Demogorgon (Stranger Things)

''Stranger Things'' is an American science fiction horror television series created for Netflix by the Duffer Brothers, set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana, in the 1980s. The first season, set in November 1983, focuses on the investigation into the disappearance of a young boy named Will Byers amid supernatural events occurring around the town, including the appearance of a girl with telekinetic abilities who helps Will's friends in their search. The second season (''Stranger Things 2'') is set a year after the last, and deals with the characters' attempts to return to normal and deal with the consequences of the first season's events. The second season adds new characters Max Mayfield, her violent stepbrother Billy Hargrove, and Joyce's new love interest Bob Newby. The third season (''Stranger Things 3'') is set in the summer of 1985 and shows the young friends maturing into teenagers and navigating new life challenges, all while a new threat looms over the town, this season also introduce new characters : Robin Buckley and Murray Bauman. The fourth season (''Stranger Things 4'') is set in the spring of 1986 and follows the characters after they have been separated at the end of ''Stranger Things 3''. Season 4 adds new characters like Eddie Munson, Argyle, and Vecna. The first season was released on Netflix on July 15, 2016; the second season of nine episodes was released on October 27, 2017; and the third season of eight episodes was released on July 4, 2019. the fourth season was split into two volumes, with volume one with seven episodes released on May 27, 2022, and volume two with two episodes released on July 1, 2022.

The series features an ensemble cast including Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Cara Buono and Matthew Modine. Noah Schnapp and Joe Keery had recurring roles in the first season before being promoted to the main cast for the second, with Sadie Sink, Dacre Montgomery, Sean Astin, and Paul Reiser also joining. Maya Hawke joined the cast in the third season, and Priah Ferguson was promoted to the main cast. Brett Gelman had recurring roles in the second and third seasons, before being promoted to the main cast in the fourth. Joseph Quinn, Eduardo Franco and Jamie Campbell Bower joined the main cast for the fourth season.

This list includes the series' main cast, all guest stars deemed to have had recurring roles throughout the series, and any other guest who is otherwise notable.

Overview

Main cast

Recurring cast

Main characters

Joyce Byers

* Portrayed by Winona Ryder
* Appears in: '' Season 1'', '' Season 2'', '' Season 3'', '' Season 4''
* Status: Alive

Joyce Byers is the mother of Jonathan Byers and Will Byers and is divorced from their father Lonnie Byers. Joyce is a very caring and strong-willed woman who works as a retail clerk at Melvald's General Store in downtown Hawkins. She was born and raised in Hawkins and she attended Hawkins High School with Hopper and Bob.

In season three, she is planning to sell her house and move out of Hawkins, much to Hopper’s dismay who tries to convince her to go on a date with him. Even though she does have feelings for him, Joyce tries to avoid getting into another relationship. She is mainly more interested in figuring out why the magnets in her house keep falling off her fridge and while investigating the reason behind this, she and Hopper uncover a Russian conspiracy. After infiltrating a Russian lab beneath the new Starcourt Mall, where the Russians have opened another portal into the Upside Down, Joyce is forced to close the portal by turning off the Russian machine used to open it with Hopper in the room, and Hopper ends up being presumably dead. Joyce becomes a mother figure to Eleven after taking her in when Hopper supposedly died. The Byers family and Eleven move to California three months after Hopper's supposed death.

Joyce has a stay-at-home job and receives a package from Russia carrying a doll, which has a note inside that reveals Hopper is alive. She and Murray call the number on the note and contact "Enzo", a prison guard that Hopper has bribed, who demands $40,000 in exchange for Hopper's freedom. Joyce obtains the money and flies to Alaska with Murray Bauman, where they meet Yuri Ismaylov, a Russian smuggler and pilot that smuggles American goods into the Russian prison camp. Realizing the profit that can be made, Yuri Ismaylov drugs Joyce and Murray and flies them to Russia. En route, Joyce and Murray knock out Yuri and crash in the wilderness. They force Yuri to take them to the prison camp, where Murray impersonates Yuri, while Joyce and Yuri act as hostages. The two witness Hopper fight the Demogorgon, but Joyce manages to rescue him and reunites with him.

