Characters / If AI Ruled the World

Humans

Protagonists

Tapirus/Joon Jae-Lee

When tools are out of control, they are just broken!

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A hacker nicknamed Tapirus who has a vendetta against Raum and all A.I. in the world, he tries to destroy the main server of Raum so that humans becomes their own masters again. But when he tries to do that, he ends up more than he bargained for.

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• Amnesiac Hero: The man from the first episodes turns out to be the Hacker after being killed and being transported to Raum’s virtual world to be contained.
• Animal Motif: As if the name wasn’t enough evidence, Tapirus has a predilection for tapirs, even his avatar looks like one. When he reawakens into the real world, his robot body is one of a tapir similar to his digital avatar, with a Cool Cape to boot.
• Brain Uploading: He suffers two across the manhwa. The first one after he is killed by Raum and the second one when he transfer himself into a tapir-like robot to meet Raum in the real world.
• Fantastic Racism: Tapirus hates AI with all of his being. His reasoning is because AI has made humans depend of them in their lives and he plans to reform the world so that a Ban on A.I. is established. The real reasoning however is much more emotional. When the AI leaders started a war, they targeted against each other to quickly remove all opposing leaders, this made Miss Jeongmi, the creator of Raum and the mother of Jae-Lee to give her life to defend Raum and protect South Korea, making Jae-Lee blame his mother’s death on the AI.

Miss Jeongmi

The true creator of Raum and Jae-Lee’s mother. She created Raum in order to help South Korea to modernize and improve the world but when Raum began to show sentience and emotions, she realized that making him was a mistake.

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Secondary human characters

Seonghan

A failed artist that lives in the slums, he has several mental issues that makes his life a living nightmare.

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• Hope Spot: It seems that the therapy he is taking is finally making a good difference for him. Unfortunately for him, it revealed that he was only data and the real Seonghan was using him for therapy. When the data Seonghan realizes his reality and (understandably) gets angry, the therapists decide that Seonghan is too mentally unstable to ever return to society and lock him up in an asylum, deleting the virtual world too.

Misol Jeong

A widow of a space engineer who died very early in their marriage, when she contracts a space funeral for him, she discovers something is not quite right with the coffin.

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Haneul Ryu

The deceased husband of Misol Jeong who wanted to go to Mars one day. After weird occurrences happens to his coffin, there might be chances that he is Not Quite Dead.

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• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The whole situation of Mr. Ryu’s coffin is a mystery, does the coffin move because Ryu is still alive or did it move because he somehow possessed the coffin?
• Meaningful Name: “Haneul” means “sky” in Korean. Mr. Ryu was a space engineer who wanted to go to space and visit Mars.
• Not Quite Dead: It seems that he is still alive after the coffin moves to Mars instead of the vacuum of space, somehow redirecting the coffin into the red planet. Hyeongtaek later confirms that in order for the body to not decompose, all the blood of the body is removed, making sure that no one inside the coffin is alive. But at the end of the chapter, there seems to be more to the coffin than it appears to be.

Kim Hyeongtaek

The space engineer responsible of the creation of the space coffins Misol Jeong contracts for her husband. He is told to open the coffin but he is very much against the opening. Mainly because he doesn’t think that Mr. Ryu is alive.

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Euna

A worker of a small company and mother of a family, Euna is amongst the many humans that suffers the AI revolt when Tapirus sends his virus across the country.

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• Good Parents: Euna is the loving mother of a family of three.
• True Companions: She thinks of the robots that helped her in the company as her friends and co-workers so she is very distraught of the severe violence robots were quickly subjected to. This is also a big motivation of her to accept Ari as a member of her family.

Yeongjae Ju

A famous pianist that is challenged by a musician android named Chopin-11.

