Stranger Things Season 4 Villain Named After Dungeons and Dragons God

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Stranger Things fans have been waiting years for the fourth season of the popular sci-fi horror show, and now the wait is nearly at an end. Stranger Things Season 4 will premiere on Netflix come May 27 with its first batch of episodes. In anticipation of the Stranger Things Season 4 premiere, Netflix has been ramping up marketing for the show, releasing trailers and detailing the new villain, Vecna.

Stranger Things Season 4 villain Vecna looks to be a rather gruesome foe, with fans getting a glimpse of him in the latest trailer. The Stranger Things Season 4 trailer itself stopped short of revealing Vecna's name, but it has since been confirmed by series creators The Duffer Brothers and Netflix. What may interest gamers about Vecna's name is that it's actually named after a Dungeons & Dragons character.

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Dungeons & Dragons fans will recognize Vecna as an extremely powerful lich god, who was the source of two items in the tabletop role-playing game: the Eye of Vecna and the Hand of Vecna. Choosing to name this new villain after Vecna may clue fans in on what to expect from the monster in Stranger Things Season 4, and it should be noted that this is far from the first time that the show has referenced D&D.

Dungeons & Dragons has been heavily featured in Stranger Things over the years, with it used as a storytelling tool and to help the kids of Hawkins, Indiana make sense of the strange goings-on that they keep encountering. As some Stranger Things fans may recall, the Demogorgon monster from the first season of the show also got its name from Dungeons & Dragons, as did the Mind Flayer, so it's no surprise to see this trend continue in Season 4.

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