History YMMV / TrainToBusan

* ClicheStorm: Despite the acclaimed premise, action scenes, and characters, like in so many similar movies, there's a {{Jerkass}} who only cares about himself, a crazy man mumbling about the end times, and [[spoiler:there's only two survivors, both innocent non-combatant characters]]. [[TropesAreTools None of these things diminish the merits of the film though.]]

** [X] to Busan.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to this film's reception, any South Korean ZombieApocalypse-themed media will inevitably be given this epitaph as a comparison; for example, ''Series/Kingdom2019'' was labeled as ''Carriage/Wagon to Busan'', as the series takes place in a feudal-era Korean setting with zombies.[[/labelnote]]

** [X] to Busan.n[[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to this film's reception, any South Korean ZombieApocalypse-themed media will inevitably be given this epitaph as a comparison; for example, ''Series/Kingdom2019'' was labeled as ''Carriage/Wagon to Busan'', as the series takes place in a feudal-era Korean setting with zombies.[[/labelnote]]

** ''X'' to Busan[[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to this film's reception, any South Korean ZombieApocalypse-themed media will inevitably be given this epitaph as a comparison; for example, ''Series/Kingdom2019'' was labeled as ''Carriage/Wagon to Busan'', as the series takes place in a feudal-era Korean setting with zombies.[[/labelnote]]
** ''Train to Busan'' and ''Series/SquidGame'' are connected[[labelnote:Explanation]]Creator/GongYoo would later go on to play a salesman who slaps a lot of people that he later invites to the eponymous Squid Game. Many fans jokingly created connections between the film and the series, such as the train that the salesman rode on being the eponymous movie's train (thus making it look like ''Train to Busan'' happens AFTER ''Squid Game''), or the character refusing to [[spoiler:cut off his hand after he gets bitten]], opting to keep it so he can continue slapping people.[[/labelnote]]

* DarthWiki/WhatAnIdiot: The passengers exit the train and move into Daejeon Station's platform, which is mentioned to be safe. However, the entire station is deserted, with no sign of any humans.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' The passengers would return to the train out of safety. The lack of any military persons or even anyone should have been a huge red flag that something is wrong with the station.\\
'''Instead:''' The passengers move further into and even to the exit of the station.\\
'''The Result:''' It's revealed that [[spoiler:the Daejeon military contingent is infected and now zombies, and many of those who left the train get infected.]]
** Later on, the passengers have to fortify the two entries to their wagons: one that holds a handful of ''suspected'' infects (which actually aren't), the other a horde of ''certified'' infects. [[spoiler: They take of the former first, leading to them being swarmed and killed when the latter is broken through.]] Justified, however, since [[spoiler: the infected doesn't actually break through the door, it's one of the passenger that lets them through since she is heartbroken by how they let her sister die. It must also be noticed that there is a reason they fortified the door toward the survivors first: Young-suk's pettiness, since Seok-woo called him out and attacked him.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: At the beginning of the infection's spread in the train, Seok-woo closes one of the doors on Sang-hwa as a group of zombies are pursuing him and Seong-kyeong. Since Sang-hwa simply opens the door and comically berates Seok-woo, who shrugs off his gesture as everyone being afraid, this scene is played for laughs. [[spoiler:Later in the movie, Seok-woo finds himself on the wrong side of the door in the same situation, and he experiences first-hand the feeling that one gets when others' selfishness puts a loved one in mortal danger]].c
* HeartwarmingMoments: Sang-hwa, Jin Il, the homeless man and Seok-woo all sacrifices themselves to keep other safe.