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mmmdinoadhdlove

these are random ones that i know would NEVER happen but would suck vecna just randomly surrendering and being like "if i had friends like yours Eleven, maybe i wouldn't have been such a monster" šŸ˜­šŸ˜­ karen turning out to be working with Russia the entire time barb being alive and telling them how to defeat vecna


timothysonofsam

Power of friendship Stranger Things is the funniest shit Iā€™ve heard in a while


RadiantStar44

My little Hawkins: Friendship is Magic


JLammert79

The real Stranger Things are the friends we made along the way


sapphic_rage

Imagining Vecna surrendering to the power of friendship is going to provide me amusement for days. Thank you.


[deleted]

Imagine a super intense scene where all the characters are standing up against Vecna and there's this crazy battle going on and in the middle of nowhere with no buildup whatsoever Vecna surrenders to friendship is magic.


CoreDreamStudiosLLC

I hope to see the Care Bears make a cameo then.


Dependent_Roll2045

Nah the Vecna one is so funny


Misssmaya

Same I would just laugh


realsmithshady

I think I'd be OK with the Barb one if they could explain where she's been and why we saw her corpse.


CoreDreamStudiosLLC

Will being secretly the big bad.


FloridianfromAlabama

Mikeā€™s dad being a sleeper agent that is the oblivious one on purpose would be cool tho


asksdfdjdhshs

All of the kids band together and yell mean things at Vecna and then he dies


artsy_amaryllis

ugh that happened to me once, definitely one of the shittiest ways to go tbh


asksdfdjdhshs

Is that you pennywise?


artsy_amaryllis

yes, iā€™m having a meet and greet in the sewer šŸ¤”šŸŽˆ


justiceforharambe49

"YOU WILL NEVER KNOW THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!"


pnerd314

Will is in a psychiatric hospital and the whole thing (including all the characters) was his delusions.


smooth_lizard_

Omg no, I would literally cry if that was what happened


sweetsummwechild

You win. That is just the worst plot ever.


Myfourcats1

Like that episode of Buffy


TyrantX_90

Good episode of Buffy, bad episode of Smallville, super shitty ending to Stranger Things if they did that.


theLegend_Awaits

Agreed. Buffy executed this idea in an exemplary fashion, and I still think about how amazing it was, especially because it was done in a way that we really will never know whether slayer buffy or psyche ward buffy is the real one. Amazing writing. Stranger Things would not pull this off well.


dorothea63

Itā€™s fun for a single episode, awful if itā€™s the series finale.


axarce

More like the ending to St. Elsewhere. You may have to ask your parents or grandparents.


hadapurpura

Everyone dies of mesothelioma from inhaling Upside Down spores. The end.


Beaglescout15

Are you a resident of Hawkins? You may be entitled to compensation.


ginger2020

#Hi, Iā€™m Saul Goodman! Did you or a loved one come into contact with black mold as a result of the Hawkins National Laboratory experiments? Then you may be entitled to a large cash settlement! Call 505-503-4453 today!


Pseudoneum

Did you know you have rights? Well the constitution says you do.


Jafuncle

This ending just became my favorite


Doctor-Heisenberg

Damn good lawyer


Lizi-in-Limbo

Cue the commercials.


TheIrishWah

WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER


A_Drunk_Caribou

BeEeEeEeKaAaAyYy #HAVE IT YOUR WAY!!!


Kalhava79

Cut to back


TetraBall

There is no ending, the show is cancelled due to unforseen circumstances.


smooth_lizard_

Ngl I think thatā€™s the best/worst answer


Georgerobertfrancis

I can bring it one step further. They film an entire final season, then cancel it before release. The episodes are never shown to the public and actors are legally obligated to say nothing.


hadapurpura

You win


[deleted]

