Stranger Things: Why Will Might Be Even More Important In Season 5

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Warning: The following contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season 4.With its extra-long Season 4, Stranger Things is barreling toward a Season 5 conclusion. Though audiences likely won’t see that conclusion until at least 2024, many are speculating as to just what it could entail. With all the main players in the story finally back in Hawkins, they can unite to fight against Vecna taking over the world.

Much of the series to this point has relied on Eleven being the only one able to battle the creatures from the Upside Down, and in Season 4, Henry-Creel-turned-Vecna. That may not be entirely true though. Stranger Things, after all, has kept a lot of Will Byers’ potential hidden. Some fans have complained that since his return from going missing in the first season, the character has largely been sidelined. When following his character arc throughout the first four seasons, however, it looks like Will is going to be very important in Season 5. He might even be instrumental in helping Eleven to defeat Vecna once and for all.

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One of the most interesting thing about Will that other characters have glossed over is that he managed to survive a week in the Upside Down on his own, and find a way to communicate with his mother while doing it. Initially, the audience is led to believe that human beings can’t last long in the Upside Down, that the environment itself is hazardous. While that’s not entirely the case, it still appears difficult to survive there as the creatures that inhabit the Upside Down have a hive mind.

Will managed to avoid being attacked by creatures, avoid alerting vines to his presence, and stay out of Vecna’s clutches. It could be argued that Vecna was