Stranger Things: The History of the Mind Flayer | Horror History

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Like many Stranger Things characters, The Mind Flayer represents the communist struggle that was still taking place in the 1980s. Learn the full meaning behind this monster!
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The Mind Flayer is massive, yet elusive monster looming over The Upside Down and eventually Hawkins throughout the first three seasons of Strangers Things. The Mind Flayer first makes contact with Will Byers when he goes into the Upside Down in 1983, and from that point it would slowly build up an army before trying to take over the "Right Side Up" version of the town. But things would not quite go as planned for the behemoth shadow creature...
Just as many horror movie monsters throughout history are a representation of the fears of the time period from which they hail, The Mind Flayer seems to be a symbol of the battle of ideals over which the Cold War was waged and an allegory for the communist leadership from the USSR, which opposed America during that time.
Like the Demogorgon, the creature gets its name from the human children who discovered it, which is inspired from a character in their favorite tabletop game, Dungeons and Dragons.
The Mind Flayer controls it's subjects through what is known as a Hive Mind, so I'll be exploring how this works and how inspiration was drawn through real creatures of our own world.
Moreover, I'll be analyzing the ENTIRE known history of The Mind Flayer from its moves behind the scenes in 1983 to occupation of the Demodogs the following year, its rivalry with Eleven, its quest for revenge, its second takeover in 1985, it's transformation into a physical, gelatinous spider-like monster and finally the epic Battle of Starcourt... as well as what might have become of the monster after the defeat of its physical form.
For this analysis, I'll only be considering the canon material, in this case: the web series Stranger Things and the Stranger Things comics.
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:25 Targeting Will Byers
2:16 The First Storm
2:56 Controlling the Hive Mind
4:32 Communist Tendencies
5:37 Sedating the Chief
6:15 Things Heat Up
7:12 A Boy on the Inside
8:34 The Gate is Closed
9:01 It's A G****** Arms Race
9:40 Building A New Army
10:52 Flaying Billy Hargrove
11:33 Viral Spread
13:10 The Sauna Incident
14:00 Together Is Better
14:40 The Physical Manifestation of the Mind Flayer
17:05 The Mind Flayer vs Eleven
17:51 A New Slug
18:35 The Battle of Starcourt
20:43 The Mind Flayer Returns
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  • @IrishTechnicalThinker
    @IrishTechnicalThinker Жыл бұрын

    The Mind Flayer attacking Billy wasn't random in my opinion, it targets people who have troubled pasts and traumatic memories. Billy had very little happy memories and was also Max's only true protector. Although he wasn't a nice guy he still had good in his heart and died protecting El.

  • @Swift-Prime

    @Swift-Prime

    Жыл бұрын

    Will and Barb had traumatic memories too.

  • @Jdthesuperstar

    @Jdthesuperstar

    Жыл бұрын

    No thats what venca does

  • @Ultrazilla-dr7je

    @Ultrazilla-dr7je

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Jdthesuperstar venca controlls the mind flayer

  • @danvitty5442

    @danvitty5442

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Jdthesuperstar vecna IS the mind flayer

  • @lanlan7371

    @lanlan7371

    Жыл бұрын

    @@danvitty5442 no he controls the mind flayer

  • @cainwallace
    @cainwallace Жыл бұрын

    I love the continuity. Vecna repeats to max what billy says to his victims “Itll all be be over soon. Just stay very still”

  • @sickasfrik

    @sickasfrik

    Жыл бұрын

    Because it was Vecna, speaking through Billy.

  • @cainwallace

    @cainwallace

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sickasfrik I know thats what im saying they didnt forget little details like that people could miss

  • @cainwallace

    @cainwallace

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sickasfrik Things that show you it’s been Vecna the whole time

  • @sickasfrik

    @sickasfrik

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cainwallace oh, I'm sorry. I misread it. I'm gonna have to rewatch the whole show in the new context we have from this season. I think they did such a great job working the vecna story into what they have already established. Because they were asked in an interview if they knew the vecna 001 thing the whole time and they did not answer the question lol. So I think they didn't. I think it came later. But it works soooooo well with the other seasons! Especially Will saying he knows he thinks.

  • @oksbpodcast7005

    @oksbpodcast7005

    Жыл бұрын

    Also if a black widow can speak that’s what it would tell it’s victims

  • @cawsomeaolin
    @cawsomeaolin Жыл бұрын

    Tbh Mind Flayer should’ve stayed an eldritch cosmic entity instead of just being a 40 year old man

  • @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    11 ай бұрын

    This is fact 😂😂😂

  • @jashardwallington

    @jashardwallington

    Ай бұрын

    It is vecna just gave it form they both needed something from wach other

  • @jusskb5844
    @jusskb5844 Жыл бұрын

    It's amazing when after you watch Season 4 and see how it was all Vecna and how he speaks, you see his obvious influence in Billy and all

  • @loganentertainment1814
    @loganentertainment181410 ай бұрын

    The Mind Flayer’s flesh body was very creepy, disgusting, but really cool at the same time.

  • @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    10 ай бұрын

    I'm agree:0

  • @kiyan.videos
    @kiyan.videos Жыл бұрын

    Not only is his overall content interesting, but is his STRANGER THINGS Series. WOOO!

  • @Queen_Kellz_1120

    @Queen_Kellz_1120

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes! I look forward to his uploads 🥰

  • @AfrodityJones

    @AfrodityJones

    Жыл бұрын

    CZ or Emo Shaggy is awesome! I totally agree!

