Mike Wheeler

Lonnie Byers (father) Joyce Byers (mother) Jonathan Byers (older brother) Darlene (maternal grandaunt) Jim Hopper (foster father) Eleven (Jane Hopper, foster sister)

March 22, 1971.

April 7, 1971.

Dungeon Master Paladin

Will the Wise The Boy Who Came Back to Life Zombie Boy The Spy Cleric

When Jonathan later comforted him and told him how much he loved him, knowing about his struggle with his sexuality, Will broke down in tears and embraced his brother, happy that someone close to him accepted him for who he was.

However, his friends' disinterest and maturity, disheartened Will as he started feeling left out amongst his friends. When Will tried to play to a D&D campaign with Mike and Lucas after they had problems with their girlfriends, their boredom finally caused Will to snap at his friends. After being told by Mike that they're grown up now, Will broke down in tears as he realized that he can't bring back the childhood he lost while destroying Castle Byers during his breakdown. However, as Will helped his friends when they were all nearly killed by the Mind Flayer's avatar, Will started to become mature and three months later, he finally let go some of his childhood interests by giving D&D manuals to Lucas's little sister, Erica. Will was very upset about leaving Hawkins and cried as he said goodbye to his friends and as Jonathan drove him away. In 1986, Will started to act more mature and even said a few curse words like his friends normally do. However, like Eleven, Will struggled to adapt to his new home and school while having trouble making new friends. Will also tried his best to help Eleven as she became a target of bullying. Will had even begun discovering his sexuality where he developed romantic feelings for Mike, but had trouble with dealing with them as he knew Mike was in love with Eleven and only saw Will as a friend. Will was even shown to be extremely - and almost unreasonably - selfless, as he managed his love for Mike as well as their friendship, giving Mike advice about his relationship with Eleven. However, Mike's unwavering attention towards Eleven and his scarce attentiveness towards Will still seemed to be an important source of pain and misery for Will in terms of not only their friendship, but also his unrequited feelings for him. In a coded love confession to Mike, he revealed that he feels like a mistake due to his alienation and sexuality, but that Mike made him feel better for being different.

One of Will's most notable traits is how he often put other people before himself. This was implied by his actions during the Dungeons & Dragons campaign on November 6, 1983, were he decided to attack the Demogorgon to help the party instead of playing it safe. Also, Joyce recounted a story of how when he was younger, Will gave away his toy truck to a saddened girl in order to make her feel better, even though they wouldn't be able to afford another one. This side of his personality is also displayed somewhat during the Snow Ball, where he reluctantly accepted a girl's invitation to dance. This is also possibly one of the reasons he waited to tell his family and friends about his visions, so he wouldn't worry them. Will also had a profound sense of responsibility, drawing a picture of Bob as a superhero to commemorate his sacrifice to save everyone. Will is also responsible enough to focus on ways in dealing with the threats from the Upside Down and dealing with personal issues amongst his friends. He has a typical boy mindset when it comes to girls doing boyish activities. When the boys spy on Max (believing her to be the infamous MadMax at the Arcade), Will is skeptical, saying girls don't play video games. When Dustin talks about meeting his girlfriend at Science Camp, Will, bewildered, says, "Girls go to Science Camp?" In 1985, Will was shown to have the mind and behavior of a child, mostly stemming from the trauma he had endured in the past two years from being trapped in the Upside Down to being possessed by the Mind Flayer. As a result, Will would dress in clothes too young for him, find girls not interesting, or would be interested in playing D&D, despite his friends' disinterest. This is mostly because Will is trying to return to his childhood after being affected by the Upside Down for two years.

Mike has a thin build, his facial features are more angular, and he has freckles. His hair is wavy and black, reaching about his shoulders. He has a hooked nose and full lips.

