Weak Hero Class 2’s ending is a reminder that even when there’s hope for some, others are left with no option but to end it all. The K-drama Weak Hero Class 1 was a massive hit when it first came out back in 2022. The second season is a reflection of the first and parallels the same experiences for protagonist Si-Eun while making it much bigger in scale and finally allowing him a victory. I think what makes the show so popular is the fact that we see the “coward,” the “nerd,” and the “anti-social” kids all take charge of their own lives and protect themselves by teaming up against the bullies. In season 2, Si-Eun is now at Eunjang High School, where he hopes to keep his head down and not get in anyone’s way until he graduates. But, we already know what Si-Eun is like; the second he sees injustice, he’s ready to jump in to be a savior. Well, I don’t think it’s so much wanting to be a savior as it is wanting to let out his unimaginable rage.
Si-Eun undoubtedly makes friends at his new school, and they’re exactly like Su-Ho and Beom-Seok. The difference here is that Jun-Tae doesn’t come from a toxic home (or at least, not that we know of), so he’s basically a pure soul at this very violent school. If we had to compare, Jun-Tae is like Beom-Seok, while Hu-Min aka Baku, and Tak, are both like Su-Ho. This is why, by the end of the show, for Si-Eun, it’s like redemption, a saving grace for what went wrong with his old friends. Will he avenge Beom-Seok and Su-Ho? What happens to Baek-Jin? And what happens to the Union? Let’s find out.
Spoiler Alert
What Does Seong-Je Do?
In Weak Hero Class 2’s finale, Si-Eun thinks the best way to dissolve the Union is by trying to get an inside man to betray them. He goes to Seong-Je looking for help with that, but this plan backfires because Seong-Je’s too much of a psychopath to care that his name will be cleared if there’s no Union. All he really cares about is having some fun. At the same time, Si-Eun also asks Hyo-Man, the boy who was desperate to join the Union, to side with his own school, Eunjang, in order to put up an equal fight against the Union. To be fair, Seong-Je does help a little bit with information about the money that Baek-Jin was embezzling. The reason Baek-Jin knows that it’s Si-Eun who “got rid of the variables” is that Si-Eun had earlier pointed out variables in a math problem that Baek-Jin was solving. I think the poor guy was giving it to an orphanage, I guess, as repentance. Anyway, in the end, Seong-Je shows his true colors and asks one of his boys to beat up Si-Eun to hold him back, because of which Si-Eun can’t make it to the grand fight in time.
What Happens To Jun-Tae?
“Every action has a reaction” is the biggest takeaway of Weak Hero Class 2. In the final episode, we see the groups of Eunjang unite for the fight of a lifetime. I suppose, having seen Si-Eun and Hu-Min fight, the lads of Eunjang fear they need to follow them or get caught in the Union’s game forever. After gathering together, Jun-Tae learns that Si-Eun is at the bowling spot, so he tells the boys to go ahead while he goes to find Si-Eun alone. I think the big difference between Jun-Tae and Beom-Seok comes here: when Jun-Tae is willing to fight for Si-Eun and help him out. I guess, in that sense, he’s very much like Si-Eun himself. Which is why, when Jun-Tae is not strong enough to fight the big, burly man who definitely doesn’t look like a school student, Si-Eun’s drive for vengeance rises inside of him, and he takes charge again. But Jun-Tae does get severely injured, which makes it too hard for him to go to the big fight. He tells Si-Eun to go by himself, which almost makes us feel like something bad is going to happen to him, but fortunately, he meets his friends again by the end of the show.
Why Does Baek-Jin Have To Defeat Hu-Min?
It’s a little bit ironic that such a massive group of people have to fight just because one duo has beef. I don’t think Baek-Jin is a bad guy; it’s his circumstances that put him in a difficult position. All Baek-Jin really needs is for Hu-Min to comply, but because the latter refuses to fold, it escalates to a gang wars. Out of desperation to end it all, Hu-Min decides to have one last fight with Baek-Jin, but with the help of Si-Eun. I think one could see Beom-Seok turn into someone like Baek-Jin if he were forced to work under a man like Choi. We don’t really get a backstory for Baek-Jin and why he works for Choi. Why the two boys who were thick as thieves became sworn enemies is also not really explained, but I can imagine it’s mainly because Hu-Min doesn’t agree to join in.
For the most part, the final episode is a massive fight between the Union, well, the people who showed up, and the Eunjang boys. It’s actually quite a treat to watch if you enjoy action, but leaving that aside, it’s a fight for survival. I suppose Baek-Jin is fighting for his life, whereas for Hu-Min it is simply so that people will stop bothering him, but mainly his friends. The stakes are different on either side, which means even if Hu-Min taught Baek-Jin everything he knows, the latter has strength in fear and anger, whereas the former is at a disadvantage there. This is why it takes two people to defeat the guy. Before the fight starts, Hu-Min tells the Eunjang boys that Baek-Jin is all his. When they catch up to each other, almost in a war-like fight, pushing off boys coming at them from all sides with tunnel vision only towards each other, everybody else stops fighting to watch. This is the ultimate fight, which seems like it could be to the death. Like I said, Baek-Jin has more power here because the stakes are much higher for him; you could say it’s life and death. If Baek-Jin wins, Eunjang has no choice but to comply with the Union.
