hypocritical, considering he isn't always the nicest dude alive, but never really means to do anything wrong. He is never seen having any real fear, and is always willing to solve terrible things, the only time he was shown to be truly terrified was when the criminal mastermind Dag Sjöberg, successfully handcuffed him and was constantly psychologically abusing him with a gun, Dag had previously killed Gunvald's friend who was also a police officer. Despite being an imposing man, Gunvald has a good sense of black humor and almost always makes some sort of joke in the scenes he is in, there are only some small exceptions where he has to be serious, a good example of this is, once again, when he was confronted by Dag Sjöberg.