If you’re a fan of our channel, you’ll know that we’ve already
figured out which Dreamworks villain would likely win the Squid Games. But of course,
you can’t have a villain without a hero to fight - and there are plenty of great
Dreamworks heroes out there. From the strong and honorable to the wise and hilarious,
there’s a favorite Dreamworks hero for everyone - but there can only be one winner.
I’m Kifinosi with WickedBinge,
and we’re here to figure out which Dreamworks Hero would win Squid Game.
Before we list our contestants, we want to make it clear that in these games, no one gets any
special advantages. So no weapons and no special abilities - like say, Po’s Wuxi Finger Hold or
any of a certain captain’s superpowers. Additionally, any character that are a
little on the tiny side - i.e., those who are the size of a bug, a rat or a troll - will
get a size boost so that they are around the same size as almost everyone else, just to
help keep things as fair as possible. Finally, we’re only allowing up to two
characters per film/franchise, so we can have as much character variety as possible.
With all that out of the way, let’s meet our players! Going in filmography order, we have:
V.O. NOTE - you don’t need to say titles in parentheses:
Z (“Antz”), Moses (“Prince of Egypt”), Miguel & Tulio (“Road to El Dorado”), Ginger (“Chicken
Run”), Shrek, Sinbad, Oscar (“Shark Tale”), Alex the Lion (Madagascar), Spirit (Spirit of the
Cimmaron), Wallace (“Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit”), RJ (“Over the Hedge”), Roddy
St. James (“Flushed Away”), Barry B. Benson (“Bee Movie”), Po (“Kung Fu Panda”), Susan
Murphy (“Monsters VS Aliens”), Hiccup (“How to Train Your Dragon”), Megamind, Puss in Boots,
Jack Frost (“Rise of the Guardians”), Grug (“Croods”), Turbo, Mr. Peabody,
Skipper the Penguin, Oh (“Home”), the Boss Baby,
Princess Poppy (“Trolls”), Captain Underpants, Yi (“Abominable”) and Mr. Wolf (“The Bad Guys”).
With our 30 Dreamworks stars now at the ready, it’s time
to let these wacky yet deadly games begin!
As always, we’ll start with our first game: “Red Light, Green Light”.
“Red Light, Green Light” is a game that’s all about speed and sharp listening skills.
The goal is to make it to the finish line as fast as you can. However, if a player is too
focused on the finish line to realize when a ‘red light’ is coming up, or if they easily panic and
accidentally move or stumble when they’re supposed to freeze, this game could spell their doom.
Starting with the characters who we think would do well in this game,
Mr. Peabody is not only a genius but, due to being a dog,
has very sharp listening skills. There’s no way he’s not making it out of this round.
While this game is less about being stealthy and more about following directions,
Ginger’s experience with trying to break out of the Tweety’s chicken farm will certainly help
her in this game. We see her having both good listening skills and good instinct.
Though they may not be the smartest characters in our roster, Poppy and Captain Underpants
are both playful characters who enjoy games. So even if this particular game
involves bullets, we feel that they would still do a decent enough job.
Surprisingly, characters like Grug and Alex also do well in this game. Both these characters are
known for being pretty fast whenever they need to book it away from an enemy. Not only that,
but they aren’t too clumsy either, so there’s very little chance that
they’ll trip over their own feet as they rush to the finish line.
Finally, Moses is known for having incredible patience and a calm demeanor,
so we feel that he would have no problem passing this game whatsoever.
Unfortunately, there are quite a few characters who DO panic during this
game - like one so-called shark slayer. Yes, our first death of this game belongs to Oscar - and
not just because he has fins instead of legs. Not only is it easy to freak this guy out,
but he’s also… kiiiinda stupid. Really, even if he did manage to not get himself shot for the
first few “red lights”, it’s still pretty likely that his cockiness would still do him eventually.
Similarly, Barry B. Benson also falls in this game.
Barry’s another character that tends to panic when in danger,
and while he can sometimes do a good job of getting himself out of bad situations,
he also isn’t the most observant bee at times. So yeah, Barry doesn’t last too long here.
While it may be a bit unfair, we have to include Oh in this round’s deaths
as well. Being an alien, he likely doesn’t know much about our Earth games. But hey,
that could be said about quite a few players here, so what makes Oh stand out? Well, like Barry,
he can be pretty oblivious at times, so it’d likely take him longer to catch on.
