Why Mike and Will Can’t Die
Thought we might need this in the tag today.
1. Mike is the main character. We’ve got three of them right now, Mike, Joyce and El. That’s why they’re always separated from each other because they have different ways in which they drive the plot. Originally, it was just Mike and Joyce, and El was made more into a main character in season two.
2. Will Byers mother is Joyce. His sister is El. Him and Mike are just different. Those are his three strongest relationships (besides Jonathan). The three main characters that drive the plot are his three strongest relationships. You take away Will, and you break everything. Why didn’t Will die in season one? Because he’s important.
3. Many of the characters that have been killed off so far have something in common. So; Barb, Bob, Eddie. These are our big ones. They were all introduced in the season they died in. That’s one. The second one is that they all kind of acted as comic relief and/or voices of reason. They had a purpose that was the development of other characters.
Barb was needed in Nancy’s story to both give her character something to do in season one and lay the foundations of her character for the rest of the series.
Bob was there to figure stuff out with the mind flayer, and to say some things that would lead Joyce to move at the end of season three. He was also there to die and traumatize other characters, and put in the running theme of ‘sometimes running is better.’
Eddie served as character development/growth for Mike. He was also important to pushing characters in quite a few directions. Steve towards Nancy and small things he said that had an impact. Also, since he was so similar to Mike, his death was also very similar to when Mike jumped off the quarry in season one. Eddie died, but he didn’t have to- there were other ways. But like Mike, Eddie tuned out Dustin screaming and did it anyways because he had an incentive not to care whether he lived or died: even if he lived he’d be framed as a murderer, and even if his name was cleared it would never go back, not really.
Dustin seeing Eddie die was important because it’s pulling on Dustin’s stuff from season one. Also, it was in line with the ‘sometimes running is better’ theme.
So, Mike and Will have been around for every season. And usually, when they say things, it does not help anyone- and I mean that in the nicest way possible. They are there to cause problems and then try to fix them or have someone else try and fix them.
4. The others that have died deserved it. Billy and Jason(the basketball one, I’m not sure if that’s his name or not) and Brenner died because they were terrible people and their deaths gave our characters closure.
Mike and Will’s deaths would give us the opposite of closure. It would be very cruel to us, and unnecessary to the audience as a whole.
5. When people die in stranger things, it causes long-lasting problems. Trauma is another theme in stranger things that’s been there the whole time. Will Byers started off with trauma and then he got more and it just keeps getting worse for him. Mike is in the same boat. Problems are meant to be fixed. Things that continually cause trauma are problems. Unresolved problems are plot holes and they make for an unsatisfactory ending.
6. Either they didn’t run or they were cruel or they were meant to be horrifying (Vecna’s victims). That’s why they die. The deaths in stranger things aren’t used for shock value, they’re used to advance the plot and to wrap up the plot. The deaths usually have a message attached to them; don’t be a terrible human being and running is safer, are two of them.
Trauma and perseverance because of the people around you who care about you are important. Season one, we had Joyce and Jonathan and Will. We had Mike who had Dustin and his mom and El and Lucas. In season two Will had all his friends, Bob, his mom, Jonathan, and especially Mike. In season three El had Hopper, Mike and Max. In season four things got a bit out of place, but that fits with how that season ended.
Not only does Mike and Will dying not make sense, individually or together, in the narrative structure, but killing them goes against the core message of the show; perseverance through trauma is because of the people around you. Mike and Will have each other, Will knows he has Jonathan, Mike might not know he has people, but he’s going to. Either way, if they believe it or not, they have people who will support them.
If they still end up dying, even though they had people who care about them and are there for them through anything, what the fuck would that even be saying about trauma?
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i dont understand like 99.99% of republicans/conservatives beliefs on anything and its all contradictory but i dont understand how when things like 9/11 happen their response is to invade and kill everyone in the “responsible country” because we have to protect americans and prove ourselves tough on war but then when 212 school shootings happen in the us in 5 months their response is to deny that they happened and convince everyone that it was staged and actually a liberal, democratic government ploy to try to ban their hunting guns
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List five things that make you happy, then put this in the inbox of the last ten people who reblogged something from you, get to know your mutuals and your followers
1) my partner 😄
2) mobile legends of course
3) days with nothing to do, and that includes laundry and groceries lol
4) discovering new music I like
5) birds, just everything about them, but especially when they do their little hops
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i am trying to listen to the audio book for solitaire bc the readers voice is so calming and its been popping up all over my tiktok and i relate to tori way too much not to read it or listen to it but im broke and am on a book buying ban until i read all the books i have now so i have resorted to audio book. and its great. the readers voice is amazing, tori is amazing, the writing is amazing. but i cant fucking focus on anything she is saying, i've had to go back 3 times already in the space of 9 minutes. its not that i can't hear what she saying its just my brain isnt processing it which is really annoying cause i really want to listen to it so now i'm in a constant state of internal screaming all bc im putting so much effort into trying to listen to someone read
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https://t.co/43eugI1DLS
this is disgusting.. if they plan on making spongebob nfts??
its just disrespectful.. and i know nickelodeon has gotten into drama in the past for disrespecting stephen hillenburg, but that was sort of resolved by paul tibbit im pretty sure? but this is just incriminating.. more info on what he was like here since i dont want to seem like im speaking for someone i dont know
i want to note btw: this is paramounts fault!
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