Released Tuesday, the teaser for the nearly three-hour-long final episode sees <\/a>David Harbour\u2019s Jim Hopper deliver an emotional monologue, imploring Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) to \u201cfight one last time.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cLife has been so unfair to you,\u201d he acknowledges, as moments from previous seasons play. \u201cYour childhood was taken from you. You\u2019ve been attacked, manipulated by terrible people, but you never let it break you. Fight for the days on the other side of this. Fight for a world beyond Hawkins.\u201d<\/p>\n In one brief scene, Hopper points a gun at an unseen threat. Behind him, a figure can just about be made out behind a thick, yellow haze. <\/p>\n \u201cTHAT\u2019S VECNA BEHIND HOPPER S***TTTT,\u201d one person wrote in the YouTube comments section. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n David Harbour stars as Jim Hopper in ‘Stranger Things’ (Netflix) open image in gallery<\/p>\n Fans spotted a figure that appeared to be Vecna creeping up on Hopper in the season finale trailer (Netflix)<\/p>\n \u201cIf hopper was dying they wouldn\u2019t have him fake die like twice. I think he\u2019s the safest,\u201d another fan posited.<\/p>\n \u201cThey haven\u2019t had a scene together I want to see them interact,\u201d added a third.<\/p>\n Others pointed to another scene, showing a distraught Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo) crying out while being held up by a pair of arms.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy is Dustin screaming???\u201d one questioned, while a second noted: \u201cDustin screaming means someone main is gonna die.\u201d<\/p>\n Another agreed: \u201cDef looks like someone died based on Dustin\u2019s reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n After five seasons, Netflix\u2019s hit sci-fi fantasy series <\/a>about a group of school-aged children who investigate a series of supernatural occurrences in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, is coming to an end on Wednesday. <\/p>\n open image in gallery<\/p>\n Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson in ‘Stranger Things’ season five (Netflix)<\/p>\n Starring Brown, Harbour, Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink and Winona Ryder, the final episodes of Stranger Things have centered on the group as they hunt down Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), a powerful psychokinetic villain in the Upside Down.<\/p>\n Season five, which arrived three years after the fourth, has been widely criticized by viewers for its poor writing and numerous plot holes. The latest batch of episodes has seen audience scores plummet to series lows, with the seventh installment, \u201cThe Bridge,\u201d hit by review-bombing over Will Byers\u2019 coming-out scene<\/a>. <\/p>\n Billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk complained that the scene \u201cis completely unnecessary and forced on audiences who just want to enjoy some basic sci-fi.\u201d<\/p>\n Another slammed the streamer for \u201cruining\u201d the series by \u201cfocusing their final season on Will coming out as a homosexual.\u201d Meanwhile, many have been quick to defend the scene, explaining that Stranger Things hasn\u2019t turned \u201cwoke\u201d overnight but has included these character cues in previous seasons.<\/p>\n The final season has been split into three parts, with the first four episodes released in November, followed by three more on Christmas and the series finale premiering Wednesday on Netflix and in theaters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-379521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"David](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/David-Harbour.jpeg\")
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