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Team Hawkins destroys the Upside Down to stop Vecna and the Mind Flayer, with Eleven disappearing and an 18-month epilogue showing the characters' futures.
- Netflix released season 5, episode 8, Chapter Eight: The Rightside Up, on New Year's Eve as the over-two-hour finale staged a climactic battle for Hawkins, Indiana, and a lengthy epilogue.
- To stop Vecna from merging the Abyss with our world, the Hawkins group plans to eliminate the Upside Down wormhole and rescue 12 Hawkins children held in Henry Creel's memory.
- Joyce Byers delivers the decisive physical blow when she hacks Vecna's head off with a hatchet, while Will aids Eleven psychically to rip Vecna's arms off and Nancy volunteers as bait to trap the monster; Vecna and the Mind Flayer are revealed as one entity.
- The finale's second hour serves as an extended epilogue that gives almost every significant character a goodbye moment, with Holly and Max returning safely and Hopper and Joyce Byers getting engaged.
- The finale closes a 10-year run that produced five seasons and 42 episodes, expanding Henry Creel's backstory and framing the Upside Down as a wormhole between Hawkins and the Abyss.
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