Line #41 Series/MyLoveFromAnotherStar


1	[[quoteright:258:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/you_who_came_from_the_stars_cover.jpg You are my destiny...]]
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3	''My Love from Another Star'' (Hangul: 별에서 온 그대, romanized: Byeoleseo on geudae) is a 2014 South KoreanDrama. 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 Kim Soo Hyun as Do Min-joon, an alien who has been stranded on Earth for more than 400 years. 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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5	Unmarked spoilers abound!
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7	!! The series contains examples of:
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9	* AbortedArc: Nothing more is shown of Hwi-kyung's lowly office job once he is revealed as the son of the owner.
10	* 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.
11	* AlphaBitch: Song-yi who is the top Hallyu star.
12	* AnswerCut: When the detective and the prosecutor investigating Han Yu-ra's death discover that she might have been pregnant, they ask themselves who the father might be. It cuts next to Jae-kyung.
13	* AllWomenLoveShoes: Cheon Song Yi really loves her babies...
14	* AmusingInjuries: Song-yi banged her head when she found out her drunken antics after being dumped by Min-joon.
15	* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Yoon-jae who gets distracted with chocolate milk and telescopes in episode 16.
16	** What's even funnier is that Yoon-jae was trying to discourage Min-joon's relationship with his sister.
17	* 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.
18	* BetaBitch: Se-mi is always second place in comparison to Song-yi.
19	* {{Bifauxnen}}: Hae-in, the manhwa store owner and Song-yi's friend.
20	* 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.
21	* 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.
22	* TheBigDamnKiss: Min-joon stops time and kisses Song-yi at her movie premiere.
23	* BigEater: Song-Yi has a big appetite which she has had to rein in since she has become famous.
24	* BigLittleBrother: Yoon-jae.
25	* BitchInSheepsClothing: Se-Mi.
26	** Song-yi has her own cases too.
27	* BrokenAce: Song-Yi is the "Jewel of Asia" but her money is being squandered by her mother and her father was driven out due a misunderstanding, and she misses him terribly. She feels the pressure to be perfect due to the constant scrutiny of the media and the public.
28	* BroughtDownToNormal: Min-joon’s WeaksauceWeakness can do this.
29	* ButNowIMustGo: As soon as the plot kicks off, we know that Min-joon is going to leave Earth. Ultimately zigzagged when he leaves, but manages to come back now and then.
30	* 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.
31	* TheCameo: Bae Suzy appears as her character from ''Series/DreamHigh'' to interact with her former co-star Kim Soo Hyun.
32	* CantHoldHisLiquor: Min-joon. He will use his powers even if there are other people watching.
33	* CatchPhrase: Song-yi's "Sorry, okay? Sorry." line.
34	* CelebrityIsOverrated: Song-yi hates the superficial adoration which comes with being a celebrity. She dislikes Min-joon at first but she comes to rely on him because he is honest with her, even when she does not want him to.
35	* ChekhovsGun: A voice recorder pen Hwi-kyung got from Han-kyung. Another pen of the same model is the evidence to the murder of the latter, courtesy of Jae-kyung.
36	* ChekhovsSkill: Song-yi's acting may be just an InformedAbility, but she uses this to get herself out of an ambush be Jae-kyung's secretary/assistant.
37	* ChildhoodFriendRomance:
38	** Song-yi and Hwi-kyung
39	** Hwi Kyung and Se-mi
40	* ClingyJealousGirl: Song-yi when she saw Min-Joon with his former student.
41	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Cheon Song-yi sometimes who tends to get drunk and Min-Joon berates her for this.
42	** Yoon-jae [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny occasionally]].
43	* {{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.
44	* ConspicuousConsumption: The mothers of Song-yi and Se-mi wear tacky and garish clothes bought with their daughters' money.
45	* 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.
46	** 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.
47	* DamselInDistress: Both Yi-hwa and Song-yi.
48	* DeadpanSnarker: Min-joon. Occasionally accompanied by his "Joseon jokes".
49	* 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.