Jim Hopper

* Portrayed by David Harbour
* Appears in: ''Season 1'', ''Season 2'', ''Season 3'', ''Season 4''
* Status: Alive

James "Jim" Hopper, nicknamed "Hop", is the Hawkins chief of police. Hopper has lived in Hawkins nearly all his life, having attended high school with Joyce and Bob. Hopper divorced after his young daughter Sarah died of cancer, which caused him to lapse into alcoholism. Eventually, he grows to be more responsible, saving Will from the Demogorgon as well as taking Eleven in as his adopted daughter.

In season three, he tries to break up Mike and Eleven since their relationship is moving too fast for him while trying to win over Joyce romantically. Through Joyce, he gets involved in an investigation regarding the supernatural, and they uncover a Russian conspiracy. He is seemingly killed in an explosion under the mall caused by a Russian machine used to open a portal to the Upside Down. In a teaser trailer for season four ("''From Russia, with love...''" - released on February 14, 2020), he is shown alive in Russia.

Having survived the mall explosion, Hopper is captured by Russians and is taken to a prison camp in Kamchatka, where he and other prisoners work on constructing a railroad track. While there, Hopper bribes a prison guard named Dmitri Antonov and works with him to escape the prison camp. Hopper manages to escape to a nearby town, but he is recaptured. After Antonov is revealed to be a corrupt guard, both he and Hopper are imprisoned together. During a feast, Hopper realizes he and the other prisoners are being plumped to be easy prey for an upcoming battle with the Demogorgon. He lights his weapon on fire, holding the Demogorgon away long enough for Joyce to lead Hopper to safety. Hopper and Joyce reunite and finally profess their romantic feelings for one another. Hopper, Joyce, Murray, Antonov and Yuri discover a number of creatures from the Upside Down being studied in the prison. Realizing their children are in danger, they work together to kill the creatures, weakening the Upside Down's power and giving the kids an advantage in their fight against Vecna. Hopper and Joyce then return to Hawkins, and Hopper reunites with Eleven. However, the Upside Down begins to engulf Hawkins.

Mike Wheeler

* Portrayed by Finn Wolfhard
* Appears in: ''Season 1'', ''Season 2'', ''Season 3'', ''Season 4''
* Status: Alive

Michael "Mike" Wheeler is the son of Karen and Ted Wheeler, younger brother of Nancy and older brother of Holly, and is friends with Lucas, Dustin and Will. Mike is an intelligent and conscientious student who is committed to Lucas, Dustin and Will. In their '' Dungeons and Dragons'' party, Mike is their Paladin and usually plays the role of Dungeon Master. He develops feelings for Eleven after taking her in and helping her escape the bad men. Eleven also helps him and his friends find Will. At the end of season one, Mike asks Eleven to the Snow Ball (school dance) and he kisses Eleven, much to her surprise. However, the Demogorgon appears and Eleven says her goodbyes to Mike as she seemingly dies, killing the Demogorgon.

In season two, he feels upset at the fact that Eleven is gone. He calls her every night, hoping she will one day return. He grows irritated with the party and has a rocky relationship with Max at first. Will reveals his apparent flashbacks to the Upside Down to Mike and he accompanies Joyce, Bob and Will to the lab when Will's health deteriorates. When Eleven reappears, he is grateful that they do not have to fight the battle without her but angry at Hopper for keeping her hidden for the past year. Mike is key on getting Will’s memory back to tell the group to close the gate. Before Eleven leaves to close the gate, Mike tells her he cannot lose her again and she promises him that he will not. A month after Eleven closes the gate, the two attend the Snow Ball together and share yet another kiss.

The next summer, the two are dating, but Hopper manages to separate them because they are spending too much time together. When Eleven and Max realize Mike has been lying about his grandmother being sick she eventually breaks up with Mike. However, the two reconcile at the hospital waiting for Nancy. While Eleven tries to find Billy, Mike expresses concern that everyone is careless with Eleven‘s powers and confesses that he loves Eleven. He tries to project his feelings to her after she gets bitten but struggles to find the right words. On the day that Eleven and the Byers family move away, Mike promises Eleven that he will keep in contact and schedules visits at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Eleven then tells Mike that she loves him and kisses him before she leaves Hawkins with the Byers family.

