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!!Todd
->'''Played By:''' Dan Triandiflou
Owner of the car commandeered by Hopper.
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* CoolCar: A 1984 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible.
* {{Metalhead}}: When Hop steals his car and turns on the radio, heavy metal starts playing, implying Todd listens to or is curious about the genre.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "The Toddfather". It's based on his first name, but after that one scene we never learn his last name.
* RichBitch: He's credited as "Rich Douchebag Todd".
* VanityLicensePlate: TODFTHR
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!Other Residents
[[folder:Benny Hammond]]
!!Benny Hammond
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->'''Played By:''' Chris Sullivan
The towering owner of a diner and a friend of Chief Hopper. He is the first resident of Hawkins that encounters Eleven.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:His unfortunate fate at the hands of Connie Frazier.]]
* GentleGiant: He's big, muscle-bound and intimidating, but he shelters and feeds Eleven for the short time he met her.
* ItsPersonal: Eleven [[spoiler:squishes Connie Frazier's brains the next time they meet]] because of Benny's assassination.
* NeverSuicide: [[spoiler:Brenner has his murder staged to look like a suicide, but Hopper doesn't totally buy it.]]
* NiceGuy: He initially runs after Eleven because she's stealing from him, but the second he realizes she's in some kind of trouble and is not mentally well, he becomes a very benevolent presence.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:He discovers a dirty, starving little girl in his kitchen, and after realising she requires aid, he cleans her up, gives her fresh clothes, feeds her burgers and ice cream, and phones Social Services in an attempt to help her. His ultimate reward is to be murdered by the DOE and have his death staged as a suicide.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Hopper justifiably suspects foul play in [[spoiler:Benny's "suicide"]], as he knew him personally. He just wasn't the kind of guy that would attempt such a thing.
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:His death goes some way to establishing just how ruthless Brenner and his cronies are.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:In fact, he's killed within the same episode he's introduced.]]
* YouKnowTooMuch: [[spoiler:Merely interacting with Eleven was his death sentence.]]
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[[folder:Keith]]
!!Keith
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"[[GayBestFriend You]] start Monday. [[NoRespectGuy You]] start'' never ''."'']]
->'''Played By:''' Matty Cardarople
->''"Top three movies: Go!"''
An employee at The Palace Arcade and later, Family Video. He is a friend of Robin.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Implied to be this for Nancy, telling the boys he will give them the information they need about Max in the first episode of Season 2 if they can set up a date with him and Nancy, Mike sounds horrified at the prospect.
* HollywoodNerd: He's rather slovenly, suffers from eczema, is seen munching on junk food constantly and his two jobs are both considered nerdy.
* {{Jerkass}}: Comes across as a smug know-it-all who has to be bribed with pretty girls.
* LezBro: He is friendly with [[LipstickLesbian Robin]], having been on the fringes of Hawkins High School society together.
* PerpetualFrowner: His facial expressions range from bored to mildly irritated.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Cheetos or any bag of munchies covered in orange powder.
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[[folder:Doris Driscoll]]
!!Mrs. Doris Driscoll
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->'''Played By:''' Peggy Miley
An old woman who calls the Hawkins Post after rats eat her fertilizer.
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* AlliterativeName: '''D'''oris '''D'''riscoll.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: After the Mind Flayer possessed her, she was found having eaten her fertilizer.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: When Nancy is looking at photographic evidence she has found of the Mind Flayer's victims, she includes a local Catholic church's bulletin about a senior Bingo night where Doris was in attendance. Also has an Irish last name.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Supposedly, according to one of the misogynists at the Hawkins Post, she believed that President Kennedy was assassinated through orders of Lyndon Johnson.
* CoolOldLady: During her brief time before she was brainwashed, she seemed to be a very good humored woman.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: PlayedWith. When she talks to Nancy and Jonathan she seems perfectly lucid, and she is aware that her claims of diseased rats eating fertilizer can be easily dismissed as the ramblings of a senile old lady, so she makes sure to have the evidence to back it up. Tom does say that she is a paranoid schizophrenic, but since he is [[spoiler: already Flayed at this point and she becomes Flayed soon after]], whether this is the truth or an attempt at a cover up is unclear.
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[[folder:Victor Creel]]
!!Victor Creel
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/RobertEnglund
A man who was accused of brutally murdering his entire family and cutting out their eyes back in 1950's Hawkins. Was confined to a mental asylum after being found insane.
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* BrokenBird: A proud husband and father with a mansion in 1959, now a disturbed mental patient who gouged out his eyes in 1986.
* DadTheVeteran: A family man, and saw combat during WWII.
* EyeScream: Cut out his own eyes while in the asylum as an attempt to reunite with his family in death but the doctors stopped the bleeding.
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* HappilyMarried: He was close and in love with his late wife Virgina and seeing her die still breaks his heart in his old age.
* 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]].
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He not only saw his wife die horrifically, but also his daughter and was told his son died in a coma. [[spoiler: All reports were half right]].
* PapaWolf: As soon as dead animals start appearing around the house Victor starts trying to guard his family by sitting on the porch with a rifle.
* 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".
* StandardFiftiesFather: He was the perfect post-war Patriarch and breadwinner, in addition, loving to his wife and children before the events of 1959.
* WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism: During WWII, he ordered the shelling of what turned out to be German civilians.
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[[folder:Benny Hammond]]
!!Benny Hammond
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->'''Played By:''' Chris Sullivan
The towering owner of a diner and a friend of Chief Hopper. He is the first resident of Hawkins that encounters Eleven.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:His unfortunate fate at the hands of Connie Frazier.]]
* GentleGiant: He's big, muscle-bound and intimidating, but he shelters and feeds Eleven for the short time he met her.
* ItsPersonal: Eleven [[spoiler:squishes Connie Frazier's brains the next time they meet]] because of Benny's assassination.
* NeverSuicide: [[spoiler:Brenner has his murder staged to look like a suicide, but Hopper doesn't totally buy it.]]
* NiceGuy: He initially runs after Eleven because she's stealing from him, but the second he realizes she's in some kind of trouble and is not mentally well, he becomes a very benevolent presence.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: [[spoiler:He discovers a dirty, starving little girl in his kitchen, and after realising she requires aid, he cleans her up, gives her fresh clothes, feeds her burgers and ice cream, and phones Social Services in an attempt to help her. His ultimate reward is to be murdered by the DOE and have his death staged as a suicide.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Hopper justifiably suspects foul play in [[spoiler:Benny's "suicide"]], as he knew him personally. He just wasn't the kind of guy that would attempt such a thing.
* SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:His death goes some way to establishing just how ruthless Brenner and his cronies are.]]
* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:In fact, he's killed within the same episode he's introduced.]]
* YouKnowTooMuch: [[spoiler:Merely interacting with Eleven was his death sentence.]]
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[[folder:Keith]]
!!Keith
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->'''Played By:''' Matty Cardarople
->''"Top three movies: Go!"''
An employee at The Palace Arcade and later, Family Video. He is a friend of Robin.
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* AbhorrentAdmirer: Implied to be this for Nancy, telling the boys he will give them the information they need about Max in the first episode of Season 2 if they can set up a date with him and Nancy, Mike sounds horrified at the prospect.
* HollywoodNerd: He's rather slovenly, suffers from eczema, is seen munching on junk food constantly and his two jobs are both considered nerdy.
* {{Jerkass}}: Comes across as a smug know-it-all who has to be bribed with pretty girls.
* LezBro: He is friendly with [[LipstickLesbian Robin]], having been on the fringes of Hawkins High School society together.
* PerpetualFrowner: His facial expressions range from bored to mildly irritated.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Cheetos or any bag of munchies covered in orange powder.
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[[folder:Doris Driscoll]]
!!Mrs. Doris Driscoll
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->'''Played By:''' Peggy Miley
An old woman who calls the Hawkins Post after rats eat her fertilizer.
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* AlliterativeName: '''D'''oris '''D'''riscoll.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: After the Mind Flayer possessed her, she was found having eaten her fertilizer.
* ChristianityIsCatholic: When Nancy is looking at photographic evidence she has found of the Mind Flayer's victims, she includes a local Catholic church's bulletin about a senior Bingo night where Doris was in attendance. Also has an Irish last name.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Supposedly, according to one of the misogynists at the Hawkins Post, she believed that President Kennedy was assassinated through orders of Lyndon Johnson.
* CoolOldLady: During her brief time before she was brainwashed, she seemed to be a very good humored woman.
* ScatterbrainedSenior: PlayedWith. When she talks to Nancy and Jonathan she seems perfectly lucid, and she is aware that her claims of diseased rats eating fertilizer can be easily dismissed as the ramblings of a senile old lady, so she makes sure to have the evidence to back it up. Tom does say that she is a paranoid schizophrenic, but since he is [[spoiler: already Flayed at this point and she becomes Flayed soon after]], whether this is the truth or an attempt at a cover up is unclear.
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[[folder:Victor Creel]]
!!Victor Creel
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->'''Played By:''' Creator/RobertEnglund
A man who was accused of brutally murdering his entire family and cutting out their eyes back in 1950's Hawkins. Was confined to a mental asylum after being found insane.
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* BrokenBird: A proud husband and father with a mansion in 1959, now a disturbed mental patient who gouged out his eyes in 1986.
* DadTheVeteran: A family man, and saw combat during WWII.
* EyeScream: Cut out his own eyes while in the asylum as an attempt to reunite with his family in death but the doctors stopped the bleeding.
%%*FrameUp: [[spoiler: He's actually a victim of this]].
* HappilyMarried: He was close and in love with his late wife Virgina and seeing her die still breaks his heart in his old age.
* 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]].
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: He not only saw his wife die horrifically, but also his daughter and was told his son died in a coma. [[spoiler: All reports were half right]].
* PapaWolf: As soon as dead animals start appearing around the house Victor starts trying to guard his family by sitting on the porch with a rifle.
* 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".
* StandardFiftiesFather: He was the perfect post-war Patriarch and breadwinner, in addition, loving to his wife and children before the events of 1959.
* WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism: During WWII, he ordered the shelling of what turned out to be German civilians.
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* 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 which are also African-American.
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* DeconstructedTrope: Of TheAce, and of teenaged detectives like Archie from ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' and several charactera from ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy''. He certainly seems to ''think'' he is this, and so do many others, but the only things he appears to be good at are basketball and self-indulgent speeches, none of which makes him a good detective. That, and his "investigation" basically amounts to what the average teenager's critical thinking is like: biased and full of baseless assumptions. Jason is basically what these types of characters would be like in real life: irrational, entitled, manipulative, vindictive, and completely out of their depth.
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* DeconstructedTrope: DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of TheAce, TheHero, and of teenaged detectives like Archie from ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' and several charactera from ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy''. He certainly seems to ''think'' he is this, and so do many others, but the only things he appears to be good at are basketball and self-indulgent speeches, none of which makes him a good detective. detective, yet he still believes he has the right to lead his friends on a manhunt. That, and his "investigation" basically amounts to what vigilante justice, torturing Eddie's friends for information, and presumably planning to ''murder'' Eddie, things that would [[MoralMyopia probably be dismissed as no big deal if Jason was the average teenager's critical thinking is like: biased and full of baseless assumptions. main character.]] Jason is basically what these types of characters would be like in real life: biased, irrational, entitled, manipulative, vindictive, and completely out of their depth.
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* DeconstructedTrope: Of TheAce, and of teenaged detectives like Archie from ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' and several charactera from ''Series/13ReasonsWhy''. He certainly seems to ''think'' he is this, and so do many others, but the only things he appears to be good at are basketball and self-indulgent speeches, none of which makes him a good detective. That, and his "investigation" basically amounts to what the average teenager's critical thinking is like: biased and full of baseless assumptions. Jason is basically what these types of characters would be like in real life: irrational, entitled, manipulative, vindictive, and completely out of their depth.
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* DeconstructedTrope: Of TheAce, and of teenaged detectives like Archie from ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' and several charactera from ''Series/13ReasonsWhy''.''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy''. He certainly seems to ''think'' he is this, and so do many others, but the only things he appears to be good at are basketball and self-indulgent speeches, none of which makes him a good detective. That, and his "investigation" basically amounts to what the average teenager's critical thinking is like: biased and full of baseless assumptions. Jason is basically what these types of characters would be like in real life: irrational, entitled, manipulative, vindictive, and completely out of their depth.
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* 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 which are also African-American.
* 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 which are also African-American.
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* NoSympathy: No matter what crime he is investigating, this guy will feel not one iota of empathy towards the victim.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Officer Powell is almost always with him.
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* PornStache:In Starting in Season 2, he's sporting a thick, bushy 'stache.
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* AntiVillain: While he leads the basketball team in a man hunt for Eddie so they can assault him, he's got an understandable motive in that his girlfriend was murdered and Eddie is the prime suspect. Really, anyone in his shoes would have jumped to the same conclusion.
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* AntiVillain: While he leads the basketball team in a man hunt for Eddie so they can assault him, he's got an understandable motive in that his girlfriend was murdered and Eddie is the prime suspect. Really, anyone Chrissy did die horribly in Eddie's trailer, and Jason doesn't know about any of the evidence that shows it wasn't possible for Eddie to have done it. Although his pre-existing dislike and prejudice is clearly a factor in why he latches onto Eddie so strongly, Jason does appear to genuinely believe in his shoes would have jumped to the same conclusion.guilt--the problem is that he takes things ''way'' too far.
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* JerkJock: Downplayed, he's an antagonist is so far as he's hunting Eddie, but he's never shown to be outwardly cruel to anyone else.
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* WentCrazyWhenTheyLeft: He was always a prejudiced guy, with a dislike for outcasts and "freaks", but was never seen treating them with anything worse than disdain, and was nice or at least polite with everyone else. Chrissy's murder sends him over the edge, and he becomes a violent KnightTemplar when hunting the one he thinks is responsible, and doesn't seem to care about who he has to hurt in the process.
