Carbon Costume

In the Netflix drama Squid Game, contestants like Seong Gi-Hun and Kang Sae-Byeok compete in children’s games, surrounded by armed guards and under the threat of death. The first game they play is red light, green light, opposite Mugunghwa Girl, named for the Korean version of the children’s game. A large vintage animatronic girl with motion detector eyes, creepy would be an understatement.

Cameron Kweller (played by Tanner Buchanan) is the antisocial high school photographer at the heart of the Netflix teen romcom He’s All That.  When Padgett Sawyer is tasked with the challenge of turning Cameron from an outcast to Prom King, both students find themselves suddenly thrust into a host of unexpected situations.  While Cameron’s outfits don’t change too much through the course of his makeover, he does switch out beanies and backward baseball caps for a more modern coif.  His pinstriped suit, donned for a Gatsby-themed party, is a chic addition to his movie wardrobe.

Padgett Sawyer (played by Addison Rae) is the daughter of Beth Sawyer in the Netflix update to a ’90s classic romcom in He’s All That.  After being humiliated by her boyfriend on a social media livestream, Padgett sets out to prove she can makeover anyone into her high school’s Prom King.  But when she’s tasked with revamping the antisocial Cameron Kweller‘s look, she realizes maybe there’s more to him than meets the eye.  Padgett dons a number of stylish outfits throughout the film, often opting for shades of pink and white.  In an homage to her mother’s dress from the original She’s All That, Padgett wears a dark red spaghetti strap dress to her own prom.

In the hit Netflix show Squid Game, the Front Man (Lee Byung-Hyun) is the boss behind the scenes of the deadly game show Squid Game, overseeing the guards as well as contestants like Seong Gi-Hun and Kang Sae-Byeok. The front man’s identity is a mystery, and so are his motives.

In the hit Netflix show Squid Game, a large group of contestants including Seong Gi-Hun and Kang Sae-Byeok are recruited to participant in a survival game show for a cash prize. As the contestants play creepy children’s games and suffer violent demises, the Squid Game staff keep silent watch. The guards wear uniforms made of red jump-suits and black mesh masks that conceal their faces and display mysterious circle, square, and triangle shapes.

Kang Sae-Byeok (Ho-Yeon Jung) is a main character in the Netflix South Korean survival drama, Squid Game. Having fled from North Korea, she is now in foster care with her little brother. Quiet yet clever, Sae-Byeok profits by pickpocketing, which she learned from the gangster Jang Deok-Su, who ends up being player 101. When she bumps into Gi-Hun, she pickpockets the money he won from gambling. She enters the Game as player 067 to afford a broker who can find and retrieve her parents from the north.

Seong Gi-Hun (Lee Jung-Jae) is the main character of the South Korean survival drama, Squid Game. He lives with his mother and works as a chauffeur. However, he owes many debts due to his gambling addiction, particularly betting on horse races. His daughter means the world to him, so when he learns she may be taken to the United States, Gi-Hun aims to get the money for custody. At the train station, he is approached man in a business suit, who asks him to play ddjaki. For each slap to the face, the man takes off one-hundred grand from his loss. When a bruised Gi-Hun finally wins, the man hands him a business card with a phone number. His desperation drives him to call and participate in the Game, where he becomes player 456.

GGK (voiced in Japanese by Misaki Kuno and in English by Mela Lee with singing vocals by Madison McFerrin) is a character in the anime series Carole and Tuesday.  GGK is an eccentric contestant on the Mars’ Brightest talent show, claiming to be a vessel through which the universe itself sings.  During her performances, her all black costume shimmers like it’s part of the fabric of the universe, while she claims the red dot on her forehead is actually her third eye.