  • @Zombina638

    @Zombina638

    Жыл бұрын

    Eh nah

  • @Sophiauss

    @Sophiauss

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah can’t wait for vecna

  • @amandoarellano4646

    @amandoarellano4646

    Жыл бұрын

    Jesus loves you,if you put ur trust and faith in Jesus and beleive He died for ur sins and repent from your sins,you will be saved from hell and go to Heaven,being a good person wont get u into Heaven,only Jesus can save you.hell is so bad i want to see all y’all in Heaven,hell is never ending suffering,while Heaven is never ending peace.Jesus took the worst death so that u could go to Heaven,Nails through his body,whipped many times,hung on a cross.pls accept this message.

  • @atheropen_1994
    @atheropen_1994 Жыл бұрын

    I do find it hilarious how the mindflayer picks up a radio to scream into instead of just destroying it

  • @kerrvyap
    @kerrvyap Жыл бұрын

    Your script making and skills to put two and two together to summarize things is top notch man!

  • @amandoarellano4646

    @amandoarellano4646

    Жыл бұрын

    Jesus loves you,if you put ur trust and faith in Jesus and beleive He died for ur sins and repent from your sins,you will be saved from hell and go to Heaven,being a good person wont get u into Heaven,only Jesus can save you.hell is so bad i want to see all y’all in Heaven,hell is never ending suffering,while Heaven is never ending peace.Jesus took the worst death so that u could go to Heaven,Nails through his body,whipped many times,hung on a cross.pls accept this message.

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    @dexterreyes9960

    Жыл бұрын

    @@amandoarellano4646 look up trailer park boys-bible pimp. This is exactly you

  • @JaCob_101_

    @JaCob_101_

    Жыл бұрын

    @@amandoarellano4646 what.

  • @DFStudios783

    @DFStudios783

    Жыл бұрын

    @@amandoarellano4646 did I ask

  • @amandoarellano4646

    @amandoarellano4646

    Жыл бұрын

    @@JaCob_101_ i’m spreading the Gospel like Jesus told me to,today could be ur last day alive,turn to Jesus before it’s too late,it’s the only way,not good works

  • @360entertainment2
    @360entertainment2 Жыл бұрын

    I loved the Meatflayer. It’s creation was pretty damn terrifying, especially the implication that it even absorbed children!

  • @Ghostface42012

    @Ghostface42012

    7 ай бұрын

    Do you mean mind flayer not meat flayer Bruhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh H H H H H H Hh H H

  • @LucasBrown-ow4sn

    @LucasBrown-ow4sn

    2 ай бұрын

    It’s the spider monster not the meat flayer

  • @BoxySoxy

    @BoxySoxy

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@LucasBrown-ow4sn I think meatflayer sounds cooler

  • @FuzzyBlake

    @FuzzyBlake

    2 ай бұрын

    The spider monstrr is just a physical form of the mind flayer made out of melted rats and human flesh and bones.​@@BoxySoxy

  • @Andrewallday

    @Andrewallday

    14 күн бұрын

    @@FuzzyBlakewooooooosh

  • @ambereyedbabygirl
    @ambereyedbabygirl Жыл бұрын

    Am I the only one who is rewatching the whole show now to see how well tied together everything was?!

  • @colinafobe2152

    @colinafobe2152

    Жыл бұрын

    just finished rewatching season 1 :)

  • @bikesrcool_1958

    @bikesrcool_1958

    Жыл бұрын

    I feel like the mindflayer thing wasn’t well tied together. Mindflayer should have stayed it’s own being, I really hope it turns on vecna. Mindflayer is MUCH scarier then vecna

  • @kraventhehunter1083

    @kraventhehunter1083

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bikesrcool_1958 i think the fact that a human could have such pure evil makes vecna/Henry/001 alot more scarier in my opinion

  • @jeffbrownstain

    @jeffbrownstain

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kraventhehunter1083 No one who was tortured is evil, no matter how evil the actions they commit are. Henry was tortured probably more than anyone else in Brennars lab, then mindraped by a demon. He gets a pass.

  • @OfficialNWS

    @OfficialNWS

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@jeffbrownstain Bro he killed his mother and sister before all that. Fuck that dude.

  • @vociferateforme
    @vociferateforme Жыл бұрын

    Ugh I watch that 'we've been building it for you' scene with El and Billy sometimes to get the spooky chills.👻👻

  • @B-Mofrom618
    @B-Mofrom618 Жыл бұрын

    That dad joke at 12:25… comedy gold😭😭😭😭 I love u CZsWorld

  • @mayflower7811
    @mayflower7811 Жыл бұрын

    You would have to do Vecna's time-line along with his connection to the mind flare

  • @LiveFreeOrDie2A

    @LiveFreeOrDie2A

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s not the “mind flare”, it’s the MindFLAYER.. F-L-A-Y-E-R.

  • @Prhmangel

    @Prhmangel

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LiveFreeOrDie2A could've just been autocorrect because when I tried to type out flayer, it autocorrects to flyer.

  • @LWMCCXII

    @LWMCCXII

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LiveFreeOrDie2A it doesnt matter wether they said “mind flare” or not

  • @cartermc4141

    @cartermc4141

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LiveFreeOrDie2A calm down bro

  • @deonx262

    @deonx262

    Жыл бұрын

    @@LWMCCXII *whether

  • @kevinunderwood4720
    @kevinunderwood4720 Жыл бұрын

    I think when Will enters Hawkins again the mind flayer sends vecna after him or they are still linked which makes Will turn on his friends. Idk I'm jus super excited for part 2!!

