SQUID GAME Theories: Guards And Players, Gi-Hun And Il-Nam's Relationship, The VIPs And More

no.

which parasite the one with the korean deadbeat or the one where the kid has a parasite in his hand named migi

omg… your mind.

Yesss

You’re so smart.👏🏽

Bravo

Wow ur right. But i wanna ask something. When he try to get plush toys from a claw machine as a birthday gift for his daughter, he failed right? Then a boy came and helped him. But then why did he gave a lighter gun to his daughter? I don't understand. Maybe i missed something

yeah at the end he lost his purpose again.. which was to be a father.. he was given again a chance.. but now he was going to be that "hero" kind of guy who stop evil but he is no different.. I wish he had just taken the plane like the front man said... but then again.. once a gambler always a gambler.. they just join different kind of games...betting money or life but it is still the same..

same thing with his fight with sang-woo,while sang-woo was on the ground dying,instead of completing the game they were playing (squid game) he was so eager to fight him,even though he could have simply walked in the circle and the game would have ended.

@@hualian5339 totally!! he forgot why he entered the game in the first place, which was to become financially stable enough for his daughter. It seems he neglects her just the same, and even at the end when he doesn't get on the plane, he is once again choosing a game over his family.

@@madeleineburnet5075 well it's kind of different, the reason he forgets is because he saw another 454 people lose their lives in gruesome ways, that changes a man you know? And besides he did find his purpose again, he took care of the mother of his friend and the brother of the girl, who's to say in the time we didn't see him he gave money to his ex wife for his daughter?

Great catch!

Man!

I was wondering why it was called that! Damn, that’s such a sad story, thank u for explaining

:,((((((((((((((((

The twist is that he's glad his wife died? "One heck of a lucky day"

That's such a sad story😭

Yah youtuber never talked about the numbers, tiktokers did, they explained everyone number, but they left ali’s number , but one Muslim explained it, it connected to a Hadith and this hadith about betrayal and deception. And this is how Ali died, by betrayal 🥲😥

@@LiveRight84 woahhh

WTF...how much research did this director do?

Yeah most youtubers (no offense to those who don’t do this) just look for the big details

@@AA_cowgomoo I read that it took over a decade from concept to development, so I'm guessing a lot lmao.

LOL

Beating Squid Game means getting the prize money.
How much did the camera man get?

@@katekyojp6338 his reward is staying alive

@@doge2519 fake mc won the camera man got nothing

@Identical Idiot 3 just don’t go

For real. Such a fantasatic character, to the point where I pretty much cried when he was playing the marbles games. Kudos to that guy:)

@@emilv4112 did you finish to the end. Lots of Twist 😉

@@strastven5475
old man is THE father of the protagonist.
Mastermind behind game is this old man.
( lot more suspense) 😁

He is veteran.

Yes but the other actors are terrible. So bad it’s unwatchable. The facial expressions ect ect are just so bad and ott

Why would you hate to be "that guy" if it means being attentive and able to follow what is going on on the screen? :) Well done, Sophie, was looking to mention what you did as well, and a nice theory too!

Oh thanks so much, this actually cleared up some confusion I had :)

@@Kiru-yan ah I just hate correcting people or seeming pretentious 😂 thank you!!

He most likely went home inbetween diffrent games and he left a week before

I'm confused. If he's so wealthy from winning the game back in 2015, why was he still living in that apartment?

It foreshadows how 456 will become player 001

There are theories also that il-nam gave his jacket to Gi-Hun as protection, as the guards were probably told beforehand that player 001 is not to be harmed

@@DevonC Nope, the game was fair all the time, except when he lost the marble. the ending was all up to him, he could've been killed at the end game. even il-nam play the game fair, he was just a good player since he played it all many times.

But you don’t become good at something just by doing it many times. You learn from your mistakes and there is no room for mistake in these games. I think he was protected.

@@handmade-jewellery He was good since he was a kid just like Gi-Hun. check every single game and you will see he wouldn't need any help.
- Red light green light -> he memories the song.
- Candy cut -> he knew the trick.
- Tug-of-War -> same, he gave them the tip on how to win and hold for the first 10 sec.
- Glass Bridge -> he probably never plaid this one since he had never been picked as a 3rd wheel, and he used to watch them in this stage, but even if he did, then he would just get the final jacket number.
Let's not forget, the man was ready to die,. so he had nothing to lose, he was just trying to get old good memories back.

OMG YES

I think by the end of it all he's a little too traumatized to go back into normal life mode anyway. It would've been really unrealistic to see him be a super involved dad.

@@xinreserved2920 well thts pretty debatable
The whole series had underlays of human behaviour, v are pretty selfish and make bad choices at times

@@xinreserved2920 That's subjective to your definition of a true human. If you want to delve deeper into how people react to death games, and you read manga, there's this one called As the Gods Will. There is a live action, but I'd recommend that you read the manga if you want to see character development. Or think harder about the Trolley problem. Not everyone is the same, alright? Being a true human doesn't mean anything in a thought experiment.

