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* Heroic BSOD: Hwi-kyung goes through one after Jae-kyung is arrested.

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* Heroic BSOD: HeroicBSOD: Hwi-kyung goes through one after Jae-kyung is arrested.
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* Heroic BSOD: Hwi-kyung goes through one after Jae-kyung is arrested.
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: As Min-joon was caught up in the events surrounding Yi-hwa, the aliens' spaceships leave Earth without him and he ends up stranded.

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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: As Min-joon was caught up in the events surrounding Yi-hwa, the aliens' spaceships leave Earth without him and he ends up stranded.stranded.
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Song-yi to Min-joon [[spoiler: after they become a couple.]]
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* HumanAliens: Min-joon. Also, the other aliens who came along to the trip to Earth.
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* InnocentBigot: Hwi-kyung to Se-Mi (who has a crush on him) everytime he talks about Song-yi.

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* InnocentBigot: InnocentlyInsensitive: Hwi-kyung to Se-Mi (who has a crush on him) everytime he talks about Song-yi.
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** Also Se-Mi's mother.
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‘’My Love from Another Star’’ (Hangul: 별에서 온 그대, romanized: Byeoreseo on geudae) is a 2014 South KoreanDrama that is currently airing on SBS. It is also known as [[IHaveManyNames You Who Came From Another Star, Man from the Stars, Lover from the Stars, and Lover from Another Star]], and stars [[DreamHigh Kim Soo Hyun]] as Do Min-joon, an alien who has been stranded on Earth for more than 400 years. [[MySassyGirl Jeon Ji-hyun]] is the popular actress Chun Song-yi, whom he meets just as his ride back home is about to arrive in three months’ time.

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‘’My Love from Another Star’’ (Hangul: 별에서 온 그대, romanized: Byeoreseo Byeoleseo on geudae) is a 2014 South KoreanDrama that is currently airing on SBS. It is also known as [[IHaveManyNames You Who Came From Another Star, Man from the Stars, Lover from the Stars, and Lover from Another Star]], and stars [[DreamHigh Kim Soo Hyun]] as Do Min-joon, an alien who has been stranded on Earth for more than 400 years. [[MySassyGirl Jeon Ji-hyun]] is the popular actress Chun Song-yi, whom he meets just as his ride back home is about to arrive in three months’ time.

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* BaitAndSwitch: Min-joon plans to propose to Song-yi by making her open his car's trunk. He quickly changes his mind and replaces all of the contents with a mop.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Hae-in, the manhwa store owner and Song-yi's friend.



* BigLittleBrother: Yoon-jae.



* CallBack: Song-yi reads Min-joon's conversations from [=LINE=] and sees a message written "I miss you." It was the message Min-joon deleted with the help of his MundaneUtility.



* ChekhovsGun: A voice recorder pen Hwi-kyung got from [[spoiler:Han-kyung. Another pen of the same model is the evidence to the murder of the latter, courtesy of Jae-kyung.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: Song-yi's acting may be just an InformedAbility[[spoiler:, but she uses this to get herself out of an ambush be Jae-kyung's secretary/assistant.]]



* InformedAbility: Song-yi's acting. You'll never see her act in the series, except for the action scenes. Until for the ChekhovsSkill.



* MoodWhiplash: This drama tends to follow sad scenes after funny scenes, and vice-versa.



* PlanningForTheFutureBeforeTheEnd: Min-joon and Song-yi did this while in an isolated island. Includes family planning, future home, and financial issues.



* ShipperOnDeck: Yoon-jae to Min-joon and Song-yi, after he finds out that the former also likes astronomy.



* [[spoiler:WalkingSpoiler:Han-kyung. His [[PosthumousCharacter death]] led to the events regarding Jae-kyung's ex-wife and Han Yoo-ra and eventually Do Min-joon and Cheon Song-yi.]]

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* [[spoiler:WalkingSpoiler:Han-kyung.TheStinger: These contains backstories, expositions, or funny bonus scenes.
* [[spoiler:WalkingSpoiler: Han-kyung.
His [[PosthumousCharacter death]] led to the events regarding Jae-kyung's ex-wife and Han Yoo-ra and eventually Do Min-joon and Cheon Song-yi.]]
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* AmusingInjuries: Song-yi banged her head when she found out her drunken antics after being dumped by Min-joon.


