
It also would make the recent comment that there will be two antagonists in the season make a lot of sense.

While having him be the monster would probably get a varied response among Stranger Things' audience, it also would evolve his character in a pretty unexpected way. The monster was briefly distracted when Lucas, Will, Jonathan. Lets unpack everything that happened in the finale. The other Hawkins kids initially believed Suzie was a figment of Dustins imagination, until she proved essential in the end - even if she did force Dustin to duet to. The Stranger Things season 3 ending was definitely an emotional one for fans. Whether the rats symbolize the other characters somehow carrying the disease and exposing it to Billy, or literal Upside Down rats made their way into the pool that he's working at in Season 3, remains to be seen.Īs fans will remember, Billy was largely an antagonist and bully in Stranger Things' second season, but began to gain sympathy among some fans after it was revealed that he's stuck in a cycle of abuse. Stranger Things season 3 introduced Gabriella Pizzolo (BrainDead, Butterbeans Café, Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin) as Dustins Mormon girlfriend, who he met at summer camp. First, the Demogorgon and then the Mind Flayer.


As PopSugar suggests, the fact that rats carry disease could somehow factor into how Billy gets infected with some sort of Upside Down energy, despite not being near much of Season 2's conflict. The kids in Stranger Things have previously named both Season 1 and Season 2’s big bads after D&D monsters. The poster and a cryptic teaser for the season have featured rats in some way, with one of the season's episodes even being called "Mall Rats". Granted, there's always a chance that the growth on Billy's arm could be tied to some other creepiness in Hawkins altogether, but some other context clues around the season help further the theory.