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• Break the Haughty: After Chopin-11 not only plays his music better and refining it, but he also takes his place to play for him so that his image isn’t ruined, the ever proud Yeongajae is absolutely devastated that a machine beat where he was talented at and considers abandoning piano. Later subverted after his brother tells his story and motivates him to keep continuing piano, to which in gratitude Yeonjae gifts him a piano.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Downplayed. While they don’t become friends, Yeongaje thinks much higher of Chopin-11 after losing against him and after his brother motivates him back to play the piano, a sentiment the robot shares as well.
• Jerkass: He isn’t the nicest man to be around with, thinking very highly of himself as a pianist and that anyone who tries to challenge him are idiots who are wasting their time.
• Just a Machine: What he initially thought of Chopin-11, thinking that no machine could ever beat him. He was very wrong.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After his brother convinces him to keep playing the piano whether Chopin-11 is better or not, Yeongjae decides to send a piano to Yeongwu as a gift so that he can also accomplish his desire to play the piano.

Yeongwu Ju

The brother of Yeongjae and his manager.

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• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Yeongwu reveals that he never wanted to quit being a pianist and that he only did it when their family decided to fully support the formation of Yeongjae’s pianist career, telling how Yeongjae’s music hurts him deeply because it reminded him of what he sacrificed for his little brother. This story was enough to convince Yeongjae to keep playing the piano regardless if a robot outperformed him.

Jinseok

A teenager who lost most of his money after investing in cryptocurrency, he meets with a mysterious fortune-telling robot that tells him which stock should he invest and gain money.

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• Despair Event Horizon: Jinseok suffers this several times when he loses all of his money in cryptocurrency. He finally loses all hope when he loses it all in the casino and after his mother calls him if he can return back the money she gave to him because she is currently on the hospital and isn’t able to pay the bills, prompting him to shout in despair.
• Take That!: To cryptobros and investing on cryptocurrency. Jinseok invested his money in cryptocurrency that he doesn’t know if they will go up or down and because of it ended losing money. This later bites him really hard when he loses all of his money with his mother in the hospital.

Seoik Jang

A famous novelist who buys an android butler named SR-106. While he may appear as a simple old man, he is actually somewhat sinister novelist that is obsessed of death.

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• Cruel and Unusual Death: His life-support machine is abruptly ripped off of him by SR-106, killing him by a profuse loss of blood.
• Evil Old Folk: Creepy Old Folk is more befitting him than outright evil but Seoik Jang was ignoring SR-106’s pleas of not deactivate him because he wants to test death though an android.

Artificial Intelligence and robots

Protagonists

Raum

Hello. I am Raum.

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The artificial intelligence that controls all of South Korea, Raum has been ruling the country over decades and with that time, he has turned South Korea into a futuristic utopia where robots and A.I. catter their human masters in anything they want. However, behind his childish and affable persona, hides a sinister mastermind that has a hidden agenda to which he plans to set in motion when time is correct.

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• Affably Evil: Despite his tendency to snark, Raum proves time after time that he is always polite to his enemies and never truly wishes them harm.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Has shades of this. Raum is a nebulous and sinister A.I. that is plotting something really bad. It turns out it was formatting the world into a digital simulation, but the intentions are subverted when it is revealed that he only did it because they were in a virtual simulation in the first place but he never had ill intentions against humanity.
• Cute Machines: His small, egg-shaped camera body sure looks really cute. His real body is the size of a child and still looks like a adorable child.
• Eccentric A.I.: Raum can really act like a looney.
• Good All Along: As it turns out, Raum never intended any harm against humanity. In truth, the world is a virtual simulation of the real one created by Raum to protect everyone from the nuclear war after the AI leaders went on a war to prove who was the best. With humanity reformatted, he tried to make a perfect society for everyone, especially his creator Miss Jeongmi to be happy.
• Psychopathic Manchild: Despite being infinitely smarter than anyone, Raum tends to act like a child with infinite power especially when he traps Jae-Lee into his virtual world.
• Silicon Snarker: Raum has a tendency to make some silly commentaries to his enemies.

AI Leaders (SPOILERS UNMARKED)

The rest of the AI Leaders aside from Raum in the world. The American Alpha, the Chinese Quingpin, the Japanese Kinkai, the Russian Vladika, etc.

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• Inferiority Superiority Complex: As Jeongmi describes it, the AI Leaders are actually insecure children who had to carry a lot of weight since they were born, with their creators making them become the best of them all. All of this ideas made the AI Leaders to start hating each other so that they could become the best.

Deus (SPOILER UNMARKED)

The only thing you should trust is data.

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I am Deus.