In the spring of 1986, Mike and Dustin join the Hellfire Club, Hawkins High School's Dungeons and Dragons club, led by Eddie Munson. Though Lucas is also a member, he has committed himself to the Hawkins HS basketball team, putting him at odds with Mike and Dustin, who urge him to side with them—the "nerds and freaks." He and Eleven maintain a long-distance relationship with letters, and for spring break, Mike flies to California to visit Eleven and Will at their new home in Lenora Hills. Though Eleven insisted to Mike that she had friends and was living a semi-popular lifestyle, Mike discovers that she was lying to hide the heavy bullying she experiences from other students. He witnesses Angela and a gang of girls humiliate Eleven at Rink-o-Mania, and he is shocked when Eleven retaliates with physical violence. The following day, Mike and Eleven argue when she expresses her dissatisfaction in the relationship, pointing out Mike's strange reluctance to say he loves her. When Eleven is arrested for attacking Angela, Mike, Will, and Jonathan are distressed and unsure how to help her—until Sam Owens sends agents to inform them that Eleven has accepted his offer to begin training to get her powers back. At the Byers home, the three are being guarded by two agents, until U.S. Army soldiers attack the house, forcing them to escape with the help of Jonathan's friend Argyle, bringing a wounded Agent Harmon with them. After Harmon dies and leaves them with a phone number to reach Owens and Eleven, Mike enlists the help of Dustin's girlfriend Suzie, who lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. There, Suzie provides them coordinates for the Nina Project, which is in Nevada. Along the way, Mike expresses his inner anxieties regarding his relationship with Eleven, scared that she will eventually realize that she doesn't need him as he needs her. As the U.S. Army closes in on Eleven, Mike and the California Crew arrive, giving Eleven a chance to destroy her attackers and their transportation. Together, they venture to a Surfer Boy Pizza location in Nevada to build Eleven a sensory deprivation tank for her to travel into Max's mind to protect her from Vecna. When Vecna overpowers Eleven, Mike professes his love for her, giving her the strength to overpower him. The California Crew then returns to Hawkins, where Mike and the others prepare for a final battle with the Upside Down, which has leaked into their town.

Eleven

* Portrayed by Millie Bobby Brown
* Appears in: ''Season 1'', ''Season 2'', ''Season 3'', ''Season 4''
* Status: Alive

Eleven is a telekinetic girl who is the sole match for the creatures of the Upside Down. She later becomes Jim Hopper's adoptive daughter and Mike Wheeler's girlfriend.

Born to Terry Ives, Eleven was abducted by Dr. Martin Brenner at birth and taken to Hawkins National Laboratories to hone her telekinetic abilities alongside other gifted children. In 1979, she is bullied by the older numbers for exhibiting a poor usage of her powers, but she finds kindness in a lab orderly, who encourages and supports her. Eventually, Eleven demonstrates great power, but she is targeted by the older children once again and threatened with death. The lab orderly urges Eleven to escape Hawkins Lab, but she frees the orderly, who reveals himself to be Henry Creel / Subject 001 (One). One proceeds to kill everyone in Hawkins Lab, with the exceptions of Brenner and Eleven. When One attempts to convince Eleven to join him in a mission for human dominance, Eleven rejects him, and the two fight. The adult One overpowers the eight-year-old Eleven, but Eleven's powerful, loving memory of her mother gives her the strength to overpower One, sending him into the Upside Down, where he becomes Vecna. Eleven falls into a coma, and her abilities, memory, and intellect are reset when she awakens.

After her escape at the beginning of season one, Eleven is befriended by Mike, Dustin, and Lucas, who believe she can help them in finding Will. In the kids' ''Dungeons and Dragons'' party, she is the Mage. She spends the majority of the first season hiding and running from the "bad men", meaning the lab workers. She helps the boys locate Will, and she fends off threats for them along the way. In the season one finale, she presumably dies after fighting the Demogorgon, though she actually survived and was sent to the Upside Down alongside the Demogorgon.

In season two, following the events of the season one finale, Eleven is shown to escape the Upside Down through a gate in a hallway in Hawkins Middle School. Hopper then becomes a father figure to Eleven, though he hides her from Mike, Dustin and Lucas for her safety. Eleven grows increasingly frustrated at this isolation from the other world, and she temporarily flees Hawkins in search of her biological mother, Terry Ives. She later ventures to Chicago, Illinois, where she meets a girl named Kali (subject 008 / Eight) and her group of vengeful killers. Despite going through a journey of self-discovery, Eleven ultimately returns to Hawkins, reuniting with Mike and her friends. She closes the gate she opened the year prior in Hawkins Lab, ending the Mind Flayer's connection to Hawkins. Hopper legally adopts her as his daughter.

