History Series / GuardianTheLonelyAndGreatGod

* CanadaEh: Quebec is an important location for the show. As Kim Shin first moved there after he became a goblin, that's where he keeps the graves of all the Yoo family members that have served him. It also becomes an important place because Eun-tak is able to follow Kim Shin's portal there (something that grim reapers can't do) and it becomes a romantic spot for the couple.

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%% * BookcasePassage: [[spoiler: The bookshop in Episode 8.]]

%% * EarnYourHappyEnding

%% * PartTimeHero: Eun-tak still goes to school and work while dealing with everything else.

%% * VastBureaucracy: The reapers.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Kim Shin tells Wang Yeo it doesn't matter what he did in his past life because it won't change how much Kim Shin dislikes him. Wang Yeo stares at him then bursts out laughing.

%% * {{Psychopomp}}: Kim Shin, the reapers, and [[spoiler: the goddess of birth]].

* AncientArtifact: Kim Shin's sword that's stuck in his chest [[spoiler: and Sunny's ring]] are over 900 years old and play a part in their past lives.

* BigFancyHouse: The house Kim Shin, Reaper and [[spoiler:Eun Tak]] live in.

%% * BookcasePassage: [[spoiler: The bookshop in episode 8.]]

** [[spoiler:In the finale, Eun Tak puts herself in the way of an out-of-control truck in order to save a bus full of schoolchildren. She does not get better, but promises to look for Shin again in her next life.]]

* MindOverMatter: Both the Goblin and the Reaper.

''Guardian: The Lonely and Great God'' (도깨비, ''Dokkaebi''; also called ''Goblin'') is a 2016 KoreanDrama series starring Creator/GongYoo, Lee Dong Wook, Kim Go Eun, and Yoo In Na.

Kim Shin is a goblin who is also a trickster and protector of souls. He lives with an amnesiac [[TheGrimReaper grim reaper]] in charge of seeing off deceased souls. One day Kim Shin meets Ji Eun Tak, a high schooler who can [[ISeeDeadPeople communicate with ghosts]], who claims to be his bride.

The series can be watched [[https://www.viki.com/tv/31706c-guardian-the-lonely-and-great-god on Viki]] with English subtitles.

* AncientArtifact: Kim Shin's sword that's stuck in his chest [[spoiler: and Sunny's ring]] are over 900 years old and play a part of their past lives.

* CanadaEh: Quebec becomes an important location for the show as Kim Shin first moved there after he became a goblin thus that's where he keeps the graves of all the Yoo family members that have served him. It also becomes an important place as Eun Tak was able to follow Kim Shin's portal something grim reapers can't do thus becoming a romantic spot for the couple.
* CantHoldHisLiquor: After a few drinks Kim Shin is staggering around, holding onto lampposts, and speaking indistinctly.
* ClearMyName: In episode 7 when Reaper gets pickpocketed and stuck with the bill for his office party. He needs Kim Shin to vouch for him at the police station.
* CoolSword: Kim Shin has one stuck in his chest. It's invisible to almost everyone except Eun Tak, and even she can't see it at first.

* DamselInDistress: Eun Tak, on occasion (kidnapped by loan sharks, pursued by grim reapers, involved in weird accidents...). Partly justified by her status as a missing soul, which means the universe tries [[BalancingDeathsBooks to self-correct by killing her.]]
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Eun Tak's late mother has been shown as a loving mother that did everything she could for her daughter.
* DeadpanSnarker: Kim Shin and Reaper. Usually towards each other. Deok Hwa also has his moments.
* DeathSeeker: Kim Shin flip-flops on this. At first he's pretty sick of life due to living over 900 years and desires death. When he finds out that Eun Tak is his destined bride that can kill him, he freaks out and does what he can to avoid her. [[spoiler:After he falls in love with her, he decides he wants to live with her]].
* DisproportionateRetribution: The loan sharks who kidnap Eun Tak are violently taken off the road by Kim Shin, their car is cut in half leaving them trapped inside it for a few days without dying and without the chance of rescue, and to top it off, Reaper pulls a mind trick that makes sure they will never get along with each other again. Then again, they were threatening to hurt and [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]] an innocent kid, so they maybe had it coming.

* EvilUncle: Eun Tak's aunt and cousins force her to do their chores, verbally and physically abuse her and are trying to steal Eun Tak's mother's life insurance.

* Fiction500: Apparently the Yoo family business has many branches and enough money that Kim Shin never has to worry about money.

* GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Downplayed [[spoiler:Samshin asks God why he didn't just create a perfect world, he states then no one would look for God. So while it's not know if his powers are depended on prayer, he does desire it at least.]]

