What Two Main “Stranger Things” Characters Almost Got Killed Off?

Cast members Sadie Sink, Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp, Millie Bobby Brown, Joe Keery, Maya Hawke, Winona Ryder, David Harbour and Natalia Dyer, and creators Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer along with other cast members attend the premiere for the final season of the television series “Stranger Things” at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 6, 2025. REUTERS/Daniel Cole TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

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“Stranger Things” has killed off a lot of side characters, but the main cast is intact as we head into Season 5.  That almost wasn’t the case, though.  Two of the show’s biggest characters almost didn’t make it.

Jim Hopper is one of them.  Remember at the end of Season 3, when it APPEARED that he’d died in an explosion?  Well, the creators had serious discussions about killing him off.

Luckily, they felt Hopper still had some “growing” to do, so they saved him.

The other one is Steve Harrington.  If you can believe it, he was supposed to bite it all the way back in Season 1… but everybody fell in love with Joe Keery, so they kept him on.

Obviously the right call, since Steve “The Hair” Harrington became one of the show’s most popular characters.

SOURCE: NY Post