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K-Pop Trolls are one of the scattered groups of hinterland Trolls of which The K-Pop Gang belong with. Due to the limited membership of their Tribe, there is some vagueness about them. It is unknown how they are related to each other or if other K-Pop Trolls existed before them, or currently besides them.
Despite their name, they are not part of the Pop Troll tribe. Branch, an actual Pop Troll, is amused when the K-Pop Gang tell him they're K-Pop Trolls, as they separate themselves from the general "Pop Troll" tribe; his reaction is "wha-" with a smirk on his face. Trolls World Tour: The Junior Novelization expanded on this scene with them explaining they're K-Pop Trolls, not Pop Trolls (as he had trouble deciphering how "K-Pop" was different from "Pop"). In note of this, Barb and the Rock Trolls also had no issues with K-Pop while she was laying out the Bounty Hunter offer, despite their dislike for Pop music.
History
The K-Pop Gang first appear in the Trolls World Tour movie when Queen Poppy sends an invite to Queen Barb containing a glitter bomb that explodes in her face. In anger, Barb summoned the K-Pop Gang, along with other Bounty Hunters to track down and capture Poppy. The reward is their own domain and to be spared from Barb's conversion to Rock music, though the land she promises is rather tiny.
The K-Pop Gang find Branch instead and capture him, demanding they be lead to Poppy by him. This is interrupted by Tresillo, who wants Branch for himself to save his own music and both sides have a dance off. Out of respect for each others talents, the eight trolls agree to split Branch, until Branch proposes an alternative. They go with him to Barb's victory Rock concert.
When the Strings were destroyed, they too lost their music, but soon regained it after the Trolls realized that they no longer needed them and the music they love now comes from within.
Biology
Appearance
Due to the lack of members of the Tribe, not much can be given about how K-Pop Trolls generally look like. The main similarities Is their style of hair, which is swept over to the side instead of straight up like other Tribes of Trolls. They each look similar to one another, having rainbow chrome skin resembling holographic fabric and can switch colors depending on lighting but is shown to appear as a greyish-blue in 2D animation. They also wear thick colored eyeshadow aswell.
Males of this Tribe haven't been shown with the exception being in concept art.
Habitat
The K-Pop Trolls are "hinterland" Trolls and their true place of origin is unknown.
Diet
It is unknown what they eat.
Tribal Abilities
It is unknown what their full Tribal abilities are beyond the standard Troll abilities.
In "The Not So Good Sport", it confirmed that K-Pop is impossible to resist dancing to. Since Bi-Na, Young and Min display a knack for tracking down other Trolls, and this is also displayed by the K-Pop Gang, this is presumably common trait among K-Pop Troll kind. K-Pop Trolls can use their music to find victims since K-Pop is almost impossible to resist dancing to.
Society
Behavior
The Tribe lacks significant numbers to build up a society. They are cute but tough and respect the dancing abilities of other Trolls. The K-Pop Gang live their lives as Bounty Hunters and Bi-Na, Young and Min also are trackers who relentlessly track their targets. A dance-off is the weakness of these Trolls as they cannot resist entering competitions with other Trolls to show off their dancing skills.
Tactics
The K-Pop Gang displays a knack for taunting their victims before capturing them and tying them up.
The K-Pop Trolls track their victims down and then capture them, often using their music as a means to an end, they defend themselves using Dance-offs against other Trolls.
Culture
Not much is known about these Trolls and due to their limited numbers.
Music
K-Pop Trolls have music that doesn't sing in the common tongue of the other Troll Tribes.
The genre wasn't impacted by the Rock String overwriting the other 5 Strings, turning them to Rock music and thus preventing any notes of those genres from being played. However, Barb indicated herself that the Strings could still overwrite the K-Pop Trolls' music, and when Poppy destroyed the Strings, they lost their music. The Strings themselves impacted all music, including that of the 6 Tribes and "everything in between", of which these Trolls' music counts.
Dancing Style
K-Pop Trolls dance in perfect synchronization with each other, are capable of fast-faced and bouncy movements and twirls.
Character Concept
The girls were added some time after the movie's initial conception. The original idea Dreamworks had gone for the minority groups of trolls was to have Barb stop off at a diner in the middle of nowhere. There she found Trolls who represented niche interests of music. They would play for scraps of interest, and were hinted to be some of the last remaining Trolls of their kind, if not the last ones. The K-Pop Trolls likely replaced The Barbershop Boys.
In concept art, K-Pop Trolls looked very different to the K-Pop Gang's final film version. Some of the rejected concepts included both male and female Trolls. In addition, they had a more oriental appearance.[1]
Concept Art
Influences
K-Pop is short for "Korean popular music", and has been mostly derived from J-Pop (short for "Japanese popular music"), which in turn is loosely inspired by Western Pop music.
The design of their skin is based off of holographic fabric, a unique, silvery-like fabric which reflects multiple shades of colors of either bright or pastel rainbows, the K-Pop gang preferably being pastels.
Known Members
The following is a list of the known members of this Troll Tribe, divided by the media where they first appeared in.
Movies
Trolls: TrollsTopia
In "The Not So Good Sport", 3 more K-Pop Trolls appeared.
Trivia
- The K-Pop Trolls hint to have been of Pop origins, thus area a niche of the Pop Trolls' own Tribe. This is evidenced by the inclusion of "Pop" in the title, but in addition Poppy, Biggie and Branch performed part of "Gangnam Style" to the Country Trolls.
- Due to them being introduced in trailers after the Reggaeton Trolls, they were the second Trolls who don't sing in English; they instead have Korean lyrics.
- K-Pop Trolls are the first of the non-major Tribes to have new members introduced to the series, with Chaz appearing in "Smooth Operator" and claiming himself the only member of his Tribe.
References
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| "hinterland" Trolls | ||||
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| Sub-Tribes | ||||
| Smooth Jazz Trolls (Chaz) • Reggaeton Trolls (Tresillo, Marimba & Tambora) • K-Pop Trolls (The K-Pop Gang, Bi-Na, Young & Min) • Yodelling Trolls (The Yodelers Hickory and Dickory) | ||||