Stranger Things 3 has a lot of monster-fighting going on.Another candidate is the Gibbering Mouther, which shares some qualities with the new monster, like its asymmetrical body, sharp fangs coming out of everywhere, and nasty coloring reminiscent of a very upset stomach turned inside out. From seeing how it grows and turns into a creature, and how the Mind Flayer can control it, we can see that it's deadly, yes, but not as cunning.
And in Stranger Things 2, we see its life cycle: It starts off as a pollywog - like the one Dustin keeps as a pet, which he nicknamed Dart (short for D'Artagnan) - then becomes a "demodog," or a juvenile monster, before taking its mature, adult form. Instead, it has that bulbous head that opens up like a flower to reveal a truly disgusting circle of teeth. The Demogorgon also doesn't have a sleek, shark-like appearance - or an arachnid one like the Mind Flayer. Very much like a shark, it drags its prey back into its home, where it feeds." Just like Jaws, the original Demogorgon does have weaknesses, and eventually gets killed by our heroes. "When the monster enters our dimension, it’s like a shark breaching the water. That means it was more like a wild animal: less thinking, more acting on instinct. "Our big reference for season 1 was mostly Jaws,” Matt Duffer tells Entertainment Weekly.
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If the Mind Flayer is Cthulhu, the Demogorgon - the big bad monster from the first season of Stranger Things - is more like a famous movie shark. Remember how the Mind Flayer loomed over the Upside Down version of the school during the Snow Ball in the final episode of the season? "They shut the door on this thing but it’s still out there and it wasn’t aware of Eleven and now it very much is,” co-creator Ross Duffer tells Entertainment Weekly. But it's definitely still out there at the start of Stranger Things 3, and still interested in what's going on in Hawkins. They severed the connection between the Mind Flayer and our world, and shut the gate to the Upside-Down behind it. Yes, Stranger Things 2 ended with our friends briefly victorious. The Mind Flayer is still alive at the end of Stranger Things 2. (More on those in a minute.) So it's got a consciousness, intelligence, and also a huge mean streak. And the "hive mind" extends to other creatures, too, like the "demodogs" it psychically controlled and used to attack our heroes throughout the season. That's what happened to poor Will Byers throughout most of the season. Oh, and it can take possession of and control other people, even if they're not in the Upside Down. Its name comes from Dungeons and Dragons. That being said, at the end of Stranger Things 2, there are a few things we know about it. "We purposely don’t want to go too much into what it is or what it wants.”
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Lovecraft sort of approach, this inter-dimensional being that is sort of beyond human comprehension," series co-creator Matt Duffer told Entertainment Weekly. Lots of things about the Mind Flayer remain a mystery, and that's by design. (Note: Spoilers ahead for the first two seasons of Stranger Things, if you haven't seen them already.) The Mind Flayer, aka the Shadow Monster, is part of a hive mind. But, while they're all creepy, there are some distinct differences. If you're a scaredy-cat like me, you might not get a good-enough look at those monsters to tell them apart. Then they get into the Upside Down, and everything goes dark and looks like the inside of my eyelids afterward. The kids are roaming around, investigating ominous menaces. So, a funny thing happens when Stranger Things comes on. The Mind Flayer returns for Stranger Things 3, but it might not be alone.The Demogorgon, also terrifying, was more like a wild animal accidentally let loose in Hawkins.The Mind Flayer, aka the Shadow Monster, is the Big Bad Wolf of Stranger Things 2, and it can psychically control people and other monsters.The creators of Stranger Things, Matt and Ross Duffer, have long said that they wanted to create their own pop-culture monsters.