Yahoo Lifestyle Who Is Thanos in ‘Squid Game’ Season 2?
Squid Game season 2 just proved that you can never guess who is participating in the games. With some brand new faces, there are plenty of characters that have somehow found themselves in huge debt and now facing some deadly games. But there is one face that had him hanging with tons of fans before the first green light was given. And yes, we're 100 percent talking about Thanos. Not not *that* one from the MCU. Ready to meet the rapper that is causing his own kind of chaos?
Here's everything you need to know about Thanos in Squid Game season 2.
Who is Thanos in Squid Game season 2?
Just like several other players, we first meet him as they all wake up in the main room. We discover that he is Player 230 and his real name is Choi Su-bong. He ends up in the games after being in 1.19 billion won in debt. He confronts Lee Myung-gi (Player 333) who previously ran a YouTube channel called MG Coin which caused many people to do into debt after he told them to invest in Dalmation, a cryptocurrency that later caused many people to go into heavy losses. Upon seeing that he's also there, Thanos starts to go against Myung-Gi.
Right before the Red Light, Green Light game, one of the other players recognizes him and it is revealed that he is rapper who was the runner-up of The Rap Battleground. He tries to use his fame and rap skills to try to impress Player 196 and is right next to her when she dies after moving during the game. Thanos decides to sabotage other players by pushing them during the game and taking drugs.
After surviving the first game, he eagerly votes to continue the game in order to try to get more money into the pot. He quickly uses his popularity to try to create a crew to follow him throughout the games which includes his best friend Nam-gyu (Player 124). After shoving Myung-Gi's food in his face, Hwang In-ho (Player 001) quickly overpowers him.
During the Six-Legged Pentathlon, he partners with Nam-gyu, Se-mi (Player 380), Park Min-su (Player 125), Nam-gyu, and Gyeon-su (Player 256) to successfully complete the games where he participated in the Jegi game. In the second vote, he continues to try to rally more votes to continue the game.
He ends up confronting Myung-gi afterwards who reveals that the reason why Thanos lost during the rap battle is because he forgot the lyrics during the finale. He keeps taking drugs to be able to keep playing the games. During the third game, "Mingle," Thanos is seen dancing and having fun. He ends up kicking out Gyeon-su from the group when they can only have four people, causing his death, and forces Min-su and Se-mi to play rock, paper, scissors, to see who can join him and Nam-gyu when only three players can be together in a room. In the final round, he picks Nam-gyu, leaving Min-su behind on his own. However, he seems to be happy that he survived the game afterwards.
During the third vote, Thanos kisses the O button as he hopes to continue the games. After Min-su votes to end the games, Thanos confronts him in the bathroom. Myung-gi comes to defend Min-su however, it starts a big fight between the two sides. Thanos dies during the fight after Myung-gi stabs him in the neck with a fork.
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Who plays Thanos in Squid Game season 2?
Choi Seung-hyun AKA T.O.P plays Thanos in Squid Game season 2. As a rapper, he was a part of the K-Pop boyband BigBang. He left the group in 2023 and has been acting since 2007.
In June 2017, he was found guilty of marijuana use and stopped participating in projects after gaining controversy. Squid Game season 2 is his big comeback which creator Hwang Dong-hyuk told People, "took him a lot of guts."
"As you may know, the actor Seung-hyun, about nine years ago got involved in a marijuana scandal in Korea and wasn't able to do any projects for the past nine years in Korea, and so this is a comeback after quite a long hiatus, and particularly because he portrays a character that's a rapper and also someone who is on drugs," he said.
"I feel that it took him a lot of guts, in a way, to portray a character, especially someone who shares a lot of similarities that are quite negative to him as a person too, so I think it took him a lot of courage to take on that role. Despite the long hiatus, I have to say, as a director, he performed very impressively, and I'm very satisfied with what he did with the character."
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