After three years of waiting, “Stranger Things” has returned to Netflix with its fourth season. As they anticipated with their official previews, the series transports us to Hawkins, California and even Russia in its tangle of mysteries, which in this case has a new antagonist: ‘neighbor’the name that Dustin and company gave to the enemy that has been murdering several inhabitants of the town.
However, beyond the villain, the recently released episodes also showed us, with music from the memory included, one of the great mysteries that has surrounded the production since its inception: the past of Eleven. Clearly the Duffer brothers, creators of the title, did not stitch without a thread and revealed to us who the terrifying monster is and its shocking origins.
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Who is ‘Vecna’?
Specifically, ‘Vecna’ is the nickname the boys gave their new enemy, based on one of the characters from the Dungeons and Dragons game. However, the true identity of this being hides a darker and more disturbing story.
Initially we were shown that Victor Creel He was responsible for a bloody family massacre: he was found guilty of the death of his wife and two children, shortly after arriving at his new home. He was taken to a psychiatric center after explaining that the murders were committed by demons.
The Police did not believe him, and the case was closed as a cruel outcome perpetrated by a mental patient. But the truth is totally different since the real cause of everything was Henry, Victor’s son, and who would later adopt the monstrous appearance that we see in “Stranger things”.
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‘Vecna’ and her relationship with Eleven
Now that we know that ‘Vecna’ is Henry, his relationship hides an unexpected connection to Eleven; and so they showed it to us little by little, until in chapter 7 of this fourth season everything makes sense.
At first they hinted that Eleven had murdered everyone in the Hawkins Laboratory while she was confined there. However, the one who started the string of homicides was the blond-haired young man who was helping Eleven, whom she approached, since he said he had been with 001 for a long time and that she reminded him of her old friend.
But the truth is the boy, 001, Henry Creel and ‘Vecna’ ARE THE SAME PERSON! Yes, just as you read it. Henry began to develop psychic abilities from a very young age and had ‘easy prey’: he killed rabbits, squirrels and birds in his twisted training.
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The central day came when he eliminated his mother and sister, and tried to do the same with his father, but fell unconscious. Upon awakening, he became a test subject of the doctor Martin Brennerthe same one that Eleven calls father and who commands the Laboratory of Hawkins, in which all his recruits are raised as brothers.
Fascinated by what Henry could do, Brenner begins to study how and why little Creel had these abilities. This is how he names him 001 and begins his revolutionary plan, to which Jane would arrive years later, renamed 011.
By the time ‘Ce’ escalates her lessons, Henry, now an adult, becomes her ‘ally’ and tells her that he will help her out. When she is about to run away from her, he tells her that she must get out of it on her own because he is carrying a device (which seems to have disabled her powers, as well as being a tracker).
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Eleven takes out that kind of chip and they both prepare their escape from the guards, who have just discovered them. They manage to get away, until they enter a room and Henry tells him to wait there. Everything sounds bad, since the subject left her there to go kill whoever is unlucky enough to cross his path.
In the end, Eleven discovers the massacre and confronts 001. In his psychological duel, ‘El’ is about to become another victim, until he gains strength and puts his opponent against the wall. In this way, with a cry of power and nosebleed included, the protagonist ‘creates’ the Upside Down as a prison for Henry.
In the midst of his fall and the red nebula that characterizes this parallel world, Creel is hit by lightning that gradually transforms his appearance until he transforms into ‘Vecna’.
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