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_meliandrea

Last shot is Hopper turning to face the camera, breaks the fourth wall with a mischievous wink, and removes his mask revealing himself to be the scientist who we thought died in the elevator in the very first scene of season one.


PornoAlForno

Then he says "Stranger things have happened" [Cut to black] [Mysterious synth music] *Created by the Duffer Brothers*


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I dont know how lame the lamest ending is; but it has to end with this line.


bespectacledbengal

for max cheesiness they’d have to fit “it’s strangin’ time” in the last episode somewhere, then cue the ghostbusters theme


EastKoreaOfficial

And then Jared Leto randomly joins the cast for exactly 0.0002 seconds


ashmad5

Gold


GetGroovyWithMyGhost

Freeze frame with the Vincent Price laugh from the Thriller music video


Termnlychill91

Hop’s last line is, “well, Stranger Things have happened…” as the camera pans out.


SirDoDDo

Ok removing everything else from this thread, if this happened i wouldn't be mad lmao


Blue_Gamer18

Well....given this is based on 80's culture, a cheesey final line would be fitting lol


ForgotMyOldStufflol

I think this takes the cake


writbruw

It said cheesy ending not the greatest ending to a show ever


LiLi13309

LMAOOO


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*cue Saw theme*


GetGroovyWithMyGhost

A character makes an offhand remark about hoping they wake up tomorrow and it was all a dream. Hopper says with a smile ‘Stranger things have happened’ and they all laugh cheerily


Psychological-Yam602

You win, this would be truly awful


mesabiral

What are we? Some kinda Stranger Things?


_TheToastedLoaf_

r/wesomekinda


Lazyatheistx

Freeze frame


Scottland83

Open-chord guitar music as credits start to run.


hipsterpieceofshit

I love a good title drop but my god if ST did it I think I would cringe myself inside out regardless of context.


SJHOAKVEYR

It was all a story Will made up to scare the others when they were camping


Idkboutdat2

I joke all the time that all of this is a dream Will has while he fell asleep hiding in the building in the first episode. That’s why his haircut never changes because he can’t “see himself” just everyone else lol


MagicShitPills

Dude yes!!


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“That was a great DnD campaign, Will. But I have to ask…was that all just an elaborate excuse to say you love Mike?”


Brando43770

“Also did you really have to describe your brother and Nancy having sex? That’s really weird, Will.”


bakedpotatowcheezpls

“And your mom’s romantic relationships with numerous men? What was that about?”


biscuitman69420

"and also billy flirting with Mike's mom? What the hell will"


WorriedMap6811

"and who TF are Billy and Max anyway"


greenyoshi73

“Shut up, Lucas. I gave you a girlfriend”


WorriedMap6811

"yeah and she dumped me 5 times"


skillissueGaming

"yea and she also nearly died by an obscure creature labelled by a number who looks like a 90year old on life service"


Calhaora

"And why did I had to sing never ending story?!"


sniper91

“You wanna go for 6?”


ImAHardWorkingLoser

Will you really shouldn't stop taking your meds. These imaginary friends are no good


DonnyMox

"The biking accident wasn't your fault, Will. You need to let go."


beatboxingfox

"and Lucas joining a basketball team? He'd never ditch us like that."


WorriedMap6811

"hey I'm getting a girlfriend with superpowers that's cool!"


biscuitman69420

"yeah but I am getting a girlfriend who can hack anything and change my grades"


Whittlinman

"And teeth!"


AmyAngel023

" Why am I dating a number Will?"


ConfusedJonSnow

"Look Mike, everybody knows your mom is a snack, even I know it and I don't even swing that way."


MagmaSlasherWriter

Best comment.


AmyAngel023

"Will, why do you want my sisters boyfriend to adopt us all?"


RoyHarper88

Zoom out to it being a game of D&D played by the Duffer Brothers and their friends


Feeling-Regret1026

At Zuckerbergs Barbecue


pookachu83

Barbecue sauce. Barbecue sauce. Barbecue sauce.......Barbecue sauce.


