Whos gonna die in stranger things

Q: Who dies at the end of Stranger Things?

Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine) are back at it in the Stranger Things season 4 finale episodes. Brenner (Matthew Modine) actually dies this time.

Q: Does 11 die in Stranger Things?

She dies, scared, in Lucas arms. With her death, the fourth gate to the Upside Down opens. Eleven wont stand for this, though, and she uses her power to bring Max back to life. After a two-day time jump, we learn that Max is alive again, but barely.

The following is a list documenting the deaths of characters throughout the four seasons of Stranger Things. As of "The Piggyback", 825+ characters have been captured dying throughout the show's run.

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Season 1

#	Victim	Episode	Cause of Death	Killer
1	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Scientist	Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers	Pulled into the ceiling and killed	The Demogorgon The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
2	Sara Hopper	Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers (mentioned) Chapter Eight: The Upside Down (flashback)	Complications due to cancer	Natural Causes
3	Benny Hammond	Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers	Shot in the head	Connie Frazier Martin Brenner (by proxy)
4-5	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Agents (2)	Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers	Telekinetically attacked	Eleven
6	Unnamed Hawkins Resident	Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street (mentioned)	Suicide	Themself
7	Barbara Holland	Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly	Abducted and killed	The Demogorgon The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
8	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Orderly	Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly (flashback)	Back broken after being telekinetically thrown against a wall	Eleven
9	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Orderly	Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly (flashback)	Neck snapped telekinetically	Eleven
10-11	Unnamed Project MKUltra Experiments (2+)	Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly (mentioned on newspaper clippings)	Accidentally killed during experimentation	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Experimenters Martin Brenner
12	Shepard	Chapter Four: The Body (remains seen)	Abducted and killed	The Demogorgon The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
13	Dale	Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat (mentioned)	Abducted and killed	The Demogorgon The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
14	Henry	Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat (mentioned)	Abducted and killed	The Demogorgon The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
15	Rabbit	Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat (mentioned)	Shot	Jonathan Byers Lonnie Byers (by proxy)
16	Deer	Chapter Six: The Monster	Abducted and eaten	The Demogorgon The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
17	Upside Down Egg	Chapter Six: The Monster (flashback)	Eaten	The Demogorgon The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
18-19	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Agents (2)	Chapter Seven: The Bathtub	Injuries sustained after their van was telekinetically flipped	Eleven
20-21	Unnamed Hawkins Residents (2)	Chapter Eight: The Upside Down (mentioned)	Abducted and killed	The Demogorgon The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
22	Connie Frazier	Chapter Eight: The Upside Down	Brain crushed telekinetically	Eleven
23-26	Unnamed Military Police Officers (4)	Chapter Eight: The Upside Down	Brains crushed telekinetically	Eleven
27	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Employee	Chapter Eight: The Upside Down	Brain crushed telekinetically	Eleven
28-31	Unnamed Military Police Officers (4)	Chapter Eight: The Upside Down	Attacked and killed	The Demogorgon The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
32-33	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Employees (2)	Chapter Eight: The Upside Down	Attacked and killed	The Demogorgon The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
34	The Upside Down's Hawkins Public Library Vine	Chapter Eight: The Upside Down	Shot multiple times	Jim Hopper
35	The Demogorgon	Chapter Eight: The Upside Down	Disintegrated telekinetically	Eleven

Hopper mentions in "The Weirdo on Maple Street" the last suicide in Hawkins prior to Benny Hammond was an unnamed person in 1961.
Brenner tells Joyce that six people in total have been taken by The Demogorgon in "The Upside Down". Assuming that number contains Will Byers, Barbara Holland, Henry, and Dale, there were two other unnamed residents taken and killed.

Season 2

1	Squirrel	Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak (flashback)	Telekinetically thrown against a tree	Eleven
2	Mews	Chapter Four: Will the Wise (body seen)	Eaten	D'Artagnan
3	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Guard	Chapter Five: Dig Dug (flashback)	Shot	Terry Ives
4-10	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Scientists (7)	Chapter Six: The Spy	Ambushed and Killed	Demodogs The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy) Will Byers (indirectly)
11	Unnamed Former Hawkins National Laboratory Employee	Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister (flashback)	Shot	Kali Prasad
12	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Technician	Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer	Ambushed and Killed	Demodogs The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy) Will Byers (indirectly)
13-17	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Technicians (5)	Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer	Ambushed and Killed	Demodogs The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy) Will Byers (indirectly)
18	Unnamed MP Officer	Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer	Ambushed and Killed	Demodogs The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy) Will Byers (indirectly)
19-51	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Employees (33)	Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer (bodies seen)	Ambushed and Killed	Demodogs The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy) Will Byers (indirectly)
52	Bob Newby	Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer	Ambushed, Mauled and Devoured	Demodogs The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy) Will Byers (indirectly)
53	Demodog	Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer (body seen)	Telekinetically attacked	Eleven
54-65	Demodogs (12+)	Chapter Nine: The Gate	Shot multiple times	Jim Hopper
66	D'Artagnan	Chapter Nine: The Gate	Brain death after closing The Gate	Eleven
67-94	Demodogs (28+)	Chapter Nine: The Gate (bodies seen)	Brain death after closing The Gate	Eleven

