{"id":157925,"date":"2025-11-28T11:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/157925\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:49:16","slug":"who-dies-in-stranger-things-season-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/157925\/","title":{"rendered":"Who dies in Stranger Things season 5?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stranger Things<\/a> hasn\u2019t been shy about killing off characters in the past, so naturally there\u2019s a lot of speculation over who could die in the final season.<\/p>\n

Created by the Duffer Brothers, the show\u2019s fifth season brings all the residents of Hawkins together as they gear up for the final battle against Vecna.<\/p>\n

All the main cast reprise their roles, including Finn Wolfhard<\/a>, Millie Bobby Brown<\/a>, Winona Ryder, David Harbour<\/a>, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery and Maya Hawke. Linda Hamilton also makes a guest appearance.<\/p>\n

Netflix<\/a> has split Stranger Things season five into three volumes, with the first four episodes hitting the streaming service on November 27, 2025. The remaining four episodes will roll out across Boxing Day and New Year\u2019s Day in the UK.<\/p>\n

Does anyone die in Stranger Things season 5 volume 1?<\/p>\n

\"Stranger\u2018Stranger Things\u2019 season 5\u2019s Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Maya Hawke, Finn Wolfhard, Winona Ryder, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin. CREDIT: Netflix<\/p>\n

Military grunts aside, no one of significance dies in the first four episodes of season five. There is a sequence where it appears Jim Hopper (David Harbour) might sacrifice himself, as he gives some emotional parting words to Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), but this is quickly defused when we realise Vecna isn\u2019t hiding at the military compound.<\/p>\n

That isn\u2019t to say some characters aren\u2019t in a precarious situation. Holly Wheeler (Nell Fisher) has been captured by Vecna, along with lots of other children. Meanwhile, Max (Sadie Sink), who is still in a coma, is similarly trapped inside Vecna\u2019s mind prison.<\/p>\n

Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Holly and Nancy\u2019s (Natalie Dyer) parents, Karen (Cara Buono) and Ted (Joe Chrest) are also in hospital after being attacked by a demogorgon. While we know Karen is in a stable condition, with injuries to her throat, Ted is in an induced coma.<\/p>\n

Is a big death coming in season 5?<\/p>\n

\"StrangerLinda Hamilton in \u2018Stranger Things\u2019. CREDIT: Netflix<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s creators, the Duffer Brothers, have teased that the final season features the most \u201cviolent\u201d death yet \u2013 but it\u2019s unclear whether this relates to a main character.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Times<\/a>, Matt Duffer said: \u201cI would say season five is not as violent as season four, but it has the most violent death of any season.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe goal was always to scale up each series with the age of the characters and our audience, but then we keep getting new audiences,\u201d Ross Duffer added. \u201cHopefully, parents don\u2019t get too mad at us.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s unclear who will make it out alive, the duo spent a lot of time crafting the perfect ending for each character. \u201cEvery character\u2019s ending needed to feel right,\u201d Matt said. \u201cThat was more important than providing the fans with the ending they\u2019re hoping for.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stranger Things hasn\u2019t been shy about killing off characters in the past, so naturally there\u2019s a lot of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,5005,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-157925","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-explainer","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157925","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=157925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}