Our final death of this round is the snail racer,
Turbo. Because this competition doesn’t allow for any special powers, it’s highly unlikely that
Turbo would be able to make it to the finish line before the buzzer. Tough break, Turbo…
With 26 characters left, it’s time for our next game - “Ppopgi” or Honeycomb.
The Honeycomb game requires patience and a steady hand. Too much shaking or
pressure could cause a fatal break. As such, our contestants will need
to have enough focus to poke out their shape without accidentally breaking it.
Being inventors, Hiccup, Wallace, Peabody and Megamind are all used
to working with tiny tools and have very steady hands. We can’t
see any of them having any issues with getting the honeycomb out.
Puss in Boots already has great precision with his sabor,
and we feel like these skills would transfer over to this game well.
As for someone like Po, while his hands may not be the smallest or easiest to use,
he does have ONE advantage: given his love of food, we could see Po figuring out the
secret to the challenge and licking his way to victory! We could also see RJ passing for
pretty much the same reason, in addition to him having actual claws that could help him out.
Moving onto the losers, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that poor Spirit doesn’t make it
very far in this game. He doesn’t even have hands, he just has hooves. In retrospect,
maybe it was unfair to include him at all but, hey, he IS a Dreamworks hero.
The most famous Dreamworks hero AND most famous ogre, Shrek, also doesn’t have much
luck passing this game. His hands are just too big and would be too hard to work with. Not only that,
but his strength combined with his quick temperament would just spell disaster.
Moving onto our last death, while Grug may have gotten lucky in the last round,
he just couldn’t cut it this time around. He’s a caveman after all, and they don’t exactly have
a gentle touch. It’s a real shame though, as he definitely would’ve done well in our next game.
With three more deaths marked off, we’re down to only 23 heroes left on
the board. Following the Honeycomb game, we of course have “The Midnight Brawl”.
Lack of food and sleep plus the stress of staying alive can drive any person to
the point of violence, and in these games, it’s every player for themself. To survive this game,
a person must be either strong enough to fight or clever and sneaky enough to hide. So,
who would be able to either fend off attackers or properly hide themselves until the brawl was over?
Though they aren’t exactly the buffest or strongest,
Miguel and Tulio can still throw a punch or two when necessary. Their biggest strengths,
however, are their strategy and hiding skills.
Jack Frost is also someone who we feel would be incredibly good at laying low while everyone else
is fighting. Ginger and Boss Baby’s smaller sizes would also help them out immensely in this game.
As for the brawlers, besides the obvious ones like Po, Sinbad and Captain Underpants, Skipper
actually ends up being a well-rounded character in this round, having both combat and stealth skills.
Moving onto the deaths of this round, we’ve got another death that may seem a bit unfair - Yi.
Being one of the youngest competitors, Yi is also very much just a normal girl,
being more skilled at playing the violin than being a fighter.
From one of Dreamworks’ most recent characters to one of its oldest,
we’re sad to say that Z also dies here. The guy just isn’t very strong, even when given
a size boost. He’s not much of a fighter and is just kind of neurotic. He still has some skill,
don’t get us wrong - those skills just don’t apply very well to this game.
Being perhaps a bit too innocent for his own good, we also have to say goodbye to Wallace.
Not only is he not a combatant, but because of how friendly he is and how overly calm he
can sometimes be - even in the strangest or most dangerous of situations - we feel
like it’d be very easy for someone to get the upper hand over him.
Coincidentally enough, the final death of the game is another character who’s half Aardman - Roddy.
Although Roddy does grow quite a bit throughout his adventures in the sewers of London,
he’s still pretty scrawny and doesn’t always have the best instincts. It was a close call,
but in the end, we just don’t see Roddy making it out of this one.
After another deadly round, we’re now down to only 19 characters,
and just in time for another strength-based game - “Tug of War”.
Unlike the actual “Squid Game”, we aren’t going to assign characters to specific teams. Instead,
we’re simply going to judge them based on their abilities and likelihood to survive.
To win “Tug of War”, you don’t just need strength. You also need strategy,
and a willingness to work with others. Even weaker players have a shot at
surviving if they can coordinate properly with stronger players.
Though not the strongest characters around, there are several characters
who we feel would make excellent leaders - such as Moses, Ginger and Mr. Peabody.
But of course, muscle still plays a big part and we feel like both Po and Alex would make
excellent additions to any team they were on. And even without his superpowered strength,
Captain Underpants’ natural bulk would probably be enough to keep him on the platform.
Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for Susan. Let’s just face facts here,
the quantonium played a HUGE part in Susan’s transformation from normal bride to superhero.
