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* BarbieDollAnatomy: This counts for some races inside the tower: they have no nipples, as seen by Ja Wangnan in the bath.
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* OnlyTheWorthyMayPass: The concept of the tower. What constitutes one's worth is never explained (or for that matter, perhaps understood), the one thing that all Regulars and Irregulars have in common is there exceptional desire to reach the top, at least at first.
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1. that wasn\'t training, it was a legitimate test like any other. 2. that bullet point made no sense at all.
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* {{Ojou}}: Maschenny, Yuri and Yeon.
* OneMaArmy: Phantaminum, who defeated the high rankers of Zahard all by himself.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: For starters, Rak Wraithraiser. In series, the title Irregular instills fear into everybody due to guys like Phantaminum and Urek Mazino. Also, carrying the name of Zahard certifies that you are a really dangerous person. Also, Baam's new title is slayer.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: For starters, Rak Wraithraiser.Wraithraiser (or alternatively, Wreckraiser), and Akryung, meaning evil ghost. In series, the title Irregular instills fear into everybody due to guys like Phantaminum and Urek Mazino. Also, carrying the name of Zahard certifies that you are a really dangerous person. Also, Baam's new title is slayer.
** Rapdevil was [[{{Narm}} probably meant to be threatening as well]].
** Rapdevil was [[{{Narm}} probably meant to be threatening as well]].
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** [[spoiler: Although in Headon's case it got subverted, as everything was part of his plan to change the tower.]]
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** Koon himself falls victim to a inverted to this in the door game: [[spoiler: he was made to that he was being conned, when that wasn't the case at all. The information given to him was spot-on.
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** Koon himself falls victim to a inverted to this in the door game: [[spoiler: he was made to that he was being conned, when that wasn't the case at all. The information given to him was spot-on.
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* TeamKiller: Yeon. She isn't malignant, though, she's just a [[WorldWidePunomenon hot girl prone to friendly fire.]]
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* Fanservice: Interesting case of mainly the male cast being sexy with their clothes off. The only sexy shots you get to see of the ladies are Yuri's ZettaiRyouiki, Yeon's shoulders and Androssi in shorts and t-shirts. The guys don't only flash their abs, they ''sparkle!''
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* MusclesAreMeaningless: It's all about the wielding of Shinsoo and the application of braincells.
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Combined badass troops under the badass section. Parawekal isn\'t nearly badass enough to fall under Crouching Moron Hidden Badass.
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* BadassBoast: Rak delivers and delivers.
* BadassNormal: Subverted. Though it appears initially that Baam is heading towards this way, it's effectively confirmed now that he is not normal. Hatsu for being able to fight off Anak and not being immediately taken out by Quant. And Ship Leesoo, but being Ship Leesoo in a WorldOfBadass, one is ultimately a ButtMonkey and ActionSurvivor.
* BadassNormal: Subverted. Though it appears initially that Baam is heading towards this way, it's effectively confirmed now that he is not normal. Hatsu for being able to fight off Anak and not being immediately taken out by Quant. And Ship Leesoo, but being Ship Leesoo in a WorldOfBadass, one is ultimately a ButtMonkey and ActionSurvivor.
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** CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ship Leesoo.
** TookALevelInBadass: Baam quickly turns from being relatively useless in combat to a Shinsoo genuis capable of freezing someone at will. [[spoiler: Then after the timeskip he is by far the strongest regular on the 20th thus far.]]
** WorldOfBadass: The Tower, especially it's inner section.
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* LostHimInACardgame: Yeon was made a wager by Prince in the SHinsoo Competition. He lost her there.
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* ArentYouGoingToRavishMe: When Yeon tells Baam that even though he won her in a bet, she won't let him have her body. Turns out he didn't want her anyway. This makes her very angry.
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* MonochromePast: Most of the {{Flashback}}s in season 1.
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* AerithAndBob: There are fantasy names like Rak and Anak, a person is name after his birth date, some characters have Korean, Chinese or Japanese names while there yet others with names like Serena and Rachel. It all seems weird, but with the Tower being a multicultural focal point, the opposite wouldn't make more sense.
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* AerithAndBob: There are fantasy names like Rak and Anak, a person is name named after his birth date, some characters have Korean, Chinese or Japanese names while there yet others with names like Serena and Rachel. It all seems weird, but with the Tower being a multicultural focal point, the opposite wouldn't make more sense.
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* AerithAndBob: There are fantasy names like Rak and Anak, a person is name after his birth date, some characters have Korean, Chinese or Japanese names while there yet others with names like Serena and Rachel. It all seems weird, but with the Tower being a multicultural focal point, the opposite wouldn't make more sense.
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[[caption-width-right:180: When TheWoobie starts looking at you like that, you know it's time to run.]]
->''"What do you desire? Money? Glory? Power? Revenge? Or something that surpasses all other? Whatever you desire - "''
->''"That is here."''
Twenty-Fifth Baam is in a strange place. He has just lost his only friend. He is staring at a monster.
He is on the lowest floor of the Tower of God.
His best friend, Rachel, sought the door to the Tower in order to escape the dark world they lived in. Baam simply got dragged along for the ride. But inside the Tower, everyone must make their own way to the top, and Baam quickly learns that the Tower's inhabitants have a low opinion of "Irregulars" - those who enter the Tower without invitation. Faced with the prospect of a new test on every floor and many, many, MANY intrigues and colliding stories and wills in this alien, magical realm, his determination to reunite with Rachel is the only thing keeping him going.
Written and illustrated by Slave.In.Utero, Tower of God is a {{Manhwa}}/Webtoon with 87 chapters at the time of this writing. And it is awesome.
Chapter 78 served as The End of the first series (Season 1), Slave.In.Utero went on a break, releasing a postscript for everything so far as Chapter 00, numbering which got restarted for Season 2, and so the would be chapter 81, really is Chapter 01 (Season 2).
It is currently the first officially published story of the Talse Uzer universe, previous privately uploaded stories by S.I.U. have been infokilled by the author.
The webtoon can been seen [[http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=183559&no=33&weekday=mon here]] (the text is in Korean) and on sites like WebtoonLive and Batoto (published in original format) or on various manga reading sites.
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!!''Tower Of God'' provides examples of:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Baam does a no sell on a Shinsoo barrier and thinks he must redo a test. [[spoiler: Then he gets hit with a spell and is told to copy it.]] Nobody thinks it's possible. It is, when you're Baam.
* ActionSurvivor: Ship Leesoo.
* ActionGirl: Most of female cast, especially princesses. Not surpisingly, considering that in the Tower there's no much differences between failing the tests and dying.
* AerithAndBob: There are fantasy names like Rak and Anak, a person is name after his birth date, some characters have Korean, Chinese or Japanese names while there yet others with names like Serena and Rachel. It all seems weird, but with the Tower being a multicultural focal point, the opposite wouldn't more sense.
** There is a character that's a sharp-beaked bipedal mantis-shrimp called Kukaku Rakukakuka.
* AllThereInTheManual: S.I.U.'s blog. Some translations are available [[http://www.batoto.net/forums/topic/832-master-author-blogtranslations-thread/ here]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Expressly. Each of the Rankers has already climbed to the top of the Tower, and each of '''them''' has [[RankInflation a rank based on how they did during their climb.]]
* AmazonBrigade: Zahard's Princesses.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Shinsoo, a [[FunctionalMagic magical substance]] replacing air inside the Tower that can be controlled at will. It's density rises with the number of floors and it can become as thick as water.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Serena on Androssi, Rak on Koon, interfering with Hatsu's attempt to pummel him.
* {{Badass}}: They just become more and more. The climbing of the Tower is basically a tournament, the heck did you expect?
* BadassBoast: Rak delivers and delivers.
* BadassNormal: Subverted. Though it appears initially that Baam is heading towards this way, it's effectively confirmed now that he is not normal. Hatsu for being able to fight off Anak and not being immediately taken out by Quant. And Ship Leesoo, but being Ship Leesoo in a WorldOfBadass, one is ultimately a ButtMonkey and ActionSurvivor.
* BagOfHolding: Koon's seemingly harmless bag. Not only can it clone knives and swords and store it all in the bag, [[spoiler: it can also hold three people inside]], it is a useful shield.
* BareHandedBladeBlock: Inverted, it's a bladed bitchslap block.
* BatmanGambit: Koon pulls one relying on Quant trying to spite him for being played with. It involves [[spoiler: [[KansasCityShuffle making him think that Rachel is the target.]]]]
* BellyOfTheWhale: [[spoiler: Rachel trying to kill Baam.]] And then season 1 ends.
* BetaCouple: Ship Leesoo and Serena Rinnen. Platonically.
* BetterThanItSounds: A young boy stalks his mother/girlfriend/playmate and sets fate in motion. Five years later he blurs gender boundaries.
* BigGuy: Rak Wraithraiser [[spoiler: until he gets magically chibified]], Kurudan and, so far the largest, Akryung and the latest addition: Kang Horyang.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Rachel: After Baam protects her from the Bull, she pushes him "to his death".]]
* BlindingBangs: Baam in the 2nd season.
* BloodKnight: Rak, though he isn't itching for the thrill of the fight, but the thrill of the hunt (of the strong which he can fight).
* BoomHeadshot: Lebin eliminates several people in the preliminaries with clean shots through the head.
* BossInMookClothing: The Bull, even the people of the test admit that he is several levels above what would be normal in his floor.
* BraggingRightsReward: Supposedly, the thing you want most is at the top of the tower, but we've already met several characters who have made it to the top and now do various jobs within the tower. At least one of them doesn't seem all that fulfilled.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Laure. He sleeps during battle and his blanket is like a child to him.
* ButtMonkey: Evan, Rak and Ship Leesoo. And in season 2, the Prince of Zahard.
* CainAndAbel: It's been implied that Androssi may have killed some of her adopted sisters to become a princess candidate, and it certainly doesn't stop after you've become a princess.
* CantCatchUp: Tragically and brutally played out with [[spoiler: Ho, who lost everyone he cared about to a monster he lacked the power to stop. Climbing the tower he comes to realize he lacks the innate talent that Laure and Baam have and will never be able to beat them, so he's tempted by the local KnightTemplar director into killing Rachel to destroy Baam's will to continue and improve his own chances of advancing. When he fails he drops a brutal HannibalLecture on Baam [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids and his naive idealism]] before killing himself.]]
* ChekhovsGun: The pendant Anak gave her mother before she got taken away.
* ChekhovsGunman: Headon, Hwa Ryun.
* ChewToy: Evan and Ship Leesoo.
* CodeName: Yuri's group uses these when they interfere with one of the test. The bubbly red-head is known as Ice Strawberry, Koon Hatchuling is known as Mr Blueberry, Evan is Mr. Yeongji Mushroom and Kurudan is Kurudan.
* CombatStilettos: Androssi should stop wearing them, people keep attacking the heels.
* {{Conflict}}: Two predominant kinds: Man vs. Man, with all the Regulars clashing, and Man vs. Society, with people like Baam and Anak being regarded as dangerous elements to the Tower. Then there is the theme of Man vs. Fate, or as it is described here, Luck, exemplified in Lero-Ro's test and Ho's struggle and attempt [[spoiler: at Baam's life]]. This conflict turns interestingly enough into a conflict of Man vs. Man again.
* CoolSword: Black March and the other weapons of the month series. The Knight's, and for a while, Androssi's Narumada.
* CowardlyLion: Evan is one, given that he's a ranker and sidekick to Yuri and at the sametime, a larger worrywart than Ship Leesoo.
* CrapsackWorld: This never really is spoken out loud, but in the outer part of the Tower, life is a unfair horrible dog eat dog society, even in the royal families. In the center of the Tower, where the exams are held… well, at least the food's good there [[hottip: ±: Except Leroro quite frankly disagrees on that]] . Fact is, everyone has a damn good reason to abandon everything to risk their life for the tiny chance of reaching the top.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ship Leesoo and Parakewl.
* CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer: Headon, [[{{Jerkass}} of course]].
* CurbStompBattle: Koon, Hatsu, Laure, Lebin and Anak to the regulars in the preliminaries, Akryung and Androssi vs 197 regulars, Hwa Ryun vs all the participants of the final round of the crown game bar Androssi and Baam, Androssi using Anak to defeat all other regulars in the fishermen test, Quant vs all the regulars, Androssi vs all the regulars Quant didn't get, Ren vs Androssi and Anak, Yuri vs Ren, Baam oneshots the Bull and five years later dominates the 20th floor with ease.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Rachel has golden eyes and light blond hair.
** Ho's curtains and window are both yellow.
** Black for Hatsu.
** Yeon has pastel red eyes and an alice band with her families insignia with matching colors.
* [[CuteClumsyGirl Hot Clumsy Girl]]: Yeon.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The 10 Great Families are saturated with intrigue.
* DeathGlare: Several characters, including Baam and Anak.
* {{Determinator}}: Baam, but especially Rak. The moment he got bested by Akryung, he disappeared for several chapters, until the position tests were declared. Then it got revealed that Rak, like Akryung, already qualified for the final test. He also thinks that everyone sould do everything to get what they want, basically demanding from Koon that he should kill Zahard to get Maria back.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Koon.
* DifficultySpike: According to Evan, Headon did one for Baam's test, which was set about 20 levels higher than expected.
