History Characters / SquidGameGiHunsTeam

* AssholeVictim: Not as big as the other examples, but he's a sexist hypocrite and murderer whose death is completely his own doing.

* EgocentricallyReligious: He [[PrayerOfMalice prays]] for other players to die and attempts to convince Gi-hun and the others to kill the weaker teams, saying everyone's hands are already dirty, implying he killed several people during the nighttime brawl.

* TheTeam: They form the main heroic team in the series.
** TheLeader: Seong Gi-hun. While the team has no official leader, he's the one who gathered them and acts as their face, best emphasized when he's chosen to stand at the front in the [[spoiler:tug-of-war]] game.
** TheLancer: Kang Sae-byeok, who has an aloof personality and starts off hostile to the rest only to warm up over time.
** TheSmartGuy: Cho Sang-woo, a clever businessman who comes up with most of the team's strategies.
** TheBigGuy: Ali Abdul, a tough but kind factory worker with a tremendous amount of physical strength.
** TheHeart: Ji-yeong, a strange but compassionate girl who helps Sae-byeok to open up.
** TheMentor: Oh Il-nam, whose age and experience helps the team through several challenges.
** TheSixthRanger: Han Mi-nyeo and players 196, 244 and 276. The former inserted herself into the group after Deok-su kicked her out of his team for the [[spoiler:tug-of-war]] game, and the latter three were just around to fill up the missing space.

* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler:Even after the atrocities Sang-woo has committed to further himself in the games, Gi-hun, instead of either killing him or taking the final step to finish the game, asks the guard to end the game so the both of them can still live. However, Sang-woo, knowing that he can't live with his guilt and refusing to leave the game empty-handed, [[DrivenToSuicide instead takes his own life]] so Gi-hun can be the ultimate winner, asking him to [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas care for his mother]] with his final breaths. With the somber piano motif that plays and the image of a horrified Gi-hun cradling Sang-woo's body and sobbing, a man who had proven that there was absolutely no line he was unwilling to cross to get ahead goes out on an incredibly bittersweet note.]]

* BigBrotherMentor: He encourages Ali to call him "hyung" (형, meaning "older brother" in Korean). This makes [[spoiler:Ali's death after being betrayed by Sang-woo]] even more tragic because Ali screams "hyung" while trying to find him right beforehand. However, this detail is not included at all in the English dub or subs.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Sang-woo wants the games to continue. He also knows, however, that the guards are threatening to shoot everyone who wants out. When it seems another massacre will occur, he stands and reminds the guards that per their own contract, the third clause states that the players can vote to stay or leave. At the least he wants to give people a fair chance to vote.

* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Seems to have one before plunging the knife in his neck and allowing Gi-hun to win. He also asks Gi-hun to take care of his mother before succumbing to his self-inflicted wound.]]

* MeaningfulName: The Korean word for his number, 218, sounds very similar to the Korean word 'ssibal,' a profanity which roughly translates to 'fuck' or 'fucker.' He is accordingly a villain who cruelly kills several other characters just to increase the odds that he'll get a huge payout.

* {{Catchphrase}}: "Thank you!" [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] in that as an immigrant to South Korea, he's essentially lived a life of constant obedience to his Korean-native bosses and co-workers to fully establish his place in a racially homogenous country.

* CharacterDevelopment: By the end of the season, Gi-hun has grown to be much more mature and responsible, while still maintaining his inherent goodness and [[spoiler:[[TookALevelInBadass vowing to take down the organization and the games.]]

->'''Played by:''' Kim Si-hyun

* LackOfEmpathy: If his behavior in the fifth game demonstrates anything.

* [[AmbiguouslyJewish Ambiguously Muslim]]: He is Pakistani (and the main religion of Pakistan is Islam) and his wife wears a hijab, but in the show, he never shows any observation of Muslim duties (for example, praying or asking if the food provided by the Squid Game workers is halal, though the latter could be excused as him not wanting to push his luck in regards to food, since Gi-Hun's attempt at asking for different food showed that what you get is what there is).

* [[AmbiguouslyJewish Ambiguously Muslim]]: He is Pakistani (and the main religion of Pakistan is Islam), but in the show, he never shows any observation of Muslim duties (for example, praying or asking if the food provided by the Squid Game workers is halal, though the latter could be excused as him not wanting to push his luck with food, since there are no other options).

* CharacterDevelopment: By the end of the season, Gi-hun has grown to be much more mature and responsible, while still maintaining his inherent goodness and [[spoiler:[[TookALevelInBadass vowing to take down the organization and the games, for threatening to put his daughter and her new family in the games]].]]

