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Stranger Things season 5 will be less violent overall than season 4 was, creators Matt and Ross Duffer saidHowever, there’s one death scene in the final season that’s “the most violent” of the showStill, Matt said, “Every character’s ending needed to feel right”

Have your tissues handy when you tune in to the final season of Stranger Things.

The fifth season of the hit Netflix series drops in three parts, beginning Nov. 26, and creators Matt and Ross Duffer have promised that this season is “the biggest [the show has] ever been” — but it also might be the most emotional installment, too.

“I would say season 5 is not as violent as season 4, but it has the most violent death of any season,” Matt, 41, told U.K. outlet The Times.

While the brothers said that in general they “try to restrain ourselves” when it comes to how gory the battles get, some parts are unavoidable.

“The goal was always to scale up each series with the age of the characters and our audience, but then we keep getting new audiences,” Ross told the outlet. “Hopefully, parents don’t get too mad at us.”

‘Stranger Things’ cast in season 5.

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Though it’s going to be violent, the brothers knew that every character had to have the perfect final bow after a decade onscreen. “Every character’s ending needed to feel right,” Matt said. “That was more important than providing the fans with the ending they’re hoping for.”

He told the outlet he doesn’t “even look online,” though, so he’s “not actually even sure what people want to happen.”

“At the end of the day, this is the final chapter in a coming-of-age story,” Ross added. “How do you leave childhood behind? That’s one reason we created Vecna because he preys on all that uncertainty and anxiety. So the series is about how you overcome that.”

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The cast have all been open about how emotional it was to say goodbye when filming wrapped in December last year.

“I was sitting in front of Noah and Finn. I assumed it might get emotional. But 20 minutes in — and we’re not even a third into the script — Noah [Schnapp] is bawling his eyes out, like deep sobs,” Charlie Heaton told Variety of the table read for the finale. “And then Finn [Wolfhard] was crying. That really set everyone off.”

Noah Schnapp as Will Byers and Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna in Stranger Things season 5.

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Wolfhard, 22, told the outlet it would be “pretty embarrassing” if any footage of that table read was released.

“The whole thing is just crying. I was like, ‘I’m not going to cry. I’m going to feel very normal, and it’s going to be great.’ And then halfway through, I just started totally bawling my eyes out.”

Season 5 picks up a year after season 4 ended, in the fall of 1987. Per the official synopsis, “Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts and plans unknown.”

“Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will’s disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread. The final battle is looming — and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they’ve faced before. To end this nightmare, they’ll need everyone — the full party — standing together, one last time.”

Stranger Things season 5 drops on Netflix in three parts, starting with Vol. 1 on Nov. 26, followed by Volume 2 on Dec. 25, and the finale on Dec. 31. All new episodes drop at 8 p.m. ET.