Squid Game S2's Biggest Gi-hun 'Oversight' Was Actually Its Most Solid Plot Point

It took quite a bit of waiting, but Squid Game came right back with a banger of a Season 2 that left us on quite a cliffhanger. Fortunately, Season 3 is bound to premiere in 2025 already; unfortunately, it seems like some people have had trouble watching and understanding even the first two.

As a quick recap, in Season 2 Gi-hun, the winner of the S1 Squid Game, is hell-bent on ending the entire event. Having searched high and low for the organizers for a couple of years, he finally tracks them down and ends up back in the compound where the Game takes place. There, he and some other contestants take up arms and try to overthrow the Front Man.

Now that we’re all caught up, let’s get to the ridiculous part of it all.

In the wilderness of the Internet, a genuinely staggering number of fans are posting memes and texts about how Gi-hun is an overconfident cretin. They (rightfully) claim that only a complete idiot would decide to stage a coup from the inside of the Game and take it down that way, after having acknowledged the Front Man’s power previously.

A completely understandable notion; except that was not what Gi-hun was set on doing, in the slightest.

The initial version of Gi-hun’s plan was to use his mercenary squad to threaten the Front Man into ending the Squid Game. He got outplayed thanks to the latter’s precautions. The fallback plan in case of abduction was to use the tracker in Gi-hun’s tooth to help his mercs and the police locate the secret island. That, too, failed due to the tracker being found.

Then, Gi-hun tried to convince the other contestants to vote in favor of leaving the Game, saving their lives, and that only didn’t work out because many of those people weren’t the brightest bulbs. After that, Gi-hun was left with only two options: playing the Game normally or staging a coup. He chose the latter and was genuinely close to succeeding, were it not for the Front Man’s superspy shenanigans.

Let’s recap this part, too: Gi-hun was never overconfident enough to get back into the Squid Game thinking that was how he’d end it. His other plans were decent but they didn’t work, and he was left with no choice.

Oh, and apart from that, Gi-hun is just your Average Joe. Some fans claim his plans were all stupid, but we’re talking about a fellow who’d been betting on horses some three years back as his main “source of income.” Now, he’s also suffering from severe trauma and PTSD; he’s frustrated, angry, and desperate. What masterplan could this guy ever develop?

Considering that, Gi-hun’s initial idea was brilliant enough already, and the folks who call it dumb may have failed to understand either the plan or the character.