Stranger Things

by The Duffer Brothers

In 1983, a boy vanishes from Hawkins, Indiana. His friends' search uncovers a secret government lab, a girl with telekinetic powers called Eleven, and the Upside Down — a dark mirror dimension leaking monsters into our world. Four seasons of escalating stakes blend 80s nostalgia with genuine horror.

51 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Eleven (Jane Hopper) — A telekinetic girl raised in captivity at Hawkins Lab, escaped into the world with a shaved head and extraordinary psychic powers that cost her nosebl
• Mike Wheeler — The passionate Dungeon Master of the Party who found a girl in the rain and gave her a home in his basement, leading his friends through horrors with
• Dustin Henderson — The Party's brilliant, toothless heart — a science-obsessed kid whose curiosity and compassion extend even to interdimensional predators, armed with h
• Lucas Sinclair — The Party's pragmatist and protector — a skeptical, clear-eyed kid who carries a wrist rocket and demands proof before belief, but fights harder than
• Will Byers — The quiet boy who survived the Upside Down but never fully came back — haunted by the Mind Flayer's touch, sensitive beyond his years, and hiding a lo
• Max Mayfield — A fierce redheaded skateboarder from California who joined the Party and became Vecna's prime target, carrying the weight of her stepbrother Billy's d
• Erica Sinclair — Lucas's little sister — razor-tongued, fearless, and secretly as nerdy as the Party she pretends to mock, recruited into the Starcourt mission through
• Steve Harrington — The former king of Hawkins High who traded his crown for a nail-studded baseball bat and became the unlikely guardian of a pack of children fighting i
• Nancy Wheeler — A relentless journalist and monster hunter who channels her guilt over Barb's death into an unyielding drive to expose the truth, armed with a shotgun
• Jonathan Byers — Will's quiet, protective older brother — a photographer who sees the world through a lens, carrying his fractured family on his shoulders while numbin
• Robin Buckley — Steve's fast-talking best friend — a brilliant linguist who cracked a Russian code, came out in a bathroom stall, and faces monsters with sarcasm and
• Eddie Munson — The metalhead king of the Hellfire Club — a D&D dungeon master, guitar hero, and Hawkins outcast who was wrongly accused of murder and chose to stop r
• Jim Hopper — Hawkins' grizzled Chief of Police — a grieving father who found redemption in a telekinetic girl, survived a Russian gulag, and fights for his broken
• Joyce Byers — Will's indomitable mother — a chain-smoking, Christmas-light-stringing force of nature who will tear through walls, governments, and dimensions to bri
• Murray Bauman — A paranoid conspiracy theorist and private investigator who speaks Russian, makes terrible coffee, and has been right about every insane theory he's e
• Dr. Martin Brenner — The architect of Hawkins Lab's psychic experimentation program — 'Papa' to his test subjects, a cold manipulator who created Eleven and unleashed the
• Dr. Sam Owens — The DOE official who replaced Brenner at Hawkins Lab — more sympathetic but still complicit, caught between protecting Eleven and serving the governme
• Scott Clarke — Hawkins Middle School's beloved science teacher — endlessly patient, genuinely passionate, and unknowingly the Party's most important scientific consu
• Victor Creel — Henry Creel's father — a traumatized World War II veteran institutionalized for decades at Pennhurst, who blinded himself to escape the visions of his
• Vecna — The ultimate villain — born Henry Creel, designated Subject 001 at Hawkins Lab, banished to the Upside Down by Eleven where he became a psychic predat
• The Demogorgon — A faceless, flower-headed predator from the Upside Down — the first monster to cross into Hawkins, drawn by blood and fear, a foot soldier in Vecna's
• The Mind Flayer — The towering shadow monster of the Upside Down — a swirling mass of black particulate that serves as Vecna's hive-mind proxy, possessing hosts and com
• Billy Hargrove — Max's volatile, abusive stepbrother — a golden-haired bully forged by his father's violence, consumed by the Mind Flayer, and redeemed in a single sac
• Bob Newby — Joyce's kind, nerdy boyfriend — a RadioShack manager and former AV club president who walked into Hawkins Lab to save everyone and never walked out.
• Barbara Holland — Nancy's loyal best friend — a cautious, bespectacled girl who was taken by the Demogorgon at a pool party and became Hawkins' most mourned and least a
• Argyle — Jonathan's laid-back stoner friend and Surfer Boy Pizza delivery driver — perpetually high, surprisingly resourceful, and along for a ride he absolute
• Suzie — Dustin's long-distance girlfriend from Utah — a devout Mormon math prodigy who held up Planck's constant during a crisis because she wanted a duet of
• Alexei — A Russian scientist who defected after helping build the gate machine beneath Starcourt — childlike in his love for Slurpees and American cartoons, ki
• Dmitri — A Russian prison guard at the Kamchatka facility who helped Hopper escape — motivated first by money, then by genuine respect for the American who ref
• Eight (Kali Prasad) — Hawkins Lab test subject 008 — a psychic with illusion powers who escaped, formed a punk gang, and hunts the people who experimented on her with right
• Chrissy Cunningham — Hawkins High's head cheerleader — golden, popular, and secretly drowning in an eating disorder and her mother's cruelty, the first victim of Vecna's s
• Jason Carver — Hawkins High's golden basketball captain who became a mob leader after Chrissy's death — convinced Eddie Munson is a satanic killer, representing the
• Lt. Col. Sullivan — A ruthless military officer hunting Eleven in season four — convinced she is the cause of the Hawkins disasters and willing to kill a teenager to elim

