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* DemotedToExtra: Dan-O and Ha-Roo were both major characters in "Trumpet Creeper". In "Secret", Dan-O becomes a minor character while Ha-Roo is just an extra. [[spoiler:They both become extras in the next comic.]]
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* DemotedToExtra: Dan-O and Ha-Roo were both major main characters in "Trumpet Creeper". In "Secret", Dan-O becomes a minor character while Ha-Roo is just an extra. [[spoiler:They both become extras in the next comic.]]
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* DemotedToExtra: Dan-O and Ha-Roo were both major characters in "Trumpet Creeper". In "Secret", Dan-O becomes a minor character while Ha-Roo is just an extra. [[spoiler:They both become extras in the next comic.]]
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** TheHero: Haru is the most self-sacrificing of the characters.
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** TheHero: Haru Ha-Roo is the most self-sacrificing of the characters.
** TheLancer:Bae-Kyung Kyung butts heads with Haru and just wants things to stay the same.
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** TagalongKid: Joon-Hyun (Baek-Hyun's little brother and his body guard from "Trumpet Creeper")
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* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Soo-Hyang was the girl that Dried Squid Elf loved in "Trumpet Creeper". She is introduced even though "Secret" is in its final act.
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* CentralTheme: Repetition. Do story tropes become cliches because writers lack imagination or is it because the tropes are timeless?
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* HeelFaceTurn: Sae-Mi, the mean girl of "Secret", becomes the main character of the next comic.
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* WhamShot: The closeup with soft focus, [[spoiler:which happens when a self-aware character is thinking while onstage]], is used on Ju-Da after Sae-Mi steps on her shoe.
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* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: As the comic wraps up, several characters (including Haru) are erased by the author because there is no satisfactory ending for any of them.
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* FiveManBand: The self-aware characters.
** TheSmartGuy: Dan-O figures out that something is different about her world and tries to change her destiny.
** TheHero: Haru is the most self-sacrificing of the characters.
** TheLancer: Bae-Kyung butts heads with Haru and just wants things to stay the same.
** TheChick: Do-Hwa's story arc is only romance related.
** TheBigGuy: [[spoiler:Ju-Da is the most aggressive and most comfortable on the Stage.]]
** TheSmartGuy: Dan-O figures out that something is different about her world and tries to change her destiny.
** TheHero: Haru is the most self-sacrificing of the characters.
** TheLancer: Bae-Kyung butts heads with Haru and just wants things to stay the same.
** TheChick: Do-Hwa's story arc is only romance related.
** TheBigGuy: [[spoiler:Ju-Da is the most aggressive and most comfortable on the Stage.]]
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* MeaningfulName: The names Nam-Ju and Ju-Da translate to "male and female main character". Dan-O wonders why she was not just named "heart condition" by the author.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: Haru's role as extra was given to a different character after he becomes an AscendedExtra.
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* ExtravertedNerd: Soo-chul.
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* NiceGuy: Do-hwa, both on- and off-Stage.
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* LoveMartyr: Dan-o is slated to be devoted to Kyung no matter how mean he is to her, presumably leading to him eventually becoming a better person. However, the real Dan-o doesn't like to be treated like garbage and cools off to him as soon as she gains self-awareness.
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* ElaborateUniversityHigh: Seuli High. Not being real helps.
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* IllGirl: Dan-o's character archetype. She greatly resents it.
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* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Nam-ju’s and Kyung’s in-story character arcs. Played straight with Nam-ju but subverted hard with Kyung.
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* ShoutOut: The finale contains a shout-out to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Heidegger Martin Heidegger]], of all people. The series echoes themes of meaning and authenticity typical to existential philosophy.
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* HopelessSuitor: Unusually for this trope, Do-hwa knows that the story is stacked against him being with Ju-da, but tries to woo her anyway, hoping against hope he can change something in the story.
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* HopelessSuitor: Unusually for this trope, Do-hwa knows that the story is stacked against him being with Ju-da, but tries to woo her anyway, hoping against hope he can change something in the story.something.
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* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: In-Stage, Nam-ju with Ju-da and Kyung with Dan-o. Subverted in the Shadow, where Dan-o isn't romatically intersted in Kyung [[spoiler:and the real Ju-da is [[SilkHidingSteel not that gentle]]]].
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* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: In-Stage, Nam-ju with Ju-da and Kyung with Dan-o. Subverted in the Shadow, where Dan-o isn't romatically intersted romantically interested in Kyung [[spoiler:and the real Ju-da is [[SilkHidingSteel not that gentle]]]].
