History Characters / TheBreaker

* AttackReflector: [[spoiler:The ''Reflection Technique'', a high level tai chi maneuver that stops the flow power in a attack and allows the user to reflect it into any direction or right back at the attacker as long as the person using the maneuver has footing on the ground. ]]

!! Clear Wind Origin Master

* NoNameGiven: Over the course of 2 whole parts, we had yet to name him other than Alliance Chief or former Alliance Chief. This somewhat changed as of Eternal Force, even though Clear Wind Origin Master is just another title.

* MartialArtsUniform: Wears a sleeveless one.

%%* BoobsOfSteel

* BoobsOfSteel: She is able to defeat so many of those who work for the Alliance and call them weak. Has a large chest.

* BoobsOfSteel: Competent fighter, large breasts.

* {{Bishounen}}: As the series goes on.

%%* {{Bishonen}}: Hands down.

* {{Bishonen}}: Has a lot of fangirls at Shi-Woon's school.

%%* MrFanservice

%%** WhipItGood

* WhipItGood: Thus far her primary weapon.

* BerserkButton: Does not like people who reference her exceptionally large Breast and is just insecure about them entirely.

* HoneyTrap: Her good looks ans large breasts are why she was selected as bait for a killer of young women.
* IdiotHero: Much to the dismay of Lae Won, she is too laidback and casual. She missed crucal details of a briefing such as who was the target of the operation.
* KickChick: Deconstructed. The Fence High style incorporates a lot of high kicks, but as Lae Won points out, it is impractical because of how predictable is and can be easily countered in direct confrontations. It doesn't help that she doesn't utilize the full arsenal of the style because she is afraid of her breasts shaking.
* MsFanservice: Wears short skirts, high-heels, and has ridiculously huge...assets.

* BigDamnHeroes: He arrives just in time on his bike to save Jin-Ie and Shi-Woon from a large group S.U.C. mooks.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Apparently, how he defeated Ji-Woo Lee, although he seems he didn't come out unscathed]].

%%* CosplayOtakuGirl: See below.
* CovertPervert: Well, she does somewhat casually speaks of wearing NakedApron and that teacher outfit (see HotTeacher)? Totally unnecessary, but she did it anyways.
** What makes it sound like she is suggesting something to Shi-Woon is that she specifically says to him that she owes the Sun-Woo Clan her life and she would run around and wear nothing, but an apron if they asked. Now Shi-Woon is the head of the Sun-Woo Clan.

* BoobsOfSteel: She is able defeat so many of those who work for the Alliance and call them weak, have a large breast.
* DarkActionGirl: Lets see she is a girl, she can fight, she is strong and she is with the Black Forest Defense. She totally fit.
* MasterSwordsman: A very good one non the less.

* InLovewithYourCarnage: She is very happy to watch Chun-Woo fight Kang-Sung and couldn't wait to see him press the switch to activate the bombs to destroy Seoul.

* DiabolusExMachina: [[spoiler: Her pretending to be Sae-Hee, throws Shi-Woon's plans for waiting out the attack in a safe zone (along with Jin-Ie) off the roof itself. ]]
** [[spoiler: Her use of explosives in the S.U.C. abandoned cars as part of the plan when Sun Woo clan actually arrived at the school. ]]

* InLovewithYourCarnage: [[spoiler:After seeing Shi-Woon fight Chun-Woo and the power he possess and despire shivering she lick her lips thinking that it look good, she like it and declare that she will see him again and call him sexy boy.]]
* InSeriesNickname: "Thousand Faces"

* KilledOffForReal
** [[spoiler: Or not, maybe as she appears to be in a coma in the sequel but might indeed be dead, as a murin doctor mentions that the supplies needed by the person keeping her similar to what you'd need to bring someone back to life...if that were indeed possible. Recently it seems Shi-Woon's blood, hyper-saturated with his ki, has been used on her, and it's already been stated that Shi-Woon's body is now a medical marvel, with every single part of him storing vast amounts of internal energy.]]
** [[spoiler: BackFromTheDead: She comes back to life at the end of New Waves.]]

* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: [[spoiler: Just about every technique done with a broken Ki center. His MegatonPunch ended with a broken shoulder, and doing a foot technique ended with him with a badly sprained ankle, if not broken as well.]]
** [[spoiler:The Black Origin Threshold]] is a more direct example.
** [[spoiler:Using Martial Arts while his Ki Center is recovering]].

