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Stranger Things fans convinced fan favourite is going to die in season 5 after fresh comment

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Published 17:19 25 Nov 2025 GMT

Stranger Things fans convinced fan favourite is going to die in season 5 after fresh comment

This comes after a new interview with the cast of the Netflix show caused panic among the fanbase

Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin

Stranger Things fans have been left convinced that one of their favourite characters on the show is going to die in the new season after a fresh comment from the actor in question.

The fifth and final season of Netflix’s most successful show ever is coming out in just two days, and fan theories have already began rumbling about who is going to die.

Stranger Things has always seemed like a TV show willing to kill off any characters ever since fan favourite Barb was killed off in season one.

Despite this though the majority of the main characters have actually been safe throughout the entire show, with all the most shocking deaths coming from characters introduced the same season they died.

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(Netflix)
(Netflix)

Fans however are now convinced that Lucas Sinclair, played by Caleb McLaughlin, is a goner in the show’s final season.

Though it’s refreshing to hear a theory that doesn’t involve Eleven or Steve dying the idea of Lucas biting the dust is sure to be an upsetting one for fans of the show.

The rumours started in a recent interview with the core four boys (now men) of the cast, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, and McLaughlin.

When asked about the ‘hardest thing to film’ Wolfhard states it was the finale, though he states its annoying because they ‘can’t talk about it’.

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McLaughlin adds a comment that has got fans worried however, saying: “My finale was different, so I don’t know.”



While Wolfhard plays it off, seeming to teasingly ask whether he ‘had a different finale to episode nine’, fans on social media have taken it as a Tom Holland-esque slip of the tongue from McLaughlin.

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One fan posted the clip of the interview on X saying: “why is this so sus i'm [crying] what do you mean.”

Another said: “Oh that’s sinister… what did they mean by that!!!”

A third posted: “why’d he say thatttt… lucas stay with me…”

Fans have long theorised that one of the original four will go in season five (Netflix)
Fans have long theorised that one of the original four will go in season five (Netflix)

Others were a tad more hopeful about what this meant for the finale of the show, with one fan posting: “Caleb has a different finale bc [Lucas] and [Sadie Sink’s character] Max are hiding away together somewhere.”

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Though it remains unclear who will and won’t die in the show’s final season, the show’s creators The Duffer Brothers have hinted that some of the deaths in season five will be hard to watch.

Speaking to The Times, Matt Duffer said: “I would say season five is not as violent as season four, but it has the most violent death of any season.”

Stranger Things season five volume one releases Thursday November 27, at 1am. Volume two will release Christmas Day, and the finale releases New Year’s Eve.

Featured Image Credit: Netflix

Topics: Stranger Things, Netflix, TV, TV and Film, Twitter

Michael Slavin
Michael Slavin

Michael Slavin is LADbible's dedicated specialist Film and TV writer. Following his completion of a Masters in International Journalism at Salford University, he began working for the Warrington Guardian as a reporter. Throughout this he did freelance work about Entertainment for publications such as DiscussingFilm, where he was the Film and TV editor. Now, he is LAD's go to voice on all things Netflix, True Crime, and UK TV, as well as interviewing huge global stars such as Jake Gyllenhaal, Daisy Ridley, and Ben Stiller.

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