{"id":2218447,"date":"2026-01-01T03:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2218447"},"modified":"2026-01-01T03:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:14:06","slug":"did-steve-die-in-the-stranger-things-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/did-steve-die-in-the-stranger-things-series-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Steve die in the &#8216;Stranger Things&#8217; series finale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2025%2F12%2FUntitled-2-copy-2.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Steve can let his hair down. <\/p>\n<p>Ever since \u201cStranger Things\u201d first premiered in 2016, Steve \u201cThe Hair\u201d Harrington has become a fan-favorite character.<\/p>\n<p>He went from being a popular kid jerk who was dating Nancy (Natalia Dyer) in Season 1, to the beloved babysitter of the kids, Robin\u2019s (Maya Hawke\u2019s) best friend, and big-hearted goofball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Maya Hawke, Joe Keery and Gaten Matarazzo in \u201cStranger Things.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Joe Keery as Steve Harrington and Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fans have gotten behind the sentiment, \u201cif Steve dies, we\u2019ll riot.\u201d <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>There\u2019s even a Twitter <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/anilyousm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">account with that name.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that \u201cStranger Things\u201d is over, as the Season 5 finale is now streaming, the most important question is, did Steve die?\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Spoilers below for the \u201cStranger Things\u201d series finale<\/h2>\n<p>Series creators the Duffer brothers are obviously aware that Steve is loved by fans, because they toyed with everyone in the supersized two-hour series finale. Called \u201cRightside Up,\u201d it\u2019s the eighth episode of Season 5 \u2014 and the final episode of the show.<\/p>\n<p>During an expedition to the sinister Upside Down dimension, Steve ends up nearly falling off a tall tower and plummeting to his death. He dangles from one hand, with a huge drop below, and his hand slips as the scene cuts to black and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) yells, \u201cSteve!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But then, after the scene fades back in, it\u2019s revealed that Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) grabbed Steve\u2019s hand and pulled him back up.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Joe Keery and Joseph Quinn in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 4.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A relieved Dustin hugs Steve and says, \u201cS\u2013t, I thought you were toast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, Steve says to Jonathan, \u201cI thought I was a goner, back there, I owe you one.\u201d Jonathan replies, \u201cJust because I don\u2019t like you, doesn\u2019t mean I want you dead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve doesn\u2019t end up with Nancy, as he acknowledges that he wants a family, while she is \u201cindependent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the series, Steve is a kids\u2019 baseball coach\/sex ed teacher. He and Dustin are still friends, as he\u2019s shown visiting Dustin at college. Steve, Robin, Nancy, and Jonathan end up far-flung in different locations, but plan to meet up once a month in Philadelphia. <\/p>\n<p>Steve is also dating around, as his friends tease him about which girl is \u201cthe one,\u201d and throw out several names of his apparent recent girlfriends: Julie, Dawn, Margaret.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Joe Keery as Steve Harrington in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5. <span class=\"credit\">COURTESY OF NETFLIX \u00a9 2025<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In November, series creators Matt and Ross Duffer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/10\/entertainment\/stranger-things-eps-hopper-steve-were-nearly-killed-off\/\">told Entertainment Weekly<\/a> that they nearly killed Steve back in Season 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was close,\u201d Matt said. \u201cWe just fell in love with Joe Keery, but had we not liked Joe Keery, Steve would\u2019ve been gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show has axed plenty of side characters, such as Bob (Sean Astin), Billy (Dacre Montgomery) and Eddie (Joseph Quinn), but it\u2019s been conservative about killing members of the main group.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Gaten Matarazzo and Joe Keery as Dustin and Steve in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Maya Hawke as Robin and Joe Keery as Steve in \u201cStranger Things.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Maya Hawke, Joe Kerry, Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton in \u201cStranger Things\u201d Season 5.  <span class=\"credit\">\u00a9Netflix\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Matt noted that in the past, they\u2019ve been held back from major character death because. \u201cyou have to talk about the repercussions.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cThis is a total hypothetical: You kill Mike. It just makes the show rather depressing and bleak, and it becomes entirely about that. Even these more supporting characters like Eddie or Bob or Barb, of course, have really long-lasting repercussions on our characters.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve can let his hair down. Ever since \u201cStranger Things\u201d first premiered in 2016, Steve \u201cThe Hair\u201d Harrington has become a fan-favorite character. He went from being a popular kid jerk who was dating Nancy (Natalia Dyer) in Season 1, to the beloved babysitter of the kids, Robin\u2019s (Maya Hawke\u2019s) best friend, and big-hearted goofball.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2218448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[21741,346392,23191,305890,21913],"class_list":["post-2218447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-entertainment","tag-joe-keery","tag-netflix","tag-stranger-things","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Did-Steve-die-in-the-Stranger-Things-series-finale.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218449,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218447\/revisions\/2218449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2218448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}