How exactly did Will and Barb get into the Upside-Down?
Both Will and Barb from Stranger Things were hunted by the monster, who seems to have a tendency to take his victims into the Upside-Down before finally making use of them. It was quite logical in case of a deer: there was a portal open in the tree, the monster took the deer through it to the Upside-Down and ate a deer over there.
Say, with Barbara it is still explainable: the monster opens a portal in the pool, Barbara falls there, ends up on at the bottom of the pool, tries to escape, gets caught by the monster. The question still remains: why would the monster give her some time in the pool after it takes her to the Upside-Down? Barbara seemed to be unconscious there for a little while before trying to escape. An obvious explanation is that it's better for a show, but I wonder if there could be an in-the-universe reason for this fact.
What I don't get completely is that Will gets a rifle (which we know is of little help) waiting for the monster, and then somehow ends up in the Upside-Down. If the monster brings him over there (physically), how does Will manage to escape?
Best Answer
The monster takes all his victims to the upside-down, and there he decides what he will do with them. The monster has the ability to enter the upside-down whenever he wants.
in the last episode we see that Will has flashes that he is in the upside-down, he now probably also has that ability
It's possible that he opens a portal to bring people or things with him to the upside-down, like what he did with the deer. But he could also just bring people with him without a portal.
Once inside the upside-down, he can eat people right away, kill them to eat later or use them for some sort of (reproduction or energy pulling? like seen in the last episode, when Will is found with a tentacle or tube in his mouth).
We are never told how Will manage to escape from the monster for so long, and that is one of the main unanswered questions for season 2, but we can assume that:
- Some other thing attracted the monster the moment it was about to kill Will.
- Will managed to shoot the monster and escape.
- The monster wasn't hungry at the time (and let Will escape?)
- Will is one of the main characters and the plot is based on the possibility of saving him.
Barb wasn't so lucky (Not so important the history) and it all leads that she got killed right away.
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How did Barb get into the upside down?
Alone by the pool, Barb is abducted by the Demogorgon and disappears. Episode 3 finds Barb waking up in the Upside Down, where she is attacked by the Demogorgon.How did Eleven end up in the upside down?
Then Eleven\u2014who in this future moment discovers that she in fact does not have the blood of her siblings on her hands\u2014defeats Henry Creel, sending him to the Upside Down where he gets blasted by lightening and burnt to a crisp and, thus, becomes Vecna. That was 1979.Why does Will keep seeing the upside down?
True Sight: Will began seeing visions of the Upside Down following his rescue from the dimension. Mike compared this ability to "True Sight" from Dungeons & Dragons, described by Dustin as \u201cthe power to see into the Ethereal Plane." Will would be in both the regular world and the alternate dimension simultaneously.How did Eleven open the gate?
We just know that in 1983, when Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) opened the first gate after contacting the Demogorgon (the main monster antagonist from Season 1), she did so with the help of her brother.Stragner Things - Season 01 - \
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