[Warning: The following post contains MAJOR spoilers for Squid Game Season 3.]
The video games started anew on Squid Sport Season 3 — with some acquainted faces getting back from the grave … properly, type of. A kind of simply so occurred to be fan-favorite Thanos (Choi Seung-hyun, T.O.P), a.ok.a. Participant 230.
Followers will undoubtedly recall that Thanos, previously a rapper, grew to become an antagonist in Season 2 and was murdered within the rest room by Lee Myung-gi (Im Si-wan), a.ok.a. Participant 333. Some followers could have been hoping to see him return in some way within the closing stretch of the present, and certainly, he did so — simply not the way you may assume.
Thanos returned to the display screen, briefly, in a shocking second in Season 3’s penultimate episode. Right here’s how.
Thanos’ loss of life had main ripple results
Nam-gyu (Roh Jae-won), a.ok.a. Participant 124, was primarily Thanos’ sidekick within the video games and, after Thanos’ loss of life, Nam-gyu took possession of his cross necklace that contained psychedelic medicine that enhanced his efficiency within the video games.
Nam-gyu rapidly grew to become depending on the medicine, and Park Min-su (Lee David), a.ok.a. Participant 125, used that to actual his revenge on him. Min-su stole the necklace from Nam-gyu and threw it onto the bridge in the course of the leap rope sport, inflicting Nam-gyu to panic in a race to select it up and be knocked off by the steel rope. Min-su then started to make use of the drugs himself.
Thanos got here again to hang-out Min-su
Min-su skilled hallucinations on account of his use of the drug. Within the closing sport, titled “Sky Squid Sport,” he was certainly one of three gamers — alongside Seong Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae), a.ok.a. Participant 456, and the newborn, a.ok.a. the brand new Participant 222 — to be focused by the others: Gamers 039, 100, 203, 333, and 336. The sport required at the least three gamers to die, with one on every of the three precipices, and since Gi-hun was protecting of the newborn, the others warred over whether or not to focus on the newborn first as they meant and threat killing Gi-hun and requiring one other certainly one of them to die within the third spherical.
As Min-su confronted the ledge, he noticed an apparition of Thanos hanging off the sting and asking him for assist and luring him to succeed in down with the necklace. Thanos’ picture was then changed by that of Nam-gyu taunting him, after which Thanos popped again as much as do the identical. The back-and-forth hallucinations continued, with Min-su kicking their imagined fingers and main the others to conclude he was a junkie and needs to be attacked first, which he was.
Thanos’ legacy additionally loomed massive all through the season
Earlier than his personal loss of life, Nam-gyu imitated his former idol a number of instances whereas he was utilizing his drugs, together with doing his chaotic head dance, match with equally zany facial expressions. His ruthless brutality additionally knowledgeable Nam-gyu’s habits all through the season — together with that of Lee Myung-gi, who joined forces with him to slaughter numerous blue staff members within the conceal and search sport. In different phrases, regardless that Thanos wasn’t current for many of the season, his reminiscence was greater than alive among the many different gamers in his squad.
Thanos wasn’t the one one who returned by means of Min-su’s creativeness
Additionally reappearing in a drug-induced imaginative and prescient was Se-mi (Gained Ji-an), who was murdered by Nam-gyu. Although Min-su tried to save lots of her, he nonetheless blamed himself for her loss of life. She appeared to him in a imaginative and prescient in the course of the conceal and search sport.
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