Alone by the pool, Barb is abducted by the Demogorgon and disappears. Episode 3 finds Barb waking up in the Upside Down, where she is attacked by the Demogorgon.
Barb sits outside near the pool and the Demogorgon grabs her, and before she knows it, in episode 3 "Holly, Jolly," she's in the Upside Down. The Demogorgon then kills her brutally.
Hurt and disoriented, Barb woke up in the Upside Down's version of the pool, which was empty. Upon noticing the Demogorgon, she screamed, alerting his attention and she tried to climb out of the pool. The Demogorgon sadistically allowed Barb to almost leave, but dragged her back into the pool and mauled her to death.
Say, with Barbara it is still explainable: the monster opens a portal in the pool, Barbara falls there, ends up on at the bottom of the pool, tries to escape, gets caught by the monster.
The teenager was dragged into the Upside Down and quickly killed by the creature. Nancy later spent time searching for her friend until the truth about her death was unearthed. Seeing as Barb served as a symbol of innocence, viewers were upset about her sudden death.
The Demogorgon Tried (& Failed) To Use Barb
Barb's death implied that whatever the slug does didn't take, so the Mind Flayer reached out to Will instead. It could be that the Mind Flayer needed a younger host, or Barb may have simply died while the Demogorgon was attempting to infect her.
Of course, we've known this for a while—she was killed in season one by The Monster/Demogorgon in the Upside Down pool—but that doesn't make our grief less real.
The Demogorgon
This is the monster that originally took and feasted on Barb (RIP), attacked Nancy through the tree gateway, and tormented both Will and Eleven. It's kind of like a demon that's face opens up and reveals a million, zillion teeth, accompanied by a screeching roar.
The site also got to speak with Aaron Sims himself, who revealed that the fan favorite character Barb (Shannon Purser), who was devoured by the Demogorgon and was seen dead in the Upside Down, almost had a much worse fate.
Barbara Holland: While immersed in the Void, Eleven scoured the Upside Down to find Will and Barbara. She discovered Barb's corpse and saw a larva slither out of Barb's mouth and across her face.
In the end, the Hollands get some closure—if not the total truth—about what happened to their daughter, as Hawkins Lab and the Department of Energy take the blame for Barb's death, pinning it on a made-up “experimental chemical asphyxiant, which had leaked from the grounds of the lab.” (It's a win-win situation, even ...
In episode 7, Vecna is revealed to be Henry Creel (played as a youngster by Raphael Luce), the son of Victor Creel (Robert Englund) and his wife Virginia (Tyner Rushing) shown in the 1950s flashbacks.
Eventually, the Demogorgon found them, breaking into the room and attacking them. Eleven confronted the creature, pinning it against the blackboard with her mind. After wishing farewell to her friends, she proceeded to disintegrate the creature, vanishing as well in the process.
Vecna, who preys on the shame of his victims, taps into Nancy's guilt and grief over Barb's death. Nancy sees an image of Barb's dead body in her vision of the Upside Down.
- robin tries running away (like el in s2, max in her novel, and jonathan also wrongfully assumed Will ranaway in s1 too). -bob newby describes the byers family as his "home" . Similar to how El describes the Hawkins gang as "home". - robin says she was friends with barb before nancy.
Vecna was the one who originally kidnapped Will in season 1.
Vecna was the original child studied by Dr. Brenner and the son of Victor Creel. He's the infamous Number One, but had his powers blocked and worked as an aide in the Hawkins National Lab.
Demogorgon is first mentioned in the commentary on Statius's Thebaid often attributed in manuscripts to a Lactantius Placidus, (c. 350–400 AD). The Lactantius Placidus commentary became the most common medieval commentary on the poem by Statius and is transmitted in most early editions up to 1600.
Joyce and Chief Hopper found an unconscious Will Byers strung up in the Upside Down version of the public library; he had a tendril in his mouth, extending through his trachea, and into his lungs. Hopper pulled it out of his throat before shooting and destroying it.
It was revealed in Stranger Things season 4 that Vecna has been pulling the strings behind the Upside-Down's incursion throughout the show's events, so he may have intentionally kept Will alive in the Upside Down.
He hid in the shed but the Demogorgon caught him and took him to the Upside Down. Now, some fans believe Will hurt himself enough to bleed even if slightly when he crashed his bike, and that's why the Demogorgon went after him.
With Vecna taking centre-stage in the fourth season of Stranger Things, eagle-eyed fans have been spotting clues that he's actually been around since season one.
The Mind Flayer persisted, but was overwhelmed by El's powers forcing him to retreat back into the Gate. El then sealed it, and the Mind Flayer is heard roaring in anger and defeat afterwards. The closure of the gate resulted in his influence over the Demodogs, and D'Artagnan, to cease and they all died instantly.
Among the species, there are three significant members; the Hawkins Demogorgon, D'Artagnan and the Russian Demogorgon. Adoscelent Demogorgons who haven't reached adulthood are known as Demodogs, a term coined by Dustin Henderson due to them basically being Demogorgons whose behavior resemble that of dogs.