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->''[[Music/OliviaNewtonJohn It's gotta be a strange twist of fate,\\
Telling me that Heaven can wait,\\
Telling me to get it right this time...]]''
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** The introduction of Kali in Season 2 indicates that the subjects of Hawkins Laboratory have varying abilities, with Kali having MasterOfIllusion-based powers compared to Eleven's telekinesis. Season 4 would showcase the other children Eleven grew up with under Dr. Brenner's care, and they all have the same telekinetic abilities she does, with only [[spoiler:One]] demonstrating abilities similar to Kali.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Has its own [[{{Foreshadowing}}/StrangerThings page]].

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Has its own [[{{Foreshadowing}}/StrangerThings [[{{Foreshadowing/StrangerThings}} page]].



** Season Four pushes it a step further by having ''six'' simultaneous storylines[[note]]Dustin, Steve, Nancy, Max, Lucas, Robin and Erica trying to find out how [[BigBad Vecna]] operates in the real world. Eleven going on a trip through [[PensieveFlashback memory lane]] to recover both her suppressed memories and her powers; Joyce and Murray trying to free Hopper; Jonathan, Mike, Will and Argyle looking for Eleven; Hopper's suffering in the Kamchatka prison; and Jason's grief and moral panic-induced WitchHunt[[/note]]. They start merging with each other to varying degrees in the last three episodes [[spoiler:and even so, all the main characters remain split in at least three groups, separated by hundreds or thousands of miles, until the epilogue]].

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** Season Four 4 pushes it a step further by having ''six'' simultaneous storylines[[note]]Dustin, Steve, Nancy, Max, Lucas, Robin and Erica trying to find out how [[BigBad Vecna]] operates in the real world. Eleven going on a trip through [[PensieveFlashback memory lane]] to recover both her suppressed memories and her powers; Joyce and Murray trying to free Hopper; Jonathan, Mike, Will and Argyle looking for Eleven; Hopper's suffering in the Kamchatka prison; and Jason's grief and moral panic-induced WitchHunt[[/note]]. They start merging with each other to varying degrees in the last three episodes [[spoiler:and even so, all the main characters remain split in at least three groups, separated by hundreds or thousands of miles, until the epilogue]].

