On Halloween night, Will experienced yet another vision while trick-or-treating in Loch Nora, a wealthy neighborhood in Hawkins. Will walked out into the Upside Down and witnessed the obscured but distinctive silhouette of the Mind Flayer amongst the clouds. The front door swung open, revealing the Upside Down beyond it, where the red storm violently raged once again. However, he saw a red light illuminating the walls of his house. He went to have a bathroom break in the middle of the night and was returning to his bedroom. Will had another vision the following evening. However, Will's friend Mike snapped Will out of the vision. To his horror, he witnessed a blood-red storm raging in the sky above, before hearing an unearthly howl. He walked out of the Upside Down version of the arcade.
While his friends argued with the arcade's employee, Will became distracted by another vision. On October 29, 1984, Will and his friends went to play at the Palace Arcade. Sam Owens at Hawkins Lab, who believed Will was experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder. Will continued to have visions of the Upside Down for a year following his rescue. Maybe for good this time, the Mind Flayer is dead.Overview Stranger Things 2 (1984) The kids attack the monster with fireworks, but the monster is finally stopped when a number of factors happen: Billy defies the possession of the monster, distracting it from hurting the (now powerless) Eleven, and Joyce and Hopper close the gate to the Upside Down.
Oh yeah, that's right-the Mind Flayer possesses and melts down a whole lot of rats.īy melting these possessed bodies down, the mind flayer merges them all into one, giant, six-legged monster that keeps gaining more and more mass with each body that's melted down. Billy is the main vessel in this latest season, and the Mind Flayer, through him, possesses a number of people (most of whom are eventually turned into flesh goo), including Heather Holloway, his fellow lifeguard, Tom Holloway, Heather's father and the editor of The Hawkins Post, and Doris Driscoll, an old lady who tells Nancy about the infected Rats. Named after the Dungeons & Dragons monster, the Mind Flayer is a monster that possesses a host, and uses its body as a vessel to carry out its evil. The main villain/monster for Stranger Things 3 is the Mind Flayer. But what are these monsters? We break it all down below: Vecna (Season 4) In true Stephen King fashion (The Duffer Brothers are die-hard fans of the legendary author, and clearly paid homage to him in a number of ways), the show features a number of monsters who make life a living hell for our heroes. What provides those thrills, of course, comes from the supernatural element of the show. well, it's pretty creepy-if not outright scary. It's exciting-who can resist watching the next episode as soon as the previous one ends? There's so much going on, and the show picks the most exciting moments to leave us hanging on.īut possibly above all, Stranger Things is. It's funny-just about every character has a handful of laugh aloud moments in any given season. Above all, it's entertaining-but that entertainment comes from a number of different venues.