History Webcomic / TheGamer

* BlindIdiotTranslation: The [[=WebToon=]] Translation is downright painful to read at times. There are several basic spelling errors such as "strenth" instead of "strength", character names are nearly incomprehensible, the level of translation can vary from 'overly literal' to 'fast and loose', and terminology can change from chapter to chapter, which can cause massive confusion; the Existence Eater's title fluctuates between "Temporary Magician" and "Irregular Wizard" (and variations of the two). And this is listed as the ''official translation!''

''The Gamer'' is a Naver LitRPG webcomic first released in September 2013. English translations can be read [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/the-gamer/list?title_no=88&page=1 officially on Naver]]

A Naver LitRPG webcomic. English translations can be read [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/the-gamer/list?title_no=88&page=1 officially on Naver]]

A Naver LitRPG webcomic. English translations can be read [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/the-gamer/list?title_no=88&page=1 officialy on Naver]]

* ChickMagnet: Deconstructed realistically. A lot of different women express interest in the main character in fairly inappropriate ways after very little contact with him. Rather than reacting like a harem protagonist would, he mostly finds it weird and creepy, to the point of pointing out that Lolikiano's treatment of him probably qualifies as sexual harassment.

* ChildhoodFriends: Jihan and Sun-Il knew each other since kindergarten, which contributed to how close they are and why whenever one does something dangerous, the other is quick to get worried and [[AngerBornOfWorry angry]]. By extension, since Sae-Young is Sun-Il's cousin and they live together, she and Jihan also count.

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Jihan encounters two full parties of "players" in the Great Labyrinth dungeon who have gotten so accustomed to the "rules of the game" that they actively enjoy being dragged into the maze every night. What's worse is that in chapter 136, he finds out that the "game" is ''insanely'' popular and is being played by ''millions of people worldwide,'' and sexual assault, if not outright rape, is so commonplace, the victims are ''[[DissonantSerenity far too calm about it.]]''

* DramaPreservingHandicap: The author's answer to make sure that Jihan doesn't become such an obvious GameBreaker thanks to his Gamer ability is to make sure that [[IdiotHero his Wisdom stat remains relatively low]] so that Jihan doesn't make the necessary, or completely correct, decisions regarding how to power up his abilities. For example, his lack of Wisdom causes Jihan to rush into things without fully thinking the process through such as suddenly dumping all his extra stat-points into Intelligence despite knowing that it would help build his judgement, and thinking-process, if he put points into Wisdom.
** Somewhat justified though; since Jihan has already put a lot of points into Int, it's very difficult to get extra Int points by doing regular actions or training. Meanwhile, Strength and all his other stats can be increased relatively easily by grinding related actions. So, since he can't effectively grind Intelligence anyways, he dumps all his stat points into it to artificially raise it. The problem comes in with how difficult it is to grind Wisdom, since making intelligent decisions requires a good Wisdom to begin with.
** The problem is starting to be addressed with Jihan investing points in Wisdom as of chapter 66.

* LevelUp: A major aspect of Han Jihan's power.

-->-- '''Han Jee-Han'''

Enter Han Jee-Han, an 18-year-old OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent. He's recently broken through TheMasquerade and discovered that the world is full of dangerous monsters and people with supernatural gifts hiding in plain sight.

* AttemptedRape: At first mentioned by Hwan Sung-Ah when she and Jee-Han were on the run from human traffickers, but explicitly shown in season 2's "Great Labyrinth" arc where Jee-Han stumbles on it occurring. Accidental or not, Jee-Han killing the would-be rapists to prevent it is not normally considered "murder" in most of modern society.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Part of the comic's appeal is Jee-Han figuring out not only how his powers work, but also how to [[MinMaxing min-max them]] [[TheMunchkin to gain an edge]]. His 'A Gamer's Mind' ability allows him to be this, making him able to keep calm and think logically in dangerous and stressful situations (like combat) and making him immune to psychological status effects.
* BadassInDistress: Several confirmed badass characters find themselves in difficult situations. Kwon Shi Yun is the first, against the black leather gang, then comes Lolikano against the Black rock golem faction, both she and Hwan Sung Gong are really in trouble in "The Company Arc" and now Han Jee-Han, officially a badass by the standards of all the above is in serious distress in chapter 115.
* BallsOfSteel: The [[RainbowPimpGear ogre's panties]] are nearly indestructible and negate damage below a certain threshold. [[BreadEggsMilkSquick They have also been worn by an ogre already]]. Protection of his [[GroinAttack sensitives]] makes Jee-Han ''consider'' wearing them anyways, but he ultimately decides to sell them.