In season three, Eleven is actively dating Mike, much to Hopper's chagrin. When Hopper attempts to separate Mike and Eleven, he forces Mike to lie to her. She suspects this ruse, and she consults Max Mayfield, who helps her discover her individuality. When the Mind Flayer's threat emerges once again, Eleven is pursued once more. After being bitten by the Mind Flayer, Eleven loses her powers, as well as Hopper at the end of the season and moves with the Byers family to Lenora Hills, California.

In spring 1986, Eleven has attended Lenora Hills High School alongside Will, and here she experiences incessant, daily bullying by fellow classmate Angela and her friends. When Mike visits El and Will, Angela and her friends gang up on Eleven at Rink-o-Mania, and Eleven strikes Angela in the face with a roller skate in retaliation. She is taken into police custody, but Dr. Sam Owens intercepts her arrest, offering her a chance to restore her abilities. After she accepts, Owens takes her to a facility in Nevada, where she reunites with Brenner. She is forced to confront her traumatic memories in Hawkins Lab taking her to a facility where she relives her repressed memories of her time at Hawkins Lab. After recalling the lab massacre, Eleven finds that her abilities are restored, and once she learns of the Hawkins Gang's plan to kill Henry / One / Vecna, she attempts to travel back to Hawkins with Owens, though Brenner intervenes and insists on keeping Eleven. After the U.S. Army attacks the silo lab, Brenner attempts to flee with a sedated Eleven, only to be shot. Eleven manages to save herself, and she refuses to forgive a dying Brenner. She later telepathically saves Max from Vecna and revives her when she succumbs to her injuries.

Dustin Henderson

* Portrayed by Gaten Matarazzo
* Appears in: ''Season 1'', ''Season 2'', ''Season 3'', ''Season 4''
* Status: Alive

Dustin Henderson is a friend of Mike, Will, and Lucas, and a goofy and quick-witted boy whose cleidocranial dysplasia causes him to lisp. In the ''Dungeons and Dragons'' party, Dustin is the Bard and has arguably the most extensive knowledge of the game, particularly the monsters. He has a crush on Nancy, and while both he and Lucas have feelings for Max in season two, Lucas and Max ultimately end up together. He also befriends Steve, who gives him advice on how to make girls like him.

Prior to season three, Dustin spends a month at a science camp and, thanks to Steve's advice, is able to get a girlfriend, Suzie, whom he claims is a genius and is "hotter than Phoebe Cates." His friends are skeptical as to whether or not she actually exists as he is unable to get in contact with her over his makeshift radio tower, "Cerebro." Dustin instead discovers the coded Russian transmission and, along with Steve, Robin, and Erica, ventures into the Russian's underground lair. He later proves Suzie's existence when he contacts her for Planck's constant in the season finale (She forces him to sing "Never Ending Story")

Now in high school, Dustin, Mike, and Lucas join a Dungeons & Dragons club named "The Hellfire Club," led by the eccentric Eddie Munson. After Chrissy Cunningham is killed by an unknown entity, Dustin dubs the entity as "Vecna." During a plan to kill Vecna, Dustin and Eddie successfully distract the demo-bats away from Steve, Nancy, and Robin, but become trapped in Eddie’s trailer. Protecting Dustin, Eddie exits the trailer and lures the bats away from the trailer. While fighting them, Eddie is knocked down and his flesh is rendered, leaving him mortally wounded. Dustin comforts Eddie as he dies. Two days later, upon seeing Eddie’s uncle Wayne putting up a missing poster for Eddie, Dustin informs him of Eddie’s death, calling him a hero that saved the town that treated him horridly.

Lucas Sinclair

* Portrayed by Caleb McLaughlin
* Appears in: ''Season 1'', ''Season 2'', ''Season 3'', ''Season 4''
* Status: Alive

Lucas is the eldest child of Sue and Charles Sinclair, elder brother of Erica, and a friend of Mike, Will, and Dustin. Lucas is wary of Eleven at first and blatantly distrustful of her, but befriends her later.

In high school, Lucas joins the Hellfire Club and the basketball team but struggles to make time for both clubs. At the cemetery, he, along with Dustin and Steve, helps Max escape Vecna and comforts her after she escapes.

He finds himself confronted by the senior captain of the basketball team, Jason Carver while Max is under Vecna’s curse. A fight ensues with Jason briefly overpowering Lucas, however after he sees Max beginning to levitate he summons the strength to continue which results in him knocking out Jason.

