Brace yourself for the most jaw-dropping, heart-stopping, and mind-blowing moments from the critically acclaimed series Squid Game! We're diving deep into the most shocking scenes that left viewers stunned, from brutal eliminations to unexpected twists that will leave you speechless.
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00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most shocking, unpredictable,
00:12and upsetting scenes throughout all of Squid Game so far.
00:23Number 20 Red Light, Green Light
00:30It was the first game, and the first time we realized the true stakes of the competition.
00:35After accepting a mysterious offer from a well-dressed stranger, indebted chauffeur
00:39Sung Gi-hun is brought unconscious to a prison-like dormitory, where masked men await.
00:53The rules seem simple enough, win six games and win billions in prize money.
00:58Despite the cloak-and-dagger actions, nobody seems to realize what they've gotten into.
01:04Even the blood trickling from the first eliminated player seems unreal.
01:15It takes the massacre of nearly half the contestants to make the horror come to life.
01:20This is the preamble for what lies ahead, and the first glimpse of what our characters
01:24will do when death is on the line.
01:27Number 19 The Game Continues
01:29One year after the contest's conclusion, Gi-hun seems to have put the experience behind him,
01:35and is heading to Los Angeles to visit his daughter.
01:37That is, until he spots two men on a train platform, playing a familiar game.
01:54When he intervenes and finds a business card that he knows all too well, Gi-hun confirms
01:58his fear that another round of the macabre contest is about to begin.
02:08He calls the number on the card, and receives a warning to stay away, but a red-haired and
02:13rejuvenated Gi-hun is no longer a racehorse.
02:31Number 18 Russian Roulette
02:40In season two, Gi-hun recruits his old loan shark Mr. Kim and his goons to hunt down the
02:45recruiter.
02:46It, uh, does not go very well.
02:49Staying one step ahead of his pursuers, the recruiter captures Kim and Woo-seok, ties
02:53them up, and forces them to play a depraved game of rock-paper-scissors mixed with Russian
02:58roulette.
03:10It's a brilliantly tense sequence, with each click of the empty chamber sending our hearts
03:14racing.
03:15It's also wonderfully acted by everyone involved, mixing the utter terror of Kim and Woo-seok
03:20with the joyful glee of the recruiter.
03:23Add in a fantastic song choice, and you've got yourself one of season two's most captivating
03:27sequences.
03:44Number 17 The Recruiter's Death
04:00And speaking of the recruiter, he goes out like a boss while playing Russian roulette
04:03with Gi-hun.
04:04He tracks the winner down using Woo-seok and surprises him at his empty hotel.
04:08We learn a little bit about him, like the fact that he was once a guard in the games
04:12and that he murdered his own father without remorse, before the roulette begins.
04:28And what a tense game it is.
04:30We obviously know that Gi-hun isn't gonna die, but the acting helps keep the scene tense,
04:35with Gong-yu proving especially captivating.
04:37The recruiter ultimately loses the game and dies, becoming the season's first big death.
04:49Number 16 No-eul Kills 444
04:58The second season introduces us to No-eul, a woman who escaped from North Korea and is
05:03now working as a guard in the games.
05:05As we later learn, she isn't especially popular with her co-workers, as she seems to be going
05:10rogue in an effort to sabotage the organ harvesting operation.
05:21This is revealed in startling fashion when she kills Player 444.
05:25One of the guards shoots him in the leg during Red Light, Green Light, but he successfully
05:29passes the line with the help of Gi-hun and Hyun-joo.
05:32He is then murdered in cold blood by No-eul, who shoots him while he's recuperating in
05:37the safety zone.
05:38It is a very cold introduction to her role as a guard.
05:50Number 15 Three Steps
05:52Some of Squid Game's best surprises teach us that common conundrums can possess uncommon
05:57solutions.
06:11For example, Season 1's Player 1 teaches that Tug of War isn't about which side is the strongest,
06:16but rather which team knows best how to use its strength, via timing and placement.
06:21His teammates gain advantage by positioning themselves strategically and pulling at just
06:25the right time.
06:32Ultimately though, it's Cho Sang-woo's idea to step towards the other team that saves
06:36them.
06:44The move causes the opposition to flounder, and Sang-woo's team heaves the rope to victory.
06:49It seems the brain is truly the body's strongest muscle.
06:53Number 14 No-eul is a Guard
07:02Season 2 does a very clever thing in setting up No-eul, and it pays off with one of the
07:07season's most memorable endings.
07:08The second episode delves into her backstory, depicting her as a North Korean defector who
07:13is looking for her missing daughter.