** Hurting Jee-Han in front of Sun-Il.
** Threatening Sun-Ah in front of either Sung-Gong or Jee-Han.
** Being an Abyss-based human trafficker in front of Jee-Han. There have been two occasions thus far where Jee-Han has seriously considered murder (outside of the Grand Labyrinth, where being killed is traumatic, but not permanent), and they have both been against people who kidnapped people for magical purposes.
* BigDamnHeroes: Just when Hwan Sung-Gon is about to be defeated by the President of the Company, Jee-Han suddenly appears below him to [[HealingHands heal him]], having done the same with the Witch of Slaughter and Aholting, while Gnome takes down one of the Eight Pillars of Sealing that were preventing Sung-Gon from using his full power.

* ChildhoodFriends: Jee-Han and Sun-Il knew each other since kindergarten, which contributed to how close they are and why whenever one does something dangerous, the other is quick to get worried and [[AngerBornOfWorry angry]]. By extension, since Sae-Young is Sun-Il's cousin and they live together, she and Jee-Han also count.

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Jee-Han encounters two full parties of "players" in the Great Labyrinth dungeon who have gotten so accustomed to the "rules of the game" that they actively enjoy being dragged into the maze every night. What's worse is that in chapter 136, he finds out that the "game" is ''insanely'' popular and is being played by ''millions of people worldwide,'' and sexual assault, if not outright rape, is so commonplace, the victims are ''[[DissonantSerenity far too calm about it.]]''
* ContrivedCoincidence: When Shi-Yun and Sung-Ah transfer to Jee-Han's school, they just so ''happened'' to get assigned to his class.

** Jee-Han also gives the RandomDrops to Shin Sun-Il to sell them (or extract the magic out of them), netting him large amounts of money.
* DeflectorShield: The Mana Shield ability works like this. With a little grinding, Jee-Han might be able to make it permanent.
* DishingOutDirt: [[SummonMagic Gnome]], obviously; Jee-Han provides the MP, while [[CuteMonsterGirl she]] takes care of the actual casting. Gaining the ability to summon Gnome also gave Jee-Han the 'Earth Element Affinity' status, improving his own use of the element.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: The author's answer to make sure that Jee-Han doesn't become such an obvious GameBreaker thanks to his Gamer ability is to make sure that [[IdiotHero his Wisdom stat remains relatively low]] so that Jee-Han doesn't make the necessary, or completely correct, decisions regarding how to power up his abilities. For example, his lack of Wisdom causes Jee-Han to rush into things without fully thinking the process through such as suddenly dumping all his extra stat-points into Intelligence despite knowing that it would help build his judgement, and thinking-process, if he put points into Wisdom.
** Somewhat justified though; since Jee-Han has already put a lot of points into Int, it's very difficult to get extra Int points by doing regular actions or training. Meanwhile, Strength and all his other stats can be increased relatively easily by grinding related actions. So, since he can't effectively grind Intelligence anyways, he dumps all his stat points into it to artificially raise it. The problem comes in with how difficult it is to grind Wisdom, since making intelligent decisions requires a good Wisdom to begin with.
** The problem is starting to be addressed with Jee-han investing points in Wisdom as of chapter 66.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The story begins with Jee-Han seeing everyone's name, levels (or ??) and occupation over their heads. This has disappeared entirely at some point, and now he, and we, only get that information when he uses "inspect" or "observe" on another character.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: It's possible for people to develop abnormal powers through training. Jee-Han realizes that one of his longtime best friends is like this based on his title and unusually high level.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: As Han Jee-Han starts conquering territories belonging to organizations he judges to be evil, a good chunk of the Abyss gets more and more ticked off at him. But when he confronts Yeonhwa, they decide to stay out of it and watch, because Yeonhwa's actions are bad enough to creep out a lot of even them.
* ExplainingYourPowersToTheEnemy: Truth Wagon explains how his spatial magic works to Jee-Han and Sun-Il in such excrutiating detail that the boys actually wish he'd just shut up about it.