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* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The tabletop game the boys are playing at the start of Season 1 foreshadows what's going to happen later. Mike intones, "Something is coming, something hungry for blood – the Demogorgon!" In both the game and in real, Will tries to attack the Demogorgon, but "it gets him."
** In an early episode, Hopper tells his deputies that a fall from the quarry cliff would be fatal, despite there being a lake on the bottom, due to sheer height. [[spoiler:Mike]] later goes over the edge.
** In the first episode, the boys get excited about how far the signal on Mr. Clarke's ham radio can reach. The radio is later used by Eleven to reach a place [[DarkWorld farther away than they ever thought]].
** After a big fight in the group, Dustin recalls a ''D&D'' session where the party split up and they were picked off by trolls one by one. Sure enough, both Lucas and Dustin and Mike end up in trouble in two separate situations.
** In the last episode of Season 1, the ''D&D'' MonsterOfTheWeek is a [[spoiler:Thessalhydra]]. Guess what Season 2's BigBad resembles.
** The boys are playing ''Dragon's Lair'' in the first episode of Season 2. [[spoiler:Dustin loses, and Lucas smugly says that Princess Daphne is still his. Guess who gets together with Max.]]
** In Season 1, Will has a discussion with his mother where he mentions that wizards can't always outwit their enemies, and have to resort to spells such as Fireball to defeat them. [[spoiler:At the end of Season 2, Joyce ends up using fire to drive the Mind Flayer out of Will after previous attempts to outsmart it went horribly wrong.]]
** In the 1st episode of season 2, Murray theorizes that there will be a Russian invasion in Hawkins. [[spoiler: In season 3, Russian soldiers try to open the gate underneath the Starcourt mall.]]
** Dr. Sam Owens reveals to Nancy and Jonathan that he doesn't want the truth of the lab to be discovered because he thinks Russians will try to use the creatures from the Upside Down for themselves. [[spoiler: At the end of season 3, it's revealed that Russian soldiers have obtained a Demogorgon and feed prisoners to it.]]
** In the lab underneath Starcourt Mall, Erica briefly ponders about the size of the original Demogorgon after she catches sight of a large metal cage. [[spoiler:In TheStinger, it's revealed that the Russian scientists running the lab have managed to either [[BioweaponBeast breed]] or capture a full-grown Demogorgon.]]
** The tidbit after the Mind Flayer's rampage in the Season 3 finale, which mainly focuses on SatanicPanic due to the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' plays a ''major'' role in the next season, with [[spoiler:the leader of the local Dungeons and Dragons club targeted as the one behind the mishaps throughout the series, and one of the Hawkins students flaring it up and causing ApocalypseHow in Hawkins due to mistaken belief on the above.]]
** In the first episode of season four, Eddie surprises the Hellfire Club with Vecna, who they believed they'd killed in an earlier session, as the final boss of the campaign. [[spoiler: The same goes for the ''actual'' Vecna; Eleven thought she killed him when she threw him into the Upside Down, and Nancy believed she killed him when her group set him on fire and threw him through a window, but he's lived long enough to take the spot as the final boss of the show.]]
** In the aftermath of a party in the second episode of Season 4, Jason banters with a hungover Lucas [[spoiler:with a nod to his upcoming gruesome death in the season finale]]:
-->"First hangover feels like you're gonna [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath split in]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe two]], [[HarsherInHindsight but you'll live]]."
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsUzL75Yjk a teaser]] for season 4, Scenes of the Creel family moving into their new house and starting to experience the strange phenomena connected to the Upside-Down are shown before the party enter the abandoned house in the present, with Dustin quoting from Sherlock Holmes as to what kind of clues they're looking to discover that tie the family to the otherworldly realm. [[spoiler:Said quote actually applies more to the [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall viewers]], as the Creel's son, Henry Creel, is [[HeWasRightThereAllAlong revealed to eventually be]] the [[WasOnceAMan human form]] of [[BigBad Vecca]], and his banishment into the Upside-Down by Eleven resulted in him warping it into the eldritch and terrifying realm it became, meaning that the teaser is showing the origins of the GreaterScopeVillian of the show]].
-->'''Dustin:''' The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
** The teaser also ends with the glass pane on the clock cracking at four different spots, which intersect in the clock face's centre and cause the glass to violently shatter, [[spoiler:which foreshadows Vecna's ultimately [[TheBadGuyWins succeeding in his goals]] of sacrificing four different teenagers at different points around Hawkins, the site of their murders gaining 'cracks' that become portals into the upside down. Upon Max's (temporary) death, the cracks then split and flow together into the centre of Hawkins, and the season ends with the Upside-Down starting to merge with Earth, the barrier between both realms having been broken]].
** To those who know D&D lore, it might seem odd that what the kids call the Mind Flayer is the BigBad, while what they call Vecna is seemingly unrelated threat or merely the Mind Flayer's general, since Vecna is a much bigger threat, even attaining godhood, than the average illthid. [[spoiler:The finale of Season 4 reveals that Vecna is not the Mind Flayer's servant, the Mind Flayer is ''Vecna's'' servant.]]
** Wayne Munson believes that Vecna's first victim was killed by Victor Creel, who was accused of brutally murdering his family in the same way. [[spoiler:Turns out there is a connection between Victor and Vecna, but not in the way the characters expected: Victor was innocent, and the murder was done by his son Henry, Vecna's true identity.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** The tabletop game the boys are playing at the start of Season 1 foreshadows what's going to happen later. Mike intones, "Something is coming, something hungry for blood – the Demogorgon!" In both the game and in real, Will tries to attack the Demogorgon, but "it gets him."