50	* DoggedNiceGuy: Hwi-kyung to Song-yi. Unfortunately for him, being the second male lead means it will never work.
51	** Se-mi to Hwi-kyung, seemingly nice at first, but Hwi-kyung rejected her.
52	* DubNameChange: As usual in the Philippine dub.
53	** Cheon Song-yi ~ Steffi Cheon
54	** Do Min-joon ~ Matteo Do
55	** Lee Hwi-kyung ~ Winston Lee
56	** Yoo Se-mi ~ Lucy Yoo
57	** Lee Jae-kyung ~ Jackson Lee
58	** Jan Yoo-ra ~ Rachel Han
59	* TheFashionista: Cheon Song Yi, the Queen.
60	* 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.
61	* 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 discussing these five stages.
62	** Denial: Song-yi starts to think that it was all a joke and starts to look for hidden cameras.
63	** Anger: Song-yi flails around in her bed and screaming about her situation
64	** Bargaining: Song-yi analyzes her relationship with Min-joon and decides that he was not her type.
65	** Depression: Song-yi stares out while eating; Yoon-jae and another friend of Song-yi points this out.
66	** Acceptance: Song-yi tries to win Min-joon's heart over by exercising on a treadmill.
67	* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Song-yi is the Foolish sibling and Yoon-jae is the Responsible.
68	* ForeignRemake: The Chinese drama "My Amazing Boyfriend".
69	* FriendlessBackground: Both Min-joon and Song-yi to a certain extent. At one point, the two bond over their loneliness.
70	** 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.
71	** 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.
72	* {{Friendzone}}:
73	** Song-yi and Hwi-kyung who remain friends at the end.
74	** Hwi-kyung and Se-mi. He rejects her and only likes her as a friend.
75	* GenkiGirl: The Obnoxious and Excitable Cheon Song Yi.
76	* GilliganCut: Song-yi watches 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.
77	** 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.
78	* GirlyBruiser: Song-yi the {{Fashionista}} and [[AllWomenLoveShoes shoe-crazy]] actress who beat up a pervert in an elevator.
79	* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Song-yi does not handle alcohol well. She can either fall asleep or go on a bender. This becomes a BrickJoke when she remembers her embarrassing drunken shenanigans after she was dumped by Min-joon
80	* HeKnowsTooMuch: Jae-kyung has been killing everyone who knows that he murdered his brother.
81	* HeroicBSOD: Hwi-kyung goes through one after Jae-kyung is arrested.
82	** Song-yi when Min-joon leaves.
83	* HeterosexualLifePartner: Lawyer Jang and Min-joon. The former even helps in the latter's identity changes.
84	* HoldingOutForAHero: Discussed in one episode when Song-yi and Min-joon argue after seeing the UFO's. Min-joon thinks its silly for mankind to wait for aliens to solve their problems.
85	* HumanAliens: Min-joon. Also, the other aliens who came along to the trip to Earth.
86	* ILetGwenStacyDie: Min-joon couldn't save Yi Hwa and it was already too late...
87	* ImprobableWeaponUser: Song-yi once beat up a pervert in an elevator using her ''cellphone''.
88	-->'''Manager Beom:''' The pervert was in a coma for 8 months. It's the first time I felt pity for the pervert.
89	* InelegantBlubbering: Discussed by Song-yi in Episode 7, when she points out the differences between real and fake tears.
90	* InformedAbility: Song-yi's acting. You'll never see her act in the series, except for the action scenes. Until for the ChekhovsSkill.
91	* InnocentlyInsensitive: Hwi-kyung to Se-Mi (who has a crush on him) everytime he talks about Song-yi.
92	* InterruptedIntimacy: When Min-joon teleports onto the cruise ship, he exits out of a closet and interrupts a couple who were about to do it.
93	* ItIsDehumanizing: Min-joon is referred to as an "it" by people from Joseon when they find out that he is not human.
94	* {{Jerkass}}: Jae-kyung, Se-mi's mom
95	* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold; Song-yi's mom may be a mix of this along with StageMom but she does deeply care for her children.
