Will quotes from Stranger Things

You got an antenna in your head, use it. The Enigma machine won the war. Knowledge is power. So...

Will

So... So, you want to...

Skip school, play hooky, connect your brain into an interdimensional monster's signal, and save little Wheeler? Yeah, kind of. I mean, your mom is gonna be raging mad, and she's probably right. It is super dangerous, but...

Will

Isn't everything we do super dangerous?

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Okay, this is my son’s life you’re playing with. My son. So next time I say I do not want him leaving my side, that means I don’t want him leaving my goddamn side.

Will

I’m right here, Mom. You know, you can talk to me, right? And I’m not a kid anymore.

Will, I am still your mother.

Will

Doesn’t mean you know what you’re doing.

What?

Will

Your plan? It… It sucked. I’m sorry, but it did. You only liked it because it was safe, but we don’t have time for safe, not anymore. We have to act, and we have to take risks, and thank God we did. Because my plan, it… it actually worked. I spied on Vecna and tapped back into the hive mind, and we found out that Holly was just the beginning. Vecna's gonna take more kids. I don’t know why or what he wants to do with them, but now we know something we can use against him, his next target. So next time you order me to stay by your side, I wouldn’t count on it.

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Derek

Mr... Whatsit?

Will

His real name is Henry.

AKA Vecna.

Erica

AKA One.

Derek

That's too many names.

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Are you positive you didn't?

Will

Didn't what?

Turn off the scary movie. Protect your mom, not the other way around. I mean, no offense, I know she's badass and everything but, you know.

Will

Yeah, she's five foot three.

Yeah. And Vecna likes to control the hive mind like a puppet master. So maybe when you tap into the hive, you can pull the strings too.

Will

Except, I'm not Vecna.

You sorta are.

Will

You're trying to say that I'm evil and hell-bent on destroying the world?

[sarcastic] Totally. No, I'm just saying that, you know, you're like a wizard like him.

Will

[smiling] In D&D Mike, not real life.

True. In real life, you're more like a sorcerer, because your powers don't come from a book of spells. They're innate.

Will

Oh. [still smiling]

Listen, as far as crazy theories go, I've had crazier. And with Eleven in the Upside Down, we really need some magic up here. [Will playfully shoves him, and Mike walks away. Robin watches meaningfully]

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Do you, um, by any chance, remember Tammy Thompson?

Will

Yeah. Isn’t she that terrible singer?

[laughs] Yeah. But in the ninth grade, I thought that she sounded like Whitney goddamn Houston. I mean, the first time I saw her, oh my God, like, time slowed down. It was like a scene from some lameo movie. You know, her hair blew in the wind, and she just looked perfect. So goddamn perfect. And, uh, it was right then and there that I knew she was the one. That with Tammy, I would finally be able to be myself, you know, all of myself. Because there was always this part of me that kind of scared me, you know? But I thought that if Tammy loved me, all of me, you know, I wouldn’t be so scared anymore. And then he showed up, Steve “The Hair” Harrington.

Will

[chuckles] Oh God.

You probably can guess the rest. Tammy fell for him hard. And my entire fantasy life with her, along with the rest of my life, pretty much imploded before my eyes. I mean, my grades plummeted. I got grounded. I had to stay home every weekend doing chores. But then one day, I was cleaning bat shit out of my parents’ garage, and I found this 8millimeter film reel. You know? And it was just from this silly movie that I made in fourth grade, but I got it up on the projector, and all of a sudden, I was looking at this little version of myself. And that little me, I could hardly recognize her. You know, she was so carefree and, like, fearless. She just loved every part of herself. And that’s when it hit me. It was never about Tone-deaf Tammy. It was always just about me. I was looking for answers in somebody else, but… I had all the answers. I just needed to stop being so goddamn scared. Scared of… who I really was. Once I did that, oh, I felt so free. It’s like I could fly, you know? Like, I could finally be…

Will

Rockin’ Robin.

Yeah. Rockin’ Robin.

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Will

I… I… I haven’t told any of you this because… Because I… I don’t… I don’t want you to see me differently. But the truth is… The… The truth is I am. I am different. I just… I just pretended like I wasn’t because… because I didn’t want to be. I wanted to be like everyone else. I wanted to be like my friends and… And I am like you. I’m like you in… in almost every way. We… We like playing D&D late into the night. And we like that old-person smell in Mike’s basement. And we… we like biking to Melvald’s for malted milkshakes. And we like getting lost in the woods, and getting lost in Family Video and arguing about what to rent and settling on Holy Grail for the millionth time. And… And we like Milk Duds in our popcorn with extra butter. And we like drinking Coke with Pop Rocks. And we like bike races and trading comics and NASA and Steve Martin and Lucky Charms and… Literally all the same things. I just… I just… I… I just… I… I… I… I don’t like girls. I mean… I mean I do. Just… Just not like you guys do. And I, uh, I had this… this crush on someone, even though I know… I know they’re not like me. But… But then I realized he’s just my Tammy. And by Tammy, I mean it was never about him. It was… It was about me. And I thought I was finally okay with myself, but… but then today… Today Vecna showed me what would happen if I did this, if I told you guys the truth. He showed me a future, and in this future, some of you are just… are just worried for me. Worried that things will be harder for me. And it just makes me feel like something’s wrong with me. So I… So I push you away. And for the rest of us, we just drift apart more and more and more and more and more until I’m alone. And I know none of that has happened, and Vecna can’t see into the future. But he can see into our minds, and he knows things. And it just felt so real. It felt so real.

Will. You gotta listen to me. That will never ever happen. You’ll never lose me. Ever.

Will

Okay. Okay.

Jonathan

And you’ll never lose me. [goes to hug him]

Lucas

Or me. [goes to hug him]

Dustin

Or me. [goes to hug him]

Or me. [goes to hug him]

Eleven

Or me. [goes to hug him]

Or me.

[everyone eventually lets go of the hug]

Guess you didn’t need truth serum, huh?

Max

Sorry. This sucks, but you’re gonna have to hug me.

Will

Oh, Max. [goes to hug her]

Max

Just imagine I’m hugging you really tight, okay?

Will

Okay. [lets go of hug] El. I know you’re strong enough to defeat Vecna. But he can retreat to the physical world, and we need to be ready to fight him there too. We have bullets and fire, but none of that helped those soldiers. I need to be there. And I’m ready. I’m ready to show him I’m not afraid anymore.