** In an early episode, Hopper tells his deputies that a fall from the quarry cliff would be fatal, despite there being a lake on the bottom, due to sheer height. [[spoiler:Mike]] later goes over the edge.
** In the first episode, the boys get excited about how far the signal on Mr. Clarke's ham radio can reach. The radio is later used by Eleven to reach a place [[DarkWorld farther away than they ever thought]].
** After a big fight in the group, Dustin recalls a ''D&D'' session where the party split up and they were picked off by trolls one by one. Sure enough, both Lucas and Dustin and Mike end up in trouble in two separate situations.
** In the last episode of Season 1, the ''D&D'' MonsterOfTheWeek is a [[spoiler:Thessalhydra]]. Guess what Season 2's BigBad resembles.
** The boys are playing ''Dragon's Lair'' in the first episode of Season 2. [[spoiler:Dustin loses, and Lucas smugly says that Princess Daphne is still his. Guess who gets together with Max.]]
** In Season 1, Will has a discussion with his mother where he mentions that wizards can't always outwit their enemies, and have to resort to spells such as Fireball to defeat them. [[spoiler:At the end of Season 2, Joyce ends up using fire to drive the Mind Flayer out of Will after previous attempts to outsmart it went horribly wrong.]]
** In the 1st episode of season 2, Murray theorizes that there will be a Russian invasion in Hawkins. [[spoiler: In season 3, Russian soldiers try to open the gate underneath the Starcourt mall.]]
** Dr. Sam Owens reveals to Nancy and Jonathan that he doesn't want the truth of the lab to be discovered because he thinks Russians will try to use the creatures from the Upside Down for themselves. [[spoiler: At the end of season 3, it's revealed that Russian soldiers have obtained a Demogorgon and feed prisoners to it.]]
** In the lab underneath Starcourt Mall, Erica briefly ponders about the size of the original Demogorgon after she catches sight of a large metal cage. [[spoiler:In TheStinger, it's revealed that the Russian scientists running the lab have managed to either [[BioweaponBeast breed]] or capture a full-grown Demogorgon.]]
** The tidbit after the Mind Flayer's rampage in the Season 3 finale, which mainly focuses on SatanicPanic due to the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' plays a ''major'' role in the next season, with [[spoiler:the leader of the local Dungeons and Dragons club targeted as the one behind the mishaps throughout the series, and one of the Hawkins students flaring it up and causing ApocalypseHow in Hawkins due to mistaken belief on the above.]]
** In the first episode of season four, Eddie surprises the Hellfire Club with Vecna, who they believed they'd killed in an earlier session, as the final boss of the campaign. [[spoiler: The same goes for the ''actual'' Vecna; Eleven thought she killed him when she threw him into the Upside Down, and Nancy believed she killed him when her group set him on fire and threw him through a window, but he's lived long enough to take the spot as the final boss of the show.]]
** In the aftermath of a party in the second episode of Season 4, Jason banters with a hungover Lucas [[spoiler:with a nod to his upcoming gruesome death in the season finale]]:
-->"First hangover feels like you're gonna [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath split in]] [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe two]], [[HarsherInHindsight but you'll live]]."
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsUzL75Yjk a teaser]] for season 4, Scenes of the Creel family moving into their new house and starting to experience the strange phenomena connected to the Upside-Down are shown before the party enter the abandoned house in the present, with Dustin quoting from Sherlock Holmes as to what kind of clues they're looking to discover that tie the family to the otherworldly realm. [[spoiler:Said quote actually applies more to the [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall viewers]], as the Creel's son, Henry Creel, is [[HeWasRightThereAllAlong revealed to eventually be]] the [[WasOnceAMan human form]] of [[BigBad Vecca]], and his banishment into the Upside-Down by Eleven resulted in him warping it into the eldritch and terrifying realm it became, meaning that the teaser is showing the origins of the GreaterScopeVillian of the show]].
-->'''Dustin:''' The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
** The teaser also ends with the glass pane on the clock cracking at four different spots, which intersect in the clock face's centre and cause the glass to violently shatter, [[spoiler:which foreshadows Vecna's ultimately [[TheBadGuyWins succeeding in his goals]] of sacrificing four different teenagers at different points around Hawkins, the site of their murders gaining 'cracks' that become portals into the upside down. Upon Max's (temporary) death, the cracks then split and flow together into the centre of Hawkins, and the season ends with the Upside-Down starting to merge with Earth, the barrier between both realms having been broken]].
** To those who know D&D lore, it might seem odd that what the kids call the Mind Flayer is the BigBad, while what they call Vecna is seemingly unrelated threat or merely the Mind Flayer's general, since Vecna is a much bigger threat, even attaining godhood, than the average illthid. [[spoiler:The finale of Season 4 reveals that Vecna is not the Mind Flayer's servant, the Mind Flayer is ''Vecna's'' servant.]]
** Wayne Munson believes that Vecna's first victim was killed by Victor Creel, who was accused of brutally murdering his family in the same way. [[spoiler:Turns out there is a connection between Victor and Vecna, but not in the way the characters expected: Victor was innocent, and the murder was done by his son Henry, Vecna's true identity.]]
{{Foreshadowing}}: Has its own [[{{Foreshadowing}}/StrangerThings page]].
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* EatTheCamera: Happens thrice, one each in seasons 2, 3, and 4. Season 2 is done with a Demo-dog. Season 3 is done with a Demogorgon. Season 4 is done with a demogorgon as well.
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** Several flashbacks to when Eleven was RaisedInALab under Dr. Brenner's control show her speaking full sentences and comprehending The Orderly's words when they converse with one another. This is despite the fact Eleven was shown speaking very stiltedly/plainly and having difficulty grasping basic concepts like friendship and food in Season 1, precisely ''because'' she's had no contact with the outside world.

