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| 14 | [[WMG:[[center:[-''Series/StrangerThings'' '''[[Characters/StrangerThings Main Character Index]]'''\ |
| 15 | Main Cast ([[Characters/StrangerThingsTheParty The Party]] | [[Characters/StrangerThingsAdults Adults]] | [[Characters/StrangerThingsTeens Teens]]) | [[Characters/StrangerThingsSupportingCast Supporting Cast]] | '''Hawkins''' | [[Characters/StrangerThingsHawkinsNationalLaboratory Hawkins National Laboratory]] | [[Characters/StrangerThingsTheUpsideDown The Upside Down]] | [[Characters/StrangerThingsOutsiders Outsiders]]-]]]]] |
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| 20 | !!Hawkins Police Department |
| 21 | [[folder:Powell]] |
| 22 | !!Officer Calvin Powell |
| 23 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/powell.png]] |
| 24 | !!!'''Played By:''' Rob Morgan |
| 25 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E1ChapterOneTheVanishingOfWillByers Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers]]" (1x01) |
| 26 | |
| 27 | Chief Hopper's second-in-command in the investigation. A laid-back Police Officer, largely uninterested in the investigation. |
| 28 | ---- |
| 29 | * BigShutUp: He interrupts a mass argument between the Sinclair, Wheeler, and Henderson families with one of these. |
| 30 | * CharacterDevelopment: While not much, it's noticeable. Powell started off in the beginning of the show as very disinterested and usually just following along with whatever Hopper was doing. Following [[spoiler: Hopper's "death" however, he is ranked up to the Chief of Police, and begins to take the job more seriously. While he's still a bit clueless, he ''does'' try, far far more compared to his Season 1/Season 2 self]]. |
| 31 | * 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... |
| 32 | * DeathGlare: Gives one to Jason after he [[spoiler:rallies the entire town against Eddie.]] |
| 33 | * DudeNotFunny: His quips tend to be really poorly timed, from cracking about Joyce's SanitySlippage to suggesting Will is too dead for an interrogation just a few days into the search for him. |
| 34 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Powell's leading questions during Jason's interrogation inadvertently led the latter to realise that Chrissy is the dead Hawkins High student the news was talking about, and that Eddie is a person of interest. This leads to Jason's SanitySlippage that culminates [[spoiler:into Hawkins going on a WitchHunt for the members of the Hellfire Club by the end of the season.]] |
| 35 | * OhCrap: Both Powell and Callahan have these looks on their faces when they realise that they said too much during their interrogation of Jason and he now knows that Eddie is a person of interest in Chrissy's murder. |
| 36 | * RankUp: [[spoiler:He is promoted to Hawkin's chief of police after Hopper's apparent death.]] |
| 37 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: |
| 38 | ** Surprisingly gains shades of this in Season 4. After [[spoiler: Chrissy is found dead in Eddie's trailer,]] he doesn't immediately suspect the latter to be a murderer, as just because a corpse is discovered on your property, it doesn't necessarily make you guilty of their murder (he notably also doesn't include [[spoiler: Eddie's uncle on his list of suspects).]] It's only after [[spoiler: Eddie]] is confirmed to be at the location of another murder does he begin counting him as a suspect. |
| 39 | ** Likewise, when [[spoiler: Dustin, Lucas, and Max are caught out late at night by the lake where Patrick was killed, he opts to interrogate them individually with their parents there as opposed to Ted's suggestion of having the teens spend a night in prison. He also doesn't jump to the assumption that they are in league with Eddie or are guilty of anything (yet). This is in contrast to the rest of the Hawkins residents who have become convinced that the Hellfire club (which includes Lucas and Dustin) is a satanic cult and have organized a WitchHunt against them.]] |
| 40 | * SayingTooMuch: When he interrogates Jason after Chrissy's murder he asks to many leading questions, by asking if she ever purchases drugs and if she is known to hang out with Eddie, which leads to Jason coming to the conclusion that Eddie was involved in Chrissy's murder. Notably you can see the moment Powell realises he said too much but by then it is too late. |
| 41 | * TheScully: He's not just skeptical, he's also lazy. |
| 42 | * ShoutOut: |
| 43 | ** Calvin and Phil bear a more-than-passing resemblance to Lou and Eddie, the cops that support Chief Wiggum on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. Calvin is even the more intelligent and competent of the two, like Lou. |
| 44 | ** He's also got the same name as Sergeant Powell from ''Film/DieHard''. |
| 45 | * 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. |
| 46 | * SmallTownBoredom: Contrary to the Chief, Officer Powell is ostensibly a small town cop unwilling to go the extra mile. |
| 47 | * ThoseTwoGuys: He is often seen with Callahan by his side. Even when Powell [[spoiler:is made Chief of Police, Callahan is still always around him as his NumberTwo.]] |
| 48 | * TokenMinority: The sole African-American in the little Hawkins police force until Season 4. |
| 49 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: His less than stellar handling of Jason's interrogation sets into motion a domino effect that leads to [[spoiler:Hawkins descending into a paranoid WitchHunt mania against the Hellfire Club.]] |
| 50 | [[/folder]] |
| 51 | |
| 52 | [[folder:Callahan]] |
| 53 | !!Officer Phil Callahan |
| 54 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stranger_things_3.jpg]] |
| 55 | !!!'''Played By:''' John Reynolds |
| 56 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E1ChapterOneTheVanishingOfWillByers Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers]]" (1x01) |
| 57 | |
| 58 | One of Chief Hopper's officers with a tendency of speaking without thinking. |
| 59 | ---- |
| 60 | * CharacterDevelopment: While not ''as much'' as Powell, it is a bit there too. Callahan seems to have become a bit more respectful and does put more effort in his job than in Season 1 and 2. Keyword being ''effort''. |
| 61 | * CluelessDeputy: A more straight example than Powell. Compared to him, Callahan is very obviously none too bright. |
| 62 | * IronicName: His last name translates to "bright-headed". Not very fitting for the rather dull Officer Callahan. |
| 63 | * {{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. |
| 64 | * NoSympathy: No matter what crime he is investigating, this guy will feel not one iota of empathy towards the victim, though in Season 4 [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness he's just as horrified]] as everyone else [[spoiler:seeing Chrissy's mangled corpse.]] |
| 65 | * PornStache: Starting in Season 2, he's sporting a thick, bushy 'stache. |
| 66 | * ThoseTwoGuys: Officer Powell is almost always with him. Even when Powell [[spoiler:is promoted, the two of them stick together, with Callahan being his NumberTwo.]] |
| 67 | [[/folder]] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | [[folder:Florence]] |
| 70 | !!Florence |
| 71 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/florence.png]] |
| 72 | !!!'''Played By:''' Susan Shalhoub Larkin |
| 73 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E1ChapterOneTheVanishingOfWillByers Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers]]" (1x01) |
| 74 | |
| 75 | Hawkins Police station's secretary and clerk. A grandmotherly figure. |
| 76 | ---- |
| 77 | * FiftiesHair: Wears a fuzzy and soft version of the style worn by HM Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 78 | * 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. |
| 79 | * 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. |
| 80 | * 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. |
| 81 | * MoralityChain: For Hopper and the police department as a whole. |
| 82 | * 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]]. |
| 83 | * 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. |
| 84 | * TheReliableOne: She serves unofficially as the person who talks to relatives at the station. |
| 85 | * 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. |
| 86 | [[/folder]] |
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| 88 | |
| 89 | !!Hawkins High School |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [[AC:Basketball Team]] |
| 92 | |
| 93 | [[folder:Tommy Hagan]] |
| 94 | !!Tommy Hagan |
| 95 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tommy_h___the_bathtub.png]] |
| 96 | !!!'''Played By:''' Chester Rushing |
| 97 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E2ChapterTwoTheWeirdoOnMapleStreet Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street]]" (1x02) |
| 98 | |
| 99 | Steve's former best friend and Carol's boyfriend. A guy with an extremely caustic personality. |
| 100 | ---- |
| 101 | * BirdsOfAFeather: His relationship with utter bitch Carol is a match made in heaven/hell -- take your pick. |
| 102 | * TheBully: It comes with being a JerkJock. With the exception of his equally horrible girlfriend, Tommy picks on just about everyone. |
| 103 | * DemotedToExtra: For the majority of Season 2, although in the fourth episode , he has a SmallRoleBigImpact moment when he informs Steve and Billy in the shower about Jonathan and Nancy's relationship going back on resulting in Steve trying to win her over and going to her house where he joins Dustin resulting in Steve becoming an official main character.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). |
| 104 | * 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. |
| 105 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He is momentarily taken aback when he sees Jonathan's stalker photos. |
| 106 | * FalseFriend: 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. |
| 107 | * HateSink: This jock has no redeeming qualities in his soulless bones, other than his love for the equally terrible Carol. |
| 108 | * JerkassHasAPoint: When Steve finally calls him out on his behavior, Tommy immediately points out that he's never stopped him. |
| 109 | * JerkJock: Tommy is on the basketball team and is ''aggressively” unpleasant. |
| 110 | * 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. Steve undergoes a lot of character development as Tommy and Carol's influence on him fades. |
| 111 | [[/folder]] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:Jason Carver]] |
| 114 | !!Jason Carver |
| 115 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fty7bcwx0aa4mipjpeg.jpg]] |
| 116 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Then I remembered Romans 12:21: [[KnightTemplar 'Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.'"]]'']] |
| 117 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MasonDye |
| 118 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E1ChapterOneTheHellfireClub Chapter One: The Hellfire Club]]" (4x01) |
| 119 | |
| 120 | The captain of the Hawkins High basketball team and Chrissy's boyfriend. |
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| 122 | * AffablyEvil: A perfect mix of this and FauxAffablyEvil depending on when the mood calls for it. Jason stands up for his teammates to rough play at the basketball games, shows genuine concern for Lucas at his hangover when the latter is sick and does truly care for others. However, he has just enough charisma to manipulate people and act kindly in order to bring them to his side, with examples including him "not pressuring Lucas" to join their search for Eddie, his rabble-rousing speech at the town hall, or his politely threatening scene with Nancy in the gun store. |
| 123 | * AlasPoorVillain: With everything the guy suffered, [[spoiler:including losing ''two'' people close to him to Vecna, having to witness the second one be murdered right in front of him, and his genuine misguided beliefs (although with inexcusable actions), it's difficult not to feel some pity at his death. To say nothing of the utterly horrifying manner of his death.]] [[https://www.indiewire.com/2022/07/caleb-mclaughlin-stranger-things-4-spoilers-1234739587/ Even Caleb McLaughlin feels sorry for him.]] |
| 124 | -->'''Caleb:''' His girlfriend died, he thought Eddie killed her, and then he was just trying to be the superhero but [[spoiler: ended up getting cut in half, sadly.]] |
| 125 | * AntiVillain: While he leads the basketball team in a manhunt for Eddie so they can kill him, he's got an understandable motive in that his girlfriend was murdered and Eddie is the prime suspect. 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, and he ignores any evidence he's presented with that doesn't line up with his beliefs. In his mind, though, he is genuinely TheHero trying to rid their town of a violent and unstable cult-leading lunatic, [[WrongGenreSavvy unaware that he's just a minor antagonist]] or that [[{{Hypocrite}} he's the violent and unstable one]]. |
| 126 | * ArchEnemy: Jason already has it in for Eddie at the start of the season. This only gets kicked into overdrive when it looks as if Eddie murdered his beloved Chrissy. |
| 127 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:While one can pity the trauma that led to his actions, he is still a violent VigilanteMan who tries to kill teenagers due to SatanicPanic-fuelled violent prejudice. Not to mention that his grisly death comes down to his own fault.]] |
