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* IronicName: Angela sure doesn't display any angelic qualities.
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* {{Jerkass}}: This is the ''kindest'' word you can use to describe her. She's a relentless and sadistic bully who makes El's school life a living Hell, mocks Hopper, ruins her date with Mike, and starts crying when Eleven retaliates.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: One of the first things we learn about him is that he used to call Will homophobic slurs. Crossed with DeliberateValuesDissonance, as this wouldn't have been considered politically incorrect in 1980s Indiana, but is ''extremely'' so to the modern-day audience watching the show.
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* TheSociopath: Definitely a high-functioning example, and a creepily accurate one. He has zero empathy, shallow affect, oversees the torture of US citizens, appears unsettlingly calm at all times, and can't possibly think that he's wrong in his very limited assessment of the situation.
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[[folder:Enzo]]
!! Dimitri "Enzo" Antonov
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->'''Played By:''' Tom Wlaschiha
A prison guard at the Gulag holding Hopper in season 4, which also doubles as the training ground for the Soviet Demogorgon.
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!!Warden Melnikov
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* AllThereInTheManual: He's not been referred to as "Dimitri" in the show yet, but is billed as such in casting information.
* ChummyCommies: Corrupt as he may be, he's quite personable.
* DirtyCop: Prison Guard but engages in corrupt and criminal behavior like working with a smuggler and taking bribes from prisoners. In this case it's a heroic example, as the regime he works for is a cruel and evil one, and his "corruption" is in aiding a hero, albeit primarily for his own benefit.
* FireForgedFriends: With Hopper. Originally just an alliance of mutual convenience, to which he doesn't care if Hopper succeeds or not, they become much more genuine allies when forced to fight the Soviet Demogorgon together. Hopper trusts him enough to keep an eye on Yuri when the latter is trying to kickstart a helicopter, making sure he wont sabotague them any further.
* OhCrap: He has three. The first is when he realizes that [[spoiler:Yuri has betrayed him and his superiors are coming to apprehend him.]] The second is when Hopper starts to describe the Soviet Demogorgon and he realizes exactly how bad their odds against it are. The other is when Hopper tells him about being hit by Agent Orange during the Vietnam War; it's pretty clear he knows what the Agent Orange can do.
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Yuri calls him Enzo, the name he apparently took to coordinate Hopper's escape, which was in reference to a place important to both Hopper and Joyce.
* TokenGoodTeammate: After Alexei, he's the only other Soviet that isn't a villain.
* WellDoneDadGuy: He's got a teenage son who doesn't think too highly of him.
* ChummyCommies: Corrupt as he may be, he's quite personable.
* DirtyCop: Prison Guard but engages in corrupt and criminal behavior like working with a smuggler and taking bribes from prisoners. In this case it's a heroic example, as the regime he works for is a cruel and evil one, and his "corruption" is in aiding a hero, albeit primarily for his own benefit.
* FireForgedFriends: With Hopper. Originally just an alliance of mutual convenience, to which he doesn't care if Hopper succeeds or not, they become much more genuine allies when forced to fight the Soviet Demogorgon together. Hopper trusts him enough to keep an eye on Yuri when the latter is trying to kickstart a helicopter, making sure he wont sabotague them any further.
* OhCrap: He has three. The first is when he realizes that [[spoiler:Yuri has betrayed him and his superiors are coming to apprehend him.]] The second is when Hopper starts to describe the Soviet Demogorgon and he realizes exactly how bad their odds against it are. The other is when Hopper tells him about being hit by Agent Orange during the Vietnam War; it's pretty clear he knows what the Agent Orange can do.
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Yuri calls him Enzo, the name he apparently took to coordinate Hopper's escape, which was in reference to a place important to both Hopper and Joyce.
* TokenGoodTeammate: After Alexei, he's the only other Soviet that isn't a villain.
* WellDoneDadGuy: He's got a teenage son who doesn't think too highly of him.
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* AllThereInTheManual: He's not been referred to as "Dimitri" AllThereInTheScript: His name is never spoken in the show yet, but is billed as such itself. He's only ever named in casting information.
the credits.
*ChummyCommies: Corrupt as he may be, ArcVillain: For Hopper and Joyce's storyline in season 4. He has no connection to the Vecna conflict at all, save for the revelation he's quite personable.
* DirtyCop: Prison Guard but engages in corrupt and criminal behavior like workingbeen experimenting with a smuggler the Upside Down and taking bribes from prisoners. In this case it's a heroic example, as the regime he works for is has a cruel and evil one, and gate of his "corruption" is in aiding own.
* {{Sadist}}: It takes ahero, albeit primarily for his own benefit.
* FireForgedFriends: With Hopper. Originally just an alliance''special'' kind of mutual convenience, crazy to which he doesn't care if Hopper succeeds or not, they become much more genuine allies when forced to fight the Soviet use a captive Demogorgon together. Hopper trusts him enough to keep an eye for gladiator games. He even spiels on Yuri when the latter is trying to kickstart a helicopter, making sure he wont sabotague them any further.
* OhCrap: He has three. The first is when he realizes that [[spoiler:Yuri has betrayed him and his superiors are coming to apprehend him.]] The second is when Hopper starts to describe the Soviet Demogorgon and he realizes exactly how bad their odds against it are. The other is when Hopper tells himat one point about how he loves seeing the hope being hit by Agent Orange during the Vietnam War; it's pretty clear he knows what the Agent Orange can do.
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Yuri calls him Enzo, the name he apparently tookripped from his prisoners' faces, shortly before they're ripped to coordinate Hopper's escape, which was in reference to a place important to both Hopper and Joyce.
* TokenGoodTeammate: After Alexei, he's the only other Soviet that isn't a villain.
* WellDoneDadGuy: He's got a teenage son who doesn't think too highly of him.actual shreds.
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* DirtyCop: Prison Guard but engages in corrupt and criminal behavior like working
* {{Sadist}}: It takes a
* FireForgedFriends: With Hopper. Originally just an alliance
* OhCrap: He has three. The first is when he realizes that [[spoiler:Yuri has betrayed him and his superiors are coming to apprehend him.]] The second is when Hopper starts to describe the Soviet Demogorgon and he realizes exactly how bad their odds against it are. The other is when Hopper tells him
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: Yuri calls him Enzo, the name he apparently took
* TokenGoodTeammate: After Alexei, he's the only other Soviet that isn't a villain.
* WellDoneDadGuy: He's got a teenage son who doesn't think too highly of him.