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** Several flashbacks to when Eleven was RaisedInALab under Dr. Brenner's control show her speaking full sentences and comprehending The Orderly's words when they converse with one another. This is despite the fact Eleven was shown speaking very stiltedly/plainly and having difficulty grasping basic concepts like friendship and food in Season 1, precisely ''because'' she's had no contact with the outside world. She also remembered being told that "Mama died making" her when she had no recollection of this until the second season. However, this is likely averted as she probably lost her speaking abilities along with whatever was lost when she awoke from her coma.
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** Wayne Munson believes that Vecna's first victim was killed by Victor Creel, who was accused of brutally murdering his family in the same way. [[spoiler:Turns out there is a connection between Victor and Vecna, but not in the way the characters expected: Victor was innocent, and the murder was done by his son Henry, Vecna's true identity.]]

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Neither Mike or Lucas hate D&D, that just isn't what happens considering that both of them join a D&D club in the next season and at the very least Mike is interested in D&D at the end of the season when he is talking with Will. Mike (and presumably Lucas) are the ones going through the phase of pretending not to like D&D while still wanting to play it deep inside, so they aren't growing out of it.


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** Switched around in Season 2. Jonathan and Nancy take up the conspiracy angle with [[spoiler:exposing Hawkins lab]], Hopper and Joyce participate in the sci-fi horror as they struggle to understand what's going on [[spoiler:with Will]], while Dustin, Mike, and Lucas get the conventional horror plot.

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** Switched around in Season 2. Jonathan and Nancy take up the conspiracy angle with [[spoiler:exposing Hawkins lab]], Hopper Hopper, Joyce, and Joyce Mike participate in the sci-fi horror as they struggle to understand what's going on [[spoiler:with Will]], while Dustin, Mike, Dustin and Lucas get the conventional horror plot.



* ScienceFantasy: Broadly speaking the series is presented as sci-fi, drawing aesthetic inspirations from 80's alien horro movies. However, there is a very strong thematic connection to ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', and as the series goes on it engulfs more fantasy tabletop tropes. Ultimately, neither the Upside Down (which the pitch bible claims has strict rules, [[spoiler:which in the season 4 finale work very much like ritual magic]]) nor the psychic powers ([[spoiler:which ultimately stem from a single person born with them]]) are fully explained in scientific terms.

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* ScienceFantasy: Broadly speaking the series is presented as sci-fi, drawing aesthetic inspirations from 80's alien horro horror movies. However, there is a very strong thematic connection to ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', and as the series goes on it engulfs more fantasy tabletop tropes. Ultimately, neither the Upside Down (which the pitch bible claims has strict rules, [[spoiler:which in the season 4 finale work very much like ritual magic]]) nor the psychic powers ([[spoiler:which ultimately stem from a single person born with them]]) are fully explained in scientific terms.



** Then there's season 3, where season 2's implications come home to roost. [[spoiler: Getting rid of the government presence allows Russia to set up a hostile presence in the area to conduct their own experiments. Joyce suffers from wicked PTSD and mourning for losing Bob. Mike and Eleven's relationship goes through teen drama. The Upside Down ups its game, becoming more virus-like and aggressive.]]

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** Then there's season Season 3, where season Season 2's implications come home to roost. [[spoiler: Getting rid of the government presence allows Russia to set up a hostile presence in the area to conduct their own experiments. Joyce suffers from wicked PTSD and mourning for losing Bob. Mike and Eleven's relationship goes through teen drama. The Upside Down ups its game, becoming more virus-like and aggressive.]]



** Season 3: Will is constantly trying to make the group play their usual Dungeon & Dragons games. However, as Mike points out to him, they're growing up and becoming more interested in girls than games. Also, given that they have confronted supernatural stuff twice by this point, is pretty evident that they are starting to hate D&D.



** Also in season 4, Robin and Nancy get into a psychiatric hospital using fake papers and identities, lie about being students sent by a real professor, and then use an elaborate sob story to get the staff to break protocol and let them speak to high security patient Victor Creel, alone. This works for about ten minutes, which is the time it took for the hospital's director to call said professor, who immediately shoots down the whole story. He's understandably upset, and calls the police on the girls. [[spoiler: Then subverted, when Robin and Nancy manage to outrun hospital security ''while wearing heels'', reach their car, and drive away. So far, they haven't been caught by police and they have faced no legal consequences.]]

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** Also in season Season 4, Robin and Nancy get into a psychiatric hospital using fake papers and identities, lie about being students sent by a real professor, and then use an elaborate sob story to get the staff to break protocol and let them speak to high security patient Victor Creel, alone. This works for about ten minutes, which is the time it took for the hospital's director to call said professor, who immediately shoots down the whole story. He's understandably upset, and calls the police on the girls. [[spoiler: Then subverted, when Robin and Nancy manage to outrun hospital security ''while wearing heels'', reach their car, and drive away. So far, they haven't been caught by police and they have faced no legal consequences.]]
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** After the first season, most characters don't take much convincing to believe the supernatural is involved in the latest intrigue, but every so often characters do raise their eyebrows, despite what they've seen in the past.
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Netflix renewed the series for a second season just over a month after its debut; the season, officially titled ''Stranger Things 2'', was released on October 27, 2017. A third season, similarly titled ''Stranger Things 3'', was released on July 4, 2019. The fourth season, ''Stranger Things 4'', [[https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-duffer-brothers-on-why-stranger-things-season-4-is-two-volumes/ was released in two "volumes"]]; the first volume (consisting of the first 7 episodes) was released on May 27, 2022, with the second (consisting of the final 2 episodes) coming out five weeks later on July 1. The Duffers have also confirmed that the forthcoming ''Stranger Things 5'', which does not have a set airdate, [[https://twitter.com/Stranger_Things/status/1494341147833122820 will be the show's final season]], although spin-off projects after the completion of the final season are in development, [[https://deadline.com/2022/07/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-netflix-upside-down-pictures-deal-spinoff-series-stephen-daldry-stage-play-manga-death-note-the-talisman-1235058665/ including]] a new live-action series and a stage play. The play, titled ''Stranger Things: The First Shadow'' will be a prequel set in 1959 and will premiere in London’s West End in late 2023.

