Other key points to recall: we learned that Hopper had a daughter who passed away from cancer a few years prior, and that he and his wife had separated after the fact. Will is resuscitated when he is brought back into the real world, but an epilogue shows him coughing up a demogorgon-like slug monster, suggesting all is not quite well. They succeed, though Eleven disappears after disintegrating the demogorgon with her powers. Nancy’s boyfriend Steve (Joe Keery) gets caught up in the action along the way, too. She also loves Eggo waffles the first food she tried after escaping the facility.Įleven, the boys, Hopper, Joyce, Mike’s sister Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Will’s brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) team up to take down the demogorgon – who has been out roaming around Hawkins and causing trouble, murdering Nancy’s friend Barb (Shannon Purser) along the way – and rescue Will. Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven in Stranger ThingsĮleven has telekinetic abilities: she was kidnapped at birth by Dr Brenner (who stole her from her mother, Terry Ives, who is now catatonic) and turned into a weapon of sorts in the lab.
In the woods, she runs into Will’s friends Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) who she befriends. One such 12-year-old – Eleven, played by a shaved-headed Millie Bobby Brown – has escaped the grasp of the lab’s most evil scientist, Dr Brenner. He was captured by an otherworldly monster – which we later came to know as the Demogorgon, after a similarly gross character from Dungeons & Dragons – and transported to a parallel universe called the Upside Down.Īfter an investigation by his distraught mother Joyce (Winona Ryder) and grizzled Police Chief Jim Hopper, it was revealed that a portal into the universe had been opened by government officials at a laboratory on the edge of town, where they kept a bunch of genetically-altered youngsters, who they used to open the gate.
You’ll probably recall that Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) went missing at the beginning of season 1, kicking off a string of supernatural events in Hawkins, Indiana, and changing the lives of our group of heroes – old and young – forever.