Actually he was talking about the work strike where he watched somebody die, which I think reflects the whole theme about money because they were striking because work had laid a bunch of them off, the question about money being worth it when it makes you abandon the people you love, and also people literally die for it

Yeah so good, thanks for checking out the video

Same bro

Same

@@heavyspoilers :O

Try out Alice in borderland it’s as good as squid game

Not to mention the emotional damage he will have for the rest of his life knowing how all of that money was "earned". I feel he looks at it as blood money and feels like it has no meaning.

What sucks is that he is able to move on and try to build a proper relationship with his daughter, but he decides to turn his back

I agree with you but dont you think he could still have tried to better the relationship with his daughter….
Better late than never right?

@@adrianorizza5601 i guess making sure no one else would lose their life in squid game is more important to him. Even when his daughter was being born, he chose to help someone. Regardless, he’s an actor & i think the director chose the right ending because it may or may not lead to a 2nd season 🤙🏼

This!!

Maybe the square faces, because they were more authoritative than the circle faced

With Chinese distributors on hand. sheesh.

I think it’s probably a mix though because so many of them seemed to die. They probably have to replace them. Then the older ones move to the top the longer they’ve been there?

This show was secretly written by a horse girl

wait this is super interesting, i think it was intentional since at the end he brought up how he wasn’t a horse on the phone. good symbolism from the show.

Someone in the other video commented about how the horses Gihoon bet on at the beginning of the series were 6 and 8, winning 1st and 2nd place respectively. Gihoon and Sangwoo's number being 456 and 218 coincide with this, looking at the last digits. Also the horse that got third place was 7 (Saebyeok, 067). This horserace analogy if def well thought-out.

@@captainsoi wow… props to the directors and everyone who thought through this in such detail 👏🏻

@@captainsoi wow that’s crazy. definitely intentional also

Yeah I was gonna comment this too. We know for sure that his brother was a winner in 2015. But Jun-ho thought that his brother must have been a player in the most recent game, because he went "missing" when the first round started. This is why he believed that the "zombie" corpse that the current guards were talking about was his brother.
I assume his brother won in 2015 and went back to his normal life (much like Gi-hun did at first) and then hosted the games periodically since Jun-ho mentioned to his mother that he goes missing all the time but always comes back.

But we don't know if dude was paying his rent

@@wizenedmoney629 the landlord said he always paid on time, and that is what prompted her to check on him every day for a week, hence him missing for a week.

@@ikutoluva yes Jun-Ho assumed his brother was a player in this iteration of the game. I believe his brother got offered a higher rank in their secret group for winning, and that is how he became frontman.
I think with the red guards there is also some promotion that occurs, with the Circles being the same level as the players essentially, the Triangles are the militia, and the Squares are the orators.
I think the difference between Frontman winning versus Gi-Hun is that if we take the theory that Il-Nam is Gi-Hun’s father, then Frontman would have been just a regular dude who had won, he wouldnt have had the same “reward” (not just talkin monetary, I mean the experience and revelations)

My burning question is why did the frontman live in a small rented apartment instead of a large house? He was the winner of the first game, he can do better than living somewhere where a landlord will toss his stuff out if he misses another payment. He could also afford to pay someone to feed his goldfish when he’s gone.

No, the cop was shot in the heart. Try watching that scene again, it’s brutal... anyways he’s dead for sure sadly

exactly what i thought ! We never see his body after being shot, so it's not clear if he's dead or not. I'm pretty sure the policeman will play a huge part in the season 2

@@swaggydoggy963 I just rewatched it right now because of your comment and he got shot in his shoulder, the heart is a little more closer to the center. The policeman Junho was shot closer to his shoulder. Not his heart lol

@@swaggydoggy963 Nah it was definitely his shoulder and he shot his brother in the exact same place. Police man will definitely be in season 2.

Yeah the detective is definitely still alive

Wooahh this is brilliant

Ok you are into something

Yeah, I feel like it's their relationship. Il Nam didn't have time for his son so he put him last when it came to hosting the games (apparently decides not to host it before he passes.) So at the start of the show Il Nam pointing out that he is the last player has a significant meaning to it. He put him (supposed son until) dead last even in his own Squid Games. As if the games and contestants we're more important than his son. Though later regrets it as he decides to let the Front Man host it instead.

There was actually a chinese guy, so not necessarily 1 guy per continent.