* FinalSolution: Early on, Shin Sun-Il tells Jee-Han that ever since the Second World War, members of the Chunbumoon clan regularly visit Japan and murder every man, woman, and child with supernatural powers who they can find, in order to prevent Japan from ever gaining the power to pose a threat to Korea again. They only make an exception for Buddhist sects, which is why the vast majority of Japanese Abyss members are demons.

** As expected, a few chapters after Jee-Han is warned about the possibility of Mana Farms coming after him in order to exploit his powers, a pair of people from the Abyss who capture people and sell them to the farms appears and comes after him.
** Chapter 26 has Jee-Han mentioning that the ClassRepresentative have higher level than most students in his class excluding himself, Sung-il, Shi-yun, and Sung-ah. Specifically, her INT is the highest in the school before Jee-Han grinded his INT. Come chapter 102, she's trapped in a dungeon, decided to train herself just to survive in case she's trapped in a dungeon again, and Jee-Han realizes it's best to shape her up into a wizard because of her absurdly high INT. A SquishyWizard, but at least she can survive the dungeons and the Abyss.
** During the Church of Masks arc, Lolikiano explains to Jee-Han that while people being used as resources is the norm in the Abyss, it is wasteful when the person in question has rare, unique, and/or powerful abilities. For those guys, they may be MadeASlave via magic, be the victim of some other method of coercion to force cooperation, or even killed and soul stolen since the related powers can still be used but not as effective as when the person is alive. The Church of Masks tried to do to that Jee-Han [[spoiler: but Jee-Han turned that around and used magic to force their leader to be his subordinate, effectively removing the threat to himself and gaining control of the Church of Masks on top of it]].
* HealingHands: One of Jee-Han's most useful abilities, which he uses to heal anyone that needs it, such as Sun-Il or Sung-Ah.

* HiddenDepths: Jee-Han can't see [[spoiler:his mom's]] level. This is indicative of very powerful characters; the only others he can't see are Shin Sun-Oh, and Sung Ma-Hyun, one of the big cheeses in the underworld's BlackMarket.
* HowDoIShotWeb: The first few issues mostly deal with Jee-Han learning how his new abilities work.

* HypocriticalHumor: Han Jee-Han says that Poong Sae-Young is quite the violent girl. She objects by punching the daylights out of him.
* IOweYouMyLife: Several characters over the course of the story show this. Downplayed with Sun Il whose healing is accelerated by Jee-Han, but played straight by several others such as Hwan Sung-Ah, Kwon Shin Yun, and Hwan Sung Gong.

* IronicHell: Hell traditionally gives living visitors a glimpse of what things will be like for them if they get sentenced there. Jee-Han's hell would, naturally, be to have an arcade where the games crash right in the middle of playing them.
* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: It takes less than an hour of research for Jee-Han to find the website that the Abyss Auction works through. Justified in that a high-ranking agent of the Abyss gave him a business card.
* {{Irony}}: Despite how Jee-Han's obsession with games is mocked, along with his gamer ability (before they realize how much potential it has), some of the characters who appear later do look like RPG characters.
* IWantThemAlive: In chapter 34, a pair of what are essentially human traffickers with superpowers appear with the intent of kidnapping Jee-Han and selling him to a Mana Farm.
* JackOfAllTrades: Jee-Han may be primarily a wizard, with his ungodly mp regeneration and fondness for spamming mana arrows, but add in a powerful healing ability, elemental summons and golems, solid close-combat skills, and a ton of passive and active defenses that work together to make him practically invulnerable, and you have a very well-rounded and competent character.

