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''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/return-to-player/list?title_no=2574 Return To Player]]'' is a Korean webcomic by Sehon Umky where the Gods have imposed an [[SuddenGameInterface MMO game interface]] on the world. Sehan Kim has achieved the "Bad End" as the only survivor of humanity. While contemplating his final fate, the game interface informs him of the option for a second playthrough. He accepts it, suddenly finding himself transported back to the day the original game started. With all the knowledge of his first playthrough, [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong he hopes to change things for the better]].

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''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/return-to-player/list?title_no=2574 Return To to Player]]'' is a Korean webcomic by Sehon Umky where the Gods have imposed an [[SuddenGameInterface MMO game interface]] on the world. Sehan Kim has achieved the "Bad End" as the only survivor of humanity. While contemplating his final fate, the game interface informs him of the option for a second playthrough. He accepts it, suddenly finding himself transported back to the day the original game started. With all the knowledge of his first playthrough, [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong he hopes to change things for the better]].



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!!This webcomic !!''Return to Player'' provides examples of:of:

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* KillTheGod: Might be possible. The Guild Sehan starts is named ''Deicide'', so it's on his agenda.

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* KillTheGod: Might be possible. The Guild Sehan starts is named ''Deicide'', so it's on his agenda. [[spoiler:Whether he likes it or not, Earth ''needs'' the gods for its continued survival, but that doesn't mean he can't take out the worst of them. He eventually manages to kill the Titan acting as administrator over Earth and transfers his position to an allied god.]]


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* StartMyOwn: Kicking out the game entirely isn't an option, and like it or not, Earth ''needs'' sponsorship from the gods to survive. [[spoiler:But Sehan ''does'' manage to kill Earth's previous administrator and hack away his authority over the System. Sehan derides the game's previous management as horribly run and decides on new rules for the game. So long as they figure out how to keep the gods entertained, there is no need for the new game to be anywhere near as murderous.]]
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** The System picks a bunch of mortals to be "players", giving them supernatural powers based upon itself and the gods. Most of humanity is not so empowered and are left as "NPC" victims. There is no known means of promoting NPCs to players outside of the System's choices. Even the gods lack the ability to appoint players.

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** The System picks a bunch of mortals to be "players", giving them supernatural powers based upon itself and the gods. Most of humanity is not so empowered and are left as "NPC" victims. There is no known means of promoting NPCs [=NPCs=] to players outside of the System's choices. Even the gods lack the ability to appoint players.
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* LovecraftLite: Outer gods aren't particularly alien and can relate to humans just fine.

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* LovecraftLite: Outer gods gods, despite originating from Lovecraft, aren't particularly alien and can relate to humans just fine.
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* LovecraftLite: Outer gods aren't particularly alien and can relate to humans just fine.

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** Each god gets to accept a single player as their "avatar". The god treats their avatar as an equivalent to their PlayerCharacter. They cannot ''control'' their chosen avatar, but they focus their attention on them and give them the occasional sponsorship in return for entertainment, such as juicy info or skills.

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** Each god gets to accept a single player as their "avatar". The god treats their avatar as an equivalent to their PlayerCharacter. They cannot ''control'' their chosen avatar, but they focus their attention on them and give them the occasional sponsorship in return for entertainment, such as juicy info or skills. While avatars receive benefits, they also receive restrictions that normal players are not subject to, which is why Sehan tries to avoid letting his party members become avatars except when strictly necessary.



* GameMaster: A god is appointed such a role in each locale, giving them limited authority over the System to setup the players' next challenge.



* SoleSurvivor: How it starts.

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* SoleSurvivor: How it starts.starts, with Sehan being the last mortal on Earth, everyone else having been killed as they were no longer useful for entertaining the gods. Sehan notes that he survived, not because he was the strongest or smartest player, but due to caution, ruthless pragmatism.
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* DrivenToSuicide: In the first timeline, as the SoleSurvivor of humanity, Sehan almost impales himself on his sword as he sees no point in continuing to live. The System opens up the DLC store just in time.

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* TheChosenMany: The System picks a bunch of mortals to be "players", giving them supernatural powers based upon itself and the gods. Most of humanity is not so empowered and are left as "NPC" victims. There is no known means of promoting NPCs to players outside of the System's choices. Even the gods lack the ability to appoint players.

