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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the webtoon, [[spoiler:the remaining survivors make it to the mountain safely after Hyun-su and Eun-hyuk sacrificed themselves in the process of defeating the BigBad and they eventually find themselves in a military encampment]]. In the series, [[spoiler:the remaining survivors encounter the military right after emerging to a snowy cityscape after hours of walking through an UndergroundTunnelNetwork. They're escorted off to a van except for Yi-kyung, who parts ways to find answers about her fiancé on her own after the military refuses to co-operate with her due to the survivors' actions. Meanwhile, Hyun-su wakes up to find himself being driven by a possessed Sang-wook to somewhere. Cue FadeToWhite.]]
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* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the webtoon, webcomic, [[spoiler:the remaining survivors make it to the mountain safely after Hyun-su and Eun-hyuk sacrificed themselves in the process of defeating the BigBad and they eventually find themselves in a military encampment]]. In the series, [[spoiler:the remaining survivors encounter the military right after emerging to a snowy cityscape after hours of walking through an UndergroundTunnelNetwork. They're escorted off to a van except for Yi-kyung, who parts ways to find answers about her fiancé on her own after the military refuses to co-operate with her due to the survivors' actions. Meanwhile, Hyun-su wakes up to find himself being driven by a possessed Sang-wook to somewhere. Cue FadeToWhite.]]]]
* AdaptationDeviation: The series' second season strays away from the webcomic's plot completely.
* AdaptationDeviation: The series' second season strays away from the webcomic's plot completely.
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** Another tragic example is the lizard like monster from season 2. The monster is a mother with a baby who tries to scare away the people from her nest, but never harms anyone. She does take a lost girl captive for a few minutes, but it is revealed she just tried to make sure she is reunited with her own mother. She is strongly contrasted with the army, who does harms and kill countless people trying to capture the monster. They shot aimlessly killing a lot of people, they drive over them, throw a grenade in a track trying to kill the monster without carrying there are humans inside and burn several others alive.
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** Another tragic example is the lizard like monster from season 2. The monster is a mother with a baby who tries to scare away the people from her nest, but never harms anyone. She does take a lost girl captive for a few minutes, but it is revealed she just tried to make sure she is reunited with her own mother. She is strongly contrasted with the army, who does harms harm and kill countless people trying to capture the monster. They shot aimlessly shoot aimlessly, killing a lot of people, they drive over them, and throw a grenade in a track truck trying to kill the monster monster, without carrying caring that there are humans inside inside, and burn end up burning several others alive.
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* ArmiesAreEvil: With a very few exceptions, the Korean army is shown being tyrannical and ruthless as a whole. Most of the soldiers have no problem abusing their power and beating up innocent people at the slightest provocation, make inhuman experiments on the infected who can control the curse/virus to create an vaccine, and even that vaccine is reserved only for the army and the civilians who helped them. They also kill far more humans than most of monsters. When a female monster tries to shoo away the people from her nest, she kills zero humans, whereas the soldiers shot aimlessly, drive over the people, throw even grenades at them and burn people alive to get at the monster, all actions resulting in dozens of deaths.
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* TragicMonster: Myeong-ja reveals she's infected after The Beefcake nearly kills her. As if her backstory isn't sad enough, the first thing she does just twists the knife: she asks Ji-su, who's ready to kill her if she fully becomes a monster, about the children she almost died trying to protect.
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* TragicMonster: TragicMonster:
** Myeong-ja reveals she's infected after The Beefcake nearly kills her. As if her backstory isn't sad enough, the first thing she does just twists the knife: she asks Ji-su, who's ready to kill her if she fully becomes a monster, about the children she almost died trying toprotect.protect.
** Another tragic example is the lizard like monster from season 2. The monster is a mother with a baby who tries to scare away the people from her nest, but never harms anyone. She does take a lost girl captive for a few minutes, but it is revealed she just tried to make sure she is reunited with her own mother. She is strongly contrasted with the army, who does harms and kill countless people trying to capture the monster. They shot aimlessly killing a lot of people, they drive over them, throw a grenade in a track trying to kill the monster without carrying there are humans inside and burn several others alive.
** Myeong-ja reveals she's infected after The Beefcake nearly kills her. As if her backstory isn't sad enough, the first thing she does just twists the knife: she asks Ji-su, who's ready to kill her if she fully becomes a monster, about the children she almost died trying to
** Another tragic example is the lizard like monster from season 2. The monster is a mother with a baby who tries to scare away the people from her nest, but never harms anyone. She does take a lost girl captive for a few minutes, but it is revealed she just tried to make sure she is reunited with her own mother. She is strongly contrasted with the army, who does harms and kill countless people trying to capture the monster. They shot aimlessly killing a lot of people, they drive over them, throw a grenade in a track trying to kill the monster without carrying there are humans inside and burn several others alive.
