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KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025) dir. by Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans

[thefanfictiongenie]

HUNTRIX TWEET SERIES PART 2

[hisuianserperior]

Bruce Wayne pseudo adopts Rumi. He'd take one look at this girl, drowning in shame and guilt given to her by a caretaker who could never truly love her and decide she was his (and Bobby's because he's the best). He'd find out about the demon hunting, because he's Batman of course, and start providing more help and training, meaning Gwi-Ma now has to deal with not only a hunter but a bat trained hunter. He'd help her unlearn shame like the hypocrite he is.

Bonus funs

– Jinu's plan goes a bit worse because the only thing more powerful than a K-pop Bias is Brucie Wayne lovers and he'd simply comment offhandedly about how he's not that fond of them.

– Formerly only child Rumi now has siblings for days. Her, Cass and Steph bout to cause so many shenanigans, let alone the boys.

– Her girls would probably also get along with her siblings. Damian would chat with Zoey about turtles for hours. Don't know why but Mira would vibe with Jason. Tim would destroy anyone who talked bad about them online

– Alfred gets to meet Bobby. I just think they'd be friends.

– Pay no mind to the new sometimes vigilante Songbird. Any possible resemblance to Huntrix star Rumi are coincidental at best and ridiculous at worst.

[katie-is-tired-yay]

Maybe it’s because I had supercorp brainrot before the film came out but I keep thinking about parallels between Rumi and Kara, specifically in regards to the secret part of themselves and how it impacted their relationships with others

They both kept the fact that they weren’t human from their closest friend(s) (Zoey & Mira, Lena) and then when it was revealed by someone else against their will the relationship with said friend broke down. The relationship was later repaired, making them closer than before.

They both formed a bond with someone else who was similarly not human, as they understood what it was like (Jinu, Mon-El)

They both had a parental/familial figure telling them to hide what they were and pretend to be human (Celene, the Danvers)

[rosejubilee113]

K-Pop Demon-Hunters: Take 2

Sooo... K-Pop Demon Hunters is my little brother's favorite movie ever, and now, having rewatched it yet again (not complaining, it's so good), a sequel storyline has popped into my head, more or less fully formed.

If anyone's interested in reading through a movie summary, here you go! Let me know what you think and I welcome questions or suggestions on the iffy parts, since I haven't really developed this much at all.

Basically, Rumi and Jinu have become kind of symbols in the demon world among the demons that were formerly human, that there might be hope to escape Gwi Ma. They become this paragon of the idea that even though the demons did terrible things in the past, they might be able to choose to be better in the future and get their humanity back. The problem, of course, is that, just as with Jinu, Gwi Ma has a ton of power over them and can summon them back into the demon world if he suspects they’re rebelling. So now there’s a handful of cautiously rebellious demons led by one of the former Saja boys (I’m thinking Baby since he seemed to have the most personality/free thought of the Saja drones) who are trying to find a way to break Gwi Ma’s hold over them and are spending as much time in the human world as possible.

Eventually, HUNTR/X, back to business as usual aside from the sword that likes to make sarcastic commentary but is also surprisingly perceptive and sympathetic, finds one of these rebel demons and, given the experiences of the last movie, decides to at least give them a chance when they say they want to break free of Gwi Ma. The rebel Saja boy then explains to the hunters and the ghost of Jinu that there are legends of another demon who rebelled against Gwi Ma. Supposedly, this demon found a way to bind himself to the human world to avoid being called back to Gwi Ma; however, Gwi Ma managed to trick him and imprisoned him in the human world somewhere to prevent him from teaching any other demons how to bind themselves to the human world. Rebel Saja begs the girls for help in finding this demon, and after a long discussion about worries, issues of trust, and the lessons of the last movie, the girls agree.

