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Ill Girl has been cut per TRS decision. Examples are moved to Delicate And Sickly when appropriate.


* IllGirl: Several of the female characters, namely[[spoiler: Lady Hae, Court Lady Oh and Hae Soo]], suffer some kind of ailment that influence greatly their decisions.
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Incest Is Relative is an index, not a trope


* IncestIsRelative: Yeon Hwa was into Wang So, who is her [[BrotherSisterIncest half-brother]]. Hae Soo is understandably {{Squick}}ed out by this while everyone is okay with it. This is TruthInTelevision (as inbreeding among the royal family was acceptable and common in Goryeo Dynasty, and that includes marriage among siblings and uncle/aunt and niece/nephew).
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** Wang Mu plans to send his young daughter off to Khitan to be a hostage and to marry a complete stranger. He only agrees to let her stay in Goryeo by forcing Wang So (her ''[[IncestIsRelative uncle]]'') to marry her.

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** Wang Mu plans to send his young daughter off to Khitan to be a hostage and to marry a complete stranger. He only agrees to let her stay in Goryeo by forcing Wang So (her ''[[IncestIsRelative uncle]]'') ''uncle'') to marry her.
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* LandingInSomeonesBathtub: After time-travelling Ha-jin ends up in the princes' bath/swimming pool while several of the princes are there.
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* GorgeousPeriodDress: All over the place, on both men and women.

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* GorgeousPeriodDress: All over the place, on both men and women. Take [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/94/21/6f/94216f19fbc7800ea04eca9ea06b9fe1.jpg this costume of Ha-jin's]], for example.

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** Polygamy and BrotherSisterIncest are normal in the royal family.

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** Polygamy and BrotherSisterIncest are normal in the royal family. Yeon-hwa has an affair with one of her half-brothers then later marries another, and no one bats an eyelid at this.
** Wang So has to agree to marry his niece (who's just a child) to stop her father sending her off to Khitan. He isn't happy with the situation... because it drives a wedge between him and the woman he actually wants to marry, not because of the incest or the girl's age.
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* BabiesEverAfter: Played with. [[spoiler: Ha-jin gives birth to Wang So's baby after she marries Wang Jeong. She dies shortly afterwards, leaving Wang Jeong to raise her daughter alone.]]
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Ha-jin]] dies in Wang Jeong's arms.
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* AwesomeMomentOfCrowning: Wang So gets one in episode seventeen.

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** King Taejo and Queen Yoo outlive their oldest son, who died when Wang So was a child.

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** King Taejo and Queen Yoo outlive their oldest son, who died when Wang So was a child. Queen Yoo also outlives her son Wang Yo.


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** Wang Wook poisons his half-brother Wang Mu. The poison takes such a severe toll on Mu's sanity that he decides to send his young daughter off to Khitan, then forces Wang So -- her ''uncle'' -- to marry her instead.
** Wang Yo kills two of his half-brothers and his sister-in-law. Then he suffers a SanitySlippage and becomes convinced their ghosts are haunting him.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Wang Yo goes through one shortly before his death when Queen Yoo tries to make him abdicate.
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* AlternateHistory: Wang So and his family are based on real people, but it's safe to say there were no time-travellers involved in Wang So becoming kind.

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* AlternateHistory: Wang So and his family are based on real people, but it's safe to say there were no time-travellers involved in Wang So becoming kind.king.

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* AbusiveParents: Wang So was a victim of it, receiving horrible treatment from his 'adoptives' in Shinju. His biological mother Queen Yoo isn't much better; when he was a child she threatened to kill him during an argument with Taejo.

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Wang So was a victim of it, receiving horrible treatment from his 'adoptives' in Shinju. His biological mother Queen Yoo isn't much better; when he was a child she threatened to kill him during an argument with Taejo.Taejo.
** Wang Mu plans to send his young daughter off to Khitan to be a hostage and to marry a complete stranger. He only agrees to let her stay in Goryeo by forcing Wang So (her ''[[IncestIsRelative uncle]]'') to marry her.
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* SanitySlippage:
** Wang Mu becomes paranoid and irrational towards the end of his life. Unknown to everyone it's because [[spoiler: Wook is poisoning him]].
** Wang Yo becomes increasingly crazy after usurping the throne and killing two of his brothers.


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* TheUsurper: Wang Yo becomes king by marching his army into the palace and killing the rightful king.

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: King Taejo and Queen Yoo outlive their oldest son, who died when Wang So was a child.

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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: OutlivingOnesOffspring:
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King Taejo and Queen Yoo outlive their oldest son, who died when Wang So was a child.child.
** Soo-kyung outlives his daughter Soon-deok.

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* CainAndAbel: Wang Yo and Wang So. To a lesser degree, Wang Yo and all of his brothers except Won and (sometimes) Wook.



* CryLaughing: Wang So does this when he confronts his mother in episode four.

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* CryLaughing: Wang So does this when he confronts his mother in episode four.four, and again after [[spoiler: killing Wang Eun]].

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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Wang Eun]] gets shot in the chest with an arrow, thanks to Wang Yo.



* MercyKill: [[spoiler: Wang Eun begs Wang So to kill him when he's fatally injured. Wang So does.]]



** [[spoiler: Wang Eun]] is murdered by [[spoiler: Wang So]] on Wang Yo's orders.

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** [[spoiler: Wang Eun]] is murdered fatally injured by Wang Yo. He begs [[spoiler: Wang So]] on to kill him, but people who don't know what happened assume [[spoiler: Wang Yo's orders.So]] murdered him.
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* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler: Soon-deok]] jumps in front of a sword meant for Wang Eun.
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* SadisticChoice: Wang Yo gives Wang So one. Either he hunts down and kills [[spoiler: Wang Eun]], or Wang Yo kills Baek-ah, Ji-mong and Ha-jin.

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