Stranger Things finale still needs to answer these 5 important questions

If you've just finished watching all three episodes from Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 2, you might be feeling your brain come alive and possibly the veins in your head pulsating. If you don't hear any squelching sounds, then you're fine.

The show’s grand finale arrives on December 31, 2025, with select theatrical screenings alongside its streaming release. As the year closes, viewers around the world are preparing for one last visit to a story that began nine years ago.

Naturally, questions are bound to arise. This isn’t just another season; it’s a final goodbye to Hawkins, the Upside Down, and a series that has left a lasting mark on pop culture and will be talked about for years to come.

Questions the Stranger Things finale needs to answer

How will the kids be convinced that Vecna is the monster?

We are hopeful about one thing: that our team of heroes will act as best and recklessly as it can to bring the captive children back from the vines of Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) in the Stranger Things finale. But how will they be convinced if he is the real monster? Because for them, he is really a godsent angel who has saved them from the monsters and given them a shelter where they are free. Or, maybe just rescue them and tell them it was a dream. They're just kids.

Is Vecna really evil?

Speaking of the big baddie with a lot of vines, aka Henry Creel, aka Vecna, aka so many names, one question we need to ask is, 'Is he really evil?' Because when Holly and Max were escaping from his memory, Holly Wheeler (Nell Fisher) saw one of his traumatic memories where a man shot at him when he was a kid, even though he was just trying to help an injured man in the ditch. Somehow, it is implied that deep inside, that monster-like thing is a human.

How is Eight going to be of help inside Vecna's mind?

Jim Hopper (David Harbour) had to deal with Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard), Eleven's (Millie Bobbie Brown) boyfriend, initially in the show. Now it's Eight (Linnea Berthelsen), her sister, who has decided to walk with her inside Vecna's mind. The thing is, she can create hallucinations. But is it really something that can work? Vecna will need much more than that, or maybe she can play a memory of his to weaken him a bit. We'll see.

Do Eleven and Eight really need to die to end all of this?

If you haven't seen the latest episodes of Stranger Things, this is your warning because the big spoiler will follow.

Have you seen it? Good. No? You have been warned.

Both the sisters have decided to die in there. The exact plan is to banish the wormhole (oh, you need to see it to believe it), and everyone will leave the Upside Down before it happens. However, Eight has asked Eleven to sacrifice herself and not leave the Upside Down.

She did that because it is the only way to end things for good. If not, Eight believes that Eleven can attract the military to create clones like her, which can be used for evil purposes.

Are more deaths coming in the Stranger Things finale?

Hawkins has seen a fair share of deaths in Stranger Things: Bob, Barb, Eddie... (Oh, I am gonna cry now). But one last question. How many more are there to come? Hopefully, there won't be any.