| 128 | * BeyondRedemption: Jason's insane belief that he's the hero no matter what he does and unwillingness to believe Lucas drives him to accidentally assist Vecna in his ultimate plan, which [[spoiler:ends up getting Max briefly killed despite Jason, ironically, believing he was saving her with his actions]]. |
| 129 | * BigManOnCampus: 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. It shows the esteem with which he's held throughout Hawkins when he's allowed to deliver lengthy speeches at school rallies and at a town meeting, where even the adults listen astutely to what he has to say. |
| 130 | * BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Much like the trope namer for InspectorJavert, Jason's belief in his own righteousness and the evil of others is utterly and completely without bend or compromise, and he refuses to believe anything opposed to his preconceived assumptions even when presented with hard evidence. ''Unlike'' said trope namer, he takes this all the way to the extremes of vigilante justice, attempted murder, and torture, even towards ''children''. |
| 131 | * BlatantLies: He assures Lucas he just wanna talk to Eddie. Given what he did to the members of the Hellfire Club for the crime of ''knowing'' Eddie, it's easy to figure what kind of "talk" that would be. We see this when he finally finds Eddie and chases him into the lake, clearly intending to kill him. |
| 132 | * BrokenPedestal: He is this to Lucas, who longs to be normal, but later calls normal “crazy”. |
| 133 | * BullyingADragon: Him subtly threatening Nancy, who's faced much more dangerous threats than him, at the gun shop could be chalked up as this. Even had he disarmed her, he was still facing an ActionGirl who specializes in firearms in a firearms shop. |
| 134 | * ChurchgoingVillain: Jason represents the "wholesome", "Christian values" side of America, ready to support himself with Biblical quotes and to interpret the events in Hawkins through a religious-right lens (slightly downplayed, as he's not explicitly ''shown'' as a church frequenter, but that still stands out in comparison to overall secular cast of the series). |
| 135 | * ClearTheirName: With the SatanicPanic and the WitchHunt taking center stage, it's easy to forget that another one of his goals is what he ''thinks'' is this, as he believes that the idea that Chrissy was with Eddie to buy drugs is a smear campaign by the police. [[IRejectYourReality The fact that Chrissy was indeed trying to buy drugs is something he seemingly can't accept]]. |
| 136 | * CrazyJealousGuy: Implied. A big reason he refuses to accept that Chrissy was at Eddie's trailer for a drug deal is because he can't deal with the fact that she would go to Eddie instead of him if she was having troubles. |
| 137 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: [[spoiler:Getting bisected by '''lava-like radiation''' is not an ideal way to go, to say the least. Even Lucas looks horrified despite Jason trying to kill him]]. |
| 138 | * CrusadingWidow: Is motivated for revenge from the minute he finds out his girlfriend was murdered, and the police reveal who the primary suspect is. [[spoiler: After Patrick dies, it only furthers his quest for revenge.]] |
| 139 | * DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: |
| 140 | ** Of TheHero, and of AmateurSleuth characters like Archie from ''Series/{{Riverdale}}'' and several characters from ''Series/ThirteenReasonsWhy''. He certainly seems to ''think'' he's heroic, as 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, yet he still believes he has the right to lead his friends on a manhunt. That, and his "investigation" basically amounts to vigilante justice, torturing Eddie's friends for information, and presumably planning to ''murder'' Eddie. Even after witnessing some of the supernatural events firsthand he still winds up being completely ''wrong'' about what's going on, demonstrating how easy it actually is for youths with no proper investigation training to come to wrongful conclusions based on the "evidence" they obtain. 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. |
| 141 | ** He makes an excellent deconstruction of the Paladin class, opposed to Eddie's Bard. He's charismatic, able to lead his friends to victory through inspiration and obviously cares deeply about his town. He's also completely fearless, which includes the fear of being wrong, and his ''quest to avenge his murdered lover'' overrules his sense of reason [[spoiler: and ultimately gets him killed.]] |
| 142 | ** He serves as a thorough deconstruction of the VigilanteMan, as he's portrayed not as a noble crusader doing what's necessary for the common good, but as a stark-raving lunatic whose single-minded obsession with {{revenge}} is getting a lot of innocent people caught in the crossfire. |
| 143 | * DrivenToVillainy: Jason is presented as a mostly decent fellow, kind to friends, and a pillar of society, with perhaps a smattering of rather low-level flaws such as a distrust of socially deviant types and not enough empathy to clue in on dark secrets of those close to him. Then Chrissy's murder occurs and these flaws form a really nasty synergy with his anger and sorrow; and ''then'', he witnesses [[spoiler:Patrick's death in a genuinely supernatural manner]] and buys completely into SatanicPanic in an attempt to make sense of everything he's seen (albeit in a way that will still let ''him'' be TheHero). |
| 144 | * EqualOpportunityEvil: Quite a few of his best friends are non-white and he seems to only somewhat dislike "outcasts", but even then, he seems fine with merely ignoring them unless they provoke him. |
| 145 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first episode hints at his later villainous traits multiple times. He shows himself as a loving boyfriend to Chrissy, but doesn't actually spend any time with her, [[LovingAShadow or at least not enough to know about her struggles]]. He gives a moving speech to the students of Hawkins High School, establishing himself as a pretty friendly individual with excellent public speaking skills... who has zero qualms using the deaths of the first three seasons in an attempt to motivate his team. While Jason's speech is meant to honor them, it's still rather insensitive, especially when he brings up Billy's name, much to Max's discomfort. And lastly, he shows poor leadership skills and planning during the basketball game, and [[WrongGenreSavvy acts more like a quarterback than a team captain.]] |
| 146 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Genuinely loves Chrissy and is devastated by her death. His entire goal through the season is to avenge her murder. He also genuinely cares for his basketball friends, especially Patrick, as shown by [[spoiler:his reaction to his death.]] |
| 147 | * ExhaustedEyeBags: By the end of Season 4, Jason has deep eye bags, showing that he has been unable to sleep in the prior few days, furthering the idea that he is truly motivated in a misguided drive to avenge [[spoiler:Chrissy and Patrick]] rather than pure malice. |
| 148 | * {{Expy}}: He appears to be a parody of Archie from ''Series/{{Riverdale}}''. He's the captain of a sports team, is dating the head cheerleader, gives multiple grandiose speeches, and engages in vigilante justice with his friends. |
| 149 | * FairPlayVillain: Gets pissed when the opposing basketball team violently assaults his teammates. |
| 150 | * FatalFlaw: |
| 151 | ** Pride. Jason’s brutal undoing would likely not have happened if he had learned to swallow his pride and stopped playing hero and just listened to those around him. |
| 152 | ** Revenge. Jason will stop at nothing to avenge Chrissy's murder, all the way up until [[spoiler: his end]]. |
| 153 | * {{Foil}}: To Eddie Munson. The pair are subtly set up as rivals in the first episode of Season 4, at different ends of the social spectrum. Both are leaders of their respective cliques, and are prone to grandiose speeches. But while Eddie gives off the perception of being a harsh, unreasonable taskmaster, he's actually friendly, considerate, and cares a great deal about those who he takes under his wing. Jason, on the other hand, expresses a friendly demeanor but masks his darker impulses. Eddie may indulge in things like D&D and Heavy Metal, but he clearly doesn't see them as anything more than fun things that bring them together, whereas Jason legitimately buys into the SatanicPanic lines about them. What's more, people follow Eddie because they want to, whereas they follow Jason because of his position on the basketball team and due to his bullying. Note how in the climax Eddie's main weapons are a guitar and a shield, while Jason uses a gun. |
| 154 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: In the aftermath of a party in the second episode of Season 4, he says the below line to a hungover Lucas: |
| 155 | -->"First hangover feels like you're gonna [[CruelAndUnusualDeath split in]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe two]], but you'll live." |
| 156 | * HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:When the new gate opens up underneath him, his abdomen melts away in mere seconds. You even see his exposed ribs!]] |
| 157 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: After Chrissy and Patrick's deaths, Jason accuses Eddie Munson of being a lunatic cult leader that worships Satan and ruthlessly slaughters innocent people for no good reason. To combat this, he...leads a group of loyal followers to terrorize/kill Eddie and anyone else affiliated with the Hellfire Club. In other words, [[ObliviousToHisOwnDescription he's exactly like he imagines Eddie to be.]] |
| 158 | * HowlOfSorrow: When he learns Chrissy died. |
| 159 | * {{Hypocrite}}: |
| 160 | ** Throughout the series he begins to act like an increasingly irrational and murderous fanatic driven by cult-like mania -- the exact same thing he accuses Eddie of being, just from a different direction. |
| 161 | ** While a Christian, Jason forgets several important quotes from the Bible in his WitchHunt, such as do not judge (which he does to Eddie and his friends for being "freaks") and do not repay evil with evil. |
| 162 | ** He says he knows that D&D itself is harmless, but that "the wrong kind of person" can become dangerous when he loses his grip on reality and blurs the line between it and fantasy. Being emotionally compromised by horrible grief ("the wrong kind of person"), he goes on the warpath because he can't tell reality (yes, "the devil" has power in Hawkins) from what's in his own head (Eddie's role in Chrissy's death). |
| 163 | * IRejectYourReality: He simply won't accept the fact that Chrissy was indeed trying to buy drugs from Eddie; he considers the mere idea as an attempt by the cops at smearing Chrissy's character, and finds it easier to believe that she was with Eddie because she was kidnapped to be sacrificed in some "satanic" ritual. This is in part rooted in his ItsAllAboutMe mentality, as he refuses to believe that Chrissy was suffering because if she was, she'd have gone to ''him'', and thus she couldn't possibly have had any problems. When it’s clear he won’t listen to reason during the climax, Lucas fights him. |
| 164 | * InspectorJavert: While Jason's motives are understandable, he's still an antagonist considering he's accusing an innocent person of murder. |
| 165 | * {{Irony}}: |
| 166 | ** He clearly believes himself to be the hero of the piece, which makes it rather ironic how [[spoiler:sudden and unceremonious his death is.]] Despite thinking he was the savior Hawkins needed, he ends up a mere footnote in the grand scheme of things. |
| 167 | ** He manages to get what he wants [[spoiler:when Eddie dies in the final episode of Season 4. And then Jason himself dies almost immediately after.]] |
| 168 | ** He does more to further Vecna's plans than Eddie ever did, due to [[spoiler:breaking Max's walkman and briefly causing her death. This is enough to count as a fourth sacrifice that allows the Upside Down to begin spilling into Hawkins.]] |
| 169 | * 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. This is to the point he refuses to believe Chrissy was actually buying drugs from Eddie because he refuses to believe she was suffering and needed help, believing with 100% certainty that she would have turned to him if she was. |
| 170 | * JerkassHasAPoint: |
| 171 | ** While he's completely wrong in his assumptions, the evidence he witnesses does corroborate with what he believes, such as when his friend is killed by Vecna before his eyes right as they have Eddie cornered (and thus, makes it appear Eddie has supernatural powers and killed him) or when he corners Lucas while Max is in a trance, the two apparently performing a ritual. Lucas later tries to explain that Vecna is the one doing the killing, which he seems to believe, but because he's already convinced Lucas, Eddie, and Hellfire are cultists, he assumes Vecna is the being they worship and doesn't let Lucas explain that they're trying to ''stop'' him. |
| 172 | ** One thing he is surely right about is that there's something evil in the town doing the killings, and the police don't want to believe it. He's just wrong that Eddie and the Hellfire Club are vessels for this evil. |