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* BodyHorror: How she is tragically killed.
* WeHardlyknewYe: Introduced in episode one of season four. Dies in episode one of season four.
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* PetTheDog: Always nice to Lucas, even going as far as to say that Lucas doesn't have to participate in their Eddie Hunt after Chrissy's death.
* PetTheDog: Always nice to Lucas, even going as far as to say that Lucas doesn't have to participate in their Eddie Hunt after Chrissy's death.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While he's after the wrong person, all his actions stem from the fact that his girlfriend was brutally killed in Eddies trailer. It's kind of understandable why he's on a crusade.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While he's after the wrong person, all his actions stem from the fact that his girlfriend was brutally killed in Eddies trailer. It's kind of understandable why he's on a crusade.
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-->'''Played by:''' Mason Dye
The captain of the Hawkins High basketball team.
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* BigJerkOnCampus: He's the most popular guy in school, dating the most popular girl in school, and captain of a basketball team on a winning streak. He also hates anyone he considers a "freak" to the point of outright violence.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Somehow manages to make the multiple horrific deaths in Hawkins about...how important it is for the Tigers to win a basketball game. He also quickly makes Chrissy's death all about how ''he'' needs to hunt down Eddie--ostensibly to "help" the cops, but it's clear that Jason actually just wants to get there first so he can get what he believes is revenge.
* PopularIsEvil: See above; Jason is pretty much the older, more charismatic version of Troy.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He is this to Lucas, manipulating him into joining the basketball team's hunt for Eddie.
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* PopularIsEvil: See above; Jason is pretty much the older, more charismatic version of Troy.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: He is this to Lucas, manipulating him into joining the basketball team's hunt for Eddie.
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!Hawkins Police Department
[[folder:Powell]]
!!Officer Calvin Powell
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->'''Played By:''' Rob Morgan
Chief Hopper's second-in-command in the investigation. A laid-back Police Officer, largely uninterested in the investigation.
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* CluelessDeputy: Played with. What makes him clueless isn't so much a lack of intelligence, but rather the fact that he is too skeptical and uninterested to pick up on all the weird stuff happening in Hawkins. Hopper also seems to consider him the more reliable of his deputies. Given the competition, though...
* DudeNotFunny: His quips tend to be really poorly timed, from cracking about Joyce's SanitySlippage to [[spoiler:suggesting Will is too dead for an interrogation just a few days into the search for him.]]
* SaltAndPepper: Pepper to Callahan's salt.
* TheScully: He's not just skeptical, he's also lazy.
* ShoutOut: 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.
** He’s also got the same name as Sergeant Powell from Film/DieHard.
* TheSlacker: Yes-no. It's not that he's completely clocked-out, but rather that he jumps on ''anything'' that could close a case both quickly and with the minimal hassle for him.
* SmallTownBoredom: Contrary to the Chief, Officer Powell is ostensibly a small town cop unwilling to go the extra mile.
* ThoseTwoGuys: He is often seen with Callahan by his side.
* TokenMinority: The sole African-American in the little Hawkins police force.
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[[folder:Callahan]]
!!Officer Phil Callahan
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->'''Played By:''' John Reynolds
One of Chief Hopper's officers with a tendency of speaking without thinking.
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* CluelessDeputy: A more straight example than Powell. Compared to him, Callahan is very obviously none too bright.
* {{Jerkass}}: He has a tendency to make rather obnoxious comments about people who don't really merit it, including those who are victims of crimes. Given his general demeanour of cluelessness, however, it doesn't really seem to be out of maliciousness as much as just a kind of thoughtless dim-witted insensitivity.
* NoSympathy: No matter what crime he is investigating, this guy will feel not one iota of empathy towards the victim.
* PornStache: In Season 2, he's sporting a thick, bushy 'stache.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Officer Powell is almost always with him.
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[[folder:Florence]]
!!Florence
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->'''Played By:''' Susan Shalhoub Larkin
Hawkins Police station's secretary and clerk. A grandmotherly figure.
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* FiftiesHair: Wears a fuzzy and soft version of a style worn by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
* ApronMatron: She is the stern yet loving glue that holds the police department together. Her no-nonsense attitude appears to be the only thing protecting Hopper from himself at the start of the series.
* CoolOldLady: She is completely unfazed by her co-workers' quirks, can snark back and forth with Hopper like a pro, and shows some admiration towards Jonathan for standing up for Nancy.
* TheFace: The reason why she's the one to interact with the public the most is that she's not a {{Jerkass}} like everyone else in the station and is the one who shows the most empathy towards crime victims.
* MoralityChain: For Hopper and the police department as a whole.
* OnlySaneEmployee: She routinely has to remind Hopper and his deputees that ''yes'', they have a duty to the citizens of their town and ''no'', [[PiratesWhoDontDoAnything they can't laze around the station all day]].
* SassySecretary: Shows shades of this, having somewhat of a sarcastic streak with Hopper and the deputies, but at the end of the day, always has their best interests at heart.
* TheReliableOne: She serves unofficially as the person who talks to relatives at the station.
* TeamMom: Everybody at the station bows to her as if she were their momma. Played for comedy in Season 2 where she plucks a cigarette out of Hopper's mouth and replaces his donut with a piece of fruit all while briefing him on the business of the day.
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!Hawkins High School
[[folder:Tommy]]
!!Tommy H.
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->'''Played By:''' Chester Rushing
Steve's best friend and Carol's boyfriend. A guy with an extremely caustic personality.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: His relationship with utter bitch Carol is a match made in heaven/hell -- take your pick.
* TheBully: It comes with being a JerkJock. With the exception of his equally horrible girlfriend, Tommy picks on just about everyone.
* DemotedToExtra: For the majority of Season 2, although in the fourth episode, he informs Steve and Billy in the shower about Jonathan and Nancy’s relationship going back on. Needless to say, he is still the same, if not on a marginal level. By the events of Season 3, he is completely out of the main character's lives (not that anyone misses him, though).
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The cool and cruel Tommy and Carol have the most consistent relationship in the series. Barb says that they've probably been having sex since the 7th grade. They're always seen together and always support each other. When Steve loses his temper and yells at Carol in "The Bathtub," Tommy's temper explodes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He is momentarily taken aback when he sees Jonathan's stalker photos.
* HateSink: This jock has no redeeming qualities in his soulless bones, other than his love for the equally terrible Carol.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Steve finally calls him out on his behavior, Tommy immediately points out that he's never stopped him.
* JerkJock: Tommy is on the basketball team and is ''aggressively'' unpleasant.
* PoisonousFriend: It doesn't take him long to try spiking Steve's relationship with Nancy. For what looks suspiciously like the giggles. Begs the question of just how much of their relationship is for the lulz on his end.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Most of Steve's poor behavior is due to Tommy's hateful influence. He eventually comes to realize that Tommy and Carol only serve to bring out the worst in him. Steven undergoes a lot of character development as Tommy and Carol's influence on him fades.
