31 Most Terrifying Quotes from Netflix’s Squid Game

Staying in the corner and watching someone else take the lead is always frustrating. II Nam was not the kind of person to stay behind and let others win the game.

Ji Yeong felt a kind of affection for Kang Sae Byeok as they went further into the game. At one point, he was ready to let her win so that she could find her family. He knew she had more at stake than him.

Life is cruel. It’s a jungle out there. You either take the lead and play the game, or you let others play with you. The choice, in the end, is always with you.

Ji Yeong had no reason to win the game. But Kang Sae Byeok had a greater reason, to get out of there and find her family. Ji Yeong was ready to give up his chance at getting out and save her.

The squid game was not for the weak or the innocent. No one who plays the game can be trusted. It is kill or be killed out there.

Sometimes, when you are backed into a corner, you have no choice but to trust people. You have to take that chance if you wish to win.

Money doesn’t buy you happiness. But then, living in poverty is not fun either. The one thing that the poor have in common with the rich is that none of them are happy.

If you’re playing the squid game, you need to work hard to even stay alive. Only the strong make it out. Sang Woo obviously had it in him to make it to the end without a scratch on him.

It is a fact that gender roles today are being torn asunder. Women today have much greater freedom than earlier days. Although we have a long way to go, things sure are changing.

We can’t always be sure what the future holds. But with how the world is changing, one thing that seems probable is that discrimination of all sorts shall be abolished in the future. If not, we may not even have a future to look forward to.

Mi-Nyeo had a way with words. Although she seemed annoying most of the time, she really could manipulate the men and get things her way. She always said she could do everything except the things that she could not; indeed a clever play with words.

The Squid Game compelled the players to make alliances and team up. You cannot win in a place like that on your own. The players needed to team up with others just so they could have each other’s backs.

In the fourth game, Ji-yeong and Sae Byeok team up to play the game. But only one of them can make it out alive. It is then that they decide to share with each other their deepest darkest secret just so they can have a moment of belonging.

The Quid Game was nothing short of hell. People had to literally fight each other like animals. Here the darkest side of their characters was unleashed. If it was hell, then there really were no rules in there.

Sae-Byeok and Deok-su went a long way back. Sae Byeok once worked for him. And in those days, she was exploited by his goons. She was harrassed and Deok-su took a lot from her. She had seen hell when she was with him.

The world out there was cruel, II Nam was nearing his death, mostly because of the tumour growing in his head. And in his last days, he wanted to feel alive for whatever short time he had left. He decided to come back to the game with exactly this sentiment.

In the Squid Game, everyone is equal. None of the players start out with any disadvantage or discrimination. All of them play the game as equals.

Each player in the game was suffering from a financial crisis and the game was offering them a chance to save themselves. They had to choose between either playing the game and giving themselves a second opportunity at life or go back to the world and live like rats again.

For a lot of players, the world out there was real tourture. It was a hellhole out there. And the game offered them a second chance. Most of them chose to keep trying or die in the process rather than going out there and suffering in the real world.

Money is not everything in the world. But in a society that thrives on materialism, money does offer a lot of opportunities and better living standards. That is the reason why a lot of players did choose to keep playing the game even though they could forfeit whenever they could.

In the Squid Game, sticking with the strongest was probably the only way to survive. You had no chance on your own. Those who decided to try alone would eventually be killed off. The game demanded you to make alliances.

When the fight breaks out, people start teaming up with each other to survive. Sae Byeok is taken in by Gi Hun. Deok-su’s gang comes to execute her and her team comes forward to save her. Gi Hun was not going to let her get hurt by a bunch of gangsters. He was ready to protect her because he was their teammate.

Every Time they played a game, they were betting their life on the line. Those who lost got killed and disposed of. If anyone in the game wished to survive, they had to win at any cost. It was kill or be killed in there.

There was no captain in Gi-Hun’s team. They saw each other as equals; from the old II Nam to the incredibly smart Sang-Woo. Each of them had a voice and were treated equally.

The most important aspect of the games was equality. Each player had to start from the same point, without any discrimination and make it out alive. When a few of the soldiers broke this rule and favoured the doctor in return for his help, they ruined this very important aspect of the games

Every person within the walls of the facility was considered an equal. Each of them had to go through the same games, the same challenges and fight their way out. They were given a fair game under the same conditions.

The real world out there was full of discrimination and atrocities. The few rich had all the means to survive while those at the bottom had to fight under unequal conditions. But in the games, all of the participants were considered equals. The facility was, in every sense of the word, a true meritocracy.

In the fourth game, the players were to make a team of two and get the other eliminated. Ali, who teamed up with Sang-Woo had to fight him and get him eliminated. He had to choose between his own, and his family’s survival, and that of his friend.

Ji-yeong had no proper reason to get out there in the world. She had no dreams or could not even figure out what to do with the money if she ever won. As such, she decided to sacrifice herself for her friend Sae-Byeok.

The last thing that Ji-yeong tells Sae-Byeok, before she sacrifices herself, is that she was honored to play with her. That it was an honor for her and she was happy. In a game where each man thought of his own, Ji-yeong played for her friend.

II Nam and Gi-Hun made a pact to be Gganbu, i;e; best friends. They were to always have each other’s backs and to always protect each other. But Gi-Hun decides to trick II Nam to win the game. It is at this moment that II Nam reminds that they we Gganbu and that he was ready to be willingly tricked to save his friend.