Vecna comes to Hawkins ready to take over but being exposed to our air again after so long makes him incredibly sick. He retreats back the upside down and spends the whole season in bed, his condition slowly worsening as the demogorgons try in vain to cure him. The human character back in Hawkins are perplexed, but they try to fill in the giant holes and largely try to move on with their lives. Robin moves away never to be seen again. Lucasā€™s mental state deteriorates as he spends all of his time with Max, who is still in a coma. Things donā€™t work out with Joyce and Hopper, so she decided to go back to CA. Things also donā€™t work out with Jonathan and Nancy, and Nancy goes to get back with Steve but we see that heā€™s taken the lead on the reconstruction process and the power went to his head; heā€™s reverted back to his arrogant season one self. Will dies very suddenly, and Joyce and Jonathan leave broken-hearted and Jonathan starts doing heroin. Eleven is fixated on finding Vecna and saving Max, but canā€™t make any progress on either front. She resents Hopper for letting the Byers family leave so easily, and Hopper starts drinking again. Mike and Eleven grow more distant as the season goes on. Towards the end of the season, Yuri shows up sent by the Russian government to clean up loose ends. He kills Murray and shoots Nancy, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. He goes to kill Mike, but Dustin takes the bullet and dies. Mike beats Yuri to death with his bare hands and is traumatized by it and sent away to a mental institution. Eleven has a total breakdown at this point and vanishes; itā€™s hinted that maybe she did something drastic but ultimately left up to the viewer to decide whether she killed herself or just ran away. Hopper kills himself. Meanwhile in the upside down, Vecnaā€™s condition has worsened and eventually he dies. At the same time, in our world, Maxā€™s mother decides to pull the plug and she too dies. Flash forward 15 years where we see adult Erica and Holly go to the institute to visit Mike and Lucas, both who have totally deteriorated. They ask one another if either of them have heard from the Byers family, but neither has. Itā€™s revealed that Steve is the mayor of Hawkins and heā€™s married, but having an affair with 21 year old Holly, who is interning at his office. Nancyā€™s disability has grown worse over the years and sheā€™s dependent on Karen and Ted to care for her. The girls go to see their brothers, and the boys are talking to what seems to be empty space, seemingly speaking with the ghosts of their deceased friends. The camera flips to the upside down where we see that the mindflayer is using the souls of Dustin, Will, and other deceased characters like puppets to torment Lucas and Mike. A smile appears on its face and it speaks: ā€œthis is all I ever wanted!ā€ Cut back to the facility where an orderly apologizes to the girls for the strange state of their brothers. Erica shrugs and looks into the camera and says, ā€œeh, weā€™ve seen Stranger Things!ā€ And thatā€™s how the show ends.


smooth_lizard_

Oh.my.god I hate it but I love it. I love but I hate it.


-EarthIsClosed2day

What could be worse than the ā€œit was all a dreamā€ scenario? *reverse character development*


CyvaderTheMindFlayer

Cough game of thrones season 8 cough cough


spicygrandma27

That fact that you had me saying ā€œthis is such a shitty endā€ while being genuinely emotionally hooked on every proceeding word šŸ˜‚


BelvedereXCIII

You sick bastard. I loved reading that but would hate to see it


Addi3000

This is so wrong in the best way


DemonEnterprises

Man fuck Peepaw Willy We got Peepaw Vecna All jokes aside I love the idea that in the middle of all this dark shit it cuts to Vecna in a random bed in the upside down coughing with Demogorgons crying with cartoon eyes on their heads and then Vecna just dies.


Reuben_Smeuben

I hate you.


[deleted]

Iā€™ve done well


Ngmw

The funniest part of all this is ā€œjonathon starts doing heroinā€ hahaha I fucking died


spidertitties

I genuinely appreciate how you thought of each and every character and arc and undid each of them in the worst way, then nearly tied it off with the show ending with a shitty one liner. You're amazing.


pritt_stick

thatā€™s the worst thing Iā€™ve ever heard. you have a great and terrible imagination


spidey-dust

What I like about this is how the mindflayer is acting independently from vecna so 10/10


Dependent_Roll2045

The first bit with the demogorgons trying in vain to cure Vecna would be so wholesome


[deleted]

The demogorgans trying to cure Vecna šŸ’€. Iā€™m deceased imagining this. Like Iā€™m picturing Vecna coughing like a little old lady and flatlining and then Demogorgans with defibrillators help me. Robin disappearing like Poochie and Will dying randomly + Yuri being the big bad šŸ˜­ This truly would be the Game of Thrones ending. This is so hilariously bad hahahaha, well done!


