The winner of the Squid Sport that passed off three years in the past, Gi-hun has determined to re-enter in an try to determine who remains to be operating it after the demise of sport creator Oh Il-nam and take them down. Gi-hun has turn into consumed by his grief and trauma over being the only survivor of the final video games and has spent the previous three years utilizing the blood-money prize he earned (45.6 billion in South Korean gained) to attempt to monitor down the video games once more.

The present head of the Squid Sport, following the demise of sport creator Oh Il-nam on the finish of Season 1. In-ho has been working for the video games since successful them himself years in the past, main the pink masked guards whereas sporting his personal all-black uniform.

Spoiler alert: This 12 months, In-ho decides to observe in Oh Il-nam’s footsteps and enter the video games as Participant 001, with the intention to educate a lesson to Gi-hun upon his return to the sport. Gi-hun, who solely ever encountered the Entrance Man when he was masked, has no concept that In-ho, who goes by the title Younger-il in the course of the video games, is the person in cost.

A police officer who infiltrated the Squid Sport in Season 1 in hopes of discovering his misplaced brother In-ho, who has been lacking since he entered the video games. On the finish of Season 1, Jun-ho finds his brother, In-ho, nevertheless it seems he’s now the Entrance Man in control of the sport. In-ho shoots Jun-ho off the highest of a cliff, seemingly letting him fall to his demise. Jun-ho recovers and is working as a visitors cop at first of Season 2.

Coming back from Season 1, this man is in control of going out and recruiting down-on-their-luck individuals to take part within the video games. He selects candidates and challenges them to a sport of Ddakji, slapping them in the event that they lose and giving them money and an invite to play within the Squid Sport in the event that they win. He recruited Gi-hun in Season 1.

A lady who works in an amusement park after escaping from North Korea to South Korea and having been separated from her toddler daughter within the course of. She pays investigators to search for her daughter along with her small wage, however then takes a job as one of many masked pink guards on the video games in trade for a proposal of assist to seek out her little one. Whereas working as a guard within the video games, she makes an attempt to assist among the gamers, together with Participant 246, who she acknowledges as a former co-worker whose younger daughter is sick with most cancers.

Mr. Kim (above proper) and Woo-seok (above left) are two of the boys employed by Gi-hun to search for The Recruiter who brings individuals into the Squid Sport. Mr. Kim is a former mortgage shark of Gi-hun’s who trusts that one thing about Gi-hun’s story concerning the video games should be true as a result of he was in a position to repay him an infinite debt three years in the past. Mr. Kim is Woo-seok’s boss and pal, and Woo-seok turns into as invested in serving to Gi-hun discover the individuals behind the video games.

A protracted-time pal and former coworker of Gi-hun’s who was final seen playing alongside Gi-hun at
the horse race monitor in Season 1. Gi-hun is shocked to seek out Jung-bae has entered the video games when Gi-hun returns to attempt to take them down from the within.

A former cryptocurrency influencer who, after dropping a hefty sum of money and incurring large losses for himself and his subscribers, turns into a fugitive till his involvement within the sport.

A powerful-willed girl who participates within the sport attributable to dangerous investments made on the recommendation of an
influencer. It’s quickly revealed that Jun-hee has entered the lethal competitors whereas pregnant with the infant of her estranged lover and now fellow participant within the video games, Myung-gi.

A younger participant within the video games who’s shortly drawn to Gi-hun’s group and bonds with Jung-bae over their shared army backgrounds.

A transgender girl who enters the video games in hopes of constructing sufficient cash to finish her transition course of. The character is performed by cisgender male actor Park Sung-hoon. In an interview with TV Information, “Squid Sport” creator Hwang Dong-hyuk defined his determination for the casting selection: “To start with we had been doing our analysis, and I used to be pondering of doing an genuine casting of a trans actor. After we researched in Korea, there are near no actors which are brazenly trans, not to mention brazenly homosexual, as a result of sadly within the Korean society presently the LGBTQ neighborhood is fairly nonetheless marginalized and extra uncared for, which is heartbreaking.”

A well-known rapper who joins the video games as a result of he’s deeply in debt by means of a cryptocurrency crash. The character is performed by real-life South Korean rapper Choi Seung-hyun, higher recognized by his stage title T.O.P.

Like many different gamers, Nam-gyu joins the video games as a result of he’s deeply in debt after following cryptocurrency recommendation from Participant 333. Nam-gyu shortly befriends Thanos within the video games.

A compulsive gambler neck-deep in debt who finds his personal mom, Participant 149, is a participant within the sport.

A headstrong girl with a robust drive to offer for her household. She joins the sport with the intention
of paying off her son, Yong-sik’s, money owed — solely to seek out that he’s joined the sport, as effectively, as Participant 007.

A participant who works with each Min-su and Thanos within the video games.

An clever participant who tries to align himself with Thanos and his cohort and befriends Se-mi within the video games.

A person who works as a caricaturist at an amusement park (the identical one No-eul labored at) who enters the video games to pay for his younger daughter’s most cancers remedies. No-eul spots him competing within the video games when she is serving as one of many pink guards.

A lady who enters the video games after falling deeply in debt after taking cryptocurrency recommendation from Participant 333, like a number of others on this 12 months’s video games.

A shaman whose seemingly incoherent ramblings rub most of the different gamers the improper manner.