Stranger Things: Is Will Really In Love With Mike?

For several seasons, the rumor has persisted that Will Byers is in love with his best friend Mike Wheeler. In the fourth season of strangers things the instructions are a bit more specific.

The first clues in previous Stranger Things seasons

Back in Season 1, Will’s mother Joyce said that his father called him “queer”. Has. This can mean “strange” on the one hand, but queer is also a common term for everything which does not correspond to heteronormativity.

Another hint was given to us in season 3 delivered when mike im Fight said to Will, “It’s not my fault you don’t like girls.”

Stranger Things 4: Will gets emotional

In Stranger Things 4 eventually it becomes more and more specific. In the first episode, Will and Eleven are supposed to be in one school project introduce their heroes. While Eleven presents a diorama of Hopper and her home in Hawkins, Will addresses a pioneer in computer technology: Alan Turing. This was in 1952 because of his homosexuality was sentenced to chemical castration and then committed suicide.

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Throughout Season 4, Will Mike keeps throwing Looks that actually speak volumes. Eventually, Mike confesses that he’s scared El might leave him. Will then encourages his friend:

“She’s just different from other people and when you’re different you sometimes feel like a mistake. But you made her feel like she’s not a mistake at all. Like she’s better because she’s different.”

At some points it becomes clear that Will not just about Elfi speaks. Rather, he uses them as one metaphorthat he too is “different”.

About this Be different Will later also talks to his brother Jonathan, who emotional words listened to Mike and the one after that reaction Wills (he turns away, shaking and stifling a sob) observed in the rearview mirror.

So far, no one has commented specifically on these assumptions. Also that Will actually was in love with Eleven, is one of these theories. Only Hopper actor David Harbour answered in one Video the Netflix Mexico Instagram page not so vague on this question:

“If you’ve seen the series, you should know that Will isn’t interested in El. He’s interested in someone else in the group.”

This is neither confirmed nor denied. But to be honest: Actually, a person’s sexuality doesn’t really matter. Whether it is for the plot of the Netflix–series could be important? We will see…