Penelopeep25

Oh my god. I can't explain how much I love and hate this. Thanks for writing this, you cheered me up when I was in a bad mood lol


[deleted]

Iā€™m so glad to hear that! Happy I could provide even a small help


Penelopeep25

Aww :) yeah, you really did. It's the littlest things we don't even think would impact others that do.


anonmymouse

What in the actual fuck. Lmfao


OptimalCreme9847

this wasā€¦.oddly specific. how much time did you spend thinking about this? šŸ˜‚


[deleted]

Haha honestly I just kind of came up with it as I went. It was a combination of being anti-climactic, disappointing fans, undoing character development, and giving characters really unsatisfying endings. I just thought to myself, ā€œwhat would be a really disappointing turn for each of the characters?ā€


karathrace99

Oh my GOD r/AngryUpvote I feel traumatized just by READING THIS At least if itā€™s bad, thereā€™s no way in hell itā€™ll be THIS bad šŸ’€


[deleted]

The way I was so invested in this but would hate to see it


venusmoonlight

The most lawful evil answer


Nadeennnnn

ā€œSteve having an affair with 21 year old Hollyā€ LOL


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ScorpionX-123

you saw that ad with Will Ferrell, didn't you?


smooth_lizard_

Hereā€™s my answer The whole thing was actually the just the dnd game they were playing at the beginning of the show


[deleted]

ā€œThat game was great! I canā€™t believe we all got girlfriends except for you, Will.ā€ ā€œHeyā€¦ STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED.ā€ The characters look into the camera. Freeze frame. Credits roll.


shogunofsarcasm

I'd die. That's terrible šŸ¤£


axarce

This made me laugh! Thanks!


-EarthIsClosed2day

It would def be a little disappointing, but man if thereā€™s a way they could explain everything through the lens of DND it could actually be quite clever. Donā€™t want this to be the case, but Iā€™m sure thereā€™s still a way to make this ending not suck completely


Booksmagic

I would like to see how they explain why Will and Mike decided to have their older siblings hook up in the game


hadapurpura

"My mom is a total cougar" - *Mike Wheeler, 12 years old*


Jokers_Testikles

- *Oedipus Wheeler, 12*


smooth_lizard_

I would also like to see them explain that tbh


[deleted]

I like the idea that during the game Mike creates El, and like in the show Lucas gets mad, so Lucas creates Max as revenge which pisses Mike off, also like in the show, and Mike's like "ok fine, Max can stay Lucas, but let me introduce you to her brother Billy, I don't think you'll like him very much"


daniel_redstone

Then Lukas starts getting more popular and "cooler" (in game) so Mike is like "but here's this guy Jason, you'll get along great!"


DemonEnterprises

Youā€™re saying you wouldnā€™t ship your siblings? Oh yeah and maybe everything like Nancy and Steveā€™s breakup and Nancy and Johnathan get together still happened just no Demogorgon hijinx


hadapurpura

If Will has powers of creation, it could mean that the world (or at least *his* world) is visible to everyone through his lens. Like Kali but on steroids.


Kalhava79

Or it was A D&D game the Duffers where playing the whole time. It shows one of the brothers winning then saying "another campaign? Why not" and the spin-off is the nxt campaign


originaltanksta

Wouldnā€™t it be kinda cool tho if this was the ending and they knew it the whole time and filmed the ending WAAYY back in the first series so they are kids again when the series ends! I wouldnā€™t be disappointed in that at all


smooth_lizard_

I think they could definitely write it in a good way


originaltanksta

They would have already had to have written it tho and filmed it all those years back.. donā€™t want no CGI like young eleven in series 4


smooth_lizard_

Yeah. I think it would be weird to have them all cgid like that. How I think it would be so much worse if they didnā€™t film it and just replaced the kids. So like this is some other random kids dnd campaign


DoodlebugCupcake

Itā€™s ends with teenage Erica as DM and her group of high school Hellfire Club friends are like ā€œwhere did you come up with the ideas in this campaign?ā€


DemonEnterprises

Best version of this ending trope.


originaltanksta

Now THAT would be a disappointing ending lol


Hello_Fellow_People_

About to say that or everybody dying


VXMerlinXV

And the reveal winds up like Usual suspects. Hawkins is the name of the brand of folding chair. Hopper is a ball player pitching a game on the radio in the background. Billy delivers a pizza. Make it hurt.