** [[spoiler:Kim Shin finally pulls the sword from his chest to destroy Park Joong Hun, disapperaing into the afterlife in the process. He gets better.]]

* IdentityAmnesia: Every grim reaper is said to be a sinner thus they were made reapers and lost their memories.
* {{Immortality}}: Kim Shin is 939 years old. The only way for him to die is if his bride pulls the sword from his chest. [[spoiler:After the sword is pulled from his chest and returning back to life, he's fully immortal.]]
* ISeeDeadPeople: Eun Tak can see ghosts, an ability that doesn't bring her much joy. This is also automatically true for the various supernatural beings.
* MeetCute: Amusingly subverted. Shin, in his capacity as a guardian, arranges a Meet Cute between two people in a coffee shop. When it turns out they're both already in relationships and also pretty horrible people in general, Eun Tak asks why he bothers to play GuardianAngel for them. Turns out that he doesn't; he's the guardian of the two people they are about to [[RomanticFalseLead dump to be with each other]], thus saving them from their lousy partners.

* OneGenderSchool: Eun Tak attends a girls-only high school.
* OnePersonBirthdayParty: Eun Tak has one in the first episode due to having no friends at school and her aunt and cousins are abusive.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Deok Hwa escorts and helps Eun Tak just so he has a chance at getting his credit cards back.

%% * PartTimeHero: Eun Tak still goes to school and work while dealing with everything else.
* PerfectlyArrangedMarriage: If it hadn't been for Park Joong Hun's manipulation, Kim Sun and Wang Yeo would have had one. [[spoiler:They [[LoveAtFirstSight fall in love with each other immediately]] and despite him being the cause of her eventual death, love each other so much it carries over into their next life.]]
* PrettyBoy: Most of the male cast, although Deok Hwa takes the cake, being the youngest.

* SadistTeacher: Eun Tak's teacher, who wastes no opportunity to humiliate and demean her students. [[spoiler:Samshin eventually calls her out on this.]]
* SecretDiary: Kim Shin keeps one written in hanja [[note]] hanja is Korean language written in Chinese characters [[/note]]. [[spoiler:Deok Hwa being able to read it later hints that God is possessing him.]]
* ShockinglyExpensiveBill: Eun Tak gets one after [[spoiler: helping the ghost in episode 5. The bill from emptying her fridge came to around $1,300 USD.]]

* SuicideIsShameful: [[spoiler:Reaper/Wang Yeo realizes at the end of the series that every reaper is a sinner because they committed suicide in their life and are made into reapers as both punishment as well as make them realize how precious life is.]]
* UnlimitedWardrobe: Kim Shin and Deok Hwa have a lot of money, and it shows in their seemingly-endless wardrobe of tasteful male fashion.
* UnorthodoxSheathing: Kim Shin's sword is stuck in his chest. [[spoiler: Only Eun Tak can pull it out, killing him.]]
* UpperClassTwit: Deok Hwa spends more of his time partying and whining that he doesn't have a credit card anymore then learning about the family business.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Kim Shin and Reaper originally didn't like each other thus they would do everything to annoy the other, they're shocked that they do become friends after being forced to live together. Also Eun Tak and Deok Hwa to a degree.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Kim Shin at first saw his immortality as a blessing but as the years went by he saw it as a curse as he kept bonding and then losing the Yoo family who serves him.

Kim Shin is a goblin who is also a trickster and protector of souls. He lives with Kim Woo-bin, an amnesiac [[TheGrimReaper grim reaper]] in charge of seeing off deceased souls. One day Kim Shin meets Ji Eun Tak, a high schooler who can [[ISeeDeadPeople communicate with ghosts]], who claims to be his bride.

** Sunny describes Kim Shin to her shaman and demands to know if the shaman knows a man who looks like that. The shaman helplessly suggests "Gong Yoo?".

* HatOfPower: Every grim reaper has a black bowler hat that turns them invisible if they wear it.

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Kim Shin and Kim Woo-bin spend a lot of time mocking and annoying each other before they become friends. They still like to mock each other even then.
* StairwayToHeaven: Shown whenever a spirit enters heaven through Kim Woo-bin's tea room. [[spoiler:In the last episode Woo-Bin and Sunny leave together.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: The loan sharks who kidnap Eun Tak are violently taken off the road by Kim Shin, their car is cut in half leaving them trapped inside it for a few days without dying and without the chance of rescue, and to top it off, Reaper pulls a mind trick that makes sure they will never get along with each other again. Then again, they were threatening to hurt an innocent kid, so they maybe had it coming.

* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Kim Shin and Kim Woo-bin spend a lot of time mocking and annoying each other before they became friends. They still like to mock each other even after they become friends.

