Stranger Things 5: Why Eleven Has to Die in Netflix’s Series Finale

Warning, spoilers! This article will reveal the main elements of Stranger Things season 4. If you haven’t seen it and don’t want to be spoiled, don’t read it!

Eleven’s (Millie Bobby Brown) narrative arc in Season 4 of Stranger Things has something troubling fans of the Netflix series. Indeed, this season digs into the young girl’s past, but she also has to deal with new traumas there. Season 4 focuses on Eleven, and her desire to confront her past is no surprise, as she’s doing all of this to better reclaim her powers.

Over the course of these 9 episodes, Eleven manages to overcome the blockages that have been preventing her from using her powers, stand up to Vecna ​​with the help of the rest of the gang, and she even shows that she now has new powers when she brings Max. back from the dead.

Season 4 clearly makes Vecna ​​the main antagonist of the series, and Eleven in particular. Both have the same telekinetic powers, and the show ramps up their opposite extremes in Season 5 to roughly equal strengths. When he uses it, the show suggests it’s because of his friends and the strong bond he has with them.

This season finale puts Eleven in the savior position. We are shown that he has defeated Henry Creel/One/Vecna ​​in the past, as well as Lucifer being cast out of Heaven and cast into Hell. It directly contradicts his hatred of humanity and plans for total destruction. Likewise, when Vecna ​​carries her prisoner into the lair of her mind, her position is very close to that of a crucifix.

Eleven then revives Max, demonstrating the power of resurrection, which is quite common among the Saviors. Stranger Things therefore makes Eleven the savior, as opposed to Vecna, who becomes the fallen angel archetype. These charts clearly set the stage for the upcoming Season 5.

All of these elements together suggest that there is a good chance that Eleven will die in Season 5. First of all, because one of the signs of a Savior is his sense of sacrifice to save humanity. Now that upside down world Intruded by Hawkins – making Vecna ​​even more powerful – Eleven may have to do anything to save her friends, family and the rest of the world from the evil that plagues her. He will have to sacrifice himself to save the world from falling apart.

By turning Eleven into an archetype, Matt and Ross Duffery make no secret of their intentions for her impending death. And as the series ends with Season 5, no character is spared. The original plan in Season 1 was already to kill Eleven by the time she confronts the Demogorgon in order to sacrifice herself to destroy the entire upside. But when the Duffer brothers realized that the show could become a hit and get more seasons, they gave the little girl a second chance.

With many hints of an emotionally charged ending, the original plan might just come to fruition.

Killing Eleven in a time-jumped season 5 would be bold and interesting. If the level of writing is warranted, it can really add emotional charge and answer the harsh reality that the series has presented from the beginning. What is happening to Vecna ​​now is nothing more and nothing less than the destruction of all humanity.

The devastation of losing Eleven adds a dose of sadness to what would otherwise be a happy ending. None of the previous seasons ended on such a positive and happy note, with each ending on a bittersweet note.

Eleven’s sacrifice to save her friends – and humanity as a whole – thus becomes increasingly likely by the end of the series. It would be a bittersweet, sad, hopeful and exciting ending. Everything the Duffer Brothers love!

Whatever new characters or monsters appear in Season 5, the end of Season 4 reveals that the final season will be nothing like what the show has shown before. As the series ends, anything goes. And with the stakes so high and the archetypes so clearly established, Stranger Things fans have a lot to think about and prepare for a heartbreaking death.