I dub thee, Dangergate
I had some time on my hands while I was eating, figured what kind of theorist would I be if I speculated on the episode without actually watching it, so I decided to give it a go — and oh my fucking god am I glad I did.
(Some of this stuff is things I noted is in the original post, some of it is new, the damning shit is at the bottom #ialwayssavebestforlast)
Possible reference to Will’s missing dog
Twelve kids didn’t disappear (so they could make the eleven joke) but they still found a way to bring it to a “dozen”
Just the BLATANT parallels — sorry, I’m actually never getting over vecna and Kevin’s designs being fucking IDENTICAL.
Oh and—
Hello Henrys!
Now, I speculated in my original post that I think the stranger things writers may have actually reached out to the henry danger writers first — we have vecnas design, and the main character and villain sharing names to suggest this — and if that’s the case, I believe the blue and red imagery played a heavy part in their choice for Henry danger.
However, I don’t know much about the industry and the function surrounding this kind of thing, so I can’t comment further on it.
Tiger = vecnas presence
Eyes = vecnas presence
Crate = vecnas mind
The poster just reminds me of the The Thing poster in Mike’s basement, and I had 4 grids (there is more detail, but I was eating and didn’t take photos of everything)
Now, THIS is the thing that triggered the making of this post, that absolutely sealed the deal for me. (Frankly all the other stuff was loose enough for me to brush off)
Shwoz’s friend Steve from college:
(Also, if anyone wants to do further analysis of this image, please do, I know I’m far less knowledgeable and understanding of stranger things details than a lot of people here)
Pretty average college photo.
Oh… wait— what is— what is that???
Fuck. Off.