History Characters / StrangerThingsHawkins

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His less than stellar handling of Jason's interrogation sets into motion a domino effect that leads to [[spoiler:Hawkins descending into a paranoid WitchHund mania against the Hellfire Club.]]

** Surprisingly gains shades of this in Season 4. After [[spoiler: Chrissy is found dead in Eddie's trailer,]] he doesn't immediately suspect the latter to be a murderer, as just because a corpse is discovered on your property, it doesn't necessarily make you guilty of their murder (he notably also doesn't include [[spoiler: Eddie's uncle on his list of suspects.]]) It's only after [[spoiler: Eddie]] is confirmed to be at the location of another murder does he begin counting him as a suspect.

* CharacterDevelopment: While not much, it's noticeable. Powell started off in the beginning of the show as very disinterested and usually just following along with whatever Hopper was doing. Following [[spoiler: Hopper's "death" however, he is ranked up to the town Deputy and begins to take the job more seriously. While he's still a bit clueless, he ''does'' try, far far more compared to his Season 1/Season 2 self]].

* TokenMinority: The sole African-American in the little Hawkins police force. Subverted in Season 4, as the Hawkins Police Department gains several new officers, a few of whom are also African-American.

* NoSympathy: No matter what crime he is investigating, this guy will feel not one iota of empathy towards the victim. Subverted in Season 4, where he's just as horrified as everyone else [[spoiler:seeing Chrissy's mangled corpse.]]

Main Cast ([[Characters/StrangerThingsTheParty The Party]] | [[Characters/StrangerThingsAdults Adults]] | [[Characters/StrangerThingsTeens Teens]]) | [[Characters/StrangerThingsSupportingCast Supporting Cast]] | '''Hawkins''' | [[Characters/StrangerThingsHawkinsNationalLaboratory Hawkins National Laboratory]] | [[Characters/StrangerThingsTheUpsideDown The Upside Down]] ([[Characters/StrangerThingsTheMindFlayer The Mind Flayer]] | [[Characters/StrangerThingsVecna Vecna]]) | [[Characters/StrangerThingsOutsiders Outsiders]]-]]]]]

-> See [[Characters/StrangerThingsVecna here]] for more info. (Warning: *MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SEASON 4*)

[[Characters/StrangerThingsMainCast Main Cast]] ([[Characters/StrangerThingsSteveHarrington Steve Harrington]] | [[Characters/StrangerThingsRobinBuckley Robin Buckley]]) | [[Characters/StrangerThingsTheParty The Party]] ([[Characters/StrangerThingsEleven Eleven]]) | [[Characters/StrangerThingsSupportingCast Supporting Cast]] | '''Hawkins''' | [[Characters/StrangerThingsHawkinsNationalLaboratory Hawkins National Laboratory]] | [[Characters/StrangerThingsTheUpsideDown The Upside Down]] ([[Characters/StrangerThingsTheMindFlayer The Mind Flayer]] | [[Characters/StrangerThingsVecna Vecna]]) | [[Characters/StrangerThingsOutsiders Outsiders]]-]]]]]

* HateSink: Like Tommy, Troy, and James, she is a bratty ass bully who treats Nancy and Jonathan (two major characters) like dirt. With little to no redeeming qualities whatsoever, she is probably one of the one-dimensional characters in the show.

* FreudianExcuse: His mother is very easily played, and it's strongly implied that she never holds him accountable for any of the things she ''does'' find out about. In the comic ''The Bully'', his father ( who is abusive towards him) yells at him for his recurring nightmares about Eleven and even encourages him to dump his "loser friend" James. Furthermore, given his father told him Will was probably “killed by another queer “ suggests his father is anything but a good parent and this might be where he gets his politically incorrect views.

* FreudianExcuse: His mother is very easily played, and it's strongly implied that she never holds him accountable for any of the things she ''does'' find out about. In the comic ''The Bully'', his father yells at him for his recurring nightmares about Eleven and even encourages him to dump his "loser friend" James. Furthermore, given his father told him Will was probably “killed by another queer “ suggests his father is anything but a good parent and this might be where he gets his politically incorrect views.