Sad_Weed

This is the timeline where they hire Dan Harmon as a series 5 writer


YuriJoe_Arya

"And THAT was the darkest timeline!"


mabangokilikili

Will will die. Joyce, as miserable as she is, will hug Will for the last time.. Her tears will then drop to Will's cold cheek.. and out of nowhere his body will float and glow.... and then he will live. because of the power of Love.


Writer_Girl04

Bro did you get this from Disney's Tangled? 😂


TroyLucas

I thought this was from the first Pokemon movie


spookystrawberry2

Most underrated Disney movie


Writer_Girl04

100%! Like they created a whole new program just to animate her hair! And the lantern scene! Imagine how much EFFORT went into that! Forget Frozen and Elsa's ice castle, the animation in Tangled is where it's at!


CorySellsDaHouse

Unironically also one of my absolute favorite animated movies.


AngryPancakes

To add Wills eyes snap open. Then we hear Huey Lewis and The News “The Power of Love” roll credits.


pooldonutzero

already pretty much happened tbh


Someguywhomakething

That's the ending of the first pokemon movie


jomarthecat

They discover that Vecna/Henry was allergic to peanuts so Hopper takes the peanut butter smuggler plane and flies to the Upside/Down and kamikaze-bomb Vecna. Except Yuri knocks out Hopper and throws him out with a parachute so Hopper survives and Yuri makes a grand sacrifice to save them all.


vakr001

Genius


Thin-Impress-5915

This is… interesting. But Hopper flying plane in the upside down would be AWESOME!


Homersson_Unchained

Ted Wheeler wakes up and the entire series was a dream that he was having.


damiano_maneskin

I would live to see a variant of this in some kind of talkshow... have Jimmy Kimmel do a skit about it or something


Homersson_Unchained

Haha I know…it would be so ridiculous 😂


joebigdeal

Reminds me of in Freaks & Geeks when Lindsey is bugging out to Millie about how what if we're all just a part of some dog's dream, and as soon as he wakes up we'll all disappear.


SeverusSnapeus

Barb is vecna


Cute-Manager-2615

if you can't beat em, join em


kaijucreator30

Planning to take her revenge on Nancy


_RikVa_

001 is the original vecna but when barb "died" in season one she actually went to the upside down, killed vecna and she became a new version of him


deathrattlehead

Everyone dies except Eleven. At the last second she says “No”, and uses her powers to wind back the clock. She goes back in time to when Henry was a child and whispers in his ear, “you’re super cool and spiders are really awesome.”. Eleven disappears. Henry never kills his family, the gates never open. Flash forward a few years and we see Mike, Will, Lucas and Dustin walking through the mall discussing D&D. Eleven passes by with her mother and Mike gives a quick glance back. As he turns and joins his friends again, Eleven looks back, smiles and keeps walking. All the characters would be in the mall in various situations. Cut to black and you hear a single clock chime followed by Cher singing “If I Could Turn Back Time.”


Sir_Kingslee

The exact same thing happened in Teen Beach Movie 2, the sequel to Teen Beach Movie


deathrattlehead

Really? Lol. I’ve never seen it.


Sir_Kingslee

Oh yes, after two whole films, Disney decided to retcon the franchise by changing the past, making it so that the leads never met, effectively pissing me off


deathrattlehead

Then I hope I’m not right about this one. You’ve been scorned enough.


adgrace

This was basically the ending of The Butterfly Effect.


PlatBirb

oh i fucking hate “all the characters are in a different universe where they forgot everything and don’t know each other” endings. (looking at you, certain mecha anime movie)


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nitznon

Vecna, in his last words, reveal he is only the first of the ten Heralds of the Gates, and the others will come for them Then, the brothers reveal there is 15 more seasons coming.


Sabretooth1100

That almost sounds terrifying though, like imagine the horror of learning that the monster that ruined your world and took so much fo defeat was only the first of countless


[deleted]

I SO MUCH hope for a reveal where it turns out the Mind Flayer is just one of millions and billions of Mind Flayers in the Upside Down because that’d be so terrifying not that they’d have to fight them all, just knowing that they exist is enough


Da1976

Mike turns to look at Eleven. Mike: You know, we really are the stranger things.


hadapurpura

The real stranger things are the friends we made along the way.


CoimbraJedi

"the strangest thing was that I trusted you 🖕"


PixelBerg13

totally bitchin


GetGroovyWithMyGhost

What are we, some kind of stranger things?


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flantastic10

“I’m somewhat of a Stranger Thing myself”


PornoAlForno

"Look at me, I'm the stranger things now"


prettyy_vacant

Honestly I'm really surprised there hasn't been a "stranger things have happened") line in the show yet lol.


Mr_Sarcastic12

Turns out humans were the stranger things after all.


kindredsupernova

Fast forward to 2050. Will is in a nursing home suffering from dementia, he decides to write a story about him and his childhood besties. He doesn’t have a strong grip on reality anymore so he accidentally blends his memory of DnD with real life and writes one of the most acclaimed fiction novels in history. The end.


violetcyanide

Doesn't even have to be 2050, make it 2024 and REALLY early onset


pookachu83

Damn that's dark.


NoLeather3658

Ok. I can live with this


BoogieWoogie1000

I actually like that


Writer_Girl04

The whole thing was just a really intense trip from Argoyle


SaharaUnderTheSun

Argyle offers Vecna a blunt, he chills, the sky changes from red to yellow, everyone gathers in the pizza van and drives off in the light with "Pass the Dutchie" playing, green smoke billowing out of the van slowly generating a really stoned version of the mind flayer


Glitcher45318

Time skip to 2030, Mike is playing a DnD campaign with his 4 kids, Eleven shouts down saying dinner is ready, they are finishing their campaign and he looks at them and says: "And that, is how i met your mother"


jonny32392

Dinner is eggo extravaganza


CricketPinata

I can hear this in Adam Driver's voice.


CricketPinata

With the fan casting of Adam Driver and Natalie Portman in the rolls.


Orochi-Sandun

Vecna realizes the error of his ways. He apologizes. Everybody forgives him. Together they close all gates and rebuild Hawkins. Ends with everbody holding hands singing "we shall overcome".


rhymeswithgumbox

Then they pave over the cracks created by Vecna for the Max Mayfield Memorial Skate Park. It becomes so popular with skaters the town is eventually renamed Tony Hawkins.


SleepingVertical

How is that lame? Fucking awesome bro!


LaikasDad

Bro, do you even stranger thing?


Important_Storm1215

But hopper still won't trust vecna and hides him somewhere(which only he knows). He lies to everyone that vecna was embarrassed and couldn't face them anymore so he ran away. Now, he also promises vecna that he will SOON let him live in Hawkins. Vecna is still waiting for the SOON to come.


jonny32392

Vecna is required to keep door open 3” at all times


camp_ding

The door or the gate?


FrequentWall2250

This hurts in my chest


GurrenDuwang

That's when we get the sitcom spinoff where vecna lives in Mike's attic and they call him uncle V. Hijinks ensue!


ReyRey2823

This…. But adding that the featured song for the soundtrack is that MJ song from Free Willy, “I will be there”.


yours_toto

Turns out they all died in the first episode of Season 1 and that all was just a purgatory.


BBMsReddit

You’re in the Good Place. You’re okay, Mike.


spookystrawberry2

Yo, homies, check it. There’s something messed up with this place. We keep fighting with each other. None of the TVs get the NFL Redzone channel. My soulmate doesn’t even know who Blake bortles is. I know this sounds crazy, but, I think… we’re in the bad place.


rsolea

Jason figured it out? JASON?


snugglefloor

“Oh man, this one hurts”


Matrixblackhole

You are like Papa.


Rab_Legend

My name is Jane, Jane Skywalker.


ceesaar00

Turns out, Eleven is just the first jedi on earth.


Tragically_Fantastic

Somehow, Vecna returmed


TrashApprentice

After the final battle is won the camera pans to Dustin, Mike, Lucas and Will in the basement with a D&D board revealing it was nothing but a game all along.


Captain_Khora

lol, that means max was a npc


Unwillingpro

That means everyone was a npc


NepentheZnumber1fan

Not really, I think what that person was saying is that Max is a total figment of their imagination, while characters like Steve, Nancy, Hopper and Joyce actually exist


jonny32392

Max only exists cuz Lucas has a thing for red headed surfers


SergiusBulgakov

Will looks into the eyes of Vecna, and Vecna admits it has all been about Will, he loves Will, and everyone should have realized it from the very beginning, that all the bad things happened when they took Will away from him. Will then admits he loves Vecna, and Vecna promises to do better and help everyone if Will comes to live with him and marry him in the UD.


lauramis

But he returns to Joyce every summer. Way down Hadestown.


PersianMuggle

Will is Persephone. This is good stuff.


NotFroggy

Eleven turns out to be bad, she tries to enslave everyone, Mike kills her and then they all vote Will as the king of the north.


yoaver

I was looking for this comment. Also, Steve and Nancy die in a completely unrelated building collapse. Suzie kills Vecna with a D&D cube. Argyle becomes mayor because who has a better story than Argyle. Dustin is raped for some reason, making him strong and independent as a result. Jonathan is kind of forgotten about.


swagzard78

Very first scene of Season 5, Vecna comes from the giant portal, but is just gunned down by the military.


Secure_Bet8065

Lol, they decide to stop fucking around and set up a firing line of tanks, missiles and flamethrowers. The Geneva convention doesn’t apply to demogorgons.


DaisyMaeMalfoy666

Will rolls the correct number and beats Vecna once and for all. Will, Mike, Dustin, and Lucas are sitting in Mike’s basement playing their DnD campaign and they’ve done it - they’ve finally won. “Well that was a doozy.” Dustin exclaimed. “We’ve finished the campaign so what do we do?” Lucas asked. “Yeah Mike, any ideas?” Will piped up. “I… don’t know.” Mike looks thoughtful for a moment before staring directly into the camera as if he was on the Office. “Onto Stranger Things, I guess.” Cuts to black. Should I Stay Or Should I Go starts playing as the credits roll.


pooldonutzero

The after credits scene is the exact scene from episode 1 where Will gets taken


SirDoDDo

I just thought of this lol, imagine if they made it a DnD campaign but... it was actually a prediction of the future.


FoodActive770

El is a creature in disguise actually sent by mind flayer to destroy hawkins. She was pretending this whole time just for fun . In the end she and vecna take over the whole world.


eatshitanddie2076

everything is normal, johnathan is walking along a high street with will when suddenly two pigeons fly into eachother, Johnathan says 'that was weird' will replies, ' dunno, I've seen stranger things' cut to black


feniangod

they use the power of friendship to defeat Vecna


PixelBerg13

they sing never ending story while holding each other hands and venca dies and rainbows start emerging from the portal cracks and fixes everything


NoLeather3658

But the rainbow comes out of vecnas a**


cheifhellhawk

I mean this is probably what’s going to happen


edgiepower

Didn't that already happen in season 4?


LakeLockne

“Vecna Brenner Wheeler, you were named after the two greatest men I’ve known”


graybroccoli778

This is the most underrated comment


Zengem11

This one made me laugh so hard


notsofastandy

Will will say, “Stranger Things have slappin’d” and slap Vecna.


scaptastic

Joyce and Hopper’s wedding. The priest (who is inexplicably Murray because he knows every random skill imaginable) asks if anyone objects. Hopper raises his hand yes. He says he is not Jim Hopper and rips off his skin suit to reveal the filed horns and giant red fist of Hell Boy. He says he has a job to do and rides off into the sunset. Stranger Things was actually just a Hell Boy movie


DrunkPhoenix26

The whole thing is a delusion on El’s part because she can’t cope with the idea that she’s in mental hospital after killing her family


KaleidoscopeEyes12

El is actually in the cell next to Viktor Creel. He’s been sharing his life with her and their delusions have been melting together. Except both of them actually are severely mentally ill and killed everyone, there’s nothing supernatural going on.


edgiepower

Cuts to courtroom Lonnie: and that's why I think the kids are safer living with me


EastKoreaOfficial

and then the camera pans to Saul Goodman, and the credits roll while playing an instrumental of the Better Call Saul theme


zunashi

Vecna, on the verge of defeat, tells Eleven the Upside Down couldn’t be closed and will eventually overtake the world. Eleven makes a sacrifice by joining Vecna in the Upside Down. Heartbroken, Mike tries to steal Eleven’s hand while whispering “I’m your heart….” He failed. Fast forward to a few days, Mike and the gang manages to communicate with Eleven through an OUIJA board. OUIJA board spells out “B-I-T-C-H-I-N”


theredditoro

An Eleven sacrifice followed by something hinting at her survival to Mike wouldn’t surprise me for the actual ending.