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* GoldDigger: [[spoiler:Ju-da is a rare relatively sympathetic example. Even though she has a closer connection with Do-hwa, she ultimately chooses Nam-ju who can provide her with more money and influence in the school. Given the fact the she has to support herself and her ailing grandmother, this is not unreasonable of her. She also generally likes Nam-ju, despite his limited functionality, and believes he needs her more than the self-aware Do-hwa.]]
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''Extraordinary You'' (어쩌다 발견한 하루; ''Eojjeoda Balgyeonhan Haru'') is a 2019 KoreanSeries starring Kim Hye-yoon, Rowoon, Lee Jae-wook, Lee Na-eun, Jung Gun-joo, Kim Young-dae and Lee Tae-ri.
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''Extraordinary You'' (어쩌다 발견한 하루; ''Eojjeoda Balgyeonhan Haru'') is a 2019 KoreanSeries KoreanSeries, based on the webtoon ''July Found By Chance'' (어쩌다 발견한 7월), starring Kim Hye-yoon, Rowoon, Lee Jae-wook, Lee Na-eun, Jung Gun-joo, Kim Young-dae and Lee Tae-ri.
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''Extraordinary You'' (어쩌다 발견한 하루; ''Eojjeoda Balgyeonhan Haru'') is a 2019 KoreanSeries starring Kim Hye-yoon, Rowoon, Lee Jae-wook, Lee Na-eun, Jung Gun-joo, Kim Young-dae and Lee Tae-ri.
OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Eun Dan-o has it all: money, friends, and a place at the prestigous Seuli High. She is also engaged to her childhood crush, Baek Kyung, who belongs to the A3 clique which practically rules the school. Apart from her chronic heart condition, things look fine.
Until one day, she starts noticing something weird going on: sometimes she finds herself in places and situations with no memory of how she got there; at other times, she does and says things against her will, as if someone is controlling her from the outside. Eventually, she finds out the truth: her world is not real, but a romance {{Manhwa}} called ''Secret''. Outside the scenes, or in the “Shadow”, she can do and say whatever she wants; but inside the story, the “Stage”, she’s bound to the will of [[AuthorPowers the omnipotent Writer]]. Her new self-awareness means she can remember what happens in the Shadow, but she can’t change the story.
At first, it doesn’t seem so bad: after all, there are worse fates than being the protagonist in a high-school romance. But soon she discovers the awful truth: she’s not the protagonist at all, but a third-tier extra, and the Writer’s plans for her don’t seem encouraging. Undaunted, she sets out to change her fate with the help of a mysterious new student.
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!!''Extraordinary You'' contains examples of:
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: What the writer seems to believe, judging from the in-story popularity of Nam-ju and Kyung. Subverted off-Stage.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Ju-da is constantly bullied for being a poor ScholarshipStudent in a school full of Fiction500 kids.
* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler:First Haru for Dan-o; then Dan-o for Haru. In ''Trumpet Creeper'', Soo-hyang to the king/Dried Squid Elf.]]
* BastardBoyfriend: Deconstructed with Kyung. Turns out girls don’t actually enjoy being treated like garbage, [[SarcasmMode who would’ve thunk it?]]
* TheBeautifulElite: Most of the school, but especially A3.
* BettyAndVeronica:
** In-Stage, Nam-ju (Veronica) and Do-hwa (Betty) to Ju-da’s Archie.
** Kyung would have been the Veronica to Haru’s Betty and Dan-o’s Archie if she had any feelings for him whatsoever outside the Stage. He still tries.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Ju-da. Once she becomes self-aware, she quickly gets sick of her status as a passive character to be bullied or fawned over, and starts giving as good as she gets.]]
* BodyguardCrush: [[spoiler:Past Haru and Dan-o in ''Trumpet Creeper'', although technically he's Prince Kyung's bodyguard, not hers.]]
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: In-Stage, Nam-ju with Ju-da and Kyung with Dan-o. Subverted in the Shadow, where Dan-o isn't romatically intersted in Kyung [[spoiler:and the real Ju-da is [[SilkHidingSteel not that gentle]]]].
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: It’s a romance manhwa or not?
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: The basis for Kyung and Dan-o’s engagement, although the involvement of their families makes it more akin to an ArrangedMarriage.
* CuteMute: Number 13/Haru, initially.
* DaddysGirl: Dan-o is very close with her father, who dotes on her.
* DamselInDistress: Ju-da needs saving a lot.
* DeathOfPersonality: The fate of self-aware characters who die in the Shadow. It causes one’s ego and self-awareness to disappear, along with all related memories, leaving behind only the original "programmed" character.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Haru to Dan-o. In-Stage, Nam-ju to Ju-da.