Steve's best friend and Carol's boyfriend. A guy with an extremely caustic personality.

* GirlNextDoor: Under the Flayer's influence during dinner with her parents and Billy (until they drug and knock her parents out), she looks very chipper and perky, in pastels and serving cookies, cosplaying a SeeminglyWholesomeFiftiesGirl, 1980s style.

* IWasQuiteALooker: The flashbacks reveals he was a handsome StandardFiftiesFather with slick light-colored hair and a fit body before he [[EyeScream took his eyes out]].

* RealMenWearPink: A WWII Veteran and StandardFiftiesFather who not only wasn't affected by the toxic masculine standards of his generation but his favorite song is the romantic "Dream A Little Dream of Me". [[labelnote: Note]] Which isn't actually that out of place for Victor's time, especially since songs sung by men and women weren't all that different. Music wasn't anywhere near as saturated as it is now, and especially for soldiers, they would have listened to whatever they could get their hands on, regardless of who was singing or what the song was about. [[/labelnote]]

* StandardFiftiesFather: He was the perfect post-war Patriarch and breadwinner, loving to his wife and children before the events of 1959.

* YouKnowTooMuch: [[spoiler:Merely interacting with Eleven was his death sentence.]]

* FreudianExcuse: His mother is very easily played, and it's strongly implied that she never holds him accountable for any of the things she ''does'' find out about. In the comic ''The Bully'', his father yells at him for his recurring nightmares about Eleven and even encourages him to dump his "loser friend" James.

** He serves a a thorough deconstruction of the VigilanteMan, as he's portrayed not as a noble crusader doing what's necessary for the safety for the common good, but as a stark-raving lunatic whose single-minded obsession with {{revenge}} is getting a lot of innocent people caught in the crossfire.

* NiceGirl: Despite her InformedFlaw, she seems to be a kind enough person who shows genuine concern for Billy.

* Nice Girl:

* RedShirt: She doesn't appear for very long in the two episodes before being assimilated by the Mind Flayer.

* SaltAndPepper: Pepper to Callahan's salt.

** Calvin and Phil bear a more-than-passing resemblance to Lou and Eddie, the SaltAndPepper cops that support Chief Wiggum on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Calvin is even the more intelligent and competent of the two, like Lou.

** Her name can be a shortened version of Christina, the full name of Tina, the first victim of Freddie Krueger in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', who dies in a comparable manner.

* SenpaiKohai: He was Bob Newby's underclassman and friend, this being the reason why he mentors the AV club at school (Bob being Clarke's mentor himself).

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Literally. Jason views himself as the hero of his story, believing he's saving Max when he finds her in a trance but if he hadn't [[spoiler: attacked Lucas and broken Max's cassette player]], Lucas might have been able to [[spoiler: "call in Kate Bush" and save Max from her trance before Vecna could kill her and open the fourth gate.]].

** Notably, after Lucas abandons him and his posse, he concludes that Lucas and the rest of the Hellfire Club are protecting Eddie. It never occurs to him that Lucas actually left after being disturbed by their unnecessary, violent assault of Eddie’s band, which is more accurate because at that point Lucas is unaware Eddie is indeed innocent.

* TheSociopath: Even for a schoolyard bully, Troy is shown to be downright evil, shoving Mike face-first into a rock, hurling racist, homophobic and abliest insults at Lucas, Will and Dustin, respectively, and mocking Wills (supposed) death to Mike's face. After Mike and Eleven humiliate him in front of the school auditorium, he goes full mask-off and reveals himself to be a vicious psychopath who wants Mike '''dead''' after the incident, consequences be damned.

* TheSociopath: Even for a schoolyard bully, Troy is shown to be downright evil, shoving Mike face-first into a rock, hurling racist, homophobic and abliest insults at Lucas, Will and Dustin, respectively, and mocking Wills (supposed) death to Mike's face. [[spoiler: After Mike and Eleven humiliate him in front of the school auditorium, he goes full mask-off and reveals himself to be a vicious psychopath who wants Mike '''dead''' after the incident, consequences be damned.]]