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Spoiler question about Max in Season 4 Volume 2


What do you think will happen to Max? I think she'll either die next season or if she lives, she'll be blind and possibly paralyzed.

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I think she'll be fine. If they were going to kill her, they would've killed her in Season 4. They'll probably pull a Finn from Star Wars. He ended up in a coma of some kind at the end of The Force Awakens and kind of left things as some cliffhanger with him. Then he pretty much comes out of it right at the start of The last Jedi. So I'm sure they'll probably want us to be all worried about Max for 2-3 years and then like an episode or two into Season 5 (or somewhere in the first half of the season), she comes out of the coma state or whatever you want to call it. And they'll probably do things in an anti-climactic kind of way since that's what usually happens with movies and TV shows when they deal with any kind of cliffhanger. Things "just happen" or get quickly wrapped up. There is never really some epic conclusion or worth-the-wait conclusion to a cliffhanger. I can't think of one cliffhanger that got some epic conclusion or worth-the-wait conclusion. Stuff just happens and they move on.

Just look at the Nancy cliffhanger from Season 4 Episode 7. Quickly wrapped up and stuff in Episode 8 and things were wrapped up before it cut to the Stranger Things opening intro/opening credits. I feel that cliffhanger was wrapped up in a VERY anti-climactic way and wasn't worth the month long wait. Nancy got out of her situation quickly and then things moved on like it was no big deal. So I feel it'll be the same for Max. We'll have to wait 2-3 years for an anti-climactic conclusion. She'll just wake up and then things move on like her coma or whatever you want to call it was no big deal.

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I don't think she'll just easily come out of it. I'm starting to think Vecna will use her body as a vessel and Max won't come back as herself. Max is completely gone.

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Given how they've just started to tap into Sadie Sink's talent, I think they'll have 001 take over her body and we'll get a dark Max storyline - because he'll be in Max's body, it'll raise the stakes about whether or not they should sacrifice Max in order to kill 001 and give them the impossible mission of bringing Max back. Plus, it'll let Sadie shine again in the next season in another killer role, pun intended.

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Yeah I agree with you. That theory is making the most sense. Cause she's braindead but her heart is what's keeping her alive. So Vecna can make her mind work and use a human vessel to easily kill more people. And yeah they'll probably have to kill Max to kill Vecna. But I don't think Vecna has her soul like other people think. Otherwise he has Chrissy's or the other victims and they're all buried. I don't think max will come back as herself. Probably pretend to since Vecna knows how she feels about Lucas and will probably pretend to like Lucas to take advantage of him.

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Definitely think Vecna will try and fool everyone, but Lucas will see through it, going off of him saying "I see you now" in this season. And I think it's likely Max will come back into her body just to stop Vecna and mind-fight him if you will, but probably won't survive the fight. She might even be the one to kill herself in order to kill them both. But otherwise yeah I doubt she'll come back for the long haul.

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I doubt she'll sacrifice herself as she told Lucas she wasn't ready to die. This time, she'd probably fight more to live being on the brink of death. But yeah I don't think Max will make it. I truly think she's gone.

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I do. Especially if she thinks she's going to live as a blind person or if she knows she's not gonna make it regardless. But I guess we'll see, my predictions are often wrong lol.

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bold prediction....

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