* DeconstructorFleet: Of romance manhwa tropes.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Nam-ju’s and Kyung’s in-story character arcs. Played straight with Nam-ju but subverted hard with Kyung.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Kyung treats Dan-o poorly and claims she annoys him, but is furious when he discovers her real self loves Haru. In his mind, the fact they are a couple in-story means he has an exclusive right to her love.
* EvilMatriarch: Nam-ju’s mother, both in ''Secret'' and in ''Trumpet Creeper'' (where she was [[spoiler:Dried Squid Elf’s]] mother.)
* TheEvilPrince: [[spoiler:Prince Kyung]] in ''Trumpet Creeper''.
* ExtravertedNerd: Soo-chul.
* FirstEpisodeTwist: Dan-o is not the female protagonist of the comic, Ju-da is.
* FlowerMotifs:
** The trumpet creeper, symbolizing waiting or yearning, crops up a lot.
** Kyung brings Dan-o pink roses, which mean “only you know how I feel”.
* FreudianExcuse: Kyung’s abusive father seems to be behind most of his issues, along with the death of his mother.
* TheGenericGuy: When Haru is brought back after disappearing, he becomes a character whose defining trait is “that guy who follows Kyung around”.
* GrandRomanticGesture: All over the place in-Stage. Nam-ju is particularly fond of them.
* GreenThumb: Ju-da cultivates flowers, in accordance with her sweet personality. [[spoiler:She loses interest after she becomes self-aware.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Unusually for this trope, Do-hwa knows that the story is stacked against him being with Ju-da, but tries to woo her anyway, hoping against hope he can change something in the story.
* IllGirl: Dan-o's character archetype. She greatly resents it.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Lampshaded. “I have a heart disease, why am I coughing?”
* InstantFanClub: The A3 boys each have a gaggle of female admirers who follow them around, as well as some male lackeys. Haru also starts to develop one, although he mostly just brushes them off.
* IWillWaitForYou: Haru and Dan-o.
* LampshadeHanging: Constantly. Characters complain about their cheesy lines, cast doubt on the Writer’s skill and hate their own clichéd in-story personalities.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: All the characters who are not self-aware, by nature of their condition. Especially evident for [[spoiler:Nam-ju: by the end of the series, both his closest friends and his love interest are self-aware, and constantly talk over his head while he can only blink at them and stick to his lines.]]
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: A variation with Sae-mi, who is a RichBitch bully who torments Ju-da in-Stage but a nice enough, if [[TheDitz ditzy]], girl outside of it. Since she is not self-aware, she doesn’t notice the incongruity, but expresses regret for her in-Stage actions a few times.
* MediumAwareness: The entire premise of the show.
* MissingMom:
** Kyung’s mother died when he was young, which caused him to develop extreme aversion to sickness and hospitals.
** Dan-o’s mother is also deceased, although we’re not told what happened to her.
* MrExposition: Dried Squid Elf is in charge of explaining the rules of the world to the newly self-aware characters. He even has a little puppet theater ready as a prop.
* NiceGuy: Do-hwa, both on- and off-Stage.
* OneHeadTaller: Haru noticeably towers over Dan-o. Their regular hanging spot at the bridge has a box for her to stand on so they can talk eye-to-eye.
* PennyAmongDiamonds: Ju-da is the sole ScholarshipStudent in Seuli High. She still needs to work in the evenings to support herself and pay her grandmother’s medical bills.
* PluckyGirl: Dan-o’s real personality, contrasting with her more timid character.
* RichesToRags: [[spoiler:Dried Squid Elf was a king in ''Trumpet Creeper''; in ''Secret'', he’s a school cafeteria worker with barely any lines. Not that he seems to mind much.]]
* RomanticRunnerUp: Do-hwa’s designated role in ''Secret'' [[spoiler:and ultimately [[DidNotGetTheGirl also in the Shadow.]]]]
* ScrewDestiny: Dan-o's driving motivation.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Everyone! But especially Nam-ju.
* SelfPlagiarism: The Writer isn’t too invested in making up original characters. Quite a few of the characters in ''Secret'' already appeared in previous period piece ''Trumpet Creeper''. Dried Squid Elf suspects this habit facilitates self-awareness in the recycled characters.
* SoapOperaDisease: Dan-o's incredibly vague but fatal heart condition.
* TitleDrop: When Dan-o tutors Haru in English, explaining the meaning of the word "extraordinary".
* WeirdnessCensor: Characters ignore weird things that happen in the Shadow (floating items, clocks running backwards, etc.), as well as the fact that they don’t remember anything that happened between scenes. Suddenly noticing the weirdness is one of the first symptoms of developing self-awareness.
