Stranger Things Season 4 Plot Holes
5 "Stranger Things" Season 4 Plot Holes That Are Turning Our Heads Upside Down
Watch out! This post contains spoilers.
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Watch out! This post contains spoilers.
We quickly meet the villain our heroes have to face in "Stranger Things" season four when innocent teenagers Chrissy and Fred, played by Grace Van Dien and Logan Riley Bruner, are mysteriously murdered. Vecna, an evil spellcaster named after the Dungeons & Dragons character, is killing and feeding off the trauma of his victims in order to emerge from the Upside Down into the real world at full power. Before he kills them, Vecna manipulates their minds, showing them horrifying visions that give the audience insight into their trauma, including Chrissy's difficult home life and Fred's guilt born of a horrible childhood car accident. Even Max (Sadie Sink) experiences visions when she's targeted by Vecna through her unresolved trauma from Billy's death in season three. But basketball player Patrick, played by Myles Truitt, doesn't get the same treatment before he's killed by Vecna.
Patrick has minor visions (like seeing the grandfather clock), and one scene between Max and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) alludes to Patrick possibly being abused at home (he shows up to basketball practice with a black eye), but his trauma is never contextualized beyond that like Chrissy's and Fred's. Unless Patrick's death is brought up again in volume two, we may never know exactly why Vecna killed him.