@@thethirdjegs This is true... would also be hard to get participants for an Antarctic Squid Games haha - just a theory though! Nonetheless I think it transcends Korea

@@Lucy-tv9vi VIPS are just clients as what il-nam said, and there are multiple games held worldwide so probably korea is just one of the games so they can use another place maybe but its an abandon island actually, mmmmmm🤔

Yeah they already hinted at that in the end

Just because 7 showed up doesn't mean they're the only ones or the representatives. If you hear their conversations, they were watching at home for the first rounds. They were the ones who decided to actually go for the final rounds. So we can assume there are more who are watching at home.

also hints as human hypocrysy and ....weakness, which in my opinion seems to be a constant theme to this. we all consider the behaviour in the movie to be wrong, but i am sure we all binged it in 1-2 days, so we are attracted to the wrong and even become passionate about it in the process. also, the recurring theme is when in the beggining the dude wins the game and wants to slap the other guy instead of taking the money which was the initial intention. also, the same repeted theme, after the dude wins the game and has 38 million dollars in his account, suddenly he cares about morality and goes back to stop the game but other than the first round, he didn't call the stop decision. he was a bit changed in the end , forfeiting and that dude suicide, but he is still hypocritical many times during the show

In a way we are actually worse than the VIPs. We know these players more and their families yet we still root for and against them.

Human behavior isn’t complex. All humans are selfish and cruel ,its only to what degree and appearance and until we regret enough to change . The ending only happens because its a tv show and they need dramatic effect.

To be fair this show definitely isn’t written in such a way that one can root for their favorites. In episode one even with no pretense you know who’s going to win. The shocking twists come when the exposition starts to unravel rather than with the competition itself.

@@Philipseymorebutts oh and careful with that edge, bro

I think at some point Il-nam also mentioned something about wanting to get his son a good gift from playing the game!

abt the birthday one, it might not be gi-hun? because the game ended in june, they started the game around may (bc it was gi-hun's daughter's bday on may and he got the card after that.) so june would be pretty far from october

Il-nam's son's birthday was on 24th June. The day he said it was on 23rd

Doesn't he say his son's birthday is on the "24th of this month"? That would actually deconfirm this.

But Why would 456 act all time long as he first met 001 in the game?
001 says few things that involved that he was there fisically when his son was a kid (like he used to look at his kid and his friends playing outside, or he punished his son for not drinking milk...). So 456 should remember him, he wasn't left alone with his mum as a newborn. So why would he even tell to 001 that he didn't drink milk as a kid if he was there to bit him for not doing it?
Or maybe they will expalin this in a peculiar way like "he became rich and changed his face" so 456 could't recall he was his own father ahaha

🤣🤣 all those player that he invited became Zombies and hunt him down..

@@munabasnet7123 goshhhhhhhh

Ki-hun is also the King of hell in ' Along with the Gods '
So, King of hell vs Goblin

@@munabasnet7123 which movie was it ?!?!?

@@kanak4874 train to Busan

Oh it sounds like the Japanese urban legend, a ghost asks if you want a red paper or a blue paper. If you say red, you get slashed up, if you pick blue, you get suffocated.

@@TheLovelyCybele yes, I think that’s the one he referenced. Thank you for mentioning it

@@TheLovelyCybele and what happens if you refuse?

@@TheLovelyCybele If you ignore the ghost, run away or refuse to choose, what happens?

@@abc_jv_xyz the story is a japanese urban legend called Aka Manto, the one I heard about is that when you run out of toilet paper he comes asking if you want red paper of blue paper, if you choose red he rips your insides (which are red) out. Choose blue and you would be suffocated until you turn blue. Choose another color and you would be dragged into the depths of hell. Choose a yellow and he would drown you using the toilet urine. The only way to avoid is by not choosing any color at all

The 2 girls are Sae-Byouk and Ji-Yoong btw

Who's gonna take care of Ali's family?! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

@@jellybeansushi no one, but at least they got back to home:)

@@T0X1CBL00D SaeByeok or Saebyok**

@@acwano292 Oh sorry

Lol

Gi-Hun swore on his mother that he wouldn't pester San-Byeok if she untied him. She did and he pestered her instantly. His mother died. Not sure what it signifies or the deeper symbolism but I noticed it and wanted to post for other fan theories.

😂😂😂👍

@@RassionellMaddman oh shoot- you're so right omg..

Lmao 😂

Yeah

Unfortunately not me 😞

The worst part is that I felt like I've been in that before and flashing darkness seems like the most hellish settings for humans
Having a murder orgy on top of that just multiplies the feeling of vulnerability and discomfort

I think it will be real for us at some point in our lives 💯

@@choudharyalijatt8004 eh not if you're a rich first world guy in a bubble with guards with guns
Like the actual rich guy wanting to have fun was the one who couldnt handle it and asked Frontman to stop it

pink! Pink guards and nah the show is about the games not the staff. maybe a side plot but not focusing on them.

@@krampusklaws2238 red like the cards they flip at the beginning. people think that those who pick red become guards. also why do you think they put red in quotes? they know the guards aren't actually red. although the lighting does make them look red a lot of the time lol

@@calvacrox That theory has been disproven for one and maybe a couple of times when the lighting is bad they look almost kinda sorta red, but thats a major stretch.

