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* [[Everyone Has Standards]]
** Gi-hun does not like killing. Unless a game demands death and the other choice is to get shot or dragged off a platform to await a long fall, Gi-hun would rather keep to himself and not have blood on his hands. {{spoiler|Il-nam pinpoints that he didn't spend the money after winning because he feels guilty about the other 454 that died for it to happen, and tries to rather bluntly point out that Gi-hun did earn it with his luck and skill}}.
** Jun-ho while undercover is unable to save any of the players from the games. The most he can do is check on Gi-hun after riot to make sure that he's not hurt, and ask if a prisoner named In-ho Hwang is in the barracks. Later, however, when a guard busts him for being an impostorimposter after the latter asks about a "zombie" that woke up on an operating table, Jun-ho angrily rants about how his brother gave a kidney to save his life, and accuses the guards of dissecting In-ho. It's clear he's mad at the senseless violence, and {{spoiler|extracts a confession from one of the VIPs}}.
* [[Explain, Explain, Oh Crap]]: During the glass bridge, player 062 has fifteen panels to clear before he can reach the end when everyone in front of him has fallen. He takes a few minutes to calculate his odds, as a math teacher. Given each step has 1/2 chance of being successful, and raising that to the 15th power the answer is "One in 32,768. Damn it." {{spoiler|realizing he's dead, Player 062 runs forward and clears three panels before falling}}.
* [[Gambling Game]]: Shows an escalating series of them. First, the protagonist Seong Gi-hun is a gambling addict, who bets on horses. This makes him easy prey for the Salesman, who challenges him to a game of ''ddjaki'', where two players need to try and flip a folded paper by tossing other papers at it. Loser either has to pay up 100,000 won or receive a [[Bitch Slap]]. When Gi-hun finally wins some money, the Salesman gives him a business card for another "opportunity". This is revealed to be high-stakes versions of children's games like "Red Light, Green Light" where the losers forfeit their ''lives'' depending on if they fail to complete a round, break the rules, get caught cheating, or {{spoiler|lose a round that involves them killing their opponent}}. Finally, it's revealed that {{spoiler|masked VIPs are betting on the games, putting millions on single players}}.
* [[Gut Punch]]: Given the genre and the nature of the episode, these are bound to happen.
** Episode 1, "Red Light Green Light" has players 324 and 250 form a fast friendship, despite having just met in the barracks. Both are excited when they learn the title game is their first challenge, claiming it will be a cinch. They rib each other affectionately that they're going to win and bet a million won and who crosses the finish line first. Then 324 gets ahead of himself literally, and doesn't stop in time during Red Light, Green Light. Cue a gunshot, and 324 collapses. 250's first reaction, once he hears green light, is to run and check on 324. The poor guy is bleeding and coughing up blood, making the players realize this is a ''death game''. Cue the [[Mass "Oh Crap"]] where hundreds of players panic and try to run for the locked doors, banging on them. They end up getting shot in succession, until corpses line the field. Gi-hun survives only due to sheer luck, while Sang-woo has the sense to stay still and analyze the situation.
** Episode 6, "Gganbu", may as well be titled this trope. Players are ordered to pair up for the challenge while each is given a bag of ten marbles. {{spoiler|They have to play to win the other player's bag of marbles, and the loser is shot in the head}}. Sang-woo technically {{spoiler|loses to Ali, who is apologetic but wants to try and find another solution. Sang-woo betrays him and leaves him with a bag of stones}}. Gi-hun panics and tries to {{spoiler|scam the old man when Il-nam's dementia acts up, only for Il-nam to reveal he was faking it to test his Gganbu. As Gi-hun cries and prepares to forfeit his life as an apology for succumbing to weakness, Il-nam forces him to win, saying that he wasn't in it for the money, but to have fun, and it was nice while it lasted}}. Then we have Sae-byeok and Ji-yeong, who have a long conversation about their lives before they play. {{spoiler|Ji-yeong throws their game without hesitation, telling an anguished Sae-byeok that she has nothing to live for, except for debt and pain, but her new friend has a brother, and dreams. Her sacrifices means that at least she was able to do some good, and give her life meaning. The guard allows a tearful Ji-yeong to say goodbye to a sobbing Sae-byeok before shooting her}}.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]: While some players like Deok-su are definitely villainous, others like {{spoiler|the tug-of-war team going against Gi-hun's group doesn't seem to have bad people. Sure they're a little smug when they're chosen, because they're all strong men and Gi-hun's team has the old man and three women, but they're not evil. During the tug-of-war, they're pulling for their lives and didn't cheat the way that the doctor and Deok-su did. Indeed, Gi-hun feels no joy while sending them to their deaths}}
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Ji-yeong}} throws the marbles game and forces {{spoiler|Sae-byeok}} to win. In an [[OOC Is Serious Business]] moment, {{spoiler|Sae-byeok slams her into the wall, shouting at her to play again and take a real shot because she doesn't want her new friend to just give up her life like that. Turns out there's nothing to be done; Ji-yeong remains firm in her decision, and the guards force Sae-byeok to leave her at gunpoint, though the one that executes Ji-yeong allows her to say farewell}}.
* [[The Leader]]: Gi-hun is seen by this as default after the tug-of-war, where he encourages his alliance to not attack anyone in the barracks and instead form a barricade, with shifts to watch over the sleeping members. Even Sang-woo defers to this strategy, agreeing it makes more sense to ensure everyone gets some rest. Other players took notice of the fact that he dangled off the edge of the platform but kept his footing and his nerve; Player 062 tells Gi-hun that he was awesome, and turned down a few other offers to team up with him for the fourth game. This no longer applies after the fifth game, given the dwindling numbers.
* [[Let's Get Dangerous]]:
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** 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.
** Something that the Front Man mentions when {{spoiler|he and the Square Guards corner Jun-ho on the deserted island. Jun-ho shouts that he is police and they're under arrest, saying he already called for backup, which he did}}. The Front Man acknowledges the call might have gone through, but emergency services in real life don't come the minute you call them. Police have little incentive to be efficient.
* [[Sequel Hook|Sequel Hook:]]: With season two having received the greenlight, there are a lot of options, both in early episodes as well as the season one finale:
*** {{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}}.
*** The VIPs mention offhand that countries have their own version of the games, but South Korea has the "best" one. Horror of the implications aside, that is a potential storyline that could be explored.
* [[You Bastard]]: Episode 7 reveals that VIPs have been watching the games remotely from a screen. They've been placing bets on who's going to win and who will die, much as television viewers might when watching survival horror. Hey, wait a minute...
 
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