After Vecna's final defeat in the Stranger Things 5 finale, the Mind Flayer is destroyed, the Upside Down connection is severed, and the characters find different paths to healing and moving on in the spring of 1989, with most reuniting in Montauk, though there's a lingering sense of ambiguity about Eleven's true fate.
After a certain period of time, Vecna will finally kill the victim by placing them into a comatose-like state, their eyes will glaze over or go into the victim's heads, in which they will be unable to respond to outside stimuli, essentially possessing them.
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The plot is already complicated enough.) The result is that we've lost a lot of the rich narrative texture that made the prior four seasons so compelling. Dustin and Steve reconnect in the wake of Eddie Munson's Loss.
She leaves one last message: "I will always be with you. I love you." After one last kiss in the psychic-verse, the gang looks on as Eleven sacrifices herself to the bomb that closes the Upside Down.
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.
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.
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.
He got it because he got hooked into the hive mind, and if that hadn't happened, Matt said, Will's abilities "never would've happened." "He got it because he got hooked into the hive mind," Matt added.
"Once Will is talking about Tammy and all that and his experience, yeah, it's Mike — and his friends — all realizing and understanding now for the first time, even if Mike has been somewhat oblivious over these years, what his friend is saying," Ross says.
Stranger Things S5E7: "The Bridge" is now the worst rated episode of the entire show. What, the gay confession scene? It just felt a bit silly and out of place. Not even about being a bigot, realistically it should not have been a surprise to anyone there that he was gay.
Brenner survived the monster's attack and sustained only minor injuries, but was unable to return Eleven to the lab. Following the events of November 1983, Brenner was ousted as the lab's director, and replaced by Dr. Sam Owens.
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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.
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A month after returning home, Will coughed up a larva and washed it down his bathroom sink drain. The tendril seemed to essentially 'impregnate' Will, using his body as a means to grow slugs.
Hawkins National Laboratory produced a fake body that resembled Will Byers to cover up his kidnapping by the Demogorgon.
In 1987, as Vecna began kidnapping children for a plan to merge the Rightside Up and the Abyss, the Mind Flayer's home dimension, Will began to discover the ability to tap further into the hive mind, allowing him to use Vecna's powers.
The kryptonite is some sort of sonic sound waves, I guess. It's a sound, and it does something to eleven, weakens her enough to not use her powers. She sees through soldier's mind that behind the door, the sound is too much, meaning the military is keeping someone powerful there with this kryptonite.
The Duffer Brothers, confirm that in the coming-out scene, Mike realized he was Will Byers' crush. I liked this scene, Will putting his biggest fear — rejection of self — on the line before (most of) the people he cares about.
While Robin appreciates Steve as a friend, it is revealled that she was not obsessed with Steve because she liked him, but rather, envied Steve for being able to naturally charm women, specifically her crush Tammy Thompson, and wished she had the same pull.
Billy's queer coding becomes more blatant during his interactions with Steve Harrington (Joe Keery), especially when they first share a scene in S2E2 (“Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak”) at a Halloween party. At this party, Billy takes Steve's place as “Keg King” and does a stare off with Steve about it.
It was later revealed by Dustin Henderson that the Upside Down was not another dimension at all, but rather a wormhole connecting Earth and the Abyss, the true home of the Demogorgons, Mind Flayer and the vines.
Some say it was the butterfly but Max had a vision before she came across the butterfly. Others think it was Rachel (if you think Rachel is the doe)(but thats a whole different debate) The theory is that Rachel had powers of her own and passed them on to Max.
While investigating the events surrounding Chrissy Cunningham and Fred Benson's deaths, he raided the home of Dr. Owens, demanding information regarding Eleven. He believed Eleven was the cause of the destruction and wanted to neutralize her.