Following the Stranger Things Season 5 finale, fans still have a lot of questions left about the show. One major question is why there wasn’t a scene with Hopper and Joyce realizing that Vecna/Henry Creel was someone they knew from high school.

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One of the biggest revelations in Stranger Things Season 5 doesn’t come from a new monster or a last-minute twist, but from finally understanding who Henry Creel really is. The final episode pulls back the curtain on Vecna’s origins,

Eleven ten drives Vecna’s body into a spire, leaving him critically wounded. But the final blow comes from Joyce Byers. With an axe, she decapitates Vecna, killing him outright and ending the supernatural threat that has haunted Hawkins since Season 1. “You f**ked with the wrong family” she tells him.

Seasons 4 and 5 of Stranger Things consistently positioned Vecna as the villain, yet there were always complexities to his story. There was little getting around the fact that he'd committed heinous acts (he wiped out all the Hawkins Lab kids, after all), but questions arose early on about the extent to which he was in control.