** They also deal in rare objects that can be found in the Abyss. Poong Sae-Young warns Jee-Han to be especially careful after hearing about him because if they discovered more about his ability, they might want to abduct him for it, or for a Mana Farm, where Ability users are held prisoner and have their mana siphoned to be bought and sold.
* LemonyNarrator: Jee-Han's system notifications and item descriptions often have a snarky tone, which he finds odd. Who exactly is writing these is unclear, but judging from the way his powers work, it might be [[GeniusLoci the world itself]].
* LevelGrinding: Han Jee-Han does this constantly, both to increase his overall level and the levels of individual skills.
* LevelUp: A major aspect of Han Jee-Han's power.
* LimitedSocialCircle: Excluding family, at the beginning, Jee-Han and Sun-Il explicitly only had each other as friends. They were never close to other kids at their school. Jee-Han even tries to claim he has school friends besides Sun-Il but admits he hasn't hang out with any of them as of late. However, as time goes on and Jee-Han's involvement in the Abyss increases, that circle slowly expands as they make more acquaintances and even friends in the Abyss. Excluding their fellow friends in the Abyss though, they aren't close to anyone else in school.
* LoveDodecahedron: Jee-Han's UnwantedHarem has some interesting inter-personal relationships. Lolikano is quite fond of Hwan Sung-Ah, and finds Kwon Shi-Yun "interesting" in the same way as she does Jee-Han, but was initially somewhat hostile to Kim Yoo Jin, until the latter started to gush over her, and still is rather "reserved." Kwon Shi-Yun goes into ClingyJealousGirl territory, complete with BattleAura and blood lust upon mention of either Hwan Sung-Ah or Lolikano, but strangely has no problems sharing with Kim Yoo Jin, even going so far as to ''actually invite her'' to the date with Jee-Han, and only playfully competing as to who is in the lead. Kim Yoo Jin is ''very'' fond of Kwon Shi-Yun, and gushes over Lolikano, but is unaware of Hwan Sung-Ah. Poong Sae Young loves to tease Jee Han for all it's worth, but it's yet to be shown if she even has feelings for him, or how she'll react to the harem situation, even though she's at least aware of Kim Yoo Jin, if not Hwan Sung-Ah, and actually approves, or at least tolerates it without complaint.

* MagicMissileStorm[=/=]RainOfArrows: Spinning Mana Arrow becomes cheaper and creates more projectiles [[EvolvingAttack the greater its level grows]], and it's really fast, too. It's no surprise that it becomes Jee-Han's most used attack.

* ManaShield: Shin Sun-Il suggests that Jee-Han learn this ability, saying that it's common among western ability users. Thanks to Jee-Han's Int-based build, focus on defense, percentage-based MP regeneration, ''massive'' MP reserves, SummonMagic, and low-cost DeflectorShield, it would help to make him even harder to kill.

* MightMakesRight: Between the {{Masquerade}} and the SuperpowerLottery, this is the mindset of a majority of the Abyss by far. One guy even finds it hilarious when Han Jee-Han tries to protest against being enslaved on the basis of human rights, saying he hasn't heard that word in the Abyss for ages.

* MissionFromGod: One of the strongest gods, Woo Sa, charges Han Jee-Han with reaching the "source of the world" before less scrupulous people do so and cause TheUnmasquedWorld at best, if not TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* MoodWhiplash: Jee-Han's first meeting with Mahyeon Sung starts serious as the latter explains that information on Jee-Han is spreading in the world of the Abyss. Sung then asks Jee-Han to start using his company's Abyss Auction website, with all the unnecessary flair of a sales pitch, before going right back to serious as Sung passes Jee-Han a warning that because information on him is spreading, he's in danger.
* MonstrousCannibalism: When negative emotions fester, they form weak monsters variously called minions or scraps in instant dungeons. On their own, they pose relatively little threat, but they become stronger monsters more universally called demons by ''eating'' each other. Jee-Han still feels queasy seeing that happen in front of him despite how strong he's gotten and how long he's spent in the Abyss.
* MoralMyopia: The antagonists are all quite fond of yelling "you bastard" at Jee-Han, after they've attacked him or someone he cares about and he retaliates.

* MundaneUtility: Han Jee-Han uses his inventory to hold his backpack, and takes advantage of his increased intelligence to study more efficiently.
* MutuallyExclusiveMagic: Trying to learn multiple SupernaturalMartialArts with different energy patterns will generally result in the conflicting energies killing the practitioner. However, Han Jee-Han's "Gamer" power allows different martial arts to be naturally fused into a more powerful martial art. The process of fusing them is ''still'' lethal, but even that has work arounds, such as HealingHands, using an ImmortalityInducer, or the power to come BackFromTheDead.

* NewSkillAsReward: Hwan Sung-Gon offers to acquire some rare skill books for Jee-Han as thanks for helping him [[spoiler:rescue his daughter and take down The Company.]] Lolikiano Mistream, who also participated in the fight, decides to take Jee-Han in as her student for similar reasons. He also acknowledges this trope and tends to ask for pricey skill books as rewards for his actions.