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!!Yuri Ismaylov
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->'''Played By:''' Nikola Đuričko
A Russian smuggler who profits off of the Cold War, and is hired to help get Hopper home.
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* AffablyEvil: He's a genuinely upbeat and cheery criminal smuggler who happily sells out Hopper, Enzo, and Joyce while pocketing the money they paid him. Enzo mentions that Yuri was once a far more impressive figure before his reputation sank to "peanutbutter smuggler".
* TheAtoner: After all the crap he put Hopper, Joyce, Murray and Enzo through, he manages to redeem himself by tracking down a helicopter and getting them out of the gulag.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's first introduced as a comedic character who acts very chummy and playful. This makes it all the more jarring when he becomes a traitor who singlehandedly ruins the heroes' plans.
* ChangedMyMindKid: [[spoiler:Is about to leave Hopper, Joyce, and Murray to their fates, but Enzo manages to awaken his conscience by appealing to his sense of patriotism and his apparently once-heroic past.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the LoveableRogue and OnlyInItForTheMoney. Yuri has no issue breaking laws to smuggle in goods to Russia for the right price, and seems affable when he first meets Joyce and Murray, but at the end of the day, he is only looking out for himself. While this kind of character might be considered a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in another story, it's made pretty clear here that he's a complete JerkAss whose only priority is how much money he can make. [[spoiler: This is why he ultimately reneges on the agreement he made with Enzo: Why simply take the $40,000 he's going to receive anyways when he can also betray Hopper, Enzo, Joyce, and Murray to the KGB and make even more money off of that?]] Unfortunately for Yuri, this ends up proving to be his undoing: [[spoiler: When Joyce and Murray eventually break free and overpower Yuri on the flight over, they crash his plane in Russia, take Yuri hostage, force him to help them break into the prison to rescue Hopper, and make it very clear to Yuri that the only "reward" he's getting at this point is not being tied up and left to freeze to death in the wilderness.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: If Yuri had just done what he was hired to do in the first place, he still would have received his money's worth while avoiding a lot of unnecessary grief. Instead, {{Greed}} got the better of him, and he betrayed Hopper and Enzo while also kidnapping Murray and Joyce so he could hand them over to the KGB for the right price. Right away, his plans went sideways: His plane gets destroyed, he is held hostage by the very people he was trying to kidnap (who are extremely pissed with him), he's forced to break into a Russian prison while being BoundAndGagged, and the only reason he survives the finale is because the others need a pilot.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He claims to sincerely love his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother]] and his daughter, with his [[spoiler:betrayal of Joyce and Murray motivated by getting enough money to set them up for life.]]
* FakeRussian: played by a Serbian actor using his native accent, no less.
* FallenHero: Downplayed; he's closest to the "withdrawn" subtrope. Although he used to be hailed a hero, by the time Joyce and Murray reach him he's an opportunistic smuggler.
* FamedInStory: He's a pretty well-known smuggler in his corner of the Soviet Union, and a former hero. (The latter part may explain why the authorities seem to tolerate him, despite the former part. That, or he's just a useful informant.)
* HiddenDepths: As Enzo pointed out, Yuri was originally a more noble rogue that would be ashamed of the opportunist he's turned into. This is enough to make Yuri reflect and eventually atone.
* LargeHam: Oh my. He barely utters a word that isn't a part of a loony, bombastic tirade filled with the oddest digressions.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He completely upsets the heroes' plan to get Hopper out of jail. As a result, he's forced to participate in an even '''riskier''' plan that what was already set into motion; Murray takes his place, tapes his mouth shut and makes him act as a prisoner, and he spends the rest of his runtime gagged, bound and forced to hop around.
* NoodleIncident: The event that earned him a reputation for heroism isn't described in detail. It seems to have been a flare-up of the Sino-Soviet conflict.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Nikola Đuričko plays the Russian Yuri with his native, Serbian accent, [[LargeHam joyously serving it up]].
* OpportunisticBastard: Paying this guy upfront turned out to be a ''very'' big mistake for everyone involved.
* OhCrap: When his prisoners turn the tables on him and tie him to a tree in the Arctic environment, they point out that whilst they may not be hard enough to kill him, they won't ''need'' to, since he'd be as good as dead left in a hostile wilderness. His face falls immediately.
* VenturousSmuggler: Deconstructed, as the kind of person willing to do such work is probably not a heroic or trustworthy individual.
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[[folder:Melnikov]]
!!Warden Melnikov
->'''Played by''': Vaidotas Martinaitis
The warden of the ''Kamchatka'' prison, within which Hopper finds himself locked up in season 4.
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* AllThereInTheScript: His name is never spoken in the show itself. He's only ever named in the credits.
* ArcVillain: For Hopper and Joyce's storyline in season 4. He has no connection to the Vecna conflict at all, save for the revelation he's been experimenting with the Upside Down and he has a gate of his own.
* {{Sadist}}: It takes a ''special'' kind of crazy to use a captive Demogorgon for gladiator games. He even spiels on at one point about how he loves seeing the hope being ripped from his prisoners' faces, shortly before they're ripped to actual shreds.
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* TheAtoner: After all the crap he put Hopper, Joyce, Murray and Enzo through, he manages to redeem himself by tracking down a helicopter and getting them out of the gulag.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's first introduced as a comedic character who acts very chummy and playful. This makes it all the more jarring when he becomes a traitor who singlehandedly ruins the heroes' plans.
* ChangedMyMindKid: [[spoiler:Is about to leave Hopper, Joyce, and Murray to their fates, but Enzo manages to awaken his conscience by appealing to his sense of patriotism and his apparently once-heroic past.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the LoveableRogue and OnlyInItForTheMoney. Yuri has no issue breaking laws to smuggle in goods to Russia for the right price, and seems affable when he first meets Joyce and Murray, but at the end of the day, he is only looking out for himself. While this kind of character might be considered a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in another story, it's made pretty clear here that he's a complete JerkAss whose only priority is how much money he can make. [[spoiler: This is why he ultimately reneges on the agreement he made with Enzo: Why simply take the $40,000 he's going to receive anyways when he can also betray Hopper, Enzo, Joyce, and Murray to the KGB and make even more money off of that?]] Unfortunately for Yuri, this ends up proving to be his undoing: [[spoiler: When Joyce and Murray eventually break free and overpower Yuri on the flight over, they crash his plane in Russia, take Yuri hostage, force him to help them break into the prison to rescue Hopper, and make it very clear to Yuri that the only "reward" he's getting at this point is not being tied up and left to freeze to death in the wilderness.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: If Yuri had just done what he was hired to do in the first place, he still would have received his money's worth while avoiding a lot of unnecessary grief. Instead, {{Greed}} got the better of him, and he betrayed Hopper and Enzo while also kidnapping Murray and Joyce so he could hand them over to the KGB for the right price. Right away, his plans went sideways: His plane gets destroyed, he is held hostage by the very people he was trying to kidnap (who are extremely pissed with him), he's forced to break into a Russian prison while being BoundAndGagged, and the only reason he survives the finale is because the others need a pilot.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He claims to sincerely love his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother]] and his daughter, with his [[spoiler:betrayal of Joyce and Murray motivated by getting enough money to set them up for life.]]
