The B Team

The Wonderfools Summary : In late 1999, as the impending arrival of the new millennium fuels widespread Y2K panic and apocalyptic doom-mongering, the fictional city of Haeseong becomes the epicenter of an unusual supernatural phenomenon. The city is home to a trio of social outcasts: Eun Chae-ni, a cynical, hot-tempered 27-year-old suffering from a severe congenital heart condition that leaves her facing sudden death; Son Kyung-hoon, a notorious public nuisance who constantly files petty civil complaints at city hall; and Kang Ro-bin, an overly timid man frequently treated as a neighborhood pushover. Desperate to travel the world before her illness claims her life, Chae-ni concocts a hare-brained scheme to stage her own kidnapping alongside Kyung-hoon and Ro-bin in order to extort ransom money from her wealthy, overprotective grandmother, Kim Jeon-bok. However, the plan goes disastrously wrong when Chae-ni suddenly suffers a fatal heart attack. Panic-stricken, Gyeong-hun and Ro-bin attempt to dispose of her body near a local facility, unaware that illegal, toxic wastewater is leaking from a hidden laboratory. Exposure to the chemical waste unexpectedly resurrects Chae-ni and grants all three misfits erratic, uncontrollable superpowers. Chae-ni acquires the ability to teleport whenever her heart rate spikes; Kyung-hoon is able to stick to surfaces whenever he tells a lie; and Ro-bin is endowed with superhuman strength that is unleashed only when something upsets him. The entire incident is witnessed by Lee Un-jeong, a socially awkward, rigidly rule-oriented civil servant recently transferred to Haeseong City Hall from Seoul. Known by colleagues as an oddball, Un-jeong secretly possesses powerful telekinetic abilities. Recognizing his prowess, the newly empowered trio dubs him their "master" and pressures him into training them to control their unstable gifts. Un-jeong, who reluctantly complies, harbours his own dark secrets tied to a closed orphanage that once stood on the grounds now occupied by a fanatical doomsday cult, the Church of Eternal Salvation. The source of the toxic pollutants is eventually traced back to the Wunderkinder Project, a brutal, covert human-experimentation program run by the ruthless scientist Dr. Ha Won-do. Decades prior, Won-do had subjected orphaned children to agonizing biological experiments in a bid to awaken superhuman abilities and discover the secret to eternal life. Having weaponized the surviving test subjects, Won-do returns to Haeseong City to track down a mythical "Child of Eternity" whose unique biology holds the key to a definitive cure for the side effects plaguing the survivors. As Won-do's sinister trio of altered enforcers, Kim Pal-ho, Seok Ju-ran, and Seok Ho-ran, begin terrorizing the city and staging abductions to fulfill their master's greed, the bickering, flawed "Team Wonderfools" is inadvertently thrust into the center of a massive conspiracy. Despite their lack of superhero competence and personal struggles—including Kyung-hoon's painful attempts to reconcile with his estranged family and Chae-ni's coming to terms with the dark truth behind her past medical history—the team must learn to sync their absurd abilities. Moving past their shared feelings of worthlessness, the eccentric band of citizens unites under Un-jeong's guidance to protect their neighborhood and stop Won-do's apocalyptic plans before the dawn of the new millennium.