Warning! SPOILERS for Squid Game
Squid Game showed every single death in the series, except for Ali's (Anupam Tripathi) — but why? Much like all the other players in Squid Game, the Pakistani worker based in South Korea was strapped for money. After an accident with his employer who refused to pay his salary, he willingly returned to continue partaking in the underground event. As Seong Gi-hun/No. 456 (Lee Jung-jae) emerged as Squid Game's winner, Ali was among the 455 competitors who died while playing — or so it seems.
With countless unexpected deaths, Squid Game was innovative with the way it crafted its characters' demise, especially for the prominent ones. Many died early on while playing Red Light, Green Light, and Tug of War. Several were also killed by their fellow players once it became clear that each death meant additional money for the ultimate winner. However, Ali's demise was unique, as it's a mixture of the aforementioned ways to die in Squid Game. In one of the most horrific twists in the Netflix series, Cho Sang-woo (Park Hae-soo), his chosen partner for "gganbu" game in episode 6 betrayed his trust and sneakily stole all of his marbles to pass the level.
Another unique attribute of Ali’s fate is that it didn't play out on-screen. Unlike all the other major deaths in Squid Game which were fully chronicled, he was supposedly killed off-screen, with only a solitary gunshot sound as an indicator that he was brutally taken down. There's an argument to be made that showing his death would be far too heartbreaking. Unlike most other players, he was forced to risk his life for some cash, and not because of his own fault but due to his employer's scheming ways. All throughout the series, he was nothing but good. With that in mind, it's possible that the show opted to shift focus to Sang-Woo's reaction instead, highlighting how guilty he was for what he did. While he's committed few crimes to get ahead of the game, this was his worst one simply because Ali won fair and square during the initial round. Sang-woo just begged him to go for another one.
Another possible explanation for this is that Netflix setting up Ali's season 2 return. Squid Game doesn't really have any rules: so long as the players accomplish their tasks, they can move on to the next round, hence why Sang-woo was able to get away with cheating. Yet, in the same episode, Han Mi-nyeo (Kim Joo-ryoung) failed to find a partner for the marbles game. It was presumed that she was automatically eliminated and killed. After the winners of the said competition returned to their original barracks, it was revealed that she essentially got a free pass to the next level. Since Ali was cheated on, there's a chance that he was just pulled aside from the game instead of being killed, too. Perhaps he was even recruited to be one of the workers who facilitate the game moving forward. This allows him to come back in potential Squid Game season 2.
Granted much of this remains speculative, especially while director and writer Hwang Dong-hyuk claims that he doesn't have any ideas for a follow-up season. Netflix, however, has teased a second season, and given Squid Game's popularity, it's difficult to believe that they're willing to leave the story with just one season. In the event that Squid Game does return for season 2, Ali's possible return would be one of the most interesting twists it can pull off.
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