Will is 17. His height is 5'9" (175 cm), his eyes are hazel and hair color is brown. Will has a bowl cut, and his hair is more disheveled and curly now. His nose is somewhere between straight and hooked. Will usually dresses casually, more like street clothes. In DnD Will is wise. Will's physique is stronger than Mike's, even though he's shorter. Will is soft-spoken, amicable, sweet, and honest. Like his friends, he is exceedingly intelligent for his age, having an enthusiasm for science and being a member of their school's AV club. He also displays a lot of the same interests as his friends, such as Dungeons & Dragons, comics like the X-Men, and films like Ghostbusters. He is also creative, having a passion for art and writing stories. However, his interests and social status resulted in him being bullied. This, along with his father's prior poor treatment of him, most likely led to feelings of alienation. After his ordeal with the Upside Down, Will became even more alienated due to his peers labeling him "Zombie Boy" (due to the cover story conceived to conceal what actually happened to him). Additionally, he had grown frustrated with everyone's sensitive treatment towards him, especially with his mother and brother's overprotectiveness. Following his possession by the Mind Flayer, Will developed an aversion to heat and became increasingly distressed by his connection with the entity. The connection also caused him to experience physical pain whenever the vines and biological matter originating from the Upside Down were burned. As Will's mind was gradually taken over, he began to experience memory loss and was manipulated into aiding the Mind Flayer. Eventually, the Mind Flayer's influence over Will was so great, he was able to speak through him and control his body. After the Mind Flayer was exorcised from his body, Will seemingly returned to his usual self with no visible adverse effects.

Yet he still believed that she was alive and continued to try contacting her for 353 consecutive days, until his determination was rewarded when he finally reunited with Eleven after almost a year. His undying love and care for her were also obvious when he convinced the group to distract the Demodogs from Eleven, defying Steve's orders, as well as keeping his promise to her by attending the Snow Ball. Mike was suffering from internal homophobia, he was convinced that all guys need to have a girlfriend at some point, during a fight with Will, because Mike was "busy exchanging saliva with El" and didn't give Will any time, Mike mentioned, "It's not my fault that you don't like girls." Soon, in the rain, Mike and the others went to Will's house, and Mike apologized to him as he knocked on the Willers' door. Mike is gay and his feelings for Al are purely platonic, he was uncomfortable when she kissed him, touched him. Mike just told himself that he loved her. In reality, he was in love with Will and eventually realized it. Now that he's in a relationship with Will, he loves him with all his heart and is afraid of losing him again. Mike doesn't have to pretend to be someone he's not. Recently, Will decided to give Mike the drawings he had made of him. At first, Will didn't want to show them to Mike, but he eventually gave them to him because Mike is the person Will trusts the most. In DnD Mike is paladin.

Mike is shown to be optimistic, morally compassionate, and highly committed to his friends, usually going to great lengths to help them. His D&D role as Dungeon Master suggests that he, like Will, is a creative thinker. Out of the four boys, he is the most emotionally open and open-minded, willing to accept fantastical explanations behind complex situations. After Will disappeared, he quickly drew a parallel to Will's defeat at the hands of the Demogorgon. After witnessing Eleven's psychic powers, Mike became faithful to the idea that she could help find Will. While his friends were initially skeptical about Eleven, Mike wholeheartedly trusted her to guide them and even developed a close relationship with her. Mike's slightly unorthodox approach led him to connect some of the dots explaining the mysterious Upside Down. Mike has a high level of selflessness, especially when he was unquestioningly willing to jump off a cliff to protect Dustin (before Eleven came to rescue him). Additionally, Mike displayed strong morale and courage when he confronted Troy about his joke of Will's presumed death, showing just how much he cares for his friends. Even after Will was saved, Mike perceived that Will was struggling due to his connection with the Upside Down and tried to help him. Mike was also the only one out of his friends to stay with Will in the lab when he was suffering from memory loss and was manipulated by the Mind Flayer, proving that he was always ready to put himself in harm's way to protect his friends. Moreover, when Eleven disintegrated the Demogorgon and vanished, Mike was severely traumatized by her disappearance and struggled. His mother even pointed out that he had begun acting out in school, which stemmed from his depression regarding Eleven. Mike is talking to Will in a playful, joking manner.

