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**The old man panics during the riot. He stands on his bed at the top, out of the line of fire but terrified. The old man begs for the guards to stop the rioting, that everyone will kill each other. It ends up doing the trick, somehow. {{spoiler|When you learn who Il-nam really is, the answers become much clearer}}.
**Gi-hun tries begging the guards for help when Deok-su callously kills a man in the barracks. He says they can't stand by and let that happen, it's not fair. This comes back to an even more tragic note when {{spoiler|Gi-hun uncovers Sae-byeok's mortal wound in "Front Man" and she starts to lose consciousness from blood loss, while deliriously asking if she can go home. Gi-hun tries to keep her awake, begging her to stay with him, but runs to the locked doors. He starts banging on the bloodied areas, shouting that Sae-byeok needs a doctor, please help so she can play in the final game. All Gi-hun knows is that the last game needs players and hopes that this necessity will save Sae-byeok}}.
* [[An Aesop]]: You cannot trust fairness when privileged people set the rules of a game, or a system. The Front Man claims that the games are fair, but we see many cases where it's not true. As Gi-hun logically points out, there ''should'' be games where girls are favored more than guys, given that it's supposed to be random, but all the games chosen favor guys, meaning {{spoiler|only one woman makes it to the final round, or ''would'' have if not for glass piercing her abdomen}}. None of the challenges are girls' games like jacks or jumprope. {{spoiler|Gi-hun is right; il-Nam freely admits that the games were based on those from his childhood}}.
*[[An Offer You Can't Refuse]]: This is how the Squid Game forces the players to complete round one. At the time, most of the players are debtors who called the number, expecting to earn some money to avoid losing a kidney or going to jail. They then have to cross the finish line in Red Light, Green Light before the timer goes out; if they keep freezing, they'll be shot anyway. The guards congratulate the winners for making it past round one, who brokenly beg to go home. When the top square guard reminds the players they signed a contract and that if they refuse to play, they will be "eliminated," Sang-woo stands up and reminds them that the third clause says players can have a group vote.
*[[Anyone Can Die]]: One of the reasons why this series knows how to pack emotional wallops; none of the players are safe from sudden or undignified death. {{spoiler|Gi-hun has [[Plot Armor]] owing to being the protagonist, but he is the exception that proves the rule.}} Try not to get attached to anyone, major or minor in this story.
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**The Front Man is a monster. There is no doubt about that with how he runs the games, and especially when he engineers a riot to cull the "weak players", something that even alarms {{spoiler|Il-nam who shouts for it to stop}}. Jun-ho is naturally wary of him and is prepared to fire on him if necessary while undercover. {{spoiler|He also doesn't kill Mi-nyeo when she doesn't have a partner for the fourth game, allowing her to rest in the barracks and sit out the death match. The players are shocked, even if she's hurt on principle that no one wanted her}}. In the season one finale, when {{spoiler|Gi-hun is declared the winner by default, he gets medical treatment for Gi-hun's impaled hand and escorts him back to his hometown in a limo. While gruff, he advises Gi-hun to think of the experience as a dream. Later, when Gi-hun dials the number on the business card, the Front Man refuses to accept him for the 2021 games, ordering him to get on the plane and go see his daughter. That makes more sense with the revelation that the Front Man was also once a winner.}}
**One nameless guard respects {{spoiler|Ji-yeong's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] when she throws the marbles game and forces Sae-byeok to win, saying that her death will mean more than her life knowing she's helping Sae-byeok reunite with her little brother. He gives Ji-yeong a moment to thank Sae-byeok for playing with her and say goodbye, before executing her.}}
*[[Pragmatic Villainy]]: Deok-su votes to end the games when given the chance. His reasoning makes sense when he talks with a lackey about the piggy bank; it's really stupid to stay on the island with a lot of money just out of reach and a high chance of getting killed. Deok-su
*[[Reality Ensues]]:
** Gi-hun tries doing a sensible thing after the group vote allows everyone to go home. He goes to the police while still traumatized and tells them about the horrific events that he and Sang-woo suffered. The cops ''do'' take a report and his information down which they later relate to Jun-ho, while dialing the number on the business card, but they don't believe him. As one puts it, 456 people were knocked out, transported to a strange place, ordered to play a lethal version of Red Light Green Light, and then released after voting to go home? Gi-hun himself admits that the story is hard to believe.
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***{{spoiler|Gi-hun walks off the plane that would take him to see Ga-yeong and maybe a new life.}} He promises the Front Man over the phone that he will not forgive them for the people they killed, or the pain he suffered.
***With the Host {{spoiler|officially dead and gone,}} the Front Man has free reign to design the 2021 games as he sees fit, with no interference. He will likely have more safety measures against intruders this time.
***The Salesman is still on the street, recruiting players with rounds of ddjaki for the 2021 rounds of the game. Gi-hun runs to confront him but is too late, as the man smiles and waves to him from a train.
***We never actually saw {{spoiler|Jun-ho's dead body when he fell into the water from the deserted island. The Front Man also aimed for the shoulder when he had a clear shot to the head, and asked his brother to surrender}}. Not to mention he sent the images and videos that he took to his boss, and even if they didn't send, smartphones save images up to remote clouds and servers. Someone could still find that data and use it to further their investigation, and the chief was trying to locate his distress signal.
***Heck, the Front Man's backstory. Somehow he went from being {{spoiler|a winner of the game to the person running it five years later. His family also didn't notice that he went missing back in 2015, meaning that he was covering his tracks well}}.
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