| “ | You're not a zombie, are you? | ” |
–Na-yeon's last words. | ||
Lee Na-yeon (Korean: 이나연) was a supporting antagonist in All of Us Are Dead. She is portrayed by Lee Yoo-mi and voiced by Ru Kumagai in the English dub.
History[]
Pre-Apocalypse[]
Na-yeon was born into a wealthy family and looks down on anyone who lives in poverty, such as Han Gyeong-su. She is particularly frustrated by fellow students like Gyeong-su, as it is implied that they live near her gated community and often use it as a shortcut, which she thinks is inappropriate. Na-yeon tries to make friends with Choi Nam-ra, another resident of the gated community, but Nam-ra ignores her.
Prior to the outbreak, she was a member of Class 2-5 and, despite being close to Kim Ji-min and Seo Hyo-ryung, had no friends, as she stated later in episode 3. She was very sensitive to smells and repeatedly commented that Lee Byeong-chan smelled like a corpse. When asked how she knew what a corpse smells like, she said that it was the only smell she didn't know, so it had to be that.
Post-Apocalypse[]
When the outbreak began, Na-yeon hid in Class 2-5 and tried to block entry to anyone else, including Lee Cheong-san and Nam On-jo. She becomes obsessed with the need to call emergency services, shouting at several other students, including Nam-ra, despite being told that none of them had a phone or could help her. She tries to get Nam-ra to do something, seeing as she's the class president, but when Nam-ra asks if she should leave the room, Na-yeon doesn't have an answer. Once Lee Su-hyeok reminds Na-yeon that they've called the police, Na-yeon complains that nobody is coming, starting a conflict with Ji-min. Gyeong-su attempts to stop this conflict, to which Na-yeon asks why he's making himself part of the conflict, and insults him, which results in Gyeong-su leaving the door in anger towards her, despite being told multiple times not to, which ultimately results in letting a teacher, Kang Jin-gu, into the room. She asks Mr. Kang if the teachers called the police, to which he lies and says they did. Mr. Kang is later found to be bitten and turns into a zombie, forcing them out of the room and into the science lab, where Na-yeon asks On-jo for the phone and angrily shouts when she realizes On-jo lost it. She then berates Gyeong-su, who tells them to secure the room and says he is the reason Kim Min-ji died and they were forced to leave the classroom, because he didn't block the door despite it actually being her fault that he wasn't blocking the door. Gyeong-su grabs Na-yeon's neck, and Yang Dae-su then tells them to cut it out, and she angrily rips off her bow and headband while calling the situation annoying. After Yoon I-sak was revealed to be bitten, she panics, telling Cheong-san and On-jo to throw their friend out the window. When I-sak is eventually pushed out the window while charging at On-jo, Nae-yon kicks a stool to Cheong-san so he can loosen her grip on On-jo, as On-jo had grabbed her best friend's hand while she fell out the window, giving I-sak a chance to grab her hand as well.
In the broadcasting room, she shouts at her classmates to close the window, to which Gyeong-su gets mad at her because some people were still coming into the room. In a response to this, she calls Gyeong-su a welfie, and he pushes her. She is also told by other members of the group and their teacher, Park Sun-hwa (After being told by Lee Su-hyeok what welfie means), that she can't be calling him that. Due to this, she gets mad at him for being physically violent with her. Later, she panics on seeing Gyeong-su with a bloody nose, which was a known symptom of infection before turning, and a scratch, which she thought was a bite after a zombie fight, which is confirmed to be a scratch by Cheong-san. Gyeong-su snaps at her, asking why she's picking on him, and she tries to have him thrown out of the room, still insistent that he is infected. Instead of this, Sun-hwa compromises by asking him to sit in the recording booth for half an hour. She tells Na-yeon that at the end of that half hour, if he has not turned, she will have to apologize to him, to which she "agrees". In fear of being thrown out for being wrong, and possibly Gyeong-su turning to violence with her again, she creates a plan to make sure that doesn't happen.
After half an hour, Gyeong-su still has not turned. This makes Ji-min and the rest of the group press for her to admit she was wrong, and Sun-hwa reminds her that she has to apologize. What Sun-hwa doesn't know is that, during that half hour, she deliberately soaked her handkerchief with zombie blood. When she goes into the recording booth, she keeps her back to the window and starts by making it seem like she might apologize to him by showing him some affection, then infects him by rubbing the handkerchief over the cut on his hand, and instead of apologizing, continues the conflict between them, shocking Gyeong-su. Meanwhile, the other survivors watching them assume that they kissed, but when Na-yeon comes out, Gyeong-su comes running out after angry about what she said and calling her a cheat, as the other members of the group, who thought she had apologized, were clapping for her. Gyeong-su is held back by Dae-su and reveals that she did not apologize. When confronted for not giving Gyeong-su a real apology, Na-yeon purposefully stalls and avoids the group's questions, waiting for Gyeong-su to turn, so that she will be relieved from having to answer any more questions, and so that she can be proven right. Gyeong-su turns, and Cheong-san is forced to lure him into falling out of the window, and Na-yeon says that she warned the others about him and that she was correct.