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!!Carol
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->'''Played By:''' Chelsea Talmadge
Tommy's girlfriend. An equally caustic girl with a chip on her shoulder.
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* SeventiesHair: Her hairstyle retains the face-framing curls influence of the last decade in the first season.
* EightiesHair: She updates her hairstyle with more bouffant waves and heavy bangs in Season Two.
* AlphaBitch: Played with. She's a clear-cut example of trope of a catty popular girl who torments those she sees as inferior, but normally seems to hang out in a group of friends entirely consisting of guys (aside from herself).
* BirdsOfAFeather: She's basically a gender-flipped version of her boyfriend Tommy. It's a horrible thing to see in action.
* BitchAlert: She doesn't even try to pretend to be nice. Just about every word out of her mouth is abuse and condescension.
* TheBully: Just like her boyfriend, Carol enjoys taunting people.
* DemotedToExtra: Appears in the first episode of Season 2 admiring Billy with two other girls and in the background of the second episode. By Season 3, she is completely absent from the main storyline (not that anyone seems to care).
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She actually seems distressed when [[spoiler:Steve and Jonathan are fist-fighting]] and tries to get Tommy to break it up.
* 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.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Slut-shames Nancy after having previously made fun of a teacher for (allegedly) being a virgin. In addition, it's hinted that she and Tommy have played the full baseball game, themselves.
* {{Jerkass}}: Every bit as much of an unpleasant, braying jackass as Tommy.
* PoisonousFriend: If Nancy thought she could eventually be, if not fast friends, than at least friendly with this little viper, she was horribly mistaken. But, Steve was the most mistaken of all.
* SlutShaming: On the giving end of it towards Nancy, going as far to help spray paint "Nancy the slut Wheeler" on a movie theater marquee. This also drives home what a hypocrite she is, as it's well known that she and Tommy have slept together plenty of times.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Guess who supplies some of the slut-shaming ideas to both Tommy and Steve?
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[[folder:Chrissy Cunningham]]
!!Chrissy Cunningham
->'''Played By:''' Grace Van Dien
A cheerleader at Hawkins High.
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* AbusiveParents: Her mother is implied to be verbally, emotionally and physically abusive to Chrissy, even body-shaming her daughter to the point she develops an eating disorder. It's implied that her father was much kinder, though.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Is known as "The Queen of Hawkins High" according to Eddie, who seems to be interested in her. Additionally, she already had a boyfriend who was crazy about her.
* TheCheerleader: A NiceGirl example, but she definitely fits the stereotypes of being pretty, skinny, rich, popular, and having body image issues.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: She seeks a drug deal with Eddie for this, because of the various mental issues she's having.
* ClassPrincess: She's a rich, popular, good-looking cheerleader who's dating the captain of the basketball team, but that doesn't keep her from being kind to those below her on the social ladder, namely Eddie.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has blonde hair, and is a NiceGirl.
* HiddenDepths: On the outside, she appears to have the perfect life. She's a pretty, popular teenager from a wealthy home, she has a boyfriend who cares for her, and she's on the cheerleading squad. However, her home life is less than perfect and she seems to be struggling with anxiety and PTSD on top of her eating disorder.
* LimitedWardrobe: She's only ever seen in her cheerleading uniform.
* SacrificialLamb: Dies during the first episode of season 4, being the first to present the season's new threat.
* WeightWoe: To the point of having an eating disorder, most likely bulimia based on her purging behavior in the bathroom.
* TheWoobie: Is a good-natured girl who's been traumatized by the tragedies happening around town all while dealing with her mother's abuse and struggling with an eating disorder. Then she starts having terrifying hallucinations and flashbacks, and ends up getting possessed and being the SacrificialLamb to the eldritch horror at the start of season 4.
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[[folder:Scott Clarke]]
!!Prof. Scott Clarke; Mr. Clarke
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->'''Played By:''' Randall P. Havens
->''"Science is neat, but I'm afraid it's not very forgiving."''
The boys' science teacher. A friendly, knowledgeable man and enthusiastic teacher.
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* CoolTeacher: He's a smart, compassionate man who loves his job and acts as a mentor to the AV Club. He even purchases a ham radio for our kid heroes to play around with during lunch. Mr. Clarke is also familiar with ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', which serves as a plot point, explains parallel dimensions to the boys, and tries to console them [[spoiler:at Will's funeral]]. [[spoiler:He even tells them how to build a sensory deprivation tank at night while on a date!]] Season 3 reveals that he has an absolutely ''massive'' custom built and painted D&D board in his basement.
* DemotedToExtra: Has a significantly smaller role in Season 2 and only a single scene in Season 3. {{Justified}} in Season 3 at least since it takes place during summer vacation and away from school, making his presence harder to explain.
* IHaveThisFriend: His students milk him for advice by claiming that all of its applications exist in the realm of the hypothetical.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Dustin easily guilts him into [[spoiler:telling him how to create a sensory deprivation tank "for fun"... with the aid of the fact that he's in such a rush to get back to his date, that he gives the boy potentially dangerous scientific information despite trepidations.]]
* KavorkaMan: He's just as geeky as the main characters, but he's got an attractive girlfriend at home.
* MeaningfulName: Given that he explains the some of the more fantastic aspects of Upside-Down in scientific terms that the boys can understand, he may have been named for [[ClarkesThirdLaw Arthur C. Clarke]].
* MrExposition: Despite having a fairly small role, every single scene with him in it is vital because he explains everything the main characters need to know, especially regarding science and specifically electricity, although he seems to genuinely have no idea why they want to know any of it.
* NiceGuy: He's in the running for the most kind-hearted citizen in Hawkins, and is one of the first volunteers to go out searching for Will.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The boys actively try to keep him out of what is happening quite deliberately by framing everything in hypotheticals and throwing smokescreens up. They do both like and, to a great extent, trust him. But, they also know exactly how crazy everything sounds. And, that it would be his job to report them.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He is shown to be remarkably caring and nurturing of the kids' pursuits regardless of the weirdness of their requests and the appropriateness of the situation.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:In Season 3, following the revelation that Billy was flayed there is an extended shot of Scott doing ''something'' shifty while Joyce is ringing his house bell. It powerfully indicates that poor Mr. Clark has also been Flayed...then it's revealed he was just ''really'' focused on [[CoolTeacher painting his D&D miniatures]].]]
* ScienceIsBad: And very, very cool, but it's mostly unforgiving on the careless, therefore he advises that his students treat it safe. Which is this trope played for the better: safety goggles are needed for ''a reason''.
* SempaiKohai: 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).
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His scenes are few and far between, yet his explanations on electromagnetism gave Joyce the knowledge to investigate the latest town conspiracy that would lead to her helping to thwart the Soviets.
* SuperGullible: The various lies that [[BadLiar the boys]] have fed to him (Eleven is from Sweden, the boys are "in mourning" immediately before Dustin [[MoodKiller complains about the lack of Nilla Wafers]], and they're building a sensory deprivation tank "for fun") really, ''really'' have no business working on him. His excuse could be that he's aware they're lying, but assumes mostly benign or childish reasons lie behind the awkward. It's not like "interdimensional shenanigans and governmental conspiracies" would be your first guess, either, in his shoes. It could also overlap with PlausibleDeniability, the less he knows, the less he'd have to tell anyone else.
