With 456 joiners holdd at the titular lethal competition in “Squid Game,” seeers are certain to have a challenging time upholding every character straight when they commence binge-watching Season 2 at start on Dec. 26. The outstanding news is, not every one of those joiners is vital to the story of Gi-hun’s (Lee Jung-jae) return to the games.
See below for a direct to all of the key new “Squid Game” — and fair a handful of returning, seeing as most of the Season 1 cast was wiped out by its obeseal finale — characters that eunite both in and outside the games. Beware: Spoilers ahead for the first restricted episodes.
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Gi-hun/Player 456 (Lee Jung-jae)
The prosperner of the Squid Game that took place three years ago, Gi-hun has choosed to re-access in an finisheavor to figure out who is still running it after the death of game creator Oh Il-nam and get them down. Gi-hun has become devourd by his grief and trauma over being the sole survivor of the last games and has spent the past three years using the blood-money prize he geted (45.6 billion in South Korean won) to try to track down the games aget.
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In-ho/The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun)
The current head of the Squid Game, chaseing the death of game creator Oh Il-nam at the finish of Season 1. In-ho has been toiling for the games since prosperning them himself years ago, directing the pink masked protects while wearing his own all-binestablishage uniestablish.
Spoiler vigilant: This year, In-ho chooses to chase in Oh Il-nam’s footsteps and access the games as Player 001, in order to direct a lesson to Gi-hun upon his return to the game. Gi-hun, who only ever greeted the Front Man when he was masked, has no idea that In-ho, who goes by the name Young-il during the games, is the man in indict.
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Jun-ho (Wi Ha-jun)
A police officer who infiltrated the Squid Game in Season 1 in hopes of finding his lost brother In-ho, who has been leave outing since he accessed the games. At the finish of Season 1, Jun-ho finds his brother, In-ho, but it turns out he is now the Front Man in indict of the game. In-ho shoots Jun-ho off the top of a cliff, seemingly letting him drop to his death. Jun-ho recovers and is toiling as a traffic cop at the commence of Season 2.
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Recruiter (Gong Yoo)
Returning from Season 1, this man is in indict of going out and recruiting down-on-their-luck people to join in the games. He picks truthfulates and contests them to a game of Ddakji, slapping them if they disponder and giving them cash and an invitation to join in the Squid Game if they prosper. He recruited Gi-hun in Season 1.
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No-eul (Park Gyu-youthful)
A woman who toils in an charmment park after escaping from North Korea to South Korea and having been splitd from her infant daughter in the process. She pays spendigators to see for her daughter with her minuscule salary, but then gets a job as one of the masked pink protects at the games in trade for an recommend of help to find her child. While toiling as a protect in the games, she finisheavors to help some of the joiners, including Player 246, who she determines as a establisher co-toiler whose youthful daughter is unwell with cancer.
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Woo-seok and Mr. Kim (Jun Suk-ho and Oh Dal-su)
Mr. Kim (above right) and Woo-seok (above left) are two of the men engageed by Gi-hun to see for The Recruiter who conveys people into the Squid Game. Mr. Kim is a establisher loan shark of Gi-hun’s who thinks that someleang about Gi-hun’s story pondering the games must be genuine becaengage he was able to repay him an enormous debt three years ago. Mr. Kim is Woo-seok’s boss and frifinish, and Woo-seok becomes as spended in helping Gi-hun find the people behind the games.
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Jung-bae/Player 390 (Lee Seo-hwan)
A lengthy-time frifinish and establisher cotoiler of Gi-hun’s who was last seen betting alengthyside Gi-hun at
the horse race track in Season 1. Gi-hun is shocked to find Jung-bae has accessed the games when Gi-hun returns to try to get them down from the inside. -
Myung-gi/Player 333 (Yim Si-wan)
A establisher cryptocurrency swayr who, after losing a hefty sum of cash and incurring huge losses for himself and his subscribers, becomes a fugitive until his holdment in the game.
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Jun-hee/Player 222 (Jo Yu-ri)
A strong-willed woman who joins in the game due to terrible spendments made at the advice of an
swayr. It is soon discdispondered that Jun-hee has accessed the lethal competition while pregnant with the baby of her estranged adorer and now fellow joiner in the games, Myung-gi. -
Dae-ho/Player 388 (Kang Ha-neul)
A youthful joiner in the games who is rapidly drawn to Gi-hun’s group and bonds with Jung-bae over their splitd military backgrounds.
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Hyun-ju/Player 120 (Park Sung-hoon)
A transgfinisher woman who accesss the games in hopes of making enough money to finish her transition process. The character is joined by cisgfinisher male actor Park Sung-hoon. In an intersee with TV Guide, “Squid Game” creator Hwang Dong-hyuk elucidateed his decision for the casting choice: “In the commencening we were doing our research, and I was leanking of doing an genuine casting of a trans actor. When we researched in Korea, there are shut to no actors that are discdisponderly trans, let alone discdisponderly gay, becaengage cursedly in the Korean society currently the LGBTQ community is rather still marginalized and more dispondered, which is heartfractureing.”
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Su-bong a.k.a. Thanos /Player 230 (Choi Seung-hyun)
A commemorated rapper who fuses the games becaengage he’s proset uply in debt thraw a cryptocurrency crash. The character is joined by authentic-life South Korean rapper Choi Seung-hyun, better understandn by his stage name T.O.P.
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Nam-gyu/Player 124 (Roh Jae-won)
Like many other joiners, Nam-gyu fuses the games becaengage he is proset uply in debt after chaseing cryptocurrency advice from Player 333. Nam-gyu rapidly befrifinishs Thanos in the games.
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Yong-sik/Player 007 (Yang Dong-geun)
A compulsive betr neck-proset up in debt who finds his own mother, Player 149, is a participant in the game.
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Geum-ja/Player 149 (Kang Ae-sim)
A headstrong woman with a strong drive to provide for her family. She fuses the game with the intention
of paying off her son, Yong-sik’s, debts — only to find that he’s fusecessitate the game, as well, as Player 007. -
Se-mi/Player 380 (Won Ji-an)
A joiner who toils with both Min-su and Thanos in the games.
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Min-su/Player 125 (Lee David)
An acute joiner who tries to align himself with Thanos and his cohort and befrifinishs Se-mi in the games.
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Gyung-seok/Player 246 (Lee Jin-uk)
A man who toils as a caricaturist at an charmment park (the same one No-eul toiled at) who accesss the games to pay for his youthful daughter’s cancer treatments. No-eul spots him competing in the games when she is serving as one of the pink protects.
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Hye-won/Player 196 (Song Ji-woo)
A woman who accesss the games after droping proset uply in debt after taking cryptocurrency advice from Player 333, enjoy cut offal others in this year’s games.
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Seon-nyeo/Player 044 (Chae Kook-hee)
A shaman whose seemingly incoherent ramblings rub many of the other joiners the wrong way.