“You Die, I Die”: “Stranger Things” Unleashes Dark New Trailer As Our Heroes Prepare to Risk Everything

By The Credits | December 15, 2025

The vibes are not awesome in the opening moments of the new trailer for Stranger Things‘ 5th and final season 5, volume 2, to be precise. Will (Noah Schnapp) says it as plainly as possible: “We failed. We never stood a chance.” His indefatigable mom, Joyce (Winona Ryder) won’t hear of it—this is not over, she promises her Upside Down-weary son, possibly the one person from Hawkins, Indiana, who has suffered the most under Vecna’s brutal power grab. Without Joyce, one can’t help but imagine that Will would have never stood a chance in the first place.

Joyce isn’t alone in her fighting spirit—Will’s got a small army of friends who have committed themselves, at great personal risk, to fighting alongside him to retake Hawkins from Vecna and his various ghouls. His brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton), and his pals like Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) Jim Hopper (David Harbour), Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard), Lucas Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin), Max Mayfield (Sadie Sink), Steve Harrington (Joe Keery), and Robin Buckley (Maya Hawke) are doing their level best to help him. And this time around, the gang is bringing the fight to Vecna where he lives, unleashing themselves and their plans on the Upside Down, from the inside out. This is especially true of Max, who has been living in the Upside Down, more or less, since her season four travails.

The new trailer shows just how far the gang is willing to go to finally put an end to Vecna’s phantasmagorical reign of terror. How serious are our heroes? Dustin and Steve share a grim promise with each other: “You die, I die.” And they mean it, too.

Stranger Things season 5, volume 2 streams on Netflix on Christmas day, and then, in a wonderful twist, the two hour finale will get a theatrical release on New Year’s Eve.

Check out the new trailer here: