History YMMV / AllOfUsAreDead

** * Min Eun-ji's character could give anyone a run for money about whose story is most tragic, especially when her situation is so [[RealitySubtext grounded in reality]], not only for South Korean girls who suffered similar abuse, but probably for girls from countries that have a similar approach to bullying as South Korea. She is not the typical AlphaBitch who hangs out with the bullies, but a girl who stays with them by force, because it can get worse if she ever leaves them. She has been tragic from the moment she was introduced, she is sexually harassed, filmed and threaten to have the video uploaded on the Internet, for everyone to see. And she can't even count on her classmates or teachers, because they tormented her too, and it's implied this went like that for several years. It's so bad that she becomes the only character DrivenToSuicide for reasons not related to the zombie crisis. Is hard to blame her for feeling relieved seeing everyone turning into zombies, than happily setting the school on fire.

* IronWoobie: Despite being presented as cold and almost without feelings, Maria is particularly tragic. She had an overbearing, verbally and emotionally abusive mother who never saw Nam-ra as good enough. As result, this pushed her to exceed in everything she did, earning the ire of her classmates, who saw her as snobbish and unapproachable. The stress of her situation led to her closing herself out from others and turning to smoking to cope. And although she may project an image of stoicism, this is far from her true self. This facade cracks when she sees the death of Gyeong-su, whom she visibly cries for despite knowing how she was hated by her peers. And all this without mentioning all that she has to suffer after becoming a Hybrid.

* TheWoobie: Poor Cheong-san just can't get a break. When the Apocalypse begins, not only is he forced to see his best friend die in a horrifying and brutal way, but he must also be the one who makes sure to try to end his suffering by throwing him from the heights, bearing the blame for the death. When he is finally able to let go of some of the guilt, he sees his dead mother in the front row being brutally beaten by his own friends. And all that without mentioning that he is also constantly forced to escape from a crazy assassin who tries to kill him for pure sadistic pleasure.

* {{Wobie}}: Poor Cheong-san just can't get a break. When the Apocalypse begins, not only is he forced to see his best friend die in a horrifying and brutal way, but he must also be the one who makes sure to try to end his suffering by throwing him from the heights, bearing the blame for the death. When he is finally able to let go of some of the guilt, he sees his dead mother in the front row being brutally beaten by his own friends. And all that without mentioning that he is also constantly forced to escape from a crazy assassin who tries to kill him for pure sadistic pleasure.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Why does Cheong-san pull Gwi-nam from the flames? To use him as a human shield or save him and end the cycle of bullying?
** Why did Gwi-nam cry before the final fight? His ego was wounded by Cheong-san's words? A brief moment of remorse?

** Nam So-ju's sidekick, Kim U-sin has gained his own fanbase despite being a fairly minor character thanks to his UndyingLoyalty to So-ju and being one of the few Pretty Boys in the series.

** Despite dying in episode 3, Han Gyeong-su quickly won the hearts and sympathy of fans due to his bravery, nice personality, loyalty to his friends, and heartbreaking death which, according to all fans, is more than undeserved.
** Park Sun Hwa has also gained popularity despite her short time due to being a reasonable authority figure and being one of the few adults who genuinely wants to help and protect the students during the Apocalypse.

* {{Narm}}: Byeong-chan holding the bible up before beating his son with it can come off as this due to the melodramatic framing and how on the nose it is.

* TheScrappy: Despite being one of the main characters, Seo Hyo-Ryung is one of the characters that annoys or irritates viewers the most because she is a FlatCharacter with no purpose in the series. Not only is she one of the students who least helps or acts in fights, but she is constantly a DamselInDistress who has to be saved or serving as TheLoad when the rest of the survivors try to flee from zombies. Whenever there are times when her friends were in danger or in times of distress, instead of helping she stays quiet or gets scared and lets others take over. The fact that she survives to the end of the series unlike other much more interesting students like Gyeong-su, Wu-jin, and Joon-yeong doesn't help either.

** But the deaths that are more satisfying than terrifying? That of each of The Bullies. After the hell they put both Lee Jin-su and Eun-jim through, they each end up receiving brutal deaths for their actions. From the beginning Hyeon-ju is the first victim of the Jonas virus, then Chang-Hoon receives a brutal bite in the face and finally Myeong-Hwan, the leader of the bullies, is betrayed by Gwi-nam and mauled by a large hoard of zombies.

** Lee Na-Yeon even has a degree of this. While she does subvert the stereotypical token AssholeVictim common to the zombie genre, the fact that she didn't get the chance to have some redemption for what she did was seen as lost potential by some, and a waste of Lee Yoo-mi's incredible acting ability. She presented an opportunity to inject an unique tension and drama into the series centered on trusting a known murderer, and could have been a {{Foil}} to Nam-Ra as one of the two most untrusted members of the group.

