The last season of “Stranger Things” will see the return of many familiar and loved faces. In the farewells of the Duffer Brothers at the show, the Hawkins Heroes will go a last round with the villain who has tormented their city for years, even before he existed. However, we do not currently know how Max Mayfield (future “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” Star Sadie Sink, who joined the series of season 2) will take into account the equation.
Of all the characters who fought against the terrors of the rise, Max may have undergone some of the most difficult challenges. Not only did she lose her brother Billy (Dacre Montgomery) when he became corrupted by the powers of the Cauchemardesque kingdom, but she also dared to face Vecna ​​(Jamie Campbell Bower), the monstrous rule of the kingdom, leaving it directly for the count until new order (if not permanently).
Indeed, while Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) was swaying in his last stand in season 4 of “Stranger Things”, Max took a severe blow that shook the other heroes of the show. But what does this mean for the final test of the series? How will they continue without one of the greatest members of their group, and will they have enough to repel one last time against their most powerful enemy and make sure that the backward stays are for good? Well, even before we got to this, clarify a few things on Max, preferably up to “Running Up That Hill”.
What happens to Max Mayfield in Stranger Things Season 4?
The penultimate season of “Stranger Things” seemed to go “Empire Strikes Back” in his last episodes (which created an unthinkable three years ago), Max apparently becoming the Han solo of the series. After learning the story of their opponent, Vecna ​​(previously known as Victor Creel), Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and his friends dared to venture into his territory, with Max acting as bait to attract him and interrupt her plan in four notorious phases to open four portals of the rise. By disensifying the aforementioned song of Kate Bush (which helps to protect her from Vecna), the legend of the skateboard exposed herself to the monster that she had only escaped closely before. It is an act of which only Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) was there to protect it in the best possible way, but that was not enough to prevent the horrible and excruciating test that it was forced to live.
His efforts in the battle against Vecna ​​also had a brutal cost. By transporting Max’s mind in a twisted version of the snowball of season 2, the venous villain did his thing and granted it mentally, causing the rise of his physical body and withdrew like the other victims of Vecna ​​before her. It was only thanks to eleven years who came to her rescue that she was able to free herself from Creel’s grip, but not before being seriously damaged by the meeting (something that her super-fueled friend could not protect her).
Is Max Mayfield really dead in Stranger Things?
We can confirm that, yes, Max Mayfield died in the fourth season of “Stranger Things”, but only for a minute. By sliding at the level of “When It’s Colte I Like to Die” by Moby (the means to kick us when we are below, Duffers), Max whispered from Terror to Lucas that she could not see, apparently blind by the actions of Vecna ​​before dying in her arms. Fortunately, El was able to work on his magic just enough to make sure that her friend was not died for good.
In a last effort, eleven showed Max all their most beautiful memories together and that her existence was always worth fighting, bringing her back to life but unfortunately, leaving her in a comatose state. In the current state of things, Max is always really alive, but it is also tragically trapped in a limbo which eleven cannot remove it. In the last moments of season 4 (while the increase begins to bleed through Hawkins), we saw him in a hospital bed with Lucas by his side, reading him (more about it later), before the rest of his friends come to visit.
The final of season 4 made no effort to suggest that Max was going to get out of any state in which she is in, and no one involved in the last season, including Sink herself, has shared details on the moment or even if Max will be back in combat for season 5. The good news, however, is that she will certainly be back; We just don’t know how and in what condition she will be on her return.
Will Max come back to Stranger Things Season 5?
It was officially confirmed that Sadie Sink will most certainly return for season 5 of “Stranger Things”, the star having even talked about the last day of filming of one of the most popular television programs of recent memory. Naturally, as for the advance in each season, the information on history is hidden (like a secret military bunker), and that includes the way Max will recover from the rather rough state in which we have left it.
What has been confirmed so far is that Max will be very active when he returns, thanks to a carefully formulated comment by Sink herself. Speaking in an interview in 2024, the actor of “Stranger Things” alluded to the type of work that the Duffer brothers do it in the last lap of the series: “They like to make me run. That’s all I would say.”
While Sink’s index assures us that Max will be standing in a certain sense, the question always remains if she will really leave her hospital bed in season 5. Let us not forget that it is a program with more than one dimension, and it is just as plausible that Max will not yet be in place at the size of his favorite physical form. How could it happen, ask you? The answer could be linked to a less known Stephen King story that explores several worlds, a bit like “Stranger Things”.
How is Max’s future linked to a story by Stephen King?
In a show that pays tribute to almost anything in the popular culture of the 1980s, it is perfectly logical that the answer to Max making a return to the pages of a book by Stephen King. When we see Lucas taking care of his lover of the school, we can see that he reads King’s novel in 1984 “The Talisman”. Now, certainly, there are two ways to look at this guidance. First, it should be noted that it is one of the rare King stories that was not properly adapted to the screen, having been only life as a short film in 2008. In 2021, however, it was announced that the Dufflix brothers worked with Netflix to transform “The Talisman” into a series, suggesting that it could simply be a whim in the future duo project.
That said, it should be noted that “the Talisman” tells the story of a young boy who learns parallel dimensions and tries to recover the titular jewel to save his mother, who dies from cancer. These other dimensions, called “territories”, are occasionally inhabited by “twins”, who are essentially subjects from people from neighboring territories. A twinning can live in his other self in the neighboring world, thus traveling between the dimensions. Since the increase is an alternative dimension, could we lose maximum in another time in the twisted territory, or another version of it wait to return to it? We will not have long to discover, since “Stranger Things” finally returns to Netflix on November 26, 2025.
