Squid Game Season 2 Will Flip Gi-hun's Role- & That Makes Him A Villain

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Netflix's Squid Game season 1 ended in victory for protagonist Seong Gi-hun, setting him up to take on the role of a villain in season 2. Squid Game's inaugural season saw Gi-hun, a down on his luck gambler, accept a mysterious invitation to compete in a series of schoolyard games for the opportunity to win 45.6 billion won. The stakes — only revealed after the players were drugged and transported to the mysterious location of the games — were life or death, putting Gi-hun through trials that fundamentally changed his character forever.

One of the most compelling aspects of Squid Game was that all of the players were willing participants. Squid Game, season 1, episode 2, «Hell,» saw the players vote to leave the game and return home; but after a harrowing episode underscoring the reasons they accepted the invitation to join the game in the first place, every single player returned, now with full knowledge that they were staking their lives for a chance at the prize. They reasoned that despite the game's brutality, it at least offered a chance at winning.

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Throughout Squid Game season 1, Gi-hun maintained a spirit of cooperation and altruism, helping those who had little chance of winning. However, by the end of the season, he had transformed into something else entirely. All but one of his original allies were dead, and it was revealed that Gi-hun's last ally was the game's mastermind, a wealthy man who began the games to entertain other wealthy men. While this revelation left Gi-hun resolved to rebel against the game, it also raised an interesting question. Gi-hun is now a very wealthy man himself, meaning the power dynamics between the remaining