* YouAreNumberSix: Number 13 (his class number; initially, he doesn’t have a proper name).
* YouCantFightFate: Dried Squid Elf and later Joon-hyun try to dissuade the other characters from trying to change anything, since they both remember how badly this ended in ''Trumpet Creeper''.
* YouMustBeCold: Happens a lot. Early on, Dan-o has to explain to poor Haru that he doesn’t need to take off [[WalkingShirtlessScene both his jacket and shirt]] to do this.
* YoureNotMyFather: Kyung despises his stepmother and refuses to acknowledge her as family.
OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Eun Dan-o has it all: money, friends, and a place at the prestigous Seuli High. She is also engaged to her childhood crush, Baek Kyung, who belongs to the A3 clique which practically rules the school. Apart from her chronic heart condition, things look fine.
Until one day, she starts noticing something weird going on: sometimes she finds herself in places and situations with no memory of how she got there; at other times, she does and says things against her will, as if someone is controlling her from the outside. Eventually, she finds out the truth: her world is not real, but a romance {{Manhwa}} called ''Secret''. Outside the scenes, or in the “Shadow”, she can do and say whatever she wants; but inside the story, the “Stage”, she’s bound to the will of [[AuthorPowers the omnipotent Writer]]. Her new self-awareness means she can remember what happens in the Shadow, but she can’t change the story.
At first, it doesn’t seem so bad: after all, there are worse fates than being the protagonist in a high-school romance. But soon she discovers the awful truth: she’s not the protagonist at all, but a third-tier extra, and the Writer’s plans for her don’t seem encouraging. Undaunted, she sets out to change her fate with the help of a mysterious new student.
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!!''Extraordinary You'' contains examples of:
* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: What the writer seems to believe, judging from the in-story popularity of Nam-ju and Kyung. Subverted off-Stage.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Ju-da is constantly bullied for being a poor ScholarshipStudent in a school full of Fiction500 kids.
* AmnesiacLover: [[spoiler:First Haru for Dan-o; then Dan-o for Haru. In ''Trumpet Creeper'', Soo-hyang to the king/Dried Squid Elf.]]
* BastardBoyfriend: Deconstructed with Kyung. Turns out girls don’t actually enjoy being treated like garbage, [[SarcasmMode who would’ve thunk it?]]
* TheBeautifulElite: Most of the school, but especially A3.
* BettyAndVeronica:
** In-Stage, Nam-ju (Veronica) and Do-hwa (Betty) to Ju-da’s Archie.
** Kyung would have been the Veronica to Haru’s Betty and Dan-o’s Archie if she had any feelings for him whatsoever outside the Stage. He still tries.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[spoiler:Ju-da. Once she becomes self-aware, she quickly gets sick of her status as a passive character to be bullied or fawned over, and starts giving as good as she gets.]]
* BodyguardCrush: [[spoiler:Past Haru and Dan-o in ''Trumpet Creeper'', although technically he's Prince Kyung's bodyguard, not hers.]]
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: In-Stage, Nam-ju with Ju-da and Kyung with Dan-o. Subverted in the Shadow, where Dan-o isn't romatically intersted in Kyung [[spoiler:and the real Ju-da is [[SilkHidingSteel not that gentle]]]].
* CastFullOfPrettyBoys: It’s a romance manhwa or not?
* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: The basis for Kyung and Dan-o’s engagement, although the involvement of their families makes it more akin to an ArrangedMarriage.
* CuteMute: Number 13/Haru, initially.
* DaddysGirl: Dan-o is very close with her father, who dotes on her.
* DamselInDistress: Ju-da needs saving a lot.
* DeathOfPersonality: The fate of self-aware characters who die in the Shadow. It causes one’s ego and self-awareness to disappear, along with all related memories, leaving behind only the original "programmed" character.
* DeclarationOfProtection: Haru to Dan-o. In-Stage, Nam-ju to Ju-da.
* DeconstructorFleet: Of romance manhwa tropes.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Nam-ju’s and Kyung’s in-story character arcs. Played straight with Nam-ju but subverted hard with Kyung.
* EntitledToHaveYou: Kyung treats Dan-o poorly and claims she annoys him, but is furious when he discovers her real self loves Haru. In his mind, the fact they are a couple in-story means he has an exclusive right to her love.
* EvilMatriarch: Nam-ju’s mother, both in ''Secret'' and in ''Trumpet Creeper'' (where she was [[spoiler:Dried Squid Elf’s]] mother.)
* TheEvilPrince: [[spoiler:Prince Kyung]] in ''Trumpet Creeper''.
