Also, since the play is canon, the parents know who Henry is and are shocked to find out and that plays a part in the story somehow.
OR… it was all just a fantasy sequence as they play DND from Season 1. None of this happened and no one but the original kids actually exist 😏
Stranger Things finale just dropped. Dustin screaming as he watches something terrible, Mind Flayer returns, Vecna right behind Hopper.
My take… Henry isn’t the villain. He was just weak and easy to manipulate. He isn’t Vecna. Vecna is Dr. Brenner, who drew blood from his-pt1
They cannot defeat him in this form, but they somehow close the wormhole and trap him in there forever as some of the characters are stuck in Dimension X, while others can return to Rightside up.