For years, Stranger Things made us believe we understood its monsters. The Demogorgon was the beginning. The Mind Flayer was the escalation. Vecna was the final boss. But what if that entire hierarchy ...

This article contains massive spoilers for Stranger Things5 and the Stranger Things (2016-2025) series finale, now streaming on Netflix. Since Vecna's introduction in Stranger Things 4, he has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As we predicted, if Max and Holly had stuck around moments longer to see the rest of Vecna’s memory play out on Stranger Things 5, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even for those who generally liked the final episode of Stranger Things, there is a growing consensus that the final fight with ...

Vecna, the powerful former human and (seemingly) the true antagonist, is the ultimate psychic evil, capable of manipulating and murdering his victims from the Upside Down by preying on their trauma.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. I liked the Stranger Things series finale quite a bit, ...

Stranger Things Season 5’s biggest twist, that the Mind Flayer was the real villain all along, was pretty well signposted. The end of Season 4 had apparently turned the entire story upside down, with ...

This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things 5 (through the series finale), including details about Vecna that hail from Stranger Things: The First Shadow. If you don’t want to read any of that, ...

Do you stay up at night wondering where the Mind Flayer is, and fearing the Duffer Brothers forgot all about it? Same, but fans think they might have gotten a glimpse at our old frenemy in the final ...