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* BoundAndGagged: Well, mostly Bound. Season 4 sees the entire female regular cast tied up at some point, two of them twice!

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* BoundAndGagged: Well, mostly Bound. Season 4 sees the entire female regular cast (and Steve) tied up at some point, two of them twice!
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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Jim Hopper's behavior in the early episodes of Season 3 might be the least justified instance in the history of the trope, for two reasons: first, Mike Wheeler is not at all the kind of boy who would put his own desires ahead of his girlfriend's wellbeing, and second, ''any'' boy who tries to pressure Jane Hopper into doing something outside her comfort zone and won't take no for an answer is liable to find himself [[MindOverMatter hurled across the room]]. After the compassion Hopper shows for both adolescents during their reunion scene in Season 2, this borders on {{Flanderization}} of his character.

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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Jim Hopper's behavior in the early episodes of Season 3 might be the least justified instance in the history of the trope, for two reasons: first, Mike Wheeler is not at all the kind of boy who would put his own desires ahead of his girlfriend's wellbeing, and second, ''any'' boy who tries to pressure Jane Hopper into doing something outside her comfort zone and won't take no for an answer is liable to find himself [[MindOverMatter hurled across the room]]. After the compassion Hopper shows showed for both adolescents during their reunion scene in Season 2, 2 (ensuring that whatever anger Mike felt over the revelation that El had heard him calling her and not answered was directed at himself, not at El), this borders on {{Flanderization}} of his character.character; the Hopper portrayed in "The Gate" should have understood how badly coercing Mike into lying to her would hurt El.
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*** Mike (lover) and Max (friend) clash over El's activities and boundaries. Max calls out Mike for being too controlling, while he thinks she's being too lenient with El's abilities.

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*** Mike (lover) and Max (friend) clash over El's activities and boundaries. Max calls out Mike for being too controlling, while he thinks she's being too lenient careless with El's abilities.abilities. Part of the reason is that Max, unlike Mike, hasn't witnessed El collapsing after overusing her telekinesis, or her severe distress while searching for Barb and Will with her clairvoyance in Season 1.



* FreeRangeChildren: Zigzagged. A good portion of the early episodes has the various middle school and high school characters slipping away from their homes, skipping school, and staying out later than they'd promised, though this ''does'' typically land them in hot water when they get home. (This is justified in that it was several years after this before media-fueled fear of kidnapping and strangers caused parents to more closely monitor where kids went in their free time.) On the other hand, you also have instances like the kids having to sneak out of their houses because they've been forbidden from going out while Will is missing, and Joyce driving Will to the arcade in Season 2 while repeatedly confirming plans for getting home. By Season 3, the kids are all old enough that no one seems to pay attention or care that they're out all hours of the night and have the entire group in the house at 6am.

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* FreeRangeChildren: Zigzagged. A good portion of the early episodes has the various middle school and high school characters slipping away from their homes, skipping school, and staying out later than they'd promised, though this ''does'' typically land them in hot water when they get home. (This is justified in that it was several years after this before media-fueled fear of kidnapping and strangers caused parents to more closely monitor where kids went in their free time.) On the other hand, you also have instances like the kids having to sneak out of their houses because they've been forbidden from going out while Will is missing, and Joyce driving Will to the arcade in Season 2 while repeatedly confirming plans for getting home. By Season 3, the kids are all old enough that no one seems to pay attention or care that they're out all hours of the night and have the entire group in the house at 6am.6 AM.
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** The equipment in Yuri's secret warehouse inside an abandoned church includes [[spoiler: Chekhov's Flamethrower – which might be a ShoutOut to Film/TheHidden, since both flamethrowers are used to defeat an alien menace.]]

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** Ted Wheeler's RunningGag is that he's utterly clueless about what is going on around him, and in Season 2 he has a "Reagan/Bush '84" sign proudly displayed outside of his house. Gets more jarring when you consider that one of Reagan's most memorable quotes is: "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - and he implicitly trusted the government agents, ''because'' they were from the government and claimed to be there to help...

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** Ted Wheeler's RunningGag is that he's utterly clueless about what is going on around him, and in Season 2 he has a "Reagan/Bush '84" sign proudly displayed outside of his house. Gets more jarring when you consider that one of Reagan's most memorable quotes is: is, "The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - help," – and he Ted implicitly trusted the government agents, ''because'' they were from the government and claimed to be there to help...help...
*** For Reagan-era conservatives, however, that line referred strictly to the government's regulatory and social welfare agencies, while the military and the national security state were venerated as the infallible and incorruptible guardians of freedom.

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* BackportedDevelopment: When we see Eleven's flashbacks to when she was living under Dr. Brenner's care in the Hawkins Lab pre-Season 1, she's shown speaking in full sentences and generally acting as she does now, rather than the stilted, unfamiliar young girl she was depicted as earlier in the show.

