History Recap / StrangerThingsS2E4ChapterFourWillTheWise

* IncrediblyObviousTail: At the park, the government agents are not doing a particularly good job at hiding their spying activities but their goal was anyway to seize the kids, not shadow them.

* WhamShot: Two:

-->'''Hopper:''' "Friends don't lie." [[LampshadeHanging Isn't that your bullshit saying?]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: Both Hopper and Eleven in their argument have reasonable points to address, but are both exhausted and frustrated with each other and neither is in a mood for reasonable dialogue, leading to a nasty fight on both sides:
** Eleven is reasonably chafing at spending almost a year stuck in the same cabin that she never gets to leave nor see or contact anyone who isn't Hopper, that he's clearly lying when he claims that she'll get to leave "soon" and that from her point of view all that's happened is she's exchanged one form of imprisonment for another.
** Hopper, meanwhile, has a valid point that Eleven leaving the cabin puts both of them -- but especially her -- in danger from the government, and that he's just trying to protect, shelter and educate her. He's also not wrong that rule-breaking must face consequences, and that a moody sheltered preteen with no experience of the wider world whatsoever needs to learn discipline and boundaries before she interacts with others, especially when she has a short temper, a tendency to lash out and powerful psychic abilities that she's already demonstrated both lethal capabilities with and a willingness to use to get her own way.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Will's desperate description of the moment the Shadow got him sounds ''disturbingly'' similar to a rape survivor describing the event.

* LooseFloorboardHidingSpot: During her cleanup of the cottage, ELeven discovers a hidden storage place under the floorboards. There she finds her mother's file which prompts Eleven to run away and seek her out.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Jonathan and Nancy are so focused on getting justice for Barb that they ignore Dr. Owens perfectly justified warnings on what will happen if the world becomes aware of the Upside Down. Yet, Nancy still wants to expose them.

* EyeOpen: Will suddenly opens his eyes wide after the OrificeInvasion completed.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Sam tells Nancy and Jonathan that he doesn't want the truth about Hawkins Lab to be discovered because he's afraid of the Soviets finding out about it and using the creatures of the Upside Down for themselves or at least creating creatures. [[spoiler: At the end of season 3, its revealed that the Russians have their own demogorgan and feed their prisoners to it.]]

* MyCarHatesMe: An InvokedTrope. Jonathan and Nancy get up to leave the park to which they have gone for a meeting. They get creeped out by people around them and get in the car to leave. It won't start, and those creepy people reveal themselves to be government agents waiting to kidnap them. After being released from the government base where they'd been taken, they find their car waiting for them and perfectly functional, whatever sabotage the agents had done to it reversed.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Sam tells Nancy and Jonathan that he doesn’t want the truth about Hawkins Lab to be discovered because he’s afraid of the Soviets finding out about it and using the creatures of the Upside Down for themselves or at least creating creatures. [[spoiler: At the end of season 3, its revealed that the Russians have their own demogorgan and feed their prisoners to it.]]

* Foreshadowing: Sam tells Nancy and Jonathan that he doesn’t want the truth about Hawkins Lab to be discovered because he’s afraid of the Soviets finding out about it and using the creatures of the Upside Down for themselves or at least creating creatures. [[spoiler: At the end of season 3, its revealed that the Russians have their own demogorgan and feed their prisoners to it.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Eleven accuses Hopper of being just like Martin Brenner with how he strictly controls her and keeps her sequestered away from civilization. Hopper does ''not'' take that well, and it only escalates their argument.

* ShameIfSomethingHappened: A veiled example; Dr. Owens is perfectly pleasant and reasonable when escorting Nancy and Jonathan through the facility to the breach and never outright threatens them at any point. However, the primary theme of his conversation with them is the necessity of and extreme lengths that must be taken to keep the breach secret and protect people from the consequences of it being unleashed, and it is significant that he is pointedly showing them the [[KillItWithFire primary method]] that the government is using to contain the breach and the things that can come through it at the time. Nancy and Jonathan don't have to look far to see the subtext that, if it became necessary, he would have little choice or hesitation in 'containing' them in a similar fashion.