While she may be able to accomplish great things without it - hence why she felt like
she would still be able to make it past the previous round - she does have her
limits and just doesn’t seem like she’d have the muscle-power needed to win this game without it.
The same can be said about Jack Frost - apologies to all his fangirls. Not only is the guy pretty
scrawny, having died as a teenager, but he also can sometimes struggle with working in a team,
having an independent streak in him that ends up sealing his fate.
The next character that dies here is without a doubt the Boss Baby. Simply put,
there’s absolutely no way a baby can ever win a game of tug-of-war,
no matter how smart or business-minded he may be. His struggles to work together with
people when he’s not the leader also plays a part in his loss.
The same, unfortunately, has to go to RJ. As crafty as he may be,
he’s still one of the weakest players left in the game. Additionally, while he may have
learned his lesson at the end of his movie, RJ still wasn’t the best team player and is known
for being fairly self-centered. Not the best mindset to go into this particular game with.
Unfortunately, even great teamwork and leadership skills can’t save everyone’s
favorite penguin commander. Sorry, Skipper. Honestly, if this were any other round,
Skipper may have stood a chance at winning the top prize. But unfortunately, slippery flippers and
webbed feet with very little traction on them do not make a very good combination in this instance.
The games are halfway over and we still have 14 Dreamworks heroes left! Up next,
we have “The Marble Game”.
Marbles is an interesting one, at least in the context of “Squid Game”. There are multiple
ways for pairs of players to play their marble game. They could focus on accuracy or how far
they can roll their marble, or they can simply guess how many marbles are in their opponent’s
hand. As such, there are multiple ways to win, with most of these ways relying on either skill
or luck. Of course, if you don’t have the skills to win, there’s always manipulation…
Right away, we can see Tulio rising to the top during this game. Between him and Miguel,
he’s more of the plan guy and is just a bit better at lying and putting on an act than
his partner. He’s also a bit more focused which helps with the actual marbles portion of the game.
Similarly, Wolf is a former criminal and is extremely good at scheming,
planning and even manipulating when he needs to. His quick pickpocketer
hands could also help him out a ton in this game.
He’s not the only thief in this round, however. Sinbad, after all, is a pirate - and while he
may have some heroic or noble tendencies when it comes to the people he cares about,
he isn’t afraid to steal or pull a trick in order to get what he needs.
Mr. Peabody may not be all that manipulative,
but his genius intellect would likely assure that he would win any game of
marbles he played. He would also be smart enough to see past any ruses or tricks.
Looking at this round’s losers, we feel the first death happens to Moses. While
we’re sure that he could win a game of marbles if he really wanted to,
we aren’t sure if he WOULD want to if it meant killing another person. This is the first game
that involves directly killing someone, and we just can’t see Moses taking that step.
Hiccup is another character that seems like he’d be pretty reluctant to kill his partner.
Additionally, while Hiccup is smart, he can sometimes be naive. We saw in the “How to Train
Your Dragon” sequels specifically that Hiccup can sometimes be overconfident in his abilities, being
more likely to try and talk someone down first even if trying to talk it out is an unwise move.
The next death in this round belongs to the Queen of the Trolls, Poppy. Simply put,
it’s Poppy’s positivity that seals her doom in this game. Between her determination to
always look at things in a positive light and her occasional naivete and narrowmindedness,
it would be extremely easy to trick her.
Similarly, this is where Captain Underpants also falls. As sad as
we may be to say goodbye to the tighty whitey-wearing superhero,
we just can’t see him being smart or skilled enough to make it through.
Our final death of this game is also a bit of a heartbreaker - the second half of our “El Dorado”
duo, Miguel. One of the most infamous aspects of this game is the part where players have to pair
up. If Miguel and Tulio stuck together, Miguel seems like he’d be the most likely to sacrifice
himself. Furthermore, even if the two of them were intuitive enough to not pair up with each other,
Miguel doesn’t quite have the marble-shooting skills OR the manipulation skills needed to
win. …Well, he does have his ‘puppy-dog eyes’, but we’re pretty sure that only works on Tulio.
With that, we’re now down to only nine contestants - and just in time for one
of this competition's deadliest games: “Glass Stepping Stones”.
This game is another tricky one for a hypothetical scenario,
as much of this game relies on luck. There is ONE strategy to it, however, that being the
advantage of going last - after some glasses pieces have already been broken. As such,
those who have a big enough ego to want to try a game first will likely seal their doom.
