History YMMV / Kingdom2019

* MagnificentBitch: ''Ashen of the North'': [[VillainProtagonist Ashin]] was a member of the North Seongjeoyain tribe who [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vows vengeance]] on the Pajeowi for slaughtering her village and family. Becoming an [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] for the Joseon, Ashin turns on them once she discovers their role in her village's massacre, using the resurrection plant to create an zombie outbreak at their camp before feeding the SoleSurvivor to a pack of zombies. Ashin then gives the Resurrection Plant and knowledge to use it to Joseon's Royal Physician, [[GreaterScopeVillain kickstarting]] the zombie plague that would ravage their kingdom, before tracking down and killing the Pajeowi.

* CompleteMonster: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Queen Consort Cho]] proves that behind her [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon delicate beauty]] lies a [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters monster viler than any walking corpse]]. Using the Resurrection Plant to turn the King of Joseon into a zombie, she uses him as a PuppetKing to carry out her tyrannical rule, while ordering the execution of the king's son, Lee Chang, and his comrades when they get in her way. Partaking in a conspiracy led by her father, Cho Hak-ju, to claim complete control of the Kingdom of Korea, she and her father lead their subjects to famine and exploits the mysterious plague to transform them into zombies to use as weapons against their enemies. Cho has also forced pregnant women to give birth to a son that she will use to keep her claim on the throne, killing the women [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once they serve their purpose]] while [[WouldHurtAChild killing their babies]] if they happen to be female; when Cho Hak-ju tries to exile Cho for this, she [[{{Patricide}} kills her father]] before ordering her soldiers to carry out Cho Hak-ju's commands to execute all the families related to the soldier loyal to Lee Chang, women and children included. When Lee Chang tries to have Cho removed from the throne, Cho unleashes the zombies she was holding captive onto Hanyang, reasoning that if she cannot have the throne no one can, allowing them to devour countless people before letting them kill her and her supposed son.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: With the exception of Lee Chang, all aristocrats and politicians are portrayed as either cowardly, snobbish to the point of TooDumbToLive, or backstabbing schemers.

* WhatAnIdiot: After the first night of zombies slaughtering an entire town before going to hibernation for the day, the nobles try to waste time separating peasants from nobles and only burning peasant corpses while burying the others. Thankfully, Lee Chang soon arrives to prevent their stupidity from causing more death.
** Played straight with the Noblewoman who was first to speak against burning the nobleman zombies, she stows her zombified son in box and loads him on the ship her and the other nobles flee on, predictably he wakes up at night and proceeds to slaughter almost everyone on the ship.

* FriendlyFandoms: With ''Series/SweetHome''. Makes sense; they're both Korean horror series about an apocalypse turning people into monsters, and Kim Sang-ho plays a major character in both.

** Kim Sang-ho (Mu-yeong) went from one fictional apocalypse to another; his character in this series fights zombies, and his character in ''Series/SweetHome'' fights monsters.

* MagnificentBitch: ''Ashen of the North'': [[VillainProtagonist Ashin]] was a member of the North Seongjeoyain tribe who [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vows vengeance]] on the Pajeowi for slaughtering her village and family. Becoming an [[ProfessionalKiller assassin]] for the Joseon, Ashin turns on them once she discovers their role in her village's massacre, using the resurrection plant create an zombie outbreak at their camp before feeding the SoleSurvivor to a pack of zombies. Ashin then gives the Resurrection Plant and knowledge to use it to Joseon's Royal Physician, [[GreaterScopeVillain kickstarting]] the zombie plague that would ravage their kingdom, before tracking down and killing the Pajeowi.

* HilariousInHindsight: Kim Sang-ho (Mu-yeong) went from one fictional apocalypse to another; his character in this series fights zombies, and his character in ''Series/SweetHome'' fights monsters.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: In early episodes it's shown that Prince Chang has secured Mu-yeong's allegiance and gets him to spy around the capital for him by holding a previous incident of theft over his head, with Mu-yeong griping about how the Prince has never let that bit of blackmail go. [[spoiler: Season 2 has a flashback revealing Mu-yeong sneaking bits of the Prince's untouched food into a bag while he was asleep, but he gets caught in the act. The Prince hears out his reasons [[note]]he wanted to feed his pregnant wife something to settle her stomach, as she had been having a rough time and been fighting illness[[/note]], and waves it off without punishment, before asking Mu-yeong if he would consider serving him and helping him uncover what was happening in the palace in exchange for more food for his wife. The gripes about blackmail seem more like a RunningJoke they shared than an actual threat after this.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: The nobles cross it when they [[spoiler:willingly chose to abandon all the peasants and lower-rank inhabitants to the zombies by running away in the sole remaining boat rather than try to take down all the corpses they can as asked by Lee Chang.]]

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: With the exception of Yi Chang, all aristocrats and politicians are portrayed as either cowardly, snobbish to the point of TooDumbToLive, or backstabbing schemers.

* MoralEventHorizon: The nobles cross it when they [[spoiler:willingly chose to abandon all the peasants and lower-rank inhabitants to the zombies by running away in the sole remaining boat rather than try to take down all the corpses they can as asked by Yi Chang.]]

* WhatAnIdiot: After the first night of zombies slaughtering an entire town before going to hibernation for the day, the nobles try to waste time separating peasants from nobles and only burning peasant corpses while burying the others. Thanksfully, Yi Chang soon arrives to prevent their stupidity from causing more death.

* CompleteMonster: [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen The Queen Consort Cho]] proves that behind her [[FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon delicate beauty]] lies a [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters monster more vile than any walking corpse]]. Using the Resurrection Plant to turn the King of Joseon into a zombie, she uses him as a PuppetKing to carry out her tyrannical rule, while ordering the execution of the king's son, Lee Chang, and his comrades when they get in her way. Partaking in a conspiracy led by her father, Cho Hak-ju, to claim complete control of the Kingdom of Korea, she and her father lead their subjects to famine and exploits the mysterious plague to transform them into zombies to use as weapons against their enemies. Cho has also forced pregnant women to give birth to a son that she will use to keep her claim on the throne, killing the women [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness once they serve their purpose]] while [[WouldHurtAChild killing their babies]] if they happen to be female; when Cho Hak-ju tries to exile Cho for this, she [[{{Patricide}} kills her father]] before ordering her soldiers to carry out Cho Hak-ju's commands to execute all the families related to the soldier loyal to Lee Chang, women and children included. When Lee Chang tries to have Cho removed from the throne, Cho unleashes the zombies she was holding captive onto Hanyang, reasoning that if she cannot have the throne no one can, allowing them to devour countless people before letting them kill her and her supposed son.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: With the exception of [[SpoiledSweet Yi Chang]], all aristocrats and politicians are portrayed as either cowardly, snobbish to the point of TooDumbToLive, or backstabbing schemers.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: With the exception of [[TheGoodPrince Yi Chang]], all aristocrats and politicians are portrayed as either cowardly, snobbish to the point of TooDumbToLive, or backstabbing schemers.