Lucas observes in horror as Max begins to succumb to Vecna's Curse, her bones are crushed and she loses her sight. This leaves Lucas devastated as he cries hysterically as Max dies in his arms, before Eleven psychically resurrects Max, barely saving her. At the end of the season he is seen reading to Max as she is laying in the hospital comatose. Spores from the Upside Down are seen from the hospital window as Lucas and Erica observe.

Nancy Wheeler

* Portrayed by Natalia Dyer
* Appears in: ''Season 1'', ''Season 2'', ''Season 3'', ''Season 4''
* Status: Alive

Nancy Wheeler is the oldest daughter of Karen and Ted Wheeler and the older sister of Mike and Holly. Nancy is something of an outcast at school until Steve Harrington takes an interest in her.

Their relationship lasts until the ending of season two when she starts dating Jonathan after a little help from Murray ("So get it over with!"). She is very proficient with firearms, despite a noticeable lack of training or practice. She has been seen using pistols, revolvers, rifles and shotguns.

In the third season, Nancy and Jonathan work as interns at the ''Hawkins Post'', where Nancy is subject to workplace harassment and sexual discrimination from her male superiors. She and Jonathan are eventually fired for pursuing a story against their editor's wishes, but Nancy continues to investigate the case, which leads her to multiple encounters with the Flayed being controlled by the Mind Flayer from the Upside Down through Billy.

In season four, Nancy begins working as an editor at her school paper alongside her coworker Fred Benson. When Chrissy is murdered by Vecna, Nancy and Fred investigate her crime scene, where Nancy questions Max's neighbor and learns of Victor Creel, a man who murdered his family and was incarcerated at Pennhurst Asylum. When Fred is killed by Vecna, Nancy reunites with the gang and is informed of Vecna. Later, Nancy is put into a trance by Vecna and learns he is actually Henry Creel, Victor Creel's son who actually killed his family and framed their deaths on his father. Eventually, she, Steve, and Robin set Vecna on fire before shooting him several times.

Jonathan Byers

* Portrayed by Charlie Heaton
* Appears in: ''Season 1'', ''Season 2'', ''Season 3'', ''Season 4''
* Status: Alive

Jonathan Byers is the older brother of Will and the oldest son of Joyce. He is shy and reserved, and is considered an outsider at Hawkins High. He is an aspiring photographer, and very close with his mother and brother.

Jonathan starts dating Nancy at the end of season two. They both become interns at the ''Hawkins Post'' in season three, but are eventually fired by their editor for pursuing a story. He helps his friends defeat the Mind Flayer before he and his family decide to move to Lenora Hills, California.

In the fourth season, Jonathan makes a new friend named Argyle. Jonathan, who planned to attend college with Nancy, reveals to Argyle that he was accepted to a community college in Lenora Hills. After gaining the number of NINA, they seek the help of Suzie who resides in Salt Lake City, Utah. Suzie locates NINA's coordinates, and the group arrives there while Eleven is facing off against the U.S. Army's troops. Jonathan helps the group build an isolation tank for Eleven to fight Vecna, and later returns to Hawkins only to find it being infiltrated by the Upside Down.

Karen Wheeler

* Portrayed by Cara Buono
* Appears in: ''Season 1'', ''Season 2'', ''Season 3'', ''Season 4''
* Status: Alive

Karen Wheeler is the mother of Nancy, Mike and Holly and wife of Ted. Although a loving mother at heart, she remains largely clueless about her children's activities up until the destruction of Hawkins by Vecna, and often tries to directly connect with them rather than trying to understand them. Nancy believes she only married her husband to fit the image of a nuclear family.

At the end of the second season and the beginning of the third, she develops a sexual attraction towards Billy Hargrove, partly out of boredom with her husband, but ultimately decides against acting on these feelings to avoid splitting her family apart; her brief submission to them, however, indirectly results in Billy being possessed by the Mind Flayer. Later, she finally connects with Nancy by encouraging her to continue pursuing the story she was fired for working on against her editor's orders.