| 173 | * JerkJock: Downplayed. Even as he grows more violent and zealous in his revenge and WitchHunt for Eddie, he never actually engages in the usual behaviors of a JerkJock of lording his position over others, or bullying for the sake of bullying. Even when he gets physical, he clearly takes no pleasure in it. Outside his rousing speeches, when he turns up the charisma, he seems to only display two emotions after Chrissy's death: anger and sadness. This gets pronounced after [[TraumaCongaLine Patrick's death]]. |
| 174 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Jason loses some sympathy once he rouses the locals into forming a lynch mob so they can hunt down Eddie. |
| 175 | * KnightTemplar: With a heavy dose of BlackAndWhiteInsanity. After finding out Eddie is the prime suspect of Chrissy's murder, anyone remotely ''close'' to him is a valid target to be tortured. |
| 176 | * KnowNothingKnowItAll: |
| 177 | ** He lectures Nancy on how to wield a shotgun, but his knowledge of the weapon seems to be based on pop culture. He claims it's AwesomeButImpractical, yet we see him choosing to use a [[HandCannon magnum revolver]], which itself is a case of AwesomeButImpractical (ironically, the weakness he claims shotguns have regarding being easy to disarm at close range ends up proving true for his own gun when Lucas easily disarms him). It's particularly egregious since he's lecturing ''Nancy'' about this, who not only has used a shotgun in the past but is a responsible and experienced gun owner and his "advice" about the barrel just leads to her sawing it down to avoid any future problems. |
| 178 | ** Much of his sweeping assumption that the Hellfire Club are a cult is based entirely on him recalling vague claims that ''Dungeons & Dragons'' preaches Satanism. He doesn't know anything about their club or the game they play, nor does he appear to know much about cults or how they work, either, despite his WitchHunt against them. TruthInTelevision as SatanicPanic-style witch hunts are rarely carried out with a full understanding of the target, and mostly just fuelled by baseless assumptions from their imagery. |
| 179 | ** This is pretty much how his crusade works in a nutshell. He is convinced he knows exactly what's going on: Eddie is a Satanist who has gained demonic power thanks to playing ''Dungeons & Dragons'' and now him and his club are sacrificing teens around town as part of a ritual. He comes to this conclusion largely because Chrissy was killed at Eddie's trailer, unaware that no evidence actually proved Eddie did anything to her there (note, the police label him a person of interest, because for all they know he's a witness, not a killer); because Eddie is a "freak", unaware that Eddie is a NiceGuy without a violent bone in his body; because D&D has a reputation for Satanism, unaware that its misplaced hysteria; and because he witnessed clearly supernatural forces [[spoiler:kill his friend Patrick]] near Eddie, unaware that this is actually the work of a psychic killer in the Upside-Down. When he confronts Lucas, Lucas actually tries to explain TheMasquerade to him, but he ignores the parts that don't fit with what he's already decided is happening. He doesn't even appear to have known Chrissy particularly well, despite his claim, given he was oblivious to her depression and refused to believe anything was going on with her. |
| 180 | * LethallyStupid: |
| 181 | ** His actions end up causing more danger, which culminates in both [[spoiler:Max nearly dying and becoming comatose and his own death, as well as allowing Vecna to open his fourth portal and release the Upside-Down into the real world]]. |
| 182 | ** A minor example, but he thinks it would be a good idea to threaten Nancy, a [[WeakButSkilled frail-looking]] and [[ClassPrincess well-liked girl]] who has no clear connection to the murders, in a ''gun store''. One scream from her and it all would've been over. |
| 183 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: He organizes a WitchHunt against the innocent Eddie, believing that he is a Satanist who murdered his girlfriend Chrissy and then mutilated her corpse. Eventually he and his posse start buying guns, showing their lust for vengeance has taken them too far. |
| 184 | * LovingAShadow: While there's no doubt that Jason truly loved Chrissy with all of his heart (to the point of organizing a WitchHunt against a guy who's only crime was being a nonconformist), it's pretty clear he put Chrissy on a ''very'' high pedestal. He absolutely refuses to accept that Chrissy would "ever buy drugs", never once taking into consideration that there's a ''small possibility'' she would have. It can even be pointed out that Chrissy didn't tell him she was (unknowingly) cursed by Vecna ''and'' dealing with her trauma at home ''because'' of this trope. |
| 185 | * MirrorCharacter: To Steve Harrington. Both are [[JerkJock jerk jocks]] who run with an unsavory crew that undermine the efforts of the heroes. But Steve grows to be the better man, realizing when he was in the wrong and distancing himself from the toxic influences in his life. Jason on the other hand gives into his darker impulses [[spoiler: his recklessness eventually leading to his death.]] |
| 186 | * MoralMyopia: Jason's convinced there's a cult in Hawkins that murders innocent teenagers. His response? Start up a posse, quote self-serving passages from the Bible and buy guns that he plans to use on teenagers. |
| 187 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Literally. Jason views himself as the hero of his story, believing he's saving Max when he finds her in a trance but if he hadn't [[spoiler: attacked Lucas and broken Max's cassette player]], Lucas might have been able to [[spoiler: "call in Kate Bush" and save Max from her trance before Vecna could kill her and open the fourth gate]]. |
| 188 | * NoHeroToHisValet: Lucas, his junior classman, immediately realises that Jason is not the maverick hero he believes himself to be, regardless of how nice he is to him. It's implied Chrissy feels the same, as she never told Jason she was mentally unwell, which given he's a hothead and an overperfectionist demonstrates exactly why she might be keeping secrets from him. |
| 189 | * ObliviouslyEvil: |
| 190 | ** He convinces himself there's a murderous Satanic cult in town and that it's up to him to take action. He honestly sees himself as a hero. |
| 191 | ** Notably, after Lucas abandons him and his posse, he concludes that Lucas and the rest of the Hellfire Club are protecting Eddie. It never occurs to him that Lucas actually left after being disturbed by their unnecessary, violent assault of Eddie's band, which is more accurate because at that point Lucas is unaware Eddie is indeed innocent. |
| 192 | * PaperTiger: Downplayed. He manages to beat up Lucas, but wasn't ready for his HeroicSecondWind and is then subjected to a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that leaves him out cold. And for good measure, his pal Andy gets his balls beat in by Erica who then clocks him upside the head. She's ''eleven.'' Turns out not only was his vigilante group not as smart as they thought, they were also nowhere near as tough. |
| 193 | * PetTheDog: |
| 194 | ** He's nice to Lucas at first, showing no resentment for him making the game winning shot, inviting him to a party, checking to make sure he's okay, and even going as far as to say that Lucas doesn't have to participate in their Eddie Hunt after Chrissy's death. This all changes when he discovers Lucas is a part of the Hellfire Club and organizes a WitchHunt against him and the other members. |
| 195 | ** He's genuinely worried upon finding Max in Vecna's trance and tries to get Lucas to wake her up in an attempt to save her. |
| 196 | * PoliticallyCorrectVillain: Treats Patrick and Lucas just as well as his other friends. His conflict with Lucas is for helping Eddie rather than his race and [[spoiler:is absolutely heartbroken by Patrick's death.]] [[https://www.indiewire.com/2022/07/caleb-mclaughlin-stranger-things-4-spoilers-1234739587/ Caled McLaughlin himself actually came in and denied Jason being racist when comparing him to Lucas' previous antagonist, Billy.]] |
| 197 | -->'''Caleb:''' Jason took Lucas in, was trying to show him the ropes -- maybe he was arrogant, a little obnoxious but he wasn't racist. Lucas' girlfriend's brother hated him because he was black and threw him up against a wall in Season 2 and like, Stay away from her! |
| 198 | * PopularIsEvil: More like popular is anti-villainous but he's nonetheless a threat to the protagonists. |
| 199 | * RightForTheWrongReasons: Jason's actually completely correct that there is a supernatural evil that is killing people in Hawkins. However, he believes that Eddie Munson and the people associated with him are somehow responsible for all of them through Satanic worship, when in reality it's at the hands of a HumanoidAbomination from another dimension that has psychic powers. |
| 200 | * RousingSpeech: He's ''really'' good at them. He delivers one at the pep rally to psych up the whole school for a prospective championship win, gives one to his basketball team (and coach) to score the winning points, and more disturbingly, gives several to encourage first the basketball team and then ''most of the town'' to follow him in basically a WitchHunt. |
| 201 | * SanitySlippage: A rather chilling example, because it happens gradually yet consistently throughout the season: |
| 202 | ** After Chrissy's death, Jason starts out trying to be a VigilanteMan, who, although [[WellIntentionedExtremist overly-extreme in his methods]], still has understandable motives. |
| 203 | ** After witnessing [[spoiler:Patrick's death]], he starts using SatanicPanic to rationalize the event and ''[[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope forms a lynch mob to hunt down a group of children]]''. |
| 204 | ** In the penultimate episode, he starts to develop irritated eyes with bags underneath, indicating a lack of sleep due to his increasing obsession with [[KnightTemplar "justice"]]. This is further corroborated when he threatens Nancy who, as far as he knows, is perfectly innocent, ''[[LethallyStupid in the middle of a gun store]]'', showing that he's losing his grip on sanity. |
| 205 | ** [[spoiler:By the finale, it's clear that Jason has become completely unhinged, [[IRejectYourReality utterly refusing to listen to reason]] or [[ItsAllAboutMe accept the possibility that he's wrong]], culminating in him trying to murder Lucas, his former friend.]] |
| 206 | * SatanicPanic: He genuinely believes the Hellfire Club are a cult rather than a bunch of nerds trying to be edgy. |
| 207 | * ShadowArchetype: |
| 208 | ** To Steve: Both of them are the BigManOnCampus in high school who are popular and good at basketball. Both of them date a girl (Nancy/Chrissy) that they genuinely fell in love with. Both of them are antagonistic towards the "freaks" of the school (Jonathan/Eddie), and go after said freaks when they think they've done something wrong: Jason attempts to track Eddie down when he thinks Eddie killed Chrissy, and Steve breaks Jonathan's camera when he finds out that Jonathan secretly took pictures of him and Nancy at the pool party without their consent, later spray painting slut-shaming graffiti after witnessing Nancy with Jonathan. The difference is that Steve undergoes massive CharacterDevelopment after having a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment when he realizes how despicable his actions were and makes a genuine attempt to atone to Jonathan and Nancy for his behavior, whereas Jason continues to slip further into KnightTemplar territory. Unlike Jason, who has deluded himself into thinking he's the hero of the town even as his actions are about to hurt innocent people, Steve actually is heroic, repeatedly putting his life on the line for others, and never goes to the extreme of ''wanting to kill someone,'' or rousing a lynch mob. And while Jason continues to hold on to his prejudices against outcasts (to the point of organizing a WitchHunt against the Hellfire Club), Steve lets go of his old prejudices after [[TookALevelInKindness taking a level in kindness]] and becoming friends with "outcasts" like Robin and Dustin. |
| 209 | ** His group is one to the main party, trying to solve a mystery they don't quite understand. The differences are the Party are a group of of TrueCompanions who, while they might bicker and have difficulties communicating their troubles, clearly know when one of their friends is bothered, especially Mike. Jason on the other hand is completely oblivious to how stressed Chrissy is, to the point where she was self-medicating with drugs, and that Patrick had issues at home, which shows Jason's behavior as either ignorant or self-absorbed. The Party also manages to work things out through covert legwork, figuring out seemingly innocuous threads, and deductive reasoning and when they are forced to confrontation they usually resort to trickery to keep from drawing too much attention, whereas Jason just barges in, punches first and asks questions later, usually ending up with sloppy details that are unhelpful and tends to create a massive mess that's impossible to keep quiet. |
| 210 | * SkywardScream: After getting the news of Chrissy's death. [[spoiler:And again when he himself dies.]] |