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''Sweet Home'' (스위트홈; ''Seuwiteuhom'') is a 2020 South Korean series starring Song Kang, Lee Jin-wook, and Lee Si-young. It's based on [[Webcomic/SweetHome2018 the webcomic of the same name]]. It aired on Creator/{{Netflix}} in December 2020.
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''Sweet Home'' (스위트홈; ''Seuwiteuhom'') is a 2020 South Korean series starring Song Kang, Lee Jin-wook, and Lee Si-young. It's based on [[Webcomic/SweetHome2018 [[Webcomic/SweetHome2017 the webcomic of the same name]]. It aired on Creator/{{Netflix}} in December 2020.
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''Sweet Home'' (스위트홈; ''Seuwiteuhom'') is a 2020 South Korean series starring Song Kang, Lee Jin-wook, and Lee Si-young. It's based on [[Webcomic/SweetHome2018 the webcomic of the same name]]. It aired on Creator/{{Netflix}} in December 2020.
An apocalyptic event strikes, turning people into monsters. A group of people who live in the same apartment building struggle to stay alive while monsters roam outside -- and inside.
A second season is expected to air in 2022.
!!Contains examples of:
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the webtoon, [[spoiler:the remaining survivors make it to the mountain safely after Hyun-su and Eun-hyuk sacrificed themselves in the process of defeating the BigBad and they eventually find themselves in a military encampment]]. In the series, [[spoiler:the remaining survivors encounter the military right after emerging to a snowy cityscape after hours of walking through an UndergroundTunnelNetwork. They're escorted off to a van except for Yi-kyung, who parts ways to find answers about her fiancé on her own after the military refuses to co-operate with her due to the survivors' actions. Meanwhile, Hyun-su wakes up to find himself being driven by a possessed Sang-wook to somewhere. Cue FadeToWhite.]]
* AdaptationExpansion: The military's role is more pronounced and questionable compared to the webtoon, where they're mentioned in passing.
* AirVentPassageway: Yi-kyung crawls through the building's air-vents as she flees the spider monster.
* AnyoneCanDie: By the end of the first season, at least nine of the Green Home survivors are dead and at least a couple more are in a state of UncertainDoom.
* AutobotsRockOut: "Warriors" by Music/ImagineDragons plays whenever the survivors are doing something particularly dangerous or awesome.
* BatterUp: Ji-su carries a baseball bat to defend herself.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Infected people's eyes turn black when they come close to becoming monsters.
* BlessedWithSuck: For a measure of just how "blessed" anyone who suffers monsterization can be. While most monsters are scary and dangerous, with even the weird ones managing some level of threat or interesting creature design, the grocery store owner turns into a human-sized copy of [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Cousin Itt]]. Probably a reflection on his vanity and desire to have a full head of hair.
* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:Ui-myeong]], verging on GrandTheftMe save for the condition that the host body must be of a deceased person.
* CanonForeigner: Several characters don't originate from the webtoon, the most prominent one being firewoman Seo Yi-kyung.
* CarFu: Yi-kyung fights the Beefcake with a fire engine.
* CleanCut: Jae-heon slices off half a monster's head with ease. Especially notable because his sword is a keepsake, therefore he probably doesn't sharpen it regularly.
* TheSocialDarwinist: [[spoiler:Ui-myeong]], in part due to the horrible experiments he faced at the hands of the army.
* DeadlyNosebleed: Played with. Blood pours from people's noses when they're about to turn into monsters. Technically the nosebleed isn't deadly to them, but it means everyone around them is in danger.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Sang-wook, Yu-ri and Byeong-il do not survive to face the military unlike in the webtoon.]]
* DetectEvil: Much like in ''Videogame/SilentHill1'', monsters create radio interference that can be heard if you dial out with a cell phone and listen by plugging in headphones.
* DropTheHammer: Sang-wook kills Yun-jae with a hammer; [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the same hammer Yun-jae tried to kill him with]].
* DuctTapeForEverything: Sang-wook uses duct tape to [[BoundAndGagged restrain Yun-jae]] and [[WorstAid bandage a wound]].
* DutchAngle: Used liberally throughout the series.