I believe this search takes them to the US for a couple of fun plot reasons. Firstly, Zoe has her father living in the US and her mother in Korea, so this would be a great opportunity to explore some of Zoe’s character and past as a child of divorce and a child of two cultures. I think an arc about her and her father coming to an understanding of her decision to live with her mother (presumably given that she is now a K-pop idol), and Zoe having some issues and acceptance with her American identity as well, would be super cool. Also, Bobby and Zoe’s father go from enemies (Bobby doesn’t like that he’s upsetting one of the girls, and Zoe’s dad is maybe just a bit jealous of Bobby’s relationship with Zoe) to besties in 5k. They team up to keep the girls fed, supported, and protected from the gawking world.

Secondly, I want to give Mira a love interest, and the guy I have in mind is a high-powered, wild-card American lawyer who is aggressively passive-aggressive and weilds words like weapons. He eventually teaches Mira how to shoot (since personal handguns are illegal in Korea) and is generally impressed by her combat ability. They’re both a little bit aggressive, closed-off, and hot-tempered; however, he likes to eviscerate people with words, and Mira’s more comfortable just straight-up hitting folks. They get on like a house on fire, and that’s everyone else’s problem as Mira deals with the relationship issues her family left her with and determines not to be ashamed of being in love or vulnerable. Just like her friends, he loves her for her wildness and refusal to fit into everyone’s box and instead focus on being herself, and it’s very affirming and healing for her. At some point, she saves his butt from demons, and later on, he gets to yell at her family for her, and it’s epic, character development, and healthy relationships all around.

Anyway, eventually, the girls, Jinu, and the rebel demons find this mysterious prison. For some reason, Mira and Zoe have to stay outside (maybe they have to hold off demons following them, or only demons can enter the prison), but the point being, it’s just Rumi and the demons, and sword!Jinu, who find the demon prisoner with crazy scars all up and down his arms, frozen in time. Upon being unfrozen, he looks up to see himself surrounded by demons and freaks out, grabbing Rumi and pinning her to the floor, demanding, “Where is she? What did you do to her?!”

The other demons jump in to pull him off of her, and the demon fights free of them, backing into a corner as he stares wildly at all of them. “Celene,” her mutters, “I have to find Celene,” then teleports away.

“Well, that’s a plot twist,” comments sword!Jinu, having noticed the demon’s purple hair that no one else seemed to mark.

Rumi comes rushing out to wherever Zoe and Mira are and is like, “We freed him, but he’s gone crazy and is going after Celene!” And so the girls, who have been very pointedly not talking to Celene this entire movie, race off to save her from the crazy demon man.

They arrive to find them mid-battle to the death, screaming at each other, both injured and bleeding. 

“You tricked her! You killed her!” Celene screams, and the demon roars back, “I was tricked! You were supposed to keep her safe!” And Celen tries to stab while hysterically accusing, “You expect me to believe that?!” and the demon growls back, “You’re the hunter, if anyone should have been able to save her, it was you!” and this goes back and forth for a while, getting increasingly hysterical, angry, and stabby, before the girls intervene.

Mira and Zoe grab Celene and hold her back while Rumi pins the demon. “Who is he?” she demands of Celene, “Obviously, you know this demon. Tell me who he is.” 

Celene stares at the two of them, Rumi pinning the scarred, purple-haired demon to the ground, both of them looking at her with furious eyes and glowing patterns. “No,” she says.

“Uh, nuh-uh,” Mira cuts in, “This is not a situation where you get to say no. Who is he?”

Celene grits her teeth and finally grinds out, “He’s your father.”

Shock and sword!Jinu in the background, shaking his head.

Mira and Zoe manhandle Celene away to give Rumi some time with her long-lost demon dad, and the whole story comes out.

Somehow, Rumi’s mom and dad met and fell in love (meet-cute to be filled in, enemies to lovers fast-burn). Seeing in Rumi’s mother the hope of a future where he could be more than a prisoner of his greatest mistakes and a slave to Gwi Ma, Rumi’s father figured out a way to use her hunter song to create bindings to tie around his arms to hold him in the human world. However, the bindings of a hunter’s songs were torturous to his demon body; thus, the scarring all up and down his arms, and Rumi’s mother, unable to bear seeing him in so much pain, said that there had to be a better way. Eventually, as he got weaker, she released the bindings, worried that her magic would kill him, resulting in him being dragged back to the demon world.

