This post contains spoilers for Stranger Things” season 4.In “Stranger Things” season 4, Henry Creel (Jamie Campbell Bower) dons several identities over the years.
Starting off as a soft-spoken aloof young boy with a fascination with death and decay, Henry goes on to become Dr.
Martin Brenner’s (Matthew Modine) patient zero — dubbed 001 — and this path only exacerbates his darkest desires and the need to reshape the world as per his desires.
Young Henry’s motivations are not rooted in trauma or circumstantial tragedy, but in an acute awareness of his abilities that supersede those of other people, as well as a deep sense of apathy for the world around him.
While Henry’s time with Brunner only serves to heighten his loneliness in a world unable to accommodate his desires, his eventual turn into Vecna results from greed, hubris, and the need to play God in an alien, lawless realm with monstrous entities.
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