  • @kassykreutzer6972

    @kassykreutzer6972

    Жыл бұрын

    Mee too omg it's going to be soo good

  • @hutchgaming

    @hutchgaming

    Жыл бұрын

    same here

  • @Korrupteddarklight

    @Korrupteddarklight

    Жыл бұрын

    Well there a hint of that when will catches the back of head and looks back in the end

  • @SheIIfire
    @SheIIfire Жыл бұрын

    El: *closes* *the* *gate* Mind flayer: You take my home, I take your powers

  • @sunsetvibe1063
    @sunsetvibe1063 Жыл бұрын

    I like the detail of when the Physical form of the Mind Flayer grabs onto a persons face to turn them into the flayed, you can see the shadow like particles that the Mind Flayer was reduced to by the end of season 2 being injected into the victims face by it’s tentacles working as a sort of tube to feed itself into it’s victims kind of like how it possessed Will in Season 2.

  • @classicnosleepofficial
    @classicnosleepofficial Жыл бұрын

    It's honestly incredible how many good videos this channel features. I've yet to watch one I actively disliked. It must be hard to keep these videos at such a high quality. Thank you for putting the time, effort, and care into making sure we enjoy our time on this channel.

  • @celianunn2070
    @celianunn2070 Жыл бұрын

    When I saw the Mind Flayer in the show, I thought of it like a slenderman, except during...that part and wills behavior afterwards. It seemed similar to a certain trauma and response to said trauma.

  • @tazdivil6527

    @tazdivil6527

    Жыл бұрын

    are you saying that the mind flayer has some connections to the effects of ...r pe

  • @Dookieman1975

    @Dookieman1975

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tazdivil6527 huh

  • @celianunn2070

    @celianunn2070

    Жыл бұрын

    @@tazdivil6527 I mean that's what I got out of it, especially with the "I felt it everywhere...I can still feel it" and it's strategy to go after will, slow at first then more aggressive, and when told no...the attack happened. As someone who went through it, I saw a lot of similarities. Even with wanting to cut off support, and needing to "get the bad out" so it isn't controlling you anymore. Almost everything will does after the attack is like how the mind works after that type of attack.

  • @tazdivil6527

    @tazdivil6527

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Dookieman1975 idk…

  • @robby7499

    @robby7499

    Жыл бұрын

    I got more Pennywise vibes.

  • @d0otdo0t
    @d0otdo0t Жыл бұрын

    Its hard to tell at this point, but I'm not super convinced on the strength Vecna and the Mind Flayer's relationship. It may have been a symbiotic one at first, with Vecna giving him a body in exchange for allowing Vecna to connect to the Upside-Down's hive mind, but I don't know if the Mind Flayer needs Vecna anymore. The main two reasons that the Mind Flayer relied on Vecna are pretty much gone now. Yes, he needed a form, but we know now that he can take other forms (i.e. possessed humans, flesh spider golems, infected demogorgons). Additionally, while the Mind Flayer needed Vecna to open the gates, now that Hawkins is basically an open wound into the Upside-Down, he has everything he needs to be fully independent from Vecna. I don't think would necessarily make them enemies, unless there's some sort of fundamental, ideological difference or mutually exclusive desire, but it certainly is interesting to think what could happen between them given the Mind Flayer's advantage.

  • @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    11 ай бұрын

    Cool0_0

  • @morgandaniels5250
    @morgandaniels5250 Жыл бұрын

    Actually the reason will was so cold is because of Vecna which controls the mind flayer. In the episode “will the wise” Will says that a HE likes it cold. And in the vison of Henry (Vecna) we learn that he is basically a different breed of human. Still loved the video though.

  • @morgandaniels5250

    @morgandaniels5250

    Жыл бұрын

    What I mean by the will the wise thing is that most people I know prefer warm showers

  • @90syungin51
    @90syungin51 Жыл бұрын

    I love Stranger Things I’ve been locked in since day 1. Might rewatch the whole series again. It’s been a pleasure watching it throughout the years. I’m convinced the 80s was lit even when these events were fictional.

  • @crimsonffire
    @crimsonffire Жыл бұрын

    You have to give credit to the people they choice to play each character, they nail it and you really get the 80s throwback vibes. Even if you didn't grow up in the states. The humour and horror balance out. But get darker each season as the main characters grow up. Because you start to see the world differently the older you get. Can't wait for an episode on Eddie Munson , person I think his name is a funny nod to Eddie Munster. (Lost boys the attack of Eddie munster)

  • @jamescolm1133

    @jamescolm1133

    Жыл бұрын

    😭😭😭

  • @romeomonteverde
    @romeomonteverde Жыл бұрын

    I doubt the theory that it did something with her circulatory system because as seen in season 4,she does get her powers back and it's not due to any disease or "virus" as Owens called it in season 2, but a mind block. Most likely trauma. She has never been faced with losing something or someone before and this threat is so much bigger than anything she have faced. Sure Brenner caused her a lot of trauma with kidnapping her and frying her mom's brain, but remember that she was just a kid and despite being a powerful TK/telepath, she didn't have access to her memories as a child, so she didn't know better and the only trauma she had was likely with the experiments he did and the bullying from the other kids, until well, 001. But she easily handled that back then. But now, she has people she loves and cares about, a lot of them. And the Flayer is something so powerful that even she had difficulty fighting, unlike before that it took her what? A few seconds to kill the demogorgon in that school scene, then a few seconds or a minute to kill all the demodogs during the cabin scene. But this one, this flayer goop was different. She can split it, bang it to the wall all she wants, but it will not die. And it just gets stronger and stronger, add to it that she's a bit holding back since Billy is Max's brother. And yes she's holding back. Despite her blasting Billy onto walls and even through that brick wall, that's all and likely she knew that Billy was tougher and could handle that. Because if she wanted to, she could break his arm and legs like what he did to Mike's bully in the ravine or even split Billy in two like what she did to the flayer goop in the cabin. She now has a lot more to lose and that is somehow jamming her concentration even further. Until she finds out that "love" was the key to unlock her potential. I know i spoiled a lot already, but I'm leaving out how she got her powers back 😂