* UnwittingPawn: He's fooled by Brenner's men into revealing the names of the children in his AV club, under the pretense of enrolling them in a state-wide AV project. Brenner's men knew that Eleven was in the AV room and therefore any kid who used it could have seen her.
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!!Troy
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->'''Played By:''' Peyton Wich
The boys' classmate and school bully. A cruel, mocking kid.
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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Not at first, but when El humiliates him in front of the whole school, he becomes ''murderously'' angry.]]
* BarbaricBully: [[spoiler:He tries to outright kill Mike by threatening to cut Dustin's teeth out of his mouth! That's some [[Literature/{{IT}} Henry Bowers]]-level shit.]]
* BullyBrutality: [[spoiler:He threatens Dustin at knifepoint so that Mike jumps into the gorge. Even his best friend James is apprehensive about him taking it too far.]]
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Troy is absent from the remainder of the series, save for the tie-in comic ''The Bully'', which reveals what he and James were up to during season 2.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Eleven made him pee himself in front of the whole school. His response is to [[spoiler:try to kill Mike]] in retribution. The kid's messed up, alright.
* EnfantTerrible: Easily the cruelest, most malicious kid in the show. Come the tie-in comic ''The Bully'' and he’s not so malicious.
* 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 recuring nightmares about Eleven and even encourages him to dump his "lose" James.
* HateSink: There are no redeeming qualities beneath his bullying. Unlike Steve, he never reforms, or shows any remorse for his actions. He is also racist to Lucas. Reading ''The Bully'' tie-in comic [[UnintentionallySympathetic kills whatever hatred you might have had for him.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory / ADayInTheLimelight: Troy is the protagonist of the tie-in comic ''The Bully'', which expands on his character, actually creating [[FreudianExcuse legitimate motivations]] for his actions and a reason why he is what he is: his parents are rather [[AbusiveParents impatient]] to say the least.
* {{Jerkass}}: Who taunts the friends of a missing, possibly dead, kid, saying that he was killed?
* KnifeNut: He carries a knife around, which he uses to make threats against his victims.
* KnightOfCerebus: Despite not being a significant threat in the series, the scene in which he tries to kill both Mike and Dustin is pretty dark and realistic.
* PetTheDog: In the comic ''The Bully'', he apologises to James for leaving him alone while they were attacked by demodogs.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: After [[spoiler:Eleven breaks his arm with her powers]], he goes with his mother to the police to try to have her arrested, claiming she attacked him for no good reason, conveniently leaving out the fact that he was [[spoiler:trying to ''murder'' Mike]] at the time.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He derisively refers to the dark-skinned Lucas as 'midnight' and makes homophobic comments about Will.
* PottyFailure: Eleven makes him piss himself in front of the entire school.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:He bullies Mike into jumping into a gorge by threatening to cut out Dustin's teeth. Considering what Hopper said in an earlier episode, the drop would have been fatal.]]
* SanitySlippage: Not at first, but he becomes downright psychotic after some choice humiliation.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He exhibits the standard bullying tactics of name-calling and tripping up his victims, but he well and truly crosses the line into this territory when he grabs Dustin and threatens to chisel his teeth out with a knife. It's pretty clear that whatever's up with him and his home-life, it's ''very'' far from normal.
* UhOhEyes: Due to his actor having rather deep-set, dark eyes, Troy looks positively ''demonic'' when angry.
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[[folder:James]]
!!James
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->'''Played By:''' Cade Jones
The boys' other school bully. Mainly tags along with Troy.
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* TheBully: He is Troy's stooge and bullies the heroes alongside him.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Like Troy, no explanation is given for his absence in the remainder of the show.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a bully and a serious jerk, but even he's disturbed by some of Troy's actions. The tie-in comic ''The Bully'' shows some of his softer side.
* {{Jerkass}}: A nasty person all around, but he serves mostly as Troy's enabler. And, even he grows a little hesitant to go that far.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Uses racist and homophobic slurs.
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[[folder:Stacy Albright]]
!!Stacy Albright
->'''Played by:''' Sydney Bullock
An Alpha Bitch who has a couple of encounters with Dustin, Eleven, and Max.
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* EightiesHair: Has very crimped and frizzled red hair that she teases to high heaven, often not as aesthetically pleasing to the taste of contemporary audiences.
* AlphaBitch: Openly sneers at other kids, including Dustin and Eleven, for tripping on heels.
* BitchAlert: Even just before she cruelly rejects Dustin and he's even asked her, she makes derisive looks and comments about the Snow Ball.
* BullyingTheDragon: She makes the mistake at openly sneering at Eleven, who happens to possess psychic powers that can explode an Orange Julius in her face. Did we mentioned that she also happen to make a dear friend of the psychic girl cry?
* {{Foil}}: To Carol. Both are red-haired, popular, mean and snotty and function as antagonists to the main cast of the show socially; but while Carol practically disappears after seen fawning over Billy in Season 2, she doesn't earn any comeuppance for her prior cruelty unlike Stacy who deals with the effects of bullying a psychic girl and her friend.
* HateSink: She made Dustin feel bad after rejecting his offer of dancing with her and sneers at Eleven.
* HypocriticalHumor: She sneers at Dustin's teased hairdo (courtesy of tips and approval from Steve) while sporting frizzled hair that looks even more ridiculous.
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!Hawkins Post
[[folder:Hawkins Post]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Tom and Bruce go through a TraumaCongaLine of being Flayed, beaten up, liquefied, turned into a freakish chimera abomination, then absorbed into the Mind Flayer's physical body. Considering the kind of people they were, though, it's hard to feel sorry for either of them.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler: The editor of the local paper and possibly his entire staff become pawns to some overarching danger right around the time Soviets invade Hawkins. There's clearly meant to be an Orwell-style allegory.]]
* FatBastard: At least one of the men who bullies Nancy is obese.
* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: All the staff are in their 40s and 50s, yet bully teenage interns.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The male staff all show a regressive attitude towards women, especially women who show ambition.
* StrawmanNewsMedia: Possibly the least reliable source of information until conspiracy theorists discovered Patreon. They routinely ignore any topics of interest Nancy brings up based on her gender and lack of experience, [[spoiler: then at least two of them become servants of the Mind-Flayer]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bruce Lowe]]
!!Bruce Lowe
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stranger_things_season_3_jake_busey_as_bruce_1933242.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Nancy Drew-eww...Where are youuu...?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JakeBusey
A journalist for the ''Hawkins Post''.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Did anyone really cry when he got Flayed? Didn’t think so.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:He and Tom are melted and then merged into a freakish chimera.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:He is eventually possessed by the Mind Flayer alongside Tom. Needless to say, his already creepy and assholish demeanor is amplified under its influence.]]
* HateSink: He's an even more obnoxious of a bully towards Nancy than Tom and doesn't even have his love for his family to redeem him.