** The top of the tower has one, as none of the top high rankes has cleared the 135th floor's test (not even The Great Zahard, king of the tower) and there are more floors after that.
** The 2nd and 20th floors are where most regulars drop out.
* DirtyCoward: The only thing Parakewl is a paragon of.
* DownerEnding: The ending of season one.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Ho]]
* DualWielding: Hatsu.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Ho and Yu Han Sung, the second floor's administrator. The fans and translators thought for a long time that they were women. And even though Nya Nia was confirmed a girl, many harboured doubts about that. And then Baam stole Yuri's hairstyle and confused the genderidentifying parts of the readers brain once again.
* DumbMuscle: Rak. He isn't the brightest, but damn can he fixate.
* DynamicEntry: Lady Yuri introduces herself to Baam this way.
* EmpathicWeapon: Again, [[spoiler: Black March, which has a female spirit and has taken a shine to Baam and probably the rest of the 13 Month series]].
* EverythingsBetterWithBunnies: Subverted. [[spoiler: Headon]] is decidedly creepy and is either sadistic or merely enjoys fulfilling his duties in as literal a manner as possible.
* [=~Everything's Better With Princesses~=]
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: Maybe, but we haven't actually seen the outside of the Tower.
* EyesOfGold: Baam, Rachel, Ja, Arkraptor (with silver-grey skin, for added creepiness).
* {{Expy}}: Androssi Zahard. Faye Valentine. Need I say more? In the same manner, Baam might as well be Ganta Igarashi from DeadmanWonderland or Yukiteru Amano from MiraiNikki.
* FantasticRacism: Rak calls everybody except Anak turtles.
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Yuri. Also, Yeon gets the third highest score in the Shinsoo Competition by just strifing the meter with her knuckles.
* FishOutOfWater: Baam.
* FlashbackNightmare: Ho experiences a short nightmare in which a monster murders a bunch of children while he's putting on a Shinsoo trick show. Then there is Rachel's flashback, in one word, WhamEpisode.
* FunctionalMagic: Shinsoo.
* GeniusLoci: The Tower. It is not Headon that chooses the Regulars, he merely sees if they are worthy of proceeding.
* GirlInTheTower: Essentially the catalyst for the entire plot; Headon even spells it out.
-->'''Headon:''' "The answer is always at the top."
** Except that Rachel is very close and an IllGirl. [[spoiler: Except that even though they met up, they must still climb the Tower together, because Rachel will not stop midway]].
-->[[spoiler: Recent chapter no longer has her being an IllGirl. Hinted during Ho's funeral.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Yuri Zahard and Quant. It comes from the Shinsoo flowing through the eyes, giving something like night vision.
* GreenLanternRing: The pocket, a multifunctional artifact that among other things works as a timer and a translator. Oh, and has an invisible mode and is a contract maker, allowing the use of [[FunctionalMagic Shinsoo]].
* GroinAttack:
--> '''Rak: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING?! MY PREY ISN'T WILLING TO CLIMB BECAUSE OF SOME FEMALE?! THE RUTTING SEASON MUST'VE STARTED ALREADY!! BRING HIM HERE NOW!! I'M GONNA YANK OUT HIS BANANA!!'''
** Ship Leesoo tries this against the Bull. It was a she. The effect is as you might have imagined.
* GuileHero / ManipulativeBastard: Koon. [[spoiler: He purposely directed A Team to their defeat just to give Baam and the other people in his friend list in B Team a chance to pass. Because it is still unknown what his true motive is, he can be the former or the latter.]]
* TheHeart: Baam and Rak.
* HeartwarmingOrphan: Baam and Anak.
* HiddenPurposeTest: The Doors.
* HonorBeforeReason: Hatsu, Rak and Quant.
* HostileShowTakeover: [[spoiler: Rachel.]]
* HyperCompetentSidekick: According to WordOfGod Yuri is around the top 500 rankers; however her Guide, Evan Edrok, who is constantly ordered by her is in the top 100.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: When ever Ren fights you get the feeling you walked in on a SM session. HE is one of the creepiest guys out there.
* ItAmusedMe: Lady Yuri's stated reason for helping Baam.
* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: The plot.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Ho.]] Other than that, a lot of regulars die in the first few chapters, approximately 400 in the first test of the second floor.
* KansasCityShuffle: Koon makes Quant think he's been toying with him [[spoiler: to get to Rachel so that Quant protects her.]]
* KnightInShiningArmor: Hong Chunhwa.
* LamarckWasRight: The daughters of princesses who have been empowered by Zahard inherit the enhanced powers he granted them, which is why they're forbidden to have children (or relationships with men, period.)
* LargeHam: "How dare you presumptuous newbies mock and defy me, the magnificent ranker [[HairTriggerTemper Quant]]!"
* LimitedWardrobe: Ship Leesoo and his sweatsuit. Rankers in general.
* LizardFolk: Rak, Lebin and Anak.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* LonersAreFreaks: Baam, trapped in a cave for years, shunned and feared by his people. Irregulars, feared by everybody. Baam is an Irregular. Do the math what happened.
* LongRunner: It's up to 70 chapters as of this moment. They are still on the Second Floor, and there are many, MANY floors to pass.
* LoopholeAbuse: Part of Headon's justification for his test.
* LovelyAngels: Anak and Androssi.
* MagicalLand: The world inside the Tower. The first floor is an interior with a giant monster eel, the second floor is a giant field under a blue sky with a floating island city above.
* MissedTheCall: [[spoiler: Inverted. At first it seemed like Rachel was the one invited to the Tower, but it turns out the one invited was actually Baam.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: For starters, Rak Wraithraiser. In series, the title Irregular instills fear into everybody due to guys like Phantaminum and Urek Mazino. Also, carrying the name of Zahard certifies that you are a really dangerous person. Also, Baam's new title is slayer.
* NervesOfSteel: Baam faces down Headon's monster eel without flinching, simply because it's an obstacle.
* NoSell: Baam has a high Shinsoo resistance, to the point that most Shinsoo attacks are ineffective.
* NumberTwo: Backryun to Urek Mazino in the Walhaiksong.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Headon follows his duties [[RulesLawyer as they are outlined]], [[LoopholeAbuse but forgets some of the inconvenient niceties]]. Furthermore, Evankell's Hell is set up to get rid of all that may threaten the Tower.
* OhCrap: Yu Han-Sung has this pretty early.
-->'''Yu''' (jokingly): Did a Princess of Zahard or an Irregular come in?
-->'''Quant''': Uh… Well… it seems… there are both.
-->'''Yu''': WHAT THE FUCK?
* OrphansOrdeal: The reason for [[spoiler: Anak's]] revenge trip.
* ParentalAbandonment: All over the place. Especially Baam, who never knew his parents.
