Squid Game: Every Character Ranked From Human Garbage To Definitely Deserves 45 Billion Won

5. Seong Gi-hun (Player 456)

The unwilling protagonist of Squid Game, we first meet Seong Gi-hun irritating his mother, with whom he still lives, whilst weaselling his way out of buying a decent birthday present for his estranged daughter.

After reading the synopsis of the show, and having watched this man for five minutes, I can’t be the only one who sat on my sofa thinking to myself: ‘Yes, I would like you to suffer please’?

Having amassed enough gambling debt that people are literally after his organs, its actually his diabetic mother’s medical bills that prompt Gi-hun into the games, and it’s here that we see the other side of this perennial last place ‘Father of the Year’ contestant.

Experiencing a fair amount of PTSD thanks to a union protest turned deadly at his previous job, Gi-hun’s downward spiral led to unemployment, divorce, loss of custody of his daughter and a crippling gambling addiction, but somehow left him with the goofiest smile in all of South East Asia.

Within the arena, Gi-hun proves to be a caring and devoted individual, trying at every opportunity to save as many as he can. Owing to Human Garbage Cho Sang-woo’s suicide, and a fair amount of plot armour, Gi-hun is the sole survivor and beneficiary of the prize money, but escapes the games a profoundly changed man. Although the show’s closing moments have him once again veering off being a decent father at the last second, we’ll let him if it means we get Season Two.