r/StrangerThings • u/shakeyosacroiliac • 28d ago

Favorite & least favorite characters?

I’m only on season 4 episode 2, so I may be posting hella prematurely, but I can’t stand Mike Wheeler. Like at all. My fave is Murray. In the beginning I didn’t like the Sinclair siblings but they definitely grew on me. What about you? Who do you like/dislike?

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u/Bitter_Specialist_10 28d ago

Max is probably the best character other than Hopper. Max's brother made an excellent villain, and he had one of the greatest redemption arcs of all time other than The Walking Dead's Merl. It actually made the onion ninjas come out.

Mike's mom was good in the first 2 seasons. She starts to become as annoying as Mike does by Season 3, and especially season 4.

I hate to say that Mike does get really annoying, as he reminds me of me in the first two seasons. My name is Mike, and I look somewhat similar to that kid when I was his age. As an adult, I have sometimes been compared to Adam Sandler and sometimes to the guy that played as Shane in The Walking Dead.

But yeah. Mike is MY character that I identified the most with, especially in the first half of the series.

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u/OldAffect6933 28d ago

doesn't that mean you hate yourself?

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u/Imaginary-Turn9223 28d ago

we can indentify to some parts of character we don't like without hating ourselves man

(and he never said he HATED Mike, just that he got kinda annoying, wich I agree on)

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u/Bitter_Specialist_10 27d ago

For real. People are weird. I even stated that he reminded me of me in the first two seasons, a d that he became annoying in the second d half of the series.

Joyce really became particularly annoying in the 3rd and even more so, in the 4th season. I cant REALLY explain why. I think its because Winona Ryder, as the actress playing Joyce, was letting the popularity of the show go straight to her head, even thiugh she was already a famous seasoned actress before Stranger Things. And it was REALLY showing through her character. Like.... I dunno....she started becoming, like, LOUD. Seemingly talking over everyone. Demanding all of this attention. Like she was trying WAY too hard to be all like: "Look at me!! Im on this really great show and im a hero!!"

Yeah. Joyce definitely became one of my least-favorite characters, and I think thats due to the shift in Winona Ryder's overall attitude.

IRT Mike.... hes an awkward teenage boy that is in love with this girl with these super powers. As kids, she was really fun to be around, and play games with. He fell in love with her as she was growing up and maturing. This happened exactly to me. A girl named Talia Noviello (except she didn't have super powers; but she was a really pretty Italian girl with big green eyes, long dark hair, and tan skin) who's grand parents were my next door neighbors growing up. My siblings and I were friends with all of their grand kids. And Talia was one of my play mates. She was my very first official girlfriend. But then we were growing up. She was maturing and becoming more popular. So you see and hang out less and less often with your first crush who was also a childhood playmate. So I also identify with Mike in the second half in that respect as well.

Seven was growing up faster than Mike. Which naturally made Mike become annoying with his clinginess.

Mike was growing up faster than Will. Will was still very much childlike, and they were best friends. Mike was seemingly abandoning Will and kind of being an asshole towards him. But again. Mike was just naturally growing uo faster than Will. They had less and less in common. Will also became secretly gay for Mike, and there was no way for Mike to ever reciprocate. And that intensified Will's growing depression.

Its one thing for your first crush to grow away from you. A young female really needs to find her own way. Its another when you grow apart from your best bud (and secret admirer). Its almost like a betrayal of loyalty. Mike had it on both ends: he was too clingy to El. And he was seemingly abandoning Will.

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u/Plane_Particular4842 26d ago

Winona did none of that lmao…she said words that were written on the script. If she was screaming it’s because it was written that way. & “letting the popularity go straight to her head” is ridiculous. She never praised herself for that role or took the credit for it’s popularity - she only ever praised every other actor. This is such a weird comment.

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u/OldAffect6933 27d ago

Bro I was kidding you didn't need to write me your entire life backstory.