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* DeadpanSnarker: Min-joon. Occasionally accompanied by his "Joseon jokes".


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* ImprobableWeaponUser: Song-yi once beat up a pervert in an elevator using her ''cellphone''.
-->'''Manager Beom:''' The pervert was in a coma for 8 months. It's the first time I felt pity for the pervert.


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* [[spoiler:PosthumousCharacter: Han-kyung, Hwi-kyung's and Jae-kyung's actual older brother.]]


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* [[spoiler:WalkingSpoiler:Han-kyung. His [[PosthumousCharacter death]] led to the events regarding Jae-kyung's ex-wife and Han Yoo-ra and eventually Do Min-joon and Cheon Song-yi.]]
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Se-Mi.
** Song-yi has her own cases too.


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* InnocentBigot: Hwi-kyung to Se-Mi (who has a crush on him) everytime he talks about Song-yi.


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* ProductPlacement: Min-joon and Song-yi communicate via a text messaging app named [=LINE=]


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* SingleTargetSexuality: Hwi-kyung is Song-yi-sexual.

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* CatchPhrase: Song-yi's "Sorry, okay? Sorry." line.



* FiveStagesofGrief: After Min-joon tells Song-yi that he is an alien and basically breaks up with her, Song-yi deals with these. While having alternating scenes with Min-joon while teaching these five stages.

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* FiveStagesofGrief: After Min-joon tells Song-yi that he is an alien and basically breaks up with her, Song-yi deals with these. While having alternating scenes with Min-joon while teaching discussing these five stages.


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* HeterosexualLifePartner: Lawyer Jang and Min-joon. The former even helps in the latter's identity changes.


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* LectureAsExposition: While Min-joon does his duty as a college professor, his lectures often correspond with events related to Song-yi. See Five Stages of Grief above as an example.


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* ParentalSubstitute: Lawyer Jang acts like this whenever Min-joon needs it.

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* CantHoldHisLiquor: Min-joon. He will use his powers even if there are other people watching.



* ContinuityNod: The lines Song-yi said when she rejected Min-joon is the same lines Min-joon used when he rejected Song-yi when they were in a frozen lake.
** [[spoiler: In chronological order, the method Jae-kyung used to kill Yoo-ra is the same when he killed his older brother, Han-kyung. Complete with exact lines.]]



** Bargaining: This stage was both not shown and not discussed by Min-joon.

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** Bargaining: This stage Song-yi analyzes her relationship with Min-joon and decides that he was both not shown and not discussed by Min-joon.her type.



* [[spoiler:MiddleChildSyndrome: Jae Kyung. He is not the eldest; he and Hwi-Kyung had an older brother named Han-Kyung. Jae-kyung killed him due to this trope.]]



* PricelessMingVase: Song-yi breaks an actual Ming vase of Min-joon.

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* PricelessMingVase: Song-yi breaks an actual Ming priceless vase of Min-joon.Min-joon. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint She tries to bribe him with a promise that she will replace it with a fake one.]]


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** An actual comedic one. Everytime Song-yi and Min-joon kiss, the latter weakens due to his WeaksauceWeakness. Song-yi has to carry a limping Min-joon since their kisses are on inconvenient places.
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* PricelessMingVase: Song-yi breaks an actual Ming vase of Min-joon.

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** What's even funnier is that Yoon-jae was trying to discourage Min-joon's relationship with his sister.



* GilliganCut: Song-yi watches a television series and predicts that it will get 8% in ratings. Cut to a scene showing a cake with "Congratulations on Breaking 20% in Ratings" from the staff of the said series.

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* GilliganCut: Song-yi watches a Se-Mi's television series and predicts that it will get 8% in ratings. Cut to a scene showing a cake with "Congratulations on Breaking 20% in Ratings" from the staff of the said series.



* MundaneUtility: Min-joon occasionally uses his telekinesis to do simple things like pulling a glass of water towards him, or dancing books in the air for no reason other than because he wanted to.