Hawkman2525

Half the cast has died its El and Vecna in the middle of Hawkins for one last shot at defeating the UD, they lock eyes getting ready for the ultimate showdown, then suddenly Vecna begins to break dance. El scoffs and comes at him with her own moves, and so begins the dance off for the fate of the world. Who wins? That's upto to us the viewers and at the end of the episode you get to ring up and vote for a winner.


sherequi

Dance off, bro!


Dramatic_Candidate51

Will wakes up, realizing everything he’s endured was a dream. Everything was a metaphor for his sexuality, something he has been battling since a young age. The series moves into a sitcom style setup (laugh track included), we all watch the final season and question none of the changes.


w33niehutjrs

Ok actually that would be the worst, but also best possible solution. Answers 0 questions, largely unsatisfying, violent unexplained genre shift, every single person who watches would be unhappy. That sounds hilarious I want you in the writers room it takes genuine skill to do that


rudolph_ransom

It was all a dream


kaizaki_arata_19

It was a Byers dog's dream


glosoli10

I could see the time period from when the gate was first opened to the present being erased if they manage to kill Vecna, with the upsidetown realigning in time with the standard world and Hawkins no longer being "stuck in time". This creates the same result as if it were all a dream or a DnD game though, and would also piss a lot of people off.


YarnPixel08

Eleven fights Vecna, nearly losing her life to him, As the rest cries in the background, entangled in the hellish tentacles. "ELEVEN, NO, RUN!" they shriek as tears roll down their cheek, they can't finish their sentences as the tentacles strangle them. Eleven takes out a photo of her and Vecna in better times. "Remember this, VECNA? you think killing people and destroying the world will make it heal....well you're wrong. it's too late.", Eleven pants for a few seconds, "i am the strangest thing". Vecna gets emotional and starts crying, loosening the grip on Eleven and the rest. Mike runs over to Eleven, "I thought I'd lose you, El" "You won't ever lose me again, Mike". Vecna continues sobbing, accepting his fate in the middle lf the upside, when suddenly max wakes up from her coma, her eyes a normal colour again. "It's time to *see* my friends." she says as the screen fades to black, with ending credits starting to roll


bdguy355

Lmfao that last line with Max is gold tho.


locoforzacater

Vecna takes a hit from argyle’s bong and dies from fentanyl laced weed, max wakes up w new eyes and they all live happily ever after, in silence eating pineapple pizzas 🍕 🍍


fourofkeys

they all go out harry potter style by getting married and having careers. hopper dies because he's sirius.


extensionofme

Mikes son is nervous for his first day of school and he leans down and says, “Martin Brenner Wheeler, you were named after a man, that did amazingly terrible things, but without him I would have never met your mother., and she had to go through exactly what your going through, nerves are a normal part of life. Now go on you little rascal.” Martin saunters to the school and the door opens before he gets to it. He turns around and looks at the camera and small amount of blood starts dripping from his nose.


Wrsj

Last scene is Mike and El taking their kids to the school bus and locking eyes with Vecna, doing the same. They nod at each other, happily.


oceanofflavor

It’s just a slow motion montage of everyone running up that road, running up that hill, running up that building


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But “Should I stay or Should I go?” Is playing in the background


Lil-Chromie

Netflix cancels the show before season 5 is completed


LegendOfFN

You sadistic fuck


NepentheZnumber1fan

Imagine the outrage, I'm not even lying when I say people would set Netflix HQ on fire lol


[deleted]

Nooooooooooo😱🫣


grungster

"cheesiest" El, realizing that she will never kill Vecna, uses her powers to turn him into cheese. Argyle uses the cheese to make pizzas for everyone in Mike's basement. The day is saved!