How Does Hu-Min Defeat Baek-Jin?
When Baek-Jin finally puts Hu-Min on the ground after a long back and forth, he asks if anybody else wants to give it a go. This is when Si-Eun finally shows up. As the wise say, teamwork makes the dream work, so Si-Eun tags in for Baek-Jin and puts up a massive fight. This time around, for Si-Eun, it’s not just his new friends he wants to help out, but he’s avenging his old friends in the process of fighting this one massive bully group. If you remove the root of the problem, there’s a chance it won’t keep coming back. But Baek-Jin is unfortunately not the root here. I think Hu-Min is also guilty of having put Si-Eun in danger when he didn’t do anything wrong at all, which is pushing him to fight so hard. Yes, everybody worships the idea of a dude like Baku, but he’s never actually had any real friends besides Tak, and he feels guilty about him, too, because he got beat up just for being friends with Hu-Min.
Anyway, Si-Eun shows up with one of his improvised weapons as usual (disappointed it wasn’t a pen), ready to fight Baek-Jin. I could be wrong, but based on my understanding of the language, near the end of the fight, Baek-Jin says something like, “Hu-Min went for my arms, and you went for my legs; what’s next?” To which Si-Eun replies, “His hands and legs are perfectly functional.” He’s referring to Hu-Min here, and it’s a sign for Hu-Min to attack Baek-Jin. In Weak Hero, there’s no such thing as rules of combat. People fight the way they like because they’re all underdogs, and this show isn’t here to teach us any sort of lesson as such; it’s to show us the strength of anger. Very unrealistic, I know.
Earlier, we saw Si-Eun wake up from his coma because he wanted to help his friends. In his dream, he’s talking to Beom-Seok, who asks him if these guys are more important to him. I think Si-Eun fights for all 5 of them, his old friends and his new ones. Of course, he’s still massively guilty about how things turned out for Beom-Seok, and he doesn’t want such a situation to repeat itself. Finally, Hu-Min delivers the final punch that knocks Baek-Jin out. Hu-Min apologizes and then tells Baek-Jin that he should do the same, but of course, he doesn’t. It all ends when Hu-Min announces that the fighting is now over. Before leaving, Si-Eun looks back at Baek-Jin, maybe to check if he’s okay? Or maybe to make sure he’s okay. Finally, Jun-Tae also shows up to join his Eunjang boys, and it really seems like this is the end of things, but that’s never how it works.
In Weak Hero Class 2’s ending, Si-Eun and his friends finally make it to senior year, when they learn that Su-Ho has woken up. I guess they’ve caught up with all the sleep they’ve all missed and become actual friends and finally found happiness. With Su-Ho waking up, Si-Eun can finally feel at ease, and all his new friends go to meet Su-Ho with him, probably as moral support. What’s interesting is that Su-Ho never left Si-Eun’s side because he was always in his head, telling him what to do. I can’t wait to see how Su-Ho and Hu-Min will get along, seeing as they’re both basically the same guy in different fonts.
What Does the Post-Credit Scene Imply?
There are two post-credit scenes in Weak Hero Class 2. One is of Choi asking Seong-Je to replace Baek-Jin as the leader of the Union, but Seong-Je declines because Choi’s answer for him isn’t “romantic” enough. I mean, we already know that he isn’t really here for the money but for the thrill of it all. But this does set up Seong-Je as a possible major antagonist for season 3. However, the second post-credit scene is the truly sad one. We learn that Baek-Jin has died, and the boys attend his funeral. Now, his death could have been orchestrated by Choi. I feel like this is the most likely interpretation because there’s no way he’d have left him alive, with the Union being dissolved and Choi’s entire student network ruined. The other alternative could be that Baek-Jin didn’t have any options left, and out of his guilt, anger, and sadness, he decided to end his life himself. Either way, this leaves room for Hu-Min to want to take revenge, and I think that’s the biggest setup for Weak Hero Class 3.
What Can We Expect From Season 3?
In all honesty, there’s a drastic difference between the first two seasons of the show, and I can’t help but imagine that if we get a 3rd season, it will likely be even grander in scale. Already, we have a massive veteran actor playing Choi, and though the show is mainly focused on the student aspect of things, we might get meatier interactions between the adult world and the student world. On the other hand, I think Seong-Je will play a much bigger role in season 3, seeing as Baek-Jin is dead and he’s an actor with a growing fan base. But most importantly, what I’m looking forward to is the dynamic between the 5 lead boys now. With Su-Ho having woken up, of course, he’ll return to center stage. But, I wonder if he’ll be able to fight the way he could before; likely not, seeing as he was in a coma for such a long time. Also, it’s interesting to see that it’s 4 boys rather than 3, which doesn’t allow the room for any one person to feel left out, unlike last time. Even though Su-Ho will be new to the other boys, we already know they’re super friendly and will be good to him and vice versa.
In terms of the major conflict of the show, I think it’ll be the kids vs. the adults this time around. The major plot of this show is that everything is a cycle, and no child is inherently bad. This is why I said earlier that Baek-Jin was never the root; Choi is, and if the boys really need to be set free from this entire situation, all they can do is fight Choi directly. It’s a messed-up system, so this time we’ll see a bigger crowd go against the whole system itself.