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* MundaneUtility: Min-joon occasionally uses his telekinesis to do simple things like pulling a glass of water towards him, or dancing books in the air for no reason other than because he wanted to.to.
** He can also cut off the electric supply of the whole city of Seoul. He only did this while he was drunk, though.
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* FiveStagesofGrief: After Min-joon tells Song-yi that he is an alien and basically breaks up with her, Song-yi deals with these. While having alternating scenes with Min-joon while teaching these five stages.
** Denial: Song-yi starts to think that it was all a joke and starts to look for hidden cameras.
** Anger: Song-yi flails around in her bed and screaming about her situation
** Bargaining: This stage was both not shown and not discussed by Min-joon.
** Depression: Song-yi stares out while eating; Yoon-jae and another friend of Song-yi points this out.
** Acceptance: Song-yi tries to win Min-joon's heart over by exercising on a treadmill.
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* ButNowIMustGo: As soon as the plot kicks off, we know that Min-joon is going to leave Earth. [[spoiler:Ultimately zigzagged when he leaves, but manages to come back now and then.]]

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* DoggedNiceGuy: Hwi-kyung to Song-yi. Unfortunately for him, being the second male lead means it will never work.

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* DoggedNiceGuy: Hwi-kyung to Song-yi. Unfortunately for him, being the second male lead means it will never work. work.
* DubNameChange: As usual in the Philippine dub.
** Cheon Song-yi ~ Steffi Cheon
** Do Min-joon ~ Matteo Do
** Lee Hwi-kyung ~ Winston Lee
** Yoo Se-mi ~ Lucy Yoo
** Lee Jae-kyung ~ Jackson Lee
** Jan Yoo-ra ~ Rachel Han
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* InelegantBlubbering: Discussed by Song-yi in Episode 7, when she points out the differences between real and fake tears.
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** An inversion would be Min-joon telling Hwi-kyung that Song-yi slept in his apartment while sober, then cutting to a lecture by Min-joon about how he does not indulge in jealousy.
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* TimeStandsStill: Min-joon's main power.
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* Jerkass: Jae-kyung, Se-mi's mom

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* Jerkass: {{Jerkass}}: Jae-kyung, Se-mi's mom
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* KnightOfCerebus: Jae-kyung, and how. The drama can border on RomCom at times, but as soon as he shows up things get a lot darker.
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* GilliganCut: Song-yi watches a television series and predicts that it will get 8% in ratings. Cut to a scene showing a cake with "Congratulations on Breaking 20% in Ratings" from the staff of the said series.
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* AttentionDefecitOohShiny: Yoon-jae who gets distracted with chocolate milk and telescopes in episode 16.

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* MeaningfulName: Chun Song-yi means "One Thousand Flowers"

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* TheAce: Do Min-joon has nifty alien powers, is good-looking, incredibly smart and filthy rich.

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* TheAce: Do Min-joon has nifty alien powers, is good-looking, incredibly smart and filthy rich. Lee Hwi-kyung is this as well when he investigates the mystery behind Han Yoo-ra's death.
* [[AloofBigBrother Aloof Younger Brother]]: Chun Yoon-jae.
* AttentionDefecitOohShiny: Yoon-jae who gets distracted with chocolate milk and telescopes in episode 16.



* DisappearedDad: Subverted. Song-yi's father has been keeping an eye on his children, though he feel ashamed to meet them.

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* DisappearedDad: Subverted. Song-yi's father has been keeping an eye on his children, though he feel ashamed to meet them. In Yoon-jae's case, his mother told him that he has no father so he always believed that he never had one.



* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Song-yi is the Foolish sibling and Yoon-jae is the Responsible.



* Jerkass: Jae-kyung, Se-mi's mom
* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold; Song-yi's mom may be a mix of this along with StageMom but she does deeply care for her children.
* [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Knight Templar Younger Brother]]: Chun Yoon-jae. He may be aloof but he's very protective of his sister.



* YouCantGoHomeAgain: As Min-joon was caught up in the events surrounding Yi-hwa, the aliens' spaceships leave Earth without him and he ends up stranded.

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* BroughtDownToNormal: Min-joon’s WeaksauceWeakness can do this.

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* BroughtDownToNormal: Min-joon’s WeaksauceWeakness can do this. this.
* {{Conscription}}: PlayedForLaughs. According to Min-joon, each time he changed identities, he had to be redrafted into the South Korean mandatory military service. So far he's spent a total of 49 years and 7 months in the military.
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*FriendlessBackground: Both Min-joon and Song-yi to a certain extent. At one point, the two bond over their loneliness.
** Min-joon deliberately keeps his distance from humans due to his incredibly long lifespan, and after falling seriously ill due to a colleague spitting in his coffee, starts eating alone to avoid similar incidents. He does end up with a friend in Lawyer Jang, however, whose life he saved thirty years ago.
** Song-yi has Hwi-kyung and Se-Mi, but the former is a persistent admirer and the latter claims to have been friends with her because she had no other choice. Other people around her tend to be contingent on her popularity and success.

