With her death, the fourth gate to the Upside Down opens.Įleven defeats Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) in a psychic battle, Steve and Nancy light his body on fire, and Nancy shoots him several times with a sawed-off shotgun. Max falls to the ground before her eyeballs explode like past victims, but she’s been fatally wounded. Then, Eleven, with Mike’s encouragement, summons the strength to defeat Vecna while Nancy’s crew torches his physical body. Max floats into the air, her eyes start bleeding, and her limbs begin to snap like twigs. Jason accidentally destroys the Walkman, which means Kate Bush can’t come to the rescue. To make things worse, Chrissy’s psycho boyfriend Jason (Mason Dye) accosts Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) while he’s defending Max’s body, accusing him of being involved in Eddie’s “satanic” cult. And, although Eleven comes to her rescue and projects into Max’s conciseness to battle Vecna, the villain is able to defeat Eleven.
His bats take out Eddie while his vine-like tentacles ensnare Nancy, Steve, and Robin. The plan works-at first.ĭisaster strikes when Vecna overpowers all of Max’s friends. She forgoes the Walkman and makes a plan to avoid Vecna within her own memories since it’s her mind that he’s invading. She spends the rest of the season with her Walkman nearby so she can blast the song again to keep Vecna at bay, but in order for the plan to fight Vecna to work, she needs to be bait. Thanks to her favorite song-Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)”-that Max regains a tether to reality and escapes Vecna’s psychic realm.
Max (Sadie Sink) almost dies in the first half of the season when she becomes Vecna’s target. The bats fatally wound him, and Dustin makes it back to the Upside Down just in time for Eddie to die in his arms. In the end, he finds his courage, first luring the bats away from the RV and then making a fateful decision to charge right into battle with them. All season, Eddie had been plagued by guilt for just running away when Chrissy (Grace Van Dien) died, horribly, in front of him back in the premiere. Eddie tricks Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) into retreating into the real world for safety, but he stays behind to buy his friends more time. Despite their fortifications, the bats are able to break into the RV. Eddie, in the most metal moment of the series, does this by crushing a Metallica solo on the roof of the Upside Down RV. While Nancy (Natalia Dyer), Steve (Joe Keery), and Robin (Maya Hawke) went after his body, the pair would create a distraction to lure his hordes of demobats away. Likewise, Eleven’s complicated past with “Papa” meant it was still a touching moment when he died.Ĭontinuing Stranger Things’ grand tradition of introducing a new main character only to kill them off by the end of the same season they debuted in (See: Bob Newby, Alexei), Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) does not make it to the end of season 4 alive.Įddie and Dustin had an important role in the plan to defeat Vecna. He was a megalomaniacal monster who abused Eleven and many other children, but he did have an earnest if extremely toxic and warped affection for Eleven. It’s too late for Brenner, though, and in his dying moments, he unlocks Eleven’s collar. Despite the collar, Eleven is able to use her powers to bring down the chopper. Brenner attempts to flee with Eleven, but he’s shot multiple times by a sniper in a helicopter. Colonel Jack Sullivan (Sherman Augustus)-the leader of a rival governmental faction who thinks Eleven is a threat who should be killed rather than empowered-attacks the base. Instead of allowing Eleven and Doctor Owens to leave for Hawkins, Brenner says Eleven isn’t “ready yet” and has his men handcuff Owens while he sedates Eleven and puts a power-inhabiting collar on her. While Eleven and her “Papa” maintain an uneasy alliance at first, and work together to unlock memories of Vecna’s origins and restore Eleven’s powers, Brenner eventually betrays her.
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