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* ShowyInvincibleHero: [[spoiler:Once Ja-Yoon drops the act, she spends the rest of the movie being completely untouchable. Considering the catharsis of watching her tormentors finally getting theirs, it's not necessarily a problem. There's also the fact that, even though no one can significantly harmful, she's still slowly dying from the experiments done to her, so she still has a time limit to contend with at the end of the movie.]]
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* ShowyInvincibleHero: [[spoiler:Once Ja-Yoon drops the act, she spends the rest of the movie being completely untouchable. Considering the catharsis of watching her tormentors finally getting theirs, it's not necessarily a problem. There's also the fact that, even though no one can significantly harmful, harm her, she's still slowly dying from the experiments done to her, so she still has a time limit to contend with at the end of the movie.]]
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* NobleDemon: [[spoiler:As gleeful as Ja-Yoon can get when dispatching her tormentors, she does show that she is capable to showing gratitude and kindness towards those who treat her well, as seen when she gives away the serum she needs to survive to Mr. Goo, her adoptive father, so that he can cure his wife's dementia.]]
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* NobleDemon: [[spoiler:As gleeful as Ja-Yoon can get when dispatching her tormentors, she does show that she is capable to showing of gratitude and kindness towards those who treat her well, as seen when she gives away the serum she needs to survive to Mr. Goo, her adoptive father, so that he can cure his wife's dementia.]]
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* AmnesiacHero: Ja-Yoon remembers nothing about her past as a lab experiment, and the movie is about her rediscovering the dark truths of what were done to her. [[spoiler:Except that's only what she ''wants'' everyone else to think. She never had amnesia to begin with but faked it as part of a BatmanGambit to stave off the illness that's slowly killing her.]]
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* AmnesiacHero: Ja-Yoon remembers nothing about her past as a lab experiment, and the movie is about her rediscovering the dark truths of what were was done to her. [[spoiler:Except that's only what she ''wants'' everyone else to think. She never had amnesia to begin with but faked it as part of a BatmanGambit to stave off the illness that's slowly killing her.]]
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* AmnesiacDissonance: Ja-Yoon is a generally quiet and gentle girl, which causes her to become shaken whenever her past memories trigger, briefly turning her into a killing machine. [[spoiler:In reality, the gentle girl was just an act from the beginning, and she framed her moments of self-defense as an example of this to make herself appear vulnerable to those she was manipulating.]]
* AmnesiacHero: Ja-Yoon remembers nothing about her past as a lab experiment, and the movie is about her rediscovering the dark truths of what were done to her. [[spoiler:Except that's only what she ''wants'' everyone else to think. She never had amnesia to begin with but faked it as part of a BatmanGambit to stave off the illness that's slowly killing her.]]
* AmnesiacHero: Ja-Yoon remembers nothing about her past as a lab experiment, and the movie is about her rediscovering the dark truths of what were done to her. [[spoiler:Except that's only what she ''wants'' everyone else to think. She never had amnesia to begin with but faked it as part of a BatmanGambit to stave off the illness that's slowly killing her.]]
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* MasterActor: [[spoiler:Ja-Yoon was never an innocent amnesiac tormented by the capacity for murder she possessed, but she plays the part so well for most of the movie that it comes as a legitimate shock to nearly everyone in and out of universe when she drops the act.]]
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* MasterActor: [[spoiler:Ja-Yoon was never an innocent amnesiac tormented by the capacity for murder she possessed, but she plays the part so well for most of the movie that it comes as a legitimate shock to nearly everyone in and out of universe when she drops the act.]]
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* SlasherSmile: [[spoiler:For much of the final act, Ja-Yoon has one on her face near-constantly as she goes to town on everyone.]]
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* ShowyInvincibleHero: [[spoiler:Once Ja-Yoon drops the act, she spends the rest of the movie being completely untouchable. Considering the catharsis of watching her tormentors finally getting theirs, it's not necessarily a problem. There's also the fact that, even though no one can significantly harmful, she's still slowly dying from the experiments done to her, so she still has a time limit to contend with at the end of the movie.]]
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* SmugSnake: Nobleman gleefully antagonizes everyone with an insufferable air of superiority. He does actually have the power to carry out most of his threats, but he is just as quick to lose his composure when things stop going his way. [[spoiler:He also pales in every regard to Ja-Yoon once she stops pretending to be an amnesiac.]]