* PlaceOfPower: The Tower of God. Headon suggests that gaining magical abilities is a natural byproduct of climbing the Tower.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Anak Zahard. The living Regular using this name is actually her daughter.]]
* PowerLevels: As the names suggest, Rankers have a ranking based in theory on how well they did climbing the tower (but, in practice, based on how powerful they are.) Exact numbers are rarely bandied about, though, aside from a listing the [[WordOfGod author]] provided of the top ten and a general distinction between the (top few hundred) 'high rankers' and the rest.
* PraetorianGuard: Zahard's princesses, on a more representative level.
* PrincessClassic: Koon Maria Zahard.
* PsychopathicManchild: Quant is a bit immature. And strong.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Irregular. The strong-willed girl in a wheel chair. The distrustful outlawed royal. The kind-hearted blood-thirsty alligator. The butt-monkey, boastful, goofy strategist. The anti-social girl on a revenge-trip. The mysterious silent giant. The loyal dual-wielding swordsman. The KnightInShiningArmor. His animal-controlling admirer. The power-house that powernaps. Permanently. The cold-blooded princess that came from rags to riches. The sneaky, arrogant coward. The reptilian sniper. And that [[AlekseiAmigochaz Russian-Mexican muscle-devil]]. Weird bunch.
* RazorWind: Any cutting Shinsoo attack is basically this, since Shinsoo is the surrogate for air in the Tower. The only difference: It gets denser the higher you climb the tower. and the denser it gets, the more it becomes like water.
* RapunzelHair: Baam in his flashbacks, Ho, Black March, Yu Han Sung, Yeon, Yuri and Maschenny. And Baam after five years again.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: See CMOA above, both Baam and Rak, the latter especially to Koon.
* RebelliousPrincess: Lady Yuri.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: For a while, you are to think that either Hwa Ryun, Koon, or Androssi is manipulating Ho.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Every Member of the 10 Families (which includes Koon), Zahard's Princesses (Yuri, Androssi [[spoiler: and by heritage, Anak]] probably Zahard himself.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Yuri and Evan.
* [[ShesAManInJapan She's A Man In Korea]]: Ho, Evankhell's floor's director. The translators (and readers) mistook them for being female for some time. [[ViewerGenderConfusion Can't]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady blame]] [[{{Crossdresser}} them]].
* ScopeSnipe: Lebin's sniper rifle gets [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower disassembled by Rak's javelin]] thrown up the barrel.
* SecretIdentity: [[spoiler: Rachel]] takes on the alias of Michelle Light, Anak Zahard [[spoiler: pretends to be her mother]] and Baam himself is known as Jyu Viole Grace in season 2.
* SecretPolice: The RED.
* ShoutOut:
** When Quant still thinks he can win, Androssi asks him if he picked up [[DragonballZ "seven magical balls."]]
** Baam thinks the shrunk Rak is a new Digimon.
** After Rak, Koon and Baam agree to stand together as a true team, the background briefly becomes a [[RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms peach garden]].
** Wangnan uses Shinsoo bombs that look like Pokeballs.
** The second test uses a punching machine to determine Shinsoo strength, much like the one in Dragon Ball Z.
* SlasherSmile: It's probably hidden from the other characters by the shape of his head, but Headon sports one of these numerous times during Baam's test.
* SmugSnake:
** Len[[spoiler:, the wave-controller instructor and member of the Royal Enforcement Division]] is a good schemer, but a foul bastard, clearly enjoying pushing several of Zahard's Princesses into a corner and trying to make them go at each other.
** Parakewl isn't even a good schemer, he's just an arrogant backstabbing whiney jerkass.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Several, though most notable are Zahard/Jahad/'''Zahard''' (they changed it, then changed it back because [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem screw the names, translators decide them]]) and Lahel/Rachel. The latter, coincidentally, was changed by the translators on the [[spoiler: WhamEpisode where Rachel is revealed to be a BitchInSheepsClothing]].
* SupportingProtagonist: Ja Wangnan in season two.
* TagalongKid: Miseng, Sunwoo Nare.
* TeamKiller: Yeon. She isn't malignant, though, she's just a [[WorldWidePunomenon hot girl prone to friendly fire.]]
* TemporalThemeNaming: Twenty-Fifth Baam is named after his birthday. Black March is one of twelve plus 1 legendary weapons named after the English months.
* TheKlutz: Yeon.
* TheSmartGuy: Ship Leesoo
* [[spoiler:TimeSkip: Five years have passed between Season 1 and Season 2, around Chapter 78]].
* TokenEvilTeammate: Hon Arkraptor. Perhaps Akryung.
* TokenMiniMoe: Miseng.
* TokenMinority: Quant. Kinda. If ethnicity wasn't so weird to begin with here. Kurudan is black with white hair (possibly a french or brazilian football player?). Amigochaz… is kinda mexican, with red wings.
* {{Tomboy}}: Lady Yuri, much to Evan's chagrin, Rachel also gives off the vibes of such. And of course Anak.
* TomboyPrincess: Lady Yuri of course.
* ToxicPhlebotinum: Shinsoo can be corrosive to the human body. It also can cause pressure sickness.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Very likely. No sign of the door through which he came in, and the environment of the second floor strongly suggests that the Tower doesn't follow the rules of a normal world.
* TrainingFromHell: Headon is supposed to introduce newcomers to the Tower's ways, though he seems to have [[SadistTeacher forgotten some of his duties]] regarding Baam.
** In fact, it is the Walhaiksongs's goal to get back out.
* TrainingMontage: The chapter preceeding the guardian's exam is basically this.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Anak flashes back to her childhood [[spoiler: and the assassination/execution of her mother who was guilty of having relations with a man and giving birth to Anak despite being a Princess of Zahard. ]]
** Also, the short snippets of Koon's past are rather uncomfortable.
** Same goes for Ho, who regretted his past, Serena who accepted her past and Androssi, who grew stronger and colder through her past.
* TroubledButCute: Baam in the second season.
* TrueCompanions: Despite the harsh circumstances, even the anti-social Anak and the cynical, manipulative Androssi [[spoiler: help, like the rest of the examinees, Baam and Rachel take the Guardian's exam, even though they had no personal gain from it and it supposed to be ungodly hard]].
* {{Tsundere}}: Rak
--> No... I just- It's not that I'm worried about the turtle. I just wanted to check if anything might be wrong with my prey... You could call it... market research?
* TwistEnding: Season 1. [[spoiler: Rachel tries to kill Baam, since she thinks Baam took her place as a regular, this puts Akryung's and Baam's irregular status in question. It seems as if Rachel also held some kind of fear of Baam. Furthermore, Headon is a mastermind that plans to change the tower with the support of Yu Han Sung, Akryung and Hwa Ryun, who turns out to be a Ranker and Baam as a central figure must vanish from the public eye, so his death must be staged. Since Baam was apparently chosen by the Tower, it also means that the tower is trying to change the system of Zahard.]] What. A. Tweeeest.