* HeManWomanHater: His behavior towards Nancy gives off this vibe, the worst sexist men in [[Series/MadMen Sterling Cooper]] would find him horrid.
* JerkAss: Every scene of his is spent bullying/demeaning Nancy with childish pranks and misogynistic comments.
* LargeHam: It only serves to make him more obnoxious.
* MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler:When he gets flayed and attacks Nancy, his taunting use of her nickname implies that he's not truly a puppet of the Mind Flayer. A more accurate descrption would be that his nastier tendencies have been enhanced.]]
* {{Troll}}: He seems to get a real kick out of being a general asshole, going the extra mile to annoy Nancy more than most anyone else in the office.
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!Hawkins Police Department
[[folder:Powell]]
!!Officer Calvin Powell
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->'''Played By:''' Rob Morgan
Chief Hopper's second-in-command in the investigation. A laid-back Police Officer, largely uninterested in the investigation.
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* CluelessDeputy: Played with. What makes him clueless isn't so much a lack of intelligence, but rather the fact that he is too skeptical and uninterested to pick up on all the weird stuff happening in Hawkins. Hopper also seems to consider him the more reliable of his deputies. Given the competition, though...
* DudeNotFunny: His quips tend to be really poorly timed, from cracking about Joyce's SanitySlippage to [[spoiler:suggesting Will is too dead for an interrogation just a few days into the search for him.]]
* SaltAndPepper: Pepper to Callahan's salt.
* TheScully: He's not just skeptical, he's also lazy.
* ShoutOut: 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.
** He’s also got the same name as Sergeant Powell from Film/DieHard.
* TheSlacker: Yes-no. It's not that he's completely clocked-out, but rather that he jumps on ''anything'' that could close a case both quickly and with the minimal hassle for him.
* SmallTownBoredom: Contrary to the Chief, Officer Powell is ostensibly a small town cop unwilling to go the extra mile.
* ThoseTwoGuys: He is often seen with Callahan by his side.
* TokenMinority: The sole African-American in the little Hawkins police force.
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[[folder:Callahan]]
!!Officer Phil Callahan
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->'''Played By:''' John Reynolds
One of Chief Hopper's officers with a tendency of speaking without thinking.
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* CluelessDeputy: A more straight example than Powell. Compared to him, Callahan is very obviously none too bright.
* {{Jerkass}}: He has a tendency to make rather obnoxious comments about people who don't really merit it, including those who are victims of crimes. Given his general demeanour of cluelessness, however, it doesn't really seem to be out of maliciousness as much as just a kind of thoughtless dim-witted insensitivity.
* NoSympathy: No matter what crime he is investigating, this guy will feel not one iota of empathy towards the victim.
* PornStache: In Season 2, he's sporting a thick, bushy 'stache.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Officer Powell is almost always with him.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Florence]]
!!Florence
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->'''Played By:''' Susan Shalhoub Larkin
Hawkins Police station's secretary and clerk. A grandmotherly figure.
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* FiftiesHair: Wears a fuzzy and soft version of a style worn by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
* ApronMatron: She is the stern yet loving glue that holds the police department together. Her no-nonsense attitude appears to be the only thing protecting Hopper from himself at the start of the series.
* CoolOldLady: She is completely unfazed by her co-workers' quirks, can snark back and forth with Hopper like a pro, and shows some admiration towards Jonathan for standing up for Nancy.
* TheFace: The reason why she's the one to interact with the public the most is that she's not a {{Jerkass}} like everyone else in the station and is the one who shows the most empathy towards crime victims.
* MoralityChain: For Hopper and the police department as a whole.
* OnlySaneEmployee: She routinely has to remind Hopper and his deputees that ''yes'', they have a duty to the citizens of their town and ''no'', [[PiratesWhoDontDoAnything they can't laze around the station all day]].
* SassySecretary: Shows shades of this, having somewhat of a sarcastic streak with Hopper and the deputies, but at the end of the day, always has their best interests at heart.
* TheReliableOne: She serves unofficially as the person who talks to relatives at the station.
* TeamMom: Everybody at the station bows to her as if she were their momma. Played for comedy in Season 2 where she plucks a cigarette out of Hopper's mouth and replaces his donut with a piece of fruit all while briefing him on the business of the day.
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!Hawkins High School
[[folder:Tommy]]
!!Tommy H.
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->'''Played By:''' Chester Rushing
Steve's best friend and Carol's boyfriend. A guy with an extremely caustic personality.
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* BirdsOfAFeather: His relationship with utter bitch Carol is a match made in heaven/hell -- take your pick.
* TheBully: It comes with being a JerkJock. With the exception of his equally horrible girlfriend, Tommy picks on just about everyone.
* DemotedToExtra: For the majority of Season 2, although in the fourth episode, he informs Steve and Billy in the shower about Jonathan and Nancy’s relationship going back on. Needless to say, he is still the same, if not on a marginal level. By the events of Season 3, he is completely out of the main character's lives (not that anyone misses him, though).
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The cool and cruel Tommy and Carol have the most consistent relationship in the series. Barb says that they've probably been having sex since the 7th grade. They're always seen together and always support each other. When Steve loses his temper and yells at Carol in "The Bathtub," Tommy's temper explodes.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He is momentarily taken aback when he sees Jonathan's stalker photos.
* HateSink: This jock has no redeeming qualities in his soulless bones, other than his love for the equally terrible Carol.
* JerkassHasAPoint: When Steve finally calls him out on his behavior, Tommy immediately points out that he's never stopped him.
* JerkJock: Tommy is on the basketball team and is ''aggressively'' unpleasant.
* PoisonousFriend: It doesn't take him long to try spiking Steve's relationship with Nancy. For what looks suspiciously like the giggles. Begs the question of just how much of their relationship is for the lulz on his end.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Most of Steve's poor behavior is due to Tommy's hateful influence. He eventually comes to realize that Tommy and Carol only serve to bring out the worst in him. Steven undergoes a lot of character development as Tommy and Carol's influence on him fades.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Carol]]
!!Carol
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->'''Played By:''' Chelsea Talmadge
Tommy's girlfriend. An equally caustic girl with a chip on her shoulder.
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* SeventiesHair: Her hairstyle retains the face-framing curls influence of the last decade in the first season.
* EightiesHair: She updates her hairstyle with more bouffant waves and heavy bangs in Season Two.
* AlphaBitch: Played with. She's a clear-cut example of trope of a catty popular girl who torments those she sees as inferior, but normally seems to hang out in a group of friends entirely consisting of guys (aside from herself).
* BirdsOfAFeather: She's basically a gender-flipped version of her boyfriend Tommy. It's a horrible thing to see in action.
* BitchAlert: She doesn't even try to pretend to be nice. Just about every word out of her mouth is abuse and condescension.
* TheBully: Just like her boyfriend, Carol enjoys taunting people.
* DemotedToExtra: Appears in the first episode of Season 2 admiring Billy with two other girls and in the background of the second episode. By Season 3, she is completely absent from the main storyline (not that anyone seems to care).