He dyes his hair reddish-pink at the end too, don’t get me wrong but that could symbolise something. How was the theory of the two coloured cards disproven?

@@kebab5513 The red hair symbolises revenge and rage, the cards come from folklore about a toilet demon. If you run out of toilet paper the demon comes and offers you red or blue. If you pick red you get your guts ripped out, if you pick blue you get suffocated.
The director addressed these issues himself. and yes the toilet demon thing is true.

I watched the Chinese subtitles and the line is “I make money from money” so I’m thinking towards investment?

@@louiszhou5301 he earns his living by obtaining the interest from the principle amount that he lends

Haha got to have the original language context... gl

He’s a banker. Banks loan money to make money. It also fits right in with the show’s obvious commentary on capitalism and class structure.

no it just means he gives away money to who wins the games

wow 😶😶

True, he lost the game and got eliminated. Damn son.

good theory ..i guess it wasn't by luck that it was the 7th floor either now that u mention it

This is a really good theory. Did you come up with it?

What scene?

just got a deja vu reading your comment, thanks stranger :)

Although instead of entering as blue this time, he comes back as a red

People expecting him to get on the plane and let it all go are being silly imo.
That's not the right option, and never was.
They've kept tabs on his life before winning, after winning, and even on how he spent his money.
They knew he was boarding a plane and mentioned his daughter.
No matter what, he and his family were under their thumb, and going to his daughter would only bring that closer to her.
Fighting is the correct option.

@@leonfrancis3418 Very good point! He knows they would possibly use his daughter as leverage.

He didn't go back to play again. He went back to save the player from the horrible experience (and saving his life) and so he could get revenge.

I thought the same too!!

Gi-Hun swore on his mother that he wouldn't pester San-Byeok if she untied him. She did and he pestered her instantly. His mother died. Not sure what it signifies or the deeper symbolism but I noticed it and wanted to post for other fan theories.

But he did choose the money instead of slapping him

@@RassionellMaddman all the characters death had smtg to do with their past. Ali stole his boss' money, he died bcs sang woo stole his marbles. Sae byeok threatened a guy with her knife to his throat, sang woo slit her throat and she died. Sang woo attempted suicide, and he killed himself in the game. It all actually links up

@@frarfarf he did bcs that was the prize, the prize wasn't to slap him back, it's just funny how his first instinct was to slap him back instead of claiming the money when he was in desperate need of it

So he's going to become host? That's impossible. Unless you're only talking about his player number in S2.

I was thinking that too. That was a great foreshadowing technique.

I think he might take the role, but to torture the VIP-type people.

Maybe in Season 2 he becomes the host replacing Il nam

i Highly doubt that Gi-hun would willingly take the role of game master. if anything he seems pretty determined to take down the whole operation

@Anon Supertramp There was a good handful of scenes that made me chuckle. Han Mi-nyeo, (the crazy chick) as obnoxious as her character was, she did have some genuinely funny moments. Like the part where she’s pretending to have diarrhea in order to make the guard feel uncomfortable to distract him while the North Korean chick spies on the other guards through the vents. As childish as it is, it’s just an inherently comical scene. There’s multiple little bits like that throughout the course of the season that serve to lighten the mood just a tiny bit and provide a tad of comic relief to balance the heavy stuff. Obviously the show is far from a comedy, and I wasn’t rolling on the floor laughing at any point, but I do think the writers tried to throw us little bones of comedy where it made sense in order to keep a good, well balanced story

@@Dreadlock1227 agreed 👍

@@Dreadlock1227 as someone who has IBS that scene was NOT funny. You are hateful and a bigot for making fun of my and others’ disabilities

@@williamforsythe9180 Damn I’m sorry you feel that way William

Nah but the frontmen had family by the time the took over

It's not about The Frontman. When we hear the conversation between the VIPs we can see that they have different accents . So it may be like each country which has a squid game has a VIP. Gihun can become the next VIP

That's a huge stretch. He could still have a relationship with his wife and daughter. And clearly does in the end.
I think the message you want to say is that all those people THOUGHT they had nothing to live for. That without the money their life would be worthless, if not opening destructive on the people around them. They are all suicidal. And in the end we see in all of their humanization that they did. That money was just money.
I don't think that has anything to do with coming back. Pretty clearly the front man was a foil for Sang Woo, who lost his humanity.

Yep

Yes

Let's hope they don't go down that path.

And that is EXACTLY why it'll get ruined if they do. Watch you come back in a later video saying how you don't like the series anymore because it lost its charm after the second season.

i have a feeling the next show ill involve international casts.. definitely ganna expand on the world if they are hinting "Korean games are the best!!". For sure lol

That's how I felt, she was definitely symbolic of his relationship with his daughter.

