The fans were already excited when stranger things dropped out of the first half of its final season, but nothing caused more chaos online than the unexpected reveal of Will Byers’ power in episode four.
After four years away from Upside Down, viewers flooded Netflix the moment the new episodes arrived, with many heading straight to social media to process the final scene of Chapter Four: Sorcerer.
The moment Will stepped into the spotlight, everything changed.
The climax of the episode finds Will confronting Vecna at the military base. When the villain unleashes Demogorgons on Mike, Lucas and Robin, something breaks inside Will.
In the scene that set the Internet on fire, she closes her eyes and remembers the day Mike first approached her on the swings and asked, “Do you want to be friends?” Those memories fuel a surge of strength that allows him to destroy the Demogorgons and save his friends.
The fans were stunned. One viewer wrote on Another simply added: “WOULD YOU HAVE POWERS???? Girl what the fuck?”
The Duffer brothers say the reveal was always part of the plan. “Season five was perfect because the story started with Will and his disappearance,” Matt Duffer told THR.
“We wanted it to come full circle… But it was important to us that he not be a second Eleven. He doesn’t exactly have his own powers. Obviously, it’s a little more complicated than that.”
With Volume 2 still ahead, fans are gearing up for what Will’s transformation means and whether this twist is just the beginning.
