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* WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler: Barb, surprisingly enough, who has gotten quite an online following for being a relatively minor character compared to the rest of the characters. Not only that but her death was pretty quickly glossed over. After her body is discovered, she's never mentioned again.]]
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** When Eleven i is looking at her reflection at the water's edge, the CGI department forgot to flip the reflection left-for-right. Noticeable because she's strongly lit from one side when we see her actual face, and when we see her reflection, she appears to be strongly lit from the opposite side.
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** When Eleven i looking at her reflection at the water's edge, the CGI department forgot to flip the reflection left-for-right. Noticeable because she's strongly lit from one side when we see her actual face, and when we see her reflection, she appears to be strongly lit from the opposite side.
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** Inverted with the wig Eleven wears as a disguise when she goes into town. The boys dig a blonde wig out of Nancy's old dress-up box for her. The wig she actually wears in most scenes is clearly professionally applied and high-quality, blending perfectly into her hairline. It goes back to being a cheap kid's dress-up wig once she takes it off.
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** Inverted with the wig Eleven wears as a disguise when she goes into town. The boys dig a blonde wig out of It's from Nancy's old dress-up box for her. The box, but the wig she actually wears in most scenes is clearly professionally applied and high-quality, blending perfectly into her hairline. It goes back to being a cheap kid's dress-up kids' costume wig once she takes it off.
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Will says he knows there's an Atari in the package because Mike got one for Christmas too, and Will's package weighs exactly the same as Mike's. So clearly the implication is that a lot of kids are getting Ataris for this Christmas, which is a Critical Research Failure, not a case of Fridge Logic.
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** Or it's FridgeBrilliance for character design, as someone Will's age may not know of The Video Game Crash, why it happened or what it meant (he's a young kid who probably didn't even watch the news), and may still have wanted an Atari 2600 regardless of the crash (double points as Will's family seems to be on the low end of middle class and Will's mom getting one on the cheap due to the crash is likely).
* GeniusBonus: The Demogorgon is one of the earliest and most powerful demons from the D&D-continuity.
* GeniusBonus: The Demogorgon is one of the earliest and most powerful demons from the D&D-continuity.
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** Mike (''Stranger Things'') = Mikey (''The Goonies''). The main protagonist among the four middle school kids, TheHero.
** Dustin = Mouth. The most talkative of the middle school protagonists, a DeadpanSnarker.
** Dustin = Mouth. The most talkative of the middle school protagonists, a DeadpanSnarker.
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** Mike (''Stranger Things'') = Mikey (''The Goonies''). The main protagonist among the four middle school kids, TheHero.
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** Barb = Stef. The bespectacled, less feminine best friend to Nancy/Andy. One major difference between ''Stranger Things'' and ''The Goonies'' is that Barb [[spoiler:falls victim to the villain]], whereas Stef [[spoiler:becomes one of the heroes.]]
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** Barb = Stef. The bespectacled, less feminine best friend to Nancy/Andy. One major difference between ''Stranger Things'' and ''The Goonies'' is that Barb [[spoiler:falls victim to the villain]], antagonist]], whereas Stef [[spoiler:becomes one of the heroes.]]
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* GeniusBonus: The Demogorgon is one of the earliest and most powerful demons from the D&D-continuity.
* GeniusBonus: The Demogorgon is one of the earliest and most powerful demons from the D&D-continuity.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[spoiler: While the Demogorgon looks pretty good for the first few episodes, as it is mostly kept in the shadows with quick glances, near the end of the first season as the actions scenes involving it ramp up, it really becomes obvious CGI. ]]
** Inverted with the wig Eleven wears as a disguise when she goes into town. The boys dig a blonde wig out of Nancy's old dress-up box for her. The wig she actually wears in most scenes is clearly professionally applied and high-quality, blending perfectly into her hairline. It goes back to being a cheap kid's dress-up wig once she takes it off.