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* DisappearedDad: Subverted. Song-yi's father has been keeping an eye on his children, though he feel ashamed to meet them.



* RunningGag: A non-comedic one. Jae-kyung has a habit of asking after the health of people he plans to kill, because his M.O. is to make people’s deaths seem to be an accident caused by whatever illness they have. His concern over people’s health {“How is your diabetes/depression/insomnia nowadays? Please take care of yourself.”) is the stuff of nightmares.

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* RunningGag: A non-comedic one. Jae-kyung has a habit of asking after the health of people he plans to kill, because his M.O. is to make people’s deaths seem to be an accident caused by whatever illness they have. His concern over people’s health {“How (“How is your diabetes/depression/insomnia nowadays? Please take care of yourself.”) is the stuff of nightmares.


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* StageMom: Song-yi's mother.


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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: As Min-joon was caught up in the events surrounding Yi-hwa, the aliens' spaceships leave Earth without him and he ends up stranded.
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‘’My Love from Another Star’’ (Hangul: 별에서 온 그대, romanized: Byeoreseo on geudae) is a 2014 South KoreanDrama that is currently airing on SBS. It is also known as [[IHaveManyNames You Who Came From Another Star, Man from the Stars, Lover from the Stars, and Lover from Another Star]], and stars [[DreamHigh Kim Soo Hyun]] as Do Min-joon, an alien who has been stranded on Earth for more than 400 years. [[MySassyGirl Jeon Ji-hyun]] is the popular actress Chun Song-yi, whom he meets just as his ride back home is about to arrive in three months’ time.

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*TheAce: Do Min-joon has nifty alien powers, is good-looking, incredibly smart and filthy rich.
* {{Badass}}: Naturally, Min-joon.
* BigBad: Jae-kyung is firmly established as this, killing people left and right without batting an eye. He has also trapped his ex-wife in a mental asylum.
* BigDamnHeroes: Min-joon saves the young Song-yi from certain death via oncoming truck, and literally drops out of nowhere to stop Song-yi’s out-of-control car from sailing over the edge of a cliff.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Min-joon’s WeaksauceWeakness can do this.
* DamselInDistress: Both Yi-hwa and Song-yi.
* DoggedNiceGuy: Hwi-kyung to Song-yi. Unfortunately for him, being the second male lead means it will never work.
* FirstKiss: Song-yi is under the impression that Min-joon’s first kiss is with her in Episode 8. While she isn’t wrong about it being her, his first kiss actually happens in Episode 4, in what Song-yi thought was a dream.
* TheLostLenore: Yi-hwa to Min-joon, though she may not be as lost as he thought.
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Min-joon hasn’t aged in 400 years, and is either immortal or incredibly long-lived. Song-yi on the other hand, is a normal human.
* MundaneUtility: Min-joon occasionally uses his telekinesis to do simple things like pulling a glass of water towards him, or dancing books in the air for no reason other than because he wanted to.
* ReincarnationRomance: There are hints, but nothing explicit has been confirmed.
** Young Song-yi looks identical to Yi-hwa.
** Song-yi hates the Joseon era, and feels an unexplainable sadness when she sees Yi-hwa’s hairpin, to the point of tears.
* RescueRomance: Played with. While Min-joon has saved [[DamselInDistress Song-yi]] from certain death three times already, she doesn’t know about any of them. What she does know is that he is always on hand to rescue her from less life-threatening and more embarrassing or frustrating situations.
** It's played straight with Yi-hwa, who falls in love with Min-joon when he repeatedly saves her life.
* RunningGag: A non-comedic one. Jae-kyung has a habit of asking after the health of people he plans to kill, because his M.O. is to make people’s deaths seem to be an accident caused by whatever illness they have. His concern over people’s health {“How is your diabetes/depression/insomnia nowadays? Please take care of yourself.”) is the stuff of nightmares.
* ShoutOut: There are quite a few littered around.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Min-joon cannot share blood or saliva with humans. Drinking a cup of coffee spat in by a disgruntled colleague rendered him seriously ill for a week, and kissing Song-yi gave him a high fever within three hours. He also loses control of his powers when he’s sick.

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