History Recap / StrangerThingsS2E7ChapterSevenTheLostSister

* PowerWalk: Kali and her gang (plus Eleven) pull one as they march out to their van to kill one of Hawkins Lab's former workers.

* AmbiguousSituation: Ray says that Brenner is still alive. At the moment it's unclear whether he's telling the truth or just lying to save his own skin. [[spoiler: Season 4 reveals that Brenner is in fact still alive.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: Ray says that Brenner is still alive. At the moment it's unclear whether he's telling the truth or just lying to save his own skin.

* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: When Ray doesn't recognize Kali and El, Kali makes them appear the age they were when Ray fried Terry's brain.

* OutOfGenreExperience: After fourteen episodes of family adventure-slash-SF horror, this one will fit right in with {{Cyberpunk}}.

* AssholeVictim: Ray Carrol was close to becoming this, until Eleven found out he has daughters.
* ATeamFiring: Aside from the Outsiders' van, nothing gets hit in the shootout with the police.

* CallBack: Eleven calls the jerk who bumps into her on the street a "Mouth-breather."

* EmotionalPowers: Kali teaches Eleven how to use her emotions, anger in this case, to strengthen her powers on demand in a TimeToUnlockMoreTruePotential session during some downtime. In a subtler example, Kali's powers seem to be influenced by her level of confidence, as when Eleven abandons the gang, the illusion she's set up to block the police breaks down.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Lightly subverted; when the gang rob a convenience store, one of the only things Dottie steals is a box of tampons.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Kali and her gang are hunting down and killing everyone responsible for wrecking their lives, whether Hawkins employes (for Kali) or otherwise (everyone else).

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Axel is afraid of spiders. Kali knows this, and uses it to keep him in check.

* FatBastard: Ray Carrol was one during his time at Hawkins Energy Lab, torturing Kali with a cattle prod.

* RetiredMonster: Ray Carroll is possibly this since despite [[ElectricTorture shocking]] both [[WouldHurtAChild children]] and a woman to the point of being driven insane, ever since retiring he's had a quiet life with his own children.

* RealityEnsues: Ray did terrible things while he was working for Brenner, but he also has two children and killing him would leave them without parent, just like what Eleven went through.
** Axel tries shooting at the police and can't hit a single one. It's night time and he's a criminal with no formal training with a gun so unsurprisingly he is a terrible shot.

** She had a dream where she hears part of Hopper's radioed apology to her, but then somebody touches her shoulder from behind. She wakes and see that it was Kali's touch that filtered into the dream.

* CrashingDreams:
** Eleven has a dream where she hears part of Hopper's radioed apology to her, but then somebody touches her shoulder from behind. She wakes and see that it was Kali's touch that filtered into the dream.
** Happens to Eleven again later when she enters her dark dimension to meet Hopper and Mike. Suddenly she hears a pounding. Cut to the police breaking into the warehouse.

** Kali teaching Eleven to use ThePowerOfHate plays out like a darker version of [[Film/XMenFirstClass Charles teaching Erik to find the point between rage and serenity.]]