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The Upside Down is taking over in the newest 'Stranger Things' season 5 trailer


STRANGER THINGS: SEASON 5. Noah Schnapp as Will Byers and Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna in Stranger Things: Season 5. Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX © 2025
STRANGER THINGS: SEASON 5. Noah Schnapp as Will Byers and Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna in Stranger Things: Season 5. Cr. COURTESY OF NETFLIX © 2025
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The Upside Down wants to be right side up in the latest “Stranger Things” trailer.

The second trailer for the fifth and final season of the hit Netflix series is giving us more details than before, but plenty of questions remain.

Hawkins, the hometown to our beloved heroes, has been quarantined off by the military after the Upside Down, and now a bunch of Demogorgons, have pushed their way into our world.


But our whole gang of heroes is here to put a stop to it, and the villainous Vecna, once and for all. That includes Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who can apparently fly or at least levitate now, and her adoptive dad Sheriff Hopper (David Harbour). There’s also our sweet gang of D&D lovers, Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and Will (Noah Schnapp), along with Will’s brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) and mom Joyce (Winona Ryder), Mike’s sister Nancy (Natalia Dyer), and besties Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) and Robin Buckley (Maya Hawke).

We also get a glimpse of Max (Sadie Sink), who was left comatose after her final encounter with Vecna in season four, possibly being rescued by Lucas from the hospital as Demo-dogs chase after them.

Set to a haunting version of Queen’s “Who Wants to Live Forever,” more than the fate of Hawkins is at stake as Vecna clearly has global domination on his mind. And he may turn one of Hawkins’ own against the team before the end.

“William, you are going to help me one last time,” he says calmly near the trailer’s end.

No, not sweet little Will, the little boy we were all so desperate to find back in season one!

We’ll have to wait to find out until November 26 (when Volume 1 drops), then December 25 (Volume 2), and then New Year’s Eve (the two-hour finale).

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