Stranger Things season 3 left witness wondering about what the Russians’ real desires are, as a mid-credits scene revealed the government has many captives and at least one Demogorgon- and here’s what their strategy could be. Stranger Things season 4 has a lot of puzzles to solve, among those what indeed happened to Jim Hopper, if Eleven will get her superpowers back, where has Dr. Brenner been, and what the Russians’ ventures are all about. Season 3 been told that the Russians had been operating in Hawkins, and had a big laboratory underneath the brand-new Starcourt Mall.

For the first time in Stranger Things, the main group( including Steve, Nancy, Jonathan, Joyce, and Hopper) was divided into three radicals, each one dealing with a different menace, which eventually merged into one. Once more, the mysterious foe to beat was the( new and enhanced) Mind Flayer, but there was another threat that didn’t come from the Upside Down, but from another part of the world: the Russians. A group of scientists arrived to Hawkins with the intent of opening a gate to the Upside down, but the aforementioned mid-credits scene revealed that they were still imparting experiments on the other side of the world- and they succeeded, as they now have their own Demogorgon.

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The scene too been told that the government has( at least) one American prisoner that they’re continuing away from the human, and Russian hostages that they’re using to feed the monster- or so the series craved witness to believe. Here’s what the Russians’ real Demogorgon and American prisoner hope could be.

Some love have pointed out that it doesn’t make sense that the Russians are feeding beings to the Demogorgon. Just like the Upside Down, the characteristics of the Demogorgon is a mystery within the series, and everything present so far is pretty much what the characters know about it more. It was first believed that the character could be drawn by blood, as Barb’s hand was bleeding when she was attacked by the monster, but this was debunked as Joyce and Will were attacked despite the absence of blood. The Demogorgon is also able to be attracted by reverberate, or it is unable to simply attack any isolated preys it comes across with.

One of the most important mysteries around the monster are its munching practices. The Demogorgon has been shown eating meat, as seen in season 1 when it hunted a deer, and Dart( Dustin’s pet demodog) consume Dustin’s cat in season 2; nonetheless, there’s no manifestation on the soul actually feeding from living humen. Barb was killed but not eaten, Will was kept alive, and Dr. Brenner wasn’t killed when the Demogorgon criticized him back in season 1. With that in mind, it seems unlikely that the Russian Demogorgon would chew a live human, so the person or persons at the locate in Kamchatka could have other aims in memory when bringing together a human and a Demogorgon.

Very much like the scientists at Hawkins Lab, the Russians are trying to learn more about the Upside Down, the individuals in it, and how they can use this parallel dimension to their benefit. The Russians somehow was informed about the experiments and inter-dimensional jaunts taking place in Hawkins, whether through observes, American scientists working in the field of them, or other methods. As a arise, the Russians acquired their own machines to open entrances, referred to as “Keys”. Many of these were built all around Russia, but nothing of them succeeded in opening a gate for more than a few seconds. New fan favorite Alexei explained that they recognized they were missing part of the equation, and formulated that a Key could function in Hawkins as the fabric of space-time there was still healing, seeing it vulnerable.

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But even though they now have their own Demogorgon, the Russians know so much better about the Upside Down as the scientists from Hawkins lab( and the gathering) do, and they could be conducting some strange and dangerous experimentations on their seek to understand the Upside Down, the Demogorgon, and more.

The Russians could be keeping many prisoners not because they want to use them as the Demogorgon’s food, but because they are part of an experiment- and the Demogorgon is also part of it. The beings at Hawkins Lab learned the hard way that the atmosphere of the Upside Down is toxic, and humen can be attacked by Demogorgons and other animals at any time, and the Russians surely learned this too. The prisoners, including the American, could be there to test the behavior of the Demogorgon when in contact with humans, and they were able even test the effects of the Upside Down on those dragged there by the creature( as happened with Barb and Will ).

It’s also possible that the ventures go beyond the effects of direct contact between human beings and monsters from the Upside Down, and they’re mixing humans with the Demogorgon’s DNA in order to help them survive the atmosphere of the other dimension. This would mean that the Russian prisoner seen in season 3’s mid-credits scene wasn’t eaten by the Demogorgon, but was instead just one of the surely numerous test subjects they have at the Kamchatka base.

The Russians are deterring the American prisoner for a while, and it could all be because they have something bigger in mind for him. Once they’ve done all the needed experimenting on Russian hostages and achieved( or come close to) their objective, the American prisoner “couldve been” next, doing him their biggest artillery against the US. As some supporters have pointed out, the sentry actually meant that it wasn’t the American’s turn just yet, as he will serve a different, more important purpose when the time comes.

How effective and impactful a “mutated” American prisoner would be depends a great deal on who the American is. The most popular guess is that it’s Hopper, which would be a big shake-up for the characters and onlookers as well, but would work quite well as he’s the character everyone trusts. Others believe it’s Brenner, which utters feel applied he was really committed to the experimentations back in Hawkins. It’s too possible that the American prisoner is another test subject from Hawkins Lab, in which case the impact of the experiments will vary depending on how he infiltrates the US and its dealings with Eleven( because they will surely target the kid with superpowers who defeated the Mind Flayer and closed the door once ). Stranger Things season 4 won’t arrive as soon as devotees would like, so the only thing left to do is wait and revisit the line in sought for clues about the moves the new season could take.

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