* NobodyPoops: While in most situations, like in Jee-Han's high school, it could practically be handwaved that visits to the bathroom occur off-screen, but as of the introduction of Kim Yoo Jin to the abyss, all characters are spending extended amounts of time, on screen, inside ID barriers (10+ hours in chapter 112-113), where there are no such facilities, and nobody ''ever'' complains about it, although people still get hungry and still need to stop for a break to eat.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Standard practice for organizations like Chunbumoon and later, Han Jee-Han himself, when dealing with HumanTraffickers and killers in the Abyss. As opposed to killing them, they basically take them into slavery themselves and force them into PeopleFarms, using them as a LivingBattery to build up and save {{Mana}}.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Discussed in Chapter 111. Lolikano constantly berates Jee-Han for failing to call her regarding Yoo-Jin's plight. What she refuses to let him mention, is that for several chapters, [[HypocriticalHumor she's been ignoring his calls and text messages.]]

* RainbowPimpGear: One piece of powerful equipment Jee-Han finds is a pair of ''ogre's panties''. The description even helpfully notes that it's been worn by an ogre before. He declines to wear it.

* RPGMechanicsVerse: The Gamer ability turns Jee-Han's life into this. It's a weird example, since the setting as a whole apparently isn't one; it's more that his superpower is to interact with the world as if it were a game.

** There's been some slight teasing with [[FieryRedhead Shi-Yun]], even though she's been mostly OutOfFocus. Her strait-laced manner actually broke when she [[ThatCameOutWrong unintentionally said something potentially suggestive]] to Jee-Han. [[note]] For context, Jee-Han helped her and she insisted on rewarding him for it, since she couldn't believe that Jee-Han helped her out of the goodness of his heart. She even offered [[ExactWords her body]] as a reward if he so desired--she just meant something completely different from what Jee-Han and quite probably the reader expected.[[/note]]
*** Said teasing increased exponentially in later chapters where we quickly find out that Shi-Yun is potentially a ClingyJealousGirl thanks to Jee-Han's Gamer ability. From the start of a major battle where the two have paired together (thanks to a newly discovered Party System, ala Sword Art Online) he quickly discovers how to use it to get in contact with the Witch of Carnage. Due to the Witch acting [[TheTease predictably]] toward him, he immediately gets a notice that he detects a "Strong Bloodlust" in the vicinity. As Shi-Yun is the only one around, no points for guessing who's letting said aura off. Her getting angry at Jee-Han for this type of thing becomes a RunningGag for the rest of the battle.
** There's been comparatively more with [[TheTease Sae-Young]]. Since she and Jee-Han are more or less {{Childhood Friend}}s, Jee-Han can't help but notice Sae-Young's growth into [[MsFanservice quite an attractive young woman.]] Her skimpy choice of attire certainly doesn't help, and neither does her [[TheTease provocative manners or habit to tease Jee-Han for all its worth.]]
** The [[RedBaron Witch of]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Carnage]], aka [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Loli]]kiano Mistream took an instant liking to Jee-Han, openly flirting with him in [[MrsRobinson the way an older woman would with a younger man]] and even giving him her number. After the battle with the Black Rock clan, she "marked" him by [[spoiler:stealing his first kiss.]] Talk about coming on strongly.
** By far though, Jee-Han has had the most ShipTease with Sung-Ah. Jee-Han immediately sympathizes with her plight, and realizing that his ability can help her and even potentially save her, he wonders if he was born just for the purpose of helping people like her. Sung-Ah's normally sullen personality and her condition serve to make scenes featuring her very poignant, and Jee-Han always, without exception, does his utmost to be nice to her and help ease the burden of her curse every time they meet. He strives to allow her to experience things normal girls get to do all the time that she can't because of her extremely frail body and because of her father keeping her close to protect her. Most blatantly, [[spoiler:when she offered to repay a favor and he thoughtlessly asked for a date, '''she accepted''']].[[note]] Though, her instant approval of his request is most likely because it was her first one too.[[/note]] Later, Jee-Han vows that one day he will save her, [[spoiler:and Sung-Ah is ''moved to tears''.]]
** And now, we can add [[ClassRepresentative Class President]] Kim Yoo-Jin to the list, after Jee-Han saves her when she accidentally falls into the ''Age of the Great Labyrinth'' dungeon. He gives her a staff to protect herself, trains her as a wizard so that she can use her intelligence to great effect, allows her to stay in his room after she tells him she is afraid of falling asleep, and she ends up sleeping on top of him after she has a nightmare. She even asks him out on a date once or twice. If that's not a ShipTease what is?