| 211 | * TheSociopath: Played with. Jason does briefly show grief over Chrissy and Patrick's deaths, and his reaction upon finding Max in Vecna's thrawl hints he's capable of genuine concern for others. From Lucas's perspective however, Jason's behavior comes off as sociopathic, as turns the entire town into a lynch mob to hunt down members of the Hellfire Club (which included Lucas, his sister Erica, and his friends who are all teenagers), tortures people, buys guns with the intention of ''killing'' Hellfire members without considering the possibility he might be wrong about them being guilty, implicitly threatens Nancy and makes it clear that he's on the hunt for Mike, follows an anonymous tip to chase down an ''11 year old girl'' (Erica) just for being loosely associated with Hellfire, and refuses to listen to Lucas's attempts to explain what was going on because it doesn't match up with his preconceived notions. |
| 212 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Acts as one in the Party's plan to stop Vecna. [[spoiler: Jason suddenly showing up, attacking Lucas, and accidentally smashing Max's Walkman while having his friend subdue Erica almost completely derails the entire mission, resulting in Max dying for a minute and Vecna's gate being opened up. Even when Max is revived by El, she's still horribly injured and stuck in a coma.]] |
| 213 | * TautologicalTemplar: In Jason's mind, everything he does is inherently good. Anyone he doesn't like is an acceptable target for his puritanical impulses and he'll use any excuse to mete out whatever zealous punishments fester in his mind. |
| 214 | * ThousandYardStare: While he holds Patrick's body, which he has dragged out of the lake, he seems completely at a loss and barely reacts to the cops. |
| 215 | * TragicVillain: First, he tragically loses his beloved girlfriend in a violent murder and then [[spoiler: has to witness his best friend get killed in similar brutal fashion, right as they corner Eddie, who promptly escapes.]] Jason's actions go way too far in the end but it's hard not to feel some sympathy and see why he flew over the edge in believing Eddie and Hellfire was responsible for the murders. |
| 216 | * TraumaCongaLine: First his girlfriend is brutally murdered, then one of his friends (from his perspective) betrays him to help the one most likely to have murdered her, and then another one of his friends dies before him in a horrifying and clearly supernatural way, which convinces him that there's something truly evil in town. Notably, the cops find him holding Patrick's mangled body while he sports a ThousandYardStare, and those same cops then do little more than dismiss his account of the events. [[spoiler: Then when he finds Lucas, he believes he's about to kill Max and tries to save her but is beaten down and then killed moments later.]] |
| 217 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Jason attacks Lucas and accidentally breaks Max's Walkman in a misguided attempt to save Max from Vecna's trance. As a result of his interference, Max has all of her limbs broken, loses her sight, and is left comatose in a body cast because Lucas has no way to save her from Vecna. Even worse, he ends up allowing Vecna to open the fourth gate to the Upside Down, allowing it to spill into the real world and kill over 20 Hawkins residents (including himself), with even more being left homeless.]] |
| 218 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: A clean-cut, God-fearing young man who leads his school's basketball team and knows how to rouse up a crowd. He's also a violent vigilante that refuses to admit to his own imperfections. [[spoiler:The tragic irony is that he will be remembered positively in the town, as people at the church are seen spray painting the Bible quotes he gave, whereas the innocent target of his vengeance, Eddie Munson, is to be remembered as a satanic cultist and SerialKiller despite his efforts to save people, thanks to Jason's rhetoric.]] |
| 219 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: Jason genuinely believes Eddie and the Hellfire club are behind the killings in Hawkins and wants to stop them. The problem is, organizing a WitchHunt is taking things way too far and he's willing to kill Eddie in order to stop him. [[spoiler:In the final battle, he tries to murder Lucas while believing Max is in danger and it's Lucas' fault, unintentionally making things worse and putting Max in more danger.]] |
| 220 | * WentCrazyWhenTheyLeft: He was never a fan of 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. |
| 221 | * WitchHunt: What his desire to see justice served ultimately devolves into. He turns the entire town of Hawkins against the Hellfire Club by convincing the townsfolk that they're a Satanic cult responsible for the recent murders and all the horrible things that have happened in the previous years. |
| 222 | * WouldHitAGirl: Implied. He has a brief interaction with Nancy when she's buying a shotgun. The way he talks about the shotgun's inherent disadvantage over his own gang's choice of firearms - as well as demonstrating his reflexes when he tries to snatch it off Nancy - shows that he'll gladly attack her if she gives him an excuse, and even then he'll probably attack her anyway just for being Mike's older sister (he doesn't but mostly since she isn't scared of him). |
| 223 | * WouldHurtAChild: As his manhunt continues, he makes the rest of the Hellfire Club (which include younger teenagers and an unambiguous child) potential targets for violent death, even subtly warning Nancy that [[ImpliedDeathThreat he has no issue with harming her brother Mike due to his affiliation with the club]]. One of his cronies also physically assaults Erica, and Jason himself also tries to kill Lucas at the end in a misguided attempt to save Max. |
| 224 | * WrongGenreSavvy: He is correct in that something supernatural and evil is behind the latest string of killings in Hawkins, but he winds up believing that someone completely innocent is the one behind it all after falling for SatanicPanic fear-mongering and a predisposition against outcasts cloud his judgement. He is utterly convinced that ''he's'' the lead of this story, rallying the town around him and trusting his own judgement entirely, and very much acting in a manner that TheHero would, unaware that he's completely ignorant of everything that's really going on and how his interference is only making things harder. He may well think he's a determined protagonist in a religious horror story about a Satanic cult, but really he's a side character in a horror-adventure about a very different kind of supernatural. |
| 225 | * YouAreWhatYouHate: He goes after Eddie, believing him to be a fanatical cult leader who’s been murdering fellow teenagers around Hawkins. By the end of the season, Jason himself is leading a delusional group of followers using religion as an excuse to hunt down the Hellfire Club, culminating in him trying to kill Lucas, his own teammate. |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder:Patrick [=McKinney=]]] |
| 229 | !!Patrick [=McKinney=] |
| 230 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/patrickst4.jpeg]] |
| 231 | !!!'''Played By:''' Miles Truitt |
| 232 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E1ChapterOneTheHellfireClub Chapter One: The Hellfire Club]]" (4x01) |
| 233 | |
| 234 | A member of the Hawkins High basketball team and part of Jason's violent witch hunt gang for Eddie. He's also [[spoiler:the third of Vecna's teenage victims, after Vecna fails to kill Max.]] |
| 235 | ---- |
| 236 | * AbusiveParents: Hinted at, as Lucas feels guilty for not asking where Patrick's black eye came from. Domestic violence is a likely cause. |
| 237 | * BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Dies in a similar manner as Chrissy and Fred.]] |
| 238 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: While his past isn't as elaborated on as Chrissy and Fred's, Lucas's story about his black eye and the fact that Vecna targeted him hints at this. |
| 239 | * MoralityPet: After Chrissy dies, he's this for Jason. [[spoiler: Jason's reaction to his death is one of his few moments of humanity after Chrissy's death.]] |
| 240 | * MysteriousPast: [[spoiler:Vecna's torment of Patrick is offscreen, unlike Chrissy and Fred]], so while hinted at, we don't as clearly know what trauma lies in his past. |
| 241 | * TokenGoodTeammate: He's a part of Jason's WitchHunt for Eddie, but at the same time, he shows a friendlier and more amicable side towards Lucas during their brief time together. He also calls out one of Jason's friends [[DudeNotFunny for making a joke about how Chrissy died]] when it's reported on the news, even though none of them even knew yet that it was Chrissy; Patrick objected to both making light of the murder and the casual joking about Chrissy's safety. He's similarly unimpressed when Andy tries to defend himself by joking that the victim may have been a drug addict. Considering this is in the 80's, it displays notable sympathy for victims of substance abuse. |
| 242 | [[/folder]] |
| 243 | |
| 244 | [[folder:Andy]] |
| 245 | !!Andy |
| 246 | !!!'''Played By:''' Clayton Royal Johnson |
| 247 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E1ChapterOneTheHellfireClub Chapter One: The Hellfire Club]]" (4x01) |
| 248 | |
| 249 | A douchebag jock who follows Jason during the manhunt against Eddie Munson. |
| 250 | ---- |
| 251 | * GroinAttack: Erica kicks him in the balls to escape. |
| 252 | * {{Jerkass}}: The worst out of the group, due to his violent tendencies. |
| 253 | * WouldHurtAChild: He not only attacks the 11 year old Erica, he also threatens to ''break her arms''. |
| 254 | [[/folder]] |
| 255 | |
| 256 | [[AC:Cheerleading Squad]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | [[folder:Chrissy Cunningham]] |
| 259 | !!Chrissy Cunningham |
| 260 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ftykgghwiaib3nfjpeg.jpg]] |
| 261 | [[caption-width-right:350:''[[BlatantLies "I'm fine."]]'']] |
| 262 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/GraceVanDien |
| 263 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E1ChapterOneTheHellfireClub Chapter One: The Hellfire Club]]" (4x01) |
| 264 | |
| 265 | A cheerleader at Hawkins High. |
| 266 | ---- |
| 267 | * AbusiveParents: Her mother is implied to be verbally, emotionally and physically abusive to Chrissy, body-shaming her daughter to the point she develops an eating disorder. When under Vecna's spell, Chrissy is seen to be trapped inside a nightmare version of her family home, with her mother upstairs at a sewing machine, frantically letting out Chrissy's cheerleader uniform and ranting about her being "fat". It's implied that her father was much kinder, though. |
| 268 | * 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, Jason, who was crazy about her. |
| 269 | * AlliterativeName: '''C'''hrissy '''C'''unningham. |
| 270 | * BodyHorror: How she is tragically killed; Vecna telekinetically snaps each of her limbs at right angles, her jaw is snapped sideways, and her eye-sockets are crushed inwards -- which is all presented in unflinching detail. |
| 271 | * BrokenAce: 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. |
| 272 | * BrokenBird: 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. |
| 273 | * CigaretteOfAnxiety: Because of the various mental issues she's having, she seeks to score a drug deal with Eddie, hoping that he can prescribe her something strong to calm her frayed nerves. |
| 274 | * 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. |
| 275 | * DecoyProtagonist: Gets a good amount of screentime and characterization in Season 4's premiere, making it look like she might be a new addition to the main cast. Then the episode ends with her horrific death. |
| 276 | * {{Expy}}: |
| 277 | ** Chrissy's a high school student that appears perfect on the outside but is carrying all sorts of repressed issues and is killed by a supernatural entity which triggers the season's overarching plot, making her akin to [[Series/TwinPeaks Laura Palmer]]. |
| 278 | ** Her name can be a shortened version of Christina, the full name of Tina, the first victim of Freddie Krueger in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet1984'', who dies in a comparable manner. |
| 279 | * HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Chrissy has strawberry-blonde hair and is a sweet NiceGirl. |
| 280 | * TheLostLenore: For Jason and Eddie, as her death was a major catalyst for their main motivations. While Jason becomes aggressive and obsessed with avenging her murder that he blames on Eddie out of prejudice and petty jealousy. Eddie simply feels extreme trauma and guilt over not being able to save Chrissy from Vecna and begins to view himself as a coward who runs away the first sign of danger. In the end, Eddie is the one who does right by Chrissy when he dedicates his performance of Master of Puppets to her and honors her memory by not running away again then heroically sacrificing himself for the greater good. |
| 281 | * MoralityPet: For Jason. Even as he falls into villainy, his motive never changes from avenging her death. |
| 282 | * NiceGirl: In spite of her psychological issues stemming from her abusive mom (and Vecna), she's an overall pleasant girl, and even bonds with an outsider like Eddie when she's trying to buy drugs from him. |
