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Does Player 456 survive in Squid Game? Season 3 ending explained
Squid Game season 3 is here and that means it is time for viewers to finally find out whether Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) will succeed in destroying the games once and for all in the Netflix character, who has entered the deadly competition once more as player 456, has been fighting to survive so that he can tear it down from the inside. However, following the events of season 2 which saw him lose his childhood friend after a failed coup the character is at a loss, believing he is responsible for the death of his pal and so many others. Season 3 tests his faith in humanity even more, as the games continue and he is forced to reckon with his own failings as well as the selfishness of those around him. When he is tasked with helping protect Player 222's baby he has purpose again, but where will that new path take him? And will he succeed in destroying the games for good? Here is everything that you need to know. In Season 3 the last surviving players must go through the final game of the show, the titular Squid Game, which this time is being played on top of three towers. In the game, the players must kill at least one of their competitors by getting them off the tower within 15 minutes to pass. They can kill more than one person if they wish, so long as one player is eliminated in each round. There are eight players in total left, including Gi-hun, Jun-hee's newborn baby who has been made the new Player 222, and the child's father Myung-gi. Myung-gi teams up with the other five players who are ostensibly in agreement over who should be killed: Gi-hyun, Jun-hee's baby and Min-su (Lee David). The latter of which is currently in the midst of a mental breakdown because of his experiences during the games and the drugs he has taken that were hidden in pop star Thanos' pendant necklace. Gi-hun promised Jun-hee that he would protect her baby before she died, and he is steadfast in wanting to keep that oath. However the other players are equally as determined to convince him to give up the baby and let her die. Myung-gi appears to be siding against Gi-hun and his own child for a while, but it is soon revealed he has no intention of siding with the others and he helps pick them all off. The only problem is that he reveals this too early, and the other five players all die during the second stage of the three-part game. This means that either Gi-hun, Myung-gi or Jun-hee's baby must die in the final round for one or two of them to win the games, or they all die. The finale sees Myung-gi try and win the games by forcing Gi-hun to give him the baby and not make it across to the next round, meaning that Myung-gi plans to kill his own child in order to win the games. He threatens Gi-hun, who allows Myung-gi to think he's won by giving him the baby but in the last minute runs across and makes it to the other side with a knife. Myung-gi and Gi-hun scrap, Gi-hun with a knife and Myung-gi with a pole, and ultimately both end up dangling over the edge of the tower. Myung-gi ultimately falls to his death — the only problem is that neither of them pressed the button to start the game before they began fighting. Gi-hun presses the button but rather than kill the baby like he is expected to by the VIPs he sacrifices himself so that Jun-hee's baby can live, and she is declared the winner of the games. With Gi-hun dead, the Frontman aka In-ho (Lee Byung-hun) starts the evacuation order of the island and begins preparing to end the games for that year, but his brother Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun) and rogue Pink Guard No-eul (Park Gyu-young) are ready to stop them. As Frontman takes Jun-hee's baby Jun-ho confronts him, but ultimately can't kill him, giving him room to escape. The island is destroyed and the police unable to catch the perpetrators, while No-eul sneaks into the boat leaving the island with the other staff members. The story jumps to six months later, No-eul visits with the player she helped escape while Jun-ho is revealed to have left the police. He returns home one day to find Jun-hee's baby in his home, with a bank card that contains all of her winnings. In-ho visits Gi-hun's family in America and gives them his belongings, advising them that he has died. The box contains his Player 456 hoodie and a bank card that contains his winnings from the first game. It is revealed that the games are continuing, and in America contestants are being sourced as Cate Blanchett makes a cameo as the US equivalent of the Ddakji Man. Lee and his co-stars Lee Byung-hun and Park Gyu-young spoke at a press conference in London about the film's ending. The show's creator Hwang Dong-hyuk had shared his reservations about the ending he'd come up with, but the cast were effusive in their praise of how the director closed out the series. "I thought that director Huang's decision that he had made... he was very determined," Lee Jung-jae said. "I'm sure that he went through a lot of internal debate and struggles because, as we all know, this series has been just hugely successful. So when it's a story that big, how do you bring that to a close as director, writer and creator? And especially for a character like Gi-hun, where do you take him? "And so I know that he listened to a lot of other people's ideas as well, we would have discussions among ourselves, among the cast. He would also discuss it with me and the crew as well, but I believe that director Hwang came up with the most adequate, the most unpredictable, the most meaningful and the most intriguing and entertaining ending possible. "So personally, I am very happy with the finale and you all are going to be able to see where it all ends soon. But I can guarantee you it's not going to be what you think." Lee Byung-hun, on the other hand, implied that while the finale gives the series a satisfying conclusion he feels there's room for more if the audience craves it: "Director Hwang keeps saying it's a finale. When I first read it I felt it could be a finale but, at the same time, it could be a new start. "I'm not sure [if it definitely is], that's my personal opinion, but if the audience's love and support increase you never know what might happen!" Park added that she looked at the series as a fan, having come into it later than her co-stars, and so that gives her a different and interesting angle: "If I answer it's as a fan, as one of the audience. So if season 2 was the explanation of the expanded universe of Squid Game, in Season 3 all those questions will be answered really clearly. Squid Game season 3 is out now on Netflix.