** Jee-Han convinces his best friend, Shin Sun-Il, of who he is... by making a ridiculously bad Star Wars joke while Shin Sun-Il is choking him and demanding to know his real identity.
** The same happens a bit later with Sae-Young, under basically the same circumstances. He convinces her that he is the real Jee-Han by...[[spoiler:revealing he knows she wears black lace silk panties since several years ago]] [[note]]He was about to say 2nd year of either Junior or High School, but got interrupted mid-way by a raging woman.[[/note]] which again, is something only he would know since he went into her room once without her permission.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The main characters' names, basically without exception, all change drastically between translation teams, and sometimes between chapters translated by the same translators. Han Jee-Han is the most frequent victim, but it's getting to be quite noticeable with the ladies of his UnwantedHarem like Kwon Shi Yun, "Sheyon" and Kim Yoo-Jin, "Jugin" (who still keeps getting called "President" or "Prez" even after she explicitly asked not to be called that).

** Later, Jee-Han gets into it by summoning [[CuteMonsterGirl Gnome]].

* TheBusCameBack: After several chapters without being seen, [[spoiler:Hwan Sung-Gon, Hwan Sung-Ah, Lolikiano and Horutipia Aholting make their return as Jee-Han calls them for help to rescue Kim Yoo Jin.]]

** Han Jee-Han when he encounters the [[spoiler:Black Leather Gang]] for the second time.

** [[ClassRepresentative Kim Yoo-Jin]] takes quite a few thanks to Jee-Han's support.

* TranquilFury: Thanks to [[NervesOfSteel Gamer's Mind]], on the few occasions we've seen Han Jee-Han really angry (see above), he's been ''creepily'' calm. It's always been in response to people from [[TheMasquerade the Abyss]] thinking they could hurt either the helpless or someone he personally cares about (or, on one occasion, both at once) with impunity. Still, seeing as he was actively considering cold-blooded murder on two separate occasions when faced with [[BerserkButton Abyss-based human traffickers]], [[DeconstructedTrope the fact that this comes so easily for him is starting to become a serious worry for both him and his friends.]]
* TruceZone: In Chapter 130, Kwon Shi-Yun notes that the amusement park introduced in chapter 128, where she, Kim Yoo Jin, and Jee-Han had their group date, is one between numerous mutually hostile clans from The Abyss, and even then, only because many of their members are victims of "The Great Labyrinth" dungeon and the clans are all more focused on finding the perpetrator than fighting each other.
* UnskilledButStrong: Shin Sun-Oh wants to make sure that Jee-Han averts this. He wants Han to come train with him even though Han insists that he's already figured out how to become exponentially stronger by exploiting his ability. Shin then rebukes him by stating that raw power is useless without skills and experience.

* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Both Hwan Sung-Gon (summoner guy) and Kwon Shi-Yun (red haired girl) transfer into Jee-Han's school as a teacher and a student respectively, but no one besides Jee-Han feels that anything is amiss. Especially egregious is how no one seems to care about Hwan's MIB style attire.
* WeakButSkilled: While Jee-Han's level of firepower is nothing special, as far as the story goes, he has continuously beaten foes far stronger than himself because his skill levels and gaming knowledge make him far more skilled than them, and nobody in the Abyss has ever gone up against a "gamer" type ability before.
* WeirdnessCensor: Noted by Jee-Han on several occasions. There's the introduction of the very physically attractive Kwon Shin Yon to his predominantly male classroom, as well as Hwan Sung Gong's MIB attire, and in chapter 115, nobody noticed the magic staff he was carrying. (There's also the fact that few people have noticed when he uses "inventory" in public.)
* WhatIf: [[https://www.webtoons.com/en/fantasy/the-gamer/ep-21/viewer?title_no=88&episode_no=22 Chapter 21]] has a few BSideComics depicting these. The first is for if Han Jee-Han's power was a DatingSim instead of an RPG. The second is for if everyone was subject to RuleSixtyThree.

