No. Not the American.
No, I'm begging you...
No! Don't!
No! Please! No! Don't!
No, don't!
Don't do this!
Let me go!
Don't leave me in here.
Let me out.
I'm innocent.
I'm innocent!
I'm begging you, please!
Hi everyone its charlie I got a lot of requests to do a stranger thing season 3
video so this will be for the ending in the special post-credit scene normally
they do not do post-credit scenes for stranger things so this is actually a
pretty big deal they won't to let you know that there will be a season 4 and
they're all coming back but there were a couple really big hanging plot threads
about what happened to a couple of the main characters so we'll break it down
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easter-egg videos we have a whole bunch of stuff and Comic Con trailers coming
really soon The Witcher Netflix series with Henry Cavill is going to drop its
first trailer in a couple weeks so of course I'll be doing videos for that too
but careful for spoilers if you have not seen all of strangers things season 3
because we'll be talking about the ending so rampant spoilers here we go so
the very end in the Battle of the star court Mall Billy who'd been controlled
by the mind flare all season possessed in the exact same way that will was
possessed by it during season two become sort of a proxy for the mind flare in
addition to that giant gross-looking monster that was an amalgamation of
biomatter from all the rats and the other people turns into a very Star Wars
Return of the Jedi ending fight Darth Vader turning on the Emperor because of
course they're referencing a Star Wars movie they reference every 80s movie and
TV shows that you've ever seen during stranger things so they're Darth Vader
turns on their Emperor after 11 chosen as happy memories of his childhood with
his mother they try to humanize Billy a little bit more this season instead of
just making him the turbo douche that he was during season two he sacrifices
himself to delay the mind flayer long enough for hopper and Joyce down inside
the Russian facility to deactivate that special energy being that the Russians
were using to open a new gate to the upside down some of the references they
were making with the Maul the star Court mall during season 3 were playing on
people's fears during the 1980s that malls were destroying small towns they
turned it into a literal thing genre style where the mall itself was this
evil creation of the Russians designed to distract people so that they could
try to open a new gate to the upside down in Hawkins because they were
unsuccessful trying to do it back in Russia so the Russians this season we're
just trying to do the same thing that the Hawkins facility was
trying to do in the first two seasons open a door to the upside-down hopper
and Joyce are successful in destroying the machine in malfunctions and once it
blows up the gate between dimensions closes severing the link between the
mind flayer and all the things in our dimension that it's controlling
including the gross giant monster which basically deactivates and then Billy who
the monster had already killed so if all the long-running characters Billy is
really probably one of the few actual deaths that we can confirm one of the
first big questions that they raised though is is that when hopper and Joyce
destroy the energy beam it's seemingly malfunctions this giant energy discharge
vaporizes all the Russians in the room but you do not see hopper die you don't
see him at all for that matter nobody know nothing he just seemingly
disappears and Joyce who doesn't totally understand what's going on just assumes
that he died in the explosion - so that's what she tells everyone when she
comes back up top outside of the mall but after everyone goes on summer
vacation coming back for season four next year there's even a sign that they
drive past on their way out of town saying come back to Hawkins soon just
reminding you that there will be a season for all those characters will
come back there's a final shot of them closing the door to wills house as they
leave and as the credits start it seems like it's starting to snow across the
blackness of the screen just the credits you hear this cold winter wind blowing
remember that because it's a visual metaphor for what actually happened to
hopper at the end of the season then the actual post credits scene starts with a
transition to come Chaka Russia which is way over in the northeastern corner of
Russia way up here three months have gone by since the end of the season and
we're in an underground Russian military base two Russian guards walk past a row
of cells one goes to open a cell the other guard says no not the American
remember that they proceed to the next cell and pull a Russian prisoner out
who's screaming please don't take me we've never met him before this is the
first time we've ever seen this character they haul him down a flight of
stairs and throw him in a cage to feed him to the demo dog that they had teased
earlier this season that Dustin mentioned when Lucas's little sister was
asking about this huge cage hey listen yeah how big did you say that
demogorgon was big 19 or so why but the big surprise is is that the demo dog has
