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jane hopper shady facts@strangestjane · Jan 1, 2026

“it ties up all loose ends. no questions are left unanswered” questions that were left unanswered:🧵

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A fan identifies 20 major unanswered questions from the final season of Stranger Things, ranging from unexplained character motivations and plot holes to inconsistent character development and dropped storylines that contradict the showrunners' claims that all loose ends were tied up.

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    “it ties up all loose ends. no questions are left unanswered” questions that were left unanswered:🧵

  2. #2

    1) why tf did henry need specifically 12 kids? what were they even doing?

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    2) why did the dial change colors? it was grey and went to red?

  4. #4

    3) does melvalds suddenly sell milkshakes? last time i checked, the very much do not.

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    4) why was it NEVER addressed that joyce hopper and henry all went to highschool together and were VERY intertwined with one another.

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    5) the november 6th thing wasn’t even explained. like yes it was the day will was taken, but it was also the day of joyce’s play, but it was NEVER EXPLAINED

  7. #7

    6) why was will the first taken? who slid his lock open in season 1?

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    7) could jane suddenly put people in trances like henry? why could she bring max into his mind? same with mike?

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    8) how could’ve mike even known about kali and jane’s plan IF it was real? and further more how could kali have stayed alive that long?

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    9) literally the entirety of jane’s ending

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    10) why did they forget wills birthday? AND WHY do henry and will SHARE THE SAME BIRTHDAY????

  12. #12

    11) the painting lie from season 4 was never brought up again??

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    12) so did dustin and suzie randomly break up? did robin and vickie randomly break up?

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    13) why was will suddenly okay with flirting with mike after a whole season of him building up mileven? are we just genuinely supposed to believe that NOTHING happened to make will believe he could have a chance?

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    14) “there’s a missing piece to this puzzle. a big one” what?? was it?? bc no there wasn’t???

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    15) the rainbow ship will drew, rainbow brite puzzle, and the uss eldridge (project rainbow) having NO correlation

  17. #17

    16) the imagery of will sitting behind the wormhole drawing with a circle over his face and and “x” over his heart. what was the point of that???

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    17) “it’s a show about will” is it? bc after sorcerer he got maybe 10 minutes of screen time.

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    18) why make such a big deal about wills powers to only use them 2 more times in all the episodes???

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    19) “i don’t believe in coincidences” this doesn’t mean anything if november’s 6th was never explained 😭

  21. #21

    20) so all the military was just like “ok cool well now that she’s gone all of you are free to go” 💀💀