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* TheChosenMany: TheChosenMany:
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The System picks a bunch of mortals to be "players", giving them supernatural powers based upon itself and the gods. Most of humanity is not so empowered and are left as "NPC" victims. There is no known means of promoting NPCs to players outside of the System's choices. Even the gods lack the ability to appoint players.players.
** Each god gets to accept a single player as their "avatar". The god treats their avatar as an equivalent to their PlayerCharacter. They cannot ''control'' their chosen avatar, but they focus their attention on them and give them the occasional sponsorship in return for entertainment, such as juicy info or skills.
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* TheChosenMany: The System picks a bunch of mortals to be "players", giving them supernatural powers based upon itself and the gods. Most of humanity is not so empowered and are left as "NPC" victims. There is no known means of promoting NPCs to players outside of the System's choices. Even the gods lack the ability to appoint players.
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** In a dungeon that uses a sort of DreamLand to simulate SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, Sehan persuades the gods to change their minds about destroying Earth in the first timeline by appeasing then with sufficient entertainment.

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** In a dungeon that uses a sort of DreamLand to simulate SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, Sehan persuades the gods to change their minds about destroying Earth in the first timeline by appeasing then them with sufficient entertainment.

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* ReasoningWithGod: As part of Sehan's Second Playthrough, he has access to the Gods' chat room and logs in as ''Anonymous User 48''. The other Gods just assume he's another God who doesn't want to reveal himself. Sehan takes advantage of this constantly.

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* ReasoningWithGod: ReasoningWithGod:
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As part of Sehan's Second Playthrough, he has access to the Gods' chat room and logs in as ''Anonymous User 48''. The other Gods just assume he's another God who doesn't want to reveal himself. Sehan takes advantage of this constantly.constantly.
** In a dungeon that uses a sort of DreamLand to simulate SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong, Sehan persuades the gods to change their minds about destroying Earth in the first timeline by appeasing then with sufficient entertainment.

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* JerkassGods: A major part of the whole story.

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* JerkassGods: A major part of the whole story. The gods only see mortals as toys and invade entire worlds to use them as disposable game boards. The invading System forces mortals to kill or be killed by monsters and one another. Players must fulfill the System's quests on penalty of death. The System disrupts all of society and humanity dies off in these quests at a faster rate than they can reproduce. The gods won't leave until they get bored or humanity's numbers have dropped to a certain level. If the mortals fail to provide the gods with enough entertainment, the gods finish off all of the survivors as punishment. Even demons are less vile, as they have actual pragmatic reasons to participate in the game.


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* RageAgainstTheHeavens: The gods killed Earth and everyone on it for fun in the previous timeline. The vast majority of the gods only see mortals as toys and take far more from the world than they give. Needless to say, Sehan hopes to use his knowledge of the future and a secret about the System that even the gods didn't know about to take revenge.
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* YouHaveFailedMe: Most of the gods, even the seemingly more benevolent ones, see mortals as nothing more than toys. What do you do when you get tired of a toy? You throw it away. In the first timeline, since Earth was arousing less and less entertainment from the gods, they decided to punish their toys with a DownerEnding by killing everyone. In a dungeon [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong representing how a tragic past could have gone differently]], Sehan Kim needs to not only re-complete the quest he was fulfilling at the time, but pull it off so spectacularly that the gods will take interest again and permit Earth to have a BittersweetEnding instead.
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''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/return-to-player/list?title_no=2574 Return To Player]]'' is a Korean webcomic by Sehon Umky where the Gods have imposed an [[SuddenGameInterface MMO game interface]] on the world. Sehan Kim has achieved the "Bad End" as the only survivor of humanity. While contemplating his final fate, the game interface informs him of the option for a second playthrough. He accepts it, suddenly finding himself transported back to the day the original game started. With all the knowledge of his first playthrough, he hopes to change things for the better.

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''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/return-to-player/list?title_no=2574 Return To Player]]'' is a Korean webcomic by Sehon Umky where the Gods have imposed an [[SuddenGameInterface MMO game interface]] on the world. Sehan Kim has achieved the "Bad End" as the only survivor of humanity. While contemplating his final fate, the game interface informs him of the option for a second playthrough. He accepts it, suddenly finding himself transported back to the day the original game started. With all the knowledge of his first playthrough, [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong he hopes to change things for the better.
better]].
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''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/return-to-player/list?title_no=2574 Return To Player]]'' is a Korean webcomic where the Gods have imposed an [[SuddenGameInterface MMO game interface]] on the world. Sehan Kim has achieved the "Bad End" as the only survivor of humanity. While contemplating his final fate, the game interface informs him of the option for a second playthrough. He accepts it, suddenly finding himself transported back to the day the original game started. With all the knowledge of his first playthrough, he hopes to change things for the better.