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* BackportedDevelopment: When we see Eleven's Season 4 flashbacks to when she was living under Dr. Brenner's care in the Hawkins Lab pre-Season 1, she's shown speaking in full sentences and generally acting as she does now, rather than the stilted, unfamiliar young girl she was depicted as earlier in the show.
** [[spoiler:Justified by the revelations in S4:E7 – Eleven regressed intellectually and emotionally due to the amnesia she suffered after her battle with One in 1979.]].

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* BettyAndVeronica: The LoveTriangle between Nancy, Steve, and Jonathan in the first two seasons. Steve is the BigManOnCampus and a JerkJock (later mellowing into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold), while Jonathan is a shy, soft-spoken [[LonersAreFreaks loner]] who's the frequent target of bullying. The contrast becomes less pronounced later on as Steve [[TookALevelInKindness takes a level in kindness]] while Jonathan becomes more confident and assertive. However, the love triangle is awakened again in season four, as Nancy spends the entiriety of her season arc with Steve, and it becomes obvious they still have feelings for each other largely due to Steve's personality shift and Jonathan's absenteeism. [[spoiler: While Nancy reunites with Jonathan in the last episode and things on the surface go back to normal, there are hints that Nancy and Steve's feelings have once again been rekindled, and it may be a subplot of season 5.]]

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* BettyAndVeronica: The LoveTriangle between Nancy, Steve, and Jonathan in the first two seasons. Steve is the BigManOnCampus and a JerkJock (later mellowing into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold), while Jonathan is a shy, soft-spoken [[LonersAreFreaks loner]] who's the frequent target of bullying. The contrast becomes less pronounced later on as Steve [[TookALevelInKindness takes a level in kindness]] while Jonathan becomes more confident and assertive. However, the love triangle is awakened again in season four, as Nancy spends the entiriety entirety of her season arc with Steve, and it becomes obvious they still have feelings for each other largely due to Steve's personality shift and Jonathan's absenteeism.absence. [[spoiler: While Nancy reunites with Jonathan in the last episode and things on the surface go back to normal, there are hints that Nancy and Steve's feelings have once again been rekindled, and it may be a subplot of season 5.]]


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* BoyfriendBlockingDad: Jim Hopper's behavior in the early episodes of Season 3 might be the least justified instance in the history of the trope, for two reasons: first, Mike Wheeler is not at all the kind of boy who would put his own desires ahead of his girlfriend's wellbeing, and second, ''any'' boy who tries to pressure Jane Hopper into doing something outside her comfort zone and won't take no for an answer is liable to find himself [[MindOverMatter hurled across the room]]. After the compassion Hopper shows for both adolescents during their reunion scene in Season 2, this borders on {{Flanderization}} of his character.
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*** The minimal information on Vecna from the descriptions of his hand and eye (as well as the Sword of Kas, [[TheStarscream the lieutenant who betrayed and killed Vecna]] according to the lore) in the first edition of AD&D would be enough for Eddie to create the character as the BigBad of his homebrew campaign, though.
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* GlassCannon: Eleven's combat capabilities are formidable but almost purely offensive in nature, and when she pushes her powers to the limit she can exhaust herself, sometimes to the point of falling unconscious.
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* GlassCannon: Eleven's combat capabilities are formidable but almost purely offensive in nature, and when she pushes her powers to the limit she can exhaust herself, sometimes to the point of falling unconscious.
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* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Apparently there's no justice or sense of proportion in the world of ''Stranger Things'', hence why purely good characters like Barb and Bob are unfairly killed off.

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* TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth: Apparently there's no justice or sense of proportion in the world of ''Stranger Things'', hence why purely good characters like Barb Barb, Bob, and Bob Chrissy are unfairly killed off.
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* BigDamnHug:
** In Episode 6, Mike hugs Eleven after she saves his life at the quarry, telling her she's not a monster, with Dustin then turning it into a Group Hug.
** In the Season 2 finale, Eleven and Mike share one when they're finally reunited, which is shortly followed by Eleven sharing an emotional group hug with Lucas and Dustin.
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* BigDamnHug:
** In Episode 6, Mike hugs Eleven after she saves his life at the quarry, telling her she's not a monster, with Dustin then turning it into a Group Hug.
** In the Season 2 finale, Eleven and Mike share one when they're finally reunited, which is shortly followed by Eleven sharing an emotional group hug with Lucas and Dustin.
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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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''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, Creator/JamieCampbellBower, and Creator/PaulReiser.
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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) following on July 1. The Duffers have also confirmed that the forthcoming ''Stranger Things 5'', which does not have a set airdate but is likely to come out in 2025. It [[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) following on July 1. The Duffers have also confirmed that the forthcoming ''Stranger Things 5'', which does not have a set airdate but is likely to come out in 2025. It 2025, [[https://twitter.com/Stranger_Things/status/1494341147833122820 will be the show's final season]], although spin-off season]]. SpinOff 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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** Season 4 episode "The Hellfire Club" uses "California Dreamin'" for a montage - not the original Music/TheMamasAndThePapas version from the 60s that most viewers would recognize, but a CoverVersion by Music/TheBeachBoys; Their version was a modest hit in 1986, the year the season was set in, but is now largely forgotten.

