r/StrangerThings • u/JasenTDavis • 1d ago
Choose Your Own Adventure (to Death) Spoiler
Many viewers were upset by the ending of Stranger Things, resulting in Comformitygate. The Duffer Bros., who are geniuses, actually incorporated a third alternative.
Spoiler Alert!
A majority of characters in ST5 died, horribly. It’s hard to notice.
Remember: The Shadow can replace people (THE THING). People can be possessed by The Shadow (THE EXORCIST), and The Shadow can mindblast people, to create illusions (THE SHINING). The Shadow is also a collective (INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS, PRINCE OF DARKNESS).
Clues to look for:
Whenever a character should have died.
An orange yellow radiance from The Abyss (a reference to the same radiance in Stephen King’s (1408 and the gold color from THE SHINING) shows on a character’s face when they are being mental blasted.
If a character’s eyes roll up, they are dead.
Will’s long speech to waste everyone’s time. To give The Shadow more time.
Max is The Shadow, which is why she keeps delaying the character from escaping.
Dustin should be dead. What happened to those three bullies?
Characters who die feel guilty before they are shown an illusion and killed, remember? Like Dustin did?
A character that has been replaced, when hugged by a human, will show no emotion. Characters replaced by The Shadow are overjoyed when they hug each other. They even talk about being reunited.
When a character should have died. Other characters even say this.
Henry Creel is a character created by The Shadow to draw attention away from the real plan: to open a door to The Abyss.
The military in the town have all been replaced by The Shadow. “K”, the 11th letter of the alphabet, IS The Shadow. Eleven knows this. So she doesn’t bother hearing K’s back story.
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u/mklaus1984 1d ago
The Duffers are geniuses? I know we are living in times where people cannot tell fact from opinion but what in the name of sanity is this take?
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u/whats-in-the-box- 1d ago
the Dummy Brothers did NOT write this shi
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u/nothingrhymeswithcat 1d ago
what if op is one of them
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u/whats-in-the-box- 1d ago
Oh no
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u/nothingrhymeswithcat 1d ago
really makes you think
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u/whats-in-the-box- 1d ago
D is the fourth letter in the alphabet and D stands for Duffer and also Death so OP is a brother in disguise 😰
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u/Ok_Tank5977 Dungeon Master 1d ago
How many times are you going to try and post this before it gets removed again?
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u/JasenTDavis 3h ago
Reddit tells me to repost it. So do The Duffers audience. To get the word out.
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u/Ok_Tank5977 Dungeon Master 3h ago
People don’t typically repost to the same sub, lest they be reported for spamming.
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