96	* 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.
97	* 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.
98	* LonelyAtTheTop: The only people close to Song-yi are her ex-manager Beom, her ex assistant, her friend Bok-ja and Min-joon.
99	* TheLostLenore: Yi-hwa to Min-joon, though she may not be as lost as he thought.
100	* MagicalBoyfriend: Min-joon to Song-yi.
101	* 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.
102	* MeaningfulName: Chun Song-yi means "One Thousand Flowers"
103	* 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.
104	* ModestyTowel: Min Joon wears a towel around his waist while showering.
105	* MoodWhiplash: This drama tends to follow sad scenes after funny scenes, and vice-versa.
106	* 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.
107	** He can also cut off the electric supply of the whole city of Seoul. He only did this while he was drunk, though.
108	* NextSundayAD: Song-yi and Min-joon are reunited in 2017.
109	* NotSoStoic: Min-joon seems impassive most of the time, but is sometimes expressive.
110	* ObliviousToLove: Hwi-kyung had no idea that Se-mi loved him.
111	-->'''Hwi-kyung''': "Call the guy right now and tell him you love him." (''he answers his phone'') "Se-mi, what are you calling me for?" (''{{Beat}} as the realization sets in'')
112	* ParentalSubstitute: Lawyer Jang acts like this whenever Min-joon needs it.
113	* PlanningForTheFutureBeforeTheEnd: Min-joon and Song-yi did this while in an isolated island. Includes family planning, future home, and financial issues.
114	* PosthumousCharacter:
115	** Yi-hwa, the girl whom Min-joon befriended back in the Joseon era. Her death affected his behavior towards human nature for centuries.
116	** Han-kyung, Hwi-kyung's and Jae-kyung's actual older brother.
117	* PrettyFreeloaders: Song-yi has to live with Min-joon for a while after her career took a hit, and then when her life was in danger.
118	* PricelessMingVase: Song-yi breaks an actual priceless vase of Min-joon. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint She tries to bribe him with a promise that she will replace it with a fake one.]]
119	* ProductPlacement: Min-joon and Song-yi communicate via a text messaging app named [=LINE=]
120	* ReincarnationRomance: There are hints, but nothing explicit has been confirmed.
121	** Young Song-yi looks identical to Yi-hwa.
122	** Song-yi hates the Joseon era, and feels an unexplainable sadness when she sees Yi-hwa’s hairpin, to the point of tears.
123	* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: Poor Yi-hwa only made things worse for herself by coming back to her parents alive.
124	* 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.
125	** It's played straight with Yi-hwa, who falls in love with Min-joon when he repeatedly saves her life.
126	* 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.
127	** 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.
128	* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: Silent Min Joon and Obnoxious Song Yi.
129	* SickEpisode: Episode 9. Min-joon gets sick after kissing Song Yi
130	* SingleTargetSexuality: Hwi-kyung is Song-yi-sexual.
131	* ShipperOnDeck: Yoon-jae to Min-joon and Song-yi, after he finds out that the former also likes astronomy.
132	* ShoutOut: There are quite a few littered around.
133	* StageMom: Song-yi's mother.
134	** Also Se-Mi's mother.
135	* StarCrossedLovers: Min-joon and Song-yi are a ''literal'' example of this. Min-joon lives far longer than Song-yi and he is stuck in a different part of the galaxy.
136	* TheStoic: Min-joon is mostly impassive and expressionless.
137	* TakingTheBullet: Yi-Hwa died by shielding Min-joon from arrows.
138	* TimeStandsStill: Min-joon's main power.
139	* TheStinger: These contains backstories, expositions, or funny bonus scenes.
140	* StraightManAndWiseGuy: [[DeadpanSnarker Min-Joon]] is the StraightMan to [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Yoon Jae's]] Wise Guy.
141	* {{Tsundere}}: Song-yi. She is a bitch on the outside, but is really soft inside.
142	* 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.
143	* 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.
144	* 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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