* EnemyRisingBehind: One of the monsters rises behind Ji-su. Jae-heon spots it just before it attacks.
* EnemyWithin: With a touch of SuperPoweredEvilSide. Victims of monsterization and special infected are "seduced" by a voice or copy of themselves with BlackEyesOfEvil with giving them what they most desire. If they give in, they go full monster. If they can hold out for 15 days, they become special infected and no longer run the risk of uncontrolled monsterization. Though admittedly there does seem to be a risk of losing control for spells at a time. The entity at least claims not to know what it is, and it's something that seems to affect them all.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Downplayed. A damaged car does explode, but only because a fuel leak caught fire.
* EvilDetectingDog: Bom the Pomeranian is usually reliable for noticing danger.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Gil-seop uses a flamethrower to fend off the monsters in the garage.
* GroinAttack: Ji-su distracts a monster by hitting it between the leg. With a baseball bat, no less.
* HealingFactor: The monsters are nigh-unkillable, and will eventually recover from just about anything, including having their head cut off. KillItWithFire when downed being the only reliable way to kill them, or in the case of monsterized or pre-monsterized humans, killing them while still in human form.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** [[spoiler: Jae-heon]] forces one of the monsters into the lift, then insists someone throws a MolotovCocktail at both of them.
** [[spoiler:Du-sik]] performs one by [[spoiler:giving a OneWingedAngel Hyun-su a CooldownHug]].
* HorrorHunger: In the first episode, Hyun-su hears his neighbor complaining she's hungry. When he opens the door, he finds she's eaten his ramen... and her cat. Then she turns up at his door, begging to be let in while still saying she's hungry.
* HowWeGotHere: The first episode starts with Hyun-su walking out of the building and the soldiers shooting him. The rest of the series shows the events leading up to this.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** Jin-ok's daughter and Su-ung, who came to her rescue, both get impaled by a monster's tongue.
** The Beefcake falls onto a sharp piece of metal and gets stabbed through the chest. That doesn't kill it, so Yi-kyung pushes burning wood on top of it.
** [[spoiler: Hyun-su's]] monster form has spikes on his wings. He uses them to impale Ui-myeong. [[spoiler: Du-sik]] gets impaled on them too.
* ImportantHaircut: Hyun-su, once he learns to move on from his past trauma. Followed by a montage as a rewinding of a tear being un-shed and a razor being sheathed.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Most of the survivors wield one, but most notably Eun-hyeok fights off a monster with a fire extinguisher.
* KarmicTransformation: Inverted. Instead of turning into something they hate, it's heavily implied by the EnemyWithin and some pre-monster characterization that the transformations follow the greatest desire of the person affected. Though all the same the result is a {{curse}} since it turns the victim into a monster.
* KillItWithFire: The only way to kill the monsters permanently is to burn them.
* MultipurposeTongue: One prominent monster from early on in Season 1 has a long tentacle-like tongue. It uses it as a weapon and to drain its victim's blood.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Some of the monsters, including [[spoiler:Myeong-ja]] and the slime monster, don't go out of their way to harm people. They may even help them; the slime monster protects Yeong-su when the criminals nearly find him.
* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Korean Chanting]]: The soundtrack includes a very ominous-sounding choir when things look especially dark for the characters.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Hyun-su]] provides a rare heroic example when he turns into a monster and attacks Ui-myeong. Bonus points for his monster form being literally one-winged.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring:
** Myeong-ja's baby died in a traffic accident.
** Jin-ok watches her daughter die after days of her being missing.
* PerpetualMotionMonster: In the first episode, monsters that have been on the rampage for months and frozen in the snow wake up as Hyun-su walks out of the building. Aside from HorrorHunger forcing some to feed compulsively, others don't seem to need any food at all.
* ProHumanTranshuman: Hyun-su, despite being mistrusted and mistreated, decides to help his fellow survivors. It pays off as they make {{Heel Realization}}s and accept him over time.
* RedShirts: [[spoiler:Several unnamed survivors die in the hands of the outlaws.]]
* SecretUndergroundPassage: [[spoiler:The survivors inadvertently discover one near the makeshift gravesite that they use to escape the building as it's under siege by the military, who believe the survivors are armed and dangerous.]]
* SequelHook: The ending of the first season ends on a big cliffhanger and leaves a lot of unanswered questions. For starters, [[spoiler:what exactly happened to Yi-kyung's fiancé? And where are the survivors and Hyun-su going?]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Characters with notable deaths in the webtoon like [[spoiler:Jae-hwan and Hye-in]] make it to the end instead.