| 283 | * OddFriendship: Chrissy -- a popular cheerleader -- forms one with Eddie, a nerdy garage guitarist and stoner. |
| 284 | * PomPomGirl: Chrissy's a member of the cheering squad who happens to also be a total sweetheart. |
| 285 | * SacrificialLamb: Dies during the first episode of Season 4, being the first to present the season's new threat. |
| 286 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: Deconstructed. As Jason mentioned, Chrissy never told him that she was suffering, so he doesn't take it well when Lucas says she was willingly buying drugs from Eddie. From there it can be assumed that Chrissy felt pressured to be the perfect girlfriend for Jason. |
| 287 | * SheepInSheepsClothing: Eddie said he expected her to be more intimidating given her popularity, and she said she [[LonersAreFreaks thought the]] [[TheAggressiveDrugDealer same about him.]] The fact she is so quickly at ease with someone like Eddie proves she's more open-minded than Jason, who exhibits classic high school hierarchical prejudice. |
| 288 | * ShipTease: Gets a bit of this with Eddie, but she's unfortunately killed before anything can come of it. |
| 289 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite only appearing in the season premiere, her PlotTriggeringDeath sets off the events of Season 4 and as such Chrissy ended up a highly popular cosplay choice. |
| 290 | * StepfordSmiler: Is very kind but clearly suffers from trauma. The only person she confides in is Eddie and that's purely because he supplies her with drugs to take the edge off. Chrissy never tells Jason about her issues, which given his HairTriggerTemper opens up the possibility she is somewhat afraid of him. |
| 291 | * TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Is a kind and caring sweetheart of a girl who also suffers from trauma and dies an absolutely brutal death at the hands of Vecna that she absolutely did not deserve. |
| 292 | * WeightWoe: To the point of having an eating disorder, most likely bulimia based on her purging behavior in the bathroom. |
| 293 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: Dies in her introductory episode. |
| 294 | [[/folder]] |
| 295 | |
| 296 | [[AC:Newspaper]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Fred Benson]] |
| 299 | !!Fred Benson |
| 300 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ftyfpmjwiamsvxmjpeg.jpg]] |
| 301 | %% [[caption-width-right:350:]] |
| 302 | !!!'''Played By:''' Logan Riley Bruner |
| 303 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E1ChapterOneTheHellfireClub Chapter One: The Hellfire Club]]" (4x01) |
| 304 | |
| 305 | A member of Hawkins High newspaper. |
| 306 | ---- |
| 307 | * BodyHorror: [[spoiler:Fred's death is shown in even greater detail than Chrissy's. His limbs break and twist in unnatural ways, his face is disfigured into a horrific gape and his eyes are crushed in their sockets before he drops to the ground in a mangled mess.]] |
| 308 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: He was involved in a car crash at some point, one that left him with a nasty facial scar and took the lives of several members of his family. [[spoiler:Vecna uses this incident to torment him before brutally murdering him.]] |
| 309 | * DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Starts out as a one-dimensional bit character, [[spoiler:but before his death we get to know him as a sassy fellow with his own thoughts, as well as having a tragic background.]] |
| 310 | * DyingAlone: [[spoiler:Is the only one of Vecna's victims whose death has no witnesses.]] |
| 311 | * GeekPhysiques: An archetypal short, scrawny, near-sighted nerd. |
| 312 | * HopelessSuitor: Clearly has a thing for Nancy, but she's just as clearly uninterested. |
| 313 | * NiceGuy: He's a nice guy who Nancy trusts enough to talk to him about her personal issues regarding her boyfriend Jonathan. [[spoiler:This only serves to make his gruesome death all the more tragic.]] |
| 314 | |
| 315 | [[/folder]] |
| 316 | |
| 317 | [[AC:Band]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:Vickie]] |
| 320 | !!Vickie |
| 321 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vickiest4.jpeg]] |
| 322 | !!!'''Played By:''' Amybeth [=McNulty=] |
| 323 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E1ChapterOneTheHellfireClub Chapter One: The Hellfire Club]]" (4x01) |
| 324 | |
| 325 | Robin's bandmate who she has a crush on. |
| 326 | ---- |
| 327 | * AmbiguouslyBi: She has a boyfriend, but is also heavily implied to return Robin's feelings. Steve also brings up the fact that she returned ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'' at "that scene" (Creator/PhoebeCates's character removes her bikini top to show off her boobs in a sexual fantasy), which leads him to believe she likes ladies. |
| 328 | * BirdsOfAFeather: Vickie is pretty much a clone of Robin, though with an apparent interest in boys and lacking some of her more cool girl traits. |
| 329 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: If Steve was right about why she returned ''Film/FastTimesAtRidgemontHigh'' at "53 minutes and 5 seconds". |
| 330 | * MotorMouth: Like Robin, she talks a mile a minute. |
| 331 | * NiceGirl: She seems to be a friendly person. |
| 332 | * SatelliteLoveInterest: Little is known about her outside of her relationship with Robin. |
| 333 | * ShoutOut: Her look in the episode "Papa" is one to Creator/MollyRingwald in ''Film/PrettyInPink''. |
| 334 | [[/folder]] |
| 335 | |
| 336 | [[AC:The Hellfire Club]] |
| 337 | |
| 338 | [[folder:Corroded Coffin]] |
| 339 | !!Corroded Coffin |
| 340 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/4416_6.jpg]] |
| 341 | !!!'''Jeff Played By:''' Trey Best |
| 342 | !!!'''Gareth Played By:''' Gwydion Lashlee-Walton |
| 343 | !!!'''Freak #1 Played By:''' Grant Goodman |
| 344 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E1ChapterOneTheHellfireClub Chapter One: The Hellfire Club]]" (4x01) |
| 345 | |
| 346 | The other members of the Hellfire Club, as well as Eddie's bandmates. |
| 347 | ---- |
| 348 | * BerserkButton: Canceling/postponing [=DnD=] (at least on short notice). |
| 349 | * BlackAndNerdy: Jeff is a [=DnD=]-playing metalhead and the only black Hellfire-member apart from Lucas. |
| 350 | * CurbStompBattle: They're on the receiving end of one when Jason comes to ask for Eddie's whereabouts and they won't tell him anything. Though they try to put up a fight they're quickly overpowered. |
| 351 | * GeekPhysique: The unnamed member, "Freak #1" is of the obese variety. |
| 352 | * HotBlooded: Gareth has shades of it. While all of Hellfire become upset when asked to postpone the campaign, Gareth's reaction is the strongest, looking ready to cause Mike and Dustin bodily harm for suggesting it. Later, when threatened and beaten by Jason, Gareth's response is to scream in Jason's face rather than cower or attempt to calmly talk him down. |
| 353 | * TheLancer: Gareth appears to fill the role, being the one to speak for the group whenever Eddie isn't there to do it. |
| 354 | * {{Metalhead}}: They're Eddie's bandmates and are shown wearing metal band-merch while jamming together. |
| 355 | * NoNameGiven: The third member is never given a name; the end credits only refer to him as "Freak #1". |
| 356 | * PubescentBraces: Jeff has them. They're likely meant to signify both youth and nerdiness. |
| 357 | * RedOniBlueOni: Jeff is the blue to Gareth's red. For example, while [[HuddlePower discussing]] their [=DnD=] strategy Jeff rationally points out they're unlikely to win with only two remaining players. When Dustin calls them pussies for wanting to flee Gareth reacts by impulsively calling Dustin delusional. Fittingly, Gareth sports red flannel while Jeff wears a blue baseball tee. |
| 358 | [[/folder]] |
| 359 | |
| 360 | [[AC:Other Students]] |
| 361 | |
| 362 | [[folder:Carol Perkins]] |
| 363 | !!Carol Perkins |
| 364 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/carol_8.png]] |
| 365 | !!!'''Played By:''' Chelsea Talmadge |
| 366 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E2ChapterTwoTheWeirdoOnMapleStreet Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street]]" (1x02) |
| 367 | |
| 368 | Tommy's girlfriend. An equally caustic girl with a chip on her shoulder. |
| 369 | ---- |
| 370 | * SeventiesHair: Her hairstyle retains the face-framing, blown out curls of the prior decade in the first season. |
| 371 | * EightiesHair: She updates her hairstyle with more bouffant waves and heavy bangs in Season Two. |
| 372 | * 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). |
| 373 | * BirdsOfAFeather: She's basically a gender-flipped version of her boyfriend Tommy. It's a horrible thing to see in action. |
| 374 | * BitchAlert: She doesn't even try to pretend to be nice. Just about every word out of her mouth is abuse and condescension. |
| 375 | * TheBully: Just like her boyfriend, Carol enjoys taunting people. |
| 376 | * 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). |
| 377 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: She actually seems distressed when Steve and Jonathan are fist-fighting and tries to get Tommy to break it up. |
| 378 | * 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 most one-dimensional characters in the show. |
| 379 | * {{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. |
| 380 | * {{Jerkass}}: Every bit as much of an unpleasant, braying jackass as Tommy. |
| 381 | * 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. |
| 382 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: Guess who supplies some of the slut-shaming ideas to both Tommy and Steve? |
| 383 | [[/folder]] |
| 384 | ---- |
| 385 | !!Hawkins Middle School |
| 386 | |
| 387 | [[AC:Students]] |
| 388 | |
| 389 | [[folder:Troy Walsh]] |
| 390 | !!Troy Walsh |
| 391 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/troyst.jpg]] |
| 392 | !!!'''Played By:''' Peyton Wich |
| 393 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E1ChapterOneTheVanishingOfWillByers Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers]]" (1x01) |
| 394 | |
| 395 | The boys' classmate and school bully. A cruel, mocking kid. |
| 396 | ---- |
| 397 | * AxCrazy: Not at first, but when El humiliates him in front of the whole school, he becomes ''murderously'' angry. |
| 398 | * BarbaricBully: 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. |
| 399 | * BullyBrutality: 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. |
| 400 | * 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. |
| 401 | * 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. |
| 402 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Eleven makes him pee himself in front of the whole school. His response is to try to kill Mike in retribution. The kid's messed up, alright. |
| 403 | * EnfantTerrible: Easily the cruelest, most malicious kid in the show. Come the tie-in comic ''The Bully'' and he's not so malicious. |
| 404 | * FreudianExcuse: His mother is very easily played, and it's strongly implied that she never holds him accountable for any of the things she ''does'' find out about. In the comic ''The Bully'', his father ( who is abusive towards him) yells at him for his recurring nightmares about Eleven and even encourages him to dump his "loser friend" James. Furthermore, given his father told him Will was probably “killed by another queer “ suggests his father is anything but a good parent and this might be where he gets his politically incorrect views. |
| 405 | * HateSink: There are no redeeming qualities beneath his bullying. Unlike Steve and even freaking Billy, he never reforms, or shows any remorse for his actions. He is also racist to Lucas. |
| 406 | * {{Jerkass}}: Who taunts the friends of a missing, possibly dead, kid, saying that he was killed? |
| 407 | * 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. |
| 408 | * PlayingTheVictimCard: After 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 trying to ''murder'' Mike at the time. |
| 409 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: He derisively refers to the dark-skinned Lucas as 'midnight' and makes homophobic comments about Will. |
| 410 | * PottyFailure: Eleven makes him piss himself in front of the entire school. |
| 411 | * SadisticChoice: 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. |
| 412 | * SanitySlippage: Not at first, but he becomes downright psychotic after some choice humiliation. |
| 413 | * TheSociopath: Even for a schoolyard bully, Troy is shown to be downright evil, shoving Mike face-first into a rock, hurling racist, homophobic and abliest insults at Lucas, Will and Dustin, respectively, and mocking Will's (supposed) death to Mike's face. After Mike and Eleven humiliate him in front of the school auditorium, he goes full mask-off and reveals himself to be a vicious psychopath who wants Mike '''dead''' after the incident, consequences be damned. |
| 414 | * 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. |
| 415 | * UhOhEyes: Due to his actor having rather deep-set, dark eyes, Troy looks positively ''demonic'' when angry. |
| 416 | [[/folder]] |
| 417 | |
| 418 | [[folder:James Dante]] |
| 419 | !!James Dante |
| 420 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/james_and_troy.JPG]] |
| 421 | !!!'''Played By:''' Cade Jones |
| 422 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E1ChapterOneTheVanishingOfWillByers Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers]]" (1x01) |
