Four

Two, Three, Five, Six, Seven, Nine, Ten, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen, Sixteen, Seventeen and Eighteen † (fellow test subjects/sibling figures)

## Portrayal

### Episodes

26 (flashback), 30 (NINA memory), 31 (NINA memory), 32 (NINA memory), 33 (NINA memory)

**Four**, portrayed by Sparrow Nicole, was a minor character in the fourth season of *Stranger Things*. She was one of the known test subjects at Hawkins Lab and was one of Two's friends, alongside Three and Five, who ganged up on Eleven and hurt her with their powers as punishment for "shaming" Two during a training exercise with Brenner. She was among those killed by One on September 8, 1979.

## History

Four was one of the very few children born with psychic powers as Martin Brenner presumably had a hand in giving their parents mental drugs in an attempt to replicate the powers of One. Four was then taken and raised in Hawkins National Laboratory where she was given her designated number. Four became one of the few test subjects with strong telekinetic powers while being told by Brenner that One did not exist, unaware One was real and working as an orderly within the lab.

### 1979

On September 6, Four was playing in the Rainbow Room before she and all the other test subject were summoned to the Main Training Room, and had to make the light bulbs light up and revolve around its center, which she saw Two excelling at.

The next day, Four and the other children left the room with Brenner, to the training room where he said that, their exercise was simple, and to stay in their drawn circle, and if they left their circle, they'd lose, but the last person standing in their circle would be allowed to spend an extra hour of free time in the Rainbow Room. He also stated, the exercise will be approached no differently than any of their other exercises, and warned the children, if they use any raw emotion, such as fear of anger in the task, they will lose. The children had to move the subject who surpassed the last exercise, who was subject 002, out of his circle. The other children tried to move him, but he kept on defeating them. The last person to face Two, Eleven pushed to out of his circle into a wall, with enough force to make the wall crack, much to Five's astonishment. After the lesson, Five, Three and Four helped Two get his revenge on Eleven, and somehow escaped their rooms and threw and hurled Eleven across the room, who was spending her free time in the Rainbow Room. She laughed at her and mocked her injuries with the others saying, "Gonna cry to mommy?" as they were leaving the room.

On September 8, Four and the other test subjects were summoned to the Training Room by Brenner and he told them, that Eleven was attacked, yesterday, and that one or more subjects did this to her. When Two said that it must have been an "accident", this caused Brenner to realize he was responsible for Eleven's injuries where he ordered an Electroshock collar to be placed around Two's neck before he proceeded to electrocute the boy as punishment while Four and the other subjects watched in horror.

Later, in the Rainbow Room, Four glared at Eleven and made two magnetic spheres collide in a maze from afar, with Three's help, causing Eleven to drop her math discs in fright. Hours later, Four was attacked and killed by One after the Soteria chip implanted into his neck had been removed before Eleven managed to banish him into an unknown dimension and fall into a coma.

## Personality

While not as cruel as her predecessors, Three and Two, plus her successor, Five, Four is mean and takes delight in picking on the younger test subjects. Due to her conditions growing up in the lab and being raised by Brenner, Four is an arrogant and illogical girl who usually takes part in Two's bullying over the younger test subjects. Though she never said anything mean to Eleven, Four did sadistically enjoy harming her, showing Four was willing to harm a young child just for entertainment. However, Four is shown to be a coward as she was horrified when Brenner severely punished Two for attacking Eleven.

## Abilities

* **Telekinesis**: Like most of the other test subjects, Four has a strong level of telekinesis.
* **Mind Reading**: Four can look into people's minds and hear what they are thinking.

## Relationships

* Martin Brenner † - Captor/Father figure
* One - Fellow test subject/Killer
* Two - Fellow test subject
* Three - Fellow test subject
* Five - Fellow test subject
* Six - Fellow test subject
* Seven - Fellow test subject
* Eight - Former fellow test subject
* Nine - Fellow test subject
* Ten - Fellow test subject
* Eleven - Fellow test subject/enemy
* Twelve - Fellow test subject
* Thirteen - Fellow test subject
* Fourteen - Fellow test subject
* Fifteen - Fellow test subject
* Sixteen - Fellow test subject
* Seventeen - Fellow test subject
* Eighteen - Fellow test subject

## Appearances

 The Massacre at Hawkins Lab\*

\*Four appears in flashbacks in The Hellfire Club, The Nina Project, The Dive, The Massacre at Hawkins Lab, and Papa.

## Trivia

* According to Four's actress, Sparrow Nicole, Four has a special mind reading ability in addition to telekinesis.
	+ While filming, Sparrow Nicole and the other actors were told the children all had "some form of telekinesis", but also possessed an "extra" unique power. Sparrow says she asked the Duffer Brothers if Four could have a mind reading power, and the Duffers agreed that it could be canon.
* Curiously, the film's script mistakenly refers to Four as not only male, but as the one being killed on-screen by One. However, the episode itself makes it very clear Two is the one that One is killing, as even the English Audio Description says, "Pinned to the wall, Two convulses as blood runs down his eyes. One stands before him, his hand outstretched and his uniform splattered with blood."
* Aside from saying "Good morning Papa" with the other test subjects, she had a line of her own where she said "It's against the rules".