History NightmareFuel / StrangerThings

* The opening of "The Nina Project" starts off pretty kick-ass enough, with Owens showing Eleven all the personnel and the base of operations to help her regain her powers. Then a familiar voice is heard...and cue a shot of ''Brenner''. The same Brenner who was '''[[NoOneCouldSurviveThat mauled by the Demogorgon of Season 1]]'''. Eleven understandably [[OhCrap freaks the fuck out]] and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere attempts to leave]] only to be restrained and drugged. ''Holy shit''.
* When the gang discover their compass going haywire at Lovers Lake,[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E5ChapterFiveTheFleaAndTheAcrobat exactly like when they were near another gate]], Steve volunteers to go and look for the gate. When he does, he gets dragged into the [[DeathWorld Upside Down]] by a tentacle upon resurfacing to tell the others. Almost immediately, he gets attacked by vicious bat-like creatures, strangled by a tentacle and helpless ''as they start to eat him.''

* When the gang discover their compass going haywire at Lovers Lake,[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E5ChapterFiveTheFleaAndTheAcrobat exactly like when they were near another gate]], Steve volunteers to go and look for the gate. When he does, he gets dragged into the [[DeathWorld Upside Down]] by a tentacle upon resurfacing to tell the others. Almost immediately, he gets attacked by vicious bat creatures, strangled by a tentacle and helpless ''as they start to eat him.''

* When the gang discover their compass going haywire at Lovers Lake,[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E5ChapterFiveTheFleaAndTheAcrobat exactly like when they were near another gate]], Steve volunteers to go and look for the gate. When he does, he gets dragged into the [[DeathWorld Upside Down]] by a tentacle. Almost immediately, he gets attacked by vicious bat creatures, strangled by a tentacle and helpless ''as they start to eat him.''

* We finally see the Soviet Demogorgon in action and it is ''vicious''. The other Demogorgon was at least slow, and methodical, and we could only really see it when it popped in and out of existence to hunt. This one, stuck in our world for so long, is fast, brutal, and absolutely ruthless. Six Russians, plus Hopper, go in armed with weapons. They get wiped out in ''less than a minute'', special mention going to closing its "petals" around one of the poor bastards and basically ''blending it off''.

* Eleven's conversation with Owens at the diner is very foreboding and haunting. He admits that the monsters that dwell in the Upside Down keep coming back stronger and smarter and that Hawkins is in grave danger. Well, not just Hawkins, but the entire world is in peril, moreso than it ever has before. And that Eleven is their '''only hope''' at stopping it once and for all. While she is no stranger to defeating this evil in the past, Owens admits that all her friends and loved ones are not enough to put an end to this evil. That ''she'' will do most the fighting. That's a lot to ask a teenage girl of.

* After years of speculation, we finally get confirmation that, [[{{Jossed}} no, Sara Hopper's death had nothing to do with Hawkins Lab or the Upside Down]]... but it wasn't random childhood cancer, either. Hopper was exposed to Agent Orange during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, and [[AdultFear he passed the resulting mutations on to her]].

* The orderly at the lab is quite creepy even when he's trying to be friendly. There's something reptilian about the guy. Something far too placid in his mood.

** After a fairly relaxed, though eerie, series premiere, the new season takes things from 0 to 100 at the end of the first episode. Chrissy, the new NiceGirl cheerleader character, is at Eddie's when she suddenly gets a vision of her mom and dad at home, both horribly deformed. Then, she's attacked by a monster with claws that would put [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kruger]] to shame.

* The first eight minutes of Season 4 reveals what happened to the rest of the psychic kids prior to Season 1: a young Eleven seemingly killed them, including most of the doctors caring for them, in a fit of rage. By the time Brenner finds her, Eleven is [[FacialHorror excessively bleeding from the]] [[PsychicNosebleed nose]] and [[EyeScream ey]][[RedEyesTakeWarning es]].

*** And then [[UpToEleven the worse factor gets cranked up to eleven]] when, after a duel with Eleven after she rejects his offer to rule together, which 001 ''nearly wins'' until Eleven taps into her traumatic memory, Henry Creel is banished by Eleven into the Upside Down...[[WhamShot where it is revealed that he was twisted and turned]] into '''Fucking Vecna.'''

'''The Hellfire Club'''

'''Vecna's Curse'''

'''The Dive'''

'''The Massacre at Hawkins Lab'''

** The fact that Kali/Eight only managed to survive the whole massacre because she escaped from the Hawkins lab mere months before the event.

** The fact that Kali/Eight only managed to survive the whole massacre because she escaped from the Hawkins lab long before the event.

