Over the course of the five “Stranger Things” seasons, the show has seen several tragic deaths, including Barbara “Barb” Holland, Bob Newby and Eddie Munson. So ahead of the Season 5 finale in Vol. 3, creators Matt and Ross Duffer, known as the Duffer brothers, address fan speculations that characters will die.

Even as Volume 2 of Season 5 drops, Stranger Things fans’ minds are running rampant with speculation and theories about many different aspects of the series.

The end is near for Stranger Things, and with the fifth and final season's second half on the horizon, the internet has spiraled! Fan theories have predicted everything from character deaths to clones

Volume 2 ended with Kali convincing El that the only way to truly stop the "cycle" of doctors trying to create an army of kids using their blood is for them to die. Specifically, for them to die when the group eliminates the Upside Down and Dimension X. And it looks like El has, unfortunately, bought into her plan.

Stranger Things stars Millie Bobby Brown, Noach Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Natalia Dyer and Jamie Campbell Bower sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to react to some of the Internet's wildest fan theories about season five of their Netflix series.

After five seasons, nine years and about 1,000 renditions of Running Up That Hill, Stranger Things is nearly at an end. Although Will vanished into the Upside Down within the first five minutes of the show,

The second part of Stranger Things Season 5 has finally arrived on Netflix, building anticipation for the series finale, scheduled to release on New Year's Eve.

The final showdown between the Hawkins’ residents and the Upside Down monsters has finally begun!After a long wait, Netflix released Vol 1 of Stranger Things Season 5 on November 26, 2025, and the story is now moving toward its conclusion,