This is a bit tricky since it’s meant to be humorous, and involves magic body swapping so neither character is actually transgender, they just end up in a body of the opposite gender.
The man is imagining a scenario where the woman currently in his body uses it to go try and aggressively pick up men at a club. It is a bit predatory, the men are repulsed and rebuff any advances.
Someone’s father acts in an ambitious way that inadvertently hurts his daughter, but he means well. There are many in-laws who are abusive & toxic but they are more like extended family (the Dowager Queens).
There is a supposedly blind & deaf character who acts as a maid, but the actor playing her is probably not actually blind. Her eyes are milky coloured. It is later revealed she can hear.
There is loud screams of pain in several torture scenes. There is also screaming full voice from anger in many scenes as characters really lose their temper.
Not really discussed, only very vaguely with mentions of people’s actions being like Buddha when they do something selfless. There is a shaman in one scene performing a ritual, people use Buddhist prayer beads including someone who looks like a monk, and Christian persecution is briefly mentioned.
A young child (5) is seized from their parents and forced to work at the palace. They are later intimidated, imprisoned and forced to drink poison as a punishment (but the poison is swapped out, so they recover). In flashbacks, someone is traumatized as a child due to running for their life and then being sealed somewhere to die. They witness the traumatic death of relatives.
A live rabbit is held by its ears to hold it still at the beginning of the episode. It doesn’t look happy but isn’t struggling. There is a sound effect of it sounding distressed as it is handed to someone, possibly fake.
Maybe not, but: A calm rabbit (and I repeat; the animal looks completely at ease, not like the wild, frightened animal it is supposed to be - that rabbit did not graduate from Juilliard, that's for sure) is held by the king first, who pretends to have caught it, hunting with trap (contributing to the his PR-image as a half-witted coward who is afraid even to pick up a bow against a rabbit) and then gifted to and held by one of the villains, on whom it sh*ts, for comic effect.
I suppose we must assume that bad things happen to the rabbit, but really, it is just serving as a metaphor.
Idk where to put this but there is unaneasthetised (however you spell that lmao) dentistry. Later, a maid is tortured with heavy stones, but it is not graphic. Later, however, there is a short but much more graphic torture scene involving beating, branding, and whipping
Many parents die offscreen and far in the past. I think one parent dies onscreen? He's definitely a relative of one of the main characters but I'm not sure about exact relations, the huge family trees confuse me
Sort of. The main character is a major playboy who is shown to not even be able to remember the names of the women he's hooking up with. In addition, the time period the show takes place in features harems as the norm.
There's the water spirit who is really the queen-to-be kissing the guy in the beginning, and later (spoiler) returning, fighting for use of her former body. Her return makes the story much more lame, but that's how it goes.
There is one scene that replicates a horror trope of someone moving in snapshots closer to the camera, but it is meant to be humorous. Another time a man is right above someone and that frame and music might be a bit of a jump scare as the person hiding is very scared and shocked.
The premise of the show is that the Queen’s body is possessed or body swapped by a man from the modern era for most of the show. A couple of times he switches back or deals with health effects as his real human body is unwell.
In ep. 3 she's hungover, she says she feels nauseous but nothing happens, then when she tries ramen she spits it out kinda aggressively, and in ep 4 she tries to induce it, gags a bit but it's pretty safe
At around 17:00 there is scene with several poisoned people having sudden diarrhea and trying to run to a bathroom or lying on the ground. Nothing gross is shown, but there’s a lot of fart sound effects.
At about 17:00 there is a scene where several people have been poisoned by something affecting their digestion, they are seen running and mentioning poop and lying on the ground with a lot of fart sounds - they’re all having diarrhea. No poop is shown!
Or, ... that depends on how you consider the queen and her relation to the king.
The queen doesn't get very far with her advances to the pretty court ladies.
In episode one, a man takes a bite of fish and finds it has a hook in it, but is uninjured. I'm aware this isn't a needle but I know some people find hooks equally or more upsetting.
As for actual needles, also in episode one is a scene featuring a number of acupuncture needles, including some extremely long ones, but despite a long lead up none are used. In a later episode a few short acupuncture needles do end up being used briefly
Someone offers to kill themselves when they are apologizing for a grave mistake. They make a noose ready and say they’ll gang themselves but don’t ultimately follow through.
The man who is stuck in a woman’s body often has times where he feels ill at ease or upset in his current body. He is upset to not have his usual genitalia, and is particularly distressed by experiencing things in this female body that he never has before (menstruation, sexual attraction & sex acts with a man, pregnancy). He is very upset by the pregnancy and cries. There is a lot of hand wringing about his romantic and sexual attraction to the King.
The Queen Dowager grandmother has very disordered eating. She is very picky and when the usual person isn’t there to serve the food she likes she doesn’t eat, she is seen being distressed by hunger as her stomach makes noise on several occasions. She is also very obsessed with healthful ingredients and youth.
Someone suffers from PTSD related to childhood incidents. They have several times where they see a trigger and freeze with terror & have trouble breathing or even distinguishing reality. Some of these happen in Episode 8 and 9.
No, but it is a close call. They think at first that the woman is miscarrying, blood is shown on her skirts and they have to wait and see overnight before they know she and the baby are okay.
Nobody listens when the main character insists he is a man from the future who has found himself in a woman's body, but the misgendering is not malicious.
That depends: When Bong Hwan starts to love the king, he dies out of the queens body and awakens in our time. So no royal lgbT living hanky-panky-happily forever after. Deeply disappointing, but you'll just have to fan fic fix it.
A man is mocked for his "physique." It's unclear if this is referring to his height, his weight, or both. Additionally, a major character eats up to five meals a day, and another major character wonders how she doesn't "get fat."
Virginity is not a thing, and can't be lost. The queen's body has sex for the first time (we may assume) but it certainly isn't Bong Hwan's first time.
A cousin is in love with his younger female cousin. They do kiss on screen and while she eventually reciprocates her feelings are unclear. Later she turns him down but he is driven by his love and jealousy for the remainder of the show. It’s unsure how closely related they are as cousins since the term is sometimes vague (and she refers to him as an “older brother” which was common for older male relatives)
I had written this long defense and then there came a scene where cook is crying, moved by the king's friendliness, and then the king says "What kind of man cries so easily".
There is always comic crying and tragic crying in this kind of drama. The tragic crying is treated with awe, no matter the gender or sex of the cryer, while the comic crying (often it is spoiled or cowardly crying "boohooo, we are out of caviar, and that man is moping in my direction, booohooo") is ridiculed. So yes, men are ridiculed for crying, but not because "boys don't cry".
It is bittersweet. The people who fell in love over the course of the show are technically separated forever, even though they live fairly happily going forward. SPOILER: The King mentions to himself at the end that he feels something is wrong (as the Queen now isn’t who she was before, now that their bodies have switched back). He is never told outright what happened.
There are several scenes with military exercises and practicing shooting rifles, but no actual violence & shooting at people until episode 20. Several people are injured, one is killed with a combo of gun/sword. There is a gunpowder explosion in a previous episode.
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