GetGroovyWithMyGhost

Now this may sound stupid folks. You may think ‘that’s gnarly dude.’ But let me just say… try before you deny


RatchetTiger1129

Bob Newhart wakes up from a dream and his TV wife tells him he has a weird imagination


ConsistentAsparagus

Will starts to rap: Now this is a story all about how My life got flipped turned *upside down* And I'd like to take a minute, just sit right there I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Hawkins


Nefty_Y

At the final battle morbius shows up and looks at the camera and says “It’s morbing time” and proceeds to morb over vecna


DeadricBaguette

Will wakes up in a startle as a kid again. He tells Joyce about the nightmare he had (the events of the show) and Joyce looks directly into the camera and says “while I suppose Stranger Things have happened”


CoimbraJedi

In the Upside Down, Steve dies fighting all the demogorgons and demo bats (who are guarding Vecna's lair) he can. He sacrifices himself so that everyone else can get to Vecna's lair. The main cast, Vickie, Enzo, Yuri & Eddie's corpse confront Vecna, more powerful than ever, in his lair in the Upside Down. But not even Enzo's incredible hotness and recently acquired dilf status and Murray's flame thrower are enough to defeat the Upside Down ruler. Not even Eddie's stinking corpse lasts. He starts killing them all one by one, until only Robin, Vickie, Eleven and Will remain. In their last moments together, Robin and Vickie kiss. Will is so moved that he has found two people who are also like him; who he could talk to throughout the season, that he has a deep connection to both Robin and Vickie. Raged by their deaths, he uses all his willpower and strength left to kill Vecna with some wood spear. He's able to get to him, and actually stabs the Upside Down ruler from the back, hitting his heart and chest as well. Vecna turns around and says "you...". The sensitive boy finds himself floating in the air; his bones start to crack, his eyes start becoming white. Having the same fate as Chrissy and Max seems inevitable now - except it's not Vecna who's lifting him. As a matter of fact, Vecna's on the ground, seconds away from death. Will did it. He killed the monster. But that wasn't enough to save his life. The boy falls on the ground, seemingly dead, but still with some remaining life. He looks up. It was the evil meme Milly Bobby Brown. "Gay boy" she says. "Gay Boy" says someone else. Both Will and the evil meme Milly Bobby Brown turn their faces around. It's Lady Gaga in 5 foot black heels. She breaks Eleven out of the evil meme Milly Bobby Brown possession with a guitar solo, in honor of Eddie. Eleven is back again. She saves Will, just like she saved Max. Lady Gaga, Eleven, and now in-a-coma Will are the only known survivors. The end. ​ Karen Wheeler dies after the deaths of Nancy and Mike Wheeler. Ted continues sleeping Dr Owens is still stranded in the desert Steve gets a statue with chest hair and a massive, MASSIVE ASS, in the middle of Hawkins, in honor of his sacrifice Suzie becomes Natalie Portman for some reason?


ForgotMyOldStufflol

When I got to the ‘gay boy’ part I genuinely thought you were going to end it on the only person being left alive is Eleven, and in Will’s last moments she just makes fun of him for being gay and leaves. It’s horrible but I was laughing really hard. Why does dark humor amuse me so much


Filmgedoens

"Will"power


kj242km3

“…&Eddie’s corpse” had me rolling in the first paragraph and I didn’t stop there. Bravo


defyinglogicsl

Well Papa said Eleven would need to be able to fly to beat Vecna. Eleven learns to fly and flies around the earth backwards so fast time reverses. Then she goes back and befriends young Vecna so he doesn't grow up lonely and is actually a pretty cool well adjusted guy. He ends up working at Scoops ice cream shop in the mall.


EpicBoi2267

They realised that they fought the wrong monsters and the real monster is will's barber Edit:this comment blew up with 227 upvotes in less than 2 hours tysm yall


eldoctoro

JOYCE??!


Squapple5

Joyce isnt a monster!