Starting with who we feel is the most likely to try and go first, the death that starts this
game is Megamind’s. At this point, Megamind would probably be feeling pretty confident
and maybe even a bit cocky. We saw in the movie that when he feels like a plan or a
situation is going well, he can sometimes fail to think ahead. Add in the HUGE disadvantage
that comes with going first, and it’s clear to see that Megamind didn’t stand a chance.
Next death on our list is, unfortunately, Ginger. Although she’s much smarter and
more focused than most of the other hens on Tweety’s farm,
Ginger is still not only a determined chicken but a strong-minded one as well. Even if she
didn’t pick the first number, we just couldn’t see her hanging around the back of the pack.
Po is another character who can sometimes be headstrong and can certainly be eager, leading
him to rush into things. Though his kung-fu skills are great, it would be extremely hard for
him to leap off a panel of regular glass as it’s breaking, so he ends up taking the long fall down.
Right in the middle of the pack, we have the pirate Sinbad and the one and only Alex the Lion.
Both these guys seem like they’d pick mid-to-low numbers, which in terms gives them a good shot
at making it through - especially since they’re both pretty athletic as well,
with Sinbad having worked on a ship and Alex being both a big cat and a dancer.
Unfortunately, neither one of them have any extraordinary skills that
would help them tell the two types of glass panels apart, so they both end up falling.
We’ll admit, it’s an incredibly close game. But in the end, we felt like the final Dreamworks hero to
take the fatal plunge here would be Mr. Wolf. Like our previous two deaths, we feel like he’d pick a
middle number - if not a slightly higher number. After all, he can sometimes be too confident in
himself and for as much as he tries to plan ahead, he can still be caught by surprise. Also, while
he may have been a ‘bad guy’ at one point, he’s not evil enough to push anyone off the bridge.
Ultimately, we just didn’t see Wolf having what it took to make it all the way through in the end.
Which means our three winners of this round our Tulio, Puss and Mr. Peabody,
with each of these players encompassing a quality that you would need to have the best chance at
getting through the infamous glass bridge. Tulio seemed like the one most likely to
pick a low number - if not try to go dead last - due to his skepticism
and lack of trust in most situations. Puss is the most athletic of the three,
being a cat and all. If anyone had the best chance of jumping off a glass panel
as it was breaking, it would be him. Finally, Mr. Peabody is a genius who
knows a wide variety of scientific facts and has many different skills and talents.
We could easily see him noticing some sort of detail that would help him with telling the
glass apart - or at the very least, having a good enough memory to remember the bridge’s pattern.
So it looks like our final challenge will be
a three-man duel this time as we head into the titular Squid Game.
In this game, two opponents must go up against one another,
with one acting as a defender and the other as an attacker, with the attacker doing everything
they can to reach the top of the court (or the squid’s ‘head’) and touch it with their foot,
with the defender doing whatever they can to stop them. Or at least, that’s how Squid
Game is traditionally played. Here though, it’s more of a ‘battle to the death’ type of deal.
Now, all three of our players have some pretty impressive skills - in a way that makes them all
somewhat equally matched. However, someone has to die first and we feel that person is Tulio.
After all, while he may have a size advantage on his competition, both Peabody and Puss have
successfully fought humans before, and Tulio is the only one here without claws or sharp teeth.
So it’s a battle of Cats VS Dogs - or maybe Swashbuckler VS Scientist would
be more appropriate. Either way, it’s an extremely close battle.
Puss in Boots certainly has the most combat experience. Even if he doesn’t have his sword
on him, he could still scratch out a victory for himself. He’s fierce,
fast and always seems to feel right at home in a fight,
having many clever strategies at his disposal. He is admittedly a bit on the smaller side,
which can sometimes be a detriment if people are able to overpower him or grab him by the scruff
of his neck - like we see Shrek do in the second movie - the trailer for “The Last Wish” showed
us that Puss knows how to use his environment to beat the odds and take out huge opponents.
Mr. Peabody, however, is also very strategic. In fact, we’d say it’s
pretty likely that he could easily figure out Puss’ weak points and use that to his
advantage. It’s also been shown clearly how his intelligence has saved him time and time again,
allowing him to think of the best solutions while keeping a calm head, regardless of how
dire the situation might be. Furthermore, as we saw in his movie, Peabody’s bite is no joke.
Ultimately, while Puss may have more combat experience, Peabody has more brain-power - and
in a hand-to-hand fight that doesn’t feature any swords or any other weapons, we feel that
brain-power is juuuust enough to earn Peabody the win. So, it would seem that the world’s Smartest
Dog now has the additional title of being our Dreamworks Heroes Squid Game Champion!
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