* SpidersAreScary: One of the monsters is a giant spider with a human head. It chases Yi-kyung through the air-vents, and later attacks Du-sik and Su-yeong.
* TheStoic: Of all the survivors Eun-hyeok is the only one who consistently stays calm. His coldness makes him unpopular with the others even as he tries to keep them alive.
* TheMasquerade: Special Infected, or humans who have resisted full monsterization but can enter it as a SuperMode. Once past the initial phase showing symptoms, they are undetectable without intense examination. The army's plan to offer rewards for people who turn them in is deduced to be a ploy to weed them out, and the rewards a lie given anyone can be monsterized at any time, and gather test subjects for a potential cure or vaccine. [[spoiler:Ui-myeong]] in fact infiltrates a gang of criminals with no one the wiser, even without [[spoiler: taking into account the fact he can {{Body Swap|ping}}]].
* TitleDrop: In episode 7, Ji-soo plays her guitar and sings a song for Hyun-su, and he tells her it makes him feel like home. Ji-soo decides that "home, ''sweet home''" is the perfect title for her song.
* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: A total solar eclipse suddenly happens towards the end of the series in which [[spoiler:Hyun-su suddenly gains a OneWingedAngel form from his monsterization.]]
* TragicMonster: Myeong-ja reveals she's infected after The Beefcake nearly kills her. As if her backstory isn't sad enough, the first thing she does just twists the knife: she asks Ji-su, who's ready to kill her if she fully becomes a monster, about the children she almost died trying to protect.
* TranshumanTreachery: [[spoiler:Ui-myeong]], a PuppeteerParasite monster that appears later in the series, fully subscribes to this worldview, regarding regular humans as weak at best and dangerous to the survival of the monsters at worst. He even almost [[spoiler:convinces Hyun-su to abandon his ProHumanTranshuman ways]].
* VampiricDraining: One of the monsters has a very long prehensile tongue which it uses to drain people's blood.
* WasOnceAMan: All of the monsters used to be human.
* WeatherDissonance: For unknown reasons, the temperature quickly dwindles to the point that it ''snows'' in September.
* WorstAid: A self-inflicted version; Sang-wook "bandages" a wound with ''duct tape''. In real life, this is a ''terrible'' idea. Setting aside the fact the tape is covered with god alone knows how many germs, removing it would just tear the wound open again.
* ZombieInfectee: Averted for most of the infected in the series. Their symptoms are either spotted too quickly to try and conceal it, they quickly remove themselves from the group (taking on a NonMaliciousMonster form or dying), or they outright reveal themselves to be affected for quarantining.
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''Sweet Home'' (스위트홈; ''Seuwiteuhom'') is a 2020 South Korean series starring Song Kang, Lee Jin-wook, and Lee Si-young. It's based on [[Webcomic/SweetHome2018 the webcomic of the same name]]. It aired on Creator/{{Netflix}} in December 2020.
An apocalyptic event strikes, turning people into monsters. A group of people who live in the same apartment building struggle to stay alive while monsters roam outside -- and inside.
A second season is expected to air in 2022.
!!Contains examples of:
* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: In the webtoon, [[spoiler:the remaining survivors make it to the mountain safely after Hyun-su and Eun-hyuk sacrificed themselves in the process of defeating the BigBad and they eventually find themselves in a military encampment]]. In the series, [[spoiler:the remaining survivors encounter the military right after emerging to a snowy cityscape after hours of walking through an UndergroundTunnelNetwork. They're escorted off to a van except for Yi-kyung, who parts ways to find answers about her fiancé on her own after the military refuses to co-operate with her due to the survivors' actions. Meanwhile, Hyun-su wakes up to find himself being driven by a possessed Sang-wook to somewhere. Cue FadeToWhite.]]
* AdaptationExpansion: The military's role is more pronounced and questionable compared to the webtoon, where they're mentioned in passing.
* AirVentPassageway: Yi-kyung crawls through the building's air-vents as she flees the spider monster.
* AnyoneCanDie: By the end of the first season, at least nine of the Green Home survivors are dead and at least a couple more are in a state of UncertainDoom.
* AutobotsRockOut: "Warriors" by Music/ImagineDragons plays whenever the survivors are doing something particularly dangerous or awesome.
* BatterUp: Ji-su carries a baseball bat to defend herself.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Infected people's eyes turn black when they come close to becoming monsters.