** The fact that Kali/Eight only managed to survive the whole massacre, because she escapes from the Hawkins lab long before the event.

'''Vecnas Curse'''

*** And then [[UpToEleven the worse factor gets cranked up to eleven]] when, after a duel with Eleven after she rejects his offer to rule together, which 001 ''nearly wins'' until Eleven taps into her traumatic memory,Henry Creel is banished by Eleven into the Upside Down...[[WhamShot where it is revealed that he was twisted and turned]] into '''Fucking Vecna.'''

[[folder: Season 3]]

** Or well...At least he is nice until Eleven removes his RestrainingBolt..and he goes on a psychic murderous rampage throughout the lab, slaughtering both guards and children alike by twisting and contouring their bodies...and then we find out he’s ''Subject 001'' ie: the first one in the program that Eleven comes from.
*** And then [[FromBadToWorse it gets even worse]] when he reveals to El (and us) his true identity: ''Henry Creel.'' He was born with psychic powers, [[CommonalityConnection just like El]], only for his teachers' and doctors' denouncing him as "broken" and newfound admiration of spiders drove him to [[MisanthropeSupreme utterly despise humanity]], drive his own family to madness through his psychic powers before he would murder his own mother and sister, allowing his dad Victor go get blamed for it and get sent to an asylum.
*** And then [[FromBadToWorse it gets even worse]] when after a duel with Eleven after she rejects his offer to rule together, which 001 ''nearly wins'' until Eleven taps into her traumatic memory, Eleven banishes him to the Upside Down...[[WhamShot where it is revealed that he was twisted and turned]] into '''Fucking Vecna.'''
*** We get to see what the Upside Down was like ''before'' Eleven opened the gate, and it's pretty nightmarish. Instead of an altered version of Hawkins, it's just s formless, chaotic void that One falls through, while getting struck by lightning and tortured. How long was he going through that?

* Hopper, Dmitri and some other prisoners are sentenced to be executed by the demogorgon. As the Russians prepare themselves for a fight, Hopper puts the chills in them by describing the kind of terror they're up against.
** When the demogorgon is unleashed, Hopper is proven right, as the beast wipes out all of the red shirts within minutes. And judging by its rapid speed and strength it could have killed them all even faster, but went easy on them for the sake of sport.

* The first eight minutes of Season 4 reveals what happened to the rest of the psychic kids prior to Season 1: a young Eleven seemingly killed them, including most of the doctors caring for them, in a fit of rage. By the time Brenner finds her, Eleven is [[FacialHorror excessively bleeding from the]] [[PsychicNosebleed nose]] and [[EyeScream ey]][[RedEyesTakeWarning es]].

* Hopper, Dmitri and some other prisoners are sentenced to be executed by the demogorgon. As the Russians prepare themselves for a fight, Hopper puts the chills in them by describing the kind of terror they're up against.
** When the demogorgon is unleashed, Hopper is proven right, as the beast wipes out all of the red shirts within minutes. And judging by its rapid speed and strength it could have killed them all even faster, but went easy on them for the sake of sport.

* We finally see the Soviet Demogorgon in action and it is ''vicious''. The other Demogorgon was at least slow, and methodical, and we could only really see it when it popped in and out of existence to hunt. This one, stuck in our world for so long, is fast, brutal, and absolutely ruthless. Six Russians, plus Hopper, go in armed with weapons. They get wiped out in ''less than a minute'', special mention going to closing its "petals" around one of the poor bastards and basically ''blending it off''.

* The first eight minutes of Season 4 reveals what happened to the rest of the psychic kids prior to Season 1: [[spoiler: a young Eleven seemingly killed them, including most of the doctors caring for them, in a fit of rage. By the time Brenner finds her, Eleven is [[FacialHorror excessively bleeding from the]] [[PsychicNosebleed nose]] and [[EyeScream ey]][[RedEyesTakeWarning es]].]]

** [[spoiler: Or well...At least he is nice until Eleven removes his RestrainingBolt..and he goes on a psychic murderous rampage throughout the lab, slaughtering both guards and children alike by twisting and contouring their bodies...and then we find out he’s ''Subject 001'' ie: the first one in the program that Eleven comes from.]]
*** [[spoiler: And then [[FromBadToWorse it gets even worse]] when after a duel with Eleven after she rejects his offer to rule together, which 001 ''nearly wins'' until Eleven taps into her traumatic memory, Eleven banishes him to the Upside Down...[[WhamShot where it is revealed that he was twisted and turned]] into '''Fucking Vecna.''']]