Eleven navigates teenage life and her powers in Stranger Things season 3, ultimately helping her friends defeat a returned, terrifying Mind Flayer.

In Season 3, Mike navigates young romance with Eleven and friendship tensions, ultimately helping his group battle the Mind Flayer.

Will Byers struggles to reconnect with his friends as they pursue romances, while he senses the terrifying return of the Mind Flayer.

Lucas Sinclair in Stranger Things Season 3 is a protective boyfriend to Max and a strategic hero who uses fireworks to defeat the Mind Flayer.

Dustin Henderson in Stranger Things 3 returns from summer camp, intercepts a Russian radio transmission, and helps his friends uncover an underground enemy base.

Max joins Eleven to battle the Mind Flayer, bonds with her friends, and navigates her rocky romance with Lucas in Hawkins.

Jim Hopper protects Eleven, courts Joyce, and heroically sacrifices himself to close a Russian portal, secretly surviving as a prisoner.

Joyce investigates mysterious magnets, uncovers an underground Russian lab alongside Hopper, and prepares to move her family out of Hawkins.

In Stranger Things 3, Jonathan works as a Hawkins Post intern and bravely investigates supernatural anomalies alongside his girlfriend, Nancy Wheeler.

Nancy Wheeler is an ambitious investigative journalist in season three, exposing the corrupted Hawkins Post while battling supernatural forces with Jonathan and Mike.