This article contains spoilers for The Squid Game Season 2.

Front Man (Lee Byung-hoon) is an instrumental character in The Squid Game Season 1, and twice as much in Season 2. After the death of Oh Il-nam (Oh Jeong-soo) during the end of The Squid Game Season 1, He seems to have the main power over the titular games, making him the sworn enemy of the series' protagonist Seong Gi-hoon (Lee Jung-jae). After the first season reveals that he is actually Hwang Joon-ho's (Wi Ha-joon) long-lost brother, Hwang In-ho, he also has a personal history with his brother. However, other than his identity and his status as a former Squid Game winner who now works as a high-ranking organizer, there aren't many revelations in the first season about the boy.

As such, the tidbits of information about his personal life that he offers in Season 2 are extremely interesting. The revelations about the history of "Human Front" begin to trickle in after the first episode "Bread and the Lottery" is made by raising the bar about the life circumstances and respective aspirations of Gi-hoon and Joon-ho. The second episode, "Halloween Party", teaches us that the character was not always alone in this world - instead, he once had a wife who is now dead. What's more, it turns out that Joon-ho and In-ho are actually half-brothers.

There's also a very good reason why Joon-ho is so devoted to his brother despite his apparent supervillainess: The Human Front actually donated a kidney to him, implying a lifelong debt that no doubt reinforces the detective's (step)brotherly love. A twisted cop feels for In-ho. It also appears that Front Man was quite corrupt even before his squid game career and accepted bribes - although it appears he did so to help his dying wife.

In The Squid Game Season 2 episode 3, "001," we learn that Front Man is competing as the game's new 001 player. game to prove a point to the Squid Game brain. This makes Front Man a very unreliable presence in games, of course. However, his relationship with Gi-hoon—while very likely fake—at least seems genuine, and he offers some information about his background that lines up with the things we learned about him before he joined the game as a player. Namely, he mentions taking bribes in the past. Again, he also claims that his wife is still alive and in need of an organ transplant, which may have happened to his wife at some point before her death, but is still a lie.

Villainous antics at the front were always between things "Squid Game" fans should remember before watching the second season. Now that season two is actually out, it's becoming increasingly clear that the character is hiding even deeper secrets than anyone might expect, and the show seems content to sit on its answers beforehand. The Squid Game is ending with its third season.

Season 2 of The Squid Game is now streaming on Netflix.