Turns out to be an old acquaintance of Eleven!

Note: This article reveals the content of Stranger Things season 4.

Strange Things officially returned with the 4th season on May 27, after nearly 3 years of delay for various reasons. Once again, the small town of Hawkins happens to have strange phenomena, barbaric murders with the involvement of the devil, specifically Vecna ​​- the main antagonist of this season.

Compared to the monsters that have appeared in Stranger Things, including the Demogorgon and the “final boss” Mind Flayer, Vecna ​​is a truly different and deeper villain, not simply a creature. come from another dimension and find a way to destroy Eleven. Vecna ​​can also be considered the biggest twist that this season has brought so far, when his true identity was only revealed in the last minutes of episode 7 – also the final episode for the sequel. 1 of season 4.

Vecna’s identity and origin

Similar to the previous 3 seasons, the villain of Stranger Things season 4 is also named after a monster in the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons. After Vecna ​​committed two crimes in Hawkins, the main characters discovered that he was a demon closely related to the Creel family and had haunted them in the 50s.

However, episode 7, The Massacre at Hawkins Lab, revealed that Vecna ​​is actually Henry Creel, the eccentric son with mysterious superpowers of the Creel family. Henry is a pessimist who always looks at life with gray eyes. However, the new home in the town of Hawkins seems to be an interesting difference that awakens the hidden power inside his body. It was the taciturnity, plus the strange expressions, that made Henry participate in the psychotherapy process of Dr. Martin Brenner, thereby becoming the subject of experiment number 001, similar to Eleven (011). .

Unlike Eleven, who has learned to open up to the world around him, Henry has always felt uncomfortable with the rules that people make for themselves for everything from eating, sleeping, resting, going to work, to even time units such as seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, and years. Gradually, Henry’s thoughts became corrupted and only looked at the negative sides of life, including the hidden corners of his parents. And so, he ruthlessly killed the whole family with his superpower.

However, because he was still just a boy, Henry inadvertently let Victor Creel, his father, live and bear the responsibility of murder on his behalf. Until much later, Victor still believes that his family’s house is haunted, and Henry also passed away after a week of deep coma. However, the truth is that Dr. Martin Brenner faked Henry’s death so that he could comfortably conduct experiments to exploit the superpowers inside his body at Hawkings laboratory.

Over the next few years Martin continuously sought to develop Henry’s strength, but the result was only a round zero. Finally, he decided to use what he had learned from Henry to move on to a group of infants, or at least children younger than him. Henry himself, despite being a failure, was forced to remain in the Hawkins Laboratory and work as a warden, taking care of and supervising the other subjects.

It was around this time that he realized Eleven’s potential, slowly manipulating her mind so he could run away with him. And of course, with a brutal nature since childhood, Henry massacred the entire laboratory to avenge what he had to endure here.

In the decisive moment, Eleven turned her back on Henry and sent him into the Upside Down, similar to how she did with the monster Demogorgon in the first season. Here, Henry’s body is completely destroyed, but his brain and world hatred are still intact, turning him into Vecna ​​and starting to seek revenge.

Vecna ​​in the world of Dungeons & Dragons

As mentioned above, Vecna ​​is a name inspired by the famous boardgame Dungeons & Dragons. He was originally a witch of the human race, once studied dark magic, and eventually became one of the most powerful wizards in the history of this game. However, Vecna’s ambitions do not stop there. He continues to seek new powers to become immortal and elevate himself to the level of the gods. It is this ambition that turns Vecna ​​into a Lich – an undead creature in Dungeons & Dragons, and also his most characteristic form in this game.

Much of Vecna’s story involves the attack on the city of Fleeth, primarily to avenge the witch’s mother who was executed there. However, it seems that Stranger Things ignored that detail and focused on drawing inspiration from Vecna’s demigod-class power, and the most painful betrayal he had to go through. Specifically, Vecna ​​was once “stabbed in the back” by her close subordinates (similar to how Eleven rebelled against Henry in season 4). All that’s left of him is a hand and an eye – two of Dungeons & Dragons’ most powerful items.

Vecna’s worshipers tried to revive him but were unsuccessful. Even so, Vecna ​​still managed to reach the divine realm not long after, only to be punished and become a secondary god at the end of her story.

Explaining the curse and the power of Vecna

The specific definition of the curse of Vecna ​​is very complicated, as much of it depends on the campaign created by the player (Dungeon Master) in each Dungeons & Dragons game. However, there is one element that never changes, that is, this curse will turn witches into Nothics, skinny, tall monsters that exist only to cause pain and suffering to the people. others.

In Stranger Things, Vecna ​​specializes in targeting people who have experienced psychological trauma, have faced great shocks that they have not yet been able to forget. He then used the curse to bind them to themselves in the Upside Down world, retain their consciousness in his own mind, and destroy their bodies in the real world.

Similar to Dungeons & Dragons, Vecna ​​wants to turn the teenagers at Hawkins into an army of Nothics so that he can increase his power. Every time he shoots, he will leave a trace, a small portal connecting the real world with the Upside Down world. His ultimate goal, through so many portals, was to fill the gap between these two worlds, and gradually unite them.

To do that, Vecna ​​uses telepathic powers to read other people’s thoughts, scan, and find suitable prey. He connects the victim to his own kingdom, which is the land filled with red smoke that Max and Nancy were once captured to. Once in control of the subject’s mind, he then used his power to break joints all over their bodies from afar, thereby killing them in the most brutal way and misleading others into thinking it was a crime. devil’s movements.

Henry Creel/Vecna’s strength has a lot in common with Eleven, but is much stronger because he has been using and refining his abilities for a long time. In addition, Vecna’s way of dealing with victims is also in the style of Freddy Krueger in the Nightmare on Elm Street series, which greatly inspired Stranger Things season 4.

There are still many questions, many questions surrounding Vecna ​​and his malice in the mass murder of teenagers in the town of Hawkins. Besides, he still has a personal debt to pay to Eleven, who imprisoned him in the Upside Down world. All will probably be completely resolved when the season 2 season 4 of Stranger Things premieres on July 1.

According to ScreenRant