Vecna Secretly Inspired Eleven's First Victims In Stranger Things
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things 4, Vol.1
Traces of the new Stranger Things villain, Vecna, can surprisingly be found right back in season 1, even inspiring Eleven's first victims. Officially introduced by name in Stranger Things season 4, Vecna is the abominable new foe of Hawkins, being likened to the high dark wizard of Dungeons & Dragons. Vecna targets Hawkins' traumatized teenagers, and even got close to claiming the group's very own Max Mayfield. Despite Vecna's sinister nature, he secretly inspired Eleven's first victims, and even helped to defeat them.
When Eleven escapes Hawkins Lab in season 1 she is hunted relentlessly, and Dr Brenner and his agents will stop at nothing to get her back. They even kill innocents in their wake, including Benny, who was likely the first adult to ever show Eleven true kindness. As the agents zero in on her location, Eleven becomes desperate in the Stranger Things season 1 finale when she and her friends are surrounded, but then she seems to remember something of Vecna/Number One and the lab massacre that helps her to defeat them.
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Eleven used her powers on people before to defend herself, such as the unconscious agents in Benny's diner, and flipping the van. However, the first time audiences really see her intentionally attack someone is in the Hawkins Middle School stand-off, and she uses a Vecna trademark. In a hallway, agents surround her and her friends, but then Eleven uses her powers to defeat them. The agents start bleeding from their eyes, and then drop dead. Crucially, in Stranger Things canon, audiences now know that the first time this torturous technique was used was by
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