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Does the Mind Flayer control Vecna on Stranger Things? Stranger Things' series finale finally gives us an answer about its ...

The Stranger Things series finale featured a huge showdown between Vecna joining the Mind Flayer fighting the rest of the ...

Dungeons & Dragons has invented a myriad of terrifying creatures in its 45-year history, yet the kids in Stranger Things couldn’t come up with a better name for people possessed by the Mind Flayer in ...

What’s more, these mind flayers have a goal somewhat similar to one of the central threats faced by players in Baldur’s Gate 3 – ceremorphosis, the process of becoming a mind flayer. While ...

After the Mind Flayer took over Will’s body and used him to spy on the gang and Hawkins, season 2 ended with Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) banishing the monster back into the Upside Down and closing the ...

Mind flayers are enjoying a resurgence of sorts due to their heavy presence in Baldur’s Gate 3, the new Larian Studios video game set in the D&D campaign setting of the Forgotten Realms. Players spend ...

We already know what’s going to happen in Stranger Things season 3 (and beyond), and it’s all thanks to Dungeons & Dragons. The old-school pen-and-paper RPG isn’t just a seminal part of the first two ...

The epic conclusion of Stranger Things 4 has arrived, and it brought with it some of the biggest reveals yet. As our teenage heroes fought off the devious Vecna, the villain’s past was revealed — and ...

This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things 5 (through the series finale), including details about Vecna that hail from Stranger Things: The First Shadow. If you don’t want to read any of that, ...