Stranger Things Season 4's Vecna Risks Ruining Upside Down's Horror
The trailer for Stranger Things 4 has revealed the new villain, Vecna, who will attempt to be a proper successor to the Mind Flayer from season 3. With a much more human appearance than the monsters from previous seasons of Stranger Things, Vecna will no doubt pay homage to classic movie villains like Freddy Kreuger from A Nightmare on Elm Street. But a more humanoid monster is likely to have much more understandable goals, making him potentially less alien than previous villains.
Monsters in Stranger Things have always been given nicknames based on the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) games which the main characters are shown playing at the very start of season 1. The monster in season 1 was named after the Demogorgon from the game, a powerful foe who goes by the self-proclaimed title, “Prince of Demons.” The monster succeeding the Demogorgon was even more dangerous, nicknamed the Mind Flayer, an eldritch horror that devours the brains of its enemies and enslaves intelligent beings to use as thralls. Following this theme, Vecna is a D&D monster known as a lich, formerly a powerful human wizard, now a dangerous undead sorcerer. The name Vecna belongs to one particularly dangerous lich, also known as the “Undying King.”
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A potential problem with Vecna is that Stranger Things is best known for incomprehensible and otherworldly horror. The monsters shown on-screen are deeply inhuman. Their horror stems from the fact that there’s so much about them which remains unknown. The true purpose behind the actions of the Demogorgon and Mind Flayer was never truly revealed. This lack of knowledge is a vital part of eldritch horror, popularized by authors
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