* [[OneeSama Unni]]: Nare and Miseng hold great respect for Androssi and Goseng respectively.
* UnwantedHarem: First of all, Yuri and Black March are confirmed, along with Androssi who gets a lot of ShipTease. Somehow, those who are GenreSavvy and wear ShippingGoggles made the addition of Hwa Ryun and Yeon into the Harem pretty much {{Fanon}}.
* UpgradeArtifact: The weapons of the 13 Month series.
* VerbalTic: To Rak, anything that is not an alligator is a turtle. Except Anak. She is a pesky lizard.
* VitriolicBestBuddies: Anak and Hatsu get along pretty well, it might have even been love at first fight. But the weirdest relationship she has is the one with her aunt Androssi.
** There is barely a pair that understands eachother like Koon and Rak. They are also the guys that constantly butt heads.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: During Lero-ro's test, a regular ends up vomiting after feeling the shinsoo pressure seen at floor 30 and above.
* WakeUpCallBoss: White Steel Eel. No WarmupBoss provided.
* WebFirst
* WhamEpisode: Several in brutally quick succession:[[spoiler: Rachel can stand! Rachel tries to kill Baam! Rachel was not chosen by the Tower, Baam was! Rachel hates Baam for stealing her dream! Headon is a {{Jerkass}}!]] Well, that last one isn't quite as much of a surprise by now, but still.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Koon
* WideEyedIdealist: Baam. And he's so goddamn cute at it.
* TheWikiRule: http://towerofgod.wikia.com/ . Pretty extensive.
* WingDingEyes: Love's eyes don't have pupils, they have hatchings and scribbles.
* WordOfGod: The author's blog; some translations are available [[http://www.batoto.net/forums/topic/832-master-author-blogtranslations-thread/ here]].
* WorldBuilding: Tower of God is the first part in a series of stories set in the Talse.Uzer universe.
* WorldOfBadass: The Tower, especially it's inner section.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Phantaminum.
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[[caption-width-right:180: When TheWoobie starts looking at you like that, you know it's time to run.]]
->''"What do you desire? Money? Glory? Power? Revenge? Or something that surpasses all other? Whatever you desire - "''
->''"That is here."''
Twenty-Fifth Baam is in a strange place. He has just lost his only friend. He is staring at a monster.
He is on the lowest floor of the Tower of God.
His best friend, Rachel, sought the door to the Tower in order to escape the dark world they lived in. Baam simply got dragged along for the ride. But inside the Tower, everyone must make their own way to the top, and Baam quickly learns that the Tower's inhabitants have a low opinion of "Irregulars" - those who enter the Tower without invitation. Faced with the prospect of a new test on every floor and many, many, MANY intrigues and colliding stories and wills in this alien, magical realm, his determination to reunite with Rachel is the only thing keeping him going.
Written and illustrated by Slave.In.Utero, Tower of God is a {{Manhwa}}/Webtoon with 87 chapters at the time of this writing. And it is awesome.
Chapter 78 served as The End of the first series (Season 1), Slave.In.Utero went on a break, releasing a postscript for everything so far as Chapter 00, numbering which got restarted for Season 2, and so the would be chapter 81, really is Chapter 01 (Season 2).
It is currently the first officially published story of the Talse Uzer universe, previous privately uploaded stories by S.I.U. have been infokilled by the author.
The webtoon can been seen [[http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/list.nhn?titleId=183559&no=33&weekday=mon here]] (the text is in Korean) and on sites like WebtoonLive and Batoto (published in original format) or on various manga reading sites.
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!!''Tower Of God'' provides examples of:
* AchievementsInIgnorance: Baam does a no sell on a Shinsoo barrier and thinks he must redo a test. [[spoiler: Then he gets hit with a spell and is told to copy it.]] Nobody thinks it's possible. It is, when you're Baam.
* ActionSurvivor: Ship Leesoo.
* ActionGirl: Most of female cast, especially princesses. Not surpisingly, considering that in the Tower there's no much differences between failing the tests and dying.
* AerithAndBob: There are fantasy names like Rak and Anak, a person is name after his birth date, some characters have Korean, Chinese or Japanese names while there yet others with names like Serena and Rachel. It all seems weird, but with the Tower being a multicultural focal point, the opposite wouldn't more sense.
** There is a character that's a sharp-beaked bipedal mantis-shrimp called Kukaku Rakukakuka.
* AllThereInTheManual: S.I.U.'s blog. Some translations are available [[http://www.batoto.net/forums/topic/832-master-author-blogtranslations-thread/ here]].
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Expressly. Each of the Rankers has already climbed to the top of the Tower, and each of '''them''' has [[RankInflation a rank based on how they did during their climb.]]
* AmazonBrigade: Zahard's Princesses.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: Shinsoo, a [[FunctionalMagic magical substance]] replacing air inside the Tower that can be controlled at will. It's density rises with the number of floors and it can become as thick as water.
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Serena on Androssi, Rak on Koon, interfering with Hatsu's attempt to pummel him.
* {{Badass}}: They just become more and more. The climbing of the Tower is basically a tournament, the heck did you expect?
* BadassBoast: Rak delivers and delivers.
* BadassNormal: Subverted. Though it appears initially that Baam is heading towards this way, it's effectively confirmed now that he is not normal. Hatsu for being able to fight off Anak and not being immediately taken out by Quant. And Ship Leesoo, but being Ship Leesoo in a WorldOfBadass, one is ultimately a ButtMonkey and ActionSurvivor.
* BagOfHolding: Koon's seemingly harmless bag. Not only can it clone knives and swords and store it all in the bag, [[spoiler: it can also hold three people inside]], it is a useful shield.
* BareHandedBladeBlock: Inverted, it's a bladed bitchslap block.
* BatmanGambit: Koon pulls one relying on Quant trying to spite him for being played with. It involves [[spoiler: [[KansasCityShuffle making him think that Rachel is the target.]]]]
* BellyOfTheWhale: [[spoiler: Rachel trying to kill Baam.]] And then season 1 ends.
* BetaCouple: Ship Leesoo and Serena Rinnen. Platonically.
* BetterThanItSounds: A young boy stalks his mother/girlfriend/playmate and sets fate in motion. Five years later he blurs gender boundaries.
* BigGuy: Rak Wraithraiser [[spoiler: until he gets magically chibified]], Kurudan and, so far the largest, Akryung and the latest addition: Kang Horyang.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Rachel: After Baam protects her from the Bull, she pushes him "to his death".]]
* BlindingBangs: Baam in the 2nd season.