O wow 🤩 Such a mind blowing brain juggling theory 🧠

@@originalgangsterloc sarcasm at its finest 🤌🏼

@@originalgangsterloc interesting puns

That's not really a theory. It's just kinda reading the scene.

which makes the choosing which role you play theory more believable

@@kristijanoros7208 it’s obvious the guards are normal people we don’t know how they get there though

When one guard was looking through the security cameras of all the guards in their rooms you can see one praying by their bed so yeah you’re probably right they’re probably not all sadistic bastards

Great call

Nice

Or the third person could be the guards because remember each pair had a guard following them everywhere. And in the drawing on the wall we see the third person at the top of the triangle isn't playing.

i think il-nam gave his jacket to gi-hun so people won't see him as weak, because if you're 'that' weak you can't even keep your jacket, no one will want to be partners with you at all

@@sawtorn Actually when Gi-hun asked his name He didn’t said, that's when I got doubtful about him and their encounter in front of shop & Il-nam said, he will go Again! It was kind of convincing Gi-hun to be back in the game (for me).

You always lose more than winning, that's what life is all about. If you can't take that in then life is over.

He didn't give the jacket so Gi-hun would win though or because he saw him as a winner

@@EducatedTurtle no but he gave his jacket to gi-hun because out of everyone, he's the only one without one and it makes him look weak thats why il-nam gave his to him

I think that was the old man's mask

Gi-Hun would have to be obscenely wealthy to become a VIP and even more so to host a game. He won 39 million dollars. that's rich but no where near the levels of wealth he would need for a golden mask.

@@krampusklaws2238 billion, not million

@@MrItsMeMario1337 No he won 46 billion won, which is 39 million dollars. Life changing money, sure, but there are lottery winners with more cash than him.

@@krampusklaws2238 ah, my bad. i just assumed they wrote dollars instead of won for convenience.

Probably just to add tension. It's like the bomb always stops at 1 second deal. It's there to keep you riveted, and since Gi-Hun is the main character you want him to win cause you get invested in him.

true.
i told my friend like "wanna bet that he doesn't kill il nam? wanna bet that he turns back and doesn't go into the plane?" xD
dude never bloodied his hands and was really indecisive, always being basically last, or close to it anyway.

Damn bro ur so smart

🔥🔥🔥

He’s not going back to play again he’s probably going to team up with the brother of the front man to end the operation there doing

@@aannggee11 did he survive?????

I think that reason might be because remember when Gi Han was talking about how him and his friend used to play the Squid game when they were young at the final round. It seems too much of a coincidence. It's similar to II-Nam when he was a child he used to play games similarly. They both play games as if their life is on the line.

Good catch! The more I think about it, the more it seems true.

Yea. Man this show goes deeper and deeper, so nicely planned. I bet the story of the front man is more mysterious than we think. How he got caught up in this and became like the face of this twisted ass business I bet they can pull a whole season based on him. He's so desperate that he had to shoot without explanation gives pretty good idea his life is at risk too if he opens his mouth. We better get some stuff of him in season 2. It's probably gonna be front man vs Gi han next season.

i have also read that, II nam visited there because he wanted to meet his friend, they guess his friend is gi-hun's mom

His son

That's just numbers. In every single place you can gamble the house always wins in the end; that's how they can still afford rent. The slapping game seemed strange, it was more a test of skill rather than a gamble, but maybe the recruiter was just really good at the game after tons of practice?

Yes and he was really bad at the claw game to get the toy for his daughters birthday present, he had to get that kid to win it for him

I think the red might be related to the red tile of the first recruiting game and red outfits the guards of the organization wear. This made me associate the color red with those in power/authority over the game so maybe this means he’ll overthrow/have power over the organization

or the red hair might symbol the blood that was shed

The creator stated that it was the most out there thing he could think of the character doing. It's simply a representation of change, nothing more.

Yeah I thought this too!

Director said it was a symbol for his rage.

My theory is there's some type of brainwashing and military-type training beforehand. Yes it's not a one time thing, but you're trained for maybe a year with either the promise of making loads of money or the promise of disappearing from society and having a stable and easy job.

It also wouldn't really make sense as to how there is a ranking among the guards. I dont remember exactly but I think circles were the lowest, then triangles then squares? Regardless, if they were all randomly picked then how would have have decided on a ranking system? I could see it being a situation where they are chosen and they start as circles and each year work their way up to squares because they would gain experience. That could also explain how the stealing organs thing worked because a square likely formulated the entire thing and just recruited some lower guards to help.

Perhaps the guards go through consistent recruitment, say they get the numbers they need for the first game, the guards are only replaced as they need more, not game to game. Which would give merit to the blue/red tile game at the train station

The theory of the guards doesn’t add up at all with the divers, they all knew each other, and the location of the facility since they coordinated with a boat and would dive there and back.. I don’t think they were gassed and dropped there like the players.

yeah and the dude got confused at the other dude when his face and voice was different

They are opposites after all!
001 & 456

Of course that’s what he’ll do

Can't wait for season 2 bruhhh

He can't run the squid games with the prize money. it sounds like a lot of money, but he only won 39 million dollars. that is pocket change compared to the VIPs who likely paid more than that to watch the games.

