After he falls in love with her, he decides he wants to live with her. When he finds out that Eun-tak is his destined bride that can kill him, he freaks out and does what he can to avoid her. At first he's pretty sick of life due to living over 900 years and desires death. Death Seeker: Kim Shin flip-flops on this.Deceased Parents Are the Best: Eun-tak's late mother has been shown as a loving mother that did everything she could for her daughter.Dark Is Not Evil: Reaper wears only dark colors, usually black, as befitting his job.Partly justified by her status as a missing soul, which means the universe tries to self-correct by killing her. Damsel in Distress: Eun-tak, on occasion (kidnapped by loan sharks, pursued by grim reapers, involved in weird accidents.).It has some bummer Who Wants to Live Forever? aspects, but still. Cursed with Awesome: For his sins, Kim Shin is doomed to walk the Earth as a handsome rich guy with godlike powers.It's invisible to almost everyone except Eun-tak, and even she can't see it at first. Cool Sword: Kim Shin has one stuck in his chest.He needs Kim Shin to vouch for him at the police station. Clear My Name: In Episode 7 when Reaper gets pickpocketed and stuck with the bill for his office party.Can't Hold His Liquor: After a few drinks Kim Shin staggers around holding onto lampposts, and speaking indistinctly.It also becomes an important place because Eun-tak is able to follow Kim Shin's portal there (something that grim reapers can't do) and it becomes a romantic spot for the couple. As Kim Shin first moved there after he became a goblin, that's where he keeps the graves of all the Yoo family members that have served him. Canada, Eh?: Quebec is an important location for the show.Blue Blood: Deok Hwa is a chaebol note a term used for corporate heirs, and acts it by being a Spoiled Brat.Blood from the Mouth: Shows up when Kim Shin dies as a human.Big Fancy House: The house Kim Shin, Reaper and later Eun-tak live in.An especially memorable one occurs when he and Reaper go to save Eun-tak from violent loan sharks who kidnapped her. Big Damn Heroes: Kim Shin has a few moments of this, usually when Eun-tak is in danger.By feeding on men's evils as a ghost, he also might have made Eun-tak the bride of the goblin. He was the one that caused Kim Shin to become a goblin in the first place and indirectly also caused Wang Yeo's transformation into a reaper. Big Bad: Park Joong-heon is responsible for most of what went wrong in the backstory.In Episode 2, the "Goblin's Underwear" nursery rhyme is implied to be based on something Shin did in the past, much to his anger and shame.In Episode 6, Shin claims to have known William Shakespeare and even inspired Hamlet by coining the famous question "To be or not to be?".Because Destiny Says So: Not just that Eun-tak and Kim Shin need to get together, but also Kim Shin and Reaper meeting again, and Reaper and Sunny finding each other.An Ice Person: Reaper has ice powers to contrast with Kim Shin's fire.Ancient Artifact: The sword stuck in Kim Shin's chest and Sunny's ring are both over 900 years old and play a part in their past lives.Wang Yeo accuses Kim Shin of lying about his age because he's 939, not 900.Wang Yeo stares at him then bursts out laughing. Kim Shin tells Wang Yeo it doesn't matter what he did in his past life because it won't change how much Kim Shin dislikes him.The shaman helplessly suggests "Gong Yoo?" Sunny describes Kim Shin to her shaman and demands to know if the shaman knows a man who looks like that.Shin freaks out after telling Eun-tak not to be scared. In Episode 7, Kim Shin and Ji Eun-tak go see Train to Busan on a movie date in which Gong Yoo also stars in. Guardian: The Lonely and Great God contains examples of: The series can be watched on Viki with subtitles. One day Kim Shin meets Ji Eun-tak, a high schooler who can communicate with ghosts, who claims to be his bride. He lives with an amnesiac grim reaper in charge of seeing off deceased souls. Kim Shin is a goblin who is also a trickster and protector of souls. Guardian: The Lonely and Great God (도깨비, Dokkaebi also called Goblin) is a 2016 Korean Drama series starring Gong Yoo, Lee Dong-wook, Kim Go-eun, and Yoo In-na.
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