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2 hours ago
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Squid Game 3 Cast Guide: Which Characters Are Alive or Dead?
SPOILER ALERT: This article contains major spoilers from the 'Squid Game' Season 2 finale. More from Variety 'Squid Game' Season 3 Launch Highlights Netflix Korea's Global K-Content Strategy at APOS 'Squid Game: Unleashed' Becomes First Netflix Game to Launch on Chromebooks, Android Tablets (Gaming News Roundup) 'Squid Game' by the Numbers: 600 Million Views, 19.5 Billion Social Impressions as Third and Final Season Premiere Approaches 'Squid Game' returns for one last round with the launch of its third and final season on June 27. Though it's been only six months since Season 2 premiered with its Dec. 27 drop on Netflix, and proved to be another giant success for the streamer, it's probably a good idea to refresh your memory regarding which major 'Squid Game' players (both those in the actual deadly games and those who are key characters outside the fatal arena) are still alive going into the show's final six episodes. Among the many who have already fallen by the end of Season 2 are Gi-hun/Player 456's (Lee Jung-jae) best friend Jung-bae/Player 390 (Lee Seo-hwan), who was shot and killed by the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun) in the final moments of the second-season finale after Gi-hun led an uprising of the players in the current game. Though the act was committed right in front of Gi-hun, who screamed in pain as his friend bled out next to him, Gi-hun remains unaware that the masked Front Man is actually In-ho. Using the fake name Young-il, he had entered the games to toy with Gi-hun's optimistic worldview and thwart his plans to stop the games, and also befriended him throughout Season 2. Along with Jung-bae, absent from the final installment of 'Squid Game' are other notable 'Squid Game' characters who died (both inside and outside the games), including: The Recruiter (Gong Yoo), Mr. Kim (Oh Dal-su), Se-mi/Player 380 (Won Ji-an) and Hye-won/Player 196 (Song Ji-woo). Su-bong, a.k.a. Thanos/Player 230 (Choi Seung-hyun) — who served as Gi-hun's main antagonist in the second season — was killed during a fight one night in the barracks, stabbed to death by Myung-gi/Player 333. See below for a guide to the main characters heading into 'Squid Game' Season winner of the Squid Game that took place three years ago in the original season, Gi-hun has decided to re-enter in an attempt to figure out who is still running it after the death of game creator Oh Il-nam, in order to take them down. Gi-hun has become consumed by his grief and trauma over his experiences in the games, and has spent the past three years using the blood-money prize he earned (45.6 billion in South Korean won) to investigate the games. By the end of Season 2, Gi-hun has built a crew of followers who are also trying to stop the games and managed to lead an uprising against the guards, but lost his best friend and fellow player Jung-bae in the current head of the Squid Game, following the death of game creator Oh Il-nam at the end of Season 1. In-ho has been working for the games since winning them himself years ago, leading the pink masked guards while wearing his own all-black uniform. In Season 2, In-ho decides to follow in Oh Il-nam's footsteps and enter the games as Player 001, in order to teach a lesson to Gi-hun upon his return to the game. Gi-hun, who only ever encountered the Front Man when he was masked, has no idea that In-ho, who goes by the name Young-il during the games, is the man in charge. He befriends Gi-hun and saves him and his friends multiple times during the games, only to fake his own death and then return to his masked role as the Front Man. In the final moments of Season 2, while masked, he kills Jung-bae in front Gi-hun, undermining the uprising.A police officer who infiltrated the Squid Game in Season 1 in hopes of finding his lost brother In-ho, who has been missing since he entered the games. At the end of Season 1, Jun-ho finds his brother, In-ho, but it turns out he is now the Front Man in charge of the game. In-ho shoots Jun-ho off the top of a cliff, seemingly letting him fall to his death. Jun-ho recovers and is working as a traffic cop at the start of Season 2. He then goes on to team up with Gi-hun and Woo-seok to try and get back to the games and stop them.A woman who works in an amusement park after escaping from North Korea to South Korea and having been separated from her infant daughter in the process. She pays investigators to look for her daughter with her small salary, but then takes a job as one of the masked pink guards at the games in exchange for an offer of help to find her child. While working as a guard in the games, she attempts to help some of the players, including Player 246, whom she recognizes as a former co-worker whose young daughter is sick with the start of Season 2, Woo-seok was employed by Gi-hun to look for The