* DeathGlare: Chang Ho received many of these for trying to go after Sae Hee on more than a few occasions. [[spoiler: Shi-Woon Lee gives one to Jung Lae Won because he keeps calling him Shi-Woon rather than addressing him properly as the Head of the Sun-Woo Clan. And then, he does it again, coupling it with his BadassBoast]]
** [[spoiler: And now he gives one to Ju Sang Sik, one of the Ten Grandmasters of Murim]].
* TheDeterminator: You have to give Shi-Woon some credit. He mentally defeated a martial arts prodigy just by his utter refusal to go down. [[spoiler: Against Ji-Gun as well]]. [[spoiler:And Ju Sang Sik bows down in his duel against him after realizing that Shi-Woon would rather die than admit defeat]]. [[spoiler: He NEVER gives up, he is probably the largest determinator in the series and can give NARUTO a run for his money]].

* DistressedDude: Two times so far, once in ''The Breaker'' and once in ''New Waves.'' Played for ''VERY'' serious drama both times. At the climax of ''The Breaker'', the Chief of the Alliance grabs him by the throat at the last minute and threatens to kill him should Shun Woo Han [[spoiler: refuse to show him the Black Heaven and Earth technique.]] The second time, he's abducted by the man who [[spoiler: gave him medicine that temporarily subverted the whole DePower issue]] so that [[spoiler: a sort of medicine could be made from his blood and body parts, to sell to S.U.C. and others interested in power boosting drugs.]]
** Then subverted in Chapter 110 onward [[spoiler:when he is abducted by a government agency who think they have the perfect hostage to use as leverage against the Sun-Woo. Cue a [[RoaringRampageOfRescue Roaring Rampage of Self-Rescue]] ]]

* GuileHero: [[spoiler:In chapter 96 of New Waves, he plays Rope a Dope with Chang-Ho and uses him like a battering ram against the S.U.C.]]
** Later shows more shades of this as he gets more and more involved with becoming the head of Sun Woo clan, building relationships and becoming more aware of events/issues that are around him then in the past.
* HealingFactor: Even lampshaded by Shi-Woon at one point.
** [[spoiler:Taken to its logical conclusion in the latest chapters, when his entire body reconstructs itself from the inside out after he is nearly killed. It is implied that this has also caused his Ki center to be completely healed.]]

** ExplosiveOverclocking:[[spoiler: What he was experiencing when trying to use his ki to perform even the simplest of techniques.]]

* InstantExpert: Surprisingly enough. The [[MegatonPunch Breaking Spirit Strike]] was supposed to take him a few months to master, but he managed to complete it on the same day Chun Woo showed it to him. The same thing happened with the Foot techniques. He seems to genuinely be what the wuxia genre calls "a natural kung-fu genius", with one key difference: while he can grasp complex martial arts concepts and skills and perform them in a remarkably short period of time, his health wasn't good enough to actually ''perform'' any of them thanks to his blood-flow problems.
** The foot techniques is an even bigger example because while Chun-Woo explained how the [[MegatonPunch Spirit-Breaking Strike]] was supposed to work, he only showed Shi-Woon the foot techniques once, and they had a very short discussion about it. Shi-Woon also didn't practice the foot techniques unlike the Strike.

* MagneticHero: Not at first but slowly becomes this.

* MoralityChain: For Chun-Woo.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Winds up getting one of these in nearly every fight he actively participates in Part I.
** [[spoiler: But is also at the receiving end of some, the latest one at the hands of Ju Sang Sik]]

* RunTheGauntlet: He gets into these somewhat often. In the latest, he has gone against [[spoiler:the murim special forces, the military, Jung Lae Won and now Ju Sang Sik]].
** [[spoiler:Gets into another one when facing S.U.C., starting in chapter 172, to the point he's taking on two Captains at the same time, and while he's holding his own, his stamina starts to deplete when he faces Jung Chan in an one-on-one duel. Luckily, the Alliance and Elder Kwon arrived to take over...until 9 Arts Dragon kills Elder Kwon and Shi-Woon enters the Black Origin Threshold]].

* SpannerIntheWorks: Shi Woon has a habit of becoming a wild card in every ChessMaster plan in the series. So much so that Sera, the resident GuileHero, relies on his unpredictability to simply resolve variables that she might not account for. Opposing players however make it a point to try to eliminate him from the board.

* StupidSexyFlanders: Gets this reaction from Ha-Il in chapter 88 of ''New Waves''
** That may be less of sexual attraction and more of plain embarrassment.
* SuperToughness: He takes amazing amounts of punishment, even when he's just a novice, to the point that literally every character he fights comments on how indomitable his spirit must be. Several times he stands up and demands they keep fighting ''while technically unconscious or without a pulse''. However, he has required medical attention several times after the fight ends.
** To put things in perspective, Shi-Woon could give ''Zoro'' a run for his money in the "beaten half to death" category.

* TookALevelInBadass: After catching up with the series, it's hard to remember how weak he was in the beginning.