  • @amandoarellano4646

    @amandoarellano4646

    Жыл бұрын

    Jesus loves you,if you put ur trust and faith in Jesus and beleive He died for ur sins and repent from your sins,you will be saved from hell and go to Heaven,being a good person wont get u into Heaven,only Jesus can save you.hell is so bad i want to see all y’all in Heaven,hell is never ending suffering,while Heaven is never ending peace.Jesus took the worst death so that u could go to Heaven,Nails through his body,whipped many times,hung on a cross.pls accept this message.

  • @facemuscles9

    @facemuscles9

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s like conversion disorder, but it affects her powers. Very interesting. And yes, Jesus loves you. Heaven, hell, more spiritual words. All the best!

  • @gaaraxiong

    @gaaraxiong

    Жыл бұрын

    @@amandoarellano4646 this message has nothing to do with the video or this comment dude.

  • @DizzyStick

    @DizzyStick

    Жыл бұрын

    Holy Shit that took forever to read

  • @amandoarellano4646

    @amandoarellano4646

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DizzyStick pls accept the message and don’t use His name in vein

  • @demarcosmith581
    @demarcosmith581 Жыл бұрын

    Czworld can you look at the leprechaun franchise timeline?

  • @rodan9773

    @rodan9773

    Жыл бұрын

    That would be one Hell of a Trip 😃.

  • @justinroiles5826

    @justinroiles5826

    Жыл бұрын

    I hope that little shit get none

  • @SevenHunnid

    @SevenHunnid

    Жыл бұрын

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  • @kieranscott5212

    @kieranscott5212

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed

  • @michaelhowell2326

    @michaelhowell2326

    Жыл бұрын

    That would be a really good topic! I'm on board.

  • @elijahmcelroy
    @elijahmcelroy Жыл бұрын

    One of the few channels where I'm not upset by the ads and most times I let them play through. The transitions makes it feel like I'm watching daytime TV, instead of them feeling so damn intrusive. Other channels should take note

  • @calebtoney4364

    @calebtoney4364

    Жыл бұрын

    So as my sister is

  • @jaskionyt
    @jaskionyt Жыл бұрын

    This video is so PERFECT in every way possible. It really helped me understand the Stranger Things universe even better.

  • @talkingwithmaddie
    @talkingwithmaddie Жыл бұрын

    I think you now need to make a timeline of Vecna/001/Henry

  • @januszkurahenowski2860
    @januszkurahenowski2860 Жыл бұрын

    [major spoilers for the part 2 of season 4] Seems like you'll have to update or change this video after the continuation of the season 4 because it seems like the mindflayer is not gone at all. I suppose only the clone mindflayer composed of the bodies of the flayed who transformed into goo was defeated. And the one who is made of shadows is still there and more dangerous than ever now that we know who he really is

  • @cinfy393
    @cinfy393 Жыл бұрын

    CZ: No image more disturbing Vecna: Ahem Ahem

  • @romeomonteverde
    @romeomonteverde Жыл бұрын

    A little snag though, it wasn't mike and lukas who stole the fireworks, it was technically lukas and Will since they were the ones in that fireworks scene in the store while Mike was busy floundering saying "i love you" to eleven

  • @ParkerCS2
    @ParkerCS2Ай бұрын

    I have a theory that Matthew Modine could return in S5 in motion capture as The Mind Flayer’s Shadow Brenner form from Stranger Things VR (2024). Would be really cool. By the way, imagine in S5 if half of S5 The Mind Flayer takes the Shadow Brenner form, and the other half transforms into a humanoid version of its giant Shadow form with its flaming head and only slightly taller to Vecna’s height, and have two long humanoid arms as well. I can picture it in my head. Somebody should make fanart of that idea, and have a picture with it and Vecna side by side. This humanoid form of The Mind Flayer would also be a fun addition in S5. But yeah, I think it would be cool if Matthew Modine played Shadow Brenner by using motion capture technology.

  • @Xehanort10
    @Xehanort10 Жыл бұрын

    The Mind Flayer looks like a monster from Resident Evil 5 called the U-8 where you needed to throw grenades in its mouth to destroy it's shell then shoot the fleshy parts.

  • @rick-nr8zy
    @rick-nr8zy Жыл бұрын

    Can you please make videos about lovecraftian stuff, cosmic horror stuff. I feel like your presentation style and video editing style would be so cool with those topics. Your coverage of the different monsters and killers have been so good. 🤟🏻

  • @mrcubeanimations8168

    @mrcubeanimations8168

    Жыл бұрын

    Same; i looovvee cosmic beings!

  • @SeviathTheHumanDrago
    @SeviathTheHumanDrago Жыл бұрын

    Your thorough research and understanding, as well as your wonderful breakdowns of various horror movies I loved as a kid have earned you my subscription! Keep it up!

  • @Slop_Dogg
    @Slop_Dogg Жыл бұрын

    I don’t know how tf they’re going to defeat vecna, let alone the mindflayer itself. next season is going to be brutal.

