The two characters didn't meet until the 8th episode in the second season of the show. Max and Eleven didn't get along when they first met, because Eleven was under the impression that Max liked Finn Wolfhard's character
That First Undercurrent Of Jealousy
When Eleven first saw Max, she was skateboarding around Mike in the school's gymnasium. Eleven mistakenly thought that Max had replaced her in Mike's affections. The look of jealousy on Eleven's face said it all. She was livid.
Eleven and Max have always had a special friendship on Stranger Things, and this is why it's smart to have Eleven bring Max back to life. While it's moving to watch the other characters team up to save Max from Vecna the first time, it's special seeing Eleven help her the second time.
Eleven and Max had significantly developed in season 3, showing them as coming into a friendship of their own and showing they care about each other. Season 4 seemed to have other plans, mostly having Eleven focus on her relationship with Mike while Max dealt with the horrors of Hawkins.
This technical death triggered the opening of the fourth and final curse gate, wreaking havoc across Hawkins. However, Eleven used her abilities to restart Max's heart. She was brought back to life, but remained comatose, teetering on the boundary between life and death.
As Vecna continued to go after young victims in order to open more portals, he set his sights on Max Mayfield, since she was investigating the deaths of Chrissy and another student named Fred Benson with help from her friends (including Dustin, Steve, and her boyfriend Lucas).
Max and Eleven didn't get along when they first met, because Eleven was under the impression that Max liked Finn Wolfhard's character Mike. It wasn't until the third season we saw Max and Eleven bond and eventually become friends. But many fans speculate that the two characters are meant to be more than friends.
Mileven is the het ship between Jane "Eleven" Hopper and Mike Wheeler from the Stranger Things fandom.
Once El realizes that Mike is talking to another girl, her demeanor shifts. The loving glow from seeing Mike is replaced by burning jealousy that she expresses by using her powers to pull Max's skateboard out from under her, causing her to fall.
The ship sailed mainly due to the girls' friendship that appeared in Season 3. Fans enjoyed the way that Max helped Eleven grow as a person and realize that she didn't need "stupid boys".
Inside Max's mind, Eleven reaches out to her friend and tells her she can't go yet, and Eleven manages to somehow use her powers to bring Max back from the dead.
He takes everything from his victims. In this case, the "everything" Vecna took was what makes Max the person her friends know and love. The moment she died, Max's essence left her body and became the property of Vecna, explaining why Max is not there to greet Eleven inside her own mind.
But while Eleven shined in offense, she just had no answer to Max's power; time travel. With Max's time-stopping ability keeping her alive, she could survive anything Eleven threw at her and manipulate time long enough to get close and land that one good hit she'd need.
Best: Max And Eleven
But fast forward to the third season, and Eleven put that all behind them and started a great friendship with the spunky Max. Max helped to bring out a fun and carefree side of Eleven that we had never seen before.
She's powerless and trying to fit in at a new school and she's trying to understand who she is and where she came from. She's struggling with her identity and this is the darkest state she's ever been in. She's sad and I had to cry a lot. It was extremely difficult for me to cry so much!"
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.
Now that he's gotten older, they made it a very real, obvious thing,” the actor explained. “Now it's 100% clear that he is gay and he does love Mike.
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.
In the first season of Stranger Things, Mike (Wolfhard) and Eleven (Brown) formed a bond that felt like a little more than friends. By the eighth episode, their chemistry was palpable and it led to a perfectly awkward first kiss that neither of them would forget. At the time, Wolfhard was 12 and Brown was 11.
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.
Mike doesn't have any interest in Will, though. Mike, thoughts he's far from a good boyfriend, shows far more interest in Eleven than he does in Will.
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.
In the episodes leading up to his death, Billy was consistently abusive towards Max and her friends. Max says she “wanted him out of her life” and she is undeniably valid in feeling that way because of his actions.
As a result of trauma and repressing those memories, coupled with the fact that she was then raised in complete isolation (until 1983, when she escaped), El lost the ability to speak in the way that she used to as a young child.