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Unemployed 27-year-old Do Bong-soon is the latest recipient of a mystic gift of [[Super Strength|profound strength]] which has been passed down in her family from mother to daughter for generations. This gift of strength comes with [[Kryptonite Factor|a catch]], though -- if it's misused (specifically, [[Never Hurt an Innocent|if an innocent is harmed with its use]]), it will desert the recipient. Her mother misused her strength and lost it, so Bong-soon is ''very'' cautious about using hers -- but when she does, she can flip automobiles over effortlessly or send large men flying hundreds of feet with a single blow. Of late, though, she has been having trouble controlling her strength, giving her no small amount of concern and even more reason to be cautious in its use.

Despite her gift, though, she has no particular urge to go out and use it for anything. Instead, her dream is to become a video game programmer and to create a game with a main character based on herself. She also desperately wants to become a tall, willowy and elegant woman, which is the ideal physical type of her long-time crush, In Guk-doo. Guk-doo, an abrasive young police officer recently <s>exiled</s> reassigned to Violent Crimes Team 3 at the neighborhood police station, has been a friend of hers since high school, but is unaware that she's been pining for him for years; instead, he seems to regard her as an annoying, trouble-prone little sister.

 

 

Not long afterward, a murder and a series of kidnappings strike [[w:Dobong-dong|Dobong-dong]], the Seoul neighborhood in which Bong-soon lives. And when her best friend Na Gyeong-shim is attacked by the kidnapper, Bong-soon becomes determined to catch the culprit. With help and training from Min-hyeok, she manages to gain control over her strength again. And soon, Min-hyeok and Bong-soon find themselves and their relationship growing into something more -- as the kidnapper turns his attention to her.

** Three episodes later, there's an Almost Kiss between Bong-soon and Min-hyeok as she's drying his hair after washing it in his hospital room. ([[It Makes Sense in Context]].) Min-hyeok stops it when he realizes that Bong-soon is about to kiss him only because ''he'' wants it, not because ''she'' wants it.

** Another happens in episode 12. In a private moment Min-hyeok leans in with obvious intent to kiss her, and then grins and kisses her on the forehead instead. However this one is after they've gone well beyond "almost" several times already.

* [[Always Someone Better]]: Min-hyeok and Guk-doo are this to ''each other'', as seen in episode 6 -- Min-hyeok demolishes Guk-doo at pool, and Guk-doo takes him to the cleaners in darts.

* [[Amateur Sleuth]]: Bong-soon's determination to find the kidnapper makes her one in purpose if not necessarily in skills.

* [[The Bluebeard]]: Judging by his [[Perverse Sexual Lust|almost sexual enjoyment]] of a play called ''[[Bluebeard|The Seven Wives of Bluebeard]]'' in episode 7 -- and his own earlier declaration to one of his victims that he intends to collect seven "brides" -- the kidnapper clearly partakes of this trope.

* [[Bluff the Impostor]]: In episode 12, after several text message exchanges with Gyeong-shim [[Not Himself|sound wrong]] to Bong-soon, she asks the person on the other end how "Wild Soybean" (Gyeong-shim's dog, who died the year before) is. When the other person says "fine", she knows that Gyeong-shim's been taken by the kidnapper.

* [[Bond Villain Stupidity]]: Demonstrated by the kidnapper several times, including an instance in episode 14 where all he accomplishes with his dramatic and sadistic gesture is {{spoiler|[[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|undoing the clever gambit that deprived Bong-soon of her super-strength an episode earlier]]}}.

* [[Brand X]]: AINSoft is [[NCSoft]] with the serial numbers filed off. The AINSoft office scenes are actually filmed in NCSoft's offices in Seoul, and NCSoft has a [[Product Placement]] deal with the production; the screenshots we see of AINSoft's flagship game ''The Chronicle of Albertan'' are actually from ''[[Lineage Red Knights]]'', an NCSoft product.

* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: Seems to be averted throughout the series -- however many of them there are, the [[Mooks]] all seem to fight at about the same level. Which is to say, they quickly get their clocks cleaned by Bong-soon.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Strongly implied of Min-hyeok's father. Explicitly stated of his business associate, the gangster boss Baek Tak.

* [[Cowboy Cop]]: Guk-doo increasingly becomes one the more times the kidnapper strikes, especially after Bong-soon foils the first attempt to take Gyeong-shim. He may always have been something of one, though; his reassignment to Violent Crimes Team 3 at the start of the series is implied to be in some way punitive.

* [[Crime-Time Soap]]: Sometimes wanders into this territory, but the police are always of secondary importance to Bong-soon.

* [[Dude, Where's My Respect?]]: There's a strong subcurrent of this in Bong-soon's tearful speech [[Calling the Old Man Out|calling her mother out for her treatment]] in episode 7.

* [[Duel to the Death]]: Baek Tak insists his men battle Bong-soon in this way in the ambush he's planning in episode 8.

* [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue]]: Seen from the other side with Bong-soon's attempts to use English words and phrases, and usually mangling them.

* [[Equivalent Exchange]]: In episode 14, Bong-soon's mother explains that while the girls of the family have super-strength, the boys tend to be weak and sickly. (And that's why she favored Bong-gi over Bong-soon, because she felt he ''needed'' it.)

** Guk-doo when he discovers critical evidence that can link Kim Jang-hyun to the kidnappings -- ''after'' he's just [[Police Brutality|illegally assaulted him]]. On video.

** In episode 14, Bong-soon and Min-hyeok when they realize they accidentally based the villain for her video game on Secretary Gong.

* [[Older Than They Look]]: Bong-soon looks to be college-age or maybe even younger (there are moments one could swear she was 14). She's actually 27. (Her twin brother Bong-gi is a practicing doctor.)

* [[Ominous Multiple Screens]]: The kidnapper has a wall of video screens in his lair, all hooked up [[Big Brother Is Watching|to cameras he's planted around the neighborhood -- and even in the office of the police group trying to catch him.]]

 

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