evolved into its final boss form another brand-new white demogorgon the reason
it's white is just to let you know that it's a new different one because eleven
destroyed the first demagogue and at the end of season one which you know also
remember that too because the ending of season three is very similar to what
happened at the end of season one but that just means that the mind flayer
still has a toehold in our world through this demogorgon whether or not the
Russians have a lot of control over the demogorgon issues another thing linking
the mind flayer to our world so the mind flayer is maybe defeated but not
absolutely destroyed the big hopper twist of course is that he's still alive
of course he's that prisoner in that underground Russian facility he's the
American that they mentioned but you ask how did hopper get all the way to Russia
if his body wasn't found anywhere in the wreckage immediately after the accident
in the basement of this facility of the mall the best theories are that one
because the machine was creating a doorway to the upside down hopper
somehow entered the upside down in that big blast got trapped in there the same
way that eleven got sucked into the upside down when she killed the first
demagogue and at the end of season one and then she got trapped there for a
while maybe hopper got stuck in there at some point in the days or weeks after
the Russians were able to extract him from the upside down and then threw him
in this prison for questioning in Kamchatka
Russia like I said it's unclear if the Russians have control over this
brand-new demagogue again but second theory is is that we know the demagogue
ins have the ability to freely travel between dimensions it's clear that the
demagogue an escaped in the chaos of this finale escaped its cage somehow and
then the Russians recaptured it later so it's possible that in the chaos the
demagogue and grabbed hopper drugged him into the upside down then out of it in
all the chaos and that's when the Russians picked him up and threw him in
prison because the Russians have not stopped their attempts to open wormholes
to the upside down that's still something that they wanted to do but you
see how they're basically saying that the same thing happened to hopper at the
end of season 3 that happened to 11 at the end of season 1 that's why for a
brief second when you see this door train
to the blackness of the credits you see what it looks like spores of the upside
down falling across the screen a visual metaphor telling you that hopper
traveled through a door into the upside down but then somehow the Russians
picked him up and threw him in prison they gave hopper the 11 moment from the
end of season 1 so of course they're going to have to rescue him in season 4
whether or not that means road trip to Russia or the Soviet Union because this
is still the 80s or if the Russians bring him back to the United States
we'll see it would be cool for a change of pace to see the kids actually go on a
road trip to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War but I think it
just depends on how they want to wrap things up and whether or not there's
going to be a season 5 after season 4 one of the big teasers of season 3 that they
didn't completely pay off is that they said that the only way to win for good
and stop the mind flare would be to destroy the mind flayer itself instead
of just destroying its agents like the demagogue and during season 1 all the
people that were mine flayed like Billy or the giant gross monster at the end of
season 3 the mind flayer itself is still alive and well
inside the upside-down so at some point they'll either have to go to the upside
down and destroy the mind flayer there with the help of the other Esper's that
11 met during season 2 or the reverse happens the mind flayer fully physically
makes it into their dimension and they defeated on their earth but just
remember that until they defeat the mind flayer itself this won't be over it will
keep trying to make its way into our dimension and take over that's kind of
what it does it's sort of like Dormammu during the Doctor Strange movie it rules
over dimensions and it sort of collects other dimensions and takes them over one
at a time so the mind flayer moves from dimension to dimension until all things
are connected to the mind player they also kind of did that with ego the
Living Planet during guardians of the galaxy volume to grow and spread
covering all that exists until everything
if you have any other big questions about the season just post them in the
comments below and I'll try to answer them but obviously there will be season
4 next year they haven't said a whole lot about it I don't know if they're
going to comic-con but like I said Netflix is going to have a really big panel
for The Witcher TV series where they'll drop the first trailer that's going to
start later this year I believe in December and I will be doing episode
videos for that while you wait for everything click here for my spider-man
far from home post credit scene and Easter egg videos and click here for
that brand-new Shazam Black Adam seat thank you so much for watching everybody
stay awesome I'll see you guys tonight!