Stranger Things
Throughout four seasons , Stranger Thingshas consider the opening of various gate to the Upside Down , and here ’s every one of them , when and where they were open , and who was responsible for for their appearance . Since season 1,Stranger Thingshas been packed with mysteries , most of them related to the Upside Down and the different creatures living in it . Stranger Thingsseason 4 made some big reveals about the other property , such as Henry Creel a.k.a . Vecna being in mastery of it and the monsters that live it , such as the Demogorgons and the Mind Flayer , and he was also responsible for the possible action of some gates .
The agency in which the role inStranger Thingscan reach the Upside Down and come back to the human world is through gate , which are lesion or ruptures in the cloth of space - sentence that plug in both dimension . The gates have allowed the Hawkins crew to visit the Upside Down on different missions , but these have also allowed the Demogorgon and the Mind Flayer to infiltrate the human cosmos . While some of these gates have been accidentally afford , others have been intentionally created for different design , but always with frightful outcome . Here are all 9 gates to the Upside Down that have been opened inStranger Thingsso far .
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9The 1979 Gate
Among the big reveals about the Upside Down inStranger Thingsseason 4 was how Henry Creel ended up in the other dimension , and it was all thanks to Eleven . After belt down everyone standing in his way at Hawkins Lab , Eleven confronted Henry Creel , but it was n’t an well-off battle . Eleven finally overpowered Henry , shoved him against a bulwark , and unintentionally opened a logic gate behind him , throw him right into the Upside Down . After Henry crossed the logic gate , vines emerge from it and sealed the gate shut . This was the first logic gate that was opened inStranger Thingshistory … unless season 5 reveals another one before 1979 .
8The Mothergate
The most memorable gate to the Upside Down inStranger Thingsso far is the one the characters bring up to as the “ Mothergate ” – after all , it ’s the one that kick back off the events of the series . During the experiment to make contact with the Demogorgon in 1983 , Eleven managed to touch the monster , but this opened a logic gate in the tank car room in Hawkins Lab . Thanks to this , the Demogorgon cross over into the human humankind and abducted Will , and the sphere where the gate opened was contained and quarantined .
The Mothergate expand through Hawkins Lab , and by season 2 , it was a massive logic gate that created a series of tunnels sprawling beneath Hawkins . fortunately for Hawkins , Eleven was taken to the Mothergate and used her magnate to finally close it , and while she was successful , that was n’t the end of Hawkins ’ number with the Upside Down .
7The Gate At Hawkins Middle School
Another logic gate opened inStranger Thingsseason 1 and which was central in seasons 1 and 2 ’s effect as the one in Hawkins Middle School . In ordering to detect Will in the Upside Down , the Hawkins crew build up an closing off armoured combat vehicle at the school , and while Joyce and Hopper broke into the research lab to enter the other dimension , Hawkins Lab agents arrived at the schoolhouse . Eleven killed most of the factor , but the blood attracted a Demogorgon that emerged from a logic gate in the school day ’s wall . Eleven defeated the Demogorgon but disappeared , and it was divulge in time of year 2 that she was taken to the Upside Down . Luckily , the gate at the school was still open , and Eleven was able to return through it .
6Temporary Gates In Season 1
Stranger Thingsseason 1 also see the possibility of irregular William Henry Gates in different percentage of Hawkins . The most famous ones were one on the wall of the Byers ’ home and one inside a tree , through which Nancy was able to cross to the other attribute looking for Will and Barb . These impermanent William Henry Gates were created by the Demogorgon , and it ’s still undecipherable how it come in to have this ability . As the name says , these gates were open for a while and would finally heal , though some quicker than others , as the one inside the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree closed concisely after Nancy returned to the human earth , but the one in the Byers ’ house take longer to close .
5The Russian Gates
Stranger Thingsseason 3 revealed that Hawkins was n’t the only place where gate to the Upside Down have been opened , and the Russians were also explore the other dimension . The Russians build machines call “ Keys ” in rules of order to open gate , but every time they managed to open one , it immediately closed . recognize that the only path to successfully open gates to the Upside Down would be to do it in Hawkins , the Russians established a laboratory beneath the Modern Starcourt Mall . The Russians were right , and they opened a logic gate at this lab , which is the one that almost killed Jim Hopper when Joyce close it at the close ofStranger Thingsseason 3 .
4Trailer Gate
Stranger Thingsseason 4 indicate another way in which gate to the Upside Down can be created : through Vecna ’s curse . As part of hisplan to take over Hawkins , Vecna direct teenager who carried a lot of psychic trauma , tormented , and killed them in horrible ways , with each death open a Modern logic gate . First was Chrissy Cunningham , a popular scholar and fountainhead cheerleader at Hawkins High School who come from an abusive home . One night , Chrissy went to Eddie ’s trailer to buy drugs , and there , she was attacked by Vecna , who belt down her by give way her limb , jaw , and gouging out her oculus . Chrissy ’s death left a gate astray loose on the cap of Eddie ’s van .
3Road Gate
Vecna ’s next victim was Fred Benson , a Hawkins High School student who worked with Nancy on the schooltime paper . While investigate Chrissy ’s last at the Forest Hills Trailer Park , Fred was haunt by Vecna , who remove advantage of the trauma he carried after being involved in a car accident where his friend die . After a serial of hallucinations induce by Vecna , Fred ended up on the road where the car fortuity happened , and there he was kill by Vecna in the same way he killed Chrissy . Fred ’s death opened a unexampled gate beneath the cement of the road where he was murdered .
2Watergate
Next on Vecna ’s listing of victims was Patrick McKinney , a democratic hoops player at Hawkins High School . Although what exactly his psychic trauma was was n’t explained , Lucas implied that Patrick came from an opprobrious home as he once go far at basketball recitation with a black middle . After Chrissy ’s funeral , Jason , Patrick , and Andy went after Eddie Munson at the abandoned home of “ Reefer Rick ” near Lover ’s Lake , and they saw Eddie trying to escape in a motorboat . Jason and Patrick went after him swimming when Patrick was of a sudden plunged beneath the water and launched into the air endorsement later , with Vecna kill him in the same gruesome way he killed Chrissy and Fred . Patrick ’s death opened a logic gate at the bottom of Lover ’s Lake .
1Creel House Gate
The fourth and terminal logic gate was opened at Creel House , and it was the result ofStranger Thingsseason 4 ’s most heartbreaking bit . Although the Hawkins team and Eleven did their best to save Max from Vecna ’s curse , Vecna turned out to be a mickle more potent than expected and attacked Max . While Vecna did n’t kill her as he was stop by Eleven , Max was severely injured and perish import later , and though Eleven was able to use her power to re-start Max ’s heart , she was left in a comatose state . Max ’s death open a fourth gate , this one in Creel House , which quickly expanded to converge with the other three , provoking an earthquake and demolish various parts of Hawkins . These four gates allowed the Upside Down to begin occupy Hawkins in the final aspect ofStranger Thingsseason 4 .
