Only in episode five, when she directs the compass away from the laboratory, does she deliberately attempt to sabotage their efforts to find their friend and uncover the mysteries of the Upside Down. Dustin finally realized Dart was evil after the creature escaped from its tank and. Unlike the Spider Monster, the Hospital Monster did not resemble the Mind Flayer but rather had a more asymmetrical appearance. We discover more toward the end of Season 1 during a flashback, when Elle touches the faceless creature for the first time through a sensory tank at a government lab. Although she successfully eavesdropped on a as instructed, she unwittingly came across the Monster. Because, seriously, what kind of monster doesn't love a good Eggo? It is unknown whether the creature was attracted by other stimuli, though one distinct possibility is sound: when Nancy ventured into the Upside Down, the Demogorgon was unaware of her presence until she made noise.
As soon as the monster is huge, and screaming, and visible, there's nothing left to fear. They never really explain the chemicals. So, does this theory check out? Will's next vision took place at , shortly after he encountered in the bathroom. We have a few guesses. Eleven feels the effects of the bite but removes the piece of the Mind Flayer that was inside her leg. I'll give you a clue though: there's is a very famous sequence of movement and button presses created by Konami that will do the trick.
It's excitingâwho can resist watching the next episode as soon as the previous one ends? Will found himself in the Upside Down once more, standing in the school corridor. With her psychic powers, strong fashion sense, and E. So what did you think of the mindflayer this season? Maybe for good this time, the Mind Flayer is dead. In the summer of 1985, a secret Russian operation located beneath Hawkins' newly-built successfully opened into the Upside Down. Jonathan and Nancy were the ones to team up against the monster and Steve only barged in on their plot unwittingly at the last minute.
It keeps its victims, Will and Barb included, in a plant-like web that feeds on the trapped humans â but may or may not keep them in a dream state. It looks not unlike what you might imagine fatbergs to be before they congeal into a solid, inconvenient mass. Clips from the teaser suggest to fans that Will has some connection with the giant Season 2 monster shown there. To summarize, this gigantic tentacled creature is named as the mindflayer in a different physical form, it takes over humans and rodents alike to do its bidding and is really hard to kill. However, Hopper speculates that the miscarriage could have been a cover-up. Stranger Things season 3, episode 6 shows us that the mindflayer can melt down to goo at will and reconstitute itself when it wants. And even though Eleven seemingly sealed the gate to the Upside Down at the end of Season 2, the Mind Flayer isn't really goneâas we saw from the final scene of Season 2, the monster is waiting at the Hawkins Middle School site in the Upside Down.
Named after the Dungeons + Dragons monster, the Mind Flayer is a monster that possesses a host, and uses its body as a vessel to carry out its evil. Screen Rant â Privacy Policy We respect your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy while online at our site. Upon killing them, their bodies dissolved into organic masses of flesh which flowed down a hallway and merged. However, he saw a red light illuminating the walls of his house. As , , Will, and grab hold of Eleven, Nancy tries shooting at the Mind Flayer to no avail until chops off the tentacle with an ax but the Mind Flayer had managed to bite Eleven. It centers hints in Season 1 that maybe Hopper's memory of his daughter Sarah's death from cancer isn't really what happened, but a lie he tells himself.
Will brings the name to the creature when he says the mindflayer is back and he can feel him. It plays a lot like the classic Dig Dug. Growing UpOn top of being a deadly creature that stalks our protagonists, the monsters usually act as a metaphor for the main themes of the season. Others become part of the Flayed, including likely from Tom, other members of the Hawkins post may have been Flayed as well , other men, women, and children to become part of the Flayed at an unknown time. So they have Joyce Byers Winona Ryder turn the keys in the Russian underground lab to stop that machine from pumping energy into the void, thereby closing the gate to the Upside Down. Gibbering Mouthers are the result of a failed science experiment. Another similar monster is the Xorn.
Above all, it's entertainingâbut that entertainment comes from a number of different venues. Like most fan theories, believing that Eleven is the monster on Stranger Things requires interpreting many symbolic, thematic, and metaphoric elements of the story as literally as possible. Very much like a shark, it drags its prey back into its home, where it feeds. The theory goes on to speculate that Will, seemingly infected by the upside-down, could also be a creature of the Thessalhydra â or maybe even the start of the hydra itself. How the Mind Flayer's proxy gained this ability is unclear, but it is possible that the chemicals the Flayed ingested played a part. The Mind Flayer retaliated by stabbing Billy with his tentacles, mortally wounding him. It also sounds like Sheriff Hopper David Harbour has been covering up the circumstances of Barb's death and Will's disappearance to protect the Byers family.
The only one who can stop Monster Will is Eleven This one just makes some thematic sense from a narrative standpoint, but it stands to reason that if Will has been taken in by the monster-ness of the Upside Down, Eleven is the only person equipped to deal with it. It starts pulsing and is either taking something from their minds or inserting something into them. For superhero junkies, that number set a fire in their brains -- and it's safe to assume the Duffer Brothers wanted comics-savvy viewers to make that connection. This was possibly done because of budget limitations or time constraints. The boys figure the monster out using the D+D lore where it earns the 'Mind Flayer' moniker.
She noted that the solitary nature of the creature was similar to that of a bear. So what does the Tarrasque represent? And images from the teaser look like the could confirm it. Not exactly the gigantic multi-tentacled thing we are given but close enough that it may have been the only creature name to come to mind to the kids, given what they had as a reference. The Mind Flayer, via the mist creature, immediately summoned hordes of rats to the Steel Works, melting down their bodies and creating the Proxy Body. The storm is possibly based on the Mind Flayer's emotions, as at the end of , the Mind Flayer was seen looming over Hawkins Middle School, seething with anger. Unlike the first Gate, the new breach was too small to let through and ; however, it was still wide enough for the Mind Flayer to renew his telepathic link with the isolated piece of himself at Brimborn Steel Works.
At the tail end of Season one, one of these bad boys got totally roasted literally by Nancy, Jonathan, and Steve, when they fought it for a little while before defeating it by lighting it on fire. Will hid behind a wall, unaware that the creature was close behind him. Netflix What is the Mind Flayer? What provides those thrills, of course, comes from the supernatural element of the show. He takes Heather to the tentacled thing at the end of episode 2 and we get our first real glimpse of the creature. The Upside Down looks like Hawkins because it's just an alternate version of the town where people live.