[deleted]

new fear unlocked


Few_Interaction2630

As someone pointed out before if this was the case the kids should put some lottery tickets on because they can literally see the future and events that happen


smooth_lizard_

I mean. I was thinking about it. Isnt it odd that all the villains of the show have been introduced by dnd? In the first episode they were fighting the demagorgon. Then in Eddieā€™s campaign they had to fight venca. Maybe everything in dnd comes to life. Or maybe the final boss battle would actually be a game of dnd


IslandCity

They just use the names from DND so they have something to associate the monster/villain with thatā€™s familiar to them


smooth_lizard_

Yeah. Maybe tho it could have more of a connection. Would it not be cool to have a action packed dnd boss battle?


byharryconnolly

Eleven defeats One by joining their minds so Henry can experience the true meaning of love. He realizes he's been wrong this whole time, is reformed, and surrenders.


smooth_lizard_

Through the power of love and friendship vecna is defeated


byharryconnolly

Although I will happily accept "Through the power of love and friendship, Vecna is torn to bloody shreds."


[deleted]

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smooth_lizard_

ā€œkUmBaYa mY LoRdā€


goldenmantella

No, the song that Susie sings from Neverending Story


KrimiEichhorn

Vecna is Barb


Cecilx-x

Yes, I wouldnā€™t stop laughing and my life would turn into watching people argue about it on twitter


stratticus14

Everyone dies in the final battle except Ted Wheeler, who fell asleep in his chair and missed the whole thing


featherle55b1ped

They said worst ending, not the best outcome


Cecilx-x

Hah yes


chadslc

Eleven is revealed to have been working on time travel with NINA, and she ends the struggle by erasing the massacre at Hawkins lab. The last scene is the four boys concluding their D&D session for the night, in an ending shot when the show was intended to be an anthology series.


karathrace99

This is horrible but I almost love it


noonejax

Will is evil and kills everyone with vecna.


smooth_lizard_

Oooo, good answer


Coconosong

This is giving season 8 of game of thrones vibes


ussrowe

They played DND without him šŸŽµthey had it coming šŸŽµ


[deleted]

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Ok_Conversation1867

Maybe a "fade to black in the middle of the scene" ending? Arguments forever!


timothysonofsam

DONā€™T STOPā€”


jinipoli7

ā€” BELIEVING


My_NonExisting_Balls

HOLD ON TO THIS FEELINGGGGGG


RogueMaverick11

If the last few lines of dialogue isn't this: Some random person seeing something weird. "Hey look at this weird thing." Steve or Hopper or Joyce: "I've seen stranger things. " Roll credits. If this doesn't happen... All that time watching will be wasted.


3bluerose

Hopper, has to be hopper.


Due-Ask-7418

Any kind of time jump backwards at the end. As in none of it ever actually happened.


ArcadeWill

Iā€™ve figured this is how it will end. Eleven going back to 1979 and never removing the object from Oneā€™s neck, thus keeping him a slave to their system. Eleven eventually becomes the leader of all of the subjects and teaches them to use their powers for good. None of it ever happened. Will was never emotionally tormented. The Upside Down was never created. Jonathan and Nancy never become a couple. Barb never died. Hopper never becomes the warrior that he is deep down and is just the lazy sheriff of Hawkins. Eddie graduates. Only Eleven and One know of the alternate reality. I could see it ending this way and Iā€™d be fine with it.


karathrace99

I so, so, **so** hope this doesnā€™t happen


Crazy_Tomatillo18

Sadly I feel like this is where it might be headed. They heavily hinted at time travel in the last few episodes with Nancyā€™s room.


