Who did Vecna try to kill?
Then there were the three poor teens of Season 4. Vecna's first big credited kill was Chrissy Cunningham (Grace Van Dien). He followed that murder with canonically terrible driver Fred Benson (Logan Riley Bruner) and basketball star Patrick McKinney (Myles Truitt).
Vecna's '86 victims include Chrissy Cunningham (Grace Van Dien), who suffered from her mother's body-shaming abuse. School newspaper reporter Fred Benson (Logan Riley Bruner) fled from a deadly car accident that continues to haunt him. Patrick was targeted due to his father's abuse of him.
Stranger Things Deaths by Vecna
Vecna seeks four victims in total. His first three victims — Chrissy Cunningham, Patrick McKinney, and Fred Benson — are all peers of The Party, people they know from school, which makes Vecna's terror all the more real.
- Eleven.
- Nancy Wheeler.
- Victor Creel.
- Patrick McKinney.
Ultimately, it is revealed in Stranger Things season 4's finale that the reason why Vecna was killing Hawkins teenagers was to create a massive gate that merges the Right Side Up with the Upside Down - and he specifically needed four bodies to do so.
2) Alice Creel
That same night, Henry killed his younger sister Alice. He attempted to kill his father Victor, but he grew too weak to complete the job. Henry then fell into a coma, and later ended up in Dr. Brenner's programme.
Vecna draws power from sad and angry memories and that is the main reason he targets traumatized teens. Those teens are a well of power just there to be absorbed. This is not just a theory, Vecna himself told Eleven about the power that angry and sad memories hold. Also in episode 8 of Season 4 named “Papa,” Dr.
Vecna did not just kill his victims he haunted them with their traumatic past before completing the deed but his 1986 victims were the only ones who were not tortured before their death. The main reason could be that Vecna was powerless during that period and killing them was the only way he could escape.
Realizing he had tremendous psychic power, he haunted his family with visions before ultimately killing most of them. His father was framed for the murders and locked away in a mental hospital as a disturbed serial killer. Henry then found himself in the care of Brenner, who decided he wanted more kids like the boy.
The final scene of Volume 1 shows a shot of Vecna, and a close up of the 001 tattoo on his arm, confirming that Henry Creel, a.k.a. Number One, became Vecna.
Who is controlling Vecna?
Near the end of Stranger Things Volume 1, Dustin speculated that Vecna is the Mind Flayer's “five-star general,” but the truth is nowhere near that simple. From the information we got during the Stranger Things 4 finale, we can conclude that Henry Creel is the one calling the shots; in fact, Henry is the Mind Flayer.
Vecna's first season 4 victim is Chrissy Cunningham (Grace Van Dien), who is targeted based on the trauma she carries due to her body-shaming mother.
Vecna seeks four victims in total. His first three victims — Chrissy Cunningham, Patrick McKinney, and Fred Benson — are all peers of The Party, people they know from school, which makes Vecna's terror all the more real.
What Does Vecna Want? Vecna's goal is to open as many gates to the Upside Down as he can, in order to help the Mind Flayer. The Mind Flayer, is, of course, the ULTIMATE big bad, and he's looking to take over the world.
Vecna could have killed Eleven in Stranger Things season 4 volume 2 but instead made her watch him as he slowly killed Max. Here's why. Instead of simply killing Eleven and being rid of her for good, Vecna wanted her to watch him kill Max and destroy Hawkins in the Stranger Things season 4 finale.
It seems like Vecna is working on extracting revenge on Eleven, but it's a slow process, inching closer and closer to her--killing people in order to access their memories/essence.
Her death is gruesome — Vecna kills his victims by pulling their consciousness into the Upside Down, while in the real world their bodies levitate and contort as their bones snap.
Now that we know it was Vecna all along, he has to come back and try to finish his plan. As he tells Eleven in his mind palace, he wants Hawkins and the rest of the world "to burn and fall.
Stranger Things season 4 revealed Vecna was always behind Hawkins's destruction, but there's a reason why he used the Mind Flayer to do his bidding.
What Does Vecna Want? Vecna's goal is to open as many gates to the Upside Down as he can, in order to help the Mind Flayer. The Mind Flayer, is, of course, the ULTIMATE big bad, and he's looking to take over the world.
Who did Vecna kill to open the upside down?
After destroying the Starcourt gate in season 3, the Hawkins gang thought they'd closed all the openings to the Upside Down. But when Vecna killed Chrissy, Fred, and Patrick, each of their deaths coincided with the opening of a new gate.