The 33 Unnamed Hawkins Lab Employees are seen through the lab's security cameras and throughout the hallways.
The 28+ Demodogs are seen falling after Eleven closes the gate.

Season 3

1-7	Unnamed Russian Scientists (7)	Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy?	Disintegrated by the Prototype Gate Explosion.	Alexei & Russian Scientist (turned on the prototype gate)
8	Russian Scientist	Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy?	Choked to death	Grigori
9-401	Rats (393+)	Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy?	Exploded	The Mind Flayer Vecna (by proxy)
402	Jack Driscoll	Chapter Two: The Mall Rats (mentioned)	Unknown	Natural Causes
403	Doris Driscoll's Rat	Chapter Two: The Mall Rats	Exploded	The Mind Flayer Vecna (by proxy)
404	Unnamed Hospital Nurse	Chapter Five: The Flayed (body seen)	Murdered	Bruce Lowe Tom Holloway The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
405	Unnamed Hospital Visitor	Chapter Five: The Flayed (body seen)	Murdered	Bruce Lowe Tom Holloway The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
406	Unnamed Hospital Patient	Chapter Five: The Flayed (body seen)	Murdered	Bruce Lowe Tom Holloway The Mind Flayer/Vecna (by proxy)
407	Bruce Lowe	Chapter Five: The Flayed	Face bashed in (body melted to create The Mind Flayer's physical form)	Nancy Wheeler
408	Tom Holloway	Chapter Five: The Flayed	Stabbed in the neck (body melted to create The Mind Flayer's physical form)	Jonathan Byers
409	Dr. Zharkov	Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum	Tased	Dustin Henderson
412	Heather Holloway	Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum	Melted to create The Mind Flayer's physical form	The Mind Flayer Vecna (by proxy)
413	Janet Holloway	Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum	Melted to create The Mind Flayer's physical form	The Mind Flayer Vecna (by proxy)
414	Doris Driscoll	Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum	Melted to create The Mind Flayer's physical form	The Mind Flayer Vecna (by proxy)
410	David	Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum	Melted to create The Mind Flayer's physical form	The Mind Flayer Vecna (by proxy)
411	Adam	Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum	Melted to create The Mind Flayer's physical form	The Mind Flayer Vecna (by proxy)
415	Jack	Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (first mentioned)	Melted to create The Mind Flayer's physical form	The Mind Flayer Vecna (by proxy)
416	Melissa	Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (first mentioned)	Melted to create The Mind Flayer's physical form	The Mind Flayer Vecna (by proxy)
417-435	Unnamed Hawkins Residents (19)	Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum (mentioned)	Melted to create The Mind Flayer's physical form	The Mind Flayer Vecna (by proxy)
436	Alexei	Chapter Seven: The Bite	Shot	Grigori
437-440	Unnamed Russian Soldiers (4)	Chapter Seven: The Bite	Injuries sustained from the impact of a telekinetically thrown car	Eleven
441-444	Unnamed Russian Guards (4)	Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt	Shot	Jim Hopper
445	Grigori	Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt	Thrown into the gears of the Starcourt Key and ripped apart	Jim Hopper
446	Billy Hargrove	Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt	Stabbed by The Mind Flayer's tentacles in the sides and chest, and dies from his injuries	The Mind Flayer
447-451	Unnamed Russian Scientists (5)	Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt	Disintegrated from the Starcourt Key's explosion	Joyce Byers (indirectly)
452	The Spider Monster	Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt	Closure of the Starcourt Gate	Joyce Byers
453	Unnamed Kamchatka Prisoner	Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt	Killed	Russian Demogorgon

The 19 Unnamed Hawkins Residents melted by the Mind Flayer stems from the newspaper article about the Starcourt Mall's fire seen in "The Battle of Starcourt". The headline reads "Thirty Dead". Assuming the number includes Jim Hopper (who was transported to Russia and actually alive), Billy Hargrove, Doris Driscoll, Bruce Lowe, The Holloway Family, Adam, David, Jack, and Melissa, the math shows that 19 other Hawkins residents fell victim to the Mind Flayer.

