Stranger Things season 5 deaths 'sealed' as show lets slip fate of two stars

Stranger Things fans are bracing for tragedy ahead of the Netflix show's final season, with many spotting a big clue as to who will die in the upcoming episodes. It's been a long wait for Netflix subscribers - with the last season of the hit sci-fi series airing back in 2022 - however, we're finally returning to Hawkins for the show's last instalments in November.

With the gang hoping to kill evil Vecna for good in the upcoming three-part finale, blood was always going to be shed in this final battle. However, fans are convinced that the Netflix show has given away a massive spoiler by releasing its new poster for its fifth and final season.

In the poster, we see Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Will (Noah Schnapp) riding their bikes through a destroyed Hawkins with Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) on Mike's.

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However, it's just Dustin and Will who have lights on their bikes - and one particular fan has theorised on TikTok that this could mean we'll see them both meet their demise in the upcoming series.

"Looking at the poster, you see the main four riding their bikes, the only two bikes with their lights on are Dustin and Will," they wrote on TikTok.

"Going back to season 4, steve, robin, nancy and Eddie are in the upside down riding their bikes and the only bike light on is eddie who also happens to be the only one to die."

"Me tweaking the f**k out bc the duffer brothers literally just spoiled two character deaths by the new stranger things 5 poster," another upset fan wrote on TikTok. "Y'all were not subtle."

Netflix also released the trailer for season five this week and some fans are convinced that they've spotted Will cast the Fireball spell on Vecna to defeat him.

In the clip, David Harbour's character Hopper can be heard saying: "I need you to fight one last time", while the camera zooms in on Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), bathed in what appears to be the glow of nearby flames.

Then later in the trailer, Vecna is seen engulfed in a fiery vortex. A Reddit user speculated: "I think Will [is] casting Fireball on Vecna. He says I cast Fireball in the first episode."

The Fireball spell, which came from the Dungeons and Dragons game, is featured in one of the initial scenes of Stranger Things when it premiered in 2016.

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