The latest trailer for Stranger Things season five has sparked fears among fans that beloved characters may meet tragic ends before the series finale. The footage, released by Netflix ahead of the final episodes, includes a scene where Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) tells Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo): 'If you die, I die.'
The fifth and final season will drop its next three episodes on Boxing Day in the UK, with the epic conclusion arriving on New Year's Day. The trailer offers glimpses of familiar faces including Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Will (Noah Schnapp), Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder), and Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer), all preparing to face Vecna once more.
Fans have taken to YouTube to express their anxiety. One viewer wrote: 'You die, I die. NO PLEASE,' while another commented: 'Steve and Dustin 'you die I die' ...tell me that's not gonna happen.' A third added: 'you die I die already makin me cryyyy.'
The official synopsis for the concluding season reads: 'The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished - his whereabouts and plans unknown.' It adds that the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven.
In a dramatic twist, Eleven is reunited with fellow superpowered teenager Kali, also called Eight (Linnea Berthelsen), following her surprise appearance in the midseason finale. Meanwhile, Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink) lies in a coma, her mind trapped within Vecna's memories.
Stranger Things season five, volume two arrives on 26th December, with the finale dropping on 1st January 2026 on Netflix.