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** Season 4 episode "The Hellfire Club" uses "California Dreamin'" for a montage involving Joyce, Eleven, Jonathan and Will's move to California - not the original Music/TheMamasAndThePapas version from the 60s that most viewers would recognize, but a period appropriate CoverVersion by Music/TheBeachBoys; Their version was a modest hit in 1986, the year the season was set in, but is now largely forgotten.
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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 following on July 1. The Duffers have also confirmed that the forthcoming ''Stranger Things 5'', which does not have a set airdate, airdate but is likely to come out in 2025. It [[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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* Satanic Panic: The show being set in the 80s, of course the leader of the local "Hellfire Club" (actually a harmless D & D group)is quickly blamed for a gruesome murder.

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* Satanic Panic: SatanicPanic: The show being set in the 80s, of course the leader of the local "Hellfire Club" in season 4 (actually a harmless D & D group)is group) is quickly blamed for a gruesome murder.
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* Satanic Panic: The show being set in the 80s, of course the leader of the local "Hellfire Club" (actually a harmless D & D group)is quickly blamed for a gruesome murder.
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** And that's nothing compared to what [[spoiler:the [[GloriousMotherRussia Russian army]]]] gets up to.
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* TeensAreShort: Played straight with Nancy and her parents (and somewhat with Barb and her father, as Barb and her mother are tall women but Mr. Holland is a giant of a man) and justified in the case of some of the younger kids as they are growing in real-time. Naturally this is defied by Season 3 where both Jonathon and Will are taller than Joyce (played by the petite Winona Ryder)and [[https://twitter.com/fwolfhardupdate/status/1077028726854938626 Cara Buono (Karen Wheeler) has highlighted the difference in height between her and Finn Wolfard (Mike Wheeler)]].

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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Hawkins is located in the fictional Roane County somewhere in Indiana, but ''where'' in Indiana precisely is never specified. The tie-in novel ''Suspicious Minds'' indicates that it's close to Bloomington, where the protagonists live and go to school, as they take regular day trips to Hawkins National Laboratory to participate in [=MKUltra=] experiments. Various comments made on the show also indicate that it's close to the Illinois border. The mobile game lampshades it if you choose to look at a map, with the player character stating that they can't find Hawkins on it. In the Season 4 finale, the news broadcast about the "earthquake" indicates it to be 80 miles outside of Indianapolis; if it is indeed close to Bloomington, about that distance south of Indianapolis are a lot of forests, and there are obviously a lot of scenes within the woods in Hawkins.

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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Hawkins is located in the fictional Roane County somewhere in Indiana, but ''where'' in Indiana precisely is never specified.
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In the Season 4 finale, the news broadcast about the "earthquake" indicates it to be 80 miles outside of Indianapolis; if it is indeed close to Bloomington, about that distance south of Indianapolis are a lot of forests, and there are obviously a lot of scenes within the woods in Hawkins.
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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Hawkins is located in the fictional Roane County somewhere in Indiana, but ''where'' in Indiana precisely is never specified. The tie-in novel ''Suspicious Minds'' indicates that it's close to Bloomington, where the protagonists live and go to school, as they take regular day trips to Hawkins National Laboratory to participate in [=MKUltra=] experiments. Various comments made on the show also indicate that it's close to the Illinois border. The mobile game lampshades it if you choose to look at a map, with the player character stating that they can't find Hawkins on it.

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* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: Hawkins is located in the fictional Roane County somewhere in Indiana, but ''where'' in Indiana precisely is never specified. The tie-in novel ''Suspicious Minds'' indicates that it's close to Bloomington, where the protagonists live and go to school, as they take regular day trips to Hawkins National Laboratory to participate in [=MKUltra=] experiments. Various comments made on the show also indicate that it's close to the Illinois border. The mobile game lampshades it if you choose to look at a map, with the player character stating that they can't find Hawkins on it. In the Season 4 finale, the news broadcast about the "earthquake" indicates it to be 80 miles outside of Indianapolis; if it is indeed close to Bloomington, about that distance south of Indianapolis are a lot of forests, and there are obviously a lot of scenes within the woods in Hawkins.
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->''[[Music/OliviaNewtonJohn It's gotta be a strange twist of fate,\\

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Telling me to get it right this time...]]''

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* SupernaturalHotspotTown: Hawkins, Indiana is directly connected to an alternate dimension, and the contents of said other dimension frequently leak out into the real world. This leads to all sorts of monsters attacking innocent people around town, or dragging people into said other dimension. This includes its fair share of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and it's up to a girl with PsychicPowers to stop all of them.
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* BackportedDevelopment: When we see Eleven's flashbacks to when she was living under Dr. Brenner's care in the Hawkins Lab pre-Season 1, she's shown speaking in full sentences and generally acting as she does now, rather than the stilted, unfamiliar young girl she was depicted as earlier in the show.

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