Stranger Things 4

There's a lot to unravel as we expect for Stranger Things 4 (Picture: Netflix)

Ane of the best things about Stranger Things is talking well-nigh all the theories of Stranger Things while we look for each new season to arrive.

Season 3 landed on our Netflix playlist in July, and with flavour four confirmed to render in approximately 2021, nosotros've unfortunately got a flake of time on our hands.

But the Reddit users have been working hard, and have come up upwards with some solid fan theories to keep us eager for what'southward to come up.

From launching their ain plot lines thank you to questions that lingered from the season three finale, to picking upwardly on tiny bits that could accept a more significant significant than we could've dreamed, no stone has been left unturned.

They've fifty-fifty managed to discover loopholes to bring back faves that were long presumed dead – they're just that skilful.

Here are simply a few of our favourite things that we promise to encounter when we finally get to grab upward with the gang of Hawkins (and we reckon could actually be a thing.)

David Harbour as Jim Hopper in Stranger Things season 3

Will Hopper's fate be revealed in season four? (Picture: Netflix)

Hopper is The American and is therefore live

You lot know the biggest role in film and TV? No dead body = Not dead… and you don't but wipe out a character like Hopper without and then much as a funeral or some sort of memento left backside.

It's an near overwhelming theory from fans everywhere that he is The American that the Russians have captured and locked away in the headquarters.

Some reckon he could've even got at that place via the portal that Joyce closed – being pulled from Hawkins, through the Upside Downwards, and out the other side to Russia.

Shocked at someone's reappearance, they held him captive til they could figure out what to do with him.

Other rumoured plots suggest he will then be rescued by a mysterious Russian character called B, bringing him back into the fold.

Millie Bobby Brown in Netflix show STRANGER THINGS

Could Eleven unleash her evil side? (Netflix)

Eleven turns evil and is the season four Large Bad

The gang have dealt with some evil forces in their time, which got a bit too shut to home as the Mind Flayer took over Billy in flavour three.

But what would happen if ane of their own becomes the next affair they have to face-off against?

When asked for teasers for the upcoming flavour, the writing team gave lyrics to Florence and The Machine song, Cosmic Love.

It tells the story of someone coping with the loss of someone to darkness, and equally a outcome, falling into the darkness themselves.

Fans have come to recall this means 11 spiralling after the loss of Jim Hopper, and being taken in by a dark side.

Even Millie Bobby Dark-brown is totally into this thought, so this could actually exist a possibility…

Will Byers Stranger Things

Did Will Byers accidentally create the Upside Downwards? (Picture: Netflix)

Will Byers created the Upside Downwardly

This version of events is especially fell because information technology means something super shady on the side of the absent-minded dad of the Byers family unit.

Reddit user Bloodylollipops came up with the theory, and in a detailed explanation, she explained that she thinks that troubled Will (Noah Schnapp) subconsciously created the Upside Down.

How? Well, the kid is certainly a creative 1 who'due south used to creating his own world, and if he was experimented on as a baby, there's a gamble he got powers like Eleven.

But instead of telepathy, he can bring his imagination to life – and in doing so created the Upside Down.

This would explain why he wasn't killed by the Demogorgon similar others that crossed it, why he was targeted in the beginning identify, and why information technology seems to reappear at times he's under stress.

For case, in season three, he was struggling most his friends growing up without him, nevertheless wanting to play Dungeons and Dragons while they were getting interested in girls.

Information technology was also suggested that he was offset to struggle with his sexuality, getting into a fight with Mike over the proffer.

Stranger Things' Barb looks very glam in real life

Could The American actually exist Barb?

This would be ane twist no one saw coming – the long-awaited Justice for Barb (Shannon Purser).

She looked like a proper goner in flavour one when she was taken by the Demogorgon  – and nosotros saw a body in the Upside Down.

Merely seeing equally nosotros know that fake bodies can exist created like the surprisingly life-like one of Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) that delivered a twist in season one, that could mean anything.

Especially with Affront's parents still hunting for her and considering her missing, non dead, throughout.

With Hopper an obvious selection, will the Duffer Bros deliver a killer throwback and requite fans something they were campaigning for over three seasons?

Stranger Things is available to stream now on Netflix.

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