Meanwhile, he himself is pissed that Joyce (Winona Ryder) seems to be uninterested in smooching up on him. He's angry that Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Eleven are having makeout sessions in his home, and essentially breaks them up. The caring dad - who many also found to be 'daddy' - is fully flustered with the prospect of raising a hormonal teenager.

Hopper's evolution from gruff law enforcement official with a tortured past to offbeat father figure takes a turn this year. Is David Harbour's Sheriff Hopper, adoptive father to El, killed in the explosion that put an end to the Russian Upside Down experiments that created more problems for Hawkins? Or does he somehow manage to survive? For a while, it certainly seems like the former, but then a sneaky post-credits scene comes along and redefines what we thought we saw. The end of Stranger Things' third batch of episodes leaves viewers in a similar spot. Of course, no one really thought Eleven was gone for good, and sure enough, she was back when the show returned for its second installment. The only sign of her left: the Eggo waffles Hopper leaves in a snow-covered box in hopes of her return. At the end of season one, the mysterious, super-powered girl known as Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) disappears in the dust of the Demogorgon. Stranger Things has faked its audiences out before.

This story contains spoilers about the end of Stranger Things 3.

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