Season
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Description
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Character
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Season 1
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Kid brutally trained at Hawkins Lab with telekinetic abilities
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Eleven
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Kid who goes missing in the Upside-Down dimension
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Will Byers
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The above's loyal best friend, a D&D fanatic
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Mike Wheeler
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The above two's close friend with curly hair and missing teeth
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Dustin Henderson
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The above three's close friend with amazing wrist rockets
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Lucas Sinclair
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Will's desperate mother who believes her son is communicating with her through lights
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Joyce Byers
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Hawkins chief of police searching for Will, who lost his daughter to cancer
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Jim Hopper
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Intelligent teenager whose best friend goes missing in the Upside-Down
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Nancy Wheeler
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Charming teenager who is dating the above
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Steve Harrington
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Antisocial, introverted teenager whose brother goes missing
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Jonathan Byers
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Scientist and director of Hawkins Lab who conducted tests on Eleven
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Martin Brenner
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Vicious, bloodthirsty monster from the Upside Down that kills Barb and hunts down Will
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The Demogorgon
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Mike's supportive and caring mother
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Karen Wheeler
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The above's generally clueless husband
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Ted Wheeler
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The above two's young daughter
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Holly Wheeler
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Teenage friend of Nancy who disappears into the Upside-Down and killed by the Demogorgon
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Barbara Holland
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Police officer who helps Hopper on his search for Will
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Officer Powell
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Police officer who helps Hopper on his search for Will
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Officer Callahan
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Joyce's sleazeball ex-husband
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Lonnie Byers
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Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and Will's clever science teacher
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Scott Clarke
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Biological mother of Eleven suffering mentally
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Terry Ives
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The above's sister and Eleven's aunt
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Becky Ives
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Mean and sh**ty friend of Steve
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Tommy H
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Mean and sh**ty friend of Steve
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Carol
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Season 2
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Redheaded newcomer to the "party"
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Max Mayfield
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The above's nasty, abusive stepbrother who was traumatized as a child by his father
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Billy Hargrove
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Joyce's boyfriend who is killed by Demodogs, juvenile Demogorgons
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Bob Newby
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Newly appointed director of Hawkins Lab
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Sam Owens
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Journalist and conspiracy theorist who believes Russians are behind the strange things occurring in Hawkins
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Murray Bauman
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Eleven's "lost sister" with the ability to create projections
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Kali
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Giant monster from the Upside Down that possesses Will's body
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The Mind Flayer
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One of the Demodogs that Dustin grows close to, part of a hive mind controlled by the above
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D'Artagnan
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Season 3
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Fellow ice cream shop worker of Steve that cracks a Russian code
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Robin Buckley
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Lucas's 10-year-old sister who helps the above, as well as Dustin and Steve, infiltrate the Russian lab
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Erica Sinclair
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Russian soldier working for the secret lab
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Grigori
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Scientist taken into custody by Hopper who helped build the machine that opened the gate to the Upside-Down
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Alexei
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Lifeguard possessed by the Mind Flayer who later becomes part of a flayed monster of human guts
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Heather Holloway
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The above's father and newspaper editor that fires Nancy and Jonathan, who is also flayed
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Tom Holloway
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Scornful and mean-spirited journalist who is also flayed
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Bruce Lowe
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Mayor of Hawkins who sells land to the Russians to build Starcourt Mall as well as their lab
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Larry Kline
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Elderly woman who notices rats eating her fertilizer
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Doris Driscoll
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Dustin's hyperintelligent girlfriend
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Suzie
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Season 4
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Guitarist and avid D&D player who is mistakenly believed to be responsible for multiple murders in Hawkins
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Eddie Munson
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Demon from the Upside Down with telepathic and telekinetic abilities, who is actually Henry Creel and Brenner's first subject
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Vecna
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Jonathan's best friend in Lenora Hills
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Argyle
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High-school basketball player trying to find the enigmatic serial killer
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Jason Carver
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Russian prison guard whom Hopper bribes
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Enzo Antonov
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Russian smuggler and pilot who betrays the above as well as Joyce and Murray
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Yuri Ismaylov
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High-school cheerleader who is the first victim
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Chrissy Cunningham
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Asylum prisoner believed to be responsible for the gruesome murders of his family members
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Victor Creel
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High-school student working on the newspaper who is the second victim
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Fred Benson
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High-school basketball player who is the third victim
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Patrick McKinney
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Snobby teenager who bullies Eleven
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Angela
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