Did Eleven Create The Upside Down? Stranger Things Star Gives Definitive Answer
Warning: SPOILERS lie ahead for Stranger Things season 4.
Stranger Things season 4 raised the debate of whether Eleven created the Upside Down and star Millie Bobby Brown has offered a definitive answer to the question. The latest season of the hit Netflix series picked up six months after the events of season 3 as Eleven and the Byers are adjusting to life in California without their friends and family. Meanwhile, those still living in Hawkins, Indiana find themselves under threat of a dangerous new force killing teenagers in terrifying fashion with seeming ties to the Upside Down.
The latest Stranger Things season saw a number of major reveals throughout its first seven episodes, including how Hopper survived and was subsequently captured by the Russians and the true nature of the heavily promoted Creel house. One of the biggest reveals were the flashbacks in episode 7 that saw Eleven facing off against Jamie Campbell Bower's Henry Creel at the Hawkins lab after he massacred the other children in his drive to murder those involved with Dr. Brenner's experiments. Eleven would narrowly defeat Henry and send him to the Upside Down, opening the first doorway to the terrifying dimension and putting the events of both the series and season in motion.
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In a recent interview with Variety for the hit series, Millie Bobby Brown shared her thoughts on the Stranger Things season 4 reveal that Eleven opened the original portal to the Upside Down. When asked whether she was responsible for creating the alternate dimension, Brown offered a definitive answer to the debate that Eleven did not create the Upside Down and that her answer comes from the Duffer Brothers
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