* MyGreatestSecondChance: [[spoiler:It was his fault his mother died, because he cancelled her health insurance policy for gambling money, and he's unable to dissuade Sang-woo from entering round two because they both need the money. He arrives several days too late to pay for her surgery after winning the prize money. In his last scene of Season 1, Gi-hun's about to go fly to visit Ga-yeong, pay child support maybe, and repair their relationship...but he sees the Salesman suckering another potential player for the game, and saves them by stealing the business card and ordering them not to dial the number. When he dials, the Front Man threatens him to go to Los Angeles and see his daughter, making Gi-hun realize that his living family is still in danger (especially his daughter, who's now a sought after target). He says ThisMeansWar and he's coming for the Front Man, to take down the games once and for all for threatening to put his own daughter into said games]].

* PapaWolf: He ''might'' have [[spoiler:gotten on the plane to Los Angeles to start a new life or at least visit Ga-yeong, mending their relationship, if the Front Man hadn't ordered him to after Gi-hun calls him, indirectly threatening his daughter's life by having her placed into the same games as him. All bets are now off as Gi-hun realizes that if he doesn't take down the system, he can never ensure that Ga-yeong, her mother, stepfather and younger half-brother are safe, implying they're now in danger of entering the games themselves]].

* ThisIsUnforgivable: [[spoiler:In the last scene of the final episode, he tells the Front Man on the phone that he isn't forgiving them for their actions, treating him and others as horses, and will come for them to stop the games once he threatens to put his daughter and her new family in the games if the organization isn't stopped.]]
* ThisMeansWar: [[spoiler:When Front Man threatens to put his daughter in the very same games when he tried to get answers, he was visibly angered that he turns around and becomes determined to go after them.]]

* [[AmbiguouslyJewish Ambiguously Muslim]]: He is Pakistani (and the main religion of Pakistan is Islam), but in the show, he never shows any observation of Muslim duties (for example, praying or asking if the food provided by the Squid Game workers is halal).

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In the fifth game, while he's praying to God while holding everybody up, the player behind him tries to forcefully make him proceed, but 244 ends up pushing the man onto a panel that shatters, dropping the player to his death. He then visibly gets the idea of [[ASimplePlan continuing to hold the others up by praying until someone approaches him so he can eliminate them while determining which panel is safe to stand on]]... however, [[DeathByIrony he doesn't get the chance to put this plan to practice as the next player behind him impatiently shoves 244 to his death.]]

* LaserGuidedKarma: During the glass bridge game, he begins to stall by beginning to pray even though there is a time limit. This frustrates the players behind him who try to hurry him up. After getting into a struggle he manages to throw one of the players into the glass ahead of him. Thanking God, he decides to pray once more, but the player behind him is not having any of it, so he shoves him into the glass almost immediately.

!!In General:

* RuleOfSymbolism: The Islamic Ali is number 199. According to Islamic Hadith 199, it goes, "There are three signs of a hypocrite: When he speaks, he lies; when he makes a promise, he breaks it; and when he is trusted, he betrays his trust." [[spoiler:This foreshadows how Ali will be betrayed by Sang-woo.]]

* [[AmbiguouslyJewish Ambiguously Muslim]]: He is Pakistani (and the main religion of Pakistan is Islam), but in the show, he never shows any observation of Muslim duties.

* TheOldestProfession: It is implied during her conversation with [[{{Jerkass}} Jang Deok-su]] in episode 1, with Sae-byeok claiming that he took everything from her.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Gi-hun originally gets caught up in the Squid Game because Sae-byeok pick-pocketed him of his horse race winnings in the first episode. This led to the chain of events of him signing over a body part to the mob if he can't make his next month's payments and then being desperate enough to take the salesman up on his offer. [[DownplayedTrope On the flipside]], Gi-hun was already a compulsive gambler in so much debt that he had ''already'' been scouted out, so all Sae-Byeok ultimately did was speed up the inevitable. [[spoiler:Gi-hun also ultimately wins the game and the huge cash prize, so in a roundabout way Sae-byeok accidentally ended up helping him.]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Gi-hun originally gets caught up in the Squid Game because Sae-byeok pick-pocketed him of his horse race winnings in the first episode. This led to the chain of events of him signing over a body part to the mob if he can't make his next month's payments and then being desperate enough to take the salesman up on his offer. [[DownplayedTrope On the flipside]], Gi-hun was already a compulsive gambler in so much debt that he had ''already'' been scouted out, so all Sae-Byeok ultimately did was speed up the inevitable.

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* StunnedSilence: [[spoiler:After discovering that Sang-woo has tricked him out of his marbles, he can only look towards him in devastation, unable to say a word with tears streaking down his face, as a guard raises their gun to his head.]]