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* GameOfNim: In [[Recap/SquidGameS1E6Gganbu "Gganbu"]], the objective is to pick a game that involves marbles and play it with one's partner. The characters win if they manage to win over all ten of their partner's marbles. Gi-hun convinces a senile Il-nam to play a game of Nim with the marbles. In the first round, Gi-hun loses as he's the one holding the last marble; desperate, he guiltily exploits Il-nam's lapse in lucidity to win.
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* FearInducedIdiocy: During the first game, "Red Light, Green Light" (where you need to stand still when the doll announces "red light"), participants panicked when they realised that [[DeadlyGame being eliminated from the game means getting killed]]. Many of them started to run in panic and were shot immediately as a result.
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* DepravedBisexual: One of the [=VIPs=], VIP 4 with the tiger mask, is the most outwardly depraved of the members. He rests his head against the breasts of a woman serving as "living furniture", and [[spoiler:is attracted to a male waiter, even deciding to quit watching to take him to his bedroom and coerce said waiter into havig sex with him. Unfortunately for him, it happens to be Jun-ho that he targets.]]
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* DepravedBisexual: One of the [=VIPs=], VIP 4 with the tiger mask, is the most outwardly depraved of the members. He rests his head against the breasts of a woman serving as "living furniture", and [[spoiler:is attracted to a male waiter, even deciding to quit watching to take him to his bedroom and coerce said waiter into havig having sex with him. Unfortunately for him, it happens to be Jun-ho that he targets.]]
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* DubInducedPlotHole: In the Korean version of red light green light you can only move as the doll is saying the phrase "mugunghwa-kkochi pieotseumnida". In the English version of red light green light the doll says "green light" if tou can move and "red light" when you have to stop moving. This creates a problem in the English dub when several contestants seem to stop before the doll says "red light".
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* GamblingRuinsLives: While not necessarily a major part of the series' anti-capitalist message, gambling is prominently depicted in a negative light. In addition to the protagonist Gi-hun starting off as a gambling addict on horse races (which he later overcomes), the collective responsible for financing the titular (but otherwise unnamed) DeadlyGame (referred to as the "[=VIPs=]") are shown to regularly gamble on the outcomes they predict as an audience, with one member getting infuriated over several failed attempts. The two authority figures responsible for directing the contest also get involved in the Season 1 finale; the Front Man flat-out compares the contest to the aforementioned horse races, while the Host offers Gi-hun to do a bet with him.
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* CantMoveWhileBeingWatched: The first game is Red Light Green Light, with a giant doll with motion detectors in its eyes that are set to shoot any contestant who moves when it is facing them.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Gi-hun wins the game, but all the other players end up dying and none of the people involved with the games have been brought to justice. He eventually overcomes his year-long depression after a final game with Il-nam, and then uses some of his prize money to fulfill the wishes of Sae-byeok and Sang-woo, but turns away from the opportunity to reunite with his daughter to instead go back to the games in the hopes that he'll be able to shut them down for good.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Gi-hun wins the game, but all the other players end up dying and dying, none of the people involved with the games have been brought to justice.justice, and he realizes his mother died alone while he was in the game. He eventually overcomes his year-long depression after a final game with Il-nam, and then uses some of his prize money to fulfill the wishes of Sae-byeok and Sang-woo, but turns away from the opportunity to reunite with his daughter to instead go back to the games in the hopes that he'll be able to shut them down for good.]]
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** [[spoiler:Deok-su to Mi-neyo. This come back to bite him though.]]
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Deok-su is an utter brute, yet able to put up a charming enough front when he attempts diplomacy. [[spoiler:Partictulary toward Mi-neyo after betraying her.]]
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* HiddenDisdainReveal: [[spoiler:Mi-nyeo learns the hard way that Deok-su is not a big fan of pet names.]]
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* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Deok-su, for all that he acts tough, freezes up and refuses to go any farther once he ends up at the front of the pack in [[LuckBasedMission Game 5]]n, instead demanding that someone else do it for him.]]
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* DirtyCoward: [[spoiler: Deok-su, for all that he acts tough, freezes up and refuses to go any farther once he ends up at the front of the pack in [[LuckBasedMission Game 5]]n, 5]], instead demanding that someone else do it for him.]]
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** Ali's boss at the factory refuses to pay him his salery due to being greedy, and when Ali demands getting the money, he accidently pushes the boss into the machinery, who gets his fingers crushed as a result.
