


Dustin uses a payphone to call Steve when he’s looking for a replacement D&D player to sub in for Lucas. While the creators of Stranger Things have been pretty open about drawing inspiration from Steven Spielberg’s E.T. for the California plotline in season 4, that doesn’t mean the E.T. nods are restricted to the west coast. It’s got the cover art for Weird Al’s “Weird Al” Yankovic in 3-D album on it. While we never saw that specific moment in the show, we did see Dustin’s Weird Al shirt in the third episode of season 3. Dustin’s Weird Al shirtĭuring that same conversation in the cafeteria, Eddie tells Dustin that he knew he was destined to join the Hellfire Club from the first time he saw him wearing a Weird Al shirt. During the premiere episode when Dustin and Mike tell the Hellfire Club dungeon master Eddie that Lucas is going to miss the final session of the campaign, Eddie asks if Lucas has been “taken by the Dark Side.” Then, when the Hellfire Club is actually playing D&D later in the episode, Dustin tells Eddie to “never tell him the odds,” quoting a classic Han Solo line from The Empire Strikes Back. Stranger Things has always had plenty of Star Wars references. On top of all that, the visuals for Vecna psychically searching out his victims are very similar to the way Cerebro is portrayed in the 2000s-era X-Men films. Dustin also talks about his “Cerebro.” This is the nickname the group has for Dustin’s ham radio, but the name itself is drawn from the machine Professor Xavier uses to locate mutants. This isn’t the first time that the show has referenced the X-Men, even in this season.

The Hellfire Club was a prominent part of the X-Men comics it was an organization for the powerful and ambitious started by Sebastian Shaw and Emma Frost. The season 4 premiere is titled “The Hellfire Club” after the Hawkins High Dungeons & Dragons group. Trailers have shown that we’ll see more of how he reacts to it in Volume 2. So despite Eleven witnessing the whole chain of events, this means that Brenner didn’t see the gate when it was open until he watched the security camera footage.
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In this opening scene, that gate is closed you can just see it as a spidery crack running down the wall. By the end of Volume 1, we know that Eleven blasted One into the Upside Down, which opened a gate on that wall. Speaking of the Upside Down, at the very end of the opening sequence we see Eleven standing in front of the wall where she defeated One. This sequence is the root cause of the events of Stranger Things. In this flashback sequence, we get our first glimpse of how the Upside Down came to be linked to Hawkins, and how Hawkins Lab began studying it in the wake of Eleven and One’s duel. Her real name is Kali Prasad.īut perhaps the most interesting of the crossword easter eggs is when the camera zooms in on the word “etiological.” This is a medical term that refers to the root cause of a disease or condition. “The wife of Shiva” is another crossword clue, the answer for which is “Kali.” This is a nod to Eight, the other psychic child who escaped Hawkins Lab that we met back in season 2. There are all sorts of interesting easter eggs in the crossword, including a reference to Barbara Stanwyck, an actor who appeared in horror films like The Night Walker and The House That Would Not Die. Miyagi in The Karate Kid, Brenner also does a crossword puzzle in 10 minutes flat. In addition to trimming a bonsai, reminiscent of Mr. Martin Brenner, the scientist who started the psychic child experimentation program at Hawkins Lab. The opening montage of Stranger Things 4 shows the morning routine of Dr.
