Character Types That Would Be Perfect For Squid Game USA

15 July 2025

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character-types-that-would-be-perfect-for-squid-game-usa — Character Types That Would Be Perfect For Squid Game USA

Summary

The American version of Squid Game could benefit from several timely character tropes to drive home its message.
The US adaptation could include a Pro Gamer and an AI Bro for modern villains.
Suggestions for American Squid Game characters range from streamers to Ninja Warrior types.

As the Korean version of Squid Game was coming to a close, the series teased the American version by revealing none other than Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett as a recruiter for the next iteration of Squid Game.

A promotional poster of Squid Game Season 3, with many contestants' portraits.

In the wake of Squid Game season 3’s finale, rumors swirl concerning a Squid Game USA spinoff. Here’s some key info about this potential project.

While this could’ve been originally intended as no more than a chilling ending that ensures viewers that the carnage will continue, it was definitely also meant to gauge the interest of US audiences, which is large enough to warrant a US-based version. Let’s then take a look at a bunch of characters that should definitely be brought into the fold to guarantee maximum hype and maximum mayhem for the upcoming American season.

7 A Disgraced YouTuber Or Game Show Host Who Preyed On The Weak

The Tables Have Turned

Give the people what they want.

Despite its very colorful color palette, Squid Game is an incredibly dark show that pulls no punches to the gut when it comes to killing off beloved characters. It’s also, however, greatly at pulling of cathartic moments. The games seen in the series definitely show a game show at peak evil, but they’re not the first evil game show to exist, nor will they be the last.

photo of players from squid game season 2

Some people are made for the Squid Games. Others, like the players listed here, simply aren’t suited for the challenge.

Various TV and YouTube shows prey upon the weak and the poor, and only really help the people who make them. Everyone would love to see the host of any such game be forced to join a game where they’d be forced to learn a lesson on humanity 101.

6 A Disgraced Tech Mogul

More Catharsis

Not specifically based on any real person or robot trying to pass as a person

A central aspect of many Korean movies and TV shows is the social commentary, and Squid Game is no stranger to that. The Korean version of the show has already shown a bunch of pretty nasty rich people who’d happily throw everyone else into a meat grinder for money, but the thing is, the US is a much richer country, and one even richer in that kind of person.

On top of just being a once-successful businessman, this character could be filled with one or many sorts of robot or almost alien-like personality quirks that make this kind of person such a great villain for this kind of show.

5 An AI Bro

It’s The New Crypto

Before this type of villain starts showing up everywhere

The second season of Squid Game found an interesting conflict between a group of crypto-enthusiasts and a crypto rug-puller. That’s still an ongoing problem – one that could feature in the US version of Squid Game as well – but that’d be missing out on a chance to feature a more modern villain.

As many have already perfectly put it, AI is the new crypto, meaning it’s a new form of tech that’s poised to bring about more problems than solutions. Audiences would find it absolutely thrilling to see someone who caused a bunch of people to lose their jobs to have to play the games, and to deal with the people whose jobs they’ve taken.

4 An American Ninja Warrior Type Who Joins For Fun

Let’s Have Some Cool Action Scenes

Can that type of skillset help here? It sure can help the fun value

American Gladiators was one of the best shows anyone outside of the US could watch to see just how cool and over-the-top the US could be. That type of game, where physical prowess beats all, then evolved to games such as American Ninja Warrior, which carried the torch beautifully.

Seeing someone join Squid Game after they’d beaten all other extreme game shows would make for some really exhilarating scenes, courtesy of some extreme stunts. It would be even cooler if this character turned out to be a villain who’d use his superior physical ability to gain an advantage over the remaining players.

3 An Artist Who Lost Their Job Because Of AI

Give A Voice To The Voiceless

The perfect source of conflict?

In the world of Squid Game, the concept of having the shady people who run the game also running an AI farm that causes people to lose their jobs just so they can feed more people into the game isn’t too out there. But that’s not even necessary, as seemingly regular humans are already performing that task as we speak.

Seeing one, or many, people who saw their livelihoods vanish because one in their midst decided to unleash some AI-based contraption that both took their jobs and replaced the beautiful work they’d otherwise produce with ridiculous slop would make for some beautifully relatable conflict.

2 A Pro Gamer

Why Is This Yet To Be A Thing?

Two realities converge

Esports has been a thing for the longest time in Korea, so it’s pretty baffling that fans of the show – and of Esports – have never seen a popular gamer try out their reflexes in the world of Squid Game. Would they even matter? There’s only one way of knowing.

A collage of three irredeemable Squid Game characters: Jang Deok-Su, The Front Man and the Recruiter.

These are some of the most volatile and dangerous characters in the Squid Game franchise.

Luckily, the US is no slouch when it comes to esports anymore, so the US version of Squid Game would do very well to recruit a pro gamer, especially one who saw their career end because of a cheating scam. This character could either team up with the aforementioned American Ninja Warrior winner or start a rivalry. Either way, it could make for a glorious dynamic.

1 A Streamer Who’s Secretly Live Feeding The Game To A Private Audience

Another Twist To The Formula

A more personal experience in chaos

The first season of Squid Game featured one character who was in the games but who was never at risk of dying, because he was secretly behind it all. The second series does something similar, so something along those lines is to be expected from the American version as well.

The Squid Games have been happening in secret for the longest time, as it’s only expected that they’d no longer be able to go on if people learned that they were a thing. But what about a character, a popular figure in that world, who gets into the games and streams them to the world, and the hellscape that we currently reside in actually embraces the Squid Game instead of rejecting it for the vile monstrosity that it is?