Stranger Issues 4 Quantity 2 — Twitter Reacts To THAT Heartbreaking Loss of life

Whereas many “Stranger Issues” followers doubtless braced themselves for the likelihood that a number of characters would not make it out of Season 4 Quantity 2 alive, it would not make a personality’s final demise any much less heartbreaking — particularly if they’re a fan favourite like Eddie Munson.

Following Friday’s launch of Quantity 2 of “Stranger Issues 4,” which broke the Nielsen streaming report, followers flocked to Twitter to react to the epic finale, with many — and we imply many — social media customers mourning Eddie’s devastating and emotional demise.

Within the second a part of Season 4 — which is made up of Episode 8 “Papa” and Episode 9 “The Piggyback” — a complete of 4 characters died, together with Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine), Jason Carver (Mason Dye) and Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink), who technically died as her coronary heart stopped after Vecna/Henry Creel/One (Jamie Campbell Bower) killed her. Nevertheless, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) introduced her again to life, however Max fell right into a coma. Though she was left with a number of damaged bones, appeared to have misplaced her eyesight and presumably turned paralyzed, Max continues to be alive … in contrast to Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn).

However he died the last word hero.

Within the Season 4 finale, the crew within the Upside Down — together with Eddie, Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Steve Harrington (Joe Keery), Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer) and Robin Buckley (Maya Hawke) — tried to hold out their plan to kill Vecna. As Steve, Nancy and Robin headed to the Creel Home, Eddie and Dustin had been tasked with luring the demobats away from them.

They first appeared to succeed after Eddie carried out “probably the most steel live performance within the historical past of the world,” taking part in Metallica’s “Grasp of Puppets” on his guitar on the highest of his trailer. Nevertheless, after the demobats started to come back by the vents of the trailer, Eddie and Dustin ran towards the rope to go again into Hawkins by the gate. Dustin went by and Eddie started to comply with, earlier than he modified his thoughts and determined to remain behind to purchase everybody else extra time. He reduce the rope, leaving Dustin distraught as he realized what Eddie had accomplished.

Eddie acquired on a motorcycle and continued to lure the demobats away from the trailer, earlier than they attacked him and he fell. Eddie began to run away — after which had flashbacks to when he ran away previously. This time, Eddie did not run. He confronted the demobats alone, they usually started to swarm him.

In the meantime, Dustin finally jumped up again into the Upside Down. After Vecna was seemingly destroyed and all the demobats had been killed, Dustin ran to Eddie, who had tried to battle off the creatures. Nevertheless, sadly, Eddie misplaced his battle. Earlier than he died in Dustin’s arms, Eddie and Dustin had a quick, but emotional heart-to-heart. With Dustin in tears, Eddie mentioned, “I did not run away this time, proper?” He instructed Dustin to “take care of these little sheep” within the Hellfire Membership for him, saying he was “really going to graduate.” If the second wasn’t heartbreaking sufficient, Eddie’s final phrases had been: “I like you, man.”

And followers completely misplaced it over Eddie’s demise on Twitter, with many social media customers sharing their disappointment that though we know he died a hero, Eddie was by no means in a position to show his innocence in Hawkins after being accused of the murders and would not be given the chance to lastly graduate highschool.

“no different character demise has EVER hit like this EVER. gaten and joes performances right here had me in ache sobbing. eddie you might be such a particular, lovely character,” a fan tweeted. “i’ll maintain the most important place in my coronary heart for you.”

“eddie munson, our hero who deserved to graduate,” a person wrote.

“the truth that Eddie did nothing unsuitable, tried saving Chrissy, risked his life to avoid wasting his pals, and ended up dying in the long run, but all of Hawkins celebrated his demise, breaks me. A heroic character that had a lot potential, and was so highly effective,” an individual mentioned, whereas one other person added, “you imply, eddie munson died with out proving his innocence and the folks of hawkins nonetheless see him as a assassin and never a hero??? my man deserves higher.”

In the meantime, different followers identified a moderately merciless pattern the present has adopted, which foreshadowed Eddie’s demise. Every season to date, the present has launched a brand new character, who typically turned a fan favourite, after which finally acquired killed off in the identical season: Barb, Bob, Dr. Alexei and Eddie.

“It is the best way stranger issues will get us hooked up to characters like Eddie and Alexei just for them to die the identical season they had been launched,” a person tweeted. “what sort of torture technique is that this??”

See how extra followers reacted to Eddie’s demise within the tweets, beneath.

All episodes of “Stranger Issues 4” are streaming now on Netflix.