* FakeRussian: played by a Serbian actor using his native accent, no less.
* FallenHero: Downplayed; he's closest to the "withdrawn" subtrope. Although he used to be hailed a hero, by the time Joyce and Murray reach him he's an opportunistic smuggler.
* FamedInStory: He's a pretty well-known smuggler in his corner of the Soviet Union, and a former hero. (The latter part may explain why the authorities seem to tolerate him, despite the former part. That, or he's just a useful informant.)
* HiddenDepths: As Enzo pointed out, Yuri was originally a more noble rogue that would be ashamed of the opportunist he's turned into. This is enough to make Yuri reflect and eventually atone.
* LargeHam: Oh my. He barely utters a word that isn't a part of a loony, bombastic tirade filled with the oddest digressions.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He completely upsets the heroes' plan to get Hopper out of jail. As a result, he's forced to participate in an even '''riskier''' plan that what was already set into motion; Murray takes his place, tapes his mouth shut and makes him act as a prisoner, and he spends the rest of his runtime gagged, bound and forced to hop around.
* NoodleIncident: The event that earned him a reputation for heroism isn't described in detail. It seems to have been a flare-up of the Sino-Soviet conflict.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Nikola Đuričko plays the Russian Yuri with his native, Serbian accent, [[LargeHam joyously serving it up]].
* OpportunisticBastard: Paying this guy upfront turned out to be a ''very'' big mistake for everyone involved.
* OhCrap: When his prisoners turn the tables on him and tie him to a tree in the Arctic environment, they point out that whilst they may not be hard enough to kill him, they won't ''need'' to, since he'd be as good as dead left in a hostile wilderness. His face falls immediately.
* VenturousSmuggler: Deconstructed, as the kind of person willing to do such work is probably not a heroic or trustworthy individual.
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[[folder:Melnikov]]
!!Warden Melnikov
->'''Played by''': Vaidotas Martinaitis
The warden of the ''Kamchatka'' prison, within which Hopper finds himself locked up in season 4.
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* AllThereInTheScript: His name is never spoken in the show itself. He's only ever named in the credits.
* ArcVillain: For Hopper and Joyce's storyline in season 4. He has no connection to the Vecna conflict at all, save for the revelation he's been experimenting with the Upside Down and he has a gate of his own.
* {{Sadist}}: It takes a ''special'' kind of crazy to use a captive Demogorgon for gladiator games. He even spiels on at one point about how he loves seeing the hope being ripped from his prisoners' faces, shortly before they're ripped to actual shreds.
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* TheAtoner: After all the crap he put Hopper, Joyce, Murray and Enzo through, he manages to redeem himself by tracking down a helicopter and getting them out of the gulag.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: He's first introduced as a comedic character who acts very chummy and playful. This makes it all the more jarring when he becomes a traitor who singlehandedly ruins the heroes' plans.
* ChangedMyMindKid: [[spoiler:Is about to leave Hopper, Joyce, and Murray to their fates, but Enzo manages to awaken his conscience by appealing to his sense of patriotism and his apparently once-heroic past.]]
* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the LoveableRogue and OnlyInItForTheMoney. Yuri has no issue breaking laws to smuggle in goods to Russia for the right price, and seems affable when he first meets Joyce and Murray, but at the end of the day, he is only looking out for himself. While this kind of character might be considered a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in another story, it's made pretty clear here that he's a complete JerkAss whose only priority is how much money he can make. [[spoiler: This is why he ultimately reneges on the agreement he made with Enzo: Why simply take the $40,000 he's going to receive anyways when he can also betray Hopper, Enzo, Joyce, and Murray to the KGB and make even more money off of that?]] Unfortunately for Yuri, this ends up proving to be his undoing: [[spoiler: When Joyce and Murray eventually break free and overpower Yuri on the flight over, they crash his plane in Russia, take Yuri hostage, force him to help them break into the prison to rescue Hopper, and make it very clear to Yuri that the only "reward" he's getting at this point is not being tied up and left to freeze to death in the wilderness.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: If Yuri had just done what he was hired to do in the first place, he still would have received his money's worth while avoiding a lot of unnecessary grief. Instead, {{Greed}} got the better of him, and he betrayed Hopper and Enzo while also kidnapping Murray and Joyce so he could hand them over to the KGB for the right price. Right away, his plans went sideways: His plane gets destroyed, he is held hostage by the very people he was trying to kidnap (who are extremely pissed with him), he's forced to break into a Russian prison while being BoundAndGagged, and the only reason he survives the finale is because the others need a pilot.]]
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He claims to sincerely love his [[EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas mother]] and his daughter, with his [[spoiler:betrayal of Joyce and Murray motivated by getting enough money to set them up for life.]]
* FakeRussian: played by a Serbian actor using his native accent, no less.
* FallenHero: Downplayed; he's closest to the "withdrawn" subtrope. Although he used to be hailed a hero, by the time Joyce and Murray reach him he's an opportunistic smuggler.
* FamedInStory: He's a pretty well-known smuggler in his corner of the Soviet Union, and a former hero. (The latter part may explain why the authorities seem to tolerate him, despite the former part. That, or he's just a useful informant.)
* HiddenDepths: As Enzo pointed out, Yuri was originally a more noble rogue that would be ashamed of the opportunist he's turned into. This is enough to make Yuri reflect and eventually atone.
* LargeHam: Oh my. He barely utters a word that isn't a part of a loony, bombastic tirade filled with the oddest digressions.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He completely upsets the heroes' plan to get Hopper out of jail. As a result, he's forced to participate in an even '''riskier''' plan that what was already set into motion; Murray takes his place, tapes his mouth shut and makes him act as a prisoner, and he spends the rest of his runtime gagged, bound and forced to hop around.
* NoodleIncident: The event that earned him a reputation for heroism isn't described in detail. It seems to have been a flare-up of the Sino-Soviet conflict.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Nikola Đuričko plays the Russian Yuri with his native, Serbian accent, [[LargeHam joyously serving it up]].