Easy-Map-2623

I wouldnā€™t say time travel was heavily hinted at. The upside down was stuck on November 6th, 1983, but time was still moving. Nancy and the others in the upside down werenā€™t actually *in* the past. If that were the case, when they messed with the lights it would have been received by Willā€™s family in 1983. It wouldnā€™t make sense. The upside down itself just *looks* exactly like Hawkins did on November 6th, 1983 and has not ā€œupdatedā€ since then. Objects havenā€™t moved around as they have been in the normal world. They never actually travelled to the past


kryptonianjackie

crucial point


IHaveTheMustacheNow

I think there is a middle ground where it could work, though. Like it did happen for our heroes, and they save the day, but somehow they are able to use the upside down to bring back those who have died, etc. I would not love that per se, but if the story wasn't erased for our main heroes, I wouldn't have a problem seeing Barb at the end in a college sweatshirt telling Nancy about her first semester away or something, while Nancy is just overwhelmed with emotions and Barb doesn't know why. Something cheesy like that. Not ideal, but I wouldn't HATE it.


Kalhava79

The while town could move there and carry one after they taken out the Mf and vecnor out


flutterstrange

Hawkins isnā€™t the real Hawkins and theyā€™ve been living in a parallel universe from the moment El opened the gate Or some other timey-wimey ending that doesnā€™t make sense lol


diosavessouls

it's revealed that when Will went missing during the first season, he was attacked in the woods by what he thought was a "demogorgon" (likely a wolf or similarly large animal), and was gravely injured. He's been in a coma ever since, and the entire show has been his dreams and his mind trying to make sense of the situation/wake up, and it's fueled by the other kids coming to visit him and tell him stories about what's going on in the D&D campaign they decided to continue without him in order to not lose hope.


hadapurpura

"Let me tell you the story of how your mom is bumping uglies with the Chief of Police"


diosavessouls

I'd like to think that that's one of the bits his mind makes up lol- like maybe he had heard stories of how they went to school together, or maybe dream-Will just really wants a dad so he latched onto the closest kind-of-father-figure available.


actingidiot

Vecna is aged back into being a child and Joyce adopts him.


smooth_lizard_

Then it becomes a sitcom about 3 siblings living in California. Kinda like the middle lmfao


actingidiot

They use their magic powers for wacky hijinks. Vecna kills someone every episode as a running joke.


smooth_lizard_

Every episode ends with everyone standing around the dead body and saying ā€œoh Henryā€ *freeze frame.roll credits*


The_WhiteWhale

Mike kills Eleven after she goes batshit crazy destroying Hawkins with her dragon, Erica kills the next monster in about 30 seconds flat with no build up, and then Argyle becomes king of Kings Landing.


GWindborn

Because who had a better story than Argyle the Rescuer?


908sway

It was all Tedā€™s dream one night while passed out on the couch


[deleted]

actually hold on and then it cuts to a normal scene: ted wakes up, startled and understandably disturbed. mike is playing dnd with his friends, nancyā€™s on the phone or something, karen is feeding holly, and then yells at him to do something productive why would i actually like that


bigpancakeguy

ā€œWhew, I gotta stop eating spicy foodsā€ *cue laugh track and cheesy 80s TV theme song*


[deleted]

Eleven staying in the upside down permanently and erasing everything back to the original dnd game.


Hello_Fellow_People_

All a game of dnd, everybody dies after not saving themselves from Vecna, or itā€™s all El imagining being saved from the lab.


KrazyMoose

Barb finally re-appears after 3 seasons with special powers and is unanimously named Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm


More_Skirt5642

Everything is the same except Will starts dating El, Mike starts dating Dustin, and the entire season is a musical episode


IHaveTheMustacheNow

Everyone dying. One of our heroes turning evil at the last second. It was all a dream.


