Mega Ryung promotional artwork.
Mega Ryung is a YouTube
original Live Action/CG Series created by Kormany Media. It currently has five episodes with the first episode released on January 25th, 2019.
The general premise of Mega Ryung focuses around a giant alien woman who invades a terribly polluted planet to foil the plans of an evil CEO named Pol Lution, who is attempting to poison the planet's population so he can force them into becoming cyborg slaves. However her way back home is destroyed, and so she must find help from the planet's inhabitants to help her stop Pol Lution's plans and get her safely home.
Mega Ryung provides examples of:
- Action Girl: Ryung spends most of her time causing destruction and fighting drones and mechs wherever she goes.
- Alien Invasion: Though Ryung has good intentions, she nevertheless came from another world to attack and destroy.
- Amazing Technicolour Population: The reploids that inhabit the cities come in all different shades.
- Androids Are People, Too: The reploids in this setting have equal rights to human citizens.
- Anti-Hero: Ryung is incredibly destructive in her efforts to Stop Pol Lution, happily causing wanton chaos and destruction wherever she goes. That being said, her goal is still to save people and her protective forcefield keeps onlookers out of harm's way.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: A big lady, in this case.
- Badass Adorable: Ryung is strong and relentless in her rampaging, but remains cute while doing it.
- Badass Boast: Ryung Has a tendency to utter a lot of these.
- Beard of Evil: The Captain of the Dungdunghan Ori works directly under Pol Lution and is fitted with a particularly bushy beard.
- Corporate Conspiracy: Pol Lution's secret plan to turn the world's population into cyborgs.
- Cowardly Mooks: Pol's men struggle to stand up to the Godzilla-sized woman, as do anyone else who oppose her.
- Crapsack World: Ophartum is a world covered in dense poisonous fog and is densely overpopulated, making it a rather terrible place to live.
- Cyborg: Pol's entire plan focuses around making millions, if not billions of these.
- Dark Is Evil: All the villains in the story have dark colour palettes, while the good characters all wear white.
- Destructive Savior: Though Ryung's intention is to stop Pol Lution, it doesn't stop her from destroying anything and everything in her path for the heck of it.
- Dynamic Entry: Ryung appears for the first time by performing a combat roll right through a portal, bulldozing a block or two in the process.
- Dystopia: Ophartum is a world controlled by corporations, with Pol Lution at the very top. The world has become a poisonous hell because of it.
- Energy Weapon: After an upgrade to her gear, Ryung gets an energy weapon on her wrist which turns whatever it touches into lush greenery.
- Evil, Inc.: Pretty much Pol Lution's company in a nutshell.
- Evil Plan: Pol Lution plans to turn the world's population into cyborgs.
- Evil Smells Bad: Pol Lution has left the entire world coated in a noxious fog that makes anyone not wearing a mask cough and retch.
- Evil Wears Black: See Dark Is Evil.
- Face–Heel Turn: Ryung herself takes the stage as the story's villain once she grows even bigger and gets bigger ideas to go along with it.
- Faceless Goons: Any soldier or agent without speaking lines is naturally helmeted.
- Fantastic Racism: Ryung has a particular distaste for robots.
- Gentle Giant: Greatly downplayed thanks to Ryung's destructiveness and love for scaring people, but inside she cares greatly for people and makes active efforts to make sure no one is ever hurt by her.
- Giant Woman: This goes without saying.
- Green Thumb: Has an energy beam that causes lush plant life to grow wherever it touches.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Justified as Ryung is seen as a rampaging monster by most. She doesn't help her case with her love for taunting people.
- Human Aliens: Despite being an alien, Ryung looks exactly like a human bar the vast size difference.
- Industrialized Evil: Pol Lution and his love for smog and factories.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Ryung loves to destroy and scare anyone caught underfoot, but would never hurt a soul and at the end of the day is there to save them more than anything.
- Just a Machine: Ryung's perspective on the drones and reploids that inhabit the planet. It doesn't help that they're not protected by her protective forcefield.
- Light Is Good: All the prominent heroes have a light colour palette.
- Mobstacle Course: Subverted as, rather than trying to avoid civilians, Ryung simply steps on top of them. They survive thanks to her forcefield, thankfully.
- Must Have Caffeine: The Dungdunghan Ori's captain is shown to constantly be taking sips out of his coffee mug.
- Never Hurt an Innocent: Despite her destructive tendencies, Ryung has taken steps to ensure no one is ever hurt in her rampages.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Ryung goes on a rampage to destroy the planet's civilization under the belief that they'll rebuild a better world, having no idea of the Techno Owl's plans to take over once she's done.
- Non-Lethal Warfare: Ryung destroys countless buildings and stomps on countless more people, but her protective forcefield ensures no one is left no worse than shaken up once she's done with them.
- Our Giants Are Bigger: A less common Sci-Fi example - Ryung is a gigantic alien from another planet.
- Protagonist Title: The name of the series shares its name with its main character.
- Saving the World: Ryung's intention. However misguided it may be.
- Sizeshifter: Though Ryung is naturally a giant, she can shrink down to human size or increase her height tenfold.
- Stock Evil Overlord Tactics: Pol Lution sticks close to these.
- Brute Force against Ryung, with his armies of Mooks at his disposal.
- Guile for the rest of the world with the untold amount of riches he's gathered from his company.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Ryung doesn't believe reploids to be 'real' people, and as such are not affected by her protective range.
