‘Stranger Things 4’ Directors Reveal Eddie Munson Alternative Ending

The person who launched Metallica to the world of the Upside Down sadly will not be becoming a member of the remainder of the Stranger Issues gang in season 5 of the Netflix present. Spoiler: Within the season 4 finale, fan-favorite Eddie Munson meets his demise — however not earlier than finishing the guitar solo to finish all guitar solos.

In line with present creators the Duffer Brothers, being mauled to demise by demobats was simply one of many bleak methods Eddie’s story would finish. The character, launched within the newest season, was apparently destined to be “a tragic character.”

“In a means, we noticed Eddie as a little bit of a doomed character,” Matt Duffer mentioned on the Pleased Unhappy Confused podcast. “Even imagining the flip aspect of that the place he does survive the battle will not be an incredible life awaiting Eddie again in the appropriate aspect up both. He was all the time actually designed from the get-go as a doomed character.”

Ross Duffer added: “There was by no means every other arc for him and there was no ‘how do you survive this?'”

“On the very finish, you see individuals nonetheless drawing satan horns on his head — nobody in Hawkins goes to simply accept a supernatural clarification for this. He would have wound up in jail and this fantasy that he would have been capable of stroll and graduate sadly was not ever a sensible final result for him.”

Will Eddie seem in season 5 of Stranger Issues? Actor Joseph Quinn is not too optimistic. “My suspicion is that Eddie has accomplished what he wanted to do for the Brothers,” Quinn informed the LA Occasions.