All through the “Stranger Issues” timeline, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) encounters a number of father figures who take her below their wings. However modern-day mad scientists and sheriffs on the street to redemption apart, one query many followers nonetheless have is: who’s Eleven’s organic father?
In the course of the occasions of “Stranger Issues 4,” Eleven lastly positive factors one thing she by no means had earlier than, which is a stable mom determine in Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder). In any case, she grew up with out her organic mom, Terry Ives (Aimee Mullins), who was experimented on on the Hawkins Nationwide Laboratory. So, the place does that go away the actual dad to the primary enemy of the Upside Down? Effectively, die-hard followers of all issues “Stranger Issues” have already met Elle’s organic poppa within the e-book “Stranger Issues: Suspicious Minds.”
Launched in 2019 and written by Gwenda Bond, the novel is a prequel to the present’s occasions, and because it reveals beforehand unknown info, it particulars Eleven’s household tree, particularly Terry Ives and her time as a check topic main as much as the start of Jane, aka Eleven. The e-book additionally breaks down how Terry met Eleven’s father, Andrew Wealthy, who was eligible for the Vietnam draft after being stripped of his scholar standing for protesting Nixon’s Tackle to the Nation in 1969. Unbeknownst to each he and Terry, although, the wheels that have been in movement to get him there got some additional grease courtesy of Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine), resulting in Andrew being killed in motion and by no means figuring out that he even had a daughter.
Might Eleven’s father get a point out within the remaining season of Stranger Issues?
When it returns, “Stranger Issues will choose up the items left by the surprising ending of Season 4. The ultimate chapter of Netflix’s hit present will presumably be as a lot of a rescue mission to convey again Max (Sadie Sink) as will probably be a remaining battle between Eleven and Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), the one character that has the next kill depend than Eleven herself. With all these potential plot factors unfolding, will there even be time to name-drop Andrew Wealthy, a lot much less clarify who he’s to the viewers?
There’s by no means been any point out of Eleven’s father on display screen, even after we met her mom. However that is to not say that his title could not pop up within the final hurrah of the beloved collection. In what’s going to undoubtedly be one final push to place the younger psychic’s darkish previous behind her, for higher or worse, it will be good if she was given even a shred of details about her dad and mom, particularly since they have been apparently as soon as a cheerful couple earlier than issues turned the other way up for them. We’ll discover out for certain, a technique or one other, when “Stranger Issues” Season 5 debuts in, presumably, 2025.