  • @cameronharris9729

    @cameronharris9729

    Жыл бұрын

    I think the mind flayer will enter Hawkins and will be the final boss

  • @broomthegodofdestruction561
    @broomthegodofdestruction561 Жыл бұрын

    as i see it when vecna isnt pulling a puppeteer the semi-sentient? i dont really know, but basically the mind flayer's main weakness is simply that its too revenge focused too the point it will forget its main goal just to kill anyone who angers it

  • @alexsheperd2060
    @alexsheperd2060 Жыл бұрын

    So I don’t think it directly makes them stronger but acts more like an insane adrenaline rush since the mindflayer doesn’t really care if it’s host ends up beaten and broken since in the end they’re gonna be jelly for it anyway. Just seems that way since usually whenever a flayed character is doing wild feats of strength their veins go wild and bulge like their heart is pounding at 1000%

  • @Kirumi_1005
    @Kirumi_1005 Жыл бұрын

    idk anything bout y'all but for me, the mind flayer is the most coolest character to me(no not the psychical one, the shadow one a.k.a the real mind flayer)

  • @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    11 ай бұрын

    Me too

  • @ambereyedbabygirl
    @ambereyedbabygirl Жыл бұрын

    Let's keep in mind tho guys, this show was supposed to be called montauk. If you've ever researched the situation and their supposed mind control/remote viewing experiments on soldiers and children. So the portal/gate and el's remote viewing training and psykinetic powers are meant to be taken literally! I do 100% agree with most of the analysis though, as far as the surveillance of the population etc.

  • @Alyssaplaysstuff
    @Alyssaplaysstuff Жыл бұрын

    “One of the most disturbing scenes” Bob’s body: Am I a joke to you?

  • @ImaPizzaK

    @ImaPizzaK

    Жыл бұрын

    "one of the most": Am I a joke to you?

  • @Lol-ll5gh
    @Lol-ll5gh Жыл бұрын

    13:48 I love how we can hear Dacre Montgomery's Australian accent coming through 😅

  • @AFW203
    @AFW203 Жыл бұрын

    this was interesting as hell honestly. stranger things is definitely one of my favorite shows. do you think you can look at the people under the stairs (1991) ?

  • @mareksieczko7329
    @mareksieczko7329 Жыл бұрын

    Hydra Vulgaris, smart dust, mind-control. The predictive programming here is on point.

  • @zombiekiller4313
    @zombiekiller4313 Жыл бұрын

    The mindflayer is pretty much a lovecraftian bee hive.The flayer is pretty much the queen bee and the demos are the worker bees.Not sure where vecna can fit into this.

  • @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    11 ай бұрын

    Me too

  • @fuzzy06_
    @fuzzy06_ Жыл бұрын

    17:52 a small critique here, i’m not sure if i’m seeing things correctly but that is not a demowog, it’s a piece of flesh from the mind flayer and in the final battle you can see the same flesh going inside the mind flayer’s leg. Just a small clarification.

  • @notused5257
    @notused5257 Жыл бұрын

    The mind flayer probably didn’t care for the physical well being of the host so use possibly 90-100% of the hosts true strength (Humans use only around 60%)

  • @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    11 ай бұрын

    😂😅

  • @kenstu
    @kenstu Жыл бұрын

    I'm still betting on El. Having had three knockdown drag-ass fights with the Mind Flayer and being wounded, she was shell-shocked. The Flayer didn't give her power to her (as it was such that released the demon in the first place), therefore it didn't take it away. It did know she didn't realize the extent of her powers and managed to use that against her. Given what's happened to her, having that type of power and being vulnerable is difficult to balance. By the time she regained her powers, notice how she became more lethal as evidenced by the chopper takedown? An argument can be made that El still doesn't realize how strong she is. The Mind Flayer dreads the day when she does, which will more than likely be revealed in Season 5.

  • @Auron1Roxas2
    @Auron1Roxas2 Жыл бұрын

    I think the mind flayer is still about ending the world, but it knows it can't do that so long as eleven is around.

  • @jaxx1360

    @jaxx1360

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s Vecna trying to end the world. Not the mind flayer. Vecna controls the mind flayer.

  • @Auron1Roxas2

    @Auron1Roxas2

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jaxx1360 I know.

  • @shiverfan4867

    @shiverfan4867

    Жыл бұрын

    In season 5 we're gonna probably see it again

  • @ilikeminors2263

    @ilikeminors2263

    Жыл бұрын

    @@shiverfan4867 we will in the end we saw a black shadow meaning thr mind flayer is back and its full form

  • @kassykreutzer6972
    @kassykreutzer6972 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for always giving the best episodes you can cz I appreciate the hard work and research you do. Thank you cz 😁😀😀😊😊😎😎

  • @junelledembroski9183
    @junelledembroski9183 Жыл бұрын

    You have to write this all over again after 4 part two.

  • @ParkerCS-dh7rf
    @ParkerCS-dh7rf10 ай бұрын

    Since Far Cry 6 dlc set in present day, even when the final season comes out and Vecna gets defeated, The Upside Down will always exist. The Mind Flayer, even though currently is being influenced by Vecna, always has and always will be the brain of the hive mind. It’s the power source for the upside down dimension which remember is one giant Superorganism. By the way, Far Cry DLC looks cool! 😍

  • @haz_zah
    @haz_zah Жыл бұрын

    I like how he thought will having a seizure was the scariest image in stranger things

  • @haz_zah

    @haz_zah

    Жыл бұрын

    @Beat The Yeet In my opinion the scariest moment was Chrissy going ⚰️👻☠️

  • @dbgoat4436

    @dbgoat4436

    Жыл бұрын

    I think I was when the d3magorgan first showed up in school

  • @ari-mo4vn
    @ari-mo4vn Жыл бұрын

    The Demodogs aren’t a new type of Demogorgan, the Demodogs are actually under developed Demogorgans.