A Naver LitRPG webcomic. English translations can be read on most major manga websites and on the recent [[https://kmanhwa.com/comics-online/read-the-gamer-manhwa-%eb%8d%94-%ea%b2%8c%ec%9d%b4%eb%a8%b8/ official Naver translations]]

A Naver LitRPG webcomic. English translations can be read on most major manga websites and on the recent [[https://mangaowl.com/single/47347/the-gamer official Naver translations]]

** By far though, Jee-Han has had the most ShipTease with [[IllGirl Sung-Ah]]. Jee-Han immediately sympathizes with her plight, and realizing that his ability can help her and even potentially save her, he wonders if he was born just for the purpose of helping people like her. Sung-Ah's normally sullen personality and her condition serve to make scenes featuring her very poignant, and Jee-Han always, without exception, does his utmost to be nice to her and help ease the burden of her curse every time they meet. He strives to allow her to experience things normal girls get to do all the time that she can't because of her extremely frail body and because of her father keeping her close to protect her. Most blatantly, [[spoiler:when she offered to repay a favor and he thoughtlessly asked for a date, '''she accepted''']].[[note]] Though, her instant approval of his request is most likely because it was her first one too.[[/note]] Later, Jee-Han vows that one day he will save her, [[spoiler:and Sung-Ah is ''moved to tears''.]]

** UpToEleven with Infinite Spinning Mana Arrows, which continuously creates and shoots arrows until he drops it or runs out of MP.

* FinalSolution: Early on, Shin Sun-Il tells Jee-Han that ever since the Second World War, members of the Chunbumoon clan regularly visit Japan and murder every man, woman, and child with supernatural powers who they can find, in order to prevent Japan from ever gaining the power to pose a threat to Korea again.

** And now, we can add [[ClassRepresentative Class President]] [[{{Meganekko}} Kim Yoo-Jin]] to the list, after Jee-Han saves her when she accidentally falls into the ''Age of the Great Labyrinth'' dungeon. He gives her a staff to protect herself, trains her as a wizard so that she can use her intelligence to great effect, allows her to stay in his room after she tells him she is afraid of falling asleep, and she ends up sleeping on top of him after she has a nightmare. She even asks him out on a date once or twice. If that's not a ShipTease what is?

* RealityEnsues: A lot of different women express interest in the main character in fairly inappropriate ways after very little contact with him. Rather than reacting like a harem protagonist would, he mostly finds it weird and creepy, to the point of pointing out that Lolikiano's treatment of him probably qualifies as sexual harassment.
** When multiple girls start gossiping about him and get upset over things they THINK he did, he's realistically upset over being treated like a bad guy for things he had no control over, and it carries over to his revulsion toward their advances.
** After being teased ''for years'' by Poong Sae Young, and noticeably getting violence delivered upon himself if he so much as looks like he's interested, it's no surprise that he's ObliviousToLove.

A Naver webcomic. English translations can be read on most major manga websites and on the recent [[https://mangaowl.com/single/47347/the-gamer official Naver translations]]

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Anything is an aquirable and grindable skill that will get its own dramatic description. Including dishwashing.

A Naver webcomic. English translations can be read on most major manga websites and on the recent [[http://www.mangahere.co/manga/the_gamer/ official Naver translations]]

* AttemptedRape: At first mentioned by Hwan Sung-Ah when she and Jae Han were on the run from human traffickers, but explicitly shown in season 2's "Great Labyrinth" arc where Jae Han stumbles on it occurring. Accidental or not, Jae Han killing the would-be rapists to prevent it is not normally considered "murder" in most of modern society.

* BadassInDistress: Several confirmed badass characters find themselves in difficult situations. Kwon Shi Yun is the first, against the black leather gang, then comes Lolikano against the Black rock golem faction, both she and Hwan Sung Gong are really in trouble in "The Company Arc" and now Han Jae Han, officially a badass by the standards of all the above is in serious distress in chapter 115.

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Jae Han encounters two full parties of "players" in the Great Labyrinth dungeon who have gotten so accustomed to the "rules of the game" that they actively enjoy being dragged into the maze every night. What's worse is that in chapter 136, he finds out that the "game" is ''insanely'' popular and is being played by ''millions of people worldwide,'' and sexual assault, if not outright rape, is so commonplace, the victims are ''[[DissonantSerenity far too calm about it.]]''

* DramaPreservingHandicap: The author's answer to make sure that Jee-Han doesn't become such an obvious GameBreaker thanks to his Gamer ability is to make sure that [[IdiotHero his Wisdom stat remains relatively low]] so that Jae-Han doesn't make the necessary, or completely correct, decisions regarding how to power up his abilities. For example, his lack of Wisdom causes Jee-Han to rush into things without fully thinking the process through such as suddenly dumping all his extra stat-points into Intelligence despite knowing that it would help build his judgement, and thinking-process, if he put points into Wisdom.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The story begins with Jae Han seeing everyone's name, levels (or ??) and occupation over their heads. This has disappeared entirely at some point, and now he, and we, only get that information when he uses "inspect" or "observe" on another character.