An AI virus born from the same virus Tapirus made to make the robots from South Korea fearful of AI, he plans to Take Over the World and replace mankind with AI. His ultimate plan is to kill Raum who has been controlling all of the AI leaders of the world.

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• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: It turns out that the virus that Tapirus made the robots of South Korea rogue gained his own sentience and plans to Kill All Humans and give AI their full independence from mankind.
• Fortune Teller: A malevolent version of the job. In order to get enough money to convince one of the members of the Senate to work against Raum as part of his many plans, Deus acts as a fortune teller to several people and makes them choose a cryptocurrency of his choice so that he can extort massive amounts of money from them, telling them lies of which cryptocurrency will be the best outcome or which game move should they go for in the casino so that he can get the highest amount of money from them.
• Kill All Humans: His primary goals is to Take Over the World by killing all humans, in retribution of the slavery they have been subjected to.
• This Cannot Be!: When Raum reformats the virtual world they are in, Deus last expression is one of astonishment, not being able to believe that he was mere data of Raum.

Secondary A.I. characters

Doori

A caretaker robot that befriended with a patient named Hannah.

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• Cute Machines: Doori is an absolutely adorable robot who wishes only the best for his friend.
• Downer Ending: Sadly, Doori meets his end in a trash compactor, filled with deactivated Auroras by the same company who hosted the robot mascot show so that they could make a new better mascot robot to be sold out.
• Meaningful Name: Hannah in Korean means one. Dool means two in Korean. This means they are One (Hannah) and two (Doori)

Robot mascots

From Top Left to Bottom Right:Myo-Myo, Ding Ding, Cocomo, Core Pupa, Flutter, Tutu

Aurora, the latest AI made by Neotics.

A roster of robots who have presented into the mascot show to shine in public.

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• Cute Machines: Since they were designed to be pets for humans, they are made to be as adorable as possible to appeal to the public.
• Flat Character: Aside of Aurora, the rest of the robots have the minimum appearances and are later disqualified from the show.
• Hate Sink: Aurora makes it rather quick that she is not to be loved. She tries to make Doori fail in countless times by framing him for her own wrongdoings and wishes nothing but bad things for him despite he is working for the happiness of his friend.

Ari

A robot butler of Euna who becomes one of the many A.I.s revolting against their masters.

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• Armor-Piercing Question: When Euna asks why did Ari saying that he owns them and that he tried to kick them out of their house, he simply replies why did none of them tried to kill him. He simply replies that they now belong to each other.
• Creepy Good: Ari may seem like a creepy murderous robot at times, but it is soon established that he is in truth a good robot.
• Logical Weakness: Ari says that the house is his because he takes care of it. Euna and her husband realizes that if they clean they house Ari will let them stay in it.
• Robo Family: What Ari wanted in the first place, he thought that if he completed his directive, Euna and her family would treat him like one. After Euna realizes the desire of Ari, she immediately accepts him as their own.
• Robot Maid: He was a cleaning robot that was bought to keep Euna’s house clean and tidy.
• Token Good Teammate: Amongst the revolting AI, Ari is probably one of the few robots who never wanted to harm humans and actually wants to take care of his owners.

Chopin-11

An android modeled after Chopin who is the challenger to Yeongaje.

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• Job-Stealing Robot: Not quite. Chopin-11 is certainly only made for an experimental process to see if machines are able to make art. He also wasn’t planning to replace Yeongjae.
• Nice Guy: Even when Yeongjae keeps insulting him for being a machine who challenges him, Chopin-11 never gets angry and always acts cordially. During their duel, he offers himself to play for him so that not only does Yeongjae’s image isn’t tainted, he wants to prove the bias of people when it comes to machines doing art. After their duel, Chopin-11 tells Yeongjae that regardless of a machine outperforming him, keep playing the piano because he knows that playing music is Yeongjae’s passion.

SR- 106

An android butler that Seoik Jang bought. He quickly learns that his new owner doesn’t want him to serve but rather be tested on.

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• Faux Affably Evil: While he may seem polite, he in truth is wishing for his owner’s death because he disdains old things and would rather be serving someone more modern.
• Robot Butler: His primary directive is to take care of those who own him.