* RomanticPlotTumor: One of the most hated elements of the series is that the approach of the romantic drama that arises from the love square between the four protagonists of the series and has made many feel that it is something that tends to considerably overshadow the theme of the ZombieApocalypse. On-Jo's initial characterization (aside from her BelligerentSexualTension with Cheong-san) is her unrequited crush on Su-hyeok and trying anything to impress him even during the zombie outbreak, focusing on Su-hyeok and Nam-ra's closeness at the moments more inappropriate. On the boys' side, one of the things that most characterizes Su-hyeok is his growing romance with Nam-ra and at the cost of this he ends up having minimal interactions with his other classmates after the two become an OfficialCouple. Tellingly, virtually all the couples are separated for the most part during the Season 1 finale possibly in response to this.

On the adult side, General Jin Seon-mu and Professor Byeong-Chan, despite being responsible for most of the deaths in the series, are considered [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]]. While the congressmen have not killed a single person but they are absolutely despised due to their selfishness in wanting to use the zombie apocalypse to improve their political position.

* TheScrappy: Seo Hyo-Ryung is one of the characters that annoys or irritates viewers the most because she is a FlatCharacter with no purpose in the series. Not only is she one of the students who least helps or acts in fights, but she is constantly a DamselInDistress who has to be saved or serving as TheLoad when the rest of the survivors try to flee from zombies. Whenever there are times when her friends were in danger or in times of distress, instead of helping she stays quiet or gets scared and lets others take over. The fact that she survives to the end of the series unlike other much more interesting students like Gyeong-su, Wu-jin, and Joon-yeong doesn't help either.

* TheScrappy: Despite being one of the main characters, Seo Hyo-Ryung is one of the characters that annoys or irritates viewers the most. Not only is she one of the students who least helps or acts in fights, but she is constantly a DamselInDistress who has to be saved or serving as TheLoad when her friends try to flee from zombies. At the beginning of the series when there were times when her teammates were in danger or sad, instead of constantly helping she stays quiet or gets scared and lets others take over. The fact that she survives to the end of the series unlike other much more interesting students like Gyeong-su, Wu-jin, and Joon-yeong doesn't help either.

* JerkassWoobie: Min-Ji has many moments of angry abrasiveness, doesn't do much to help the others, and runs away rather than help her best friend at one point. However, it's very difficult not to pity her as she sees her parents dead and zombified after they came to the school to try to save her, talk about how a school transfer opportunity she passed over could have saved her family, gets left behind by the helicopters when she's a few feet from rescue, almost got her and her family out of the city where the zombies are, and then gets surrounded by zombies in the dark [[IWantMyMommy while crying for her mother]]. All of this, and the contrast to the happy person she was before the ZombieApocalypse, makes her a very sad character.

* SpecialEffectFailure: Park Hee-Su's baby is visibly a CGI or a puppet with CGI.
* SpiritualAdaptation: The show is basically ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'' as a live-action series, sans the excessive {{fanservice}} of the anime. Both shows have at the core {{Second Year Protagonist}}s escaping a high school full of zombies, the handsome guy who has ShipTease with an upbeat tomboy and an AloofDarkHairedGirl, the fat friend being the PluckyComicRelief, a RichBitch with pink motifs, and green uniforms.

** After Lee Na-Yeon intentionally infected Han Gyeong-su just so she won't say sorry to the group for being wrong, seeing Nam-Ra slap Na-Yeon in the face and then Cheong-San pushing her away and calling her a murderer while the rest of her companions look at her with hatred is vastly gratifying because it was what she deserved at that moment. Though it later becomes CryfortheDevil.

** While it is later revealed that he survives at the end, seeing Gwi-nam being surrounded by zombies and eaten alive in the library as he screams in pain and begs Cheong-San for his life is incredibly satisfying after remembering the bullying he caused Eun-ji and that he had previously tried to kill Cheong-San in that same library.

* TheScrappy: Despite being one of the main characters, Seo Hyo-Ryung is one of the characters that annoys or irritates viewers the most. Not only is she one of the students who least helps or acts in fights, but she is constantly a DamselInDistress who has to be saved or serving as TheLoad when her friends try to flee from zombies. At the beginning of the series when there were times when her teammates were in danger or sad, instead of constantly helping she stays quiet or gets scared and lets others take over. The fact that she survives to the end of the series unlike other much more interesting students like Gyeong-su, Ji-Min, and even Na-Yeon doesn't help either.

* HesJustHiding: What some fans believed happened to Cheong-San And Gwi-nam.

* SpiritualAdaptation: The show is basically ''Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead'' the live action, sans the excessive FanService of the anime. Both shows have at the core {{Second Year Protagonist}}s escaping a highschool full of zombies, the handsome guy who has ShipTease with an upbeat tomboy and an AloofDarkHairedGirl, the fat friend being the PluckyComicRelief, a RichBitch with pink motifs and green uniforms.

** Also with ''Manga/SchoolLive'' (or more accurately, the first arc of that series to be exact), due to having the same premise, albeit a bit more light-hearted and less actionized.