“We had a plan,” Rumi’s father told her, “A secret place to meet, but Gwi Ma knew. He had me followed and then imprisoned me in the human world, sending demons to lie in wait for your mother. I didn’t even know about you.”

Meanwhile, Zoey and Rumi drag the rest of the story out of Celene. 

She wasn’t aware of the relationship for a while, only knowing that her best friend had been spending a lot of time away. She suspected that she was dating someone, but had thought nothing of it. And then one night, Rumi’s mother had come to her door, desperate, afraid, and angry. She was pregnant, and she needed somewhere to stay; she refused to tell Celene who or where the father was, and Celene was furious with whoever this mysterious man was that he had left her friend alone in such a state. Of course, she took her in and supported her, but then, once the baby was born, the whole story came out. 

“She insisted on going to find him, this demon that had stolen her affection and abandoned her!” Celene raged. “She left me with her daughter, with Rumi, and vanished in the night. By the time I realized she was gone, it was too late. We found her body where he and his ambushers had left it.”

Mira and Zoey leave her mourning her friend and return to their own, where they compare notes with Rumi and Jinu and put the whole story together. There are a lot of emotions and discussions, and explanations to Rumi’s father, and then someone finally realizes the more plot-relevant revelations; the bindings don’t work, they hurt, and eventually kill the bound demon, so they need to find another way to save the rebel demons from Gwi Ma.

From there, the story is a bit fuzzy, except that Gwi Ma eventually figures out that not only is Rumi’s father now free, but that he is, in fact, Rumi’s father and a symbol of hope to the rebel demons, and kidnaps him. This results in a rescue mission into the demon world while Rumi’s father faces off against Gwi Ma’s attempts to torture and break him. In the demon world, all the humans suffer from having to face their greatest faults and fears; however, given our girls’ growth in the last movie and continued growth over their character arcs in this one, they band together and push back the pain and shame. Celene, on the other hand, finds that “our faults and fears must never be seen” is not that helpful of a mantra when they are, in fact, seen, and she suffers a bit while the final battle happens, working through her own grief and shame that she never came to terms with.

I think that ultimately, together with Rumi’s father, the heroes manage to find a way to break Gwi Ma’s control over rebellious demons, likely through a sort of “rebirth” idea in which they determine not to be the person they were before and to instead do better with their futures and the hunters and the rebel demons escape back to the human world along with a Celene who just had to face the worst of herself and has a lot to think about. Follow it all up with some catharsis, some apologies, maybe a kiss for Mira, and some father-daughter bonding time for Rumi and Zoe and their respective dads, maybe a bit of humor as the former demons try to settle into life as modern humans, and end it all on a soft, happy note.

[shinybogcreature]

Now, I'm definitely not the first to talk about this, but I recently rewatched Kpop Demon Hunters again and feel the need to break down how obsessed I am with the queer religious trauma undertones in that film. Trigger warning for religion stuff obviously, as well as a brief mention of suicidal ideation.

Celene promises Rumi that when the Honmoon in sealed, her patterns will be gone, and she'll no longer be part demon. This is super reminiscent of how many queer kids are told that their queerness is a result of being in a fallen world and that if they stay perceived as straight/cis for long enough then they'll get to heaven and no longer "struggle" with queerness. These kids often overcompensate for their perceived inferiority by trying to be the best Christians possible so maybe God will take their queerness away, like how Rumi refused to take breaks until the Honmoon was sealed.

Upon befriending Jinu, Rumi feels dread and guilt around the fact that he'll essentially "burn in hell" once the Honmoon seals. She has to endure Mira and Zoey, her closest friends, celebrating the eventual destruction and torture of the demons, while believing that if they knew what she was, they'd want her dead too. Closeted queer people feel this way in church communities a lot, the distress that comes with your beloved friends dehumanizing and wishing eternal pain on people like you. In the movie, this culminates in Takedown at the Idol Awards when Mira and Zoey sing "I see your real face, and it's ugly as sin" in reference to Rumi.

