History Series / MyGirlfriendIsANineTailedFox

* AudienceSurrogate: Dae Woong can't believe that [[spoiler: he and Mi Ho goes from [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne only one can live]] to separate-to-survive]]

%% * FantasticFoxes

* ArtInitiatesLife: How Dae Woong frees Mi Ho from the painting

Not to be confused with the 2021 drama ''Series/MyRoomateIsAGumiho'', though you can probably guess [[AsianFoxSpirit what they have in common]].

''My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox'' is a 2010 KoreanDrama written by Creator/TheHongSisters about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a guy whose girlfriend is a nine-tailed fox]]. Dae Woong is a rather irresponsible film school student who basically lives by mooching off his rich grandfather. After being tricked into freeing the Gumiho [nine-tailed fox] from a painting where she was bound for 500 years, Dae Woong falls down a cliff in a panic and mortally injures himself. The Gumiho saves his life by giving him her fox's bead, and so now, Dae Woong is stuck doing everything she asks or he will die from having the bead removed. Of course, this doesn't stop him from trying to find ways to get rid of the fox ("Mi Ho"). Too bad she's fallen in love with him and won't go away.

* MeaningfulName: Gu Mi Ho is a... Gumiho. To be fair, Dae Woong came up with it on the spur of the moment as part of a rather weak fib.

* [[MissedHimByThatMuch Missed Her By THAT Much]]
%% * MultipleTailedBeast

Of course, this being a drama, it's pretty inevitable that Dae Woong doesn't want to get rid of her by the end.

* [[OurMonstersAreDifferent Our]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumiho Gumihoes]] [[OurMonstersAreDifferent Are Different]]: In most legends, the nine-tailed fox [gumiho] is a shape-shifting fox who seduces men and eats their livers. [[GenreSavvy Mi Ho]] [[ExploitedTrope exploits]] this trope to get Dae Woong to do what she wants. In fact episode one reveals that the belief that gumiho kill men and eat their livers, not to mention that they need to eat 100 livers to become human, was born of malicious rumors spread by the women living around the temple who didn't want to let any of their sons marry Mi Ho, even if that meant she would stop being distracting to all the other men (the goddess Mi Ho was a servant of wanting to marry her off properly). With no potential spouse showing up, the goddess had to cut all nine of Mi Ho's tails off so she couldn't come back to the human world and seduce men.

* [[RedPillBluePill Red Vial, Blue Vial]]: Dong Joo gives the choice to Mi Ho.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Mi Ho is so unearthly beautiful that men couldn't work when she was present, which led to all the women clamoring to have her locked away.
** The mens' wives also came up with the tale of the Gumiho (Korean for nine-tailed fox) eating peoples' livers as a way to become human so that everyone would avoid her.

%% * ToiletHumour
* TookALevelInBadass: Dae Woong [[spoiler: who, despite rejecting any responsibility in the first two acts, would rather die than let Mi Ho die by the third act.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: Dong Joo believes human are selfish, [[spoiler: but cowardly Dae Woong teaches him otherwise.]]
* VillainousCrush: Dong Joo, [[spoiler: a gumiho hunter, is in love with a gumiho, who looks exactly like his past love]].
* WireFu: In-universe. Director Ban uses Wire Fu for his action scenes, but after he sees Mi Ho's ability to do all that leaping without Wire Fu, he wants to cast her in his movie.

** After hearing the gist of ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' (with the Disney ending), Mi Ho vows to become Literature/TheLittleMermaid -- until Sun Nyeo asks if that means Mi Ho wants to die.

%% * WomanInWhite: Mi Ho

* FantasticFoxes

* ImagineSpot
* ImmortalImmaturity

* InterSpeciesRomance
* JerkassFacade: Mi Ho does this to keep Dae Woong in line and to keep her bead safe.

* MultipleTailedBeast

* SealedBadassInACan: Mi Ho.
* ShapeShiftingLover: Mi Ho is one to Dae Woong.

* ToiletHumour

* WomanInWhite: Mi Ho

* IJustWantToBeNormal[=/=]WhoWantsToLiveForever: Mi Ho just wants to be human.

* JerkassFacade: Mi Ho does this to keep Dae Woong in line and to keep her bead safe

* HelloNurse: Mi Ho.

* [[OurMonstersAreDifferent Our]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumiho Gumihoes]] [[OurMonstersAreDifferent Are Different]]: In most legends, the nine-tailed fox [gumiho] is a shape-shifting fox who seduces men and eats their livers. [[GenreSavvy Mi Ho]] [[ExploitedTrope exploits]] this trope to get Dae Woong to do what she wants.

* CreatorThumbprint: Once again {{The Hong Sisters}}'s hero is [[Series/YouAreBeautiful afraid of pigs]].

Of course, this being a drama, it's pretty inevitable that Dae Woong won't want to get rid of her by the end.