  • @minitoonjunior9156

    @minitoonjunior9156

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh thanks for the info i honestly thought they were different

  • @Oranjeh
    @Oranjeh Жыл бұрын

    It was then that lil timmy learned a valuble lesson down on that farmstead. If someone invites you and 30 of your closest friends to a basement and no one brought the snacks. That makes you the snack. And that was the last time anyone heard from lil timmy

  • @kaledmarrero1011
    @kaledmarrero1011 Жыл бұрын

    The Mind Flayer actually returns in the final scene of Stranger Things 4, where the gate to Upside Down have been opened and a big one at that. Will, who can still feel the MF's presence, has sensed that the shadowy creature has enter Hawkins, but sure I think Rocket League is good substitute. After all, Matt and Ross Duffer AKA The Duffer Brothers might claimed that RL is somehow related to the show

  • @mikeyau4618

    @mikeyau4618

    Жыл бұрын

    vecna is rthe mind flayer

  • @scoposteve8470

    @scoposteve8470

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mikeyau4618 no he isn't. Vecna and the Mind Flayer are two completely different entities

  • @mikeyau4618

    @mikeyau4618

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scoposteve8470 you are correct. they are two seperate entities. vecna shaped the particles into what we know to be the mind flayer and he possess it to do his bidding (possessing will demodogs and the flesh monster)

  • @scoposteve8470

    @scoposteve8470

    Жыл бұрын

    @@mikeyau4618 it would be the other way around most likely.

  • @schools6555
    @schools6555 Жыл бұрын

    I always assumed her nose bleeds were caused from brain hemorrhages since she's using her brain when using telekinesis and other psychic powers.

  • @jubelectron_elephant_rap

    @jubelectron_elephant_rap

    Жыл бұрын

    Makes sense but I think she'd be dead

  • @schools6555

    @schools6555

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jubelectron_elephant_rap that's just it, I believe the more she uses her powers the faster it will kill her. Just my theory.

  • @taylor-annhatfield2794
    @taylor-annhatfield2794 Жыл бұрын

    This was so good thank you for doing this video you are so great in doing the horror historys and this was just so good I really liked the Mind Flayer and how you also connnected it to the russian commuinism at the time of the show is also very cool thank you so much for doing this

  • @SOMEONE_robloxandmore
    @SOMEONE_robloxandmore Жыл бұрын

    Btw The reason why in the sauna test eleven fell down is bc when they were filming it was very hot for all of them and she was screaming then mike caught her when she almost fainted and that's y he looked to the side for help but they added it in the show bc it just matched the whole thing

  • @samtubebackagainramey6971
    @samtubebackagainramey6971 Жыл бұрын

    "Who here wants to see some fireworks?" (everybody cheering) (random guy) no! LOL 😆

  • @kylerunkle4398
    @kylerunkle4398 Жыл бұрын

    At 20:15, you see inspiration from Vecna. The way the tentacles are coming out of Billy's back. It is just like Vecna when he is searching the mind

  • @ghazalalweish6388
    @ghazalalweish6388 Жыл бұрын

    Yes finally 😭😭❤️ I was literally commenting on every video!

  • @travisscott4293
    @travisscott4293 Жыл бұрын

    Also it was only a small part of the mind flayer that died in season 3 a massive part of him is still inside that gate and maybe another one of him just like how nancy described the foreshadow vecna gave her

  • @stolas_goetia13
    @stolas_goetia13 Жыл бұрын

    Nice. You have made me proud!! I think I'ma send this to my best friend to scare them.

  • @petertassy4030
    @petertassy4030 Жыл бұрын

    Great Work on another video Czsworld world I love your videos your content is very entertaining.❤️👍

  • @maverickcortez2845
    @maverickcortez2845 Жыл бұрын

    You should do more Stranger Things episodes like Steve Harrington, Robin Buckley, Nancy Wheeler or even Hopper!!

  • @filmfangirls9163

    @filmfangirls9163

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes! Steve!!

  • @hotpinkcrayolas

    @hotpinkcrayolas

    Жыл бұрын

    I'm guessing the main cast will be left until after season 5 ends so he can do a full timeline? But a Billy video surely comes next! x

  • @TP-TP
    @TP-TP Жыл бұрын

    18:04 It's not a Demowog. Earlier in the episode when the MF was near the cabin, it bites eleven with on of its claw things and a little piece of it goes into elevens leg.

  • @teagandoesvr3404
    @teagandoesvr3404 Жыл бұрын

    Its actual beginning was vecna being his idea from black widow spiders

  • @svcoder7127
    @svcoder7127 Жыл бұрын

    People of Hawkins: hey this is my mind Mind flayer: OUR MIND

  • @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    11 ай бұрын

    🌚

  • @natecaputo2970
    @natecaputo2970 Жыл бұрын

    Can u do a Horror History on Vecna? It would put a smile on my face :)

  • @MurkyCoyote2052
    @MurkyCoyote2052 Жыл бұрын

    Crazy how he talks about the Soviet and kgb and now in season 4 the Soviet and kgb is relevant to the story

  • @AllOfTheHallows

    @AllOfTheHallows

    23 күн бұрын

    They were in season 3 also.

