Duffer Brothers Discussed Killing Off Fan Favorite Max Mayfield In Season 4 Of "STRANGER THINGS"

The Duffer Brothers have stated that they would not kill off characters just to shock fans…that doesn’t mean they didn’t DISCUSS doing it though. One character that was discussed heavily in this vein was Max Mayfield.

SPOILERS AHEAD…

If you’ve already watched the show, then you know the season ended with Max (Sadie Sink) in a coma with several broken limbs.

Deadline reports: The show creators and brothers went on the Stranger Things 4 Vol. 2: Unlocked after show to discuss how her ending was supposed to be much darker as they initially thought of killing the character off permanently. 

“It was discussed as a possibility,” said Ross Duffer.

“For a while, that is what was going to happen. But we ended up in this… we wanted to end it with a little more of a question at the end of the season. It’s still really dark and if Max is going to be okay, we just don’t really know. We wanted to leave it up in the air moving forward into season 5.”

Matt Duffer added, “We wanted them to actually lose. We wanted our characters to experience what that felt like. That was the big idea coming into Season 4 that they were going to lose. We were going to introduce Vecna and they were going to lose to him. That sets our characters up for what will be the ultimate final confrontation with Vecna and with the Upside Down in season 5.”

With the fate of Max hanging in the balance, fans will have to wait until Stranger Things 5 and what our heroes of Hawkins have to overcome…or fall to.

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