History Recap / SquidGameS1E3TheManWithTheUmbrella

* FailedASpotCheck: Somehow none of the guards notice Mi-nyeo and later Deok-su using a lighter to heat their needle up, which would surely be considered cheating.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: After Sae-byeok relays seemingly useless information about melted sugar from her spying, Mi-nyeo angrily threatens to put her eyes out with cigarettes. Sae-byeok's eyes remain happily untouched, but an unfortunate guard loses one of his to a losing player wielding a dalgona pin.

* CuttingTheKnot: Gi-hun figured out that he could easily remove the shape by weakening the lines of the dalgona by licking the back. Even the overseers were surprised by this.

Jun-ho hides among the masked staff as they travel to the game's island location. After waking up in the dorms, the players are more prepared and start forming alliances. Gi-hun, Sang-woo, Player 001, and Ali team up, and note that most players returned, including Player 212, who was the first to beg to leave. Player 067 sneaks into the vents and observes staff workers in a kitchen. In the second game, the players are to pick a stamped shape out of a dalgona. Sang-woo identifies the game quickly, using information from Player 067, but does not warn his teammates and picks the simplest shape for himself. Gi-hun completes the game despite having the highest difficulty shape, an umbrella, by licking the back of the honeycomb to melt the thinner outline of the shape. Player 212 helps Deok-su complete the game with a smuggled lighter. A player takes a higher-ranked staff member hostage before killing himself; the staff member is killed, and Jun-ho takes the new mask.

* DeathlyUnmasking: The guard that Player 119 demands to unmask is shot in the face by the Front Man moments later, reinforcing his rule to the rest of the guards that their lives are forfeit as soon as players know of their identities.

-->''"Remember. Once they find out who you are, you die."''

* DrivenToSuicide: Mixed a bit with BetterToDieThanBeKilled, Player 119 holds a staff member hostage and demands him to take off his mask. Seeing the guard looks like a normal young man causes Player 119 to kill himself in despair. Not that he had many options anyway, given he failed the game.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: This is Gi-hun's reaction upon realizing he has picked the umbrella shape, the most difficult one of all four.
-->'''Gi-hun''': [[OhCrap I'm screwed.]]

* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Mi-nyeo is revealed to have smuggled a cigarette pack and a lighter to the games by stuffing them up into her vagina.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The title can both refer to Gi-hun and the less successful Player 119, who both received the difficult umbrella shape.

* AintTooProudToBeg: Some contestants who broke their figures beg to the soldiers for another chance, only for their begging to fall on deaf ears, as they are terminated.

* AssShove: A front-end variation, as Mi-nyeo is revealed to have smuggled a cigarette pack and a lighter in her vagina.
* BoomHeadshot: The punishment for the players if they break their shape, or they run out of time. This is also the punishment the unmasked high-ranked staff member faces upon disobeying the rule of revealing himself to a participant.

* DrivenToSuicide: Player 119 holds a staff member hostage and demands him to take off his mask and discovers that he seems very young, causing the player to kill himself in despair. Not that he had much option anyway, given he failed the game.

* WhateverHappenedToTheMouse: Only a small handful of the 201 players do not return to the games. When the Front Man hears of this, he orders to keep an eye on them. We never know what became of them or what the staff plans to do.

* VertigoEffect: In the second game, the camera zooms in on Gi-hun in this manner to illustrate his shock when he realizes that he has picked the most difficult of the honeycomb shapes (the umbrella).