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Netflix renewed the series for a second season just over a month after its debut; the season, officially titled ''Stranger Things 2'', was released on October 27, 2017. A third season, similarly titled ''Stranger Things 3'', was released on July 4, 2019. The fourth season, ''Stranger Things 4'', [[https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-duffer-brothers-on-why-stranger-things-season-4-is-two-volumes/ was released in two "volumes"]]; the first volume (consisting of the first 7 episodes) was released on May 27, 2022, with the second (consisting of the final 2 episodes) coming out five weeks later on July 1. The Duffers have also confirmed that the forthcoming ''Stranger Things 5'', which does not have a set airdate, [[https://twitter.com/Stranger_Things/status/1494341147833122820 will be the show's final season]], although spin-off projects after the completion of the final season are in development, [[https://deadline.com/2022/07/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-netflix-upside-down-pictures-deal-spinoff-series-stephen-daldry-stage-play-manga-death-note-the-talisman-1235058665/ including]] a new live-action series and a stage play. The play, titled ''Stranger Things: The First Shadow'' Shadow'', will be a prequel set in 1959 and will premiere in London’s West End in late 2023.
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Netflix renewed the series for a second season just over a month after its debut; the season, officially titled ''Stranger Things 2'', was released on October 27, 2017. A third season, similarly titled ''Stranger Things 3'', was released on July 4, 2019. The fourth season, ''Stranger Things 4'', [[https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-duffer-brothers-on-why-stranger-things-season-4-is-two-volumes/ was released in two "volumes"]]; the first volume (consisting of the first 7 episodes) was released on May 27, 2022, with the second (consisting of the final 2 episodes) coming out five weeks later on July 1. The Duffers have also confirmed that the forthcoming ''Stranger Things 5'', which does not have a set airdate, [[https://twitter.com/Stranger_Things/status/1494341147833122820 will be the show's final season]], although spin-off projects after the completion of the final season are in development, [[https://deadline.com/2022/07/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-netflix-upside-down-pictures-deal-spinoff-series-stephen-daldry-stage-play-manga-death-note-the-talisman-1235058665/ including]] a new live-action series and a stage play to be directed by Stephen Daldry.

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Netflix renewed the series for a second season just over a month after its debut; the season, officially titled ''Stranger Things 2'', was released on October 27, 2017. A third season, similarly titled ''Stranger Things 3'', was released on July 4, 2019. The fourth season, ''Stranger Things 4'', [[https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-duffer-brothers-on-why-stranger-things-season-4-is-two-volumes/ was released in two "volumes"]]; the first volume (consisting of the first 7 episodes) was released on May 27, 2022, with the second (consisting of the final 2 episodes) coming out five weeks later on July 1. The Duffers have also confirmed that the forthcoming ''Stranger Things 5'', which does not have a set airdate, [[https://twitter.com/Stranger_Things/status/1494341147833122820 will be the show's final season]], although spin-off projects after the completion of the final season are in development, [[https://deadline.com/2022/07/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-netflix-upside-down-pictures-deal-spinoff-series-stephen-daldry-stage-play-manga-death-note-the-talisman-1235058665/ including]] a new live-action series and a stage play to play. The play, titled ''Stranger Things: The First Shadow'' will be directed by Stephen Daldry.
a prequel set in 1959 and will premiere in London’s West End in late 2023.
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Will gives Mike one during their Season 3 fight. Mike has spent all season preoccupied about El and his relationship drama, ignoring Will and mocking his D&D campaign in the process. Will gets fed up with him and Mike chases after Will, leading to the fight. Mike's devastated expression after the fight combined with dialogue from Season 5 where Mike smiles and nods in agreement to Will's saying that they "could just play D&D and Nintendo for the rest of [their] lives" implies that Mike was projecting and expected Will to validate that Mike shouldn't want to do what he says below, that he is being childish and needs to move on, like he's been trying to do all season. But Will doesn't do that and Mike spends the rest of the season giving more attention to things besides El and by Season 5, he is back playing D&D.

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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Will gives Mike one during their Season 3 fight. Mike has spent all season preoccupied about El and his relationship drama, ignoring Will and mocking his D&D campaign in the process. Will gets fed up with him and Mike chases after Will, leading to the fight. Mike's devastated expression after the fight combined with dialogue from Season 5 where Mike smiles and nods in agreement to Will's saying that they "could just play D&D and Nintendo for the rest end of [their] lives" the season implies that Mike was projecting and expected Will to validate that Mike shouldn't want to do what he says below, that he is being childish and needs to move on, like he's been trying to do all season. But Will doesn't do that and Mike spends the rest of the season giving more attention to things besides El and by Season 5, he is back playing D&D.