* OpportunisticBastard: Paying this guy upfront turned out to be a ''very'' big mistake for everyone involved.
* OhCrap: When his prisoners turn the tables on him and tie him to a tree in the Arctic environment, they point out that whilst they may not be hard enough to kill him, they won't ''need'' to, since he'd be as good as dead left in a hostile wilderness. His face falls immediately.
* VenturousSmuggler: Deconstructed, as the kind of person willing to do such work is probably not a heroic or trustworthy individual.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Melnikov]]
!!Warden Melnikov
->'''Played by''': Vaidotas Martinaitis
The warden of the ''Kamchatka'' prison, within which Hopper finds himself locked up in season 4.
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* AllThereInTheScript: His name is never spoken in the show itself. He's only ever named in the credits.
* ArcVillain: For Hopper and Joyce's storyline in season 4. He has no connection to the Vecna conflict at all, save for the revelation he's been experimenting with the Upside Down and he has a gate of his own.
* {{Sadist}}: It takes a ''special'' kind of crazy to use a captive Demogorgon for gladiator games. He even spiels on at one point about how he loves seeing the hope being ripped from his prisoners' faces, shortly before they're ripped to actual shreds.
[[/folder]]
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* FakeRussian: played by a Serbian actor using his native accent, no lessless.
* FallenHero: Downplayed; he's closest to the "withdrawn" subtrope. Although he used to be hailed a hero, by the time Joyce and Murray reach him he's an opportunistic smuggler.
* FamedInStory: He's a pretty well-known smuggler in his corner of the Soviet Union, and a former hero. (The latter part may explain why the authorities seem to tolerate him, despite the former part. That, or he's just a useful informant.)
* FallenHero: Downplayed; he's closest to the "withdrawn" subtrope. Although he used to be hailed a hero, by the time Joyce and Murray reach him he's an opportunistic smuggler.
* FamedInStory: He's a pretty well-known smuggler in his corner of the Soviet Union, and a former hero. (The latter part may explain why the authorities seem to tolerate him, despite the former part. That, or he's just a useful informant.)
* LargeHam: Oh my. He barely utters a word that isn't a part of a loony, bombastic tirade filled with the oddest digressions.
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* NoodleIncident: The event that earned him a reputation for heroism isn't described in detail. It seems to have been a flare-up of the Sino-Soviet conflict.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Nikola Đuričko plays the Russian Yuri with his native, Serbian accent, [[LargeHam joyously serving itup]]up]].
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* OhCrap: When his prisoners turn the tables on him and tie him to a tree in the Artic environment, they point out that whilst they may not be hard enough to kill him, they won't ''need'' to, since he'd be as good as dead left in a hostile wilderness. His face falls immediately.
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* OhCrap: When his prisoners turn the tables on him and tie him to a tree in the Artic Arctic environment, they point out that whilst they may not be hard enough to kill him, they won't ''need'' to, since he'd be as good as dead left in a hostile wilderness. His face falls immediately.
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!!Eden Bingham
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->'''Played by:''' Audrey Holcomb
Suzie's older sister who really would like her to help around with the kids.
!!Eden Bingham
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->'''Played by:''' Audrey Holcomb
Suzie's older sister who really would like her to help around with the kids.
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!!Eden Bingham
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!!Lt. Colonel Jack Sullivan
->'''Played by:'''
Suzie's older sister
An army officer who
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* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Since the kids are borderline crazy, the father (parents?) is virtually absent, and Suzie can barely be bothered with such mundanities.
* {{Goth}}: She has the look, although much closer to the "listens to The Cure" than to the "wears period Victorian lace" end of the scale. Not so much gloomy as very much put upon.
* PromotionToParent: To her great dismay.
* RuleAbidingRebel: It can be inferred about her, as she's a goth with a sour personality, yet also the sister of very strictly raised Suzie and the acting homemaker of the family since apparently nobody else can be bothered.
* SiblingYinYang: About as far from Suzie as you can get. (Hard to say about the rest of the kids.)
* SirSwearsALot: For someone raised in a Mormon household, Eden is quite profane.
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!!Lt. Colonel Jack Sullivan
->'''Played by:''' Sherman Augustus
An army officer who oversaw Brenner's experiments, and is charged with covering them up. When Vecna's murders start, he believes Eleven is responsible and begins a quiet man-hunt for her.
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* {{Goth}}: She has the look, although much closer to the "listens to The Cure" than to the "wears period Victorian lace" end of the scale. Not so much gloomy as very much put upon.
* PromotionToParent: To her great dismay.
* RuleAbidingRebel: It can be inferred about her, as she's a goth with a sour personality, yet also the sister of very strictly raised Suzie and the acting homemaker of the family since apparently nobody else can be bothered.
* SiblingYinYang: About as far from Suzie as you can get. (Hard to say about the rest of the kids.)
* SirSwearsALot: For someone raised in a Mormon household, Eden is quite profane.
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[[folder:Lt. Colonel Jack Sullivan]]
!!Lt. Colonel Jack Sullivan
->'''Played by:''' Sherman Augustus
An army officer who oversaw Brenner's experiments, and is charged with covering them up. When Vecna's murders start, he believes Eleven is responsible and begins a quiet man-hunt for her.
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** With The Mind Flayer in Season 3. While technically their plan to [[spoiler: open a gate]] means they're fulfilling its goals, the USSR never has any indication of being aware of its existence and the two plot lines don't really intersect until the finale. [[spoiler:The season finale's mid-credits scene however reveal that they are at the very least aware of creatures from the Upside-Down, having kept a full-grown Demogorgon captive in their Kamchatka facility]].
** The Soviets return in season 4 this time with Vecna, [[spoiler:Lt. Colonel Sullivan and Jason (though the latter is very misguided). While Vecna is the main threat of season 4, Hopper is captured by the Soviets and put in their prison and has their own Demogorgon for it to feed on their prisoners.]]
** With The Mind Flayer in Season 3. While technically their plan to [[spoiler: open a gate]] means they're fulfilling its goals, the USSR never has any indication of being aware of its existence and the two plot lines don't really intersect until the finale. [[spoiler:The season finale's mid-credits scene however reveal that they are at the very least aware of creatures from the Upside-Down, having kept a full-grown Demogorgon captive in their Kamchatka facility]].
** The Soviets return in season 4 this time with Vecna, [[spoiler:Lt. Colonel Sullivan and Jason (though the latter is very misguided). While Vecna is the main threat of season 4, Hopper is captured by the Soviets and put in their prison and has their own Demogorgon for it to feed on their prisoners.]]
