![]() ![]() Season 1 proved that gates to the Upside Down can seal themselves even after being used as well. As mentioned, the Hawkins rift looked an awful lot like the one Eleven forced her way through in Season 2, and if a 12-year-old girl on the verge of collapse had the strength to do it, Soviet soldiers and monsters would have no trouble. The machine in Hawkins was still working on punching a hole through to the Upside Down, although it's not inconceivable that the Soviets could have gone through and/or pulled something out through the relatively small gap. The question is: where did the Soviets get through? So, the appearance of a Demogorgon in the post-credits sequence is proof that the Soviets did indeed make it through to the Upside Down and brought something back. The Demogorgon couldn't have been left over from Season 2, as all the demo-dogs died when Eleven slammed the gate on most of the Mind Flayer, and the Demogorgon from Season 1 was ripped apart by Eleven. The Soviets Made It Through To The Upside Down ![]() ![]() Besides, who else would "the American" be? And what are the Soviets keeping this person alive for? Eleven wouldn't be able to find him, considering what happened to her. Hopper could be alive, having entered the Upside Down and then gotten pulled out later by the Soviets. She wouldn't have seen him jump through to the Upside Down. Joyce also shut her eyes when she turned the keys. If he was going to have a shot at surviving, he needed to get out of that room, and his only option seemed to be the Upside Down. There was nowhere good for him to go thanks to the malfunctioning machine. In the very quick but clear shot of the room before the device blew, Hopper was nowhere to be seen, and he wouldn't have been vaporized yet. Could Hopper have desperately jumped through the rift into the Upside Down to try and survive? Hopper saw the hole, and he gave Joyce a nod of approval to turn the keys, meaning he knew he would die if he was in the room when the device blew. It wasn't quite as large as the gate in Season 1 or Season 2, and it looked more like the gap that Eleven used to escape the Upside Down into Hawkins Middle in Season 2. Then again, the Season 3 finale also showed Hopper getting a good look at the rift the Russians had created to the Upside Down. When she tearfully turned the keys, all the Russians in the room were vaporized, which totally meant that Hopper was gone too, right? Joyce certainly thought so, and the music was mournful enough that Hop seemed pretty definitively dead. Meanwhile, Joyce used her belt to rig a way to turn both keys at once, allowing her to destroy the machine without Hopper. This damaged the machine, however, and Hopper couldn't get out. The battle was practically ripped from Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Hopper was victorious when he flung his opponent into the machine, killing him. Unfortunately, a Soviet who looked for all the world like a Stranger Things Terminator caught up to them and attacked. He and Joyce intended to use a pair of keys to blow up the device, which would vaporize anybody in the room. Hopper died - or "died," as the case may be - as part of the desperate mission to destroy the key and stop the Soviets from breaking through to the Upside Down in Hawkins. Obviously the mention could have been a misdirect on the part of the Duffer brothers and it'll turn out to be somebody unexpected, but the most likely candidate for the person in the cell is a non-dead Hopper, with or without the mustache. Season 5 has a lot to explain to us, especially about whether or not our favorite characters will survive as the Upside Down takes over their reality.The post-credits scene may have only featured a couple of guards, a terrified prisoner, and a monster from the Upside Down, but the mention of "the American" might be the biggest deal. His quest to destroy is only fueled now by El fighting back against him, and Hawkins might never recover from the break in their “protection” against the Upside Down. So what does this mean for the future? I think it means that Vecna isn’t gone and he’s certainly not done. And we see Eleven and the rest of her friends all go to a field when she sees just how deep the divide has broken Hawkins. We get a glimpse of the Wheeler household and Holly Wheeler screams that it is snowing to her mother. We see Eleven finally get reunited with Hopper and everything seems to be wrapping up nicely with Stranger Things 4 when suddenly, Will feels a prick up his neck and he looks to the sky thinking that he’s yet again the link between the two worlds but everyone there (his family, Nancy, Mike, Argyle, Hopper, and Eleven) all can see what looks like the snow from the Upside Down falling to the ground. ![]()
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