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* SmugSuper: [[spoiler:Once Ja-Yoon reveals her deception, she very gleefully toys with Dr. Baek and Mr Choi's forces, all to demonstrate just how powerless they are against her. Nobleman, who is pretty powerful himself, ends up coming off as a SmugSnake compared to her, as she can fully back up her claim that she's stronger than him.]]
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* NobleDemon: [[spoiler:As gleeful as Ja-Yoon can get when dispatching her tormentors, she does show that she is capable to showing gratitude and kindness towards those who treat her well, as seen when she gives away the serum she needs to survive to Mr. Goo, her adoptive father, so that he can cure his wife's dementia.]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Ja-Yoon manages to pull a delicious one on Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi, her former tormentors. Having known from the start that her genetic modification was the cause of her headaches and dwindling powers, she intentionally drew attention to herself at the audition and then ''let'' Dr. Baek's forces kidnap her, in order to procure a donor for a bone marrow transplant. After Dr. Baek has her injected with a serum that will hold her disease at bay for a month, a now fully powered Ja-Yoon gleefully informs her that she's been had, breaks free and goes on a one-girl-rampage inside her facility.]]
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* TheDogBitesBack: After stalking, threatening and tormenting what they thought was an amnesiac Ja-Yoon for the majority of the film, [[spoiler: Dr. Baek, Mr. Choi and their cronies get utterly curbstomped by Ja-Yoon, who reveals she was just pretending to have forgotten everything. To top it all off, Ja-Yoon made them find her ''on purpose'', which means they were never in a position of power over her to begin with.]]
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** [[spoiler: Ja-Yoon is revealed to be one in the film's climax. She takes enormous pleasure in torturing Dr. Baek and fighting and brutalizing Nobleman and everyone else in the facility trying to get in her way. Though this could at least be understandable to some extent, see TheDogBitesBack above.]]
** Nobleman is a sadistic psychopath who will gleefully taunt Ja-Yoon about her DarkAndTroubledPast every chance he gets, make thinly veiled threats against her friends and family with a smile on his face and assaults regular civilians for the crime of accidentally bumping into him while on the phone.
** [[spoiler: Ja-Yoon is revealed to be one in the film's climax. She takes enormous pleasure in torturing Dr. Baek and fighting and brutalizing Nobleman and everyone else in the facility trying to get in her way. Though this could at least be understandable to some extent, see TheDogBitesBack above.]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: For all his SmugSnake attitude and the things he was willing to put Ja-Yoon through, Nobleman's last living moments are used to portray him sympathetically. [[spoiler: He laments how inhuman he, Ja-Yoon and the rest of the enhanced humans are, musing about how they "can't even die properly". While he also can't resist getting one last low-blow in, it's made clear that he has finally lost the will to go on and is probably welcoming death by now.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: When Ja-Yoon aims her gun at Nobleman, the screen cuts to black and a shot is heard. Later on Ja-Yoon walks past Nobleman's body, which is suspiciously angled so that we can't see his forehead. Did Ja-Yoon really shoot him? Or did she spare him as a sort of CruelMercy to just leave him to die painfully in the burning building and he's merely passed out from the strain of fighting her when we last see him?]]
* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler: When Ja-Yoon aims her gun at Nobleman, the screen cuts to black and a shot is heard. Later on Ja-Yoon walks past Nobleman's body, which is suspiciously angled so that we can't see his forehead. Did Ja-Yoon really shoot him? Or did she spare him as a sort of CruelMercy to just leave him to die painfully in the burning building and he's merely passed out from the strain of fighting her when we last see him?]]
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* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Even in his seemingly last living moments at Ja-Yoon's mercy, Nobleman continues to act spiteful and petty towards her, trying to encourage her to commit suicide, as there is no way she can go back to a normal life after what she has done. When Ja-Yoon refuses and asks him were the facility with the formula for her serum is, he just sticks his tongue out at her and laughs.]]
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* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Mr. Choi ends up killing Dr. Baek, right after she demands him to capture Nobleman and Ja-Yoon. He doesn't get to enjoy his promotion for very long, as Ja-Yoon kills ''him'' shortly after.]]