Yeah hope there won't be a s2 like that

wtf this is sooooo deep🤐🤐🤐

Brain 👍🏻

You definitely won w/ this

👏 👏 Is

I'm shook!!

Squid game, parasite, train to busan, the call...koreans aren't playin out here.

@@17absolut Peninsula, don't forget Peninsula.

@@TheClimbingBronyOldColtchecking this out, ty! Someone also recommended DP, another one on my list now

Squid Game isn't a unique idea though. It's very heavily inspired by Kaiji.

@@PersonaPrime or Battle Royal movie

If you have enough money, it is easy to bribe someone and get that information. Also, that would not explain how he knows about the money they own to loan sharks and all of that. It could all just be surveillance.

They also threaten to cut out their organs if they don’t pay, and that’s exactly what they do to the players once they die and “can’t pay back their debts”

!!!!!!!

yes and when they die their debt is forgiven and that's how it gets in the piggy bank.

@@Alkis05 People usually go to loan sharks to pay off other bank debts.Its possible Il Nam owns the bank he originally owed money to. Also when you give people your info to loan money, they can easily see the debt you have.
When they choose people to play the original game, they already know their debt. They are not choosing random people, they are following people who are connected to them and know they are desperate. It explains why Il Nam says he has so much money and is bored (he doesnt NEED the debts repayed) and why everytime a person dies money is put in the bank.

Even the elderly man in charge joining the game himself, without any player being aware, and down to the brain tumor!

Let's just hope it stays that way and they don't make sequels because it will then turn into the SAW franchise.

@@Ermac97 SAW is good, stfu.

@@Gonk stay mad

@@LuisZap16 The Truth is never mad it's GLAD :)

Lmaoo wtf do you mean sequels?? It’s a show and highly anticipated show at that. So you shouldn’t be surprised by a second or third SEASON that’s the wrd your looking for. 💯

Right!?

I mean a lot of people are watching the show right now and the show took the world by surprise.

Same. Now I'm trying to figure out how to wake up out of it.

Gi-Hun swore on his mother that he wouldn't pester San-Byeok if she untied him. She did and he pestered her instantly. His mother died. Not sure what it signifies or the deeper symbolism but I noticed it and wanted to post for other fan theories.

@@RassionellMaddman Yeah Ali stole the money from his Boss and that guy stole the marbles from him which resulted in Ali dying

But I think the games were already preset as it looks like a lot of construction went on building them all so the wernt to know how many players would be still alive for the marbles game

But he does find the invite card in his room so.... Im guessing there is a story behind it

Also, if he had won in 2015, why would he still be living in a small rented room, why would he go back to facilitate this game, why would he go to the risk of killing his brother(im not saying he is dead) but it seems there is a story were yet to know

It's possible (like in the running man) that the winners don't actually ever win the money - hence why the Front man was still poor irl, but he was good enough to be offered a place as a guard. That could also support the theory that Gi-hun is in fact Il-nam's son, since that could be a way of him earning his inheritance and perhaps ultimately taking his father's place...

@@evansgithinji4617 I'm thinking Il-nam (sp) had the same bet about someone helping the drunk on the street, except in 2015 he won the bet (since no one stopped to help), and the wager was all of Sang Woo's (sp) winnings.

The other theory is that all the winners, due to their lifestyle overspend their prize money and go back for money

oh shit

i feel like he would be an undercover like the police man

Okay this makes perfect sense I was so confused why he did that

thats actually really smart. holy shit

or maybe to symbolize power

Yes thats all good, but it would be way more better if it's come out of your brain and not from tiktok

​@@emiogawa86 thanks lol but it really wasn't that hard to go back to episode 1 and check what bday he used... i don't have tik tok

but is it ever explicitly stated that he doesn’t know his father or is he just never shown? i feel like this theory doesn’t add up if there’s never any talk of gi-huns father, because why would they portray il-nam as the father if we don’t even know the whereabouts of gi-huns father.

essentially what i’m saying is: Gi-Hun’s fathers status is never talked about (as far as i remember but correct me if i’m wrong) meaning, why would they make the plot twist of Il-Nam being the father if it’s literally never mentioned? it would be random and not really do much in terms of the story.