** Season 4 ends on the darkest cliffhanger so far, despite the happy notes. [[spoiler:Hop is back with El, Joyce and Hopper finally admit their feelings for each other, and the other significant couples (Mike and Eleven, Jonathan and Nancy, and Max and Lucas) are all reunited either physically or emotionally. However, Nancy and Jonathan are having significant relationship issues that neither wants to admit, Colonel Sullivan still wants Eleven gone, Dr. Owens is nowhere to be found, Eddie is dead, Jason was too far gone and dies as a result after a fight with Lucas, and Max is in a coma after almost being clinically killed by Vecna, who was not only the Mindflayer the whole time but who also proceeds to unleash a massive supernatural earthquake on Hawkins which devastates the town and kills countless people. Oh, and on top of all of that, at the end, Will senses Vecna as "snow" begins to fall in Hawkins, despite it being March and not that cold out... it's the Upside Down merging with the real world.]]

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** Season 4 ends on the darkest cliffhanger so far, despite the happy notes. [[spoiler:Hop is back with El, Joyce and Hopper finally admit their feelings for each other, and the other significant couples (Mike and Eleven, Jonathan and Nancy, and Max and Lucas) are all reunited either physically or emotionally. However, Nancy and Jonathan are having significant relationship issues that neither wants to admit, Mike and El haven't talked much in the two days since the confrontation with Vecna, Colonel Sullivan still wants Eleven gone, Dr. Owens is nowhere to be found, Eddie is dead, Jason was too far gone and dies as a result after a fight with Lucas, and Max is in a coma after almost being clinically killed by Vecna, who was not only the Mindflayer the whole time but who also proceeds to unleash a massive supernatural earthquake on Hawkins which devastates the town and kills countless people. Oh, and on top of all of that, at the end, Will senses Vecna as "snow" begins to fall in Hawkins, despite it being March and not that cold out... it's the Upside Down merging with the real world.]]
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Will gives Mike one during their Season 3 fight. Mike has spent all season preoccupied about El and his relationship drama, ignoring Will and mocking his D&D campaign in the process. Will gets fed up with him and Mike chases after Will, leading to the fight. Mike’s devastated expression after the fight combined with dialogue from Season 5 where Mike smiles and nods in agreement to Will’s saying that they "could just play D&D and Nintendo for the rest of [their] lives" implies that Mike was projecting and expected Will to validate that Mike shouldn’t want to do what he says below, that he is being childish and needs to move on, like he’s been trying to do all season. But Will doesn’t do that and Mike spends the rest of the season giving more attention to things besides El and by Season 5, he is back playing D&D.
--> '''Mike''': But we’re not kids anymore. I mean, what did you think, really? That we were never gonna get girlfriends? We were just gonna sit in my basement all day and play games for the rest of our lives?

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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Will gives Mike one during their Season 3 fight. Mike has spent all season preoccupied about El and his relationship drama, ignoring Will and mocking his D&D campaign in the process. Will gets fed up with him and Mike chases after Will, leading to the fight. Mike’s Mike's devastated expression after the fight combined with dialogue from Season 5 where Mike smiles and nods in agreement to Will’s Will's saying that they "could just play D&D and Nintendo for the rest of [their] lives" implies that Mike was projecting and expected Will to validate that Mike shouldn’t shouldn't want to do what he says below, that he is being childish and needs to move on, like he’s he's been trying to do all season. But Will doesn’t doesn't do that and Mike spends the rest of the season giving more attention to things besides El and by Season 5, he is back playing D&D.
--> '''Mike''': But we’re we're not kids anymore. I mean, what did you think, really? That we were never gonna get girlfriends? We were just gonna sit in my basement all day and play games for the rest of our lives?
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* ArmorPiercingResponse: Will gives Mike one during their Season 3 fight. Mike has spent all season preoccupied about El and his relationship drama, ignoring Will and mocking his D&D campaign in the process. Will gets fed up with him and Mike chases after Will, leading to the fight. Mike’s devastated expression after the fight combined with dialogue from Season 5 where Mike smiles and nods in agreement to Will’s saying that they "could just play D&D and Nintendo for the rest of [their] lives" implies that Mike was projecting and expected Will to validate that Mike shouldn’t want to do what he says below, that he is being childish and needs to move on, like he’s been trying to do all season. But Will doesn’t do that and Mike spends the rest of the season giving more attention to things besides El and by Season 5, he is back playing D&D.
--> '''Mike''': But we’re not kids anymore. I mean, what did you think, really? That we were never gonna get girlfriends? We were just gonna sit in my basement all day and play games for the rest of our lives?
--> '''Will''': Yeah. I guess I did. I really did.
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** Season 3's ending definitely qualifies. On the bright side, [[spoiler:the Mind Flayer has been defeated once more, the Soviet plot to open up the Gate underneath Starcourt has been foiled, Mike and Eleven have mended their relationship, admitting they love each other, and all of the Party's somewhat strained friendships have been repaired.]] On the more bitter side, [[spoiler:Billy and some other 30 people are dead, Hopper is [[UncertainDoom gone]], and Eleven has lost her powers. The Byers family moves out of Hawkins, taking Eleven with them.]] Even TheStinger is a mixed bag, with a hint of possibility at [[spoiler:Hopper's survival as a prisoner in the Soviet Union (later confirmed), but also confirmation that the Soviets have succeeded in capturing a live Demogorgon, not considering the implications that the Soviets have successfully opened the Gate once to do so.]]