However, Nam-ra spotted her wiping the blood onto her handkerchief and told her to wipe it over a cut on her own leg to prove she didn't betray Gyeong-su. Na-yeon hesitates to do so, stating that she rubbed it on the wound of Gyeong-su, who turned into a zombie, saying his blood is technically zombie blood. Nam-ra states that he was fine until Na-yeon put the handkerchief on his wound. Cheong-san walks towards her angrily, before being stopped by Su-hyeok. This scared Na-yeon into picking up the handkerchief, making it look like she was going to actually put it on her wound. Sun-hwa stops her, to which Na-yeon gets angry and, while holding back tears, asks why Gyeong-su is better than her. Cheong-san says she actually did do it, to which Na-yeon admits to infecting Gyeong-su, but not killing him, because he got up and ran away, which also upsets On-jo, who was also mourning the loss of her own best friend. This leads Cheong-san to shove Na-yeon and call her a murderer. After hearing this, Na-yeon tears up, says she doesn't have any friends, and claims she doesn't need anyone else before leaving the room. While in the hallway, she starts to sob loudly, attracting zombies. Sun-hwa runs after her and grabs her, and while being chased by a zombie, Na-yeon turns back and hallucinates, thinking the zombie is Gyeong-su. Sun-hwa gets bitten and pushes her to safety in the music classroom. Before she turns, she tells Na-yeon that she has to stay alive and find her way back to her classmates to apologize and do something helpful for them. Na-yeon then hides in the music cupboard and stays there, even when the surviving members of her class are later sheltering in the music classroom. She almost goes to them to give them food she had found, but upon hearing them mention Gyeong-su, she feels guilty and scared to leave, fearing that they will not accept her offer.
After the rest of the class leaves, a zombie is stuck under a piano and making a lot of noise. Na-yeon leaves the cupboard to stop this noise and takes the camera that the rest of the class used to record messages to the outside world. She runs back to the cupboard when zombies suddenly run into the room and watches the messages, remembering Gyeong-su, and hallucinating him, making her cry. She feels extreme remorse and packs some food into a bag, planning to go to the roof, find the others, and apologize. However, she leaves the cupboard just as Yoon Gwi-nam arrives. Seeking an easy meal to recover from his injuries, he picks her up, eating her neck and part of her torso. Afterwards, she transformed into a zombie off-screen as she isn't shown when Gwi-nam was climbing out the window.
Later, she appears as a zombie on the school field and is killed by the bomb dropped there.
Physical Appearance[]
Na-yeon had pale skin and red hair that she kept loose with bangs, and was of average height. She wore the standard Hyosan High School female uniform, but with a pale pink cardigan with orange, purple, yellow, blue, and green buttons instead of the cardigan, as well as pink Adidas Sambarose sneakers and a dark red headband. After reaching the science room, she removed both the headband and the bow. In Episode 1, when Yoon I-sak was talking about Mr Lee, she is seen wearing the Hyosan High School female summer uniform in the flashback and doesn't have her bangs swept to the side. As a zombie, her hair was messy, her face was bloody and her cardigan was dirty implying that she jumped out of a window, and it had a big hole in the bottom likely due to Gwi-nam grabbing her, or by it getting caught on something she is also missing one of her buttons as only four were shown and a outline of where the button was is seen around the tear, as well as a blue thing around her waist that covered her skirt (though this was likely a mistake during production, as maybe before Yoo-mi was needed she had that around her waist and forgot to remove it.)
Personality[]
Na-yeon was a stereotypical, stubborn, rich girl without friends. Her actions revolved around her own safety above that of the group, and she became frustrated and even paranoid when she feels they are against her, seeming to take other students' actions personally. Her mental state declined quickly during the outbreak, and snapped entirely when Nam-ra exposed her for infecting Gyeong-su. After hallucinating and finding the video camera and watching the others videos, which reminded her of what Sun-hwa told her after she was bitten, she felt extremely guilty and attempted to make up for her actions by bringing food and drinks to her starving classmates. However, the attempt was unsuccessful, as she was zombified by Gwi-nam upon an encounter.
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Appearances[]
| Season 1 Appearance | |||
| Episode 1 | Episode 2 | Episode 3 | Episode 4 |
| Episode 5 | Episode 6 | Episode 7 | Episode 8 |
| Episode 9 | Episode 10 | Episode 11 | Episode 12 |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- In the Webtoon, Na-yeon was portrayed as more villainous and with even stronger hallucinations. Her actions result in the deaths of Gyeong-su, Sun-hwa, and Jang Wu-jin. She was bitten and killed by Gwi-nam in the broadcasting room while attempting to call for help.
- In the original webtoon, her death was more violent and was even censored.
- Na-yeon killed the three following characters in the Webtoon: Gyeong-su by an infected bandage, Wu-jin by stabbing him with scissors due to a vision of Gyeong-su & Sun-hwa by strangling her with cables by again, seeing the vision.
- In the Webtoon, Na-yeon is not slapped by Nam-ra, but rather Gyeong-su, On-jo & Sun-hwa, all happening in the broadcasting room.
- In the Webtoon, Na-yeon has a short bob-cut and wearing a yellow clip on her left side of her hair.
- Her actor, Lee Yoo-mi portrayed Ji Yeong in the 2021 series Squid Game. Na-yeon was due to have a larger redemption arc, but this was scrapped due to scheduling conflicts with Yoo-mi's role on Squid Game.
- Na-yeon is one of the six victims to be killed by Gwi-nam. Others being The Principal, Jang Do-min, Son Myeong-hwan, Shin Hyung-seo and Jung Min-jae.
- As well as some background characters.
- Na-yeon is the first main character to have died in the series, second being Nam So-ju.
