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.
After being pushed away by Mike, Eleven breaks up with him and spends some much-needed girl time with her new BFF Max. They later reconcile after Mike reveals that he only avoided Eleven because Hopper had threatened him and tells El he loves her which she reciprocates.
Mike finally says that he loves her. In the Void, El becomes emotional when Mike tells her he has always loved her, and that he was afraid to say it out of fear that if El ever left him, it would make that day hurt even more.
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.
"Now it's 100% clear that he is gay and he does love Mike. But before, it was a slow arc. I think it is done so beautifully, because it's so easy to make a character just like all of a sudden be gay," he shared.
Noah Schnapp CONFIRMS his Stranger Things character Will Byers 'is gay and he does love Mike Wheeler' | PINKVILLA.
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.
Unfortunately, no, she is not alive. But let's face it — given her particularly gruesome ending in the season 3 finale, the odds of her coming back to life were pretty slim. Showrunner Sera Gamble even confirmed her death back in October 2021. “She is lying there [dead].
Do Eleven and Mike reunite in Stranger Things season 4 part 2? After getting split up in part 1, Eleven and Mike do indeed reunite when the California crew follows the coordinates Suzie gave them and finds Eleven's location.
Sharing more about Eleven's real father Andrew Rich could be a great way to wrap up the story.
Angela was possibly inspired by Stephen King's Carrie character Chris Hargensen, as they like bullying the protagonist, who happens to possess telekinetic powers (Angela is bullying Eleven, and Chris is bullying Carrie White). Angela vaguely parallels Two, who also bullied Eleven and would later receive punishment.
Mike and Eleven ultimately might break up because he doesn't know how to express feelings or acts of love directly to El, because he has never seen his parents act lovingly towards one another—on top of the general awkwardness of being a teenager with intense emotions.
“It was always kind of there, but you never really knew, is it just him growing up slower than his friends?” Schnapp said in a new interview with Variety. “Now that he's gotten older, they made it a very real, obvious thing. Now it's 100% clear that he is gay and he does love Mike. But before, it was a slow arc.
However, Mike and El's break-up being played for laughs was one of the biggest missteps in the season, as Mike's boorish season 3 persona led El to drop him for being overbearing.
Unfortunately, no, she is not alive. But let's face it — given her particularly gruesome ending in the season 3 finale, the odds of her coming back to life were pretty slim. Showrunner Sera Gamble even confirmed her death back in October 2021.
Her death took place off-screen, and Joe framed Dr. Nicky (Beck's therapist with whom she had an affair) for her murder. However, in episode 2 of season 2, Beck returned as a hallucination in Joe's mind. Severe bruising around her neck revealed that Joe choked her to death.
So, what is the truth, does Rhys have a twin? Well, the answer is no. As many fans had already theorised, Joe's interactions with Rhys in You season 4 are all hallucinations.
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.
Many people believe that Max is basically a female version of Mike, and that's why he has a problem with her. Others argue that Mike hates her because "she is not Eleven." Some even suggest that her friendship with Eleven irked Mike even more — not least due to his fear of losing his "authority" over his girlfriend.
Lonnie Byers is a minor antagonist in the first season of the Netflix original series Stranger Things. He is Joyce Byers' ex-husband, as well as the estranged and neglectful father of their two sons, Jonathan and Will.
Byler is confirmed by the Stranger Things writers.
But for those who still weren't sure, Noah has now officially confirmed it. In a new interview Variety, Noah has confirmed that Will is gay, and that he is in love with Mike Wheeler.