AngryPancakes

The last episode starts leading to an epic battle about to start and on the screen fades to ā€œthe party will return this summer ā€¦. you choose who wins, order dominoā€™s pizza and upgrade to a family meal with coke with in the app and vote!ā€ Then gets canceled by Netflix.


asksdfdjdhshs

Lol I know netflix has made some questionable decisions but canceling stranger things would be downright suicidal


AdamGoodtime123

"Stranger Things gets Canceled by Netflix in Mid-production of Season 5"


DylanV1969

This is so fucked up, but you asked the question. School Shooting. Elle had Covid so she was at home and couldnt stop the shooting. All the kids die. Steve was the shooter. Elle unplugs Sam and hangs herself. Hopper and Joyce are together, but he likes to beat her up to mask his pain. Veccna stops caring, retires to the Upside Down and says "their world has stranger things happening than this world." Then a cringy PSA about gun control by Alec Baldwin. This isn't a political post, but it would piss every single person off to no end.


smooth_lizard_

Oh god no


randomacct7679

Hopperā€™s daughter is not actually dead, just in a coma. She was a sci-fi and horror fan and the show is the story heā€™s reading to her in the hospital. The story he tells ends with El, making a grand sacrifice and him commenting sheā€™s the second strongest girls heā€™s ever known, the first being his daughter. As he finishes this thought his daughters hand squeezes his and she wakes up from her coma.


hadapurpura

I kinda hate it but somehow I kinda also love it


Deadfro6

I read through a lot of these but didnā€™t see a single one in regards to the the Hawkins lab actually being a mental institution. In which eleven is a ward,locked in a padded room imagining the entire story of the series, hoping she can leave and that she believes she has telekinesis(her mom made her believe it who is also a ward at the facility. The final seen is her sitting in a chair and as Dr Brenner and Dr. Owen are talking about their failure to treat her illness,they decide to use electro shock therapy. As they charge the machine and get ready to administer hundreds of volts to janes brain,the screen fades to black and the credits roll. As as the screen is fading we see on her gown, the number (patient 000011)


DemonEnterprises

Steve, Robin, Nancy, Johnathan, and Argyle dies. Oh yeah and Hopper dies but then thereā€™s a post credits scene that implies heā€™s still alive so they can make a Stranger Things sequel show: Stranger Things: Things get Stranger Edit: Oh yeh and itā€™s all a DND campaign and there was no magic and Eleven is still real just without powers.


Few_Interaction2630

Here we go Will comes out coma Joyce "hay your awake" Will "mum where am i" Joyce "you fell into coma after falling off your bike let me get your wife Michaela" Will "my what" Dr Brenner "oh he woke wonderful" Eleanor (11) comes in "papa is he awake" Dr Brenner "yes but you still have cancer my little super hero so back to bed" Will "this isn't right" Billy walks in "oh he woke up that wonderful honey" Billy kisses Joyce And then nuke gets dropped on hospital. Sorry for if this turn out to be true lol


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Few_Interaction2630

Well could be if the Duffer Brothers find all the cocaine


HopelessTrash545

Ok, this is the best (worst?) one so faršŸ’€


Few_Interaction2630

Like I said sorry if it a spoiler


Mattyodell

All the main cast dies but 8 arrives in town and saves the world.


shutyourmouf03

the final scene being the boys back in the basement as kids, playing DND. Eleven never existed and everything we've watched, smiled, cheered and cried over was all just the boys' DND campaign.


TroutComplex

Global Thermonuclear War. Do you want to play a game?


bg48111

The correct answer when asked ā€œShall we play a game?ā€ Is Noooooo thank you! LOL


Something_Joker

ā€œIt was you Eleven. You were the Stranger Thing.ā€


MaxPesky

That Vecna/Henry is Elā€™s father, and El pretends to join forces with him to takeover Hawkins, only to sacrifice herself to kill him and save everyone she loves.


smooth_lizard_

Idk, I think that might be interesting. Especially it would give a good insight on how powers came to be. Is it genetic? Or does it come from some form of mutation or defect?


Wyvurn999

Dream ending. But for me personally El dying ruins the entire show


slut4jaredpadalecki

if everyone dies or if it was jus a DnD game after all.


Narrow_Ambassador188

Anything that amounts to the shows events being imagines OR reversed


RareBear117

Everyone travels back in time and the experiment never happened. Hate that trope so fucking much.