  • @ParkerCS2
    @ParkerCS24 күн бұрын

    The Flayed are like a mix between The Thing’s Infected Hosts, Invasion of the Body Snatcher’s Dopplegangers, and Evil Dead’s Deadites. They even have wicked personalities like the Deadites (probably more in line with the versions from Evil Dead 2013 and Evil Dead Rise). Ash Williams would do quick work of the Flayed if he existed in the ST universe lol 💯 Imagine a crossover between Evil Dead and Stranger Things. 😍🥰 A limited animated mini series with Bruce Campbell voicing Ash going to Hawkins and encountering the Upside Down and it’s creatures and monsters would be pretty cool and…. GROOVY!!!!

  • @joshualechner5422
    @joshualechner5422 Жыл бұрын

    Since vecna was in control of the mind flayer, when eleven accidentally let's the mind flayer into her own headspace via billy, billy tells her that they have been building something for her. Now that season 4 has been released when eleven is fighting vecna in v2 and he traps her he goes on to monologue about how he was trying to build some sort of empire for himself and for eleven to join him in the upside down. Also it's a reflection on how he first tried to convince her to become evil back when they fought at the lab

  • @wdmasterluke403

    @wdmasterluke403

    Жыл бұрын

    He wasn’t in control of it.

  • @joshualechner5422

    @joshualechner5422

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wdmasterluke403 he formed it into the shape of a black widow and he used his powers to control the particles

  • @zombiekiller4313

    @zombiekiller4313

    Жыл бұрын

    @@joshualechner5422 He just shaped it.The mindflayer is still most likely a sentient being.In season 3 the flayer say "we have been building it."Now before you say it was vecna.Vecna is unable to posses people.

  • @joshualechner5422

    @joshualechner5422

    Жыл бұрын

    @@zombiekiller4313 vecna may not be able to possess people but when he kills people he doesn't only kill them but absorbs their very being everything about them present and future like Brenner says and even 001 says that the other children aren't completely gone they're in his mind which could also mean when the mind flayer says "we" could refer to vecna and the people he has consumed throughout time

  • @bikesrcool_1958

    @bikesrcool_1958

    Жыл бұрын

    @Joshua Lechner nah I think it would be cool if the mind flayed turns on vecna since it’s still sentient

  • @joeymullineaux9604
    @joeymullineaux9604 Жыл бұрын

    you gotta remake this after season 4 ending, it completely changes things.

  • @jamescolm1133

    @jamescolm1133

    Жыл бұрын

    Ikr

  • @scoposteve8470

    @scoposteve8470

    Жыл бұрын

    No it doesn't. If your trying to say that Vecna controls him he doesn't. They are both completely different entities that work together

  • @gbrown932

    @gbrown932

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scoposteve8470 not really. Vecna explains that he took control of the upside down and created the mind flayer to transcend his human form. If anything vecna flayed the mind flayer and became it. Like 11 says. "It was you this whole time " to which he nods in approval. And later Will also echos this to mike.

  • @oess855

    @oess855

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scoposteve8470 uhm yes it does, vecna controls the mind flayer

  • @scoposteve8470

    @scoposteve8470

    Жыл бұрын

    @@oess855 no he don’t

  • @FuntimeAexo
    @FuntimeAexo Жыл бұрын

    After watching volume 2 of season 4... this needs an update

  • @deadschooled

    @deadschooled

    Жыл бұрын

    It needed one before that…..

  • @devonhopper7534
    @devonhopper7534 Жыл бұрын

    I love how Billy cries when the flayer invades her mind.

  • @ParkerCS2
    @ParkerCS23 ай бұрын

    The Prequel Play The First Shadow and Stranger Things VR game both further expand on The Mind Flayer. The VR game especially has it meeting and interacting with Vecna (Henry Creel) for the first time directly when the latter was banished to the Upside Down. It tells him, “We’ve always been the dominant life form here and have consumed everything, but you are new material. We wish to study and experiment your capabilities.” Vecna at first doesn’t want to anything to do with the Flayer and doesn’t trust it, and he and it have a back and forth trying to conquer the other with Henry trying to take control of it and the mind flayer trying to take over him. Eventually, they later begin a symbiotic relationship with it giving him advice in his head how to maintain control over the Upside Down and it’s creatures and make the Demogorgons and demodogs kept obedient to them both. They share domain of the other dimension and are basically partners in crime because they both have similar goals of wanting to escape and take over Earth. But they have constant bickering and disagreements on how to do things, with Vecna more focused on murdering and destroying while The Mind Flayer is focused more on enslavement and devouring matter. Like an odd couple dynamic. Lol 🤭

  • @reneebrady8389
    @reneebrady8389 Жыл бұрын

    Another masterpiece! Thank you!

  • @MisterPotatoDud
    @MisterPotatoDud Жыл бұрын

    Eleven is kinda the Girl who is always so strong but always scared. Lol

  • @BigPissGuy
    @BigPissGuy Жыл бұрын

    People when the mind flayed was revealed: woah a shadow monster! Conspiracy Theorists: HES A COMMIE

  • @leemurdock5222
    @leemurdock5222 Жыл бұрын

    I have always been fuzzy on how Will got sucked into the upside down. Where was the gate?

  • @Razzlewolfflight
    @Razzlewolfflight Жыл бұрын

    You calling our world “the right side up” makes me laugh. 😆

  • @Alchimexx
    @Alchimexx Жыл бұрын

    If only you waited until the season 4 finale, you would be able to add a whole lot more information. For example, the slug was used by [SPOILER] to take her powers for themselves and even the mind flayer, itself, was created by [SPOILER].