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** Season 3's ending definitely qualifies. On the bright side, [[spoiler:the Mind Flayer has been defeated once more, the Soviet plot to open up the Gate underneath Starcourt has been foiled, Mike and Eleven have mended their relationship, admitting they love each other, tells Mike she loves him, and all of the Party's somewhat strained friendships have been repaired.]] On the more bitter side, [[spoiler:Billy and some other 30 people are dead, Hopper is [[UncertainDoom gone]], and Eleven has lost her powers. The Byers family moves out of Hawkins, taking Eleven with them.]] Even TheStinger is a mixed bag, with a hint of possibility at [[spoiler:Hopper's survival as a prisoner in the Soviet Union (later confirmed), but also confirmation that the Soviets have succeeded in capturing a live Demogorgon, not considering the implications that the Soviets have successfully opened the Gate once to do so.]]



* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Anyone who spends any amount of time with Mike and Eleven will clearly see that each is head-over-heels for the other. [[spoiler:Season 2 also has this for Nancy and Jonathan. Season 3 brings Joyce and Hop into the mix, with even Alexei (who doesn't speak a ''word'' of English) being surprised that they ''aren't'' sleeping together.]]

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* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Anyone who spends any amount of time with Mike and Eleven will clearly see points out that each is head-over-heels for the other. [[spoiler:Season 2 also has this for Nancy and Jonathan. Season 3 brings Joyce and Hop into the mix, with even Alexei (who doesn't speak a ''word'' of English) being surprised that they ''aren't'' sleeping together.]]



** Dustin and Lucas's [[FriendVersusLover expressions]] when Mike blurts out that Eleven looks pretty.

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** Max is very belligerent with the party before hooking up with Lucas. She continues to mildly have it with Lucas in Season 3 and inspires some between Mike and Eleven as well.

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* BreakoutCharacter: Steve Harrington starts as a typical popular 80's JerkJock in Season 1, even bullying Jonathan and Nancy. However, the charismatic portrayal of his character and HeelFaceTurn in the season finale earned him a leading role in the following seasons while downplaying his jerkish qualities and giving him a more comedic, caring [[BigBrotherInstinct big brother]] persona, turning him into one of the most popular characters in the series.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Steve Harrington starts as a typical popular 80's JerkJock in Season 1, even bullying Jonathan and Nancy. However, the charismatic portrayal of his character and HeelFaceTurn in the season finale earned him a leading role in the following seasons while downplaying his jerkish qualities and giving him a more comedic, caring [[BigBrotherInstinct big brother]] persona, turning him into one of the most popular characters in the series.
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Netflix renewed the series for a second season just over a month after its debut; the season, officially titled ''Stranger Things 2'', was released on October 27, 2017. A third season, similarly titled ''Stranger Things 3'', was released on July 4, 2019. The fourth season, ''Stranger Things 4'', [[https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-duffer-brothers-on-why-stranger-things-season-4-is-two-volumes/ was released in two "volumes"]]; the first installment (consisting of the first 7 episodes) was released on May 27, 2022, with the second installment (consisting of the final 2 episodes) coming out five weeks later on July 1. The Duffers have also confirmed that the forthcoming ''Stranger Things 5'', which does not have a set airdate, [[https://twitter.com/Stranger_Things/status/1494341147833122820 will be the show's final season]], although spin-off projects after the completion of the final season are in development, [[https://deadline.com/2022/07/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-netflix-upside-down-pictures-deal-spinoff-series-stephen-daldry-stage-play-manga-death-note-the-talisman-1235058665/ including]] a new live-action series and a stage play to be directed by Stephen Daldry.

