History Characters / StrangerThings

* BigDamnKiss: [[spoiler:Gives one to Eleven before Season 1's climax.]]

* TheLeader: Mike is the one who rallies his friends to search for Will.

** MindOverMatter: From closing doors to [[spoiler:flipping vans over her and her friends'.]]

* TykeBomb: From the day of her birth.

* TokenBlackGuy: Though the only time Lucas' race is brought up by other characters is when the school bullies are singling out each of the group for some quality to pick on, and refer to Lucas as "Midnight".

* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:She might be a High School girl coping with hormones and boys, but she has the instincts of a survivor. She can shoot a gun, is willing to face man eating inter-dimensional monsters while barely blinking and is GenreSavvy enough to figure out that the Demogorgon is drawn to blood]].

* FaceFullOfAlienWingWong: Rescued from this fate in the season finale, [[spoiler:but the final scene reveals that it was at least ''partially'' successful.]]
* FakingTheDead: After his disappearance, the bad men produce a fake corpse to end the search for Will.
* HeroicSacrifice: His D&D character, "Will the wise", performs a heroic sacrifice during their game in the first episode, a fact which Mike uses to convince his friends to continue the search for Will even when it gets dangerous.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gets one from Jonathan, who calls her out for only halfway committing to rebelling against her parents while still denegrating their lifestyle. Rather than take this as a call to arms to fully commit to rebellion, Nancy realizes she's more comfortable living a "boring" life, and gets back with Steve in the end.

* CluelessDeputy: He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

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* CluelessDeputy: He's not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: Its face is basically nothing but teeth.

* ImplacableMan: This thing takes hails of bullets, beating with a spiked baseball bat, caught in a bear trap and set on fire. But it still keeps coming.

* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Starts bumming Camels following the stress of Will's vanishing.
* TheDeterminator: Refuses to give up on Will and is willing to walk right into all sorts of danger to save him.

* MamaBear

* {{Badass}}
* BadassBeard
* DeadpanSnarker

* LanternJawOfJustice

* TheLeader: Is the one who rallies his friends to search for Will.

* {{Determinator}}

!Other Characters

[[folder:Clarke]]
!!Scott Clarke
->'''Played By:''' Randall P. Havens

* CoolTeacher
* NiceGuy
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[[folder:Lonnie]]
!!Lonnie
->'''Played By:''' Ross Partridge

* DisappearedDad: To Will and Jonathan, who have given up on him.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Lonnie cares only about himself; he doesn't seem interested at all when his son goes missing. [[spoiler:When t appears that Will is dead, he reappears in Hawkins for the funeral but it soon transpires that he only turned up so he could get in on the ground floor of a wrongful death lawsuit, so he could pay his debts. What a prick.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: He's deceitful, lazy, selfish and neglectful.
* NeverMyFault
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:Joyce hands him one before throwing him out of her house.]]
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* TheBully

* ShrinkingViolet: Was extremely uncomfortable at Steve's party.

[[folder:Connie]]
!!Agent Connie Frazier
->'''Played By:''' Catherine Dyer
* BitchInSheepsClothing: First appears in the guise of being a social worker, and looks the part. Seconds later, she shoots an innocent man in the head.
* [[spoiler:CruelAndUnusualDeath]]: [[spoiler:El kills Connie, along with a dozen other government agents, by telekinetically scrambling their brains inside their skulls, causing blood to leak from their eyes. One might presume that if Connie hadn't murdered Benny in cold blood right in front of El, her fate would have been more humane.]]
* TheDragon: To Brennen, who tasks her with most of the dirty work in their operation.
* KickTheDog: She murders Benny, a kind and benevolent restaurant owner, in her first scene on the show.

* TheCharmer

* GoodParent: She tries to reach out to both of her children, especially after Will's disappearance.

** MindOverMatter

* YouAreNumberSix

* NervousWreck

* WiseBeyondTheirYears

* ActionSurvivor: [[spoiler:She might be a High School girl coping with hormones and boys, but she has the instincts of a survivor. She can shoot a gun, is willing to face man eating inter-dimensional monsters while barely blinking and is GenreSavvy enough to figure out that the Demigorgon is drawn to blood]].

* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:He's killed by the Demigorgon; it was through his actions that the Demigorgon came into the world in the first place, due to how he exploited Eleven.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:He was never really a JerkJock and his nicer qualities are clear from the start, but he was nevertheless something of a smug bully. He becomes nicer when Jonathan delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on him after taunting him about his [[{{TooSoon}} dead brother.]] He regrets his actions toward Nancy and realizes that his so-called friends are anything but.]]

* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: It's face is basically nothing but teeth.

!!The Monster a.k.a "The Demigorgon"

* PsychicNosebleed

* DarkAndTroubledPast

!!Chief Hopper

* ActionGirl: She can shoot a gun, is willing to [[spoiler: face man eating interdimenional monsters]] with barely blinking and is GenreSavvy enough to figure out that [[spoiler: the demigorgon is drawn to blood]] .

* StacysMom

* MadScientist

* HeelFaceTurn: Starts out as your typical JerkJock but becomes nicer when Johnathan delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on him after taunting him about his [[{{TooSoon}} dead brother.]]

* DisappearedDad
* {{Jerkass}}

* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Joyce hands him one before [[spoiler: throwing him out of her house.]]

* JerkJock

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* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily

* HeelFaceTurn: Starts out as your typical JerkJock but becomes nicer when Johnathan delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdon on him after taunting him about his [[{{TooSoon}} dead brother.]]

* MoreTeethThenTheOsmondFamily

* DefectiveDetective
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold

[[Dustin]]

!!Will Byers

!Other Characters

[[folder:Clarke]]
!!Scott Clarke
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[[folder:Steve]]
!!Steven "Steve" Harrington
->'''Played By:''' Joe Keery

* TheCharmer

->'''Played By:''' Finn Wolfhard]]