Vecna

### Most Detestable Traits

Being an extremely destructive psycho who deludes himself that everyone deserves to be murdered for some reason.

### Type of ED

Misanthropic Mastermind

**Vecna** is the secondary antagonist of *Stranger Things*. He is a destructive and delusional misanthrope who wants to end the world out of his nihilistic belief that the universe is a joke and nothing truly matters. Throughout, he poses a very real threat to Eleven because of his cunning and his fortitude.

He is played by Jamie Campbell Bower.

## His Qualities

### What Makes Him Entertaining?

* He is often perceived as one of the most iconic Netflix villains of all time because of how well-written, fearsome, and memorable he is.
* He is an extremely intelligent and cunning "master of puppets" who has pulled all of the strings throughout the entire show without anyone suspecting he even existed until he wanted Eleven to know in the fourth season.
* His mastery over psychokinesis and the Upside Down's hive mind makes him fun to watch, such as when he shows lightning flashes around his smoke spider or when he makes balloons explode with blood.
* Him killing the kids at Hawkins Lab is impressive since they all had powers like him and this shows how good of a fighter he is.
* His voice is epic and menacing.
* While his misanthropic delusions and hypocritical self-deception don't come anywhere close to justifying him or making him remotely likable, it still does a surprisingly good job at helping us understand why he is doing all of his unforgivable and evil deeds as he has become disenchanted by the world and only experienced it as a middle schooler and a governmental guinea pig to tell.
* Jamie Campbell Bower and Raphael Luce both did a fantastic job playing him.

### What Makes Him Detestable?

* He is a delusional and hypocritical lunatic who lives solely to bring more despair and anguish into the world, as he believes that his life's purpose is to make others suffer.
* As a little boy, he tortured defenseless animals for no reason, made his kin experience nightmarish hallucinations, and murdered his own mother in cold blood, proceeding to take his little sister's life and attempt to do the same to Victor Creel, who is his father. This results in Victor going to an asylum, which he is later delighted to learn about. Made worse is that he stands nothing to gain from this. Never once has the show wanted us to pity him; he was never given a tragedy in any shape or form.
* He manipulates Eleven and tricks her into taking out his Soteria, which has kept him under control for years. While this could indicate moral agency issues, it doesn't; he is obviously demented, but so is Murray Bauman. After all, Eleven's been through everything he's been through and we don't see her murdering anyone.
* Wanting to be the only "super" person in the world without anyone to compete with, he mass-murders the other children in Hawkins Lab. Eleven even hears him in the other room snarling like an animal.
* He enslaves the Demogorgons to bend to his will, which makes him an utter hypocrite. Even if he sincerely views humans as the most awful menace to Mother Nature by far, that is exactly what Vecna himself is.
* Throughout the first three seasons, he uses the Mind Flayer (or a proxy of it) to torment as many innocent people as he can, especially Will Byers and Eleven herself. This includes beloved characters such as Barb Holland and Bob Newby and cherished base-breakers such as Billy Hargrove. He even melts dozens of people just to make it easier to destroy Eleven once and for all.
* His endeavor throughout the fourth season is to murder teenagers (Chrissy Cunningham, Fred Benson, Patrick McKinney, and Max Mayfield) by preying on their trauma so he can cause an earthquake to ravage Hawkins and merge with the Upside Down so he can consume all life on the earth.
* He is uncapable of understanding righteousness at all and this is what gets him defeated every single time. He thinks Eleven doesn't really care about Mike since he doesn't understand friendship, he thinks Joyce doesn't have the will to get his smoky avatar out of her son since he doesn't understand motherly love, he thinks Billy is incapable of self-reflection because he doesn't understand why people care about morality, and he thinks Eddie and the others would never let Demogorgons and Demobats hurt them, not for the sake of others, since he doesn't understand why people would do good for its own sake. To sum things up, all he ever does is destroy beautiful things and places and kill innocent people, and lie to himself that it is a good thing, not a bad thing.

## Trivia

* He was originally believed to be an unsympathetic mongrel who is responsible for *all* of the chaos in the four seasons, but was much later given a tragedy and it was explained that much of the aforementioned chaos isn't his fault.

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