** Inverted with the wig Eleven wears as a disguise when she goes into town. The boys dig a blonde wig out of Nancy's old dress-up box for her. The wig she actually wears in most scenes is clearly professionally applied and high-quality, blending perfectly into her hairline. It goes back to being a cheap kid's dress-up wig once she takes it off.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[spoiler: While the Demogorgon looks pretty good for the first few episodes, as it is mostly kept in the shadows with quick glances, near the end of the first season as the actions scenes involving it ramp up, it really becomes obvious CGI. ]]
** Inverted with the wig Eleven wears as a disguise when she goes into town. The boys dig a blonde wig out of Nancy's old dress-up box for her. The wig she actually wears in most scenes is clearly professionally applied and high-quality, blending perfectly into her hairline. It goes back to being a cheap kid's dress-up wig once she takes it off.
** Inverted with the wig Eleven wears as a disguise when she goes into town. The boys dig a blonde wig out of Nancy's old dress-up box for her. The wig she actually wears in most scenes is clearly professionally applied and high-quality, blending perfectly into her hairline. It goes back to being a cheap kid's dress-up wig once she takes it off.
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** Will = Chunk. Disappears from the main story when he's caught by the antagonist(s).
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** Will = Chunk. Disappears from the main story plot when he's caught [[spoiler:caught by the antagonist(s).]]
** Eleven = Sloth. A powerhouse weirdo who seems threatening, but is actually [[spoiler:a good person, and gets adopted by the kids as one of their gang.]] Both of them have also [[spoiler:a long history of being abused and imprisoned by their parents (or parent figures in Eleven's case).]]
** Eleven = Sloth. A powerhouse weirdo who seems threatening, but is actually [[spoiler:a good person, and gets adopted by the kids as one of their gang.]] Both of them have also [[spoiler:a long history of being abused and imprisoned by their parents (or parent figures in Eleven's case).]]
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** Nancy = Andy. The girlfriend to a JerkJock, a seemingly weak and girly teenager who finds the inner strength in her needed to fight the antagonist(s).
** Barb = Stef. The bespectacled, less feminine best friend to Nancy/Andy. One major difference between ''Stranger Things'' and ''The Goonies'' is that Barb [[spoiler:falls victim to the villain]], whereas Stef [[spoiler:becomes one of the heroes.]]
** Steve = Troy. The JerkJock boyfriend of Nancy/Andy. Another big difference between the two works is that Steve [[spoiler:actually regrets being a jerk and ends up saving the day.]]
** Holly & Ted Wheeler = Irene & Irving Walsh. The middle-class, mild-mannered parents of the KidHero, who have no idea what sort of dangerous things their kids are involed in until the very end of the story.
** Barb = Stef. The bespectacled, less feminine best friend to Nancy/Andy. One major difference between ''Stranger Things'' and ''The Goonies'' is that Barb [[spoiler:falls victim to the villain]], whereas Stef [[spoiler:becomes one of the heroes.]]
** Steve = Troy. The JerkJock boyfriend of Nancy/Andy. Another big difference between the two works is that Steve [[spoiler:actually regrets being a jerk and ends up saving the day.]]
** Holly & Ted Wheeler = Irene & Irving Walsh. The middle-class, mild-mannered parents of the KidHero, who have no idea what sort of dangerous things their kids are involed in until the very end of the story.
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* CounterpartComparison: Since the premise of the series was clearly inspired by the ''Film/TheGoonies'', it's quite easy to compare the characters between the two:
** Mike (''Stranger Things'') = Mikey (''The Goonies''). The main protagonist among the four middle school kids, TheHero.
** Dustin = Mouth. The most talkative of the middle school protagonists, a DeadpanSnarker.
** Lucas = Data. The TokenMinority in the kid quadruplet, uses gadgets against the bad guys.
** Will = Chunk. Disappears from the main story when he's caught by the antagonist(s).
** Jonathan = Brand. The teenage big brother of one of the four kids, gets involved because of his BigBrotherInstinct.
** Mike (''Stranger Things'') = Mikey (''The Goonies''). The main protagonist among the four middle school kids, TheHero.
