Edvard Vergérus

Edvard Vergérus is the main antagonist of the 1982 Swedish drama-film Fanny and Alexander.

He was portrayed by Jan Malmsjö.

Biography
After Fanny and Alexander's father and Emelie Ekdahl's husband Oscar Ekdahl tragically died, Emelie met Edvard Vergérus at Oscar's funeral and they began to develop a brief friendship at first. A year after the event, Emelie and Edvard ended up getting married.

Edvard seemed polite in the beginning (except Alexander, who hated him for flirting with his mother at his father's funeral). When the Ekdahls moved into Edvard's house, also called "The Bishop's House", he turned out to be anything but polite for the kids. When Alexander lied to Edvard, Edvard abused him in "the name of god". This eventually led Fanny and Alexander to escape The Bishop's House with help from the Kohen Isak Jacobi.

Therefore, Emelie began to develop hatred towards Edvard herself and even straight up said to him that she wanted to kill him, but he didn't resist in any way.

Fate
At The Bishop's House, Edvard had his ill aunt Elsa lie in bed. At the same time Edvard realized that Emelie had poisoned him, Elsa accidentally rolled down a lantern that caught Elsa on fire. She desperatelly ran to Edvard and fell on him and died, which also made Edvard catch fire while already being sick from the poison - slowly dying.

Personality
Edvard Vergérus is very abusive, sadistic, psychopathic, manipulative and selfish. Edvard manipulated Emelie multiple times to do whatever he wanted, including to make her somehow bring her kids Fanny and Alexander back to The Bishop's House which he never succeeded.