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Kali Prasad[1], portrayed by Linnea Berthelsen, is a recurring character introduced in the second season of Stranger Things. Also known as Eight, as a young girl, Kali was one of several test subjects experimented upon at Hawkins Lab. Ever since her escape, she has sought revenge for the injustices she suffered there. She also was abused at a young age because she had powers.

History

Background

Kali lived in London before she was abducted at the age of five.[2] She was taken to Hawkins National Laboratory. At the lab, she was given the number “008” and experimented on alongside Eleven and likely other children possessing abilities like herself. Together, she and Eleven would play in a room in the lab called the “rainbow room”. She was present when Terry Ives came in looking for Eleven. One day, when Kali went to the rainbow room, she discovered that Eleven had been taken away.

Once Kali's abilities were strong enough, she used them to escape the lab. She found a new family and home but eventually lost them as they were unable to help her. She then began using her powers to get revenge on the people from the lab. At some point, she met Axel, Mick, Funshine, and later Dottie. The gang would pursue and kill the people from their pasts who had wronged them.

Kali had escaped from Hawkins Lab sometime before Henry Creel’s massacre (in other words, she escaped prior to September 8, 1979).

1984

On October 29, 1984, Kali and her gang killed one of their targets in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. However, they were quickly pursued by the police. As the gang entered a tunnel, Kali used her powers to trick an officer into believing the path ahead was filled with rubble, allowing them to get away by causing a massive car crash. The gang then fled to Chicago, residing in an abandoned warehouse.

Elsewhere, Eleven learned about Kali and tracked her down via remote viewing. Arriving at the warehouse the gang used as a temporary base, she was promptly threatened by Axel. Kali used her powers to make him see spiders. Eleven explained she received the image from her mother, before demonstrating her powers and introducing herself as Jane. They revealed to each other their tattoos and declared themselves sisters.

Kali took Jane to the roof, where Jane explained that her policeman thinks he can work out a deal with the lab to let her go. Kali didn't believe he can do this, saying the lab saw them as monsters, but that their "gifts" are not bad, and should not be hidden. Kali explained her illusion powers to her, creating an illusion of a colorful butterfly. After Kali made Jane a bed to sleep in for the night, she explained that she felt whole now that she had her sister. She said she believed Terry sent Jane to Kali because the two of them belonged together.

After Jane fell asleep, Kali decided to use Jane's abilities to find another member of Hawkins Lab. Mick objected to the idea of hunting another man so soon, as it would put them at risk of being found, but Kali insisted that Jane was in pain and needed to do it, before declaring that they're going the next day.

The next day, Kali woke Jane up and re-introduced her to her gang, explaining that while they were not experimented on at the lab, they were still outcasts and Kali brought them together. She then showed her photos of people who were responsible for the pain the gang had gone through, and explained that they hunt down the men to serve justice. She believed that killing the men was necessary, as they are criminals and simply getting what they deserve. Jane revealed to the group that she had killed before, and that the people she had killed had hurt her; Kali explained that the people her gang hunts down still wanted to hurt them, but now they make the first move.

Kali took Jane to a train yard, explaining that she once kept her pain inside, but was healed by confronting her pain. She asked Jane to use her powers to move a train; though Jane was hesitant at first, Kali encouraged her to focus only on the pain and anger from her past and use those emotions to move it. Jane succeeded in pushing the train closer to them, and Kali and her gang cheered her on.

Jane identified a man in one of Kali's photographs as someone who had hurt her mother. Kali remembered that he once attacked her with a cattle prod, identifying him as Ray Carroll. Jane managed to use her powers to find his location, and the gang agreed to go find him. Before they left, they gave Jane a makeover to better fit in with the gang.

On the way to Ray's apartment, the gang stopped by a convenience store for supplies. As the store employee was distracted by one of Kali's illusions, Eleven and the gang began stealing from the store. The employee soon found out, and threatened the gang with a gun. When Kali was unsuccessful in convincing him to let them go, Eleven slammed him against the wall, knocking him unconscious and allowing the gang to get away. The gang hastily escaped, as they heard police approaching.

After arriving at Ray's residence, the gang broke in. Kali and Jane confronted Ray, unmasking and revealing themselves as the girls from the Lab. When Ray claimed that he was only following orders, Kali said that he still had a choice and chose to hurt them. When Jane was hindered by Ray's claim that Brenner was still alive, Kali believed he was lying. Just as Jane was about to kill him, she noticed a photograph of Ray with his daughters. Upset that Jane wouldn't kill him, Kali took out a gun in order to kill him herself. However, Jane used her powers to throw the gun out the window. The police arrived, and the gang was forced to retreat. Kali was angry at Jane for taking away her choice to kill Ray, and warned her against trying to stop her next time.

Back at their hideout, Kali told Jane the reason for her being so hard on her was because she saw all of her past mistakes in her. She explained that after Jane had been taken away, she had used her powers to escape the lab. She eventually hid with people she trusted, but they couldn't help her and she eventually lost them. After that, Kali decided to stop hiding and use her powers against the people who hurt her. Kali presented Jane with a choice: either go back into hiding, or to face Brenner again. In an effort to make Jane face her problems, she conjured an illusion of Brenner in her head, which reduced a terrified Jane to tears. Kali then told her she could leave whenever she wanted, but if she stayed, the two of them could heal together.

As police swarmed the hideout, Kali gathered the gang together, using her powers to turn them all invisible to their pursuers. They managed to escape to the van, but had to dodge the police who were waiting for them outside. Kali created an illusion of a massive wall in-between them and the van, allowing everyone time to escape before the illusion wore off. However, Jane told her that she needed to leave and help her friends. Kali tried to convince her to stay, saying they belonged together and the others could not save her. Jane agreed, but said that she could save them, and left just as the wall faded, forcing the gang to flee. The gang successfully escaped the police, but Kali was incredibly upset at her sister's departure, staring out the window as they drove away.

