Stranger Things Season 5 has arrived, and it’s clear that the 2025 TV schedule will be wrapping up with a ton of dead bodies in and around Hawkins, Indiana. We just have to keep the faith that none of our core heroes will be amongst the fallen. (Okay, none is probably too grand a hope in this case, if the finale is meant to make fans sob .)

Netflix shared a new trailer for the first part of the Duffer brothers' grand finale Stranger Things 5, coming out in November and December.

The nearly three-minute long trailer, which is backed by Queen’s Who Wants to Live Forever, begins in the Upside Down as super-villain Vecna (played by Jamie Campbell Bower) emerges from the darkness and declares: ‘We can begin.’

That said, that’s the one part of the theory I don’t buy as being pre-planned. I could be wrong, but it would be pretty easy to go back in and add a light sound to a show that’s always streaming. Part of me wants to go back and find a DVD of season one,

Netflix has released the Stranger Things Season 5 trailer, and this hidden detail may be foreshadowing a major character death.