Death is coming to Hawkins, but who is more likely to meet their end in the last two episodes of the fourth season?
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With Volume 2 of Stranger Things right around the corner and the promise of someone — or multiples someones — dying in the confrontation with Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), there is no doubt that not everyone will make it out of the fourth season.
But who will survive? Who will die? Those are questions we have yet to answer, but it is time to look at who will most likely not make it to the show’s fifth and final season, based on everything we know so far.
Netflix loves a viral marketing campaign for Stranger Things. In the past, the company has worked to create special tie-in ice cream flavors or cans of New Coke. But for the first part of its penultimate season, the streaming service stuck to one of America’s oldest and most efficient forms of advertising: a billboard with the simple message “PROTECT STEVE.”
Now, one would think all the characters on the show would be worth protecting —
unless Netflix has some knowledge we don’t about what’s coming in the final two episodes of Season 4 — or even Season 5.
Is Steve being set up to be the sacrificial lamb?
It certainly makes a lot of sense, Steve has the most emotional ties with the characters currently in Hawkins. He’s Dustin’s mentor, Nancy’s old flame, and Robin’s confidante. He’s beloved by the community as well, so it would be a shocking loss to Hawkins, a town that’s lost many high schoolers very, very recently. Part of what makes the character’s legacy so endearing is that he felt like a minor villain in the very first season, giving off big toxic boyfriend and bully vibes initially. But if Avatar: The Last Airbender’s Zuko has taught us anything, it’s that a compelling redemption story is one of the most satisfying narrative arcs in any piece of speculative fiction.
The fact that Steve has evolved into a de facto babysitter with excellent hair just makes him even more charming. He’s one of the show’s most interesting and loved characters, so his loss would hit viewers hard — so much more so than the hapless Bob or vaguely grating Barb.
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