** Dustin = Mouth. The most talkative of the middle school protagonists, a DeadpanSnarker.
** Lucas = Data. The TokenMinority in the kid quadruplet, uses gadgets against the bad guys.
** Will = Chunk. Disappears from the main story when he's caught by the antagonist(s).
** Jonathan = Brand. The teenage big brother of one of the four kids, gets involved because of his BigBrotherInstinct.
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** Or it's FridgeBrilliance for character design, as someone Will's age may not know of The Video Game Crash, why it happened or what it meant (he's a young kid who probably didn't even watch the news), and may still have wanted an Atari 2600 regardless of the crash (double points as Will's family seems to be on the low end of middle class and Will's mom getting one on the cheap due to the crash is likely).
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* SpecialEffectFailure: Inverted. When the boys disguise Eleven to take her into town, they dig a blonde wig out of Nancy's old dress-up stuff for her. The wig she actually wears in most scenes is clearly professionally applied and high-quality, blending perfectly into her hairline. It goes back to being a cheap kid's dress-up wig once she takes it off.
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* SpecialEffectFailure: Inverted. When the boys disguise Eleven to take her into town, they dig a blonde wig out of Nancy's old dress-up stuff for her. The wig she actually wears in most scenes is clearly professionally applied and high-quality, blending perfectly into her hairline. It goes back to being a cheap kid's dress-up wig once she takes it off.
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* AngstWhatAngst: Despite the child characters being twelve years old, they don't seem the least bit fazed by anything that happens to them. [[spoiler: Not even the part when they watch around a dozen government agents' brains melt out of their eyes.]]
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* AngstWhatAngst: Despite the child characters being twelve years old, they don't seem the least bit fazed by anything that happens to them. [[spoiler: Not even the part when they watch around a dozen government agents' brains melt out of their eyes.]]]] Averted by the fourth and fifth episodes, when the pressure, trauma, and increasing peril start showing serious cracks and stress fractures begin and spread along their outward cheer.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: [[spoiler: While the Demogorgon looks pretty good for the first few episodes, as it is mostly kept in the shadows with quick glances, near the end of the first season as the actions scenes involving it ramp up, it really becomes obvious CGI. ]]
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* CriticalResearchFailure: A relatively minor instance, but in the season finale, set around Christmas, [[spoiler: Will]] expresses hope that his Christmas gift is a UsefulNotes/Atari2600. By the time the series ends, it is Christmas 1983, one year after the catastrophic release of VideoGame/ETTheExtraTerrestrial for the 2600, and long after the start of the UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983, when game consoles would have been highly undesirable.
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* WhatAnIdiot: Nancy when she crawls through the tree trunk
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* WhatAnIdiot: Nancy when she crawls through the tree trunktrunk. She also thinks [[spoiler: she is still in the same woods despite the cold alien atmosphere when calling for Jonathan and does not think to return to the tree trunk until the last moment.]]
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* BrokenBase: [[spoiler:Some fans are quite irritated at how vague the supernatural aspects remain even at the end of the season, while others counter that this is just another emulation of '80s horror films and fits perfectly. This was quieted a bit when a second season was quickly announced, showing there's more to the story.]]
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* GeniusBonus: The Demogorgon is one of the earliest and most powerful demons from the D&D-continuity.
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*** Pretty much the entire plot above is ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls'', the biggest difference is that the protagonist in that is all grown up.
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** Pretty much the entire plot above is ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls'', the biggest difference is that the protagonist in that is all grown up.
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* ShownTheirWork: A mild aversion: The Demogorgon figure that the boys are using in their D&D game is an authentic Demogorgon miniature... produced by Grenadier in 1984, a year later than the show is set in.
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* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler: Barbra's fate. Being cocooned in slime after being eaten by the demogorgon and then a big slug comes out of her mouth.]]
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* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler: Barbra's Barbara's fate. Being cocooned in slime after being eaten by the demogorgon and then a big slug comes out of her mouth.]]