* BlessedWithSuck: For a measure of just how "blessed" anyone who suffers monsterization can be. While most monsters are scary and dangerous, with even the weird ones managing some level of threat or interesting creature design, the grocery store owner turns into a human-sized copy of [[Series/TheAddamsFamily Cousin Itt]]. Probably a reflection on his vanity and desire to have a full head of hair.
* BodySnatcher: [[spoiler:Ui-myeong]], verging on GrandTheftMe save for the condition that the host body must be of a deceased person.
* CanonForeigner: Several characters don't originate from the webtoon, the most prominent one being firewoman Seo Yi-kyung.
* CarFu: Yi-kyung fights the Beefcake with a fire engine.
* CleanCut: Jae-heon slices off half a monster's head with ease. Especially notable because his sword is a keepsake, therefore he probably doesn't sharpen it regularly.
* TheSocialDarwinist: [[spoiler:Ui-myeong]], in part due to the horrible experiments he faced at the hands of the army.
* DeadlyNosebleed: Played with. Blood pours from people's noses when they're about to turn into monsters. Technically the nosebleed isn't deadly to them, but it means everyone around them is in danger.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Sang-wook, Yu-ri and Byeong-il do not survive to face the military unlike in the webtoon.]]
* DetectEvil: Much like in ''Videogame/SilentHill1'', monsters create radio interference that can be heard if you dial out with a cell phone and listen by plugging in headphones.
* DropTheHammer: Sang-wook kills Yun-jae with a hammer; [[HoistByHisOwnPetard the same hammer Yun-jae tried to kill him with]].
* DuctTapeForEverything: Sang-wook uses duct tape to [[BoundAndGagged restrain Yun-jae]] and [[WorstAid bandage a wound]].
* DutchAngle: Used liberally throughout the series.
* EnemyRisingBehind: One of the monsters rises behind Ji-su. Jae-heon spots it just before it attacks.
* EnemyWithin: With a touch of SuperPoweredEvilSide. Victims of monsterization and special infected are "seduced" by a voice or copy of themselves with BlackEyesOfEvil with giving them what they most desire. If they give in, they go full monster. If they can hold out for 15 days, they become special infected and no longer run the risk of uncontrolled monsterization. Though admittedly there does seem to be a risk of losing control for spells at a time. The entity at least claims not to know what it is, and it's something that seems to affect them all.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: Downplayed. A damaged car does explode, but only because a fuel leak caught fire.
* EvilDetectingDog: Bom the Pomeranian is usually reliable for noticing danger.
* FireBreathingWeapon: Gil-seop uses a flamethrower to fend off the monsters in the garage.
* GroinAttack: Ji-su distracts a monster by hitting it between the leg. With a baseball bat, no less.
* HealingFactor: The monsters are nigh-unkillable, and will eventually recover from just about anything, including having their head cut off. KillItWithFire when downed being the only reliable way to kill them, or in the case of monsterized or pre-monsterized humans, killing them while still in human form.
* HeroicSacrifice:
** [[spoiler: Jae-heon]] forces one of the monsters into the lift, then insists someone throws a MolotovCocktail at both of them.
** [[spoiler:Du-sik]] performs one by [[spoiler:giving a OneWingedAngel Hyun-su a CooldownHug]].
* HorrorHunger: In the first episode, Hyun-su hears his neighbor complaining she's hungry. When he opens the door, he finds she's eaten his ramen... and her cat. Then she turns up at his door, begging to be let in while still saying she's hungry.
* HowWeGotHere: The first episode starts with Hyun-su walking out of the building and the soldiers shooting him. The rest of the series shows the events leading up to this.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** Jin-ok's daughter and Su-ung, who came to her rescue, both get impaled by a monster's tongue.
** The Beefcake falls onto a sharp piece of metal and gets stabbed through the chest. That doesn't kill it, so Yi-kyung pushes burning wood on top of it.
** [[spoiler: Hyun-su's]] monster form has spikes on his wings. He uses them to impale Ui-myeong. [[spoiler: Du-sik]] gets impaled on them too.
* ImportantHaircut: Hyun-su, once he learns to move on from his past trauma. Followed by a montage as a rewinding of a tear being un-shed and a razor being sheathed.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Most of the survivors wield one, but most notably Eun-hyeok fights off a monster with a fire extinguisher.
* KarmicTransformation: Inverted. Instead of turning into something they hate, it's heavily implied by the EnemyWithin and some pre-monster characterization that the transformations follow the greatest desire of the person affected. Though all the same the result is a {{curse}} since it turns the victim into a monster.
