The Top 5 Stranger Things season 5 theories you need to know

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00:00Stranger fan things aren't just hyped for season 5, they're in full conspiracy mode.

00:04Between teaser drops, cast interviews, and one cryptic Netflix tweet,

00:08the internet has turned into Hawkins' unofficial FBI division.

00:11So here are the top 5 theories currently living rent-free in the fandom's collective brain.

00:16The first is like a Will Byers theory multiverse, where one character somehow has 4,000 identities.

00:23The biggest branch? The legendary Will and Eleven are twins theory,

00:26a fandom staple that literally refuses to die.

00:30So fans think Will and Eleven were separated at birth,

00:32with Eleven taken to Hawkins' lab and Will raised by Joyce.

00:36And the evidence is pretty extensive.

00:39First, they both have nearly identical stuffed tiger toys.

00:42Will's is in Castle Byers, while Eleven's is at the lab.

00:46Plus there's this connection to the Upside Down,

00:48where Eleven could always sense Will's location in season 1,

00:51and fans say that's a twin-bond psychic thing.

00:54And when fans reject the twin theory, they go even harder.

00:57There is the theory that Will is actually Henry Creel's biological son,

01:01one that states he has hidden powers that never fully awakened.

01:04My favorite has to be Will must sacrifice himself, Harry Potter style, to defeat Vecna.

01:09Basically, Will is the final Horcrux, the chosen one, the secret child, the psychic, or the sleeper villain.

01:15And no character has more chaotic fan lore than him.

01:18But there is the Ted Wheeler is a secret super soldier that has to be one of the funniest and weirdest corners of the Stranger Things fandom.

01:26Fans have spun a full-blown conspiracy theory around the perpetually napping suburban dad.

01:31It suggests that Ted is secretly an undercover government agent or action hero veteran.

01:36Other variations of this theory claim that he served in the Vietnam War with Hopper,

01:40suffering nerve damage that explains his naps,

01:42but he could spring into Rambo-style action whenever needed.

01:46Other fans suggest Ted is a government plant,

01:48keeping tabs on his family while plausibly staying out of the loop or even working for a rival agency.

01:54And the clue?

01:55Ted once tells Mike that the lab is involved in Cold War weapons,

01:59a detail no other parent seems to know.

02:01So fans point to this as evidence he has insider information.

02:04And then there's Mr. Clark, yes, the science teacher.

02:07A surprising popular fan theory suggests that the seemingly mild manner Mr. Clark

02:11is secretly orchestrating events in Hawkins.

02:14And fans think this because Clark is basically the kids walking Wikipedia for everything supernatural.

02:21And some Reddit users even speculate he might be Thesla Hydra,

02:24possessed by the mind flayer or secretly manipulating Hawkins from the shadows.

02:28Of course, many fans hope that the final season gives Clark a bigger role

02:32and his intelligence and calm demeanor could make him either a key strategic ally for the main group

02:37or a sneaky intellectual villain who's been guiding events all along.

02:41And then there's the Max Mayfield is just Vecna's puppet theory.

02:46And this one is dark.

02:47The theory goes Max's mind is trapped somewhere deep

02:50and her body could be controlled by Vecna.

02:52And if she wakes up, it's not actually her.

02:53Now, this theory basis is fueled by the fact that Max's physical body is in a coma,

02:58but she is still conscious in some capacity,

03:01as demonstrated by Visions from the Upside Down.

03:03Plus, there's the puppet connection inspired by Eddie Munson's song Master of Puppets.

03:08Vecna is essentially manipulating Max as if she were a marionette.

03:12And if true, Max could become an unlikely ally,

03:15offering insights into Vecna's mind or acting as a critical link for the Upside Down.

03:19Which brings us to the final theory.

03:21The Upside Down is a broken timeline frozen on November 6th, 1983.

03:27It's a multiverse of theories that claim that the Upside Down is a corrupted timeline,

03:31a past version of Earth stuck on the day will vanish,

03:34a memory world,

03:35a failed timeline trying to overwrite the current one,

03:38or a cosmic loop that resets when season 5 ends.

03:42And why it's frozen on November 6th is because the prevailing theory

03:45is that Eleven's first contact with the Demogorgon

03:48and the subsequent opening of the Mother Gate

03:51created a snapshot of Hawkins in that exact moment.

03:54This temporal anomaly has become a key plot for fans speculating about the final season.

03:59Season 5 kicks off November 26th,

04:01so drop your fan theory and follow us everywhere at What's Trending.

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