Gwi-Ma's manipulation of people's insecurities and past mistakes can be compared to the way some Christian communities constantly remind people of what "horrible people" they are, and that the only way they'll be free from their guilt is to join the religion. (emphasis on some!! and often its not even intentional! this is not an attack on Christianity just a personal criticism of the way some churches work!)

Celene struggling with the fact that she had been taught her whole life that people like Rumi were inherently wrong.

Rumi begging Celene to kill her because she believes it's what needs to happen. Ohhhh my God. This hit home for me. There was a time when I believed my queerness was a result of "worldly evil" and that the only way to make it go away was to end my own life and hopefully end up in heaven where I'd be free from that "sin." Rumi thought her only options were to stop hiding who she was and become a "sinful" demon, or to cease to exist.

Rumi telling Celene that if the Honmoon she'd swore to protect was one that caused her so much pain and hurt so many people, then she wanted nothing to do with it. This aligns with the way a lot of queer people eventually recognize how hurtful the Church is, and either turn away from it or work to be a part of something upholds the important values of Christianity without hurting people. Which leads us to...

the rainbow Honmoon :)

Of course, this movie isn't perfect in its allegories. Some of these might even be unintentional. But at the end of the day it made me feel seen as a queer Christian and also was just generally an outstanding film so we're counting that as a win.

[cryptoriawebb]

Wtf happened to Celine after Gwi-ma’s defeat? Did she see the error of her thinking? Did Rumi forgive her? Did Mira and Zoey gang up on her for how she treated Rumi? Did Rumi decide to go no contact and the girls became their own producers..?

Did Celine ever hear Gwi-ma’s voice at any point when the honmoon fell and if so, what happened? If not, why not?

Celine is so integral for setting up the plot of this movie but we hardly know anything about why she is the way she is. I want answers!!

[tessinthebluebox]

What is up with the Golden Honmoon??

On my first watch I interpreted that the Golden Honmoon was a one time thing. That you did it once and it would lock the barrier and keep earth safe from demons forever. A permanent solution.

And for whatever reason Huntrix was the first generation who actually had the chance to achieve it.

So imagine my surprise, when I come online, and see so many people talking about previous generations' Golden Honmoons...!?

What????

So I rewatched the movie...

I payed close attention to every mention and reference to the golden honmoon. I rewatched the initial scene with Celene's monologue a dozen times. AND I REALIZED......

... The movie made a bobo.

It's not a Big bobo, but it's in a very crucial moment, making it a BIG DEAL!

Celene says:

"...Every generation a new trio of Hunters is chosen to fulfill our ultimate duty. A barrier so strong it is impenetrable, that will keep demons and Gwi-ma from our world forever, the Golden Honmoon..."

SO WICH ONE IS IT??? IS IT EVERY GENERATION??? OR IS IT FOREVER???? IT CAN'T BE BOTH!??? CAUSE IF THE HONMOON KEEPS THE WORLD SAFE FOREVER THEN IT WOULDN'T NEED TO BE REDONE EVERY GENERATION!!!!??

The phrasing is very ambiguous. And I don't think it's deliberate. I think it's a mistake. A big writing mistake (or potentially an editing mistake) considering how important it is for this part to be crystal clear.

NOW...

I still think my first interpretation is the correct one. Because through out the rest of the movie, every time the Golden Honmoon is spoken about, it is with a tone of absolute finality.

Gwi-ma berates the other demons saying: "...if they turn the Honmoon gold, it's over!"

Jino calls Gwi-ma a "dying king" because the Golden Honmoon is so close.

Mira talks about once the Honmoon is sealed "all the demons will be trapped with Gwi-ma, suffering for eternity."

So I think that was the writers' intention for the Golden Honmoon. They just made an unfortunate mistake writing Celene's lore dump.

But I totally get it if people interpreted it differently. The movie is not 100% clear on which one is it.

And the visuals of the lore dump scene, do suggest that the Sunlight Sister achieved the Golden Honmon.

Though personally I think they weren't able to, it doesn't make sense with the time frame of Rubi's birth, and I think it's the reason Celene has such a chip on her shoulder and is passing down so much pressure on the girls.

BUT WHO KNOWS!?