Stranger Things Season 5 Gives Millie Bobby Brown a Game-Changing Power Upgrade
Eleven just leveled up: the Stranger Things Season 5 trailer teases a massive new ability that echoes a fan-favorite MCU hero.
Stranger Things 5 is going bigger: bigger villain, bigger stakes, and yes, a new trick for Eleven that is basically not-flight but looks plenty close. The new trailer drops some juicy clues, and the Duffers filled in the blanks with EW. Here is what they are actually doing.
Eleven gets an upgrade (not quite flying, but watch those jumps)
Millie Bobby Brown is back doing the full telepathy-and-throwing-things routine as Eleven, and the trailer shows her going all-out to protect Hawkins from Vecna and the Upside Down crew. The headline, though, is a fresh move that plays like a telekinetic long jump: she plants, pushes, and launches.
"It’s like she’s pushing down at the ground and having that energy propel her up, in a way," Ross Duffer told EW. "So she’s not really flying, but she is boosting herself and getting some serious air."
The MCU comparison being tossed around is Wanda Maximoff, and honestly, that tracks. It is more of a self-propelled blast than graceful flight, but functionally it gets her where she needs to go fast.
Vecna 2.0: scarier, stronger, and less human on purpose
Vecna is back looking meaner and more built out, which is not an accident. The Duffers wanted him scarier this season, so they tuned up the design. The idea is that he has rebuilt his body to the point where parts are literally missing and you can see through him. That lingering sliver of humanity from Season 4? The brothers say that is largely gone; he is now more a creature of the Upside Down than anything human.
They are also framing his entrance this season like a certain all-timer villain entrance: think Darth Vader in Rogue One. Translation: you are going to see the full toolkit on display when he shows up.
When you can watch
- Volume 1 (4 episodes): November 26 on Netflix
- Volume 2 (3 episodes): December 25 on Netflix
- Finale: December 31 on Netflix
The finale will also play in select theaters if you want the big-screen version.
FWIW, this beat was first flagged by Dan Girolamo over at SuperHeroHype, with the new details from the Duffers coming via EW.