Locations

• Hawkins, Indiana — A quiet small town in rural Indiana where something terrible lurks beneath the surface of 1980s normalcy.
• The Upside Down — A dark, toxic parallel dimension that mirrors Hawkins — a dead world ruled by a hive mind and crawling with predatory creatures.
• Hawkins National Laboratory — A Department of Energy facility on the outskirts of Hawkins that conducted illegal psychic experiments on children and accidentally tore open a gate t
• The Byers House — The modest, cluttered home of Joyce, Jonathan, and Will Byers — ground zero for the first contact with the Upside Down.
• The Wheeler Basement — The wood-paneled basement of the Wheeler home — headquarters of the Party, where campaigns are planned over a D&D table and monsters are real.
• Starcourt Mall — A gleaming 1985 shopping mall that killed Hawkins' downtown — and concealed a secret Russian facility in its basement designed to reopen the gate to t
• Hawkins High School — The town's only high school — a brick institution where teenage drama collides with supernatural horror and social hierarchies prove almost as brutal
• The Palace Arcade — Hawkins' local arcade — a neon-lit sanctuary of Dragon's Lair, Dig Dug, and quarter-fueled competition where the Party goes to be normal kids.
• Castle Byers — Will Byers' handmade fort in the woods behind his house — a childhood refuge that became a liminal space between dimensions and was eventually destroy
• The Creel House — The abandoned Victorian home where the Creel family was murdered in 1959 — the childhood home of Henry Creel, who would become Vecna.
• Lovers Lake — A lake on the outskirts of Hawkins where a watergate to the Upside Down opened in 1986, turning a teenage make-out spot into a portal to hell.
• Russian Base — A secret Soviet military installation built beneath Starcourt Mall, housing the key — a massive machine designed to reopen the gate to the Upside Down
• Kamchatka Prison — A remote Soviet prison and research facility on the Kamchatka Peninsula where Hopper was held captive and forced to work while the Russians experiment
• The Rainbow Room — A brightly colored children's playroom inside Hawkins Lab where Brenner's test subjects were monitored, trained, and controlled under the guise of car
• The Void — An infinite black psychic space that Eleven accesses through sensory deprivation — a formless dimension where she can locate anyone in the world and p
• Family Video — A VHS rental store in downtown Hawkins where Steve and Robin work in 1986 — the successor to their Scoops Ahoy days and an unlikely base of operations

Items

• Cerebro — A powerful homemade ham radio tower built by Dustin Henderson on a hill outside Hawkins, capable of reaching far beyond the range of the Party's stand
• Sensory Deprivation Tank — A saltwater immersion tank that amplifies Eleven's psychic abilities, allowing her to enter the Void and project her consciousness across dimensions.

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