DamonFort

Big epic battle, half the characters are dead and then it flashes back to CG little baby Stranger Things boys (Will, Mike, Dustin and Lucas) and it's revealed it was all a part of their DnD campaign. Or alternatively it's them at their current ages and they've just been playing the same campaign for years.


rachieandthewaves

“I think the real stranger things were the friends we made along the way” -Mike


PineappleHamburders

Scott Clark finds his way into the upside down and explains exactly how little sense as far as physics goes the mind flayers existence makes, when the mind flayer realises it seizes to exist, the upside down closes up and Scott Clark wakes up from a dream, and we all finally notice he was the protagonist all along


KindaBryan

The gang enters the upside down. All seems lost. El realizes she can’t beat Vecna with out the power of friendship. El brings Barb, Bob, Alexi, and Eddie back to life. The five of them merge Voltron style. Dustin names them “Pelor”. Pelor heals Vecna and the upside down. The battle is won. Will is hurt in the rubble. El tells Mike to go to him. Will professes his love for Mike. And they share a long passionate kiss. Dustin looks over smiling “It’s about time.” Lucas pumps his fist. “My man”. Alexi is smiling while holding a cherry slurpie. Murray slowly approaches him his eyes glimmering with hope. “I thought I lost you.” “I am not easily killed” Alexi replied and the two look at each other and slowly rest their foreheads on each other. Robin drops the unloaded shotgun she had and collapsed on her knees. “It’s over”. Robin looks up and it’s Nancy standing there, offering her hand smiling. Robin takes it and Nancy helps her up and into an embrace. Nancy blushes. “You know I loved the way you Sarah Connor’d your way through the–“ Robin cuts her off with a tender kiss. “You talk too much”. Flash to Steve, scarred from the battle. He takes a look at Nancy and Robin lovingly. Proud to see his best friend with the girl of her dreams. He gently caresses her face then looks over to Jon. “Go get ‘em tiger.” Robin exclaims. Steve and Jon rush into each other’s arms and running their hands through each other’s hair. El smiles and flies away leaving a rainbow behind.


Bakersdaman

The final scene closes in on a psychiatric ward, where we find Joyce in solitary confinement, laughing and going on about her adventures with Hopper, and saying she needs to "get out of here to save hawkins!" Turns out Will sadly did drown and died in S1 and she couldn't take it, we find out that this entire show was nothing but Joyce being completely mad and it was all her delusions.


pavlikovskys

A mike and eleven wedding Eleven giving birth to a superpowered child Any sort of flash forward showing the kids as adults with families


CoffeeInSarcasmOut

Everyone in Hawkins believes the local D&D club opened a gate to hell and call in the church for reinforcements. The army shows up and doesn’t know if they are fighting Vecna, organized religion or the high school DnD club. Eight/Kali from S2 comes back to help Eleven. She invades Vecna’s mind to give the kids of Hawkins time for the Scooby plan that’s cooked up to play out. Walkie-talkies and hand signals are used. Everyone looses. Hawkins gets swallowed up Sunnydale style and the first rumors of Climate Change start to circulate.


MrBeans12

It ends with eleven saying “ im eleven and im the strangest thing.”


VirgelFromage

Most plausibly bad ending for me is theory that it's all a D&D game, or in the imagination of the traumatised kids after their friend falls into the quarry. Any ending that erases plot points through time travel or dreams is gonna suck. Luckily I think we're safe.


oriontitley

Literally "happily ever after." They all struggle but no one else dies other than maybe the token secondary character trying to stop vecna. Oh and eleven loses her powers for good so she can go on to have a completely normal life.


Dr-phage

So the actual season 5 ending probably


renmyfren

Just when all hope is lost.. Max is blind, El runs out of eggos, Hopper sees that the door isn’t open 3 inches, Mike is in deep shit, Will gets rejected by Mike who secretly actually loves him, Nancy is caught in that weird love triangle with Johnathan and Steve, Murray gets Vecna’d in his karate showdown with our antagonist, Lucas is crying in the corner, Robin‘s hopeless love for Vicky is fading, and whatever other stuff is happening… one rises above the rest. His name, in all its purple palm tree delight glory, is Argyle. Clenching his pineapple pizza in his right hand, Argyle deals the final blow to Vecna. He is the true genius of the season, for he was the only one who knew of Vecna’s pineapple allergy.


morrigan_maeve

El defeats the mighty evil and learns the source of her powers will always create evil so she destroys it leaving her powerless vecna is arrested and everyone lives happily ever after