* BloodKnight: Rak, though he isn't itching for the thrill of the fight, but the thrill of the hunt (of the strong which he can fight).
* BoomHeadshot: Lebin eliminates several people in the preliminaries with clean shots through the head.
* BossInMookClothing: The Bull, even the people of the test admit that he is several levels above what would be normal in his floor.
* BraggingRightsReward: Supposedly, the thing you want most is at the top of the tower, but we've already met several characters who have made it to the top and now do various jobs within the tower. At least one of them doesn't seem all that fulfilled.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Laure. He sleeps during battle and his blanket is like a child to him.
* ButtMonkey: Evan, Rak and Ship Leesoo. And in season 2, the Prince of Zahard.
* CainAndAbel: It's been implied that Androssi may have killed some of her adopted sisters to become a princess candidate, and it certainly doesn't stop after you've become a princess.
* CantCatchUp: Tragically and brutally played out with [[spoiler: Ho, who lost everyone he cared about to a monster he lacked the power to stop. Climbing the tower he comes to realize he lacks the innate talent that Laure and Baam have and will never be able to beat them, so he's tempted by the local KnightTemplar director into killing Rachel to destroy Baam's will to continue and improve his own chances of advancing. When he fails he drops a brutal HannibalLecture on Baam [[SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids and his naive idealism]] before killing himself.]]
* ChekhovsGun: The pendant Anak gave her mother before she got taken away.
* ChekhovsGunman: Headon, Hwa Ryun.
* ChewToy: Evan and Ship Leesoo.
* CodeName: Yuri's group uses these when they interfere with one of the test. The bubbly red-head is known as Ice Strawberry, Koon Hatchuling is known as Mr Blueberry, Evan is Mr. Yeongji Mushroom and Kurudan is Kurudan.
* CombatStilettos: Androssi should stop wearing them, people keep attacking the heels.
* {{Conflict}}: Two predominant kinds: Man vs. Man, with all the Regulars clashing, and Man vs. Society, with people like Baam and Anak being regarded as dangerous elements to the Tower. Then there is the theme of Man vs. Fate, or as it is described here, Luck, exemplified in Lero-Ro's test and Ho's struggle and attempt [[spoiler: at Baam's life]]. This conflict turns interestingly enough into a conflict of Man vs. Man again.
* CoolSword: Black March and the other weapons of the month series. The Knight's, and for a while, Androssi's Narumada.
* CowardlyLion: Evan is one, given that he's a ranker and sidekick to Yuri and at the sametime, a larger worrywart than Ship Leesoo.
* CrapsackWorld: This never really is spoken out loud, but in the outer part of the Tower, life is a unfair horrible dog eat dog society, even in the royal families. In the center of the Tower, where the exams are held… well, at least the food's good there [[hottip: ±: Except Leroro quite frankly disagrees on that]] . Fact is, everyone has a damn good reason to abandon everything to risk their life for the tiny chance of reaching the top.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Ship Leesoo and Parakewl.
* CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer: Headon, [[{{Jerkass}} of course]].
* CurbStompBattle: Koon, Hatsu, Laure, Lebin and Anak to the regulars in the preliminaries, Akryung and Androssi vs 197 regulars, Hwa Ryun vs all the participants of the final round of the crown game bar Androssi and Baam, Androssi using Anak to defeat all other regulars in the fishermen test, Quant vs all the regulars, Androssi vs all the regulars Quant didn't get, Ren vs Androssi and Anak, Yuri vs Ren, Baam oneshots the Bull and five years later dominates the 20th floor with ease.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: Rachel has golden eyes and light blond hair.
** Ho's curtains and window are both yellow.
** Black for Hatsu.
** Yeon has pastel red eyes and an alice band with her families insignia with matching colors.
* [[CuteClumsyGirl Hot Clumsy Girl]]: Yeon.
* DeadlyDecadentCourt: The 10 Great Families are saturated with intrigue.
* DeathGlare: Several characters, including Baam and Anak.
* {{Determinator}}: Baam, but especially Rak. The moment he got bested by Akryung, he disappeared for several chapters, until the position tests were declared. Then it got revealed that Rak, like Akryung, already qualified for the final test. He also thinks that everyone sould do everything to get what they want, basically demanding from Koon that he should kill Zahard to get Maria back.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: Koon.
* DifficultySpike: According to Evan, Headon did one for Baam's test, which was set about 20 levels higher than expected.
** The top of the tower has one, as none of the top high rankes has cleared the 135th floor's test (not even The Great Zahard, king of the tower) and there are more floors after that.
** The 2nd and 20th floors are where most regulars drop out.
* DirtyCoward: The only thing Parakewl is a paragon of.
* DownerEnding: The ending of season one.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Ho]]
* DualWielding: Hatsu.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: Ho and Yu Han Sung, the second floor's administrator. The fans and translators thought for a long time that they were women. And even though Nya Nia was confirmed a girl, many harboured doubts about that. And then Baam stole Yuri's hairstyle and confused the genderidentifying parts of the readers brain once again.
* DumbMuscle: Rak. He isn't the brightest, but damn can he fixate.
* DynamicEntry: Lady Yuri introduces herself to Baam this way.
* EmpathicWeapon: Again, [[spoiler: Black March, which has a female spirit and has taken a shine to Baam and probably the rest of the 13 Month series]].
* EverythingsBetterWithBunnies: Subverted. [[spoiler: Headon]] is decidedly creepy and is either sadistic or merely enjoys fulfilling his duties in as literal a manner as possible.
* [=~Everything's Better With Princesses~=]
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: Maybe, but we haven't actually seen the outside of the Tower.
* EyesOfGold: Baam, Rachel, Ja, Arkraptor (with silver-grey skin, for added creepiness).
* {{Expy}}: Androssi Zahard. Faye Valentine. Need I say more? In the same manner, Baam might as well be Ganta Igarashi from DeadmanWonderland or Yukiteru Amano from MiraiNikki.
* FantasticRacism: Rak calls everybody except Anak turtles.
* FingerPokeOfDoom: Yuri. Also, Yeon gets the third highest score in the Shinsoo Competition by just strifing the meter with her knuckles.
* FishOutOfWater: Baam.
* FlashbackNightmare: Ho experiences a short nightmare in which a monster murders a bunch of children while he's putting on a Shinsoo trick show. Then there is Rachel's flashback, in one word, WhamEpisode.
* FunctionalMagic: Shinsoo.
* GeniusLoci: The Tower. It is not Headon that chooses the Regulars, he merely sees if they are worthy of proceeding.
* GirlInTheTower: Essentially the catalyst for the entire plot; Headon even spells it out.
-->'''Headon:''' "The answer is always at the top."
