The Mind Flayer
Character from Stranger Things by The Duffer Brothers
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 commanding legions of creatures.
Also known as: The Mind Flayer, Mind Flayer, The Shadow Monster, The Shadow
What They Know
- Created by Vecna as a psychic hive-mind construct to control the Upside Down's creatures
- Possessed Will Byers, using him as a spy to map the tunnel system beneath Hawkins
- Can 'Flay' human hosts — taking control of their minds and eventually dissolving their bodies into biomass
- Constructed a physical form from the melted bodies of dozens of Flayed Hawkins residents
- Commands all Demogorgons, demodogs, and demobats as extensions of the hive mind
- Vulnerable to extreme heat — hosts can be freed by raising their body temperature
- Its connection to proxies severs when the gate between dimensions closes
- Not an independent entity — it is Vecna's instrument and collapses without his psychic control
Connections
- created_by — vecna
- possessed — will
- possessed — billy
- commands — demogorgon
- located_at — upside_down
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