| 423 | |
| 424 | The boys' other school bully. Mainly tags along with Troy. |
| 425 | ---- |
| 426 | * TheBully: He is Troy's stooge and bullies the heroes alongside him. |
| 427 | * ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Like Troy, no explanation is given for his absence in the remainder of the show. |
| 428 | * 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. |
| 429 | * {{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. |
| 430 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Uses racist and homophobic slurs. |
| 431 | [[/folder]] |
| 432 | |
| 433 | [[folder:Stacy Albright]] |
| 434 | !!Stacy Albright |
| 435 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/staceyst.png]] |
| 436 | %%[[caption-width-right:250:]] |
| 437 | !!!'''Played By:''' Sydney Bullock |
| 438 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS2E9ChapterNineTheGate Chapter Nine: The Gate]]" (2x09) |
| 439 | |
| 440 | An AlphaBitch who has a couple of encounters with Dustin, Eleven, and Max. |
| 441 | ---- |
| 442 | * 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, but on-point for the time period. |
| 443 | * AlphaBitch: Openly sneers at other kids, including Dustin and Eleven, for tripping on heels. |
| 444 | * BitchAlert: Even just before she cruelly rejects Dustin and he's even asked her, she makes derisive looks and comments about the Snow Ball. |
| 445 | * BullyingTheDragon: She makes the mistake of openly sneering at Eleven and her friends, who happens to possess psychic powers that she uses to explode an Orange Julius in her face. |
| 446 | * HateSink: She makes Dustin feel bad after rejecting his offer of dancing with her and sneers at Eleven. |
| 447 | * HypocriticalHumor: She sneers at Dustin's teased hairdo (courtesy of tips and approval from Steve) while sporting frizzled hair that looks even more ridiculous. |
| 448 | [[/folder]] |
| 449 | |
| 450 | [[AC:Staff]] |
| 451 | |
| 452 | [[folder:Scott Clarke]] |
| 453 | !!Prof. Scott Clarke; Mr. Clarke |
| 454 | [[quoteright:279:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mrclarkest_7.png]] |
| 455 | !!!'''Played By:''' Randall P. Havens |
| 456 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E1ChapterOneTheVanishingOfWillByers Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers]]" (1x01) |
| 457 | |
| 458 | ->''"Science is neat, but I'm afraid it's not very forgiving."'' |
| 459 | |
| 460 | The boys' science teacher. A friendly, knowledgeable man and enthusiastic teacher. |
| 461 | ---- |
| 462 | * 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 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. |
| 463 | * DemotedToExtra: Has a significantly smaller role in Season 2, only a single scene in Season 3, and doesn't appear at all in Season 4. {{Justified|Trope}} in Season 3 since it takes place during summer vacation and away from school, making his presence harder to explain, and by Season 4 the kids are no longer in middle school at all. |
| 464 | * IHaveThisFriend: His students milk him for advice by claiming that all of its applications exist in the realm of the hypothetical. |
| 465 | * InterruptedIntimacy: Dustin easily guilts him into 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. |
| 466 | * KavorkaMan: He's just as geeky as the main characters, but he's got an attractive girlfriend at home. |
| 467 | * 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. |
| 468 | * 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]]. |
| 469 | * 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. |
| 470 | * 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. |
| 471 | * 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. |
| 472 | * 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]].]] |
| 473 | * 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''. |
| 474 | * 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. |
| 475 | * 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. |
| 476 | * 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. |
| 477 | [[/folder]] |
| 478 | ---- |
| 479 | !!The Kline Family |
| 480 | [[folder:Larry Kline]] |
| 481 | !!Larry Kline |
| 482 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/larry_kline.jpg]] |
| 483 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/CaryElwes |
| 484 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS3E2ChapterTwoTheMallRats Chapter Two: The Mall Rats]]" (3x02) |
| 485 | |
| 486 | The mayor of Hawkins, introduced in the third season. |
| 487 | ---- |
| 488 | * AssholeVictim: At the end of Season 3, Mayor Kline is arrested by the U.S government after it's revealed to the public that he knowingly and willingly assisted Soviet spies with infiltrating the U.S and performing subterfuge while they were in there. Given how much of a rancid asshole he was though, it's unlikely too many people are going to miss him. |
| 489 | * BitchInSheepsClothing: Pretends to be a caring, NiceGuy mayor but is really a slimy, {{jerkass}} SleazyPolitician. |
| 490 | * BullyingADragon: Practically his hobby. He seems to really like mouthing off to and belittling people that are much bigger and stronger than him. He usually gets his ass beaten for it. |
| 491 | * ButtMonkey: Guy can't catch a break, receiving beatdowns from the likes of Hopper, Joyce, and Grigori. It's actually very tricky to find one of his scenes that ''doesn't'' involve him getting his ass handed to him. |
| 492 | * CigarChomper: As shown in the picture, he smokes a cigar while supervising the town carnival setup. |
| 493 | * CorruptPolitician: He's a seemingly folksy and unpretentious politician whose friendly demeanor and warm smile are just cover for his rapacious {{greed}}; he knows full well that his approval of [[PredatoryBusiness that new mall]] is crushing the townsfolk by driving small companies out of business, but instead of doing anything to address the protestors' concerns, he just calls the cops on them. [[spoiler: And that's BEFORE we find out he's colluding with the Soviet government.]] |
| 494 | * HateSink: Mayor Larry Kline is every single SleazyPolitician stereotype imaginable rolled into one, and then multiplied by three. ''And it works, so, so well.'' Even when every other scene he's in has other people [[ButtMonkey getting the better of him]], it's hard not to watch Hopper threaten to [[GoodIsNotSoft cut his fingers off]] and Joyce [[GroinAttack kicking him in the balls]] and think that ''he got off easy.'' |
| 495 | * {{Hypocrite}}: In Season 3, Kline is constantly trying to promote American patriotism within Hawkins as part of the general Fourth of July celebrations. Considering he's actually conspiring with agents of the Soviet Union, Kline is the absolute ''last'' person who should be celebrating and encouraging it. |
| 496 | * {{Jerkass}}: An arrogant, sleazy asshole who is willing to stoop as low as insulting Hopper over his dead daughter. |
| 497 | * LaserGuidedKarma: After aiding the Russians to construct a secret facility under the Starcourt Mall, and ratting out Hopper and Joyce, [[spoiler: which led to Alexei's death]], Mayor Kline is caught, impeached, and taken to the authorities for his actions. |
| 498 | * PatrioticFervor: Invoked as a cover. Despite his attempts to invoke PatrioticFervor throughout Hawkins as the town's mayor, Kline clearly doesn't care that much about America's legacy if he's willing to conspire with the Russians for personal profit. |
| 499 | * PutOnAPrisonBus: He's last seen being taken away by the U.S authorities after his crimes became public. |
| 500 | * SleazyPolitician: Tries to blackmail Hopper, and it turns out he's made some [[spoiler:seriously shady deals with a group of Russians.]] Crosses over with CorruptPolitician. |
| 501 | * SpannerInTheWorks: He alerts Grigori when he spots Hopper and Joyce at the fair, which leads to [[spoiler:Alexei getting killed.]] |
| 502 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: To the public, he's the beloved mayor of Hawkins who will happily take pictures and play carnival games with his fellow citizens. Behind the curtain, he's a sleazy, corrupt {{Jerkass}} who snorts coke, commits adultery with his secretary, and has secret connections with [[spoiler:the Russians]]. Once said connections come to light however, Kline is permanently disgraced. |
| 503 | [[/folder]] |
| 504 | |
| 505 | [[folder:Winnie Kline]] |
| 506 | !!Winnie Kline |
| 507 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/winniest.jpeg]] |
| 508 | %%[[caption-width-right:300:]] |
| 509 | !!!'''Played By:''' Caroline Arapoglou |
| 510 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS3E1ChapterOneSuzieDoYouCopy Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy?]]" (3x01) |
| 511 | |
| 512 | ->''"...And showtime"'' |
| 513 | |
| 514 | Mayor Kline's wife and one of Karen's pool-going friends who is unaware of her husband's affair and shady dealings. |
| 515 | ---- |
| 516 | * EightiesHair: Has teased blonde hair that pouffs up above her tennis visor and headband, with long flowing curls underneath. |
| 517 | * AgeGapRomance: Larry Kline is a middle-aged mayor while Winnie is young (her actress is only a bit older than Dacre Montgomery, who plays Billy). |
| 518 | * AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Despite his sleaziness, she is shocked and concerned when she finds Larry tied up to their bed looking bloody and bruised. |
| 519 | * EatingTheEyeCandy: She shows up to the community pool to check out Billy with several other mothers (including Karen) and even serves as the lookout for when it's time to pose as Billy walks by. She also catches Steve's eye during the Jazzercise scene. |
| 520 | * MsFanservice: A very attractive, leggy, toned blonde who is seen in [[WorkoutFanservice era-appropriate lycra]] and in a swimsuit. She attends the Jazzercise class that Steve ogles, with her butt being his primary focus. |
| 521 | * NotSoAboveItAll: While her husband is cheating on her with his [[SexySecretary secretary]] (amongst other traitorous things), she is checking out Billy at the pool with the intention of catching his notice. |
| 522 | * PinkIsFeminine: Her leotard (upon discovering her husband tied to their bed) is a hot pink and bright purple ensemble with a bag to match. |
| 523 | * TrophyWife: She is the young and beautiful wife of the wealthy and established Mayor Kline, devoting her energies to checking out lifeguards at the pool and taking jazzercise lessons, but she is clearly a means of decoration for him, as he doesn't seem to care for her. |
| 524 | * TrueBlueFemininity: For the MaleGaze close up, she is wearing bright blue tights with a black leotard covered in matching polka dots. |
| 525 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: No word as to what happened to her, [[AllThereInTheManual their children]], and her lifestyle after Larry was caught, impeached, and jailed. |
| 526 | [[/folder]] |
| 527 | ---- |
| 528 | |
| 529 | !!The Holloway Family |
| 530 | |
| 531 | [[folder:Tom Holloway]] |
| 532 | !!Tom Holloway |
| 533 | [[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/510131_1.jpg]] |
| 534 | !!!'''Played By:''' Michael Park |
| 535 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS3E1ChapterOneSuzieDoYouCopy Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy?]]" (3x01) |
| 536 | |
| 537 | Heather's father and the Editor-in-Chief at the ''Hawkins Post''. |
| 538 | ---- |
| 539 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:A dismissive misogynist who gets brutally knocked out and taken to the Mind Flayer by ''[[AndIMustScream his own daughter]]''. Then while under the Mind Flayer's control, he gets killed by Jonathan.]] |
| 540 | * BodyHorror: [[spoiler:He and Bruce are melted and then merge into a horrific chimera.]] |
| 541 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: As this is the Mind Flayer's MO, it's to be expected. |
| 542 | * BreakTheHaughty: Despite being a total asshole, he's subject to one of these [[spoiler:after being sacrificed to the Mind Flayer by Heather.]] It leaves him no less of an asshole, though. |
| 543 | * DaEditor: The bombastic editor of the ''Hawkins Post.'' |
| 544 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: When his wife faints to the floor, he frantically yells to Billy and Heather to call 911. When Heather and Billy take him and his wife to the Mind Flayer's lair, he pleads with Heather that she doesn't have to go along with what Billy is doing. |
| 545 | * HappyMarriageCharade: With his wife, Janet. Obviously being married to a misogynist who mistreats his teenage interns is not pleasant at all. |
| 546 | * ImpromptuTracheotomy: [[spoiler: When the Mind Flayer-possessed Tom tries to kill Jonathan in the hospital, Jonathan puts him down by stabbing him in the throat with a pair of scissors.]] |
| 547 | * JerkAss: Cruelly joins on making fun of Nancy (who is the same age as his daughter) with the other male employees of the paper (albeit not nearly as much as Bruce does.) |
| 548 | * JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler: Ironically, it's only after getting flayed and trying to cover for the BigBad that he shows any ethics. And technically he's right since Nancy and Jonathan committed fraud, broke into a senior citizen's house and tried to publish a story that came from an unreliable source.]] |