** Except that Rachel is very close and an IllGirl. [[spoiler: Except that even though they met up, they must still climb the Tower together, because Rachel will not stop midway]].
-->[[spoiler: Recent chapter no longer has her being an IllGirl. Hinted during Ho's funeral.]]
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Yuri Zahard and Quant. It comes from the Shinsoo flowing through the eyes, giving something like night vision.
* GreenLanternRing: The pocket, a multifunctional artifact that among other things works as a timer and a translator. Oh, and has an invisible mode and is a contract maker, allowing the use of [[FunctionalMagic Shinsoo]].
* GroinAttack:
--> '''Rak: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SAYING?! MY PREY ISN'T WILLING TO CLIMB BECAUSE OF SOME FEMALE?! THE RUTTING SEASON MUST'VE STARTED ALREADY!! BRING HIM HERE NOW!! I'M GONNA YANK OUT HIS BANANA!!'''
** Ship Leesoo tries this against the Bull. It was a she. The effect is as you might have imagined.
* GuileHero / ManipulativeBastard: Koon. [[spoiler: He purposely directed A Team to their defeat just to give Baam and the other people in his friend list in B Team a chance to pass. Because it is still unknown what his true motive is, he can be the former or the latter.]]
* TheHeart: Baam and Rak.
* HeartwarmingOrphan: Baam and Anak.
* HiddenPurposeTest: The Doors.
* HonorBeforeReason: Hatsu, Rak and Quant.
* HostileShowTakeover: [[spoiler: Rachel.]]
* HyperCompetentSidekick: According to WordOfGod Yuri is around the top 500 rankers; however her Guide, Evan Edrok, who is constantly ordered by her is in the top 100.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: When ever Ren fights you get the feeling you walked in on a SM session. HE is one of the creepiest guys out there.
* ItAmusedMe: Lady Yuri's stated reason for helping Baam.
* ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: The plot.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Ho.]] Other than that, a lot of regulars die in the first few chapters, approximately 400 in the first test of the second floor.
* KansasCityShuffle: Koon makes Quant think he's been toying with him [[spoiler: to get to Rachel so that Quant protects her.]]
* KnightInShiningArmor: Hong Chunhwa.
* LamarckWasRight: The daughters of princesses who have been empowered by Zahard inherit the enhanced powers he granted them, which is why they're forbidden to have children (or relationships with men, period.)
* LargeHam: "How dare you presumptuous newbies mock and defy me, the magnificent ranker [[HairTriggerTemper Quant]]!"
* LimitedWardrobe: Ship Leesoo and his sweatsuit. Rankers in general.
* LizardFolk: Rak, Lebin and Anak.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters
* LonersAreFreaks: Baam, trapped in a cave for years, shunned and feared by his people. Irregulars, feared by everybody. Baam is an Irregular. Do the math what happened.
* LongRunner: It's up to 70 chapters as of this moment. They are still on the Second Floor, and there are many, MANY floors to pass.
* LoopholeAbuse: Part of Headon's justification for his test.
* LovelyAngels: Anak and Androssi.
* MagicalLand: The world inside the Tower. The first floor is an interior with a giant monster eel, the second floor is a giant field under a blue sky with a floating island city above.
* MissedTheCall: [[spoiler: Inverted. At first it seemed like Rachel was the one invited to the Tower, but it turns out the one invited was actually Baam.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: For starters, Rak Wraithraiser. In series, the title Irregular instills fear into everybody due to guys like Phantaminum and Urek Mazino. Also, carrying the name of Zahard certifies that you are a really dangerous person. Also, Baam's new title is slayer.
* NervesOfSteel: Baam faces down Headon's monster eel without flinching, simply because it's an obstacle.
* NoSell: Baam has a high Shinsoo resistance, to the point that most Shinsoo attacks are ineffective.
* NumberTwo: Backryun to Urek Mazino in the Walhaiksong.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Headon follows his duties [[RulesLawyer as they are outlined]], [[LoopholeAbuse but forgets some of the inconvenient niceties]]. Furthermore, Evankell's Hell is set up to get rid of all that may threaten the Tower.
* OhCrap: Yu Han-Sung has this pretty early.
-->'''Yu''' (jokingly): Did a Princess of Zahard or an Irregular come in?
-->'''Quant''': Uh… Well… it seems… there are both.
-->'''Yu''': WHAT THE FUCK?
* OrphansOrdeal: The reason for [[spoiler: Anak's]] revenge trip.
* ParentalAbandonment: All over the place. Especially Baam, who never knew his parents.
* PlaceOfPower: The Tower of God. Headon suggests that gaining magical abilities is a natural byproduct of climbing the Tower.
* PosthumousCharacter: [[spoiler: Anak Zahard. The living Regular using this name is actually her daughter.]]
* PowerLevels: As the names suggest, Rankers have a ranking based in theory on how well they did climbing the tower (but, in practice, based on how powerful they are.) Exact numbers are rarely bandied about, though, aside from a listing the [[WordOfGod author]] provided of the top ten and a general distinction between the (top few hundred) 'high rankers' and the rest.
* PraetorianGuard: Zahard's princesses, on a more representative level.
* PrincessClassic: Koon Maria Zahard.
* PsychopathicManchild: Quant is a bit immature. And strong.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Irregular. The strong-willed girl in a wheel chair. The distrustful outlawed royal. The kind-hearted blood-thirsty alligator. The butt-monkey, boastful, goofy strategist. The anti-social girl on a revenge-trip. The mysterious silent giant. The loyal dual-wielding swordsman. The KnightInShiningArmor. His animal-controlling admirer. The power-house that powernaps. Permanently. The cold-blooded princess that came from rags to riches. The sneaky, arrogant coward. The reptilian sniper. And that [[AlekseiAmigochaz Russian-Mexican muscle-devil]]. Weird bunch.
* RazorWind: Any cutting Shinsoo attack is basically this, since Shinsoo is the surrogate for air in the Tower. The only difference: It gets denser the higher you climb the tower. and the denser it gets, the more it becomes like water.
* RapunzelHair: Baam in his flashbacks, Ho, Black March, Yu Han Sung, Yeon, Yuri and Maschenny. And Baam after five years again.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: See CMOA above, both Baam and Rak, the latter especially to Koon.
* RebelliousPrincess: Lady Yuri.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: For a while, you are to think that either Hwa Ryun, Koon, or Androssi is manipulating Ho.]]
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Every Member of the 10 Families (which includes Koon), Zahard's Princesses (Yuri, Androssi [[spoiler: and by heritage, Anak]] probably Zahard himself.
* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Yuri and Evan.
* [[ShesAManInJapan She's A Man In Korea]]: Ho, Evankhell's floor's director. The translators (and readers) mistook them for being female for some time. [[ViewerGenderConfusion Can't]] [[DudeLooksLikeALady blame]] [[{{Crossdresser}} them]].
