To save yourself from Vecna's curse, you need a lifeline to reality, usually your favorite song, which provides happy memories and interrupts his psychic hold by connecting to deep emotions, giving you strength to fight his illusions and escape his mental realm before he breaks your mind. While music works, it's the positive memories and the will to live, fostered by that music, that truly break his power, as shown when Eleven and friends intervene in Max's vision.
The "curse" begins with the victim having severe headaches, nosebleeds and nightmares regarding any traumatic event in their past. Eventually, the cursed will have waking hallucinations, often of other people taunting them about their secrets.
In other words, the upside down is stuck on Nov 6th 1983 because that was the moment it formed, except its gravitational force doesn't rip it apart on the sense it ceases to exist... it rips it apart quite literally--holding itself, stuck in time.
The music opens an avenue to happy memories and to hope. Vecna in the end is a metaphor for depression and suicidal thoughts, music, and the hope and joy it brings, is a way to escape that hold it has.
Before they embark into the Upside Down, Will comes out as gay to his family and close friends, explaining that Vecna showed him visions of his failed and distant relationships with his loved ones after they learnt the truth.
Max isolates himself for as long as Grim and Gram will let him after the loss of Kevin. It is as if every bit of joy was sucked completely out of him. Max doesn't even go to the funeral because he is too depressed to be around anyone. Grim makes him go to school, but that is even worse.
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In D&D lore, Demogorgon is a demon prince with two heads that strive to dominate one another but are unable to do so.
001, also known as Henry Creel, became Vecna after Eleven banished him to the Upside Down (Dimension X) where his body was mutated and burned by its energy, transforming him into the monstrous entity that terrorizes Hawkins. He was originally a powerful psychic child who killed his family, then became Dr. Brenner's first subject (001) before being cast into the parallel dimension, where he eventually grew powerful enough to control its creatures and become the Mind Flayer's emissary.
While Nancy Wheeler loses her virginity to Steve Harrington, Barb Holland awakens in a waterless, dark version of Steve's pool, every surface covered in fleshy black vines.
Yes, the Demogorgon did essentially "impregnate" Will in Stranger Things Season 1 by implanting a slug-like larva into him, using his body as a host to grow and produce more creatures for the hive mind, a process that was later revealed to be part of Vecna's larger plan. Will coughed up this larva, which then hatched into a polywog (stage two of the Demogorgon life cycle), demonstrating how the Upside Down creatures reproduce and spread, as seen with Barb Holland as well.
When Nancy is talking with Mrs. Holland on the phone, she tells her a lie about Barb being at the library. Ironically, this would turn out to be true, as her corpse was found in the Upside Down version of the library.
Profanity. Two audible uses of "fuck", once in season 3 though it's hard to hear and easy to miss and once again in season 5 one is hard to hear. There's also one instance where a character mouths the word in season 3.
Yes, according to the show's creators, Mike did realize that Will's "crush" in his coming-out speech referred to him, even though it wasn't explicitly stated in dialogue; his reaction shots and subsequent apology scene were designed to show he understood the depth of Will's feelings, though the payoff for their storyline was minimal in the finale.
Eventually, he came under the possession of the Mind Flayer, who used him as a vessel and as a tool to gather the civilians of Hawkins, to create a larger physical vessel to host the Mind Flayer: the Spider Monster.
So, in conclusion, the Mind Flayer possesses the Demogorgon, whom was 001, proving that the Mind Flayer cannot be 001. This explains how Brenner survived, how the Demodogs were created, and how and why the other test subjects of Brenner's escaped.
The Soviets occasionally executed prisoners by feeding them to the creature, helping it grow stronger in the process. At some point, the Soviets also captured a large number of younger, adolescent Demogorgons, which were paralysed and kept in tanks filled with oxygenized water.
In the only cases of Demogorgon reproduction observed, the cycle began with the deposition of eggs or larvae within a host by a tendril within the Upside Down. The slug-like larvae were later vomited-up by the host, before subsequently escaping into the wild.
(Not Vecna, the other thing.) And when Robin realizes this, that Will isn't horrified by what he saw — in fact, just the opposite — she takes him under his wing. She tells him about how it felt to realize she was gay, and then accepting that part of herself instead of fighting it.
Yes, Dr. Martin Brenner died at the end of Stranger Things Season 4, shot by a helicopter sniper in the Nevada desert after his plan to help Eleven failed, seemingly marking a definitive end to his character, despite previous instances where his survival was hinted at.
The "worst" Stranger Things episode is subjective, but Season 2's "The Lost Sister" (Chapter Seven) and Season 5's "The Bridge" (Chapter Seven) are consistently cited as the lowest-rated by fans and critics, with "The Lost Sister" often criticized for its slow pace and spinoff potential, while "The Bridge" drew mixed reactions for its pacing and Will's storyline.
Later that day in the cafeteria, Kevin chokes on his meal of American chop suey (a dish of macaroni, tomato sauce, and beef) and has to be taken to the hospital by ambulance.
Out of fear that Max will run away, Kenny ties him up while he sleeps. However, Kenny wakes up to have a heart-to-heart with Max.
Max tries to stop him, yelling that he saw Kenny kill his mother. Kane lets go of Loretta and grabs Max's neck. Seconds later, Freak appears with a squirt gun supposedly filled with sulfuric acid, which he sprays at Kenny's eyes. Max and Freak escape, the cops arrest Kenny and save Loretta.