** As expected, a few chapters after Jae Han is warned about the possibility of Mana Farms coming after him in order to exploit his powers, a pair of people from the Abyss who capture people and sell them to the farms appears and comes after him.

* IOweYouMyLife: Several characters over the course of the story show this. Downplayed with Sun Il whose healing is accelerated by Jae Han, but played straight by several others such as Hwan Sung-Ah, Kwon Shin Yun, and Hwan Sung Gong.

* ItsASmallNetAfterAll: It takes less than an hour of research for Jae Han to find the website that the Abyss Auction works through. Justified in that a high-ranking agent of the Abyss gave him a business card.

** They also deal in rare objects that can be found in the Abyss. Poong Sae-Young warns Jae Han to be especially careful after hearing about him because if they discovered more about his ability, they might want to abduct him for it, or for a Mana Farm, where Ability users are held prisoner and have their mana siphoned to be bought and sold.

* MoralMyopia: The antagonists are all quite fond of yelling "you bastard" at Jae Han, after they've attacked him or someone he cares about and he retaliates.

* NobodyPoops: While in most situations, like in Jae Han's high school, it could practically be handwaved that visits to the bathroom occur off-screen, but as of the introduction of Kim Yoo Jin to the abyss, all characters are spending extended amounts of time, on screen, inside ID barriers (10+ hours in chapter 112-113), where there are no such facilities, and nobody ''ever'' complains about it, although people still get hungry and still need to stop for a break to eat.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Discussed in Chapter 111. Lolikano constantly berates Jae-Han for failing to call her regarding Yoo-Jin's plight. What she refuses to let him mention, is that for several chapters, [[HypocriticalHumor she's been ignoring his calls and text messages.]]

* TruceZone: In Chapter 130, Kwon Shi-Yun notes that the amusement park introduced in chapter 128, where she, Kim Yoo Jin, and Jae Han had their group date, is one between numerous mutually hostile clans from The Abyss, and even then, only because many of their members are victims of "The Great Labyrinth" dungeon and the clans are all more focused on finding the perpetrator than fighting each other.

* WeirdnessCensor: Noted by Jae Han on several occasions. There's the introduction of the very physically attractive Kwon Shin Yon to his predominantly male classroom, as well as Hwan Sung Gong's MIB attire, and in chapter 115, nobody noticed the magic staff he was carrying. (There's also the fact that few people have noticed when he uses "inventory" in public.)

* {{Masquerade}}: Enforced. If you break it, ''[[GeniusLoci the world itself]] will kill you''. Long ago, magic could be used freely and publically, but 2000 years ago, the will of the world put in place the {{Masquerade}} and banned all sapient species besides humans from living outside of illusion barriers, feeling it necessary to keep the world safe. Subtle magic is still fine, and abusing {{Muggles}} in an [[PocketDimension illusion barrier]] is also acceptable so long as you don't overdo it, but if you perform magic to the extent that it breaks past the WeirdnessCensor and {{Muggles}} in the normal world notice that something is wrong, Gaia will wreak vengeance by inflicting bad luck until you die. Gaia also forbids more than 1% of the population of a country from joining the Abyss. If the Abyss's population exceeds that number, Gaia will inflict the same fate upon the extras.

** In the same arc, the Seeker of Truth casually overpowers Ji-Han and Seonil while [[CasualDangerDialogue seeming more interested in treating Ji-Han as a pupil]] than a foe. The two only win when Seonil unlocks EnlightmentSuperpowers. This, while the Seeker was operating through a puppet [[WorfHadTheFlu that halved his own abilities and focusing most of his power on breaking the Seal of Amaterasu]]. Later, Ji-Han and Shi-Yun eke out a CurbStompCushion at best against [[DarkIsEvil The Follower of Darkness]]. The latter only retreats when Seonil activates the [[WorldTree Divine Birch Tree]]. Furthermore, the two were able to access the Tree's realm without the Three Heavily Artifacts. Seonil explicitly says [[BeyondTheImpossible "they managed to do the impossible."]]