SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Season 5, Volume 1 of “ Stranger Things .”

For the entire run of “Stranger Things,” Will Byers ( Noah Schnapp ) has had it rough . In Season 1, he was abducted into the Upside Down and, as we later find out, is filled with some kind of malignant goo by the show’s lead villain, Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower). In Season 2, he was possessed by a malevolent entity known as the Mind Flayer. In Season 3, he was left behind by his friend group — Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) — as they turned their attention away from Dungeons & Dragons and to their (often terrible) attempts to romance their girlfriends. And in Season 4, he suffered in closeted silence as his feelings about Mike shifted from frie

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