Noah Schnapp, one of the stars of the beloved Netflix hit Stranger Things, seemingly accidentally revealed two crucial spoilers during a recent episode of the Hot Ones YouTube show, which were promptly edited out.
Warning! Spoilers (we think!) for Stranger Things Season 5 follow:
Schnapp — alongside costars Gaten Matarazzo, Finn Wolfhard, and Caleb McLaughlin — appeared on an episode of Hot Ones Versus (the version of the iconic interview series that doesn’t feature host Sean Evans), where he dropped a couple bombs, namely that Vecna is controlled, or, as he put it, “is run” by the Mind Flayer, while recapping the entire series in just 30 seconds.
Trying desperately to condense the events of each Stranger Things season in half a minute, Schnapp also let spill that in Season 2, his character, Will, built the tunnels under Hawkins after he was kidnapped and possessed by Vecna in Season 1, something the show has yet to confirm.
As for the Vecna reveal, there is a little leeway here for Schnapp’s transgression. Technically, the notion that Vecna has been controlled by the Mind Flayer was first presented in the Broadway play Stranger Things: The First Shadow. In the theatrical exploration of the show, it is suggested that the Mind Flayer gave Henry Creel (played by Jamie Campbell Bower) his powers, which in turn led him to become Vecna. So if you’ve seen the play, you’d have at least a baseline knowledge of that idea — but most fans have not and were otherwise dark about the connection until now.
