It’s kind of funny people are so worried that Will doesn’t have powers.
I got alot of anons asking about this,recently . Guys-I’m saying this with love. Remember how in a podcast , after s3, the Duffers said even small set details are important narratively? Let’s run down -real quick all the prior set refs…
1)In s2 we see the ‘twighlight zone: the movie” next to Will. (it’s one of the 3 movies Jonathan offers to Will to choose from) .
One subplot in the flim is about a boy with a bowlcut who looks just like Will (who likes video-games) and can alter reality with his imagination: and creates monsters with his powers. *we see direct refs to s2/Will
- he tells a monster (he created) to ‘go away’. similar to Will saying to the mindflayer to “go away”.
-the boy gets upset after finding a news paper clipping : where someone writes on it, anonomously saying he is a ‘monster’ . Aka like the newspaper, Will found, where someone wrote and referred to him as a “zombie boy”.
-There’s birthday refs (for both boys).
- both are into arcade-games. we see the boy first introduced playing arcade games. Like how at the beginning of s2: Will and Co are first seen at the arcade .
- both talk to a girl in a void (Like Will does with El in s1).
*Suzie is seen reading the novel. And starts taking to dustin about the book- in s3.
the trilogy is about a pre-teen wizard named Ged (who YES also has a bowl cut). The boy wizard casts a powerful spell, but the spell goes awry and instead he releases a shadow creature!The new Archmage, Gensher, describes the shadow as an ancient evil that wishes to possess Ged (like the mindflayer possessing Will, and dustin describing the mindflayer as a very old creature ) . But geshner was wrong- the boy wizard accidentally created the shadow monster, and it wasn’t ancient at all. Ged had to face his metaphorical demons so he could take control of his shadow. And again… Will is a wizard.
*suzie and dustin sing the og song from the film.
Bastian is bullied, likes to draw, ( and YES ALSO has a bowl cut- and is from single parent house hold) . He subconsciously creates a fantasy world being over run by a physical manifestation of ‘darkness’(symbolizing his loss of hope and dreams). Ya’ll Sebastian accidentally wrote “this story” . Will said about the drawing of the mindflayer (aka the shadow monster) is “ for a story he’s writing” .
One of the other characters is Atreyu (El). Atreyu ( was the child deemed the ‘chosen one’). Atreyu is knocked into the sea of possibilities (El and the beach). There he wakes on the shore of abandoned ruins (El and steel yard). And Gmorick (mindflayer) then latches his jaws onto Atreyu’s (El’s) leg.The Empress in the story later says, that despite others saying Atreyu (El) was the chosen one like Nancy, Owens, Brenner, etc(he never was the chosen one) . And that it was always Bastian (Will) who was the chosen one-since his imagination created Fantasia (so he’s the only way to stop the darkness from over -running it). Bastian had to get over his grief/pain ( regarding a parent) to stop the physical darkness from taking over fantasia. "He restores fantasia’s existence through his own imagination.”
In the novel, Bastian even had an arc , like Will, where he temporarily loses his memories and became evil. Similar to what happened to Will in s2.
I could go on… but that’s my short summary. Doing all these refs is incredibly suspiscious if Will has no powers. I mean look at all these boys they’re clones XD.
Wizard Ged doesn’t look as similar … but he still has the bowlcut lol
Like… I’m supposed to believe they just threw in these refs for no reason? That Will has no powers despite all of this? Why do these parallels exist at all, if that was the case? DUFFERS , why would you parallel Will to boys with powers , if Will doesn’t have them (and can only sense the mindflayer) ?! 😅
Heck… Jonathan byers is named after John byers from the xfiles. One ep,in the series, is called “scary monsters”: It’s about a little boy with a bowl cut (who again looks like Will). He draws monsters that come to life and he even manifested fire powers . And made a small slug crawl under a woman’s skin just like what happened to El. He even can create humans/ human dopplegangers. He’s also the one thing the monsters won’t kill because he created them.
Lol both watching the boy draw with crayons… the shot is so similar.
Not to mention, in d&d Wizards have the ability to summon monsters, specifically wizards can summon: demogorgans, mindflayers, and zombies (juju zombies from s3 Will discussed + vecna is undead/ Will is “zombie boy”). Ok. That’s not suspicious at all .🤣
Like… talk about a wasted opportunity if Will doesn’t have powers. Also … boys with bowl cuts who have reality altering- imagination abilities (who create monsters /shadow creatures) is a whole a$$ trope . Who would have guessed. XD
Also, stephen king who the duffers cited as a huge inspiration for st- has written about several characters who can alter reality via drawings too(similar to the xfiles ep). “Patrick danville has the ability to draw pictures that become or alter reality.He plays a critical role in the defeat of the Crimson King. Patrick draws a picture of the King, only to erase it. Edgar Freemantle, in the novel Duma Key, has a similar artistic ability.Edgar gradually begins to understand that his paintings have a paranormal power that allow him to manipulate events, places and people.”
Plus, duffers said Harry Potter is inspo for st . And they called the mindflayer :“the lord voldermort of our series ”. Hello?!!! Harry Potter is “the boy who- lived”. Will is “the boy who- came back to life”. And again they’re both wizards!!! And both boys have a psychic connection to the big-bad .
And I’m supposed to believe there’s not something going on - and Will has no powers ? And isn’t significant to the story at all ??? Nah,i’m skeptical. XD
But we just have to wait and see.
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