This text incorporates spoilers for Squid Sport season 3.
By the present’s very nature, Squid Sport is not any stranger to tearing beloved characters from our grasp simply as we’ve come to understand them. Even the characters we like to hate have a tendency to return and go simply as shortly, forcing us and the opposite gamers to go away them behind and transfer ahead. However with season 3 choosing up the place the sport left off in season 2, it’s not fairly as simple to go away a few of these fallen gamers behind, particularly not a persona as large as Thanos (T.O.P.) was.
Fortunately, season 3 finds some distinctive methods to hold on the difficult legacy of Participant 230 Choi Su-bong a.okay.a. Thanos. Nam-gyu (participant 124) and Min-su (participant 125) each deal with their “grief” with markedly completely different approaches. In episode 1 “Keys and Knives,” Nam-gyu (Roh Jae-won) tries to enchantment to Min-su (Lee David) as Thanos did, even going as far as to do an impression of his fallen good friend to attempt to lighten the temper.
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Within the subsequent episode, Nam-gyu takes his Thanos mimicry to a different degree by spending the whole recreation getting wasted on Thanos’ medication and doing yet one more impression of his good friend, as if embodying his persona is sufficient to carry him again to life. He says “I’m Thanos. Let’s go one other approach. We’ve obtained to kill half of humanity, however we’re operating out of time,” which is surprisingly layered for somebody excessive out of their thoughts. It’s not solely a commentary on the Cover-and-Search recreation they’re at present taking part in, but additionally refers back to the ethos of Marvel’s Thanos, the character that his good friend named himself after.