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Who is Vecna, the new great villain of Stranger Things 4

On May 27, the first batch of episodes (seven, to be specific) of the fourth season of the highly successful series premiered stranger things on Netflix, bringing us the newest adventures of our favorite group of 80s teens. And some of the aspects that have most dazzled the followers have been its more serious tone (compared to the previous two seasons)new characters introduced as Eddie Munson, a player of Dungeons and Dragons who is inadvertently involved in the main plot of the series and, above all, the new villain of this batch of chapters: the fearsome Vecna.

Vecna, who is Vecna?

Before we get into the flour and break down who this sinister villain is, mention that there will be spoilers for this new fourth season, so if you haven’t seen all the episodes… we are not responsible.

Early in season four we witness a group of teenagers, including the captain of the cheer squad, the head of the school newspaper, and a member of the basketball roster are brutally murdered by a mysterious force. Well, this demonic entity turns out to be the sinister and powerful Vecna, a being that is found and belongs to the Upside Down World.

However, unlike previous villains such as the Demogorgon or the Mind Flayer, Vecna ​​is capable of attacking our dimension without the need to cross into our reality. Thus, the group made up of Dustin, Max, Lucas, Steve, Robin, Nancy and Eddie set themselves the task of putting an end to this chain of deaths by eliminating Vecna.

Where does this villain come from?

The name of this villain comes from the role-playing game of Dungeons and Dragonsjust like the previous antagonists of the series. Vecna ​​is, within the lore of that franchise, a mighty sorcerer that he was able to extend his evil beyond death, a characteristic that he practically shares with his Netflix counterpart.

After a series of events the villain ends up catching Nancyforcing her to relive the trauma that haunts her every day and makes her believe that she was the one who let her friend Barb die (during the first season).

Neighbor Stranger Things.

Parallel, Eleven starts a top secret government program with the aim of recovering the powers that she lost at the end of the third season, accompanied by Doctor Brenner, the scientist who helped her in her day to develop those superhuman abilities. The Nina project consists of our protagonist will have to re-experience the memories from her past that helped her gain those supernatural abilities.

Through these memories we will learn the story of how one of the caretakers of the facility in which she was found feels sorry for her and decides to help her escape from the laboratory. Eleven, as a sign of thanks, helps him remove a chip that, in theory, served to track him in case of escape and that forced him to practically live like a prisoner.

That character, without his chip, start killing everyone in the secret base with the help of his own mental powers. That’s when we are told that this caretaker is 001 in the Doctor Brenner program. Then he will tell us that he had always possessed those abilities and that he was disowned by his family… until one day he decided to brutally murder his mother and his sister as revenge.

Due to his superpowers he ends up being instructed by Brenner within the program that gave life to Eleven. In a script twist that few expected, it is revealed to us that this 001 would end up becoming Vecna after Eleven banished him to the Upside Down World. Shocking, right?

now only missing wait until next July 1, 2022 to see how this fast-paced season of stranger things.

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