They did have little spores and stuff floating in the air." Purser also said that she didn't know that Barb would die at first. She explained, "there was this secrecy about Episode 7, which is the episode where [Chief Hopper] finds Barb's body.
In episode 7, Eleven uses a makeshift sensory deprivation tank to search for Will and Barb in the Upside Down via telepathy, where she finds Barb dead.
Barb's death implied that whatever the slug does didn't take, so the Mind Flayer reached out to Will instead. It could be that the Mind Flayer needed a younger host, or Barb may have simply died while the Demogorgon was attempting to infect her.
Many theorized she was—spoiler alert—still alive and would make it out of the Upside Down, and they had pretty convincing evidence to back the idea up. But unfortunately, Justice for Barb isn't going to happen.
The teens, however, know better: Barb will never be found, because she's dead in the Upside Down. Nancy, especially, can't get past what happened to her friend; she blames herself for Barb's death. Because of that, a rift grows between her and her well-coiffed boyfriend.
Rafael Barba returns for the season finale. Law & Order: SVU will see a familiar face returning to the series for the upcoming season 23 finale as Raúl Esparza returns to reprise his role as Rafael Barba.
He went on to explain that the point of Barb's character was merely to illuminate how vulnerable everyone actually was to the Upside Down and the Demogorgon. Matarazzo continued: "That was what the character was, and I think that bringing her back would kind of defeat the purpose."
They did have little spores and stuff floating in the air." Purser also said that she didn't know that Barb would die at first. She explained, "there was this secrecy about Episode 7, which is the episode where [Chief Hopper] finds Barb's body.
In episode 7, Vecna is revealed to be Henry Creel (played as a youngster by Raphael Luce), the son of Victor Creel (Robert Englund) and his wife Virginia (Tyner Rushing) shown in the 1950s flashbacks.
In Season 4, Barb does make an appearance, though it's arguably her most ghastly cameo yet. In Season 4, Episode 7, Vecna reveals to Nancy (Natalia Dyer) that he has been taken various victims from Hawkins, Indiana into the Upside Down as part of a much bigger plan.
Vecna's first big credited kill was Chrissy Cunningham (Grace Van Dien). He followed that murder with canonically terrible driver Fred Benson (Logan Riley Bruner) and basketball star Patrick McKinney (Myles Truitt). But wait, there's more.
Re-watching the episode where Will Byers goes missing, there is a lot of evidence suggesting that it was Vecna who abducted Will and trapped him in the upside down. Many Stranger Things fans who re-watched the scene pointed out that they could hear the chimes of the grandfather clock.
Trivia. The Demogorgon Dungeons & Dragons figure, used by Eleven to symbolize the Monster. The Demogorgon received its nickname from Eleven using the Demogorgon game piece from a Dungeons & Dragons set to show that Will was hiding from the creature in her vision of The Upside Down.
We meet Barb's parents
("I love KFC," says Steve. Of course he does.) It's clear that Nancy wants to tell Barb's parents that their daughter is dead, but she's sworn to secrecy by the shady government agency that caused her death.
Seeing as Barb served as a symbol of innocence, viewers were upset about her sudden death. A "Justice for Barb" movement came together after the character was killed, and seemingly forgotten by the town by the end of Stranger Things season 1.
Throughout the season, Nancy and Jonathan worked to find out what happened to Barb and Will. Eventually Will's body turned up, but Barb's never did. It's only when Eleven psychically traveled to the Upside Down via a sensory deprivation tank that she saw Barb's decayed body and knew she was dead.
Next up, the viewers go on to theorise that One/Vecna is actually Eleven's dad. Yep, told you it was wild. The theory claims that Brenner wanted to create a child with stronger powers, so he waited until One was old enough to become a father.
At his empire's height, Vecna was betrayed and destroyed by his most trusted lieutenant, a vampire called Kas the Bloody-Handed, using a magical sword that Vecna himself had crafted for him, now known as the Sword of Kas.
While intending to get his revenge on Eleven and Brenner, Vecna also goes after victims who have dealt with traumatizing experiences in the past (reminiscent of his childhood and his time at the Hawkins lab).
The sisters, known as the "little Debbie murderers," do just that — murder their little sister, Debbie. Debbie is a competitive gymnast, so their family relocates all the time for her competitions.
When Jim Hopper and Joyce venture into the Upside Down and find him unconscious, they revive him with CPR and bring him back to the real world, but he still has side effects from his time in the alternate dimension, including a slug emerging from his mouth and visions of the Upside Down.
Chrissy Cunningham
Then her bones started breaking and it became true horror. Of course, she was not the only victim, but as the first, Chrissy's death is easily the most shocking. Along with his human nature, Vecna's brutality in killing Chrissy and the others is what established him as the series' best villain.
Was Will actually taken by Vecna? He was spared from any possessions or abductions in Stranger Things seasons 3 and 4, but the show has confirmed that Will is still connected to the Upside Down's master, Vecna.
It uses Will because of the connection Will has to Eleven, who would be able to open further gateways to parallel universes so the Mind Flayer would be able to continue this cycle nearly indefinitely. As the Redditor continues, it becomes clear why Will could be the Demogorgon.
One reason to dislike Barb, and not just Barb's posthumous popularity, is that she's mean to her friend. She accuses Nancy of not being true to herself, and that's not cool. However, while Nancy gets a chance to defend herself to Jonathan, Barb vanishes.