@@kaitlyngarcia5919 I think if that was explicitly mentioned, it might make it *too* obvious. They have been hinting at them being related the entire show, and I don’t think Gi-hun’s relationship with his father not being mentioned really takes away from it being a possibility. Besides, his mother has always been depicted alone, and I don’t remember any pictures or mentions of a dead husband. That’s a good indication of him never having been around. However, it would’ve been a nice inclusion if they’d had a subtle mention of him growing up without a father. Maybe in the form of someone (or himself) comparing him to his father for being absent with his daughter

@@BlueSky-vd6qh Sure, of course. But it's kind of a Marvel's Thanos situation. His goal is noble, but snapping away half of life in the galaxy is going way too far. Killing here mostly gets the money from the bets. I don't believe 001 had a fortune that allowed not only buying an island and building the infrastructure there but also funding such prizes each year. It's more probable that we have a Robin Hood situation - taking from the rich to give to the poor.
Still the first two challenges were passable without anybody dying. Many killing also happened in the bedroom. All the other death could be described as really quick and merciful.
I don't want to say killing is morally good. It isn't. But maybe Squid Game became a trap for the organizers themselves? And now they seek people to take the whole thimg apart from within? Why not toy with such an idea?

@@goronska they let them kill each other in the bedroom to reduce the numbers, that's why they had those red heat sensors to monitor how many ppl were alive

@@goronska I think he got the money from the other vips because he said he did It with his friends and I’m assuming because of how old he looks all his friends are dead it would be cheaper if each person sponsors like 76 people

@@goronska +The VIPs are probably also paying like the main VIP who bets I think 2,000,000

@@h.cheema7818 @Nashari - Yeah, this is why I mentioned the trap of the Robin Hood approach. He's on the mercy of the VIPs, because the original mony probably run out some few Squid Game editions before or even just bulding the whole island facility and spiking it with endless amunt of hi-tech monitoring devices

true

Truee it was his plan all along!

Well he did say that he wanted him to win because he loved playing with him and made him feel like a child again. Perhaps he genuinely enjoyed his company and thought his experience could be altered without him

Truly rich people are often very cheap though.

@@lollietacooliva Yeah I agree. Gi Hun was probably one of the few people who treated him kindly and I feel as though Il Nam must’ve appreciated that.
Or maybe if we consider the theory that Il Nam was Gi Hun’s father, Il nam could’ve persuaded him to rejoin the game to see if he was worthy of taking over the whole organisation

100,000 won is 84 usd, not exactly “huge” money. But yes it shows his character, he wants to get back at people who have wronged him. He does this when sae-byeok unties him at the roadside too, this show has great character development. Oh, and obviously he is not going back again to play for money, that’s why he has barely touched his winnings with all that money just sitting in the bank. They made it clear that in the next season he’s going back with a different motive and to bring down the whole game.

@@MetalizedButt good one but pls stop comparing any country money to usd when the money is just used in exact country

@@mr.donkey3248 The reason I do that is because not everybody is Korean, and the general public doesn’t know the exact amounts and the conversion rates. When they hear 100,000 won they just assume “holy shit that’s a huge amount of money” like yeah ok and 1 MILLION Indonesian rupiah is 70 usd lmfao. Usd is universally recognisable as a gauge when comparing prices.

@@MetalizedButt That's a lot of money, we'll see 46BILLION, isn't that big for you? The value of that money will be small if Gi-hun goes abroad but he is not, he is still there in their country.

@@krazy5200 What the hell are you talking about? The original commenter and I were referring to the first 100,000 won from the ddakji game, where he tried to slap the guy instead of taking the money. Please learn to read. Fyi, 46 Billion won is not a small amount ANYWHERE you go in the world LMAO.

Much more than 5. those were just the ones that paid for the privilege to watch the games in person.

And they state that the "korean" Games have been thr best so far...

Ya its really clear that they don't have much to say so they just pad the video with worthless bulllshit that either makes no sense, or is incredibly obvious

this is great

Maybe both cards would make you a player but if a player won and used the red then they could become a square or be offered a job as some type of worker in the game.

There would have to be as many guards as players maybe since its 50/50

yeah i agree. i think the guards have their own process

That's why in America television numbers begin with 555 to avoid this sort of thing.

How is gong yoo 42... i guess asians really dont age. he's such a beautiful man, i might be unlucky in love :D

Great info

Does South Korea not have a fake phone number for phones in films?

Umm i thought he actually meant gods 😂 him saying guard makes much more sense

He should learn to speak English before making videos in English. What a loser!

@@Cuyt24 not everyone has to be an expert in english? Lol

💀💀

@@Cuyt24 hes literally speaking british english or some other dialect of English that isn't American. imagine thinking that America is the center of the world

without a doubt, he was only shot in the shoulder. He shot the Front Man (his brother) in the same spot and he was fine

exactly! I thought this thing might have correlation with the upcoming season 2

@@bobbysugianto5744 I think they firstly try to spot if they try to expose the operation (like Gi-Hun did) and set it up so that the number dialled has a nonsense-like answer and then they disconnect it to make the conspirator seem insane, eventually killing them if need be.
Secondly, I think that they re-bait the 7% to come to the games later on if they are still as poor and desperate.

