One of Squid Game Season 2’s most gruesome moments doesn’t come courtesy of the Netflix show’s violent games, but from a late season bathroom break. Throughout Squid Game Season 2, we know that one of the new season’s most charismatic contestants, the violet-haired, high-as-a-kite rapper “Thanos” (Choi Seung-hyun), has it out for crypto influencer Lee Myung-gi (Yim Si-wan). Player 230 Thanos, like many others drafted to play this round of Squid Game, lost all of his money investing in a phony crypto stock that Player 333 Myung-gi hyped on his channel. It doesn’t matter that Myung-gi also lost everything in the same gamble; Thanos hates Myung-gi. It’s a tense rivalry that finally boils over at the end of Squid Game Season 2 Episode 8 “O X,” leaving one of the young men murdered.
**Spoilers for Squid Game Season 2, now streaming on Netflix**
After the third round of games in Squid Game Season 2, the remaining players vote on whether or not they want to keep playing or go home, and the vote is tied. That means there will be a recount the next morning…which also means that with tensions high, violence amongst the players themselves is sure to break out.
During a bathroom break, Myung-gi notices that Thanos is trying to bully more votes to his side and calls it out. What follows is first a verbal altercation between the two men that soon turns violent. As fighting breaks out amongst the rival tribes, Thanos comes close to choking Myung-gi to death, but Player 333 has a literal secret weapon. The game masters slipped a metal fork into his dinner. In a moment of desperation, Myung-gi stabs Thanos in the neck with the fork and then proceeds to stab more, killing the rapper.
The moment Myung-gi kills Thanos seems to have an immense effect on the young man. He barricades himself in a bathroom stall for the rest of the fight and only returns to the dormitory after everyone else has left. It’s a sequence that Squid Game star Yim Si-wan told Decider was physically grueling on set and sure to have narrative repercussions when we reconnect with Myung-gi in Season 3.
“The scene itself, as you could imagine, was not easy to shoot. It was a physically challenging one,” Squid Game star Yim Si-wan told Decider during a virtual roundtable. “The group of actors had to be trained before so that we can coordinate how we move in the scene.”
“Also the experience of actually hurting the other person would, of course, cause an emotional distress. Or it would mean an inflection point to any character. So I think it would obviously have made some changes in how he behaves [going forward].”
Up until that point, though, Myung-gi had been keeping a relatively low profile in Squid Game. Being responsible for many of the other players’ bad fortunes had already put a huge target on his back, but Yim explained to CinemaBlend’s Alexandra Ramos that he felt Player 333’s violent outburst spoke to the character’s intelligent.
“To me, the character Myung-gi, even though he made a series of wrong decisions or choices before, he is actually a smart individual,” he said. “At that moment, he realized, even if he doesn’t take down the people, they’re hostile toward him. He would be the victim or the target of them. So that’s why, I think, that he decided to attack.”
During that same roundtable, Yim Si-wan’s co-star Jo Yu-ri revealed that the rest of the characters might not know that Myung-gi is now a murderer. Jo Yu-ri, of course, plays Myung-gi’s pregnant ex-girlfriend, Kim Jun-hee (Player 222), who was also ruined by the crypto scam. At this point in the season, she offers her baby daddy some advice…not knowing he’s now a killer.
“I think what Jun-hee was trying to do was telling Myung-gi not to lose his humanity,” Jo Yu-ri said. “Jun-hee actually had no idea what actually happened inside the restroom. Looking at Myung-gi and all of the blood on his face Jun-hee wouldn’t have imagined that Myung-gi actually already has one person got killed.”
What’s going to happen if Player 222 learns 333 is a killer? Well, that’s something we assume Squid Game Season 3 will have to tackle…
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