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**BigBadEnsemble: With The Mind Flayer in Season 3. While technically their plan to [[spoiler: open a gate]] means they're fulfilling its goals, the USSR never has any indication of being aware of its existence and the two plot lines don't really intersect until the finale. [[spoiler:The season finale's mid-credits scene however reveal that they are at the very least aware of creatures from the Upside-Down, having kept a full-grown Demogorgon captive in their Kamchatka facility]].
** The Soviets return in season 4 this time with Vecna, [[spoiler:Lt. Colonel Sullivan and Jason (though the latter is very misguided). While Vecna is the main threat of season 4, Hopper is captured by the Soviets and put in their prison and has their own Demogorgon for it to feed on their prisoners.]]facility]].
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** The Soviets return in season 4 this time with Vecna, [[spoiler:Lt. Colonel Sullivan and Jason (though the latter is very misguided). While Vecna is the main threat of season 4, Hopper is captured by the Soviets and put in their prison and has their own Demogorgon for it to feed on their prisoners.]]
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* AffablyEvil: He's a genuinely upbeat and cheery criminal smuggler who happily sells out Hopper, Enzo, and Joyce while pocketing the money they paid him.
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* AffablyEvil: He's a genuinely upbeat and cheery criminal smuggler who happily sells out Hopper, Enzo, and Joyce while pocketing the money they paid him. Enzo mentions that Yuri was once a far more impressive figure before his reputation sank to "peanutbutter smuggler".
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: If Yuri had just done what he was hired to do in the first place, he still would have received his money's worth while avoiding a lot of unnecessary grief. Instead, {{Greed}} got the better of him, and he betrayed Hopper and Enzo while also kidnapping Murray and Joyce so he could hand them over to the KGB for the right price. Right away, his plans went sideways: His plane gets destroyed, he is held hostage by the very people he was trying to kidnap (who are extremely pissed with him), he's forced to break into a Russian prison while being BoundAndGagged, and he'll be lucky if he manages to escape with his life.]]
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: If Yuri had just done what he was hired to do in the first place, he still would have received his money's worth while avoiding a lot of unnecessary grief. Instead, {{Greed}} got the better of him, and he betrayed Hopper and Enzo while also kidnapping Murray and Joyce so he could hand them over to the KGB for the right price. Right away, his plans went sideways: His plane gets destroyed, he is held hostage by the very people he was trying to kidnap (who are extremely pissed with him), he's forced to break into a Russian prison while being BoundAndGagged, and he'll be lucky if the only reason he manages to escape with his life.survives the finale is because the others need a pilot.]]
* HiddenDepths: As Enzo pointed out, Yuri was originally a more noble rogue that would be ashamed of the opportunist he's turned into. This is enough to make Yuri reflect and eventually atone.
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!!Lt. Colonel Jack Sullivan
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* CowboyCop: Well, Lt. Colonel in the US Army, but he's leading an investigation and decides the best way to go about it is to shoot up a civilian's home, tear it apart, then torture the only person they capture.
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* CowboyCop: Well, Lt. Colonel The military version, as his uniform indicates he's in the US Army, but Army military police corps, and he's leading an investigation and decides the best way to go about it is to shoot up a civilian's home, tear it apart, then torture the only person they capture.
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!!Lt. Colonel Sullivan
->'''Played by:''' Sherman Augustus
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!!Eden Bingham
->'''Played by:'''
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Suzie's older sister who
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* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Since the kids are borderline crazy, the father (parents?) is virtually absent, and Suzie can barely be bothered with such mundanities.
* {{Goth}}: She has the look, although much closer to the "listens to The Cure" than to the "wears period Victorian lace" end of the scale. Not so much gloomy as very much put upon.
* PromotionToParent: To her great dismay.
* RuleAbidingRebel: It can be inferred about her, as she's a goth with a sour personality, yet also the sister of very strictly raised Suzie and the acting homemaker of the family since apparently nobody else can be bothered.
* SiblingYinYang: About as far from Suzie as you can get. (Hard to say about the rest of the kids.)
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[[folder:Lt. Colonel Sullivan]]
!!Lt. Colonel Sullivan
->'''Played by:''' Sherman Augustus
A high-ranking member of the US Military who oversaw Brenner's experiments, and is charged with covering them up. When Vecna's murders start, he believes Eleven is responsible and begins a quiet man-hunt for her.
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* {{Goth}}: She has the look, although much closer to the "listens to The Cure" than to the "wears period Victorian lace" end of the scale. Not so much gloomy as very much put upon.
* PromotionToParent: To her great dismay.
* RuleAbidingRebel: It can be inferred about her, as she's a goth with a sour personality, yet also the sister of very strictly raised Suzie and the acting homemaker of the family since apparently nobody else can be bothered.
* SiblingYinYang: About as far from Suzie as you can get. (Hard to say about the rest of the kids.)
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[[folder:Lt. Colonel Sullivan]]
!!Lt. Colonel Sullivan
->'''Played by:''' Sherman Augustus
A high-ranking member of the US Military who oversaw Brenner's experiments, and is charged with covering them up. When Vecna's murders start, he believes Eleven is responsible and begins a quiet man-hunt for her.
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* EvilCounterpart: An eviler counterpart anyways, to Jason. Both are trying to find the person responsible for the Hawkins killings but are dead wrong with their suspects. The difference is Jason is a young adult who is a case of JerkassHasAPoint, with the evidence that he has always pointing to Eddie, Lucas or someone else being responsible for the murders, especially since they're usually right there at the scene of the crime. Meanwhile, Sullivan is middle aged man and a case of InsaneTrollLogic, insisting Eleven did the killings despite her being on an entirely different side of the country.
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* AllThereInTheScript: His name is never spoken in the show itself. He's only ever named in the credits.
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* NoNameGiven: His name is never spoken in the show itself. He's only ever named in the credits.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: He completely upsets the heroes' plan to get Hopper out of jail. As a result, he's forced to participate in an even '''riskier''' plan that what was already set into motion; Murray takes his place, taps his mouth shut and makes him act as a prisoner, and he spends the rest of his runtime gagged, bound and forced to hop around.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: He completely upsets the heroes' plan to get Hopper out of jail. As a result, he's forced to participate in an even '''riskier''' plan that what was already set into motion; Murray takes his place, taps tapes his mouth shut and makes him act as a prisoner, and he spends the rest of his runtime gagged, bound and forced to hop around.