* {{Antihero}}
** [[spoiler: AntiVillain: May have become this in New Waves]]
* [[spoiler:BadassInDistress: Since he's [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] and serving as PuppetKing to S.U.C.]]
** [[spoiler:BadassDecay: His fighting levels are still above everyone else, but he still managed to get [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashed]] somehow]]
*** [[spoiler: Later it was revealed he did this intentionally to forget Shino's death and he is not being manipulated at all. He intentionally took the drug just to forget about the painful memories.]]

* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:He is this to some people in the murim world]].

* DarkMessiah
** [[spoiler: DemotedToExtra / PutOnABus: For the most part of New Waves]].
*** [[spoiler:TheBusCameBack: Moving back into the focus as of chapter 134.]]
* DeathGlare: Chun-Woo is a pro with these, and even Shi-Woon is not safe from them.
** However, Chun-Woo isn't beyond receiving them from others [[spoiler:like Elder Kwon and now he is receiving one from Shi-Woon of all people after he killed the former who preformed [[ThanatosGambit Thanatos Gambit]] to make Shi-Woon lose his loyalty to his former master]].
* [[spoiler: TheDragon: What he ultimately is to Black Forest although Chun-Woo is a highly valuable dragon. Without Chun-Woo, there wouldn't be followers willing to commit to his or Kaiser's will or mission. Kaiser realizes this and makes it no apparent that he will dispose of Chun-Woo the first chance, he gets.]]

* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: [[spoiler: The Black Origin Threshold technique]].

* [[spoiler:GiveHimANormalLife: Is the ''REAL'' reason for depowering and disowning Shi-Woon as a disciple, since Chun-Woo has decided to MESS SOME SHIT UP. [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive Naive fool.]]]]

* HandsomeLech

%%* TheJuggernaut: see UnstoppableRage.

* LoomingSilhouetteOfRage: [[spoiler: "Demon King" mode]]

* UnstoppableRage/[[spoiler:SuperpoweredAlterId]]: [[spoiler: Chun-Woo's "[[AxCrazy Demon King]]" mode.]]

* IfICantHaveYou: [[spoiler: He had Shi-Ho shot because of this.]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He ranks pretty highly in the Alliance, and then [[spoiler: becomes the new Alliance leader in Part 2]].

* HumbleHero: Despite being one of the strongest fighters in series, he never flaunts it and even is said to have been capable of mastering more titles like Chun-Woo to be called Nine Arts but out of respect for tradition did not proceed any further the title of Three-Arts Dragon.

* WorthyOpponent: Sees Chun-Woo as potentially being this throughout Part 1 of the story
** [[spoiler: Seems like that changes when they finally meet at the end of Part 1 but in reality Kang-Sung still considers Chun-Woo someone he respects and worth trying to save if possible rather then destroy.]]
* YouRemindMeOfX: [[spoiler:Kang-Sung tells Shi-Woon he reminds him of himself, and in fact, used him as an inspiration when he fought against Chun-Woo .]]

* DCupDistress: She does not like her breasts and is annoyed with how huge they are. In one chapter she says she plans on using her bonus pay to get breast reduction surgery.

* GagBoobs: Lots of references towards her breasts. Seems to have gotten a breast reduction later.

* HoneyTrap: Her good looks are large breast are why she selected as bait for a killer of youg women.

* BareYourMidRiff: Beautifully shown [[http://www.mangareader.net/the-breaker-new-waves/2/17 here]].

* CharacterDevelopment: He starts out as a kid so driven to the edge by bullying that he is about to sell out his childhood friend to a teenage bully simply to avoid another beating. After training under Chun-Woo, he gets enough confidence to do a complete turnaround and go out of his way to protect his friends. He even outright threatens ''[[AsskickingEqualsAuthority S.U.C. captains]], various clan prodigies, and government agents'' in doing so. Helps a lot that he's got the strength and skills to back up his words. Another big one happens in New Waves, where initially [[spoiler: he doesn't want anything to do with Sun Woo, but comes to accept his position as their leader and shows that he's quite willing to fight and die for the clan]].

* NamesTheSame: Shares her name with a Korean model.

%%* ShesGotLegs

%%* ShesGotLegs

%%* ShesGotLegs

* AwesomeMcCoolname: "Dae-San" sounds much like the Korean words for "Big Mountain," which is awesome. The translators even lampshade how cool his name is.

* NoNameGiven: It has been nearly 300 chapters, and we have yet to name him other than Alliance Chief or former Alliance Chief.

!! The Chief of the Alliance

The BigBad of Part 1, and the target of Chun-Woo's revenge for his part in the death of Un-Wol, Chun-Woo's master. He seeks the "Black Heaven and Earth" technique, which was passed down from Un-Wol to Chun-Woo to Shi-Woon.