* KillItWithFire: The only way to kill the monsters permanently is to burn them.
* MultipurposeTongue: One prominent monster from early on in Season 1 has a long tentacle-like tongue. It uses it as a weapon and to drain its victim's blood.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Some of the monsters, including [[spoiler:Myeong-ja]] and the slime monster, don't go out of their way to harm people. They may even help them; the slime monster protects Yeong-su when the criminals nearly find him.
* [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Korean Chanting]]: The soundtrack includes a very ominous-sounding choir when things look especially dark for the characters.
* OneWingedAngel: [[spoiler:Hyun-su]] provides a rare heroic example when he turns into a monster and attacks Ui-myeong. Bonus points for his monster form being literally one-winged.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring:
** Myeong-ja's baby died in a traffic accident.
** Jin-ok watches her daughter die after days of her being missing.
* PerpetualMotionMonster: In the first episode, monsters that have been on the rampage for months and frozen in the snow wake up as Hyun-su walks out of the building. Aside from HorrorHunger forcing some to feed compulsively, others don't seem to need any food at all.
* ProHumanTranshuman: Hyun-su, despite being mistrusted and mistreated, decides to help his fellow survivors. It pays off as they make {{Heel Realization}}s and accept him over time.
* RedShirts: [[spoiler:Several unnamed survivors die in the hands of the outlaws.]]
* SecretUndergroundPassage: [[spoiler:The survivors inadvertently discover one near the makeshift gravesite that they use to escape the building as it's under siege by the military, who believe the survivors are armed and dangerous.]]
* SequelHook: The ending of the first season ends on a big cliffhanger and leaves a lot of unanswered questions. For starters, [[spoiler:what exactly happened to Yi-kyung's fiancé? And where are the survivors and Hyun-su going?]]
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Characters with notable deaths in the webtoon like [[spoiler:Jae-hwan and Hye-in]] make it to the end instead.
* SpidersAreScary: One of the monsters is a giant spider with a human head. It chases Yi-kyung through the air-vents, and later attacks Du-sik and Su-yeong.
* TheStoic: Of all the survivors Eun-hyeok is the only one who consistently stays calm. His coldness makes him unpopular with the others even as he tries to keep them alive.
* TheMasquerade: Special Infected, or humans who have resisted full monsterization but can enter it as a SuperMode. Once past the initial phase showing symptoms, they are undetectable without intense examination. The army's plan to offer rewards for people who turn them in is deduced to be a ploy to weed them out, and the rewards a lie given anyone can be monsterized at any time, and gather test subjects for a potential cure or vaccine. [[spoiler:Ui-myeong]] in fact infiltrates a gang of criminals with no one the wiser, even without [[spoiler: taking into account the fact he can {{Body Swap|ping}}]].
* TitleDrop: In episode 7, Ji-soo plays her guitar and sings a song for Hyun-su, and he tells her it makes him feel like home. Ji-soo decides that "home, ''sweet home''" is the perfect title for her song.
* TotalEclipseOfThePlot: A total solar eclipse suddenly happens towards the end of the series in which [[spoiler:Hyun-su suddenly gains a OneWingedAngel form from his monsterization.]]
* TragicMonster: Myeong-ja reveals she's infected after The Beefcake nearly kills her. As if her backstory isn't sad enough, the first thing she does just twists the knife: she asks Ji-su, who's ready to kill her if she fully becomes a monster, about the children she almost died trying to protect.
* TranshumanTreachery: [[spoiler:Ui-myeong]], a PuppeteerParasite monster that appears later in the series, fully subscribes to this worldview, regarding regular humans as weak at best and dangerous to the survival of the monsters at worst. He even almost [[spoiler:convinces Hyun-su to abandon his ProHumanTranshuman ways]].
* VampiricDraining: One of the monsters has a very long prehensile tongue which it uses to drain people's blood.
* WasOnceAMan: All of the monsters used to be human.
* WeatherDissonance: For unknown reasons, the temperature quickly dwindles to the point that it ''snows'' in September.
* WorstAid: A self-inflicted version; Sang-wook "bandages" a wound with ''duct tape''. In real life, this is a ''terrible'' idea. Setting aside the fact the tape is covered with god alone knows how many germs, removing it would just tear the wound open again.
* ZombieInfectee: Averted for most of the infected in the series. Their symptoms are either spotted too quickly to try and conceal it, they quickly remove themselves from the group (taking on a NonMaliciousMonster form or dying), or they outright reveal themselves to be affected for quarantining.
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