* ScopeSnipe: Lebin's sniper rifle gets [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower disassembled by Rak's javelin]] thrown up the barrel.
* SecretIdentity: [[spoiler: Rachel]] takes on the alias of Michelle Light, Anak Zahard [[spoiler: pretends to be her mother]] and Baam himself is known as Jyu Viole Grace in season 2.
* SecretPolice: The RED.
* ShoutOut:
** When Quant still thinks he can win, Androssi asks him if he picked up [[DragonballZ "seven magical balls."]]
** Baam thinks the shrunk Rak is a new Digimon.
** After Rak, Koon and Baam agree to stand together as a true team, the background briefly becomes a [[RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms peach garden]].
** Wangnan uses Shinsoo bombs that look like Pokeballs.
** The second test uses a punching machine to determine Shinsoo strength, much like the one in Dragon Ball Z.
* SlasherSmile: It's probably hidden from the other characters by the shape of his head, but Headon sports one of these numerous times during Baam's test.
* SmugSnake:
** Len[[spoiler:, the wave-controller instructor and member of the Royal Enforcement Division]] is a good schemer, but a foul bastard, clearly enjoying pushing several of Zahard's Princesses into a corner and trying to make them go at each other.
** Parakewl isn't even a good schemer, he's just an arrogant backstabbing whiney jerkass.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Several, though most notable are Zahard/Jahad/'''Zahard''' (they changed it, then changed it back because [[ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem screw the names, translators decide them]]) and Lahel/Rachel. The latter, coincidentally, was changed by the translators on the [[spoiler: WhamEpisode where Rachel is revealed to be a BitchInSheepsClothing]].
* SupportingProtagonist: Ja Wangnan in season two.
* TagalongKid: Miseng, Sunwoo Nare.
* TeamKiller: Yeon. She isn't malignant, though, she's just a [[WorldWidePunomenon hot girl prone to friendly fire.]]
* TemporalThemeNaming: Twenty-Fifth Baam is named after his birthday. Black March is one of twelve plus 1 legendary weapons named after the English months.
* TheKlutz: Yeon.
* TheSmartGuy: Ship Leesoo
* [[spoiler:TimeSkip: Five years have passed between Season 1 and Season 2, around Chapter 78]].
* TokenEvilTeammate: Hon Arkraptor. Perhaps Akryung.
* TokenMiniMoe: Miseng.
* TokenMinority: Quant. Kinda. If ethnicity wasn't so weird to begin with here. Kurudan is black with white hair (possibly a french or brazilian football player?). Amigochaz… is kinda mexican, with red wings.
* {{Tomboy}}: Lady Yuri, much to Evan's chagrin, Rachel also gives off the vibes of such. And of course Anak.
* TomboyPrincess: Lady Yuri of course.
* ToxicPhlebotinum: Shinsoo can be corrosive to the human body. It also can cause pressure sickness.
* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Very likely. No sign of the door through which he came in, and the environment of the second floor strongly suggests that the Tower doesn't follow the rules of a normal world.
* TrainingFromHell: Headon is supposed to introduce newcomers to the Tower's ways, though he seems to have [[SadistTeacher forgotten some of his duties]] regarding Baam.
** In fact, it is the Walhaiksongs's goal to get back out.
* TrainingMontage: The chapter preceeding the guardian's exam is basically this.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: Anak flashes back to her childhood [[spoiler: and the assassination/execution of her mother who was guilty of having relations with a man and giving birth to Anak despite being a Princess of Zahard. ]]
** Also, the short snippets of Koon's past are rather uncomfortable.
** Same goes for Ho, who regretted his past, Serena who accepted her past and Androssi, who grew stronger and colder through her past.
* TroubledButCute: Baam in the second season.
* TrueCompanions: Despite the harsh circumstances, even the anti-social Anak and the cynical, manipulative Androssi [[spoiler: help, like the rest of the examinees, Baam and Rachel take the Guardian's exam, even though they had no personal gain from it and it supposed to be ungodly hard]].
* {{Tsundere}}: Rak
--> No... I just- It's not that I'm worried about the turtle. I just wanted to check if anything might be wrong with my prey... You could call it... market research?
* TwistEnding: Season 1. [[spoiler: Rachel tries to kill Baam, since she thinks Baam took her place as a regular, this puts Akryung's and Baam's irregular status in question. It seems as if Rachel also held some kind of fear of Baam. Furthermore, Headon is a mastermind that plans to change the tower with the support of Yu Han Sung, Akryung and Hwa Ryun, who turns out to be a Ranker and Baam as a central figure must vanish from the public eye, so his death must be staged. Since Baam was apparently chosen by the Tower, it also means that the tower is trying to change the system of Zahard.]] What. A. Tweeeest.
* [[OneeSama Unni]]: Nare and Miseng hold great respect for Androssi and Goseng respectively.
* UnwantedHarem: First of all, Yuri and Black March are confirmed, along with Androssi who gets a lot of ShipTease. Somehow, those who are GenreSavvy and wear ShippingGoggles made the addition of Hwa Ryun and Yeon into the Harem pretty much {{Fanon}}.
* UpgradeArtifact: The weapons of the 13 Month series.
* VerbalTic: To Rak, anything that is not an alligator is a turtle. Except Anak. She is a pesky lizard.
* VitriolicBestBuddies: Anak and Hatsu get along pretty well, it might have even been love at first fight. But the weirdest relationship she has is the one with her aunt Androssi.
** There is barely a pair that understands eachother like Koon and Rak. They are also the guys that constantly butt heads.
* VomitIndiscretionShot: During Lero-ro's test, a regular ends up vomiting after feeling the shinsoo pressure seen at floor 30 and above.
* WakeUpCallBoss: White Steel Eel. No WarmupBoss provided.
* WebFirst
* WhamEpisode: Several in brutally quick succession:[[spoiler: Rachel can stand! Rachel tries to kill Baam! Rachel was not chosen by the Tower, Baam was! Rachel hates Baam for stealing her dream! Headon is a {{Jerkass}}!]] Well, that last one isn't quite as much of a surprise by now, but still.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Koon
* WideEyedIdealist: Baam. And he's so goddamn cute at it.
* TheWikiRule: http://towerofgod.wikia.com/ . Pretty extensive.
* WingDingEyes: Love's eyes don't have pupils, they have hatchings and scribbles.
* WordOfGod: The author's blog; some translations are available [[http://www.batoto.net/forums/topic/832-master-author-blogtranslations-thread/ here]].
* WorldBuilding: Tower of God is the first part in a series of stories set in the Talse.Uzer universe.
* WorldOfBadass: The Tower, especially it's inner section.
* WorldsStrongestMan: Phantaminum.
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