Talk:List of Stranger Things characters/Archive 1

Archive 1

Slew of spelling/grammar fixes

I noticed that the character descriptions were chock full of comma splices, wandering tenses, and other basic grammatical errors. I didn't have the time or energy to do a full copy-edit pass, but I did paste everything into a word processor and check all of the things it flagged. It's probably worth someone else taking a more detailed pass. --157.131.246.136 (talk) 03:12, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

"is a main character", etc.

In a series of edits beginning (I think) on 12 July, User:Carson Neel edited many of the characters' entries to start with things like:

* Joyce Byers is a main character in Stranger Things, she is the mother of Will and Jonathan Byers…
* Jim Hopper is a main character in Stranger Things, he is the chief of Hawkins Police Department, Jim has lived…

And so on. The previous versions just started with "Joyce Byers is the mother…", "Jim Hopper is the chief…", and the like. I fixed the fact that these new sentences are grammatically incorrect and awkward. But are these changes even needed? Isn't the fact that they're in a section called "main characters", as well as being included in a table called "main cast", more than enough to tell the reader that they're main characters?

Also, I think El being "the main protagonist" rather than the show being an ensemble, Nancy being "a main character" (at least before season 3), etc. are potentially controversial claims, and they aren't sourced. Just leaving them out and letting the section headings speak for themselves seems a lot safer.

I don't know the Wikipedia guidelines on this, but looking at a few other articles, ranging from The Orville (which just has an in-place character list with a brief paragraph on aech) to List of Legends of Tomorrow characters (which has a detailed writeup on each character), none of them repeat this information in this way. So, I'm going to remove it. If this is actually supported by a guideline or something, please revert the edit I'm about to make, but don't revert all the previous ones fixing grammar, spelling, and redundancy, covering season 3 equally with 1 and 2, etc. --157.131.246.136 (talk) 03:36, 13 July 2019 (UTC)

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The Upside Down Threats and Nature

This is not a request to change anything at the moment, but a notice that asks to stand by for change.

I think we are understanding the nature of the upside down incorrectly as the Mind Flayer subheading has some statements I find slightly contradictory.

It claims that every living thing in the upside down is an extension of the Mind Flayer and this I can't find to be logically true. In season 1 aside from the Adult Demogorgon most of the threatening creatures were more feral and isolated in that reality. Judging how it came out of the sky in the upside down I think the Flayer might come from somewhere beyond the upside down.

Which also gets me to thinking, that perhaps the Adult Demogorgon itself may have been a superior threat over it as it did not manifest until the Demogoron disappeared, and that the Demogorgon had the one apparent ability the Flayer does not have, creating gates to the normal reality and the Upside down reality that it needs to start an invasion.

There is also still a lot about that world we don't know. All the objects and empty cities that were there had to come from somewhere. We don't know if it's another Earth or an Apocalyptic Future of some kind.

Perhaps a revision of what is known should be in order for that subheading.Maxcardun (talk) 3:03, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

We now know that the "Upside Down" is not a future Apocalypse wasteland due to the copy of Nancy's Diary found there with the final date inscribed and no guns. However since it has red skies at the center and Eleven keeps banishing bad things and people there (The next opinion is just a theory) I'm hoping the Upside Down is not the Down Below. Maxcardun (talk) 10:08, 14 June 2022 (UTC)