We’re taking a look at the show’s new villain and who he is.
Stranger Things is finally back with Season 4 of the Netflix show.
So we’re giving a breakdown of who Vecna is and what he might want.
Warning: There are a lot of spoilers coming for Part 1 of Season 4 of Stranger Things.
Eventually, Vecna came back as a demigod, thanks to the cult that rose up in his absence.
And a team of adventurers dispatched him and reduced his powers.
Vecna was living on another plane–the Upside Down–when he rose to power again.
But let’s get into a bit more detail about the Stranger Things’s version of Vecna.
Henry was the son of Victor Creel (Robert Englund), the man who supposedly murdered his family.
He had natural telekinetic abilities–much more powerful than anything else we’ve seen.
Henry felt his family was living a lie, so he got into their minds, driving them mad.
So he decided to kill his mother.
He then killed his sister and passed out into a coma.
His father, Victor, was blamed for the two deaths.
Henry later explains that the people he kill become part of him, making him stronger.
Hawkins Lab
Henry woke up in the Hawkins Lab under the watch of Dr. Martin Brenner.
Brenner wanted to control Henry and his powers, but couldn’t do so.
Henry became 001 in the program.
The chip is removed, but the two are cornered by the lab security.
This is where Henry utilizes his powers to kill everyone he sees in the lab.
Eleven feels completely betrayed by this, as she’s the only other survivor from her program.
Henry wants to work with Eleven to rule the world.
Eleven denies the proposal, and the two have a battle of the brains.
What’s left in his place is a portal to the Upside Down.
Brennen enters the room, sees Eleven standing there, and assumes that she killed everyone.
This is where he becomes Vecna.
And he has extended powers that help tie all the seasons together a little bit better.
He’s our ultimate adversary–or Eleven’s ultimate adversary, at least.
He’s also, I think, the scariest villain that we’ve faced.
Vecna goes on the hunt from the Upside Down, invading people’s minds in the real world.
He kills the cheerleader Chrissy in Episode 1 and then the young boy Fred in Episode 2.
And we won’t know that until Episodes 8 and 9 arrive on July 1.
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