Recruiter who brings people into the Squid Game. He worked for Mr. Kim, a former loan shark of Gi-hun's who trusts that something about Gi-hun's story regarding the games must be true because he was able to pay back his enormous debt three years ago. Mr. Kim is Woo-seok's boss and friend, and Woo-seok becomes invested in helping Gi-hun and Jun-ho find the people behind the games when Mr. Kim is killed by The Recruiter.A former cryptocurrency influencer who, after losing a hefty sum of cash and incurring huge losses for himself and his subscribers, becomes a fugitive until his involvement in the game. He discovers he's in the games with his former lover Jun-hee/Player 222, who is pregnant with his child. He oscillates between doing what's best when wanting to protect Jun-hee and the baby and wanting to win the large sum of money at the end of the games. He killed Thanos by stabbing him in the neck with a fork during a fight that broke out one night in the barracks.A strong-willed woman who participates in the game due to bad investments made on the advice of theinfluencer Myung-gi. It is soon revealed that Jun-hee has entered the deadly competition while pregnant with his baby. She makes friends with Gi-hun and his team during the games.A young player in the games who is quickly drawn to Gi-hun's group and bonds with Jung-bae over their shared military backgrounds. He is in part responsible for Jung-bae's death at the end of Season 2, as he runs back to get more ammo during the uprising in the finale, but freezes and does not return to help.A transgender woman who enters the games in hopes of making enough money to complete her transition process. She becomes friends with Gi-hun and his team. The character is played by cisgender male actor Park Sung-hoon. 'I was quite amazed at the opportunity — I felt like as an actor it was going to be quite the challenge,' Park told Variety. 'I did have concerns about portraying a trans woman because I am a cisgender man, so I really wanted to approach it as cautiously and thoughtfully as possible.'Like many other players in the Squid Game, Nam-gyu joins the games because he is deeply in debt after following cryptocurrency advice from Myung-gi/Player 333. Nam-gyu quickly befriended Thanos in the games, but turned on him by the end of Season 2.A compulsive gambler neck-deep in debt who finds his own mother, Player 149, is a participant in the game. He and his mother become part of Gi-hun's team.A headstrong woman with a strong drive to provide for her family. She joins the game with the intentionof paying off her son, Yong-sik's, debts — only to find that he's joined the game as well, as Player 007. She and her son become part of Gi-hun's intelligent player who tried to align himself with the late Thanos and his cohort and befriends Se-mi in the games. During a night attack in the barracks, Min-su watches Se-mi be killed without stepping in to save her.A man who works as a caricaturist at an amusement park (the same one No-eul worked at) who enters the games to pay for his young daughter's cancer treatments. No-eul spots him competing in the games when she is serving as one of the pink guards. He is part of Gi-hun's uprising at the end of Season 2.A shaman whose seemingly incoherent ramblings rub many of the other players the wrong way. She has been associated with Gi-hun's team during some games, and their enemies during older man who joined the games to try to get himself out of debt, he consistently votes to continue with the games when the players are given the option to end the games throughout Season 2. He and his group are rivals to Gi-hun's peaceful team in the games. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts? 25 Hollywood Legends Who Deserve an Honorary Oscar
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2 hours ago
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‘Squid Game' Delivers a Harrowing, Heartbreaking Final Installment
Squid Game's first season dropped seemingly out of the sky in 2021, spanning nine episodes and giving Netflix its biggest hit to date, winning Emmys for creator Hwang Dong-hyuk, star Lee Jung-jae, and others. Season two arrived in late 2024 with seven episodes, picking up three years after the events of season one. Six months later, season three is here; it has just six episodes and begins immediately after the season two cliffhanger. It's tempting to wish Netflix had just released all of season two and three as a single chunk—six months is enough time to almost forget certain plot points, but not long enough to make viewers want to do a full revisit—but you can see why the decision was made. Though its episode count is abbreviated, Squid Game's third and final season is still six-ish hours long, and the amount of agony and brutality infused into that running time cannot be overstated. Much of that agony and brutality, of course, comes as a direct result of the events of season two, especially as season three gets started. Player 456, Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), is the only survivor of the rebellion besides 388 (Kang Ha-neul)—who had a meltdown while retrieving more ammunition—and 120 (Park Sung-hoon), who went after him to see what was taking so long. Player 001 (Lee Byung-hun) is presumed dead, though we of course know he's merely returned to being the Front Man full-time. Player 456 is baffled as to how he's still breathing. He's also nearly paralyzed with a confusing blend of survivor's guilt and a laser-beam determination to make 388 pay for his failings. But the other players take his miraculous return surprisingly in stride. Most of them are far more focused on the prize money, which has increased exponentially as a result of the player brawl and subsequent rebellion. Those events have also given the 'O' side a significant advantage over the 'X' side, meaning the next vote will favor continuing the games despite all the recent bloodshed. This is a non-spoiler review, so we won't be getting into the specific games introduced in season three—though a variation on jump-roping was previously revealed—but rest assured they follow the classic Squid Game formula of childhood favorites expanded into elaborate set pieces, then blended with shocking violence. This season in particular leans into player-on-player attacks, to the point that they're actively incorporated into the competitions. The results are gory and either heartbreaking or satisfying, depending on if the victim is likable or obnoxious. But this is Squid Game; the whole point is 'win or die.' Viewers already know that a majority of the players, even the ones who actually seem like good people, will not make it to the end. Again, we won't spoil any specifics here—part of the fun of the show is thinking someone's safe, only to be gruesomely proven otherwise—but certain deaths do make you wish, again, that seasons two and three had been combined into one. It would make the investment into individual players feel more rewarding, especially those who die early in this season but later in the actual cycle of games. Of course, that issue could be remedied by watching season two immediately ahead of season three—if you have the time. That approach might also help you dive more easily into the side plot involving No-eul (Park Gyu-young), the North Korean military vet turned pink guard. Remember the sick little girl she befriended while working at the amusement park at the start of season two? And whose father popped up in the games as Player 246? It all becomes very important in her season three arc, which also features No-eul's own bloody rebellion of sorts. Meanwhile, Squid Game's other big side plot—that team of mercenaries led by detective Jun-ho (Wi Ha-joon) frantically searching for the island where the games take place—finally justifies all the time it took up in season two. The audience knows the boat captain is secretly sabotaging the mission, but the show builds up the reveal to Jun-ho and company with some unexpected twists and, much like the games themselves, a ticking-clock element that ratchets the tension to sky-high levels. Other elements that come into play in a big way in season three: the masked 'VIPs,' who make a return to spectate the games and offer cruel commentary in the form of hilariously terrible English dialogue. There's so much of the latter this time around, you have to imagine Squid Game's creators are leaning into how cringe-inducing it is. The cross necklace belonging to the not-so-dearly departed Thanos finds new importance as other players consume the hidden stash of drugs he left behind. And it's no secret that Player 222 (Jo Yu-ri) was extremely pregnant in season two. Netflix's marketing for this final installment even included the sound of a baby crying—and unsurprisingly, the situation swirling around 222 shapes season three's most emotional moments. But the center of Squid Game's universe has always been Gi-hun, and that remains the case throughout season three. Even though there are episodes where he barely has any dialogue, Lee's performance speaks volumes: his haunted expression, particularly the look in his eyes, telegraphs the depths of his pain. He was already grappling with having witnessed so many deaths in the previous game—and the cycle continues here. The audience still can't help but root for him, but in season three you also worry for him. His soul is clearly broken beyond repair. Gi-hun's suffering anchors Squid Game season three in a deeply bleak place; there are far fewer lighthearted moments to be found, and that may be challenging for some viewers. But in the end, the story does figure out how to punctuate this vicious final chapter in a memorable, very terminal way. You're allowed, however, to roll your eyes at what feels very much like a tacked-on Netflix tease for more to come. Squid Game season 3 is now streaming on Netflix. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what's next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.