  • @skitsvods3932

    @skitsvods3932

    Жыл бұрын

    But, he didn't make the mindflayer. You can see him discovering it, but not making it

  • @caitlinklopper252

    @caitlinklopper252

    Жыл бұрын

    @@skitsvods3932 he shaped it, have it a form otherwise it was a black mist

  • @Alchimexx

    @Alchimexx

    Жыл бұрын

    @@skitsvods3932 He discovered the particles but gave it its shape and made it, somewhat, sentient

  • @xzygreen8938

    @xzygreen8938

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Alchimexx it was already sentient. He just gave it shape.

  • @shiverfan4867

    @shiverfan4867

    Жыл бұрын

    @@caitlinklopper252 he only gave it a shape

  • @angrypicture6155
    @angrypicture6155 Жыл бұрын

    Exactly what I hoped for, thanks a lot!

  • @rodan9773
    @rodan9773 Жыл бұрын

    A new awesome video. Can you do The Critters Timeline please. Respect and keep up the epic work.

  • @phoenixbirks97
    @phoenixbirks97 Жыл бұрын

    cant believe vecna was the mind flayer

  • @starhead4975
    @starhead4975 Жыл бұрын

    I love the introduction 🙌

  • @turtlefood4083
    @turtlefood4083 Жыл бұрын

    Really should have waited a few more days to make this video lmao

  • @liquidrufus
    @liquidrufus Жыл бұрын

    Looking forward to the vid following the most recent info!

  • @ParkerCS-dh7rf
    @ParkerCS-dh7rf10 ай бұрын

    The Mind Flayer I find more scary than Vecna. Because unlike him, it never was a human. 😎

  • @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    10 ай бұрын

    brooo, you just read my mind 😭😭😭💓💓💓

  • @asiakidrick6541
    @asiakidrick6541 Жыл бұрын

    So now that we know eleven created the upside down it makes more sense when billy/ the mind flayer says “we’ve been building this for you”. Obviously eleven doesn’t remember that right now but what if they look at her as their “master”. 2 more days guys until part 2!!

  • @Fumi007

    @Fumi007

    Жыл бұрын

    She didn't create it. They said that multiple times. She banished 001 there.

  • @thaboysaliar

    @thaboysaliar

    Жыл бұрын

    she didn’t create it, she just kinda made the first gate there?

  • @deandrealexander6172

    @deandrealexander6172

    Жыл бұрын

    Man so many of you must not know how dimensions work

  • @tasteypringle8168
    @tasteypringle8168 Жыл бұрын

    i cannot wait for more of these, such as vecna or eleven.

  • @MoonHowler340
    @MoonHowler340 Жыл бұрын

    Dude, your video is the best to explaine the Mind Flayer, and don't have unfunny memes and the usual youtuber ego in it.

  • @marknagorski1686
    @marknagorski1686 Жыл бұрын

    So i had something in my mind about Vecna and Mind Flayer are something that reminds of a soldier army. Basiclly Demogorgons and their species and others are soldiers, Mind Flayer is the General while Vecna is the Oversser. Also i think about Mind Flayer was sentient but imobile but when Henry came aka Vecna he shaped of his childhood drawing it making it able to move. Then they team up and started to make Upside Down more...living. Upside Down became the main base of the Mind Flayer and Vecna. Vecna was able to see through Mind Flayer's mind as i believe. So in Season 4 maybe after Vecna appered i think Mind Flayer already realised that Henry only wants World for himself. Maybe in Season 5 we will discover more about Mind Flayer and maybe he will be a good guy. Its just my thougths don't start to harras me.

  • @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    11 ай бұрын

    Understand, I'm agree

  • @JustAnotherAccount8
    @JustAnotherAccount8 Жыл бұрын

    You should have waited until part 2 came out to make this video

  • @isaacmcken7983
    @isaacmcken7983 Жыл бұрын

    This is amazing I’m subscribing!

  • @amyschildgamerlive4519
    @amyschildgamerlive45199 ай бұрын

    I'm a DbD player (I miss Hawkins lab map). I've never watched stranger things, but I was aware of Nancy and Steve and how central they were to stranger things but I never knew Nancy was such a badass!

  • @xerca7130
    @xerca7130 Жыл бұрын

    All of these stranger things episods are bangers, Ong

  • @gibbsterV
    @gibbsterV Жыл бұрын

    I just wish that this came out today so that this would include that Vecna/Henry/One created the Mind Flayer

  • @johnpauldriskill8737

    @johnpauldriskill8737

    Жыл бұрын

    He didn’t create but he gave it the spider shape and connected himself to it

  • @gibbsterV

    @gibbsterV

    Жыл бұрын

    @@johnpauldriskill8737 yeah but that’s longer and doesn’t get to the point

  • @scoposteve8470

    @scoposteve8470

    Жыл бұрын

    He didn't create the mind flayer he gave it a new form, and connected himself with the hive mind

  • @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    @AgOti-ZaDrOtI

    11 ай бұрын

    MIND FLAYER BEST!!!!!!!

  • @frankythecoasterenthusiast
    @frankythecoasterenthusiast Жыл бұрын

    i see you every where regarding coaster now youve gotten in to my inner stranger things

  • @GodSlayerMael
    @GodSlayerMael Жыл бұрын

    Let’s go ma boi CZs did the mind flayer 😎💯

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