Troll 2 Ending Explained: Isaksen’s Final Act Kicks Off a Bold New Era

Spoilers ahead for Netflix's Troll 2. If you haven't watched it yet, bail now and come back later. For the rest of us: yes, Troll 2 brings the gang back, cranks the spectacle, and then punches you right in the feelings at the end. Let's talk about the choice that reshapes this whole franchise.

Yes, Andreas dies

The sequel does not spare Andreas Isaksen. He is married, his wife Siggy is very pregnant, and he still decides to be the one who saves everybody. When the Mega Troll is busy pulping the Mountain King's kid (the ally troll known as Beautiful), the surviving team decides the only way to end this thing is to blow the monster up from the inside.

Major Kris and Isaksen go airborne with the bomb. Then, because fate is cruel, Isaksen drops the detonator. The troll's stone skin makes an external detonation basically useless, so there's one option left: put the charge in its mouth and set it off manually.

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."

Those are the last words he gives Siggy, quoting Spock before he jumps, leaving behind his wife and unborn child to save everyone else.

How they actually kill the Mega Troll

The giant wakes up at Norway's historic Vemork power station, because of course it does. Standard weapons barely scratch it, and the UV light trick that worked before? Total bust this time. So Nora Tidemann leans into old stories: trolls hate holy water.

After finding King Olaf's tomb and the old Olaf spring, the crew recruits locals and starts bottling the sacred stuff into explosives and ammo. It works… a little. They still almost get flattened until Beautiful joins the fight. Even then, the Mega Troll shrugs off most of it. That leads to the final Hail Mary:

• Load a water bomb with the Olaf spring's holy water
• Drop it into the Mega Troll's mouth so it floods the organs (heart, veins, the works)
• Andreas volunteers mid-flight, dives into the mouth, and detonates it by hand

The explosion does the job. Beautiful then reaches in and yanks out the thing's heart for good measure. Game over.

The bittersweet aftermath

They win, but they lose Andreas. The world is safe, and it does feel like an ending… until the movie quietly flips the lore on its head.

The wild history lesson the sequel sneaks in

For years, the story was that Olaf the Holy exterminated the trolls. Turns out, not so much. The film reveals Olaf was actually their first protector. He wanted to give trolls land of their own and keep them safe. During Norway's Christianization, the Church had him killed for it, then rewrote the narrative.

Inside his tomb, there's a hidden decree saying trolls should have a home in Norway, not be wiped out. So the true villains behind the purge were the Church and the ruling class, not Olaf. That betrayal tracks with what we saw in the first movie: the Mountain King was trapped by humans who kidnapped his son while the rest of his kind were massacred.

The credits scene changes everything

Stay through the credits. A scientist at Vemork secretly kept a piece of troll tissue. It grew. As in: there's now a baby troll. Which implies two things — trolls aren't gone, and this scientist has essentially figured out how to make more. That is a huge setup for where this series could go next.

Where it leaves everyone now

Nora, the survivors, and Beautiful are shown living quietly in the mountains. There's a vibe of uneasy coexistence between humans and trolls. Whether that holds after what we just saw in the credits… doubtful, but that's the tension. This ending is less closure and more a hard reset.

Troll and Troll 2 are streaming on Netflix right now.