07:15On the verge of utter hopelessness, she hears a knock on her car window and is given an
07:19invitation to the Squid Games.
07:21And when she arrives at the provided destination, we discover that she is not a player, but
07:26a guard.
07:27It's an eye-popping plot twist, providing a fun new spin on the games and humanizing
07:31one of its faceless pink jumpsuits.
07:50Number 13 Killed for an Egg
07:53This is having your lunch money stolen in the schoolyard taken to the extreme.
07:57The players wait in line for soda and a hard-boiled egg, but Deok-su decides that one portion
08:02isn't enough.
08:05He cuts the line for seconds, resulting in too little food to go around.
08:15When a player calls Deok-su out for his unfair behavior, Deok-su beats the man to death.
08:25The guards do nothing, and the deceased man's prize money is added to the jackpot.
08:29Watching this, the players learn that not only will murder go unpunished, it will actually
08:34benefit their standings in the contest.
08:40It's a ghastly display that teaches everyone the primal depths of morality they're capable
08:49of descending to.
08:51Number 12 Jung-bae's Death
09:02While he had a very brief role in Season 1, Jung-bae becomes a major character in the
09:07second, having entered the games after getting a divorce and losing lots of money.
09:11He remains close to Gi-heon throughout, and even helps him lead the uprising against the
09:15guards.
09:24He fights bravely and valiantly, but the season needs to end with a major death, and the sacrifice
09:29is Jung-bae.
09:30The frontman betrays the group and returns to his office to don the iconic black outfit.
09:35He then re-emerges in front of the captured Gi-heon and Jung-bae, killing the latter in
09:39order to teach Gi-heon a lesson in playing the hero.
09:42At least he went down fighting for the cause.
09:50Number 11 The Frontman Revealed
09:56Just as a gun in Act 1 of a play must go off in Act 2, a man with a mask must have a secret.
10:03Filling that role in Squid Game is Frontman, the leader of the disguised guards who operate
10:08the deadly trials.
10:24His identity remains shrouded for most of the season, until Hwang Joon-ho, a police
10:29detective infiltrating the unknown organization, uncovers the truth.
10:33He learns that Frontman is his missing brother In-ho, who previously won the games in 2015.
10:48In-ho's survival raises unsettling questions, including the reason a man would abandon his
10:54family for an operation that puts human lives at stake.
10:57Number 10 No-eul Shoots Kyung-suk
11:12Before her time in the games, No-eul worked as a mascot in an amusement park.
11:16One of her co-workers was an artist named Kyung-suk, who has a daughter with cancer.
11:21Kyung-suk enters the games to pay for her treatment, much to the attention and shock
11:25of No-eul.
11:26Kyung-suk participates in the climactic uprising, but ultimately surrenders when he runs out
11:31of bullets.
11:36And in comes who is implied to be No-eul, who coldly shoots Kyung-suk after he pleads
11:41for his life.
11:42It's not confirmed whether he lives or dies, but either way, that gunshot is enough to
11:47leave our mouths hanging open in terror.
11:50Let's just hope No-eul has a plan here.
12:00Number 9 The Night Fight
12:15Season 2 introduces a fun new element.
12:17After every game, the surviving players vote whether to leave with the accumulated winnings
12:22or play another game in the hopes of accruing more.
12:25Naturally, this divides the players right down the middle, with the X's and O's becoming
12:29very factional and antagonistic with each other.
12:38It culminates in a brutal nighttime assault when the O's attack the X's in an effort
12:42to dwindle their numbers.
12:44Something similar happened in the first season, but this one is far more brutal, with massive
12:49stunts and grotesque murders, including that of poor Sae-mi.
13:03Number 8 Deok-su and Min-yo go down together
13:08Never was a story of more woe than that of the unhinged woman and her homicidal beau.
13:14Player Jang Deok-su and the manipulative Han Min-yo seem to possess cockroach-like
13:18survival abilities.
13:20They form an alliance, although Min-yo warns Deok-su of severe consequences should he betray
13:25her.
13:34It doesn't take long for Deok-su to do so, but not until penultimate game 5 does Min-yo
13:39get her bloodthirsty revenge.
13:45Crossing a glass bridge that could shatter beneath her at any time, Min-yo abandons any
13:50desire for victory or survival.
13:52With madness in her eyes and satisfaction in her smile, she throws herself from the
13:57bridge, pulling Deok-su with her.
14:09The Uprising
14:21Gi-hun correctly deduces in season 2 that it is not each other they should be fighting,
14:25but the guards and the front man.
14:27So he instigates an uprising that covers much of the final episode.
14:31The good guys fake their deaths and pounce on the guards when they come to scan their
14:34bodies, stealing their machine guns and killing them with their own weapons.