* SuicideIsShameful: [[spoiler:Kim Woo-bin/Wang Yeo realizes at the end of the series that every reaper is a sinner because they committed suicide in their life and are made into reapers as both punishment as well as make them realize how precious life is.]]

* AnIcePerson: Reaper has ice powers to contrast with Kim Shin's [[PlayingWithFire fire]]. He mostly uses them to [[MundaneUtlity cool beer]].
%% * BigFancyHouse: The house Kim Shin, Kim Woo-bin and [[spoiler:Eun Tak]] live in.
%% * BlueBlood: Deok Hwa is a chaebol. [[note]] a term used for company heirs [[/note]]

* ClearMyName: In episode 7 when Kim Woo-bin gets pickpocketed and stuck with the reaper's bill. He needs Kim Shin to vouch for him at the police station.

%% * DamselInDistress: Eun Tak, on occasion.
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Eun Tak's mother has been shown as a loving mother that did everything she could for her daughter.
%% * DeadpanSnarker: Kim Shin and Wang Yeo. Usually towards each other.
* DeathSeeker: Kim Shin flip flops on this. At first he's pretty sick of life due to living over 900 years and desires death. When he finds out that Eun Tak is his destined bride that can kill him, he freaks out and does what he can to avoid her. [[spoiler:After he falls in love with her, he decides he wants to live with her]].
%% * DisproportionateRetribution: The loan sharks.

%% * PrettyBoy

%% * SadistTeacher: Eun Tak's teacher.

%% * UnlimitedWardrobe: All of them. Deok Hwa especially though.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Kim Shin and Woo-bin originally didn't like each other thus they would do everything to annoy the other, they're shocked that they do become friends after being forced to live together. Also Eun Tak and Deok Hwa to a degree.

%% * AnIcePerson: Wang Yeo.

* ActorAllusion: In Episode 7, Kim Shin and Ji Eun-tak go see ''Film/TrainToBusan'' on a movie date in which [[CelebrityParadox Gong Yoo also stars in]]. [[HypocriticalHumor Shin freaks out after telling Eun-tak not to be scared]].

Kim Shin is a goblin who is also a trickster and protector of souls. He lives with Wang Yeo, an amnesiac [[TheGrimReaper grim reaper]] in charge of seeing off deceased souls. One day Kim Shin meets Ji Eun Tak, a high schooler who can [[ISeeDeadPeople communicate with ghosts]], who claims to be his bride.

%% * AncientArtifact: Kim Shin's sword [[spoiler: and Sunny's ring.]]

%% * BigFancyHouse: The house Kim Shin, Wang Yeo and [[spoiler:Eun Tak]] live in.

%% * CanadaEh: A large portion of the show is filmed in Quebec.

* ClearMyName: In episode 7 [[spoiler: when Wang Yeo gets pickpocketed and stuck with the reaper's bill. He needs Kim Shin to vouch for him at the police station.]]

%% * DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Eun Tak. Her mother is dead and nothing is known about her father.

%% * DeathSeeker: Kim Shin.

%% * DownerEnding

%% * EvilUncle: Eun Tak's aunt and cousins.

%% * GodJob: The grim reapers.
* HatOfPower: Wang Yeo's fedora. He's invisible to the living whenever he wears it.
%% * ISeeDeadPeople: Eun Tak.
* {{Immortality}}: Kim Shin is 938 years old. [[spoiler:The only way for him to die is if his bride pulls the sword from his chest.]]
%% * ImmortalityInducer: Kim Shin's sword.
%% * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Wang Yeo.
%% * NiceHat: Wang Yeo sports one.

%% * OnePersonBirthdayParty: Eun Tak has one in the first episode.

%% * SecretDiary: Kim Shin has one written in hanja [[note]] hanja is Korean language written in Chinese characters [[/note]].

%% * SnarkToSnarkCombat: Kim Shin and Wang Yeo.
%% * StairwayToHeaven: Shown whenever a spirit enters heaven through Wang Yeo's tea room.

%% * UpperClassTwit: Deok Hwa.

%% * VitriolicBestBuds: Kim Shin and Wang Yeo. Also Eun Tak and Deok Hwa to a degree.
%% * WhoWantsToLiveForever: Kim Shin.

''Goblin'' (도깨비, ''Dokkaebi''; also called ''Guardian: The Lonely and Great God'') is a 2016 KoreanDrama series starring Creator/GongYoo, Lee Dong Wook, Kim Go Eun, and Yoo In Na.

No relation to the [[Music/{{Goblin}} Italian prog-rock band of the same name]].

!! Goblin contains examples of: