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Eleven mistakes Mike for being her brother, but Mike goes on to try and explain what it would be like instead. Fumbling with his words, he decides to kiss her instead. She is stunned, but happy.
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Mike's immediate instinct to take care of her and show her kindness makes Eleven form an attachment to him. Even though both characters are young enough to have romance far from their minds, it's pretty clear to the audience that that's where Mike and Eleven's relationship is headed.
Season 3. As Mike and Eleven's romance starts to get a bit more serious, Hopper becomes upset that they're spending so much time together. The sheriff then threatens Mike so that he'll stop spending time with her. After Mike complies and lies to El about why he's avoiding her, she dumps him.
Now that Stranger Things season 4 has confirmed not only Will's queerness, but also his unrequited love for Mike, it's certainly interesting to look at their relationship in retrospect. Surely, Will's feelings for his best friend didn't come out of nowhere.
He was simply waiting for the scene in one of the final episodes of season 4 in which Will passionately describes Eleven's intense love for Mike, who's completely unaware that Will is really speaking about himself.
He's a kid with a lot of emotions that he never learned how to express with words or say something as vulnerable as "I love you", and thus expresses his feelings with actions instead. The difference between Eleven and Mike is clear.
Mike had always hero-worshiped Eleven because of her powers, and Eleven clearly felt the weight of living up to his expectations. This led her to lie to Mike in her letters, pretending she was fitting in at school in California and had made lots of friends.
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This all backfires, resulting in Mike distancing himself from El after being low-key ousted by Hop, and the two end up breaking up in episode 2. They remain together throughout the season but not together together.
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Instead, he threatens Mike and makes him feel like he's not welcome at his house. Because of this, Mike starts avoiding Eleven because he doesn't know what to do. She gets upset, but they eventually get back together at the end of season 3 and even share their true feelings for each other.
Now actor Noah Schnapp, who plays Will, revealed to Variety that his character is indeed gay, and secretly has feelings for his best friend, Mike, who's in a relationship with Eleven.
Noah confirmed that Will is in love with his best friend Mike Wheeler, played by Finn Wolfhard, but doesn't want to hurt Eleven's feelings by confessing it. Noah also said that he is hoping for Will to have a coming-out scene in the fifth and last season of the Netflix show.
Mike and Eleven have been the couple to root for from the start. After everything they've been through, Season 4 proved that not even a long-distance relationship could dent their relationship.
Eleven lost her powers at the end of Season 3, when she held-off The Mind Flayer. During one of her many encounters with it, Eleven was bitten by the shadowy demon, which leaves a parasitic piece of it wiggling around Hawkins, Indiana.
Others have celebrated major milestones, like Millie Bobby Brown. The actress, who plays Eleven on the show, recently hinted at an engagement to her boyfriend Jake Bongiovi, whom she first sparked romance rumors with in June 2021.
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Understanding this, Millie said: "Oh he's not a good friend. There's not much I can say about that. Although Finn, he's a great friend. He's the bestest friend." When a fan said it was also bad that Mike wouldn't tell El he loves her, Millie said: "Oh yeah, what's wrong with that?!
"I think you find out slowly through the season, Will's kind of love towards Mike and I think it's a really beautiful thing."
Mike's speech to Eleven is powerful enough to spur Eleven to fight Vecna, with her regaining new confidence after Mike tells Eleven he loves her.
Mike is deeply concerned for Eleven's safety at that juncture, making his brain laser-focused on nothing else. With that in mind, his non-reaction to Will's crying is fairly understandable.
Technically, it was Hopper and not the Mind Flayer who caused their breakup after he failed to give Mike and Eleven his speech and blew up on him while driving him back. She also said that she was pretty open with everyone about how she felt about their big breakup.