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*** Pretty much the entire plot above is ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls'', the biggest difference is that the protagonist in that is all grown up.
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* AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack is a perfect emulation of '80s movie scores with an especially strong John Carpenter influence. There's also several great songs from the era, with [[Music/TheClash "Should I Stay or Should I Go"]] even getting to be a plot point as Will's favorite song.
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* SpiritualLicensee: All things considered, Eleven's storyline is probably the closest we're ever going to come to a live action adaptation of ''Anime/ElfenLied''. [[spoiler: Minus the whole interdimensional monsters thing.]]
* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler: Barbra's fate. Being cocooned in slime after being eaten by the demigorgon and then a big slug comes out of her mouth.]]
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* SpiritualLicensee: SpiritualLicensee:
** All things considered, Eleven's storyline is probably the closest we're ever going to come to a live action adaptation of ''Anime/ElfenLied''. [[spoiler: Minus the whole interdimensional monsters thing.]]
** [[spoiler: A TownWithADarkSecret is connected to a DarkWorld version of itself that's filled with fog and inhabited by monsters. People can become trapped in this world, and a well-meaning police officer, a parent looking for their child who begins to doubt their own sanity, and a mysterious little girl with psychic powers who inadvertently caused a catastrophe involving the dark world are all key players here. TheConspiracy is looking for the girl in order to further their own goals.]] Did we just describe VideoGame/SilentHill, or Stranger Things?
** A GovernmentConspiracy rating high on the ScaleOfScientificSins is looking for a PsychicChild who's been subjected to brutal experiments all her life and is key in stopping a potentially world-ending disaster caused by said conspiracy, who continue to study the disaster long after the fact. Sounds like something out of The Wiki/SCPFoundation. The working title for the series was even Montauk![[note]]In the SCP Foundation universe, one of the items (SCP-231-7, a little girl with a demon growing inside her) needs to be subjected to a procedure known as 110-Montauk in order to prevent the monster from getting out. It's never made clear what 110-Montauk is, but it is implied to be very, very bad.[[/note]]
* {{Squick}}: [[spoiler: Barbra's fate. Being cocooned in slime after being eaten by thedemigorgon demogorgon and then a big slug comes out of her mouth.]]
** All things considered, Eleven's storyline is probably the closest we're ever going to come to a live action adaptation of ''Anime/ElfenLied''. [[spoiler: Minus the whole interdimensional monsters thing.]]
** [[spoiler: A TownWithADarkSecret is connected to a DarkWorld version of itself that's filled with fog and inhabited by monsters. People can become trapped in this world, and a well-meaning police officer, a parent looking for their child who begins to doubt their own sanity, and a mysterious little girl with psychic powers who inadvertently caused a catastrophe involving the dark world are all key players here. TheConspiracy is looking for the girl in order to further their own goals.]] Did we just describe VideoGame/SilentHill, or Stranger Things?
** A GovernmentConspiracy rating high on the ScaleOfScientificSins is looking for a PsychicChild who's been subjected to brutal experiments all her life and is key in stopping a potentially world-ending disaster caused by said conspiracy, who continue to study the disaster long after the fact. Sounds like something out of The Wiki/SCPFoundation. The working title for the series was even Montauk![[note]]In the SCP Foundation universe, one of the items (SCP-231-7, a little girl with a demon growing inside her) needs to be subjected to a procedure known as 110-Montauk in order to prevent the monster from getting out. It's never made clear what 110-Montauk is, but it is implied to be very, very bad.[[/note]]
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* AngstWhatAngst: Despite the child characters being twelve years old, they don't seem the least bit phased fazed by anything that happens to them. [[spoiler: Not even the part when they watch around a dozen government agents' brains melt out of their eyes.]]
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* SpiritualLicensee: All things considered, Eleven's storyline is probably the closest we're ever going to come to a live action adaptation of ''Anime/Elfen Lied''. [[spoiler: Minus the whole interdimensional monsters thing.]]
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*WhatAnIdiot: Nancy when she crawls through the tree trunk
