Hypocrite / Squid Game

• The Front Man:
  • Despite all of the Front Man's grandstanding about every contestant getting a fair shot, the second and fifth games, though statistically winnable from any position, are made far more difficult based on a pre-game choice the players make with virtually no context as to how their decision will affect the outcome. Furthermore, the guards intentionally sabotage the players before the third game with the intention of culling some of the physically weaker ones. Just before the final game, the guards leave knives behind to goad the remaining players into violence.
  • The Front Man will execute any personnel who take off their masks, stating that when you're identified, you're dead. He takes off his mask towards his brother, before (presumably) murdering him, and gets to live.
  • Additionally, when the VIPs see that one of the last players is a glassmaker who can tell which glass plate is safe to jump on and are complaining that it ruins the excitement, the Front Man has the lights of the room dimmed to make the game harder for the players and more exciting for the VIPs.
  • And even more hypocritical from the Front Man is that a careful watch will show how Il-nam is granted plenty of advantages throughout the games.
• The third, fourth, and sixth games require at least half of the participants to die as a consequence of the game, so it's impossible for every player to win. It's not until these games come around is it made clear that players will die regardless of adherence to the rules.
• In the fifth game, Deok-su was the main culprit threatening to push anyone off the panels if they stall for time and refuse to move. When it finally comes down to him being on the receiving end, he smugly tells the rest that he has no problem running down the clock because he preferred to get everyone killed than just potentially sacrificing himself.
• In the Marbles game, Il-nam calls out Gi-hun on tricking your friends. Come Episode 9, Gi-hun is shocked to find he was still alive after a year.
• In the last episode, despite his disgust with playing games with other people's lives, Gi-hun goes along with Il-nam's bet to see if someone helps a drunken man freezing to death on the streets below them, rather than going out and helping the man himself.

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