* EvenEvilHasStandards: She actually seems distressed when [[spoiler:Steve and Jonathan are fist-fighting]] and tries to get Tommy to break it up.
* 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.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Slut-shames Nancy after having previously made fun of a teacher for (allegedly) being a virgin. In addition, it's hinted that she and Tommy have played the full baseball game, themselves.
* {{Jerkass}}: Every bit as much of an unpleasant, braying jackass as Tommy.
* PoisonousFriend: If Nancy thought she could eventually be, if not fast friends, than at least friendly with this little viper, she was horribly mistaken. But, Steve was the most mistaken of all.
* SlutShaming: On the giving end of it towards Nancy, going as far to help spray paint "Nancy the slut Wheeler" on a movie theater marquee. This also drives home what a hypocrite she is, as it's well known that she and Tommy have slept together plenty of times.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Guess who supplies some of the slut-shaming ideas to both Tommy and Steve?
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Chrissy Cunningham]]
!!Chrissy Cunningham
->'''Played By:''' Grace Van Dien
A cheerleader at Hawkins High.
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* AbusiveParents: Her mother is implied to be verbally, emotionally and physically abusive to Chrissy, even body-shaming her daughter to the point she develops an eating disorder. It's implied that her father was much kinder, though.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Is known as "The Queen of Hawkins High" according to Eddie, who seems to be interested in her. Additionally, she already had a boyfriend who was crazy about her.
* TheCheerleader: A NiceGirl example, but she definitely fits the stereotypes of being pretty, skinny, rich, popular, and having body image issues.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: She seeks a drug deal with Eddie for this, because of the various mental issues she's having.
* ClassPrincess: She's a rich, popular, good-looking cheerleader who's dating the captain of the basketball team, but that doesn't keep her from being kind to those below her on the social ladder, namely Eddie.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Has blonde hair, and is a NiceGirl.
* HiddenDepths: On the outside, she appears to have the perfect life. She's a pretty, popular teenager from a wealthy home, she has a boyfriend who cares for her, and she's on the cheerleading squad. However, her home life is less than perfect and she seems to be struggling with anxiety and PTSD on top of her eating disorder.
* LimitedWardrobe: She's only ever seen in her cheerleading uniform.
* SacrificialLamb: Dies during the first episode of season 4, being the first to present the season's new threat.
* WeightWoe: To the point of having an eating disorder, most likely bulimia based on her purging behavior in the bathroom.
* TheWoobie: Is a good-natured girl who's been traumatized by the tragedies happening around town all while dealing with her mother's abuse and struggling with an eating disorder. Then she starts having terrifying hallucinations and flashbacks, and ends up getting possessed and being the SacrificialLamb to the eldritch horror at the start of season 4.
[[/folder]]
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!Hawkins Middle School
[[folder:Scott Clarke]]
!!Prof. Scott Clarke; Mr. Clarke
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->'''Played By:''' Randall P. Havens
->''"Science is neat, but I'm afraid it's not very forgiving."''
The boys' science teacher. A friendly, knowledgeable man and enthusiastic teacher.
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* CoolTeacher: He's a smart, compassionate man who loves his job and acts as a mentor to the AV Club. He even purchases a ham radio for our kid heroes to play around with during lunch. Mr. Clarke is also familiar with ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', which serves as a plot point, explains parallel dimensions to the boys, and tries to console them [[spoiler:at Will's funeral]]. [[spoiler:He even tells them how to build a sensory deprivation tank at night while on a date!]] Season 3 reveals that he has an absolutely ''massive'' custom built and painted D&D board in his basement.
* DemotedToExtra: Has a significantly smaller role in Season 2 and only a single scene in Season 3. {{Justified}} in Season 3 at least since it takes place during summer vacation and away from school, making his presence harder to explain.
* IHaveThisFriend: His students milk him for advice by claiming that all of its applications exist in the realm of the hypothetical.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Dustin easily guilts him into [[spoiler:telling him how to create a sensory deprivation tank "for fun"... with the aid of the fact that he's in such a rush to get back to his date, that he gives the boy potentially dangerous scientific information despite trepidations.]]
* KavorkaMan: He's just as geeky as the main characters, but he's got an attractive girlfriend at home.
* MeaningfulName: Given that he explains the some of the more fantastic aspects of Upside-Down in scientific terms that the boys can understand, he may have been named for [[ClarkesThirdLaw Arthur C. Clarke]].
* MrExposition: Despite having a fairly small role, every single scene with him in it is vital because he explains everything the main characters need to know, especially regarding science and specifically electricity, although he seems to genuinely have no idea why they want to know any of it.
* NiceGuy: He's in the running for the most kind-hearted citizen in Hawkins, and is one of the first volunteers to go out searching for Will.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: The boys actively try to keep him out of what is happening quite deliberately by framing everything in hypotheticals and throwing smokescreens up. They do both like and, to a great extent, trust him. But, they also know exactly how crazy everything sounds. And, that it would be his job to report them.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He is shown to be remarkably caring and nurturing of the kids' pursuits regardless of the weirdness of their requests and the appropriateness of the situation.
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:In Season 3, following the revelation that Billy was flayed there is an extended shot of Scott doing ''something'' shifty while Joyce is ringing his house bell. It powerfully indicates that poor Mr. Clark has also been Flayed...then it's revealed he was just ''really'' focused on [[CoolTeacher painting his D&D miniatures]].]]
* ScienceIsBad: And very, very cool, but it's mostly unforgiving on the careless, therefore he advises that his students treat it safe. Which is this trope played for the better: safety goggles are needed for ''a reason''.
* SempaiKohai: 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).
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His scenes are few and far between, yet his explanations on electromagnetism gave Joyce the knowledge to investigate the latest town conspiracy that would lead to her helping to thwart the Soviets.
* SuperGullible: The various lies that [[BadLiar the boys]] have fed to him (Eleven is from Sweden, the boys are "in mourning" immediately before Dustin [[MoodKiller complains about the lack of Nilla Wafers]], and they're building a sensory deprivation tank "for fun") really, ''really'' have no business working on him. His excuse could be that he's aware they're lying, but assumes mostly benign or childish reasons lie behind the awkward. It's not like "interdimensional shenanigans and governmental conspiracies" would be your first guess, either, in his shoes. It could also overlap with PlausibleDeniability, the less he knows, the less he'd have to tell anyone else.
* UnwittingPawn: He's fooled by Brenner's men into revealing the names of the children in his AV club, under the pretense of enrolling them in a state-wide AV project. Brenner's men knew that Eleven was in the AV room and therefore any kid who used it could have seen her.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Troy]]
!!Troy
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/troyst.jpg]]
->'''Played By:''' Peyton Wich
The boys' classmate and school bully. A cruel, mocking kid.
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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:Not at first, but when El humiliates him in front of the whole school, he becomes ''murderously'' angry.]]
* BarbaricBully: [[spoiler:He tries to outright kill Mike by threatening to cut Dustin's teeth out of his mouth! That's some [[Literature/{{IT}} Henry Bowers]]-level shit.]]