Season 4

#	Victim	Episode	Cause of Death	Killer
1	Six	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
2	Dr. Ellis	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
3	Alec	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
4	Ten	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Crushed by a telekinetically thrown metal door	One
5	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Guard	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
6	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Orderly	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
7-9	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Test Subjects (3)	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	One
10	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Guard	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
11	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Orderly	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
12	Three	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	One
13-14	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Test Subjects (2)	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	One
15	Seven	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	One
16	Five	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	One
17-19	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Test Subjects (3)	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback)	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	One
20	Two	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (flashback; body seen) Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (flashback)	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	One
21	Chrissy Cunningham	Chapter One: The Hellfire Club	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	Vecna
22	Unnamed Male Teenager	Chapter Two: Vecna's Curse (flashback)	Car accident and then left for dead	Fred Benson
23	Fred Benson	Chapter Two: Vecna's Curse	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	Vecna
24	Unnamed Kamchatka Guard	Chapter Four: Dear Billy	Choked with ankle cuffs	Jim Hopper
25-29	Unnamed Kamchatka Guards (5)	Chapter Four: Dear Billy	Blown up	Jim Hopper
30-33	Unnamed Military Agents (4)	Chapter Four: Dear Billy	Succumb or die instantly to gunshot wounds	Agent Harmon
34	Virginia Creel's Great-Uncle	Chapter Four:Dear Billy (mentioned)	Unknown	Unknown
35	Rabbit	Chapter Four: Dear Billy (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	Henry Creel
36-43	Rabbits, Squirrels, Chickens & Dogs (8+)	Chapter Four: Dear Billy (mentioned)	Telekinetically attacked	Henry Creel
44	Unnamed Baby	Chapter Four: Dear Billy (flashback)	Burned in their crib after a shelling was ordered on their home	Unnamed Soldiers Victor Creel (by proxy)
45	Virginia Creel	Chapter Four: Dear Billy (flashback)	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	Henry Creel
46	Unnamed Man	Chapter Four: Dear Billy (flashback)	Injuries sustained after a shelling was ordered on their home	Unnamed Soldiers Victor Creel (by proxy)
47	Alice Creel	Chapter Four: Dear Billy (flashback)	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	Henry Creel
48	Agent Harmon	Chapter Five: The Nina Project	Succumbs to gunshot wounds	Unnamed Military Agent
49	Unnamed Kamchatka Prisoner	Chapter Five: The Nina Project (remains seen)	Killed	Russian Demogorgon
50	Patrick McKinney	Chapter Five: The Nina Project	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	Vecna
51-53	Unnamed Nina Project Guards (3)	Chapter Five: The Nina Project	Telekinetically slammed against a roof	Eleven
54	Fish	Chapter Six: The Dive	Stabbed	Vines Vecna (by proxy)
55-60	Unnamed Kamchatka Prisoners (6)	Chapter Six: The Dive (mentioned)	Killed	Russian Demogorgon
61	Demobat	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab	Beaten and stabbed with a boat oar	Nancy Wheeler Robin Buckley (assisted)
62	Demobat	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab	Stabbed with a boat oar	Eddie Munson
63	Demobat	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab	Repeatedly smashed against the ground and ripped in half	Steve Harrington
64	Oleg	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab	Attacked and killed	Russian Demogorgon
65-69	Unnamed Kamchatka Prisoners (5)	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab	Attacked and killed	Russian Demogorgon
70	Blackmon	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (flashback)	Telekinetically thrown against a wall	One
71	Thacher	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (flashback)	Telekinetically thrown against a wall	One
72	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Guard	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (flashback)	Telekinetically thrown against a ceiling	One
73	Selee	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (flashback)	Telekinetically thrown against a wall	One
74	Miller	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (flashback)	Neck snapped telekinetically	One
75	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Test Subject	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (flashback)	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	One
76-77	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Guards (2)	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
78	Four	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (flashback)	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	One
79-80	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Test Subjects (2)	Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab (flashback)	Bones snapped and eyes gouged out	One
81	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Orderly	Chapter Eight: Papa (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
82	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Guard	Chapter Eight: Papa (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
83	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Orderly	Chapter Eight: Papa (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
84-85	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Guards (2)	Chapter Eight: Papa (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
86	Unnamed Hawkins National Laboratory Orderly	Chapter Eight: Papa (flashback)	Telekinetically attacked	One
87	Ivan	Chapter Eight: Papa (off-screen)	Attacked and killed	Russian Demogorgon
88-91	Unnamed Kamchatka Guards (4)	Chapter Eight: Papa (off-screen)	Attacked and killed	Russian Demogorgon
92	Demogorgon	Chapter Eight: Papa	Shot in the head	Jim Hopper
93-101	Demogorgons (9+)	Chapter Eight: Papa (bodies seen)	Unknown	Unnamed Kamchatka Guards (presumably; resurrected by The Mind Flayer)
102	Unnamed Nina Project Guard	Chapter Eight: Papa	Shot	Unnamed Military Soldiers Jack Sullivan (by proxy)
103	Unnamed Military Agent	Chapter Eight: Papa	Shot	Unnamed Nina Project Guards Martin Brenner (by proxy)
104-109	Unnamed Nina Project Guards (6)	Chapter Eight: Papa	Shot	Unnamed Military Soldiers Jack Sullivan (by proxy)
110-120	Unnamed Nina Project Scientists (11)	Chapter Eight: Papa (bodies seen)	Shot	Unnamed Military Soldiers Jack Sullivan (by proxy)
121-122	Unnamed Military Soldiers (2)	Chapter Eight: Papa	Helicopter crash	Eleven
123	Martin Brenner	Chapter Eight: Papa	Shot multiple times	Unnamed Military Soldier Jack Sullivan (by proxy)
124	Unnamed Kamchatka Scientist	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback (body seen)	Attacked and killed	Russian Demogorgon and/or Russian Demodogs The Mind Flayer (by proxy)
125	Unnamed Kamchatka Guard	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback (body seen)	Attacked and killed	Russian Demogorgon and/or Russian Demodogs The Mind Flayer (by proxy)
126	Warden Melnikov	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback	Attacked	Russian Demogorgon and/or Russian Demodogs The Mind Flayer (by proxy)
127-154	Unnamed Kamchatka Guards, Prisoners, and Scientists (28+)	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback (bodies seen)	Attacked and killed	Russian Demogorgon and/or Russian Demodogs The Mind Flayer (by proxy)
155-163	Demobats (9+)	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback	Stabbed with a spiked shield	Eddie Munson
164	Russian Demodog	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback	Tased	Joyce Byers
165-169	Russian Demodogs (5)	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback	Burned	Murray Bauman
170-217	Demobats (48+)	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback	Killed due to their hive mind connection to the demodogs	Murray Bauman (indirectly)
218	Russian Demogorgon	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback	Decapitated with a sword	Jim Hopper/Murray Bauman
219	Eddie Munson	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback	Attacked and bitten	Demobats Vecna (by proxy)
220	Max Mayfield	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback	Bones snapped and blinded	Vecna (resurrected by Eleven)
221	Jason Carver	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback	Torn in half by Creel House gate opening	Vecna
222-243	Unnamed Hawkins Residents (21)	Chapter Nine: The Piggyback (mentioned)	Injuries sustained after the Curse gates opened causing a 7.4 magnitude earthquake	Vecna