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''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/return-to-player/list?title_no=2574 Return To Player]]'' is a Korean webcomic by Sehon Umky where the Gods have imposed an [[SuddenGameInterface MMO game interface]] on the world. Sehan Kim has achieved the "Bad End" as the only survivor of humanity. While contemplating his final fate, the game interface informs him of the option for a second playthrough. He accepts it, suddenly finding himself transported back to the day the original game started. With all the knowledge of his first playthrough, he hopes to change things for the better.
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* SmugSnake: Donggwon Park. Sehan remembers him from the first playthrough as a guy who was always willing to screw everyone else over to get ahead, no matter how friendly he seemed at first.
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* ShoutOut: When Sehan confronts Cheolwoong to kill him, Sehan has a weapon that will kill Cheolwoong, despite all Cheolwoong's power.

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* ShoutOut: When Sehan confronts Cheolwoong to kill him, Sehan has a weapon that will kill Cheolwoong, despite all Cheolwoong's power.new weapon.
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''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/return-to-player/list?title_no=2574 Return To Player]]'' is a South Korean webcomic where the Gods have imposed an [[SuddenGameInterface MMO game interface]] on the world. Sehan Kim has achieved the "Bad End" as the only survivor of humanity. While contemplating his final fate, the game interface informs him of the option for a second playthrough. He accepts it, suddenly finding himself transported back to the day the original game started. With all the knowledge of his first playthrough, he hopes to change things for the better.

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''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/return-to-player/list?title_no=2574 Return To Player]]'' is a South Korean webcomic where the Gods have imposed an [[SuddenGameInterface MMO game interface]] on the world. Sehan Kim has achieved the "Bad End" as the only survivor of humanity. While contemplating his final fate, the game interface informs him of the option for a second playthrough. He accepts it, suddenly finding himself transported back to the day the original game started. With all the knowledge of his first playthrough, he hopes to change things for the better.
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* YouKnowTheOne: A couple pages end with one character pointing out the significance of another character in the last panel, without telling the audience which of the two characters in the scene are being referred to.

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* YouKnowTheOne: A couple pages end with one character pointing out the significance of another character in the last panel, without telling the audience which of the two characters in the scene are is being referred to.
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* ShoutOut: When Sehan confronts Cheolwoong to kill him, Sehan has a weapon that will kill Cheolwoong, despite all Cheolwoong's power.
-->'''Sehan:''' "I brought a little friend with me this time. [[Film/Scarface1983 Do you want to say hello?]]"
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%% Characters: Sehan Kim, Jisu Han, Mina Lee, Siu Song, Changu Song, Donggwon Park, Juan Shin (Contractor), Lin Taylor, Luke Taylor, Baeksul
%% I guess even the raid boss dies when you rip its brain off. Stop saying that with a smile on your face. It's terrifying.
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* YouKnowTheOne: A couple pages end with one character pointing out the significance of another character in the last panel, without telling the audience which of the two characters in the scene are being referred to.
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** It's also what gives Sehan access to the forums.

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** It's also what gives Sehan access to the forums.forums.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Sehan has no reason to believe it isn't the end of the world (on the first page!) until he's offered the second playthrough.

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''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/return-to-player/list?title_no=2574 Return To Player]]'' is a South Korean webcomic where the Gods have imposed an [[SuddenGameInterface MMO game interface]] on the world. Sehan Kim has achieved the "Bad End" as the only survivor of humanity. While contemplating his final fate, the game interface informs him of the option for a second playthrough. He accepts it, suddenly finding himself transported back ten years, to the day the original game started. With all the knowledge of the playthrough from the first game, he hopes to change things for the better.

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->''Ten years ago, a group of gods turned everyone on Earth into players of a sadistic game that forced them to kill monsters in real life -- or be killed themselves. Sehan Kim has already seen how this game will play out: everyone in the world dies except for him. When he’s given the chance to go back in time and start a second playthrough, Sehan is determined to change the course of events and beat the gods at their own game.''
-->--''Return To Player'' splash page description

''[[https://www.webtoons.com/en/action/return-to-player/list?title_no=2574 Return To Player]]'' is a South Korean webcomic where the Gods have imposed an [[SuddenGameInterface MMO game interface]] on the world. Sehan Kim has achieved the "Bad End" as the only survivor of humanity. While contemplating his final fate, the game interface informs him of the option for a second playthrough. He accepts it, suddenly finding himself transported back ten years, to the day the original game started. With all the knowledge of the playthrough from the his first game, playthrough, he hopes to change things for the better.
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** With much of the equipment Sehan buys in the store, he lies and says that it came from [[ItemDropMechanic defeated monsters]].

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** With much of the equipment Sehan buys in the store, store and gives to others, he lies and says that it came from [[ItemDropMechanic defeated monsters]].

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