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While billed as a medical drama with twists, ''Kingdom Hospital'' also happens to be a [[Ghost Story]], written, directed, and produced by -- [[Sarcasm Mode|of all people]] -- [[Stephen King]], whose influence shows up without doubt as soon as the first episode.
This series contains [[Nightmare Fuel]] and a rather sizeable number of creepy moments. Strangely, at no point does it actively employ the [[Rule of Scary]].
Not to be confused with [[Kingdom Hearts]]
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* [[Bloody Hilarious]] - Hellooooo, operating room!
* [[Butt Monkey]] - Stegman. ''[[Rule of Funny|Hilariously.]]''
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* [[Comedic Sociopathy]] - Stegman. Stegman, Stegman, ''Stegman.''
* [[Dark World]] - The Old Kingdom.
* [[Dean Bitterman]] - Stegman again. He's the head neurosurgeon at the hospital, after getting removed from a hospital in Boston... which he frequently reminds people he prefers.
* [[Flat Earth Atheist]] / [[Hollywood Atheist]] - Stegman fits both of these tropes nicely. At one point, when asked his opinion of a local religious group who believed their pastor would rise from the dead in three days, he said they should all be sterilized and sent to the gulags of Siberia as slave labor.
* [[Likes Older Women]] and [[Dogged Nice Guy]] - Elmer in regards to Lona. Unlike most [[Dogged Nice Guy]]s, he makes it clear he wants a sexual relationship with her; however, it's clear he doesn't just want sex.
* [[Literal Genie]] - A lawyer asks for a new heart. Sure enough...he gets one.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] - The series loses focus as it goes on primarily due to its tendency to bring in at least one new character per episode without resolving anything with the previously established characters.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: The so-called Old Kingdom is the hospital built in the 1930s—it was called "Gottreich Hospital" after its founder, Dr. Gottreich.
* [[Mood Whiplash]] - There's a lot of humor. Most of it fairly macabre, some of it just bizarre.
* [[Mythology Gag]] - In the original miniseries, Stig Helmer's [[Catch Phrase]] is "Danish scum!" When Dr. Stegman's car is vandalized in the remake, he yells "Maine hick scum!"
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* [[Shout-Out]]: Nurse Carrie von Trier is named after Danish director Lars von Trier, who directed/created the original, Danish ''Kingdom'' series.
* [[Talking Animal]] - A crow and two dogs had brief speaking parts just to make it even weirder than it already was.
* [[Tsundere]] - Elmer sees Lona as this; in the beginning, she's just annoyed and confused with how exactly to make it clear to the significantly younger man, whose father she works for, that a romantic relationship is out of the question. She tried the direct way, that didn't work, and well, Lona's a fairly direct person. Later, when the supernatural screws with them, she tells him to kiss her, treats him the same as before once they get out of the morgue (long story), and then, uses his affection for her to get him to help her with some important tests she wants to do. At the end, she seems unsure what her relationship with him is, while he still wants a romantic relationship with her.
** Dr. Abelson (Stegman's erstwhile girlfriend) is a more literal version of this. After their breakup, she takes a large gun and pegs all of Stegman's lab rats, gleefully counting them one by one. Not a bunny-boiler, but close enough, surely.
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