Happy Thursday, my fellow strangers! It’s Mrs. Strange once again. On today’s episode
for Stranger Universe, I will talk about an interview where the Duffer Brothers
revealed that a certain character was meant to die in Stranger Things 4.
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Stranger Things season 4 is by far the darkest and most violent installment of the Netflix flagship
series. It includes the bloodiest deaths that the show has ever done. Throughout the season,
we see the brutal deaths of the Hawkins High students Chrissy, Fred, and Patrick. Yet
despite the shocking nature of those deaths, it was Eddie Munson's demise in the season 4
finale that proved the most emotional, with the beloved character sacrificing himself in order
to distract Vecna. Doctor Martin Brenner also did not make it through the most recent season,
despite his miraculous survival from the Demogorgon at the end of the first season.
We also saw another character, Jason Carver, getting split in half from the portals opening up
at the end of Stranger Things 4. And of course, we have Max Mayfield, who may have survived but she
was dead for over a minute, and is currently brain dead, as the Duffers have confirmed.
With that said, lots of fans were a bit disappointed that the creators hyped up
a body count in the epic finale of season 4, with certain viewers complaining about the plot
armor that the main characters have. However, it seems like the original plan for Volume 2
was to have another character die in the final episode. In a new interview with
Collider, the Duffer Brothers reveal that Dmitri Antonov, the Russian that befriends Hopper, was
also slated to die at one point. They don't reveal how exactly the character would have met his end,
but it was originally planned to happen at some point in the season finale.
"In terms of who makes it, who lives or dies.
I think there was a version where Dimitri, AKA Enzo, didn't make it. Then he ended up making it.
But that's the most radical of a departure from the original idea versus what we ended up with."
Even though he was something of a wildcard when we first meet him in Stranger Things 4, Enzo,
as Hopper calls him, ends up becoming a strong ally. The character starts off as a prison guard
at Kamchatka prison camp, attempting to blackmail Joyce for Hopper's release but, upon being found
out, is himself thrown into prison alongside Hopper. The two characters end up being among the
few survivors of the prison after a Demogorgon and a handful of Demodogs get loose and,
by the end of Stranger Things season 4, Hopper and Enzo have actually grown quite close.
Although fans of the show are no strangers to emotional character deaths, season 4,
in particular, proved to be quite ruthless. With both Eddie and Brenner definitively dead, and Max
appearing to die initially, Enzo also biting the dust would have made season 4 especially lethal.
It remains to be seen whether Hopper's prison comrade will return at all in Stranger Things
season 5, but fans of the character will undoubtedly be happy that the
Duffers decided against adding him to the death toll in season 4. Here’s hoping that
Dmitri somehow returns in season 5. Overall, very exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today. Do you think that Enzo will return Stranger Things 5?
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