


With each gate that opens, the wall between realities gets weaker and weaker, which could allow for a much larger-scale invasion from the Upside Down than when the Demogorgon crossed back and forth in Season 1. With every psychic connection that Vecna makes, he makes a gate, and not the kind that closes immediately like when Eleven banished One to the Upside Down. While it initially seemed that Vecna was simply using his powers to torment and kill people who suffer from feelings of guilt and despair for the fun of it, Dustin concluded that there could be a larger plan in place. (Image credit: Netflix) What Is Vecna Doing In Hawkins Now? But can he be defeated in his own domain in the Upside Down, if necessary? His powers can be defeated (or at least deterred), as Eleven managed to overcome him as One, and Max’s life was saved by Lucas and Co. After being exiled to the Upside Down and becoming Vecna, he uses both telepathic and telekinetic sets of skills to form powerful psychic connections between realities, creating gate after gate from the Upside Down to Hawkins to torture and kill. In fact, he debuted some kill moves that she would use later in the timeline. Brenner as One, his telekinetic powers seemed to be advanced versions of what Eleven would eventually be able to do. He developed his style of killing by levitating victims, breaking their bones, and gouging their eyes back in the 1950s as Henry, after spending some time using his telepathic powers to torment his parents.Īfter years with Dr. 1), we have to look at his time as Henry and his time as One in addition to his killing spree in the Stranger Things present.

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(Image credit: Netflix) What We Know About Vecna's Powersįor Vecna’s full scope of powers (as of the end of Vol. By the time of Season 4, he has been using his considerable powers in some new ways that are currently terrorizing the people of Hawkins and potentially weakening the walls between realities. Stuck in the Upside Down for years without a gate back to Hawkins, One became Vecna. He would have killed Eleven too after she refused to join him, but after a psychic battle of the wills, she opened what may have been the first-ever gate to the Upside Down and forced him into it, then closed it behind him. He went on a brutal killing spree that took out nearly everybody, including all the children except for Eleven and all the staff other than Brenner. One eventually manipulated Eleven into removing his chip – although it’s up for debate as to whether that was always part of his plan for her – and then unleashed his fury. Eventually, however, Brenner implanted him with a chip that would suppress his powers and track him, and he was nothing more than an orderly until making a bond with Eleven that changed everything. Brenner took custody of the child, and Henry became the first test subject of what Brenner intended to be many, tattooing him with “001.” Just as Jane would later become Eleven, Henry became One. Killing his family members took too much out of him as a child, however, and he fell into a coma while his father, Victor ( played by horror legend Robert Englund), was blamed for the deaths.īut Henry didn’t die in the coma like his father believed.ĭr. Vecna’s origin started back in the 1950s, when young Henry Creel developed telekinetic powers that he used for torturing animals and telepathic powers that he used for tormenting his parents, before ultimately murdering his mother and sister.
