Stranger Issues Creator Confirms Eddie Munson’s Destiny For Season 5

Regardless of getting a seeming tease from the star himself he’d be again, Matt Duffer factors to Joseph Quinn’s Eddie Munson being absent from Stranger Issues season 5. Quinn made his debut in season 4 of the Netflix collection because the peculiar president of Hawkins Excessive Faculty’s Dungeons & Dragons membership, the Hellfire Membership, and a detailed good friend of Finn Wolfhard’s Mike and Gaten Matarazzo’s Dustin.

After witnessing Vecna’s first homicide of Chrissy, Eddie joined up with the remainder of the central group of characters to save lots of Hawkins, solely to die within the Stranger Issues season 4 finale, sacrificing himself to guard Dustin. Even nonetheless, followers of the present have expressed their hopes for the character to return within the ultimate season, significantly as Quinn’s star energy blew up within the wake of the present with the whole lot from Gladiator II to The Incredible 4: First Steps.

Throughout an interview with Empire for the primary a part of the ultimate season’s debut, Duffer was requested about the potential for Quinn’s return as Eddie Munson for Stranger Issues season 5. The co-creator/co-showrunner definitively confirmed the fan-favorite character is “useless“, whereas additionally declaring that Quinn’s busy schedule would have made it difficult to carry him again. Take a look at Duffer’s quote under:

I really like that Joe Quinn is toying with folks! However no, he’s useless. Joe is so busy, anyway, that everybody ought to know he’s not coming again. He’s shot like 5 films since! When the hell has he received time to return and shoot Stranger Issues? No, sadly, RIP. He’s absolutely below that floor.

Quinn’s “toying” that Duffer is referring to got here from the star’s feedback on the Quiet Place: Day One pink carpet, during which he mentioned he “may need [the] feeling” that Eddie could be again for Stranger Issues season 5. Nevertheless, given how secretive the Netflix present requires its actors to be, as does the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which Quinn can be returning for within the subsequent two Avengers films.

Previous to Duffer’s feedback, it did appear to be Stranger Issues season 5 would affirm Eddie’s loss of life. Early set photographs noticed the character’s gravestone vandalized, whereas one other teased somebody’s locker that includes “Hellfire Lives” emblazoned on the within to honor his legacy. The trailer for the season additionally noticed Dustin visiting Eddie’s grave, organising an emotional ultimate journey for Matarazzo’s character.

Eddie will not be the one fan-favorite supporting character whose prior loss of life goes to be confirmed in Stranger Issues season 5, as current set photographs revealed Barb’s physique will probably be discovered within the Upside Down, half-buried and lined in vines. Given the Duffers intend to present full closure to all present plot threads with season 5, it could make sense that Eddie, Barb and different characters may have their fates confirmed.

Stranger Issues season 5 half 1 will premiere on Netflix on November 26, adopted by half 2 on December 25 and the finale on December 31.