| 549 | * MeanBoss: At least to Nancy, being generally dismissive and somewhat condescending towards her. |
| 550 | * OrificeInvasion: Subjected to this alongside his wife by the Mind-Flayer. |
| 551 | [[/folder]] |
| 552 | |
| 553 | [[folder:Janet Holloway]] |
| 554 | !!Janet Holloway |
| 555 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/janethst.jpeg]] |
| 556 | %%[[caption-width-right:250:]] |
| 557 | !!!'''Played By:''' Holly Morris |
| 558 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS3E3ChapterThreeTheCaseOfTheMissingLifeguard Chapter Three: The Case of the Missing Lifeguard]]" (3x03) |
| 559 | |
| 560 | Wife of Tom Holloway and mother of Heather. |
| 561 | ---- |
| 562 | * EightiesHair: Sports a full "she-mullet", a style which actually emerged a little later in the decade. |
| 563 | * BoundAndGagged: The state in which she and her husband are taken to the Mind Flayer after Billy and Heather [[SlippingAMickey drug them.]] |
| 564 | * HappyMarriageCharade: Implied at the one dinner we see between her and her husband, where he seems very critical of her drinking and even voices stern disapproval (like it wasn't uncommon). Yet they look fantastic in photos.... |
| 565 | * {{Housewife}}: Presents the appearance of being a perfect and cheery homemaker. |
| 566 | * OrificeInvasion: Along with her husband when meeting the Mind Flayer. |
| 567 | * NiceGirl: Like her daughter, she seems to a be a sweet woman that welcomes people in, even strange young girls who enter her home unannounced (like El and Max). |
| 568 | * PinkIsFeminine: She wears a light pink outfit when she gets kidnapped. |
| 569 | * StepfordSmiler: She's relentlessly upbeat even when there are many red flags about Billy, El, and Max's behaviour, and her husband is noticeably dismissive to her. |
| 570 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:Gets all of one scene before she's flayed.]] |
| 571 | [[/folder]] |
| 572 | |
| 573 | [[folder:Heather Holloway]] |
| 574 | !!Heather Holloway |
| 575 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2019_07_08_stranger_things_3_official_trailer_hd_netflix_youtube.png]] |
| 576 | !!!'''Played By:''' Francesca Reale |
| 577 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS3E1ChapterOneSuzieDoYouCopy Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy?]]" (3x01) |
| 578 | |
| 579 | ->''"Take me to him."'' |
| 580 | |
| 581 | Billy's fellow lifeguard at the Hawkins Community Pool. |
| 582 | ---- |
| 583 | * EightiesHair: A teased side ponytail with a scrunchie. |
| 584 | * AlliterativeName: '''H'''eather '''H'''olloway. |
| 585 | * BoundAndGagged: How Billy transports her to the abandoned steel mill to "join" the Mind Flayer's flesh proxy army. |
| 586 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:She gets possessed by the Mind Flayer, thanks to Billy.]] |
| 587 | * BettyAndVeronica: The sweet-natured "Betty" to [[MrsRobinson Karen's]] "Veronica" for Billy's Archie, not because Karen isn't nice, but because she's much older than Billy and has a family and children. [[spoiler:Which gets brutally flipped when the Mind Flayer takes her.]] |
| 588 | * DoubleStandard: Not as vivid as the one Nancy has to contend with, but Billy can get away with humiliating kids at the pool (even fat-shaming them) and still be found popular, while she merely scolds a boy for dunking and Karen's pool friends (who are ogling Billy), dismiss her as an annoying girl with a voice similar to "nails on a chalkboard". |
| 589 | * EmotionlessGirl: [[spoiler:After she's possessed by the Mind Flayer.]] |
| 590 | * FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:When the possessed Hawkins citizens are gathered to assimilate into the Mind Flayer's flesh avatar, Heather is seen melting into a puddle of liquid flesh that flows into the creature]]. |
| 591 | * GirlNextDoor: Under the Flayer's influence during dinner with her parents and Billy (until they drug and knock her parents out), she looks very chipper and perky, in pastels and serving cookies, cosplaying a SeeminglyWholesome50sGirl, 1980s style. |
| 592 | * InformedFlaw: According to her actress, Francesca Reale, Heather is supposed to be "snooty, popular, and entitled." However, during her brief appearance [[spoiler: prior to being possessed by the Mind Flayer]] she doesn't really demonstrate these qualities and seems like a NiceGirl. She's genuinely concerned for Billy's well-being when he looks sick, and while she does scold a kid for breaking pool rules (which is her job as a lifeguard), her methods are far kinder compared to Billy, who goes out of his way to fat-shame a kid who was running by the poolside. |
| 593 | * LovableAlphaBitch: Her actress Francesca Reale describes her as being "snooty, popular, and entitled". We really don't see a lot of those traits during her time on the show but she is certainly used to courting attention, judging by how she reacts to Billy, and she does come from a family that's visibly well off. |
| 594 | * MsFanservice: Along with Billy, she seems to service this role as a Hawkins Pool lifeguard. |
| 595 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Billy takes her to join the Mind Flayer's army after she checks up on him when he becomes visibly sick from being possessed. |
| 596 | * NiceGirl: Despite her InformedFlaw, she seems to be a decent enough person who shows genuine concern for Billy. |
| 597 | * {{Patricide}}: She and Billy knock out her parents and assimilate them into the Mind Flayer's army, which, for all intents and purposes, means [[CruelAndUnusualDeath death]]. |
| 598 | * StepfordSmiler: Goes from a bright, chipper young woman to a complete hollow shell under the Mind Flayer's control. |
| 599 | * ValleyGirl: She has a rising inflection and stretches out her vowels when yelling as she scolds a pool-goer. She is also very feminine, sporting the up-to-the-minute fashions of 1985 (side ponytail, pastels and bright colors, hoop earrings, and teased bangs). Justified as the archetype became both popular and reviled around the country, where girls in even small-town Indiana would try to imitate the inflection. |
| 600 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: She doesn't appear for very long in the two episodes before being assimilated by the Mind Flayer. |
| 601 | [[/folder]] |
| 602 | ---- |
| 603 | !!Munson Family |
| 604 | |
| 605 | [[folder:Wayne Munson]] |
| 606 | !!Wayne Munson |
| 607 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/0d8f84d8_54dd_467f_9d52_2d4ef51d556b.jpeg]] |
| 608 | !!!'''Played By:''' Joel Stoffer |
| 609 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E2ChapterTwoVecnasCurse Chapter Two: Vecna's Curse]]" (4x02) |
| 610 | |
| 611 | ->''"My nephew is innocent, and he’s still missing! I’ll put as many posters as I need til he’s found.”'' |
| 612 | |
| 613 | Eddie's uncle and guardian, with whom he lives. |
| 614 | ---- |
| 615 | * BruiserWithASoftCenter: He presents as a typically gruff, emotionally-cool working class male, yet while he's shown to be very distant when it comes to other people, he's helpful to Nancy when she asks him questions and doesn't believe Eddie to be responsible for [[spoiler: Chrissy's murder.]] And although they're never shown on-screen together, it's made clear he loves his nephew and that the two of them are very close. [[spoiler: He breaks down into ManlyTears upon learning of Eddie's death at the end of Season 4, having never given up searching for him.]] |
| 616 | * CassandraTruth: While he isn't ''completely'' right, he's the only one who believes there's a connection between [[spoiler:the Creel murders and Vecna's victims in 1986.]] Pretty much everyone dismisses it. |
| 617 | * CigaretteOfAnxiety: Introduced smoking one, shaken up by finding a dead body in his trailer. |
| 618 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: Introduced sitting by himself, not talking to any of the gathered neighbors or the police, showing that he's just as much of an outsider as his nephew. |
| 619 | * GoodParents: Not a biological parent, but defends Eddie and sticks to it no matter how bad things look. |
| 620 | * MrExposition: His first scene exists mostly to explain the history of the Creel family to Nancy. |
| 621 | * OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: He loses Eddie at the end of season 4. Eddie was his nephew rather than his son, but Wayne was still his guardian.]] |
| 622 | * PapaWolf: [[spoiler:Is very combative with Dustin about Eddie's "missing" poster being defaced, until he realizes Dustin is a friend.]] |
| 623 | * ParentalSubstitute: For Eddie, with his father implied to be missing due to his criminal lifestyle. |
| 624 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Doesn't appear for very long in episode 2, but [[spoiler:his telling of the story of Victor Creel, even if it turned out to be incorrect, does ultimately lead the heroes in the right direction.]] |
| 625 | * TheStoic: He wears a dour, stone-cold expression and speaks softly and sternly...until [[spoiler: the final episode of Season 4 anyway, when Dustin begins to speak about Eddie being a hero (without the Upside Down details), Wayne begins to tear up]], not helped too when [[spoiler: Dustin gives him Eddie's guitar pick necklace, more or less confirming that Eddie's gone]]. |
| 626 | [[/folder]] |
| 627 | ---- |
| 628 | !!Hawkins Post |
| 629 | |
| 630 | [[folder:In General]] |
| 631 | * 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.]] |
| 632 | * 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.]] |
| 633 | * FatBastard: At least one of the men who bullies Nancy is obese. |
| 634 | * PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize: All the staff are in their 40s and 50s, yet bully teenage interns. |
| 635 | * PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The male staff all show a regressive attitude towards women, especially women who show ambition. |
| 636 | * 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]]. |
| 637 | [[/folder]] |
| 638 | |
| 639 | [[folder:Bruce Lowe]] |
| 640 | !!Bruce Lowe |
| 641 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/stranger_things_season_3_jake_busey_as_bruce_1933242.jpg]] |
| 642 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Nancy Drew-eww...Where are youuu...?"'']] |
| 643 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/JakeBusey |
| 644 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS3E1ChapterOneSuzieDoYouCopy Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy?]]" (3x01) |
| 645 | |
| 646 | A journalist for the ''Hawkins Post''. |
| 647 | ---- |
| 648 | * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Did anyone really cry when he got Flayed? Didn't think so.]] |
| 649 | * BodyHorror: [[spoiler:He and Tom are melted and then merged into a freakish chimera.]] |
| 650 | * 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.]] |
| 651 | * HateSink: He's even more sexist and obnoxious towards Nancy than Tom, and unlike him, Bruce doesn't have a daughter or a loved one to redeem him. |
| 652 | * HeManWomanHater: His behavior towards Nancy reveals deep levels of misogyny. |
| 653 | * {{Jerkass}}: Every scene of his is spent bullying/demeaning Nancy with childish pranks and misogynistic comments. |
| 654 | * LargeHam: As is the way of Jake Busey. It only serves to make him more obnoxious. |
| 655 | * {{Manchild}}: Bruce, a man who appears to be in his forties, tapes a rubber rat inside a cupboard in order to prank Nancy, a teenage intern. |
| 656 | * 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 description would be that his nastier tendencies have been enhanced.]] |
| 657 | * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: With his blonde haircut, Bruce bears a striking resemblance to Boris Johnson. Similarly, Boris used to be a journalist too before his political career. |
| 658 | * {{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. |
| 659 | [[/folder]] |
| 660 | ---- |
| 661 | |
| 662 | !!The Creel Family |
| 663 | |
| 664 | [[folder:Victor Creel]] |
| 665 | !!Victor Creel |
| 666 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/faa0cb09_50ba_4cd5_9d76_252f7297ec47.jpeg]] |
| 667 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"Survived? Is that what you call this? Did I survive? No, I assure you, I am still very much in Hell."'']] |
| 668 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/RobertEnglund, Creator/KevinLJohnson (young) |
| 669 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E4ChapterFourDearBilly Chapter Four: Dear Billy]]" (4x04) |
| 670 | |
| 671 | A man who was accused of brutally murdering his entire family and cutting out their eyes back in 1950s Hawkins. Was confined to a mental asylum after being found insane. |
| 672 | ---- |
| 673 | * BrokenBird: A proud husband and father with a mansion in 1959, now a disturbed mental patient who gouged out his eyes in 1986. |
| 674 | * CastingGag: Robert Englund is famous for his portrayal of Freddy Krueger in ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'', a franchise that heavily influenced Season 4's story. His character is [[spoiler:the father of Vecna, who's very much an {{Expy}} of Freddy]]. |
| 675 | * CelebrityParadox: The ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' films, which starred Robert Englund, still exist in this universe. |
| 676 | * DadTheVeteran: A family man, and saw combat during WWII. |