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!!Warden Melnikov
->'''Played by''': Vaidotas Martinaitis
The warden of the ''Kamchatka'' prison, within which Hopper finds himself locked up in season 4.
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* ArcVillain: For Hopper and Joyce's storyline in season 4. He has no connection to the Vecna conflict at all, save for the revelation he's been experimenting with the Upside Down and he has a gate of his own.
* NoNameGiven: His name is never spoken in the show itself. He's only ever named in the credits.
* {{Sadist}}: It takes a ''special'' kind of crazy to use a captive Demogorgon for gladiator games. He even spiels on at one point about how he loves seeing the hope being ripped from his prisoners' faces, shortly before they're ripped to actual shreds.
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* {{Sadist}}: It takes a ''special'' kind of crazy to use a captive Demogorgon for gladiator games. He even spiels on at one point about how he loves seeing the hope being ripped from his prisoners' faces, shortly before they're ripped to actual shreds.
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* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Nikola Đuričko plays the Russian Yuri with his native, Serbian accent, [[LargeHam joyously serving it up]]
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* BigBadEnsemble: With Vecna and the Soviets for season 4.
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* BigBadEnsemble: With Vecna and Vecna, the Soviets and a misguided Jason for season 4.
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** The Soviets return in season 4 this time with Vecna and [[spoiler:Lt. Colonel Sullivan. While Vecna is the main threat of season 4, Hopper is captured by the Soviets and put in their prison and has their own Demogorgon for it to feed on their prisoners.]]
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** The Soviets return in season 4 this time with Vecna and Vecna, [[spoiler:Lt. Colonel Sullivan.Sullivan and Jason (though the latter is very misguided). While Vecna is the main threat of season 4, Hopper is captured by the Soviets and put in their prison and has their own Demogorgon for it to feed on their prisoners.]]
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* FireForgedFriends: With Hopper. Originally just an alliance of mutual convenience, to which he doesn't care if Hopper succeeds or not, they become much more genuine allies when forced to fight the Soviet Demogorgon together.
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* FireForgedFriends: With Hopper. Originally just an alliance of mutual convenience, to which he doesn't care if Hopper succeeds or not, they become much more genuine allies when forced to fight the Soviet Demogorgon together. Hopper trusts him enough to keep an eye on Yuri when the latter is trying to kickstart a helicopter, making sure he wont sabotague them any further.
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* TheAtoner: After all the crap he put Hopper, Joyce, Murray and Enzo through, he manages to redeem himself by tracking down a helicopter and getting them out of the gulag.
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* ShaggyDogStory: He ultimately fails to capture or kill Eleven, as Mike, the Byers brothers and Argyle come to her rescue while Dr Brenner takes a bullet for her.
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* BullyingADragon: She constantly insults and belittles Eleven/Jane for no apparent reason other than her outsider status. This earns her a well-deserved bludgeoning from El.
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* BigBadEnsemble: With The Mind Flayer in Season 3. While technically their plan to [[spoiler: open a gate]] means they're fulfilling its goals, the USSR never has any indication of being aware of its existence and the two plot lines don't really intersect until the finale. [[spoiler:The season finale's mid-credits scene however reveal that they are at the very least aware of creatures from the Upside-Down, having kept a full-grown Demogorgon captive in their Kamchatka facility]].
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* BigBadEnsemble: BigBadEnsemble:
** With The Mind Flayer in Season 3. While technically their plan to [[spoiler: open a gate]] means they're fulfilling its goals, the USSR never has any indication of being aware of its existence and the two plot lines don't really intersect until the finale. [[spoiler:The season finale's mid-credits scene however reveal that they are at the very least aware of creatures from the Upside-Down, having kept a full-grown Demogorgon captive in their Kamchatkafacility]].facility]].
** The Soviets return in season 4 this time with Vecna and [[spoiler:Lt. Colonel Sullivan. While Vecna is the main threat of season 4, Hopper is captured by the Soviets and put in their prison and has their own Demogorgon for it to feed on their prisoners.]]
** With The Mind Flayer in Season 3. While technically their plan to [[spoiler: open a gate]] means they're fulfilling its goals, the USSR never has any indication of being aware of its existence and the two plot lines don't really intersect until the finale. [[spoiler:The season finale's mid-credits scene however reveal that they are at the very least aware of creatures from the Upside-Down, having kept a full-grown Demogorgon captive in their Kamchatka
** The Soviets return in season 4 this time with Vecna and [[spoiler:Lt. Colonel Sullivan. While Vecna is the main threat of season 4, Hopper is captured by the Soviets and put in their prison and has their own Demogorgon for it to feed on their prisoners.]]
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* {{Expy}}: While Angela is a LighterAndSofter Chris Hargensen from ''Literature/{{Carrie}}'', he seems to be a LighterAndSofter Billy Noland....again, no less friendly, but he and Angela's prank is only dumping a milkshake on Eleven instead of pig blood and he never makes an attempt to ''murder'' Eleven.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted hard, as El does a number on her face. We last see her with her nose badly scratched up and bleeding, likely leaving a sizeable scar.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted hard, Averted, as El does a number on her face. We last see her with her nose badly scratched up and bleeding, likely leaving a sizeable scar.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the LoveableRogue and OnlyInItForTheMoney. Yuri has no issue breaking laws to smuggle in goods to Russia for the right price, and seems affable when he first meets Joyce and Murray, but at the end of the day, he is only looking out for himself. Where this kind of character might be considered a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in another story, it is made pretty clear here that he's a straight up JerkAss whose only priority is how much money he can make. [[spoiler: This is why he ultimately reneges on the agreement he had with Enzo: Why simply take the $40,000 he's going to receive anyways when he can also betray Hopper, Enzo, Joyce, and Murray to the KGB and make even more money off of that?]]
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* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the LoveableRogue and OnlyInItForTheMoney. Yuri has no issue breaking laws to smuggle in goods to Russia for the right price, and seems affable when he first meets Joyce and Murray, but at the end of the day, he is only looking out for himself. Where While this kind of character might be considered a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in another story, it is it's made pretty clear here that he's a straight up complete JerkAss whose only priority is how much money he can make. [[spoiler: This is why he ultimately reneges on the agreement he had made with Enzo: Why simply take the $40,000 he's going to receive anyways when he can also betray Hopper, Enzo, Joyce, and Murray to the KGB and make even more money off of that?]]that?]] Unfortunately for Yuri, this ends up proving to be his undoing: [[spoiler: When Joyce and Murray eventually break free and overpower Yuri on the flight over, they crash his plane in Russia, take Yuri hostage, force him to help them break into the prison to rescue Hopper, and make it very clear to Yuri that the only "reward" he's getting at this point is not being tied up and left to freeze to death in the wilderness.]]
