{"id":101816,"date":"2025-10-26T10:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T10:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101816\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T10:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T10:18:12","slug":"stranger-things-best-character-officially-wont-return-in-season-5-despite-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/101816\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things’ Best Character Officially Won’t Return in Season 5, Despite Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Stranger Things<\/a> returns for its final fifth season, the show\u2019s best character won\u2019t be back for the final battle. As far as the trailers showed, the main cast from the first season will all be back, ready to fight to protect their town, push back the evil forces, and fend off government operatives. This includes Seven (Millie Bobby Brown), her adoptive dad Jim Hopper (David Harbour), and all her friends. However, one new character joined the cast in the fourth season and became an instant fan-favorite, and there have been countless rumors that he could return for the final season. However, according to the showrunners, those rumors are false.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Empire Magazine<\/a>, co-creator Matt Duffer was talking about what fans can expect in the fifth and final Stranger Things season. While fans have been excitedly speculating on how Joseph Quinn\u2019s Eddie Munson could return for the final season, Duffer told fans not to get their hopes up. \u201cI love that Joe Quinn is toying with people! But no, he\u2019s dead,\u201d\u00a0Duffer said.<\/p>\n

Why It Was Important To Emphasize That Eddie Munson Is Dead In Stranger Things<\/p>\n

\"EddieImage Courtesy of Netflix<\/p>\n

Ever since Eddie Munson sacrificed himself in Stranger Things Season 4<\/a>, fans have been wondering if he could find a way back in the final season of the Netflix hit series. Quinn has been teasing fans that he could return for the final season, but that would be a mistake to leave that open before the final episodes start streaming. Since fans love Eddie Munson so much, seeing the final episodes without him returning could leave a bad taste in their mouths. The Duffer brothers needed to cut off the rumors now so fans can grow excited for the final season, knowing Eddie is gone. The last thing they want is fan disappointment for something that was never meant to be.<\/p>\n

Eddie Munson was an eccentric Hawkins High School student<\/a> who led the school\u2019s Dungeons & Dragons-themed \u201cHellfire Club.\u201d It was there that he became friends with Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo). He becomes the suspect in a murder that he didn\u2019t commit, and the police decide he is part of a \u201cSatanic cult\u201d before he ends up helping his new friends in a final battle against Vecna. It is there, set to the beat of Metallica\u2019s \u201cMaster of Puppets,\u201d that he sacrifices himself to save his friends. Sadly, he died with the town still thinking he was a killer.<\/p>\n

Now, it is also essential to examine the wording Matt Duffer used to explain why Eddie Munson wasn\u2019t coming back. After saying that Eddie was dead, Duffer then cryptically said, \u201cNo, sadly, RIP. He\u2019s fully under that ground.\u201d That seems like an interesting turn of phrase since the demons come from a place known as the \u201cUpside Down,\u201d so if he is \u201cunder that ground,\u201d could it mean he is coming back anyway, and his friends could find him in the Upside Down?<\/p>\n

However, it is more likely that Duffer wanted to end any expectations for something that wasn\u2019t going to happen in\u00a0Stranger Things\u00a0Season 5. Duffer also explained that Joseph Quinn had made several movies<\/a> since the last season of the show, and he was very busy now. In 2024, he played Geta in Gladiator II and Eric in A Quiet Place: Day 1. In 2025, he starred in the Alex Garland movie Warfare as Sam and then took on the role of The Human Torch in The Fantastic Four: First Steps. He is also appearing in Avengers: Doomsday, so his time is definitely limited. <\/p>\n

The first volume of\u00a0Stranger Things\u00a0Season 5 is scheduled to be released on Netflix on November 26, 2025.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Stranger Things returns for its final fifth season, the show\u2019s best character won\u2019t be back for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,63636,3197,437,6297],"class_list":{"0":"post-101816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-regular-news","13":"tag-stranger-things","14":"tag-tv","15":"tag-tv-shows"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}