History Fridge / StrangerThings

* In the first episode, the boys play DnD, with the session "nearly" ending with a battle against Demogorgon. Will, playing a wizard, is given advice from his friends, one telling him to protect himself with a spell, leaving him safe but his party members in potential danger, the other saying to immediately attack, putting himself at risk, but potentially saving his friends. He chooses to attack. While Will is gone, Eleven essentially replaces him, notably she is a psychic, and the boys compare her powers to the Force and superpowers, but never magic. When the season is "nearly" ending, she is face to face with the extra planar creature that is dubbed by the heroes as Demogorgon, and instead of running or protecting herself, she attacks, putting herself at risk to save her friends.

** Likewise, Mike's mom is in a soap opera. Consider the series from her perspective: She's having a nice and normal life then, one day, her son's friend goes missing and her daughter starts acting distant. Any attempts to connect with these family members backfire miserably, and the suspicion only increases when her son's friend's mom starts acting off as well and suddenly throws her out of the house. Her daughter reveals that she slept with her boyfriend, and she learns that her son is harboring a dangerous individual underneath her nose. If that's not perfect drama material, this troper doesn't know what is.

* [[spoiler:One has to wonder if any other MKULTRA subjects had children, and whether they could develop psychic powers if they're put through enough stress.]]

** [[spoiler:Subjects 001 through 010 may be the original participants in Brenner's MKULTRA study, including Eleven's psychologically damaged mother.]]

** Using [[spoiler:triple digits]] from the start in their numbering implies that they were planning for the [[spoiler:possible use of hundreds of subjects.]]

** [[spoiler:Using triple digits from the start in their numbering implies that they were planning for the possible use of hundreds of subjects.]]

** And the lesser bad guys showed up prior to the demogorgon, too. Talking about paralelisms

* So, why wasn't Will immediately eaten by the Demogorgon? [[spoiler: He wasn't bleeding when he got to the Upside Down.]]

* Mike's dad. It's been said that Hopper is in a conspiracy thriller, Joyce is in a psychological horror movie, the kids are in a Spielbergian coming-of-age dark fantasy and the teens in a John Waters movie with horror elements. Mike's dad is in a sitcom. When everyone else storms out of the dinner table, he even looks at the little girl like he's expecting a cute one-liner.

* [[spoiler:One has to wonder if any other MKULTRA subjects had children, and whether they could develop psychic powers if they're put through enough stress.]]

* Eleven's serial number has three digits, implying that the program was allowing for the possibility of ''hundreds'' of test subjects like her.

* Even more fridge, if there were only eleven subjects, why a three digit code?
** Presumably when the system was established, they were planning to continue their experimentation well into triple-digit numbers of victims. Ugh.

* When Lonnie tells Jonathan to take down the poster because it's inappropriate, at first, it appears that he's just an out-of-touch (and formerly deadbeat) dad who's throwing his weight around just because he can. His reaction makes a bit more sense if you recognize what the poster is of: ''Franchise/EvilDead'' -- [[TooSoon not something a family who had just lost a child would care to see]].

* When Lonnie tells Jonathan to take down the poster because it's inappropriate, at first, it appears that he's just an out-of-touch (and formerly deadbeat) dad who's throwing his weight around just because he can. His reaction makes a bit more sense if you recognize what the poster is of: ''TheEvilDead'' -- [[TooSoon not something a family who had just lost a child would care to see]].

* Even more fridge, if there were only eleven subjects, why a three digit code?

Even more fridge, if there were only eleven subjects, why a three digit code?
** [[spoiler:Subjects 001 through 010 may be the original participants in Brenner's MKULTRA study, including Eleven's psychologically damaged mother.]]

* Even more fridge, if there were only eleven subjects, why a three digit code?

* Eleven is implied to be [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the eleventh subject]] of [[spoiler:Dr. Brenner's experiments]]. Considering what we see of the way she was treated one can only wonder what happened to 001 thru 010.

* Eleven is implied to be [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the eleventh subject]] of [[spoiler:Dr. Brenner's experiments]]. So what happened to 001 thru 010?

* Eleven is implied to be [[ExactlyWhatItSaysInTheTin the eleventh subject]] of [[spoiler:Dr. Brenner's experiments]]. So what happened to 001 thru 010?