Intro:
Queen Cho is a character from Netflix's Kingdom, a South Korean Zombie Apocalypse TV series.
History
Not much is known about Queen Cho, except the fact that she was born into the extremely sexist Joseon dynasty, where women were oppressed. Her father was cold and distant towards her, claiming that she was too "naïve." Due to the fact that she was born into the corrupt Cho Clan, she joined on her father's plans to remove the Royal Family from power and allow the Cho Clan and their followers to achieve political power over Joseon (Present day: Korean Peninsula), a plan that her father has been working on all his life. While she was working on getting into the King's inner circle, her father discovered a Resurrection Plant that could bring the dead back to life and utilized it to bring a group of dead villagers to life and destroy the Japanese forces invading Korea, knowing that the Japanese would most likely not know to target the head in order to completely kill the zombie. After the Japanese were defeated, he still used the resurrection plant to his advantage. By this time, Queen Cho married the King, despite him being 30 years older than her and used her new position for the Clan Cho's agenda and she would become pregnant with the biological baby of the King. Unsure if the baby was a boy or a girl, her father demanded that she had to have a son, as only the babies of the male gender can be a king. Since the baby was related to the King and the Queen, whilst Prince Lee Chang was concieved by a Concubine, this will make the baby a new candidate for the throne, that is, if the baby is a boy. At some point, the King died and the Cho Clan, realizing that since the baby was not born yet and that Lee Chang might become the king, resurrected the King with the resurrection plant and used the excuse that he was sick with an extreme case of measles.
Season 1:
Not much is not known about Second Queen Cho, except for the fact that she is the second wife of a King who is at least 30 years old than her. The King, however, has taken ill, and the queen refuses to let the Crown Prince, Lee Chang (who is the same age as her) see him and says that she doesn't want him to get sick. When the Crown Prince continues to protest, the queen accuses him of hating her and his soon-to arrive- younger brother and orders the maids and the servants to escort him away immediately and this causes the prince to realize that the Cho Clan has influenced more corruption in the palace. Queen Cho and her father states that they must keep the King's undead condition as a secret from the public and the prince, and that if the public were to know, it will result in the entire plan failing. However, an anonymous message is put up stating that the "The King is Dead, A New Wind Will Blow." Minister Cho, Queen Cho's father and the head of the Cho Clan, retaliates to this by manipulating all the ministers and the court into punishing and torturing the medical students, as he suspects that; since he worked with the head physician of a clinic, one the medical students might know about such message. It is presumed that he and the queen executed the medical students for treason. With the Queen now completely in charge, the queen and her father, Minister Cho, are at subtle odds at each other, and Minister Cho threatens that he was the one who gave her her power and that he can "take it away at any time." A quote that the queen to great offense to and would impact her corrupt career of mass power-mongering. After the Prince Lee Chang and his faithful companion, Mu-Yeong, seeks out the Royal Physician in charge of the King's health, the Queen and the rest of the Cho Clan seizes this opportunity to frame the prince and states that he is a criminal wanted for treason. The Prince and Mu-Young later enters a destroyed clinic, and discovers a huge pile of dead bodies beneath the floors of the Clinic, it is revealed that when the Royal Physician and his assistant, Dan-i, went to attend to the zombified king, the King killed and mortally injured Dan-i. Since the country was plagued with famine and many were starving due to the Cho Clan taking the resources to themselves, a young hunter, Yeong Shin, seeing Dan-i's body and realizing that the Clinic did not have enough food to feed the starving patients, chopped Dan-i's infected body up and served it to the patients of the Clinic, which in turn would infect the patients as well. Thus, that night, after resorting to cannablism in order to survive, the infected patients had torn and attacked the staff of the Clinic, leaving only Yeong-Shin, the hunter, and Seo-bi, a nurse, alive and uninfected. Yeong-Shin and Seo-bi had quarantined the clinic, tied the infected bodies up, and trapped them beneath the floors of the clinic. Yeong Shin and Seo-bi, attempts to convince everyone that the bodies are only "sleeping" at day and that when night falls, the bodies will "awake" and seek the blood and flesh of the uninfected living. Despite, these warnings, the villagers and the noblemen at the bloody site refuses to listen and at night, chaos erupts, and more people are infected. The noblemen and the aristocrats flee on a ship and leaves the poor villagers to fend for themselves. Lee Chang and Mu-Yeong leads the villagers to safety. Unfortunately, the queen and her brother discovers the location of the prince and orders soldiers to arrest and kill the prince, and in the efforts to do so, kills many villagers and soldiers, but the prince and his right hand escapes. In the palace, Minister Cho forces the minsters to submit to his plan by showing them the infected king. The queen meanwhile, knowing that the prince is hiding in the neighboring cities, order a "quarantine" and locks up every city gates, rendering the prince's escape impossible.
Season 2
However, the Prince and his forces still infiltrate the gates of Han-Yang, where the palace is and gains support from some of the wealthy ministers and politicians of Han-Yang, he also kills the zombified king and the military discovers Minister Cho's plot and allies with him. Meanwhile, the Queen, realizing that her father is controlling her, poisons him with tea and locks Seo-bi, the nurse, up in the dungeons of the palace. Whilst Yeong-Shin, the hunter, joins the Prince, to take down the Cho Clan and the queen. Even though the maids beg the queen to flee, she refuses and states that "[Her] Son, Lee Chang, has come to die" and that it's "time to greet him again." When the Prince enters the throne room and tells her to give up peacefully, she laughs and dares him to "kill her and her unborn son." However, the minsters, now joining Prince Chang's side again, confirms that the queen ordered and kidnapped many pregnant women to be brought up to the palace and give birth there, as her own child died in a miscarriage, which was something that her and her brother tried to hide from their father. If the baby was a girl, the queen ordered the soldiers to kill the mother and the child, but if the baby was a boy, she would take the child and kill the mother. She succeeded in this plan, and managed to obtain a son, luckily, the biological mother of the child had managed to escape due to the interference of the prince. She angrily refuses this claim, but knowing that her reign is almost over, orders her loyal maids to allow the zombies, which she had collected beneath the palace, to be set free. This results in all of the ministers being infected, as well as all of the maids and the servants being infected as well. While it seems like it is safe in the secluded throne room, the zombies quickly begin breaking down the doors of the throne room. The queen vacantly stares with her kidnapped child in her arms, while the Prince Lee Chang's soldiers are torn about before her. She stands up addressing to her deceased father whom she killed stating, "are you seeing this father? They didn't take anything away from me," as the zombies, after finishing killing everyone else in the room except Seo-bi, who escaped from the dungeons earlier, notices her. The zombies run towards her throne and she lets them tear at her, still showing the same vacant look on her face as the infected pile all over her. Prince Lee Chang, and a handful of his forces including Yeong-Shin, knowing that if the infection were to escape the palace, it would infect the entire world, states that they should drown the zombies, who can't swim, in the frozen lake by the royal garden. As they fight the hoards of zombies coming from the palace, the queen, now infected, is also seen running amongst the hoard to Lee Chang and his forces. Lee Chang, Yeong Shin, and their forces are overwhelmed by the large numbers of the infected and is bit, but Lee Chang, using the weight of a particularly large zombie, breaks the ice and the zombified queen, the zombie hoard, and the bitten Lee Chang and his followers all fall into the waters. Thankfully, Lee Chang and his group is safe since the water drives away the infection but the already infected queen and others drown.