14:46The battle that follows is absolutely spectacular, with much of the action taking place on the
14:51Escher-esque staircase.
14:52While they take out a few guards and cameras, it ultimately does not go well for our heroes,
14:58and they lose the battle thanks to poor strategy, a lack of ammo, and one painful betrayal.
15:12The Reveal of the Front Man
15:23Season 2 had some wicked endings, but the best has to be episode 3's.
15:28Following Red Light, Green Light, the survivors vote on whether to stay or leave, culminating
15:32in an even 50-50 split.
15:42The deciding vote lands on Player 1, who is given much fanfare as he makes his way to
15:47the podium.
15:48He votes to stay, and we see that it is none other than the front man.
15:52It is a perfectly engineered cliffhanger, and it leaves us desperate for more.
15:57Is it basically just a rehash of Il-nam infiltrating the games?
16:00Kind of.
16:01Is it still a rocking plot twist and an absolute banger of an ending?
16:05Hell yes.
16:06Number 5, The Winner
16:13There are a couple of heart-stoppers in this entry.
16:16You may have guessed the final winner of Season 1, but it's how we finally get there that
16:20makes this moment so memorable.
16:22It's jarring how quickly Gi-hun shifts from anger to compassion when he can't bring himself
16:26to murder Sang-woo.
16:38And it's absolutely gut-wrenching when Sang-woo takes his own life, begging only that Gi-hun
16:43take the winnings to help his mother.
16:49In one moment, everything else between them washes away, and only life, death, and the
16:55prize at the finish line remain.
16:57Gi-hun might win, but he'll never be the same again.
17:15Number 4, Player One is Alive
17:18This entry takes us from one man behind the curtain to the next.
17:21Contest winner Gi-hun receives an invitation from his ganbu, the old man that he'd befriended
17:26in the games.
17:27He discovers that Player One, whom he had thought executed, is still alive.
17:34Furthermore, the old man appears to have been behind the games all along.
17:42Why is the best question Gi-hun musters.
17:45Only living childhood, relieving boredom, searching for virtue in a society wracked
17:49with inequality, the answer seems to be all these things.
18:14Only more haunting is the revelation that the man who seemed the most kind-hearted of
18:18anyone could craft such an artificial hell.
18:35Perhaps it's the show's way of asking us, which life is the real hell anyway?
18:50Number 3, The Death of Kang Sae-byeok
18:53You might not be inclined to think highly of a pickpocket who stole your money.
19:03Despite this being Gi-hun's introduction to Sae-byeok, he becomes her teammate.
19:08Eventually, Gi-hun recognizes Sae-byeok's resourcefulness and the bravery with which
19:12she faces adversity.
19:13She becomes a beacon of goodness in the moral abattoir that Gi-hun has found himself in.
19:28After Sae-byeok sustains mortal injury, Gi-hun pleads through the walls for medical help.
19:38When his back is turned, Sang-woo takes the opportunity to end Sae-byeok's life.
19:43The shock, disbelief, and sorrow is plain on Gi-hun's face, and we felt it right alongside
19:51Number 2, The Death of Thanos
20:00Our new resident bad guy of season 2 is Thanos, a rapper who models himself after the famous
20:05Marvel villain.
20:06He makes it his mission to antagonize Myung-gi, a crypto-YouTuber that he blames for a bad
20:10investment.
20:17He repeatedly threatens Myung-gi, and it culminates in a violent confrontation inside
20:21the bathroom.
20:22Thanos pounces on his enemy and begins to strangle him, his face contorting in vicious
20:26anger and frustration.
20:28But the YouTuber gets the upper hand, literally, and stabs Thanos in the throat with a smuggled
20:33fork.
20:34And with that, the season's biggest villain is eliminated from the game.
20:38What a way to go!
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21:04Number 1.
21:05The Entire Marvel Game
21:07This 60 minutes had us reeling.
21:14Where to begin?
21:15There's the twist that players would actually be matched against their selected partners.
21:20Then there's Gi-hun using Player One's supposedly deteriorating memory against him.
21:35There's also Sung-woo's betrayal of Ali, and Deok-su's incredibly lucky victory.
21:53That's all before we even mention Gi-hun's brief friendship with Kang Sae-byeok, followed
21:57by the heartbreaking sacrifice that left our throats dry.
22:06Every conflict and earth-shattering resolution encompasses the elaborate morality and dizzying
22:11storytelling of this show.
22:13This is an hour of television that deserves a list of its own.
22:16And if you haven't leapt from your seat, check your pulse.
22:19Which scene shocked you the most?
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