Can Stranger Things Avoid The Game of Thrones Effect?
The following contains spoilers for Season 4 of Stranger Things.
The long-awaited fourth season of Stranger Things has finally wrapped up, and in its wake, fans are already speculating about what might come in the fifth and final season. The finale of Season 4 was pretty intense, and the stakes of every season keep ramping up, so it's safe to assume that Season 5 will be a doozy. With every year that passes, as the main characters get older and the tone of the show gets even darker, Stranger Things seems to be getting more comfortable putting its main characters in danger and even potentially killing some of them off.
While the show is no stranger to killing off the occasional side character, Season 4 was the closest any of the main kids got to death (with Max's final Vecna possession). Even fan-favorite character Eddie Munson wasn't safe from the writers (though they had no way of knowing just how beloved he would become when they wrote in his death). Fans are starting to speculate about which main characters might be killed off in the last season. But does the show need to kill off a main character to raise the stakes?
Stranger Things: Why Will Might Be Even More Important In Season 5
Popular TV shows often get compared to Game of Thrones when fans start discussing potential character deaths. Game of Thrones was known for its character deaths, and not even main characters were safe from being offed at any point to either further the story or (more likely) provide an element of shock value. Because Game of Thrones was so notorious for this, and because it got so popular, other shows apparently started taking notes. It became more and common for main characters to get killed off, and for character deaths to happen in
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