And they also kept track of Gi-hun even after the game are over as the front man asks Gi-hun to 'get on that plane' and not care about the GAME still happening. Also, Il-nam and the old flower lady, how could he know where to find him to give him the flower with the card on it.

@@RoseStevensJJ i think frontman knew gi-hun was there as the train to busan guy told him he was there

@@RoseStevensJJ that flower lady seemed so suspicious, yet like a victim..maybe she's caught up in this business too and has been ordered to follow Gi-hun

for me it's another clue.

Interesting, good point.

another theory is that he earned the money, and he used to dye his hair red to represent the blood of the one's ho fought for the money.

@@jeneusschneider243 The more I have been thinking about it, the more that makes sense to me. I can’t see him wanting to maintain the games, and at the end he seemed to want to put an end to them. So the red hair could represent the blood of those lost, or it could represent possessing power and control while being opposed to the games (he is now in power and control over his life). Or both.

*you guys literally building up theories about gi hun having red hair in the end and the first thing that goes on my mind is " oh so he decided to be a kpop idol now huh" LOL*

I was watching the first episode of Lupin in dubbed and it just didn't feel right. So glad I didn't even attempt to watch this dubbed

We watched about 2 minutes of the dub and we’re like nope! Too distracting. Reading isn’t hard.

The subs are also incorrect too, you don't get the real meanings unless you speak the original language

The device i was watching on is kinda old and the subs weren't working properly so I had to use dub for most of it, do you have an example of something badly dubbed so I could see what you mean?

why watched it dubbed, that sounds terrible

Well how to explain to the others one player is missing but not because of a game? It would mean he had something special the others didnt have and this is against the rule of egality. It would be a problem for the sake of the games.
But if a soldier dies who would care?? No one, it wont affect the game and no one will notice, no one even knows a soldier identity so wdc
(The edit is because of my awful typos)

The games are also somewhat designed to be played by specific numbers of people. Tug-of-war needs teams of 10, and the marble game needs an even number of players. Losing a player outside a game disrupts this and also affects betting as the VIPs will be expecting to see their player live or die in person.

Well to put it simply... No one cares if a special force agent dies, they can always replace them. But the world will become chaotic if a politician dies out of nowhere, and what if through an investigation, they find that the agents are involved in the murder? In this game, a player's life is more valuable than the guard's.

@@a.d.-. this shit needs a proofreading

@@erikpierre6227 what does it mean?

Good theory!

EXACTLY

could you elaborate how both their lives were at stake?

@@shinsuu777 I think its because Il-Nam made a bet with Gi-Hun, and since the front man was nearby, maybe he would've killed Gi-Hun if he lost?

Also weird asf that he died exactly at 12:00. Ill-nam said the bet ends at 12

One important thing you forgot, downstairs the apartment when he punches his daughter’s stepdad he literally says “you think money can solve everything?”

finally someone who understood the whole context of the show

me who just liked watching the show without doing an entire english a level essay about it 😃

whyre u writing an essay

I also realized that he was actually very selfless but a bit naive at times. At the end he learned that in life you can’t be too nice, cause even your “true friends” could betray you. But also this was a life or death situation so everyone wanted to survive

C’mon, Breaking bad is an other level, Squid Game is okay ahah (so far)

Ali didn't steal the money. He took the money his boss stole from him for working six months without payment and for the injury he had while working for him. His boss ended up with the same injury Ali suffered: loosing his fingers and having his money taken.

I don't think Gi-hun would make the VIPs do that because he isn't sadistic. I think he would also feel like he would be just as bad as them if he did.

Yeah it would be so weird to talk about it because they've been selling the organs before

There would be little to no dramatic tension in that. You need characters who will face problems, overcome them, and grow because of it. How exactly are you going to do that if he just flips the script and makes all of the elite do what he did? That's not good TV

the director said the next season won't be another game event

The organ selling was a side venture for a small group of staff, not for the whole organisation or they would have an actual doctor on staff with a proper organ retrieval room and be organ harvesting without all the secrecy and time limits for deliveries.

The body’s were cremated

the front man didnt know they were selling the organs, he said "i dont care what you do with the bodies" or smth, also why delete footage and sneak out the doctor and all if it's organized, they could have had actual staff to help with

wait... so the cop who was finding for his brother, thought his brother might have had joined the game when in fact his brother is the front man?

@@jermainelaranang688 yes

I thought the same too! thanks for pointing it out

Exactly.

Thanks for explaining bc I was so confused about that

i thought so too, when it ended it felt complete and the cliffhanger felt like it was forced so the series could, but didnt have to continue. but thinking about it, there`s so much more possibilities now. we have seen only the players side, next season could possibly focus on the backstage, which could be as complex or as simple as the creators want it to be. and also, the show will surely get a bigger budget, so all the ideas could be made into reality

@@kristijanoros7208 I like the idea of a prequel showing how the games started, or a sequel following the guards side of the operation, how they were recruited etc