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for Stranger Universe, I will talk about the main villain of Stranger Things 4, Vecna.
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Stranger Things season 4 is officially out, and we’ll be going over lots of spoilers
from the new season, so there’s a massive spoiler warning for you all. You’ve been
warned. Right off the bat, Vecna is already becoming iconic for being the show’s first
humanoid and slasher villain from the Upside Down. But upon watching the first volume these
past 10 hours, we realized that he is way more than that. While the Demogorgon and Mind
Flayer go hand in hand, Vecna is entirely different. No one's faced a villain like him
before because he isn't a random monster who goes after blood or a monster whose sole purpose
is to kill Eleven. He's a villain with superpowers of his own and a history that calls into question
everything the characters (and viewers) know about the Upside Down. In Stranger Things
4, episode 7, it's revealed that Vecna is, in fact, Henry Creel, the youngest son of
Victor Creel as well as being number One, Martin Brenner's very first test subject.
When Victor Creel told Nancy and Robin that his son, Henry, was a sensitive boy, he was
being modest. Henry Creel felt a connection to the Creel House and seemingly developed
powers of his own without being experimented on. It's implied that Henry Creel harnessed
something within the grandfather clock in the Creel House to unlock those powers, but
it's unconfirmed exactly how those abilities manifested in the first place.
Timeline-wise, Henry Creel murdered his mother and sister, and attempted to murder his father,
Victor, in 1959 - 20 years before he fought Eleven in Hawkins Lab. But because Henry was
merely a boy, he wasn't powerful enough to kill everyone - and coupling that with a song
by Ella Fitzgerald playing in the background, Victor was able to escape Henry's torment
before being killed. According to Victor, Henry slipped into a coma and apparently died
a week later; however, unbeknownst to Victor, Dr. Brenner actually took custody of Henry
upon him waking up from his coma and faked his death, similar to what the people at Hawkins
Lab did with Will Byers and every kid they experimented on. Over the next few years,
Brenner worked with Henry to develop the boy's powers, but reached a dead end. This must've
began approximately six years after Project MKUltra began at Hawkins Lab in 1953. Ultimately,
Brenner used his learnings from Henry Creel, and the results from Project MKUltra, to launch
a new program that experimented on children from birth from there, One became an orderly
since Brenner couldn't let him leave the facility. And that eventually led to him attempting
to escape with Eleven, but not before killing everyone associated with the experiments as
revenge.
Perhaps the most confounding part of Henry Creel's history is how he became Vecna. When
Eleven turned on him and fended off his attacks, she sent him into another world in the same
way she defeated the Demogorgon at the end of Stranger Things season 1. But because the
Upside Down is stuck on the day Will Byers disappeared in 1983, and Henry Creel/One was
banished in 1979, the portal she opened couldn't have been the same as a gate - particularly,
the mother gate she opened in 1983. Rather, the most logical explanation is that Eleven
opened a portal and sent Henry Creel through, whose body succumbed to the environment of
the Upside Down and turned into Vecna, but the portal quickly closed. It wasn't a gate
like the one she opened in season 1 or the other gates opened by Vecna in season 4; it
was merely a window into the Upside Down, instead of a door. This tracks with what happened
in season 1; when Eleven sent the Demogorgon back to the Upside Down in one of the school's
classrooms, she did so without creating a new gate. Jamie Campbell Bower plays Vecna,
as well as the adult Henry Creel and number One. Bower was originally cast in an unknown
role in Stranger Things season 4, and given the mystery around his character throughout
his first few episodes, it only makes sense that eventually he'd be used for the season's
big twist. And with that, we conclude our breakdown of Vecna. This guy blew me away,
and in my opinion, I find him to be a scarier villain than the Mind Flayer. We shall see
what Volume 2 has in store for us when it comes out next month. Overall, super exciting
times.
And that is all that we have for today. Do you think Vecna is the best villain of Stranger
Things?
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