* BullyBrutality: [[spoiler:He threatens Dustin at knifepoint so that Mike jumps into the gorge. Even his best friend James is apprehensive about him taking it too far.]]
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Troy is absent from the remainder of the series, save for the tie-in comic ''The Bully'', which reveals what he and James were up to during season 2.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Eleven made him pee himself in front of the whole school. His response is to [[spoiler:try to kill Mike]] in retribution. The kid's messed up, alright.
* EnfantTerrible: Easily the cruelest, most malicious kid in the show. Come the tie-in comic ''The Bully'' and he’s not so malicious.
* 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 recuring nightmares about Eleven and even encourages him to dump his "lose" James.
* HateSink: There are no redeeming qualities beneath his bullying. Unlike Steve, he never reforms, or shows any remorse for his actions. He is also racist to Lucas. Reading ''The Bully'' tie-in comic [[UnintentionallySympathetic kills whatever hatred you might have had for him.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory / ADayInTheLimelight: Troy is the protagonist of the tie-in comic ''The Bully'', which expands on his character, actually creating [[FreudianExcuse legitimate motivations]] for his actions and a reason why he is what he is: his parents are rather [[AbusiveParents impatient]] to say the least.
* {{Jerkass}}: Who taunts the friends of a missing, possibly dead, kid, saying that he was killed?
* KnifeNut: He carries a knife around, which he uses to make threats against his victims.
* KnightOfCerebus: Despite not being a significant threat in the series, the scene in which he tries to kill both Mike and Dustin is pretty dark and realistic.
* PetTheDog: In the comic ''The Bully'', he apologises to James for leaving him alone while they were attacked by demodogs.
* PlayingTheVictimCard: After [[spoiler:Eleven breaks his arm with her powers]], he goes with his mother to the police to try to have her arrested, claiming she attacked him for no good reason, conveniently leaving out the fact that he was [[spoiler:trying to ''murder'' Mike]] at the time.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He derisively refers to the dark-skinned Lucas as 'midnight' and makes homophobic comments about Will.
* PottyFailure: Eleven makes him piss himself in front of the entire school.
* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler:He bullies Mike into jumping into a gorge by threatening to cut out Dustin's teeth. Considering what Hopper said in an earlier episode, the drop would have been fatal.]]
* SanitySlippage: Not at first, but he becomes downright psychotic after some choice humiliation.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: He exhibits the standard bullying tactics of name-calling and tripping up his victims, but he well and truly crosses the line into this territory when he grabs Dustin and threatens to chisel his teeth out with a knife. It's pretty clear that whatever's up with him and his home-life, it's ''very'' far from normal.
* UhOhEyes: Due to his actor having rather deep-set, dark eyes, Troy looks positively ''demonic'' when angry.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:James]]
!!James
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->'''Played By:''' Cade Jones
The boys' other school bully. Mainly tags along with Troy.
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* TheBully: He is Troy's stooge and bullies the heroes alongside him.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Like Troy, no explanation is given for his absence in the remainder of the show.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He may be a bully and a serious jerk, but even he's disturbed by some of Troy's actions. The tie-in comic ''The Bully'' shows some of his softer side.
* {{Jerkass}}: A nasty person all around, but he serves mostly as Troy's enabler. And, even he grows a little hesitant to go that far.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Uses racist and homophobic slurs.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Stacy Albright]]
!!Stacy Albright
->'''Played by:''' Sydney Bullock
An Alpha Bitch who has a couple of encounters with Dustin, Eleven, and Max.
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* EightiesHair: Has very crimped and frizzled red hair that she teases to high heaven, often not as aesthetically pleasing to the taste of contemporary audiences.
* AlphaBitch: Openly sneers at other kids, including Dustin and Eleven, for tripping on heels.
* BitchAlert: Even just before she cruelly rejects Dustin and he's even asked her, she makes derisive looks and comments about the Snow Ball.
* BullyingTheDragon: She makes the mistake at openly sneering at Eleven, who happens to possess psychic powers that can explode an Orange Julius in her face. Did we mentioned that she also happen to make a dear friend of the psychic girl cry?
* {{Foil}}: To Carol. Both are red-haired, popular, mean and snotty and function as antagonists to the main cast of the show socially; but while Carol practically disappears after seen fawning over Billy in Season 2, she doesn't earn any comeuppance for her prior cruelty unlike Stacy who deals with the effects of bullying a psychic girl and her friend.
* HateSink: She made Dustin feel bad after rejecting his offer of dancing with her and sneers at Eleven.
* HypocriticalHumor: She sneers at Dustin's teased hairdo (courtesy of tips and approval from Steve) while sporting frizzled hair that looks even more ridiculous.
[[/folder]]
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!Hawkins Post
[[folder:Hawkins Post]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Tom and Bruce go through a TraumaCongaLine of being Flayed, beaten up, liquefied, turned into a freakish chimera abomination, then absorbed into the Mind Flayer's physical body. Considering the kind of people they were, though, it's hard to feel sorry for either of them.]]
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler: The editor of the local paper and possibly his entire staff become pawns to some overarching danger right around the time Soviets invade Hawkins. There's clearly meant to be an Orwell-style allegory.]]
* FatBastard: At least one of the men who bullies Nancy is obese.
* PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: All the staff are in their 40s and 50s, yet bully teenage interns.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The male staff all show a regressive attitude towards women, especially women who show ambition.
* StrawmanNewsMedia: Possibly the least reliable source of information until conspiracy theorists discovered Patreon. They routinely ignore any topics of interest Nancy brings up based on her gender and lack of experience, [[spoiler: then at least two of them become servants of the Mind-Flayer]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bruce Lowe]]
!!Bruce Lowe
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stranger_things_season_3_jake_busey_as_bruce_1933242.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Nancy Drew-eww...Where are youuu...?"'']]
->'''Played By:''' Creator/JakeBusey
A journalist for the ''Hawkins Post''.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Did anyone really cry when he got Flayed? Didn’t think so.]]
* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:He and Tom are melted and then merged into a freakish chimera.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:He is eventually possessed by the Mind Flayer alongside Tom. Needless to say, his already creepy and assholish demeanor is amplified under its influence.]]
* HateSink: He's an even more obnoxious of a bully towards Nancy than Tom and doesn't even have his love for his family to redeem him.
* HeManWomanHater: His behavior towards Nancy gives off this vibe, the worst sexist men in [[Series/MadMen Sterling Cooper]] would find him horrid.
* JerkAss: Every scene of his is spent bullying/demeaning Nancy with childish pranks and misogynistic comments.
* LargeHam: It only serves to make him more obnoxious.
* MoreThanMindControl: [[spoiler:When he gets flayed and attacks Nancy, his taunting use of her nickname implies that he's not truly a puppet of the Mind Flayer. A more accurate descrption would be that his nastier tendencies have been enhanced.]]
* {{Troll}}: He seems to get a real kick out of being a general asshole, going the extra mile to annoy Nancy more than most anyone else in the office.
[[/folder]]
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