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But, although plenty of characters are collateral damage, the one person he's really after is Eleven. As Billy explains to her, everything this creature does is motivated by his desire to destroy everything close to her because the Upside Down can't be stopped unless Eleven becomes part of it.
Using his abilities, Henry formed a psychic connection to the particles. He used his powers to reconstitute the mist-organism into a form that satisfied him: a giant, spider-like entity with a flame-shaped head, not unlike a similar fantasy creature he had imagined as a child.
How is Vecna and the Mind Flayer connected? Vecna revealed in season four, he was the one who created the Mind Flayer after Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) banished him to the Upside Down. All this time, the Mind Flayer was Vecna, who was using the entity to carry out his orders and speaking through the creature.
In order to spread the influence of the Upside Down into our world, Vecna used his vast psychic powers to seize control of the hivemind that bound all the creatures of the Upside Down together. In the process, he binds together the falling ash of the Upside Down into the body of the Mind Flayer.
The many-legged creature manipulates and controls people's minds, but Vecna may be even deadlier. Fans of Stranger Things claim that Vecna is stronger than the Mind Flayer. Some claim that Vecna, in fact, made the creature because he said in Season 4, “And I found the most extraordinary thing of all.
Millie Bobby Brown spoke about this in an interview with Variety in 2022. When the actress was asked if the Duffer Brothers explained that Eleven creates the Upside Down when she interacts with 001, she said, "They did tell me. She does. She opens the rift."
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.
Vecna successfully stole Eleven's powers when controlling the Mind Flayer in Stranger Things' season 3 ending, which finally allowed him to emerge stronger than Eleven and enact his plan to take over Hawkins with the Upside Down.
The theory predicts that Vecna wants to regain his human form, and he will use Will to do so in Season 5. Knowing that Vecna singled out Will in Season 1, it's a reasonable theory, but it might go too far. After all, Vecna already has a human form, and he has vowed to eliminate humanity.
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.
Henry Creel, also known as One (001), Vecna, or the Mind Flayer, is the main antagonist of the Netflix original series Stranger Things.
The Mind Flayer persisted, but was overwhelmed by El's powers forcing him to retreat back into the Gate. El then sealed it, and the Mind Flayer is heard roaring in anger and defeat afterwards. The closure of the gate resulted in his influence over the Demodogs, and D'Artagnan, to cease and they all died instantly.
2 Mind Flayers Do Have Weaknesses
In fact, their own psionics can be their greatest downfall. Mind Flayers can get an illness known as “the ashen” that seems flu-like at first. It gives them dry, beige skin, impaired mental operations, and ghosts in the machine (remnants of the host body's mind).
Eleven was born in 1971, meaning that Ives was pregnant with her while she was still involved with MKUltra. The Stranger Things prequel novel Suspicious Minds reveals that Eleven's father is a man named Andrew Rich, who was dating Ives during her time with MKUltra until his death fighting in the Vietnam War.
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.
Following Eleven's resistance, Vecna sought after Eleven's 'power', which he identified as "a means to open [his] own doors" (gates).
In the final episode of Stranger Things 4 Volume 1, it's revealed that Vecna isn't native to the Upside Down, but was banished there by Eleven after he gruesomely massacred the Hawkins National Lab.
One Steals Eleven's Powers
Just as Henry could see into the minds of others, from the Upside Down Vecna can still see into people. The vines of the dark dimension, which have made their way to the real world, connect directly into his body.
Eleven Was Taught To Access Her Powers Using Lessons Learned From Vecna. Eleven was raised at Hawkins Lab, one of several children granted powers as a result of Dr. Brenner's twisted experiments.
Remember also that we have evidence that powers can be inherited -- El inherited her powers from Terri Ives, for example. So it stands to reason that Henry inherited his powers from one of his parents.
He gets punished with electrocution after telling Eleven that Dr. Brenner lied to her about her mother dying during childbirth. He's smart enough to use an ostensibly harmless game of chess with Eleven to inform her Dr.
As the Duffer Brothers explained in an interview with Variety, the Massacre at Hawkins Lab was so traumatic for Eleven that she effectively blocked out all memories from 1979 and earlier. That's why her grammar was so limited again, and we saw in flashbacks that she had to be re-trained to use basic powers.
As well as befriending Eleven in order to gain her trust so she would remove his Soteria implant, we learn in the final episode that 001 initially spared El because he wanted her to join him. He viewed her as an ally rather than an enemy because they were "alike".