It's a complex debate: Eleven has rawer potential and greater versatility, but Vecna (Henry Creel/001) is often considered more powerful because he's more skilled, experienced in using his dark powers, and taps into the Upside Down's hive mind, effectively becoming its ruler. While Eleven has greater inherent strength (like lifting massive objects and creating gates), Vecna's control over the Upside Down and its minions makes him a formidable, often superior, opponent, though Eleven proved she could overcome him by using her love and connection to her friends as fuel.
It's up for debate. As others have pointed out, Vecna's power grows with every kill. However, the show has established that positive memories are more powerful than negative ones, and if there's one thing Vecna's lacking in that El has, it's positive memories.
Who ultimately kills Vecna? The Mind Flayer is dead, and Eleven is close to killing her brother, Henry, which would end the Vecna nightmare for everyone. Just when it looks like Henry gains the upper hand, Will overpowers him. This distracts the monster long enough for Eleven to drive his body through a spire.
Vecna and Eleven, their powers are similar. The powers aren't within him. He's able to channel these powers from Vecna and use it, sort of puppeteering. Matt Duffer: He taps into the hive mind, and then he can manipulate anything within the hive.
Eleven's "kryptonite" in Stranger Things Season 5 is a military-developed sonic weapon, often called the "Hedgehog," which emits a crippling, high-pitched frequency that overloads her psychic powers, causing intense pain and nosebleeds, possibly linked to the powers of Kali (Eight). This technology, developed by Dr. Kay, specifically targets psychics, effectively neutralizing them in ways her own emotional limitations or physical strain (like nosebleeds) couldn't, and it's the first time she's been completely shut down by an external force.
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.
But Will will be so much more powerful because this happened in The Upside Down where he has the powers of Vecna, not from Henry in The Right Side Up (Earth). So, Will is essentially 019 and has greater powers than Eight and Eleven.
Subject 001 "One" and becoming Vecna
He took a liking to and befriended Eleven. After witnessing Eleven being bullied by the other subjects, One believed they were alike and sensed that the world would never understand them. One helped Eleven hone her powers and later offered her a chance to escape the lab.
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Using her powers takes a physical toll on her body. When using her powers to perform more menial tasks, Eleven usually only suffers from nosebleeds. Based on how her powers are executed, it is likely the source of this blood is actually her brain.
Her death triggered the opening of the fourth and final curse gate, wreaking havoc across Hawkins. However, Eleven used her abilities to restart Max's heart. She was brought back to life, but remained comatose, teetering on the boundary between life and death.
Millie Bobby Brown Cried Seeing Vecna in 'Stranger Things' and Was 'Visually Disgusted' by Villain - IMDb. [Editor's Note: The following story contains spoilers for “Stranger Things 4: Vol. 2.”] The horror for “Stranger Things 4” has truly been turned up to Eleven.
Ross Duffer said Eleven's death, or disappearance, was integral to the story ending. Eleven represents childhood — and the finale is all about the kids of “Stranger Things” growing up.
So far, El's only weakness has been her own limitations when using her powers. The toll of incarcerating Henry Creel in the Upside Down proved to be so great that Eleven went into a coma and woke up only to lose her memories altogether.
Both have help by others, but one definitely is stronger than the other. That person is Will.
Just as mysteriously as Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) arrived in Hawkins, she was gone. In the final episode of Stranger Things, the teen sacrifices herself to break the dangerous cycle of military scientists using supernatural children for evil.
The first character to say the "f-word" in Stranger Things was Will Byers, who uttered it during a heated argument with his friends in Season 1, shocking viewers as he was typically soft-spoken, with later significant uses by characters like Billy Hargrove.
(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.
He's the surrogate father the teens of the show rely on, and, most importantly, he's the one Eleven refers to as her dad for very good reason.
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.
Eleven is examined as a child hero of the series who has a potential diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), has significant psychosocial developmental delays that she continues to overcome as the series develops, and is an emblem for the cultural mythology of the 1980s.
In Stranger Things, 'Jane Ives' is the birth name of the character known as Eleven, portrayed by Millie Bobby Brown. Jane was born with special psychokinetic abilities due to her mother, Terry, being experimented upon in the controversial government program known as 'MKUltra'.
Eleven appears to have been born a psychic with notable telekinetic and extrasensory abilities.
Ross Duffer has subtly supported this idea, explaining that Will's abilities are not like Eleven's, he is not suddenly telekinetic. Instead, he channels Vecna's energy directly, almost like a puppet-master. But there is a catch: he needs proximity to the hive mind to fully access it.