It is stated in "The Piggyback" on the radio as the California group, in Argyle's van to get back into Hawkins, that 22 people died during the earthquake. Seeing as Jason Carver was one of these people, there were 21 unnamed deaths.

Gallery

Barb being dragged into Steve's pool by The Demogorgon.

Benny Hammond after being shot by Connie Frazier.

Bob being slaughtered by Demodogs.

Tom Holloway being stabbed in the neck by Jonathan Byers.

Alexei after being shot by Grigori.

Spider Monster's departure.

Dr. Zharkov getting electrocuted by Dustin Henderson.

Billy screaming in pain.

Heather melting.

Nine's corpse.

Seven's corpse.

Dr. Brenner after being shot multiple times by a military soldier.

Eddie after being attacked by Demobats.

Does anybody die in Stranger Things?

Despite its aversion to killing main characters, there have been plenty of tragic deaths in "Stranger Things." From Barb in season one to Chrissy in season four, we ranked the show's major deaths by how sad they were.

Who dies at the end of Stranger Things?

Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine) are back at it in the 'Stranger Things' season 4 finale episodes. Brenner (Matthew Modine) actually dies this time.

Who is going to die in Stranger Things season 4?

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 4. The fourth season of Stranger Things featured the deaths of beloved (and not so beloved) characters, including Hellfire Club president and metalhead Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) and Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine).

Does 11 die in Stranger Things?

She dies, scared, in Lucas' arms. With her death, the fourth gate to the Upside Down opens. Eleven won't stand for this, though, and she uses her power to bring Max back to life. After a two-day time jump, we learn that Max is alive again, but barely.