1985

"Oh my god, none of this is real." The canonicity of this section to the main series is questionable.

Sometime in 1985, Marcy and Ricky, formerly known as subjects 9.5 and 3, managed to track Kali and her gang to a barn where they were hiding out. When she saw them, Kali instinctively reacted by generating a forest environment all around them. She did this as she mistakenly thought Marcy was her sister Jamie, also known as 9. Although Marcy and Ricky had believed Jamie to be dead, Kali assured them that she had in fact seen her very recently in a living condition.[3]

Personality

Kali is a head strong independent woman who uses her powers for the sake of robbery and revenge. Identifying as an outcast and stuck on the streets, Kali feels her life was destroyed by the people that took her away and seeks justice.

Despite Kali's upbringing and cold personality, she shows a different side to her friends and to Eleven. She is welcoming to all fellow outcasts, regardless of whether they are "gifted" or not. After being shown proof that Eleven is gifted like her, she instantly accepted her into the group and even trained her to use the pain of her past to empower her telekinesis. However, her survivalist lifestyle means she's not above manipulating others into doing her bidding, as she did with Eleven.

Powers and Abilities

• Illusions: Kali Prasad has the psychic ability to induce mental hallucinations that cause for her target(s) to sense and experience phenomena that are not actually present.
  • Duplication: Kali can create an exact facsimile of herself or that of someone else, which act as a holographic mirror of its molecular structure in the external world. These projections, as realistic as they may appear, cannot actually interact with the physical environment as they are only detailed hallucinations that exist solely in the mind(s) of whomever Kali focuses upon. Kali is most notably remembered for using this ability against Jane Hopper after she manipulated her "sister" to believing that their "father", Dr. Martin Brenner, was present in their space and caused Jane to experience Dr. Brenner cruelly chastising her.
  • Invisibility: Kali can render herself and others completely undetectable to the human senses, likely achieved by manipulating the visuals of another person's mind. Kali is most notably remembered for using this ability to render herself and her friends all invisible from police troopers after their compound was discovered and raided by officers.
  • Phantasmagoria: Kali can manipulate the mind to experience a sequence of events that are not actually playing out in the physical world. This ability preys on all five of the human senses and is the most commonly practiced by Kali. She was first shown using this ability on a police officer, who was in pursuit of her and her friends, after she caused him to experience a bridge collapsing. She later used the ability to trick her friend, Axel, to experience a mass of spiders crawling all over his body as punishment for threatening Jane Hopper. She made Jane experience a beautiful, luminescent butterfly that was not actually real and she later manipulated a convenience store clerk into believing that the toilets had overrun as a distraction for her friends to steal food and money. She was last seen using this ability to trick multiple police troopers into seeing a massive wall materialize between the two groups to subsequently stop the officers from pursuing the gang even though the wall only existed in their minds.

Relationships

Familial

Jane Hopper

Non-familial

The Gang

Martin Brenner

Appearances

*Kali appears during flashbacks in "Dig Dug", "The Gate" and "The Dive".

Video games

Memorable Quotes

Behind the scenes

The character was first revealed in a casting call obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. She was billed as a series regular and described as "male or a female of any ethnicity between the ages of 30 and 38," meaning the character could end up being of either Gender. The character was also referred to as "Roman".[4]

On November 7, 2016, it was announced that Danish actress Linnea Berthelsen had been cast for the role.[5]

Originally, the Duffer Brothers intended for the character to be male, a different number,[6] and aged somewhere in his 30s. However, when they couldn't find the right person to play the part, they decided to change the casting call to include women and younger actors.[7]

Trivia

• In Hindu mythology, Kali is a powerful goddess who fought against evil forces.
• Her character was originally supposed to be a male character, based on the original name, "The Lost Brother", for the final episode of Season 2.
• "Prasad" (commonly spelled as prasāda) is food that is left as a religious offering in Hinduism and Sikhism.
• Kali's hairstyle was partially inspired by Cyndi Lauper.[8]
• It is presumed that Kali’s escape from Hawkins’ Lab occurred prior to 1979, as that was the year Henry Creel massacred all children in their custody with the exception of Eleven.

References

1. ↑ Newspaper clipping from "The Lost Sister" detailing Kali's disappearance from London
2. ↑ Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds
3. ↑ Into the Fire Issue 1
4. ↑ "'Stranger Things': Meet the 3 New Characters Joining Season 2" The Hollywood Reporter. September 1, 2016.
5. ↑ "Stranger Things 2 exclusive: The Goonies, Aliens stars join Netflix series" Entertainment Weekly. November 7, 2016.
6. ↑ "Emmy Contender: Stranger Things 3D-printed Demodog Heads, Made Eleven Scarier in Post" SYFY. August 23, 2018
7. ↑ "The Duffer Brothers Recap Stranger Things 2, ‘Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister’" Vulture. November 7, 2017
8. ↑ "Stranger Things Actress Linnea Berthelsen on the Advice That Millie Bobby Brown Gave Her Before She Shaved Her Head" Vogue. November 2, 2017

Director	Martin Brenner • Sam Owens
Staff	Dr. Ellis • Connie Frazier • Shepard • Elevator Scientist • Lead Scientist • Lead Agent • Agent Repairman • Hawkins Head of Security
Test Subjects	Terry Ives • One • Two • Three • Four • Five • Six • Eight • Ten • Eleven • Test Subjects Francine • Jamie • Marcy • Ricky
Locations	Rainbow Room • Mothergate
Objects & Items	Sensory Deprivation Tank • Soteria

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