The Most Gruesome ‘Stranger Things’ Death Was the Most Deserved

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Evan Romano
Tue, July 5, 2022 at 1:25 PM

The following story contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season 4, Volume 2.

In Season 4 of Stranger Things, we met a new jock character named Jason Carver. Through the years, Stranger Things has shown a skill for writing these sorts of characters in complex, sometimes unexpected ways; there is, of course, the fan-favorite Steve Harrington (played by Joe Keery), who started as a cocky jerk, eventually transforming into arguably the most beloved figure on the show. There's also Billy (Dacre Montgomery), a very attractive fellow who was nonetheless a racist and abusive *******—who the Duffer Brothers somehow managed to fill with enough tragic backstory, and enough of a self-sacrifical end, that he, too, became a fan favorite. Where could they possibly go from there

They go right to the '80s movie playbook, that's where. Jason (played by Mason Dye), plays in Stranger Things 4 almost as a satire on the typical '80s jock. He speaks in cliches, he gets crowds of people riled up over extremely dumb things, and he does not seem to have more than a few confused brain cells in his whole noggin. This kind of character can be funny to make fun of, but when that riling up of people starts to lead to violence, it can get pretty scary pretty quickly. And that's what happened as soon as he started blaming Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) for Chrissy Cunningham (Grace Van Dien)'s death, and threatening everyone who got in his way with serious violence.

While our heroes eventually ran into Jason and his cronies at the gear and weapons surplus store (letting us know ahead of time that he would ultimately be more dangerous than we may have initially expected), things really hit a head when Jason makes his way into the Creel house at the absolute worst time. Instead of getting any semblance of a clue about what was actually going on, Jason holds Lucas at gunpoint, steps on Max's tape player ensuring that she won't be woken up from her Vecna trance, and generally just ****s everything up. Luckily, Lucas outmaneuvers Jason before anything happens, and leaves him knocked out for a minute.

But that's not the end of Jason, who remains out cold on the ground. No, not at all. We'd mostly forgotten him, but it's not much longer that he winds up as the winner of the Single Greatest Stranger Things Death of All Time. Let's get into it.