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Subject Steve and Robin to beatings and injections of truth serum. When neither tactic gives the Soviets any answers, the interrogator just ups the ante and attempts to pull out Steve's fingernails.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: Subject Steve and Robin to beatings and injections of truth serum. When neither tactic gives the Soviets any answers, the interrogator just ups the ante and attempts to pull out Steve's fingernails. Same thing happens to [[spoiler: Hopper]] in season 4: [[spoiler: The Russians repeatedly beat him for information, and then put Hopper in a gas mask where the cut off the oxygen in order to get him to talk.]]
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* DirtyCommunists: The show paints a rather unflattering and one-dimensional portrayal of the Soviet Union, Russians being depicted as [[AlwaysChaoticEvil almost universally as evil brutes]] and Russia itself implied to be Mordor with nice things not existing there. Worse, [[spoiler:it's implied that they want to, and have already begun to, tame and weaponize the inhabitants of the Upside Down.]]
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: In Season 3, the guards in the [[spoiler:secret Russian base beneath Starcourt Mall]] are hilariously inept, failing to regularly monitor or defend the one entrance to the facility, even when they know an intruder is loose with the keycard in hand. [[spoiler:Hopper manages to effortlessly gun down a whole group of them when they're left confused by Bauman's extremely thin attempt to pretend like they work at the facility.]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: We never find out for sure just ''why'' they're attempting [[spoiler:to open the Gate to the Upside-Down throughout Season 3. The SequelHook however implies they've begun weaponizing the inhabitants of the Upside-Down, starting with a captive Demogorgon]].
* LooseLips: While in [[spoiler:US soil]] they communicate on open radio channels that anyone with a sufficiently powerful receiver can pick up, in Russian, in a pathetically transparent code that [[spoiler:three teenagers who don't speak the language]] manage to break ''in a day''. TruthInTelevision as by the end of the Cold War the USSR was filled with inept yes-men who were unqualified for their positions or higher-ups who didn't like being questioned or admitting mistakes. It's more surprising they weren't found out sooner.
* RedScare: In full effect. The establishing shot showing the Soviet flag is depicted in the most ominous way possible and they've hidden their base beneath a shopping mall likely to exploit the consumer habits of Capitalist America. That's not getting into the fact that one of them is likened to a [[Film/TheTerminator literal machine]] to further illustrate how dehumanised they are.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: The secret Soviet base beneath the Starcourt mall is located, penetrated and escaped from by three teenagers and a little girl.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: In Season 3, the guards in the [[spoiler:secret Russian base beneath Starcourt Mall]] are hilariously inept, failing to regularly monitor or defend the one entrance to the facility, even when they know an intruder is loose with the keycard in hand. [[spoiler:Hopper manages to effortlessly gun down a whole group of them when they're left confused by Bauman's extremely thin attempt to pretend like they work at the facility.]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: We never find out for sure just ''why'' they're attempting [[spoiler:to open the Gate to the Upside-Down throughout Season 3. The SequelHook however implies they've begun weaponizing the inhabitants of the Upside-Down, starting with a captive Demogorgon]].
* LooseLips: While in [[spoiler:US soil]] they communicate on open radio channels that anyone with a sufficiently powerful receiver can pick up, in Russian, in a pathetically transparent code that [[spoiler:three teenagers who don't speak the language]] manage to break ''in a day''. TruthInTelevision as by the end of the Cold War the USSR was filled with inept yes-men who were unqualified for their positions or higher-ups who didn't like being questioned or admitting mistakes. It's more surprising they weren't found out sooner.
* RedScare: In full effect. The establishing shot showing the Soviet flag is depicted in the most ominous way possible and they've hidden their base beneath a shopping mall likely to exploit the consumer habits of Capitalist America. That's not getting into the fact that one of them is likened to a [[Film/TheTerminator literal machine]] to further illustrate how dehumanised they are.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: The secret Soviet base beneath the Starcourt mall is located, penetrated and escaped from by three teenagers and a little girl.
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* DirtyCommunists: The show paints a rather unflattering and one-dimensional portrayal of the Soviet Union, with many Russians being depicted as [[AlwaysChaoticEvil almost universally as evil brutes]] and brutes, [[TortureTechnician Torture Technicians]], or {{Mooks}} who carry out the order of their superiors. Russia itself implied to be Mordor with nice things not existing there. is depicted in season 4 as a hellish, wintry wasteland. Worse, [[spoiler:it's implied [[spoiler: it's shown that they want to, and the Russians have already begun to, to tame and weaponize the inhabitants of the Upside Down.]]
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: In Season 3, the guards in the [[spoiler:secret Russian base beneath Starcourt Mall]] are hilariously inept, failing to regularly monitor or defend the one entrance to the facility, even when they know an intruder is loose with the keycard in hand. [[spoiler:Hopper manages to effortlessly gun down a whole group of them when they're left confused by Bauman's extremely thin attempt to pretend like they work at the facility.]]
Down for their own nefarious plans.]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: We never find out for sure just ''why'' they're attempting[[spoiler:to [[spoiler: to open the Gate to the Upside-Down throughout Season 3. The SequelHook however implies 3.]] Season 4 shows [[spoiler: they've begun weaponizing the inhabitants of the Upside-Down, starting with a captive Demogorgon]].
Demogorgon that they let loose on prisoners so it can hunt (because predators don't like to get bored) and feed on them]].
* LooseLips: While in [[spoiler:US soil]] they communicate on open radio channels that anyone with a sufficiently powerful receiver can pick up, in Russian, in a pathetically transparent code that [[spoiler:three teenagers who don't speak the language]] manage to break ''in a day''. TruthInTelevision as by the end of the Cold War the USSR was filled with inept yes-men who were unqualified for their positions or higher-ups who didn't like being questioned or admitting mistakes. It's more surprising they weren't found out sooner.\n
* RedScare: In full effect. The establishing shot showing the Soviet flag is depicted in the most ominous way possible and they've hidden their base beneath a shopping mall likely to exploit the consumer habits of Capitalist America. That's not getting into the fact that one of them is likened to a [[Film/TheTerminator literal machine]] to further illustrate howdehumanised dehumanized they are.