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** Ali's boss at the factory refuses to pay him his salery salary due to being greedy, and when Ali demands getting the money, he accidently pushes the boss into the machinery, who gets his fingers crushed as a result.
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** The fourth game revolves around the game of [[spoiler:marbles, with the episode even being named that.]] One of several plots in that episode is [[spoiler: loses most of his marbles due to his deteriorating mental state. In English "losing your marbles" is slang for declining cognitive ability]].
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** The fourth game revolves around the game of [[spoiler:marbles, with the episode even being named that.]] One of several plots in that episode is [[spoiler: that [[spoiler:Oh Il-nam loses most of his marbles due to his deteriorating mental state. In English "losing your marbles" is slang for declining cognitive ability]].
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** The fourth game revolves around the game of [[spoiler:marbles, with the episode even being named that.]] One of several plots in that episode is [[spoiler: the advancement Il-nam is making toward loses most of his marbles due to his deteriorating mental state. In English "losing his marbles," as the saying goes in English]].your marbles" is slang for declining cognitive ability]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: As stated below in FairPlayVillain, the Front Man respects the results of the vote in episode two and only continues the games with those who choose to come back willingly.
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* BerserkButton: Mi-nyeo has two. The first is her age; has a rather comical reaction when Gi-hun innocently addresses her with a Korean honorific for "grandma". The second is doublecrossing her; which she takes a wee bit more personally.
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* TheGlomp: Gi-hun does this to a little boy who helped win a prize from a crane game.
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** As a DeadlyGame, many of the titular contest's participants face immense despair in their final moments as they're at the mercy of the game's guards, sobbing, begging, or otherwise showing a complete loss of hope.
** One of the most poignant examples comes from the death of [[spoiler:Deok-su]] in "[=VIPS=]". [[spoiler:After spending the whole game killing, stealing, and being a complete piece of shit to get ahead, Deok-su is put in a position at the fifth game that all but guarantees certain death for him, and decides to hold up everyone else so that they can die before him. One of his victims, Han Mi-nyeo, decides to pull a HeroicSacrifice by [[TakingYouWithMe falling with him to their deaths]], giving everyone else a chance to live. Deok-su breaks down into pathetic begging and screaming as Mi-nyeo prepares to drag him off the bridge.]]
** As a DeadlyGame, many of the titular contest's participants face immense despair in their final moments as they're at the mercy of the game's guards, sobbing, begging, or otherwise showing a complete loss of hope.
** One of the most poignant examples comes from the death of [[spoiler:Deok-su]] in "[=VIPS=]". [[spoiler:After spending the whole game killing, stealing, and being a complete piece of shit to get ahead, Deok-su is put in a position at the fifth game that all but guarantees certain death for him, and decides to hold up everyone else so that they can die before him. One of his victims, Han Mi-nyeo, decides to pull a HeroicSacrifice by [[TakingYouWithMe falling with him to their deaths]], giving everyone else a chance to live. Deok-su breaks down into pathetic begging and screaming as Mi-nyeo prepares to drag him off the bridge.]]
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* CelebrityParadox: Ji-yeong specifically namedrops Creator/LeeByunghun (who plays the Front Man in the series) and cites his famous line from ''Film/InsideMen'', "Let's have a drink of Maldives at mojito."
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* CelebrityParadox: Ji-yeong specifically namedrops [[spoiler: Creator/LeeByunghun (who plays the Front Man in the series) series)]] and cites his famous line from ''Film/InsideMen'', "Let's have a drink of Maldives at mojito."
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* ArcSymbol: Circle, triangle, and rectangle. They adorn the masks worn by the guards, are three of the four shapes players can choose from in the Honeycomb Game, and make up the chalk drawing used for the titular Squid Game. When Gi-hun, Sae-byeok, and Sang-woo are served fancy dinner before the finals, the table is arranged in a triangle on top of a circular platform with checkered pattern.
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** The fourth episode features a chaotic riot in the hall claiming the lives of several contestants, showing that they ''can'' be killed outside the games and the Front Man will simply write it off as narrowing the competition.
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** The [=VIPs=], a group of wealthy men from mostly the [[EvilStatesOfAmerica United States]] and Europe (though the stag-masked one appears to be Chinese). They're the elite funding the contest to watch it for their own amusement, placing bets on which players live or die.
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