''My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox'' is a 2010 KoreanDrama written by Creator/TheHongSisters about, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a guy whose girlfriend is a nine-tailed fox]]. Dae Woong is a rather irresponsible film school student who basically lives by mooching off his rich grandfather. After being tricked into freeing the Gumiho [nine-tailed fox] from a painting where she was bound for 500 years, Dae Woong falls down a cliff in a panic and mortally injures himself. The Gumiho saves his life by giving him her fox's bead, and so now Dae Woong is stuck doing everything she asks or he will die from having the bead removed. Of course, this doesn't stop him from trying to find ways to get rid of the fox ("Mi Ho"). Too bad she's fallen in love with him and won't go away.

* FirstNameBasis: Dir. Ban's daughter Sun Nyeo calls him by his first name that Aunt Min Sook mistakes Sun Nyeo for Dir. Ban's [[ParentalIncest lover]].
* {{Gasshole}}: Aunt Min Sook has a habit of passing gas when she is nervous or worried. The way she and Dir. Ban Doo Hong first met was when he took the blame for her passing gas in the elevator.
* HelloNurse: Mi Ho

* {{Leitmotif}}: Both Mi-Ho, Dong Joo, and Ban have one. Hers is "Fox Rain" so it gets played all the time, but the others take some listening to notice.
* LifeEnergy: Mi Ho's bead, which heals Dae Woong and makes him invincible
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Dae Woong's aunt and grandpa. Lampshaded when he says he's just living with her for awhile rather than planning to get married (and gets slapped).

* LovableCoward: Dae Woong, in the first two acts of the series

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: When Ban catches Aunt Min Sook in midair, look at the poster. A ''Film/GoneWithTheWind'' picture of Scarlett being held the same way.
* MeaningfulName: Gu Mi Ho is a... Gumiho. To be fair, Dae Woong just came up with it on the spur of the moment as part of a rather weak fib.
** The "구" (Gu) in gumiho is the number "nine." Later in the show, when Dae Woong is asking how many tails Mi Ho has, he says, "what's your [[{{Callback}} last name]]?"

* NiceGuy: Dae Woong knows most of his friends are using him for his money and is kind to them anyway.
* [[OurMonstersAreDifferent Our]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumiho Gumihoes]] [[OurMonstersAreDifferent Are Different]]: In most legends, the nine-tailed fox [gumiho] is a shape-shifting fox who seduces men and eats their liver. [[GenreSavvy Mi Ho]] [[ExploitedTrope exploits]] this trope to get Dae Woong to do what she wants.
* RomanticFalseLead: Hye In

* ShapeShiftingLover: Mi Ho is one to Daewoong.

** Dae Woong tells Mi Ho that they can be friends, even though they're not the same species. In fact, if ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'' can do it, so can they! And he teaches her the E.T. handshake.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Mi Ho is so unearthly beautiful that men couldn't work when she was present, and all the women clamored to have her locked away.

* VillainousCrush: Dong Joo, [[spoiler: a gumiho hunter, in love with a gumiho, who looks exactly like his past love]]
* WireFu: In-universe. Director Ban uses Wire Fu for his action scenes, but after he sees Mi Ho's ability to do all that leaping without Wire Fu he wants to cast her in his movie.

* {{Yandere}}: {{Double Subver|sion}}ted. Mi Ho at the start of the series acts like at least a ClingyJealousGirl, and possibly willing to kill her beloved (though not with a weapon) if the romance goes south. But then the plot flashbacks to their first meeting, and explains that this is largely an act to scare Dae Woong into staying close to her and protecting her bead. Later on though, she probably is willing to kill the competition for Dae.

** Park Shin Hye as [[YouAreBeautiful Go Mi Nyeo]]
** Lee Hong Ki as [[YouAreBeautiful Jeremy]]

* CreatorThumbprint: Once again {{The Hong Sisters}}'s hero is [[YouAreBeautiful afraid of pigs]].

* ActorAllusion: Dae Woong tells Mi Ho that she eats more than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kang_Ho_Dong Kang Ho Dong]] (a fat comedian). Lee Seung gi, who plays Dae Woong, and Kang Ho Dong were both regular cast members of the variety show ''1 Night 2 Days'', so Lee Seung gi would know exactly how much Kang Ho Dong eats.
* ArtImitatesArt: Min Sook takes a header off a gym balcony. Director Ban dashes across the gym floor and catches her, and they wind up in a pose exactly the same as the iconic ''GoneWithTheWind'' poster--which happens to be hanging on a wall directly behind them.

* AutoTune: Many of the pop' songs in the show use this.

* MrFanservice: [[http://iluvjin.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/mgf9tf-ep-01-han-avi_002521087.jpg Park]] [[http://evacuatewithstyle.org/blog/images/content/ews20100819mgig22.jpg Dong]] [[http://soompi_images.s3.amazonaws.com/45af7d4e9d45cb22c9ff9f9af05ed0ae_medium.jpg Joo]]

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: When Ban catches Aunt Min Sook in midair, look at the poster. A GoneWithTheWind picture of Scarlett being held the same way.

* SoBeautifulItsACurse: Mi Ho is so unearthly beautiful that men couldn't work when she was present, and all the women clamoured to have her locked away.