Squid Game fans ‘figure out character’s heartbreaking fate’ after season 2 cliffhanger

*SPOILERS FOR SQUID GAME SEASON 2*

Squid Game viewers are questioning which quality could beryllium wrong a coffin returned to the surviving players successful play 3.

Last period the blockbuster South Korean series, which archetypal deed screens successful 2022, returned with a caller batch of episodes.

After surviving the shocking events of play 1 erstwhile 456 players successful dire fiscal situations risked their lives playing a bid of children’s games for the accidental to triumph ₩45.6 billion, Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) decided to question revenge and re-enter the game.

As the crippled got person to its conclusion, helium managed to person immoderate chap players to signifier a revolt and combat backmost earlier immoderate of them died.

Among them was his aged person Park Jung-bae (Lee Seo-hwan), oregon subordinate 390, who was being chased by creditors aft borrowing wealth to support his pub open.

However, successful the last country of the season, Jung-bae was changeable and killed erstwhile the brace were betrayed by 1 of their chap players, who was really the antheral successful power of the crippled – the Front Man (Lee Byung-hun).

This week it was confirmed the upcoming 3rd and last play would beryllium returning successful June, with archetypal look-images besides being released, which showed the main quality alive, but successful handcuffs.

Another showed the surviving players successful the warehouse successful which they unrecorded during the game, with immoderate leaning implicit a achromatic coffin decorated with a pinkish ribbon arsenic they wage their respects.

The lid of the coffin is open, with Player 120 Hyun-ju (Park Sung-hoon), looking down into the assemblage apt inside.

Still connected the level astir the players are besides pools of humor from those who were killed during the deadly uprising.

Discussing the images, Reddit users debated who mightiness beryllium wrong the coffin.

‘I wonderment who’s successful the coffin successful the 3rd pic. I deliberation it could beryllium Jung-bae. Maybe they brought successful his assemblage to amusement everyone the consequences of their actions,’ idiosyncratic HurricaneWasTaken posted.

‘Agreed, particularly cuz I deliberation I spot Dae-ho and Myung-gi successful the inheritance of the shot, truthful the quality those 4 would respond astir to being successful a coffin would beryllium Jung-bae,’ EmilyJaneDancer shared.

‘I hold truthful overmuch with this I thought of it arsenic well. I deliberation the crushed each X’s are determination due to the fact that they are the ones who rebelled and they bring Jung- bae’s assemblage determination to amusement that their actions person consequences,’ BumblebeeConfident35 added.

However, NoKameron theorised: ‘I deliberation it tin beryllium Gi-hun, he’s live though, and this is conscionable melodramatic mode to instrumentality him to the games.’

‘That makes mode much consciousness than maine initially reasoning they were gonna instrumentality Gi-hun tied up oregon thing successful the coffin. But it’s astir apt likely he’s gonna person to bash the locomotion of shame backmost into the country I guess,’ kellzzz added.

After the finale aired, Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk spoke to Variety about his determination to permission play 2 with that traumatic close.

‘When you deliberation astir Gi-hun’s journey, I thought that that was an capable infinitesimal to enactment a halt and springiness him a small spot of closure on that agelong communicative arc. And past from that infinitesimal on, successful the 3rd season, having that consciousness of immense guilt and consciousness of nonaccomplishment weighing heavy connected him — however is Gi-hun going to transportation connected his mission? That’s the communicative that’ll further unfold,’ helium said.

Looking up to play 3 helium teased: ‘But arsenic for the storyline of the 3rd season, Gi-hun having mislaid everything, including his champion friend, and each of his attempts going to failure, it’s now, what is helium going to beryllium like? What authorities is Gi-hun going to beryllium in? And what volition helium take to do? Will helium proceed connected with the mission? Is helium going to springiness up oregon persist? And truthful you’re going to conscionable our quality Gi-hun astatine a precise captious crossroads arsenic we statesman the 3rd season. Gi-hun volition not beryllium the antheral helium was successful Season 2.’

Squid Game play 3 is streaming from June 27 connected Netflix.

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