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Netflix renewed the series for a second season just over a month after its debut; the season, officially titled ''Stranger Things 2'', was released on October 27, 2017. A third season, similarly titled ''Stranger Things 3'', was released on July 4, 2019. The fourth season, ''Stranger Things 4'', [[https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-duffer-brothers-on-why-stranger-things-season-4-is-two-volumes/ was released in two "volumes"]]; the first installment volume (consisting of the first 7 episodes) was released on May 27, 2022, with the second installment (consisting of the final 2 episodes) coming out five weeks later on July 1. The Duffers have also confirmed that the forthcoming ''Stranger Things 5'', which does not have a set airdate, [[https://twitter.com/Stranger_Things/status/1494341147833122820 will be the show's final season]], although spin-off projects after the completion of the final season are in development, [[https://deadline.com/2022/07/stranger-things-duffer-brothers-netflix-upside-down-pictures-deal-spinoff-series-stephen-daldry-stage-play-manga-death-note-the-talisman-1235058665/ including]] a new live-action series and a stage play to be directed by Stephen Daldry.
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''Stranger Things'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} original series created by the Duffer Brothers which debuted on July 15, 2016. It features an ensemble cast including Creator/WinonaRyder, Creator/DavidHarbour, Creator/FinnWolfhard, Creator/MillieBobbyBrown, Creator/NoahSchnapp, Creator/GatenMatarazzo, Creator/CalebMcLaughlin, Creator/NataliaDyer, Creator/CharlieHeaton, Creator/SadieSink, Creator/JoeKeery, Creator/DacreMontgomery, Creator/SeanAstin, Creator/MayaHawke, Creator/BrettGelman, Creator/MatthewModine, Creator/JosephQuinn, and Creator/PaulReiser.

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''Stranger Things'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} original series created by the Duffer Brothers which debuted on July 15, 2016. It features an ensemble cast including Creator/WinonaRyder, Creator/DavidHarbour, Creator/FinnWolfhard, Creator/MillieBobbyBrown, Creator/NoahSchnapp, Creator/GatenMatarazzo, Creator/CalebMcLaughlin, Creator/NataliaDyer, Creator/CharlieHeaton, Creator/SadieSink, Creator/PriahFerguson, Creator/JoeKeery, Creator/DacreMontgomery, Creator/SeanAstin, Creator/MayaHawke, Creator/BrettGelman, Creator/MatthewModine, Creator/JosephQuinn, and Creator/PaulReiser.

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* SeriesContinuityError: Will's birthday was established to be March 22nd in Season 2, but Season 4 later has an episode take place on March 22nd with no mention of it being Will's birthday, which the Duffers admitted was because they forgot about it.

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Will's birthday was established to be March 22nd in Season 2, but Season 4 later has an episode take place on March 22nd with no mention of it being Will's birthday, which the Duffers admitted was because they forgot about it.it.
** Several flashbacks to when Eleven was RaisedInALab under Dr. Brenner's control show her speaking full sentences and comprehending The Orderly's words when they converse with one another. This is despite the fact Eleven was shown speaking very stiltedly/plainly and having difficulty grasping basic concepts like friendship and food in Season 1, precisely ''because'' she's had no contact with the outside world.
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** Dustin's voice is significantly higher-pitched in the first three episodes, before suddenly getting deeper from Chapter 4 onwards due to his actor hitting puberty.

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* HourglassPlot: In Season 1, Mike is the biggest advocate for including El in the group, while Lucas is strongly opposed to the idea. Come Season 2, Mike and Lucas' stances on including Max are the exact opposite.


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Taking place in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana in TheEighties, the series tells the story of the disappearance of Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), the investigation into said disappearance and an attempted rescue mission by his friends, and the supernatural events surrounding the town itself. Along the way, the kids and teenagers of the town affected by Will's disappearance [[ComingOfAgeStory have to adjust to the hardships that come with growing up]], while the adults have to confront their worst fears.

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Taking place in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana in TheEighties, the series tells the story of the disappearance of Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), (Schnapp), the investigation into said disappearance and an attempted rescue mission by his friends, and the supernatural events surrounding the town itself. Along the way, the kids and teenagers of the town affected by Will's disappearance [[ComingOfAgeStory have to adjust to the hardships that come with growing up]], while the adults have to confront their worst fears.
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* MenacingMask: Kali's gang wear plastic Halloween-style masks. Including El after she briefly joins them.
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* MatureWorkChildProtagonists: The show is partially influenced by the works of Creator/StephenKing, so this is to be expected. The first season centers around a group of preteen boys who attempt to locate their missing friend, and from then on it quickly spirals into a supernatural horror series that deals with the kids having to face EldritchAbomination{{s}}, as well as more mundane horrors, such as some of their peers being nearly as dangerous as the monsters. The later seasons ramp up the mature content; season 2 features Will clearly traumatized while routinely being possessed by the Mind Flayer, and season 3 gets quite a bit BloodierAndGorier.

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* MatureWorkChildProtagonists: The show is partially influenced by the works of Creator/StephenKing, so this is to be expected. The first season centers around a group of preteen boys who attempt to locate their missing friend, and from then on it quickly spirals into a supernatural horror series that deals with the kids having to face EldritchAbomination{{s}}, {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, as well as more mundane horrors, such as some of their peers being nearly as dangerous as the monsters. The later seasons ramp up the mature content; season 2 features Will clearly traumatized while routinely being possessed by the Mind Flayer, and season 3 gets quite a bit BloodierAndGorier.

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