* SwissCheeseSecurity: The secret Soviet base beneath the Starcourt mall is located, penetrated and escaped from by three teenagers and a little girl.are.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: In Season 3, the guards in the [[spoiler:secret Russian base beneath Starcourt Mall]] are hilariously inept, failing to regularly monitor or defend the one entrance to the facility, even when they know an intruder is loose with the keycard in hand. [[spoiler:Hopper manages to effortlessly gun down a whole group of them when they're left confused by Bauman's extremely thin attempt to pretend like they work at the facility.]]
* HiddenAgendaVillain: We never find out for sure just ''why'' they're attempting
* LooseLips: While in [[spoiler:US soil]] they communicate on open radio channels that anyone with a sufficiently powerful receiver can pick up, in Russian, in a pathetically transparent code that [[spoiler:three teenagers who don't speak the language]] manage to break ''in a day''. TruthInTelevision as by the end of the Cold War the USSR was filled with inept yes-men who were unqualified for their positions or higher-ups who didn't like being questioned or admitting mistakes.
* RedScare: In full effect. The establishing shot showing the Soviet flag is depicted in the most ominous way possible and they've hidden their base beneath a shopping mall likely to exploit the consumer habits of Capitalist America. That's not getting into the fact that one of them is likened to a [[Film/TheTerminator literal machine]] to further illustrate how
* SwissCheeseSecurity: The secret Soviet base beneath the Starcourt mall is located, penetrated and escaped from by three teenagers and a little girl.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Their mooks have no problem hunting down a party of four people, where the oldest is 18 and the youngest is 10, and two of them could have killed the Scoops Troop if El and the rest of the gang haven't shown up.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Their mooks have no problem hunting down a party of four people, people where the oldest is 18 and the youngest is 10, and two they were in the process of them could have killed killing the Scoops Troop if before [[BigDamnHeroes El and the rest of the gang haven't shown up.others showed up to save them.]]
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* IncompetenceInc: It wasn't a matter of if the Russian operation [[spoiler: under Starcourt Mall]] would be uncovered, but when.
** The guards are extremely incompetent overall, as covered under TheGuardsMustBeCrazy. The Russians inexplicably did not assign their best soldiers [[spoiler: to an important and dangerous project deep in enemy territory.]]
** Not only is there a clear paper trail that shows what they're up to, the mayor has that paper trail locked in a safe at his house, which he gives up easily to the local sheriff.
** They use an extremely simplistic code that can be picked up by civilian radio that was cracked in one day by two teenagers.
** Their base is successfully infiltrated by the same teenagers, primarily because the Russians somehow don't have security cameras or around the clock guard coverage posted at the entrance to their top secret base.
** After the teenagers successfully escape, the Russians search for them by wandering around in public, doing nothing to conceal their identities and carrying weapons. Grigori and his goons also clearly have no problem firing their weapons in public, crowded places [[spoiler: on American soil, during the Cold War]].
** The guards are extremely incompetent overall, as covered under TheGuardsMustBeCrazy. The Russians inexplicably did not assign their best soldiers [[spoiler: to an important and dangerous project deep in enemy territory.]]
** Not only is there a clear paper trail that shows what they're up to, the mayor has that paper trail locked in a safe at his house, which he gives up easily to the local sheriff.
** They use an extremely simplistic code that can be picked up by civilian radio that was cracked in one day by two teenagers.
** Their base is successfully infiltrated by the same teenagers, primarily because the Russians somehow don't have security cameras or around the clock guard coverage posted at the entrance to their top secret base.
** After the teenagers successfully escape, the Russians search for them by wandering around in public, doing nothing to conceal their identities and carrying weapons. Grigori and his goons also clearly have no problem firing their weapons in public, crowded places [[spoiler: on American soil, during the Cold War]].
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* Deconstruction: Of the LoveableRogue and OnlyInItForTheMoney. Yuri has no issue breaking laws to smuggle in goods to Russia for the right price, and seems affable when he first meets Joyce and Murray, but at the end of the day, he is only looking out for himself. Where this kind of character might be considered a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in another story, it is made pretty clear here that he's a straight up JerkAss whose only priority is how much money he can make. [[spoiler: This is why he ultimately reneges on the agreement he had with Enzo: Why simply take the $40,000 he's going to receive anyways when he can also betray Hopper, Enzo, Joyce, and Murray to the KGB and make even more money off of that?]]
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* Deconstruction: {{Deconstruction}}: Of the LoveableRogue and OnlyInItForTheMoney. Yuri has no issue breaking laws to smuggle in goods to Russia for the right price, and seems affable when he first meets Joyce and Murray, but at the end of the day, he is only looking out for himself. Where this kind of character might be considered a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in another story, it is made pretty clear here that he's a straight up JerkAss whose only priority is how much money he can make. [[spoiler: This is why he ultimately reneges on the agreement he had with Enzo: Why simply take the $40,000 he's going to receive anyways when he can also betray Hopper, Enzo, Joyce, and Murray to the KGB and make even more money off of that?]]that?]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: If Yuri had just done what he was hired to do in the first place, he still would have received his money's worth while avoiding a lot of unnecessary grief. Instead, {{Greed}} got the better of him, and he betrayed Hopper and Enzo while also kidnapping Murray and Joyce so he could hand them over to the KGB for the right price. Right away, his plans went sideways: His plane gets destroyed, he is held hostage by the very people he was trying to kidnap (who are extremely pissed with him), he's forced to break into a Russian prison while being BoundAndGagged, and he'll be lucky if he manages to escape with his life.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: [[spoiler: If Yuri had just done what he was hired to do in the first place, he still would have received his money's worth while avoiding a lot of unnecessary grief. Instead, {{Greed}} got the better of him, and he betrayed Hopper and Enzo while also kidnapping Murray and Joyce so he could hand them over to the KGB for the right price. Right away, his plans went sideways: His plane gets destroyed, he is held hostage by the very people he was trying to kidnap (who are extremely pissed with him), he's forced to break into a Russian prison while being BoundAndGagged, and he'll be lucky if he manages to escape with his life.]]
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* Deconstruction: Of the LoveableRogue and OnlyInItForTheMoney. Yuri has no issue breaking laws to smuggle in goods to Russia for the right price, and seems affable when he first meets Joyce and Murray, but at the end of the day, he is only looking out for himself. Where this kind of character might be considered a JerkWithAHeartOfGold in another story, it is made pretty clear here that he's a straight up JerkAss whose only priority is how much money he can make. [[spoiler: This is why he ultimately reneges on the agreement he had with Enzo: Why simply take the $40,000 he's going to receive anyways when he can also betray Hopper, Enzo, Joyce, and Murray to the KGB and make even more money off of that?]]