Martin Brenner

* Portrayed by Matthew Modine
* Appears in: ''Season 1'', ''Season 2'', ''Season 4''
* Status: Deceased
* Died in: ''Season 4''

Dr. Martin Brenner, who is referred to as "Papa" by Eleven and the other children he experimented on, is the head scientist of Hawkins Laboratory and the experiments performed there. He is a callous and manipulative scientist, having abducted Eleven from her mother, Terry Ives, whom he later subjected to electroshock therapy to destroy her mind and thoughts. Brenner then put Eleven through numerous experiments, one of which saw her use her abilities to accidentally establish a link to the Upside Down. After Eleven escapes the lab, Brenner and his team hunt for her throughout Hawkins while covering up the actions of the Demogorgon they unknowingly let loose. Brenner is apparently killed by the Demogorgon in the first-season finale, though a former worker named Ray claimed Brenner was still alive during his attempt to plea for his life to Eleven and Kali.

In season four, Brenner is revealed to still be alive and working with Dr. Owens on a project called "NINA", which they hope can restore Eleven's powers. NINA is a specialized sensory deprivation tank and experimental drugs that allow Eleven to vividly recall memories of her time in the lab. Flashbacks to 1979 show that Brenner was experimenting on at least thirteen children alongside Eleven until all of them except for her were murdered by subject 001 (Henry Creel/Vecna), whom Eleven overpowered and banished to the Upside Down. The exertion put Eleven in a coma that erased most of her memories and weakened her powers, which Brenner began attempting to restore. Brenner's experiments on Eleven throughout the first season are revealed to have been attempts to locate Henry, whose powers he sought to replicate in the other children.

The NINA project ultimately succeeds in restoring Eleven's powers, but U.S. Army troops led by Lt. Col. Jack Sullivan storm the facility and kill the staff, believing Eleven to be responsible for a string of murders in Hawkins (which were in fact committed by Vecna). Brenner is shot by a sniper while attempting to escape with Eleven, who overpowers the Army. As Brenner dies, Eleven refuses his pleas to forgive him for the way he treated her.

Will Byers

* Portrayed by Noah Schnapp
* Appears in: ''Season 1'', ''Season 2'', ''Season 3'', ''Season 4''
* Status: Alive

Willam "Will" Byers is the younger brother of Jonathan and the youngest son of Joyce, is the shy, kind, timid, and often forgotten member of the party. In the group's ''Dungeons and Dragons'' party, Will is the wizard, but later occasionally plays the role of Dungeon Master; he is referred to as "Will the Wise". In season one, he vanishes somewhere near "Mirkwood" after encountering the monster that escaped through a rift to the "Upside Down", an alternate dimension discovered by the Hawkins Laboratory scientists. Schnapp was promoted to series regular for the second season, after recurring in the first.

In season two, he began to experience flashbacks to his time in the Upside-Down, with visions of a large shadow monster trying to attack him. The monster eventually possessed Will, and was later dubbed by Dustin as "The Mind Flayer". Joyce, Mike, Jonathan, and Nancy were able to drive the Mind Flayer out of Will, returning him to normal.

In season three, his friends' preoccupations with their girlfriends lead to Will feeling like the odd-man-out. His link to the Mind Flayer helps the group know when it is active. At the end of the season, he moves out of Hawkins with Joyce, Jonathan and Eleven.

In season four, Will, Mike, Jonathan, and Argyle recover Eleven and help her build a sensory deprivation tank through which she can fight Vecna. Upon returning to Hawkins, which has been ravaged by a series of faults opened by Vecna from the Upside Down, Will begins feeling the Upside Down's influence again—recognizing Vecna as the presence he felt all along.

Schnapp has confirmed that Will is gay and is attracted to Mike. The show has hinted at this through the first three seasons, but it was made more apparent during scenes in the fourth season. Will tries to boost Mike's confidence that they will find Eleven as they drive to the Nina project site. Later, he is comforted by Jonathan who knows that Will is different mentions that he will accept him, saying "you're my brother and there is nothing in this world that will ever change that."

Max Mayfield

* Portrayed by Sadie Sink
* Appears in: ''Season 2'', ''Season 3'', ''Season 4''
* Status: Alive

Maxine "Max" Mayfield is Susan Hargrove's biological daughter, Billy's younger stepsister, an avid skateboarder, and the tomboy of the group who catches the attention of Lucas when it becomes known that she has the highest score in '' Dig Dug''. Max is often shown at odds with Billy.

In season three, she and Lucas are dating after supposed multiple breakups. Eleven approaches her to seek advice when she suspects that Mike is lying to her, and Max convinces her that Mike might have done that to play along with his friends. Max helps Eleven in exploring the outside world, making them close friends. She is also shown to be a fan of Wonder Woman.

In season four, Max struggles with coping after