* ExtravertedNerd: Soo-chul.
* FirstEpisodeTwist: Dan-o is not the female protagonist of the comic, Ju-da is.
* FlowerMotifs:
** The trumpet creeper, symbolizing waiting or yearning, crops up a lot.
** Kyung brings Dan-o pink roses, which mean “only you know how I feel”.
* FreudianExcuse: Kyung’s abusive father seems to be behind most of his issues, along with the death of his mother.
* TheGenericGuy: When Haru is brought back after disappearing, he becomes a character whose defining trait is “that guy who follows Kyung around”.
* GrandRomanticGesture: All over the place in-Stage. Nam-ju is particularly fond of them.
* GreenThumb: Ju-da cultivates flowers, in accordance with her sweet personality. [[spoiler:She loses interest after she becomes self-aware.]]
* HopelessSuitor: Unusually for this trope, Do-hwa knows that the story is stacked against him being with Ju-da, but tries to woo her anyway, hoping against hope he can change something in the story.
* IllGirl: Dan-o's character archetype. She greatly resents it.
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: Lampshaded. “I have a heart disease, why am I coughing?”
* InstantFanClub: The A3 boys each have a gaggle of female admirers who follow them around, as well as some male lackeys. Haru also starts to develop one, although he mostly just brushes them off.
* IWillWaitForYou: Haru and Dan-o.
* LampshadeHanging: Constantly. Characters complain about their cheesy lines, cast doubt on the Writer’s skill and hate their own clichéd in-story personalities.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: All the characters who are not self-aware, by nature of their condition. Especially evident for [[spoiler:Nam-ju: by the end of the series, both his closest friends and his love interest are self-aware, and constantly talk over his head while he can only blink at them and stick to his lines.]]
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: A variation with Sae-mi, who is a RichBitch bully who torments Ju-da in-Stage but a nice enough, if [[TheDitz ditzy]], girl outside of it. Since she is not self-aware, she doesn’t notice the incongruity, but expresses regret for her in-Stage actions a few times.
* MediumAwareness: The entire premise of the show.
* MissingMom:
** Kyung’s mother died when he was young, which caused him to develop extreme aversion to sickness and hospitals.
** Dan-o’s mother is also deceased, although we’re not told what happened to her.
* MrExposition: Dried Squid Elf is in charge of explaining the rules of the world to the newly self-aware characters. He even has a little puppet theater ready as a prop.
* NiceGuy: Do-hwa, both on- and off-Stage.
* OneHeadTaller: Haru noticeably towers over Dan-o. Their regular hanging spot at the bridge has a box for her to stand on so they can talk eye-to-eye.
* PennyAmongDiamonds: Ju-da is the sole ScholarshipStudent in Seuli High. She still needs to work in the evenings to support herself and pay her grandmother’s medical bills.
* PluckyGirl: Dan-o’s real personality, contrasting with her more timid character.
* RichesToRags: [[spoiler:Dried Squid Elf was a king in ''Trumpet Creeper''; in ''Secret'', he’s a school cafeteria worker with barely any lines. Not that he seems to mind much.]]
* RomanticRunnerUp: Do-hwa’s designated role in ''Secret'' [[spoiler:and ultimately [[DidNotGetTheGirl also in the Shadow.]]]]
* ScrewDestiny: Dan-o's driving motivation.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney: Everyone! But especially Nam-ju.
* SelfPlagiarism: The Writer isn’t too invested in making up original characters. Quite a few of the characters in ''Secret'' already appeared in previous period piece ''Trumpet Creeper''. Dried Squid Elf suspects this habit facilitates self-awareness in the recycled characters.
* SoapOperaDisease: Dan-o's incredibly vague but fatal heart condition.
* TitleDrop: When Dan-o tutors Haru in English, explaining the meaning of the word "extraordinary".
* WeirdnessCensor: Characters ignore weird things that happen in the Shadow (floating items, clocks running backwards, etc.), as well as the fact that they don’t remember anything that happened between scenes. Suddenly noticing the weirdness is one of the first symptoms of developing self-awareness.
* YouAreNumberSix: Number 13 (his class number; initially, he doesn’t have a proper name).
* YouCantFightFate: Dried Squid Elf and later Joon-hyun try to dissuade the other characters from trying to change anything, since they both remember how badly this ended in ''Trumpet Creeper''.
* YouMustBeCold: Happens a lot. Early on, Dan-o has to explain to poor Haru that he doesn’t need to take off [[WalkingShirtlessScene both his jacket and shirt]] to do this.
* YoureNotMyFather: Kyung despises his stepmother and refuses to acknowledge her as family.