| 677 | * DarkAndTroubledPast: On top of mistakenly shelling a group of civilians during the war (including an infant), his entire family were later killed by Vecna, and he was framed for their murder. He then tried to commit suicide by cutting his own eyes out, but he survived, and has spent the past several years locked up in Pennhurst, blind and half-mad. |
| 678 | * 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. |
| 679 | * FateWorseThanDeath: Traumatized by war, {{Mind Rape}}d for months by some evil entity, forced to watch his wife and children being murdered by said entity, framed by these crimes and gaslit by the authorities for all his life. Blind, old, broken Victor is really right when he says he's already in hell. [[spoiler: And he doesn't even know yet that the entity was actually ''his own son''.]] |
| 680 | * FrameUp: He is framed by [[spoiler:his own son]] for the murder of his wife and daughter. |
| 681 | * HappilyMarried: He was in love with his late wife Virgina and seeing her die still breaks his heart in his old age. |
| 682 | * IWasQuiteALooker: The flashbacks reveals he was a handsome Standard50sFather with slick light-colored hair and a fit body before he [[EyeScream took his eyes out]]. |
| 683 | * MyGreatestFailure: On top of accidentally killing civilians during the war, his failure to protect his family left him feeling depressed and suicidal. Those incidents, along with spending 27 years in an asylum after being framed for murder, have left him a very broken man. |
| 684 | * 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]]. |
| 685 | * PapaWolf: As soon as dead animals start appearing around the house, Victor starts guarding his family by sitting on the porch with a shotgun ready. |
| 686 | * RealMenWearPink: A WWII Veteran and Standard50sFather who not only wasn't affected by the toxic masculine standards of his generation but his favorite song is the romantic "Dream A Little Dream of Me". [[labelnote: Note]] Which isn't actually that out of place for Victor's time, especially since songs sung by men and women weren't all that different. Music wasn't anywhere near as saturated as it is now, and especially for soldiers, they would have listened to whatever they could get their hands on, regardless of who was singing or what the song was about. [[/labelnote]] |
| 687 | * ShellShockedVeteran: Was a soldier in WWII who accidentally shelled French civilians and was haunted by it even before his life went completely to hell. |
| 688 | * SoleSurvivor: Of the massacre at his house. [[spoiler:Or so he thinks]]. His SurvivorGuilt makes him cut out his eyes. |
| 689 | * Standard50sFather: He was the perfect post-war Patriarch and breadwinner, loving to his wife and children before the events of 1959. |
| 690 | * StepfordSmiler: Exudes an aura of the ideal father for the time, secretly harbors immense guilt for accidentally getting innocent French civilians, including a baby, incinerated, [[spoiler:which his son uses against him.]] |
| 691 | * WarCrimeSubvertsHeroism: During WWII, he ordered the shelling of what turned out to be French civilians. |
| 692 | [[/folder]] |
| 693 | |
| 694 | [[folder:Virginia Creel]] |
| 695 | !!Virginia Creel |
| 696 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/virginast.png]] |
| 697 | %%[[caption-width-right:250:]] |
| 698 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/TynerRushing |
| 699 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E4ChapterFourDearBilly Chapter Four: Dear Billy]]" (4x04) |
| 700 | |
| 701 | Victor Creel's wife, said to have been murdered by him. |
| 702 | ---- |
| 703 | * FiftiesHair: Sports a perky and stylish flip-do. |
| 704 | * AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:Henry says ''both'' his parents did terrible things. While we know about Victor's war crimes, it's not revealed what Virginia did. When he kills her, his reasoning was only that she wanted to have him committed.]] |
| 705 | * HappilyMarried: She and Victor were very close and depended on one another, with Victor recalling her as his "my darling". |
| 706 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Is killed by Henry after she finds out about his misanthropic behavior and plans to have him sent to therapy for it.]] |
| 707 | * {{Housewife}}: The classic post-war image of the Housewife, in sensible (but stylish) fashions, watering her plants, and cooking for her family. |
| 708 | * PosthumousCharacter: She's long dead by the time the show starts, having been Vecna's first victim. |
| 709 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Virginia has brief appearances in ''Stranger Things 4'', but [[spoiler:her being suspicious of her psychic son and contacting Martin Brenner to diagnose him gives Henry an excuse to snap, leading him to kill her and her daughter and frame her husband for it. Her association with Brenner also leads to Henry killing most of the Hawkins Laboratory children and scientists, and his eventual transformation into Vecna, kicking off the events presented by the series.]] |
| 710 | * TrueBlueFemininity: She sports a blue dress with a pink collar and trim when she arrives at her new house in Hawkins. |
| 711 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Immediately, [[spoiler:planning to commit her son Henry to a psychiatric facility causes him to [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jump off the slippery slope]] by killing her, her daughter, and [[DrivenToMadness driving her husband insane]]]]. Long term, [[spoiler:allowing Dr. Brenner to study him leads [[MadScientist the good doctor]] to try and find other children with latent PsychicPowers, like Eleven, and experiment on them, leading to Henry eventually creating the Mind Flayer. Cue Upside Down portal and all the monstrosities that hail from there. Yes, this lady is single handedly [[SmallRoleBigImpact the cause for the entire plot of the series]], {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and all]]. |
| 712 | * WomenAreWiser: [[spoiler: She was the only one to suspect Henry to be the evil haunting her family, and took measures to commit him before he could do anything worse. Victor was completely clueless about his son's true nature, and still is, thirty years later.]] |
| 713 | [[/folder]] |
| 714 | |
| 715 | [[folder:Henry Creel]] |
| 716 | -> See [[Characters/StrangerThingsTheUpsideDown here]] for more info. (Warning: *MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SEASON 4*) |
| 717 | [[/folder]] |
| 718 | |
| 719 | [[folder:Alice Creel]] |
| 720 | !!Alice Creel |
| 721 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/LiviBurch |
| 722 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E4ChapterFourDearBilly Chapter Four: Dear Billy]]" (4x04) |
| 723 | |
| 724 | Victor Creel's daughter, said to have been murdered by him. |
| 725 | ---- |
| 726 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: A carefree little girl who is excited to move into a new house in Hawkins. |
| 727 | * DeathOfAChild: Her age is no deterrent for the "demon", [[spoiler:who's actually her own brother.]] |
| 728 | * OlderThanTheyLook: She looks and acts like a young preteen girl, rather than a teen girl of the era, but the newspapers covering her family tragedy note she was 15 when she died. |
| 729 | * TrueBlueFemininity: Wears a blue plaid two-piece suit and hat when her family moves into Hawkins. |
| 730 | [[/folder]] |
| 731 | |
| 732 | !!Other Residents |
| 733 | |
| 734 | [[folder:Benny Hammond]] |
| 735 | !!Benny Hammond |
| 736 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bennyhammond003.png]] |
| 737 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/ChrisSullivan |
| 738 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E1ChapterOneTheVanishingOfWillByers Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers]]" (1x01) |
| 739 | |
| 740 | The towering owner of a diner and a friend of Chief Hopper. He is the first resident of Hawkins that encounters Eleven. |
| 741 | ---- |
| 742 | * BoomHeadshot: His unfortunate fate at the hands of Connie Frazier. |
| 743 | * GentleGiant: He's big, muscle-bound and intimidating, but he shelters and feeds Eleven for the short time he met her. |
| 744 | * HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler:Merely interacting with Eleven was his death sentence.]] |
| 745 | * ItsPersonal: Eleven [[spoiler:squishes Connie Frazier's brains the next time they meet]] because of Benny's assassination. |
| 746 | * NeverSuicide: [[spoiler:Brenner has his murder staged to look like a suicide, but Hopper doesn't totally buy it.]] |
| 747 | * 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. |
| 748 | * 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.]] |
| 749 | * 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. |
| 750 | * SacrificialLamb: [[spoiler:His death goes some way to establishing just how ruthless Brenner and his cronies are.]] |
| 751 | * WeHardlyKnewYe: [[spoiler:In fact, he's killed within the same episode he's introduced.]] |
| 752 | [[/folder]] |
| 753 | |
| 754 | [[folder:Keith]] |
| 755 | !!Keith |
| 756 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2019_07_23_62245732_149353066184338_3874568737265227856_n_jpg_jpeg_image_750_534_pixels.jpg]] |
| 757 | [[caption-width-right:350:''"[[GayBestFriend You]] start Monday. [[NoRespectGuy You]] start'' never ''."'']] |
| 758 | !!!'''Played By:''' Creator/MattyCardarople |
| 759 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS2E1ChapterOneMADMAX Chapter One: MADMAX]]" (2x01) |
| 760 | |
| 761 | ->''"Top three movies: Go!"'' |
| 762 | |
| 763 | An employee at The Palace Arcade and later, Family Video. He is a friend of Robin. |
| 764 | ---- |
| 765 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: 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 her for him. Mike is ''horrified'' at the prospect. |
| 766 | * AmbiguousSituation: When Steve applies for a job at Family Video, Keith initially refuses to hire him, and tells Robin (who's speaking on Steve's behalf) that Steve's "a douchebag of the highest order." Robin admits to Keith that Steve was a prick to them in high school, but it's unclear whether or not Steve specifically bullied them, or Keith just knows Steve because of his previous reputation. He is eventually persuaded to hire Steve though, and judging by how Steve manages to stay at his job for nearly 6 months, it's possible that Keith either warmed up to Steve, that Steve was good at his job, or he appreciates Steve's ability to draw the ladies into the store. |
| 767 | * {{Jerkass}}: Comes across as a smug know-it-all who has to be bribed with pretty girls. |
| 768 | * LezBro: He is friendly with [[LipstickLesbian Robin]], having been on the fringes of Hawkins High School society together. He isn't aware she is a lesbian, however, since he initially believes her to have a crush on Steve. |
| 769 | * PerpetualFrowner: His facial expressions range from bored to mildly irritated. |
| 770 | * TrademarkFavouriteFood: Cheetos or any bag of munchies covered in orange powder. |
| 771 | [[/folder]] |
| 772 | |
| 773 | [[folder:Doris Driscoll]] |
| 774 | !!Mrs. Doris Driscoll |
| 775 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doris_driscoll.png]] |
| 776 | !!!'''Played By:''' Peggy Miley |
| 777 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS3E2ChapterTwoTheMallRats Chapter Two: The Mall Rats]]" (3x02) |
| 778 | |
| 779 | An old woman who calls the Hawkins Post after rats eat her fertilizer. |
| 780 | ---- |
| 781 | * AlliterativeName: '''D'''oris '''D'''riscoll. |
| 782 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: After the Mind Flayer possesses her, she is found having eaten her fertilizer. |
| 783 | * 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. |
| 784 | * ConspiracyTheorist: Supposedly, according to one of the misogynists at the Hawkins Post, she believed that President Kennedy was assassinated through orders of Lyndon Johnson. |
| 785 | * CoolOldLady: During her brief screen time before she's brainwashed, she seems to be a very good-humored woman. |
| 786 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Along with the rest of the Flayed, she's melted down and used as biomass for the Flayer.]] |
| 787 | * ScatterbrainedSenior: PlayedWith. When she talks to Nancy and Jonathan she seems perfectly lucid, and is aware that her claims of diseased rats eating fertilizer can easily be 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. |
| 788 | [[/folder]] |
| 789 | |
| 790 | [[folder:Todd]] |
| 791 | !!Todd |
| 792 | [[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_2022_07_31_130037.png]] |
| 793 | [[caption-width-right:350:]] |
| 794 | !!!'''Played By:''' Dan Triandiflou |
| 795 | !!!'''Debut:''' "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS3E5ChapterFiveTheFlayed Chapter Five: The Flayed]]" (3x05) |
| 796 | |
| 797 | Owner of the car commandeered by Hopper. |
| 798 | ---- |
| 799 | |
| 800 | * AtrociousAlias: "The Toddfather". It's based on his first name, but after his one scene, we never learn his last name. |
| 801 | * CoolCar: A 1984 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible. |
| 802 | * {{Metalhead}}: When Hop steals his car and turns on the radio, heavy metal starts blaring out. |
| 803 | * RichBitch: He's credited as "Rich Douchebag Todd". |
| 804 | * VanityLicensePlate: TODFTHR |
| 805 | [[/folder]] |
| 806 |
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