History Animation / SeoulStation

%% * ForWantOfANail: See entry on DisposableVagrant, the instigator of the ZombieApocalypse in Seoul is a homeless old man.

''Seoul Station'' (2016) is an animated Prequel to ''Film/TrainToBusan'', which act as both a predecessor and a perspective switch on the ZombieApocalypse in the movie. It is written and directed by the same director, Creator/YeonSangHo.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:All the main characters die in the film. The homeless man gets killed by Patient Zero and the old man who we all thought would survive gets shot in the chest by a soldier. Ki-Woong gets his throat slit by Suk-gyu, who in turn is killed by a zombiefied Hye-Sun who hid a scratch wound while she was almost raped by the latter.]]

* BespectacledBastardBoyfriend: Ki-Woong is a downplayed trope. While he wasn't as ruthless as the people at the brothel where Hye-Sun worked, he did pimp her out on the internet. Though that is what enabled Suk-gyu to find her. [[spoiler:There's also the part where Ki-Woong attempts to protect Hye-Sun upon realizing Suk-gyu isn't her real father]].

!!''Seoul Station'' provides examples of the following tropes:

''Seoul Station'' (2016) is an animated Prequel to the ''Film/TrainToBusan'', which act as both a predecessor and a perspective switch on the ZombieApocalypse in the movie. It is written and directed by the same director, Creator/YeonSangHo.

* DirtyCommunists: A high-class citizen in the barricades claims that the communists are to be blamed for the zombie incident, an [[HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection obvious reference]] to the NorthKoreansWithNoDongs.

** [[spoiler:Hye-Sun herself when she gets scratched by a zombie that tried to pull her down from an improvised monkeybar. The effects are not known until the end of the film, but fans of the zombie genre already had their suspicions.]]

* ApatheticCitizens: The homeless man being bitten and neglected by these people would later bite them back as he became the instigator of the ZombieApocalypse.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Suk-gyu]] in the end of the movie.

* BoomHeadshot:
** The old man was able to kill an infected police officer and an infected vagrant by using the last two shots to the head.

* ChronicHeroSyndrome: The homeless man who went to several places (such as the police station, an apartment, and a drug store) just to find medicine for the wounded old man, not knowing that the latter is already infected.

* ForWantOfANail: See entry on DisposableVagrant, the instigator of the ZombieApocalypse in Seoul is a homeless old man.

* HeroicSacrifice: The young athletic man who manages to monkeybar to safety risks everything to take Hye-Sun to higher ground and [[spoiler:pays it dearly with his life.]]

* HumanLadder: Rather, infected ladder similar to ''Film/WorldWarZ'' near the end of this film.

* JerkAss: Several of them, enough for the place to count as CrapsaccharineWorld even before the chaos.

* LeParkour: Many characters in the film utilize this to escape from the infected. Some of the zombies are capable of this but only because of their drive to infect more humans, hence it is less coordinated.

* SexSlave: Hye-Sun resorted to prostitution to survive.

* ZombieApocalypse: The beginning stages of one.

* RevengeBeforeReason: Pretty much ends up defining Suk-gyu. [[spoiler:He is so obsessed with punishing Hye-sun pay for taking his money and running away from him that he continually charges towards the most dangerous parts of the zombie outbreak for the chance to get back at her.]]

* PoliceAreUseless: Many of the South Korean citizens see them as this. Justified since the first responders did not know how to deal with zombies, they act nonchalant when Hye-sun and the other homeless arrive at the police station with a horde of zombies closing by. Meanwhile, Riot shield officers were able to keep some zombies at bay but as the infection worsened, control was transferred to the ROK military.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Suk-gyu bares a resemblance to Philippine Presidet Rodrigo Duterte.

* ForWantOfANail: See entry on DisposableVagrant, the instigator of the ZombieApocalypse is Seoul is a homeless old man.

** [[spoiler:Ironically said old man dies when a soldier shoots him in the head.]]

* BespectacledBastardBoyfriend: Ki-Woong is a downplayed trope. Well he wasn't as ruthless as the people at the brothel where Hye-Sun worked, he did pimp her out on the internet. Though that is what enabled Suk-gyu to find her. [[spoiler:There's also the part where Ki-Woong attempts to protect Hye-Sun upon realizing Suk-gyu isn't her real father]].

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Hye-sun succumbed to the zombie scratch and turned into one when she killed Suk-gyu when he close to rape her.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:All the main characters die in the film. The homeless man gets killed by Patient Zero and the old man who we all thought would survive gets shot in the head by a soldier. Ki-Woong gets his throat slit by Suk-gyu, who in turn is killed by a zombiefied Hye-Sun who hid a scratch wound while she was almost raped by the latter.]]

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: This film accurately portrays how people in South Korea (or in the world) would react in the initial stages of a fast zombie outbreak, ranging from confusion to panic. The lack of firearms used by the characters is also serves as a reality check since South Korea has a strict gun ownership laws.

* RealityEnsues: This film accurately portrays how people in South Korea (or in the world) would react in the initial stages of a fast zombie outbreak, ranging from confusion to panic. The lack of firearms used by the characters is also serves as a reality check since South Korea has a strict gun ownership laws.

** JustifiedTrope, the holding cell is easily open only because the people have netter mental fortitude to open the door than zombies.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Every main character dies, the quarantine fails, and Seoul will be overrun sooner or later]].

* HoldTheLine: Riot-police and soldiers attempted to quarantine areas of Seoul festering with zombies using riot shields, police buses, water cannons, and armed battalions. [[spoiler:It fails though.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:All the main characters die in the film. The homeless man gets killed by Patient Zero and the old man who we all thought would survive gets shot in the head by a soldier. Ki-Woong gets his throat slit by Suk-gyu, who in turn is killed by a zombiefied Hye-Sun who hid a scratch wound while she was raped by the latter.]]
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:Hye-sun succumbed to the zombie scratch and turned into one when she killed Suk-gyu when he rapes her.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: Suk-gyu gets one when [[spoiler:Hye-Sun turns into a zombie and mauls him alive after he rapes her.]]

* RapeAsDrama: [[spoiler:Suk-gyu rapes Hye-Sun without knowing that she was infected. It ends badly for him.]]

* DirtyCommunists: A high-class citizen in the barricades claims that the communists are to be blamed for the zombie incident.

* ShadowDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:We don't get to see zombie Hye-sun eating and killing her employer Suk-gyu. But a toppled lamp directed their shadows to the wall.]]

* DirtyCommunists: A high-class citizen in the barricades claims that the communists are to blamed for the zombie incident.

** [[spoiler:The athletic guy who helps Hye-sun cross falls to his death.]]

* GoryDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:We don't get to see zombie Hye-sun eating and killing her employer Suk-gyu. But a toppled lamp directed their shadows to the wall.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In a FreezeFrameBonus, Hye-sun's ankle was scratched by a zombie when crossing the wire, she transformed in the end when her employer was about to rape her.

* PoliceAreUseless: Many of the South Korean citizens see them as this. Justified since the first responders did not know how to deal with zombies. Riot shield officers were able to keep some zombies at bay but as the infection worsened, control was transferred to the ROK military.

* ForegoneConclusion: Being a prequel to the live-action film, it is already set that UsefulNotes/{{Seoul}} would get overrun by zombies as stated in ''Film/TrainToBusan''.