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In November 1983, an inter-dimensional gate was opened at Hawkins Lab, allowing the Upside Down to begin to spread through. The Mind Flayer's ultimate goal and why he constantly tries to enter our world is also unclear. Exactly how long he had existed for, and how and why he came to inhabit the Upside Down, is unknown.
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The history of the Mind Flayer prior to October 1984 remains a mystery. The Mind Flayer nearly succeeded in his plan but his physical incarnation was killed when Joyce and Hopper snuck into the secret Russian laboratory and closed the new gate, severing the connection once again. It then began flaying multiple humans and rats, feeding them chemicals, and melting their bodies into puddles of biomass that would be used to create a new body for itself to take over the world. The part of the Mind Flayer remained dormant until it was reawakened in 1985 by the Hawkins Key. Eleven ended his plan by closing the Gate and severing the connection between the two worlds and removing The Mind Flayer from Will's body. The Mind Flayer first began his conquest to take over the world in 1984 when he used the Gate to spread the Upside Down's toxic biological growth underneath Hawkins, as well as possessing Will Byers and an army of Demodogs to take down Hawkins Lab. With murderous intent, he repeatedly attempts to corrupt both Hawkins and the rest of the world. He wields supreme control of the Upside Down, as well as the Demogorgons, tendrils, and the Flayed. The Mind Flayer is a massively powerful being of unknown origin. He is a malevolent entity that rules the parallel dimension known as the Upside Down.
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The Mind Flayer, also known as the Shadow Monster, is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Martin Brenner) of the 2016 original Netflix sci-fi TV series Stranger Things, serving as the unseen overarching antagonist of Season 1 and the main antagonist of the second and third seasons. And when you are gone, we are going to end your friends. All that work, all that pain, all of it for you. And now you are going to have to let us stay.