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Ja-Yoon manages to pull a delicious one on Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi, her former tormentors. Having known from the start that her genetic modification was the cause of her headaches and dwindling powers, she intentionally drew attention to herself at the audition and then ''let'' Dr: Baek's forces kidnap her, in order to procure a donor for a bone marrow transplant. After Dr. Baek has her injected with a serum that will hold her disease at bay for a month, a now fully powered Ja-Yoon gleefully informs her that she's been had, breaks free and goes on a one-girl-rampage inside her facility.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: After killing the armed men at her house, Ja-Yoon looks down at her bloodied hands and drops the gun she was holding, visibly shaken by the whole ordeal. However, she stays remarkably calm and doesn't even cry or break down after doing so. [[spoiler: This foreshadows that while she probably dislikes being pulled back into her dark past, she has already resolved herself to get her hands dirty in order to find a cure.]]
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* IronicEcho: After Ja-Yoon kills the armed men who invaded her house, Nobleman enters and mockingly compliments her, saying that she is "on another level". [[spoiler: When Ja-Yoon fights him in the film's climax and it becomes clear that he is no match for her, she just as mockingly repeats his compliment, stating that she is, indeed, "on another level".]]
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* BadassAdorable: Ja-Yoon is a short, slightly chubby girl and capable of dispatching of multiple armed goons with ease.
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* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Ja-Yoon manages to pull a delicious one on Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi, her former tormentors. Having know from the start that her genetic modification was the cause of her headaches and dwindling powers, she intentionally drew attention to herself at the audition and then ''let'' Dr: Baek's forces kidnap her, in order to procure a donor for a bone marrow transplant. After Dr. Baek has her injected with a serum that will hold her disease at bay for a month, a now fully powered Ja-Yoon gleefully informs her that she's been had, breaks free and goes on a one-girl-rampage inside her facility.]]
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'''The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion''' is a South Korean 2018 action-mystery film starring Kim Da-mi and written and directed by Park Hoon-jung.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Nobleman and his {{Mooks}} certainly have no issue with manhandling Ja-Yoon, despite her being underage.
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* BigBadDuumvirate: Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi, who hunt Ja-Yoon throughout the movie and even threaten her family at gun-point to make her come with them.
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* HappilyAdopted: Mr. and Mrs. Goo treat Ja-Yoon like their own daughter and she in turns seems to love them just as much. [[spoiler: She even gives Mr. Goo her serum, so he can cure Mrs. Goo's dementia.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: After killing the armed men at her house, Ja-Yoon looks down at her bloodied hands and drops the gun she was holding, visibly shaken by the whole ordeal. However, she stays remarkably calm and doesn't even cry or break down after doing so. [[spoiler: This foreshadows that while she probably dislikes being pulled back into her dark past, she has already resolved herself to get her hands dirty in order to find a cure.]]
* HappilyAdopted: Mr. and Mrs. Goo treat Ja-Yoon like their own daughter and she in turns seems to love them just as much. [[spoiler:She even After escaping Dr. Baek, she gives Mr. Goo her serum, despite needing it for her disease, so he can cure Mrs. Goo's dementia.]]]]
* SecretlyDying: Dr. Baek reveals to Ja-Yoon that her genetic modifications resulted in an illness that will eventually take her life, if it doesn't get treatment. [[spoiler: Ja-Yoon later reveals to her that she knew. That's the reason why she's there after all.]]
* SpoilerTitle: Downplayed. The title isn't lying, you're in for one hell of a subversion in the film's climax.
* HappilyAdopted: Mr. and Mrs. Goo treat Ja-Yoon like their own daughter and she in turns seems to love them just as much. [[spoiler:
* SecretlyDying: Dr. Baek reveals to Ja-Yoon that her genetic modifications resulted in an illness that will eventually take her life, if it doesn't get treatment. [[spoiler: Ja-Yoon later reveals to her that she knew. That's the reason why she's there after all.]]
* SpoilerTitle: Downplayed. The title isn't lying, you're in for one hell of a subversion in the film's climax.
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'''The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion''' is a South Korean 2018 action-mystery film starring Kim Da-mi and written and directed by Park Hoon-jung.
Young Ja-Yoon's (Kim) dark past comes back to haunt her, 10 years after she managed to escape from a mysterious laboratory. A sinister man called Nobleman has learned of her special abilities and will now stop at nothing to get her into his clutches.
But Ja-Yoon isn't the helpless, scared little girl everyone believes her to be...
!!Tropes associated with this movie:
* BadassAdorable: Ja-Yoon is a short, slightly chubby girl and capable of dispatching of multiple armed goons with ease.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Ja-Yoon manages to pull a delicious one on Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi, her former tormentors. Having know from the start that her genetic modification was the cause of her headaches and dwindling powers, she intentionally drew attention to herself at the audition and then ''let'' Dr: Baek's forces kidnap her, in order to procure a donor for a bone marrow transplant. After Dr. Baek has her injected with a serum that will hold her disease at bay for a month, a now fully powered Ja-Yoon gleefully informs her that she's been had, breaks free and goes on a one-girl-rampage inside her facility.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi, who hunt Ja-Yoon throughout the movie and even threaten her family at gun-point to make her come with them.
* CurbStompBattle:
** Ja-Yoon delivers one to the group of armed men that break into her home and hold her parents at gun point. They barely have time to react before she guns them down in turn and uses her superhuman abilities to take care of the rest.
** [[spoiler: Delivers this a second time to ''everyone'' at Dr. Baek's facility after successfully acquiring a temporary cure for her disease.]]
* CuteButPsycho: [[spoiler: Ja-Yoon, after she drops her scared victim-facade. She casually obliterates every goon in the laboratory with an adorable smile on her face.]]
* TheDragon: Nobleman to Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi.
* HappilyAdopted: Mr. and Mrs. Goo treat Ja-Yoon like their own daughter and she in turns seems to love them just as much. [[spoiler: She even gives Mr. Goo her serum, so he can cure Mrs. Goo's dementia.]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Hello doctor, it's been a while."]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Nobleman and his {{Mooks}} certainly have no issue with manhandling Ja-Yoon, despite her being underage.
'''The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion''' is a South Korean 2018 action-mystery film starring Kim Da-mi and written and directed by Park Hoon-jung.
Young Ja-Yoon's (Kim) dark past comes back to haunt her, 10 years after she managed to escape from a mysterious laboratory. A sinister man called Nobleman has learned of her special abilities and will now stop at nothing to get her into his clutches.
But Ja-Yoon isn't the helpless, scared little girl everyone believes her to be...
!!Tropes associated with this movie:
* BadassAdorable: Ja-Yoon is a short, slightly chubby girl and capable of dispatching of multiple armed goons with ease.
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler: Ja-Yoon manages to pull a delicious one on Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi, her former tormentors. Having know from the start that her genetic modification was the cause of her headaches and dwindling powers, she intentionally drew attention to herself at the audition and then ''let'' Dr: Baek's forces kidnap her, in order to procure a donor for a bone marrow transplant. After Dr. Baek has her injected with a serum that will hold her disease at bay for a month, a now fully powered Ja-Yoon gleefully informs her that she's been had, breaks free and goes on a one-girl-rampage inside her facility.]]
* BigBadDuumvirate: Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi, who hunt Ja-Yoon throughout the movie and even threaten her family at gun-point to make her come with them.
* CurbStompBattle:
** Ja-Yoon delivers one to the group of armed men that break into her home and hold her parents at gun point. They barely have time to react before she guns them down in turn and uses her superhuman abilities to take care of the rest.
** [[spoiler: Delivers this a second time to ''everyone'' at Dr. Baek's facility after successfully acquiring a temporary cure for her disease.]]
* CuteButPsycho: [[spoiler: Ja-Yoon, after she drops her scared victim-facade. She casually obliterates every goon in the laboratory with an adorable smile on her face.]]
* TheDragon: Nobleman to Dr. Baek and Mr. Choi.
* HappilyAdopted: Mr. and Mrs. Goo treat Ja-Yoon like their own daughter and she in turns seems to love them just as much. [[spoiler: She even gives Mr. Goo her serum, so he can cure Mrs. Goo's dementia.]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Hello doctor, it's been a while."]]
* WouldHitAGirl: Nobleman and his {{Mooks}} certainly have no issue with manhandling Ja-Yoon, despite her being underage.