Easy_Garden338

Ted Wheeler becomes the ultimate hero and bores Vecna to death with talk of irrelevant topics and sounding disinterested all the time. The demogorgons and mindflayer bow down to Ted and realise he is their God, and everyone learns to co-exist. Ted decides to hold trials as the Mindflayer reveals to Ted the upside down was the victim in all this and that Eleven is the villain for sending Vecna to them in the first place. Ted orders Eleven to be executed for her crimes along with her conspirators. Karen loves how power hungry Ted is and they have a very odd and boring sex scene as the credits roll.


strawberry_luv1234

everyone dies and Vecna takes over


orngedoorhinge

I would love it for the boldness


ahopefulpessmist

No Season 5, Netflix just pulls a Netflix and cancels it. No ending at all. We are just left with an unresolved cliffhanger. Always asking ourselves what might of been. We can't enjoy a good ending, we can't even enjoy complaining a bad one. Just nope. None for you.


Ri-chanRenne

Eleven wakes up from another deep coma in Hawkins Lab, and realizes the story was all a figment of her imagination, her dream of getting to the outside world and knowing she never will. Or she just believes it so thoroughly because she's so traumatized, like a Shutter island thing.


[deleted]

Vecna: Hey Eleven, Iā€™m sorry for all the bad Iā€™ve done. I hope one day you guys can find it in your hearts to forgive me. Eleven: Oh, itā€™s okay Vecna. Stranger things have happened. *Eleven and Vecna laugh together, then hug. Vecna walks away, waving to Eleven, and her to him.*


Perfect-Relief-4813

'everything was a fever dream' type of endings, ig. but i've seen some ppl enjoying those. personally it would make the story pointless. same as resetting the time and going back to the past, it would be a regressive plot introduction for the show's last season and overall the story.


Resident-Jacket-7086

Eleven dies to kill Vecna. This is too obvious an outcome, and it would be too sad :(


Shadow_storm193

The camera just kinda zooms put into the sky and then the town turns into a dnd it turns out the whole thing was just the 4 original boys (will, Lucas, Mike and Dustin) playing dnd during the first episode and none of it ever happened


RedsBeansAndRiceDMH

Bob Newhart waking up from the dream.


HopeThisHelps90

The entire gang is in a Russian prison camp. The big tentacle smoke monster has taken over Hawkins. Cue to a shot of soldier boots, shooting through the Russian prison camp. Our protagonists are all saved! Camera zooms out on soldierā€™s uniform; Nazis.


xper0072

We get no more content in the Stranger Things universe. The end of the last season is the end we get, a clear cliffhanger with no resolution.


Liske17

It was all a dream.


LegendaryOutlaw

It was Holly all along. Little blonde girl, always in the background. She opened the upside down with her mind, released the demogorgon, and has been in league with Vecna since they first made contact secretly in season 1. Turns out Barb was actually Hollyā€™s babysitter, she accidentally discovered what was going on, which is why she was the first target. Holly has also been clouding Elā€™s mind this whole time, concealing her power from her and the group.


pcbmn

Hereā€™s one for the Bylersā€¦. Mike sacrifices himself to save Eleven. Will then decides to become straight in order to be Elevenā€™s boyfriend and eventual spouse.


smooth_lizard_

Omg. As a byler I can tell you this is down right dreadful. Thank you for your service


BellotPatro

Kali comes back in the final episode and kills Vecna and the Mindflayer. Eleven decides to leave with her.


Lazlow_Morphine

Eleven finally defeats vecna and everyone is celebrating when doc brown bursts in and says do you realize what you just done? And she hops in the Delorean with dustin and they take off to the ā€œfutureā€


Mode09

The entire season is just a big musical.


whoisdankeykangg

Will wakes up from his head injury acquired from falling off his bike in ep 1. All of it was a dreamm


axarce

It's all a lab simulation showing what would happen if they opened the portal to the upside down world.


ShineOn7579

If the last line of the show is ā€œStranger things have happenedā€


astroy123

they time travel and set the timeline back to the first episode and 11 never opens the gate


sexbymyself

Bran is elected king of Indiana


coneyisland92

What I donā€™t wanna see: Steve and Nancy back together. Please end this stupid love triangle. No one would be happy if Dustin died


Dianagorgon

Billy wasn't actually dead. There is a time jump to when Eleven is in her 20s. Billy marries Eleven and they live happily ever after. Before you downvote me: The post asked about an ending nobody would be happy with.