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* ''Dynamite'' (2020, single, their first song fully in English that isn't a collaboration with other artist)
* ''Butter / Permission to Dance'' (2021, their second full-English single and its B-side)
* ''Proof'' (2022, anthology)
'''Individual members' releases'''
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* ''Learn Korean With BTS'', an [[Edutainment Show]] intended to [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|teach fans basic Korean]], released in the app Weverse in 2020. An accompanying package with books and other learning aids to complement the videos has been released. A second edutainment series with the respective package, ''Bon BORAge!'', this time using the story of a fan traveling to Korea to visit several BTS-related landmarks as a means to teach basic Korean, was released between 2020 and 2021. A third series and package, ''Learn Korean with TinyTAN'' was launched in 2021.
* The '''''Tiny Tan''''' project, a [[Super-Deformed]] and [[Fun Size]] animated rendition of the band, who was first introduced in the advisory videos previous to online performances and DVD releases, and whose looks are based on the outfits the band members wore in the MV for "MIC Drop" (they also had artwork of them based in the looks from other MVs). Mostly [[Merchandise-Driven]], and invoking [[Rule of Cute]] at its most shameless. They star in the third Korean-learning package, ''Learn KOREAN with TinyTAN''.
* '''''7Fates: CHAKHO''''' (also known as ''7Fates: CHAKHO with BTS'' or ''7Fates: CHAKHO by HYBE''), an original story released simultaneously in several languages as a webcomic in
'''TV Series and Variety Shows'''
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* ''SUPERSTAR BTS'': a [[Rhythm Game]] for mobile phones released in 2018, featuring songs from their entire discography. Ended its service in 2020 and was substituted with ''RHYTHM HIVE'', a similar game that featured songs by BTS and three other groups managed by HYBE, BTS's agency.
* ''PUZZLE STAR BT21'', a puzzle game for mobiles featuring their BT21 characters.
* ''BTS World'', a mobile game released on June 26, 2019. It's an [[Episodic Game|Episodic]] [[Visual Novel]]/[[Gacha Game]] where the player takes the role of the group manager and has to go through several journeys with the group members from their pre-debut era to the current day. It has an unlockable "Another Story" mode, that follows a scenario about [[What If...?]] each member didn't get into the music industry and instead got more mundane professions.
* ''BTS Universe Story'', a mobile game mostly based on their ''BU'' verse, released on September 24, 2020. It's a [[Visual Novel]]-esque game with both a main story mode and a story-creation system that let players create and share their own stories as well as play those made by others.
* ''BTS Island In the SEOM'', a mobile game that mixes character management with puzzle gameplay, to be released in late June 2022.
'''Webcomics'''
* ''We On: Be The Shield'', a 2015 [[webtoon]] who portrays the band as a group of super-powered heroes having [[shounen]]esque adventures.
* ''Hip Hop Monster'', a second webtoon, more comedic in tone, where the members of the group are [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] [[Played for Laughs|for laughs]]. Initially fan-translated, got a later official release on Line Webtoon.
* ''The Most Beautiful Moment in Life Pt.0: Save Me'' or just ''Save Me'': a webtoon released on Line Webtoon between January and April 2019, as part of the BU universe. A more linear retelling of the early events of the 'verse {{spoiler|or at least, the ones that happen in the real world}}. To date, the
* ''7Fates: CHAKHO'': the webcomic side of this sub-franchise. Released in early 2022 in Line Webtoon, currently on hiatus.
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* [[Adorkable]]: their offstage personalities tend to be
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** All the song titles in ''mono''.
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* [[Call Back]]: extremely frequent on their career. Some examples:
** "I'm Fine" is both this and a sequel to the earlier "Save Me". They deal with opposite themes ("Save Me" is about a person hanging in a failing relationship to salvage their self-worth, "I'm Fine" is about a person that has found self-worth by themselves), the order of the rap-line is the opposite to the other song, and "I'm Fine" begins with the initial notes of "Save Me" before they fade to the actual melody
** Similarly, "Boy With Luv" towards "Boy in Luv",
** The video for "Persona" begins with a classroom suspiciously similar to the one used in the teaser for the "No More Dream" MV, features RM in outfits reminiscing to the ones used in the School Trilogy era, includes a scene of him surrounded by mirrors (the main motif of his character in the BU) that reminisces similar scenes en the videos for "Fake Love" and "Reflection", and even features a gigantic CGI version of himself similar to the ones that appear in "IDOL".
** The official MV for "ON" ends by calling back the title screen of their very first MV single "No More Dream", same typography and all. Except that, in "ON", the first two words dissolve, leaving only "Dream".
** The MV for "Yet to Come" is ''filled'' with references to all their career, and among the most visible includes the truck Jin drives in the BU, the abandoned carousel and the train from "Spring Day", the fallen angel statue from "Blood, Sweat, and Tears", and even ends with the band inside a school bus nearly identical to the one that appeared in the very first scene for "No More Dream".
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The video clip for "I Need U", with its shocking plot and high angst content, marked a change of direction in the group career. Not that they stopped having silly or light MV and songs, but the video clips for its more serious song became darker and filled with symbology, and their songs became to treat more serious themes. To an extent, the album from where the song came out also counts.
* [[Concept Video]]: "Spring Day", "N.O", all their Comeback video clips, among others. The ''BU'' is a whole continuity of these.
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* [[Dye Hard]]: The members of the band like to dye their hair quite often, from normal colors like blond or red, to more outrageous colors like green and pink. According to [https://twitter.com/yeo_bts/status/1010962058530045952 this chart] (which was compiled until mid-2018), all members have had pink hair at some point, and RM and Suga are the ones with more hair color changes.
* [[Fan Community Nicknames]]: Their official fan club is named ARMY. Internal nicknames within the fan clubs involve the Korean side calling the international fans "i-lovelies"; they return the favor by calling the Korean fans "K-diamonds"
* [[The Fashionista]]: V, who loves all things Gucci and always wears something from the brand every time he's in public, and J-Hope, a self-admitted shopaholic.
* [[Fun With Acronyms]]:
** The international name of the group is an initialism for "Bangtan Sonyeondan (which is given the official translation "Bulletproof Boyscouts"). They decided that since 2017 it would also mean "Beyond the Scene".
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** During the ''WINGS'' era, they made a habit of one member displaying a paper heart from somewhere in their clothing, usually revealing it from some hidden place. This gag got to its end and logical extreme in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6gzgV1fBxg their New Year stage for "Go Go" in MBC], with ''every member'' revealing a paper heart from increasingly more outrageous places.
** Jin, arguably the most [[Bishonen]] of the group, after becoming [[Memetic Mutation|memetically known]] as "Third guy from the left" after his appearance in the magenta carpet for the 2017 Billboard Awards was noticed by global internet, was asked in an interview how he felt about it. He jokingly answered "I'm worldwide handsome" to that question. Since then, he ''always'' introduces himself as "Worldwide Handsome" in every interview and presentation to western media.
** A lesser one, but Suga and pianos. It seems that if they can place the man near a piano or similar instrument they'll do it. His characters in both the BU and ''BTS World'' are piano players. On one occasion they did a photobook with a "villain" concept for each member and Suga's character was... a piano player here too.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Part of BTS's fame is that they use references to western literature that aren't commonly seen in Asian pop, or in pop in general.
** Their album "Wings" is full of references to the famous [[Hermann Hesse]] novel ''Demian''. The short films used to promote the individual songs of the members all begin with a reading of select quotes from the novel, and feature imagery of Abraxas, the deity revered by Demian.
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