As Vecna retreats back to the Upside Down, the Demogorgons nearly kill Mike, Lucas, and Robin until Will reveals his new abilities and kills the Demogorgons.

In the fall of 1987, one and a half years after the events of the fourth season, the city of Hawkins is in a state of disrepair. Schools are closed, the streets are patrolled by the army, a military quarantine is in place, and the residents live in constant fear. kanobu.ru The Upside Down continues to infiltrate reality, expanding its control over the city. Vecna has survived his defeat at the end of the fourth season and is preparing a new, even more terrifying attack. In parallel, the government has declared a manhunt for Eleven, considering her a threat to national security, which forces her to go into hiding.

Eleven concludes that the military has captured Vecna and is holding him hostage at the base. Will tells the group that he can now access the collective mind and establish a telepathic connection with Vecna, allowing him to see through his disguise and confirming that Derek is his next target. Mike and Nancy explain that Vecna has been disguised as an imaginary friend to gain Holly's trust before kidnapping her. The group devises a plan to use Derek as bait to capture the Demogorgon, implant a tracker, and track it in the Otherworld to reach Holly before any other children are kidnapped. The plan falls apart when Derek wakes up, and Will realizes that the Demogorgon has discovered their group and the barn.

The military gathers all the children in Hawkins who could be potential victims and detains them. Will has a vision of Vekna holding Holly, as well as a plan to kidnap other children, which prompts the group to devise a plan to infiltrate the base, locate the victim children, and smuggle them out of Hawkins. The Demogorgons break out of the Other Side and attack the base just as Vecna appears, killing the entire army and then mocking Will for failing him as his former spy, and using the Demogorgons to kidnap the children.

Mike keeps in touch with El through letters and phone calls, but Will later mentions that Mike didn't even wrote to him.

Spring Break

Mike flies to California to spend his break with El and Will.

Mike and El spend time at the ice rink, where Eleven is bullied.

The ice rink incident

Eleven attacks Angela, shocking Mike.

Joyce goes on a business trip, leaving Jonathan in the care of Mike, El, and Will.

Eleven's arrest

Eleven is arrested for attacking Angela.

Mike and his friends try to find ways to get Eleven out of jail.

Eleven's Rescue

Federal agents rescue Eleven and clear her of the charges.

El's Absence and Protection

Owens took El away to recover.

Mike and Will protested the protection as their friends and family are in danger.

Stinson revealed a government group hunting for El.

Escape and Search

Mike, Will, and Jonathan help the injured Agent Harmon.

Harmon gives them Nina's phone number before he dies.

The boys make their way to Salt Lake City and search for Susie.

Meeting Susie and getting help

Mike and his friends find Susie and ask for her help.

Susie helps them find Project Nina in Nevada.

Reunion with Eleven

Eleven disorients the helicopter and saves herself and Mike.

Eleven and Mike reunite, but they are interrupted by Brenner.

Plan against Vekna

Eleven explains the plan to kill Vekna.

They create a makeshift sensory deprivation chamber.

Battle with Vekna

Eleven enters Max's mind and saves her.

Mike confesses his love to Eleven, which restores her powers.

Vekna is killed, but Max remains in a coma.

Return to Hawkins

Mike and his friends return to Hawkins, which has been destroyed by an earthquake.

Mike reunites with his mother and friends.

Eleven tries to find Max in the Void, but to no avail.

The Beginning of the End

Mike and his friends clean up Hopper's cabin.

Will senses that Vecna is alive and planning an invasion.

Joyce and Hopper return, but Vecna's invasion begins.

Breakup with El

Hopper forbids Mike from spending time with Al.

Mike lied to Al about his grandmother's illness.

Al broke up with Mike after meeting him at the mall.

Conversations and games

Mike and Lucas discussed their breakups, accusing the girls of being emotional.

Will suggested playing D&D, but Mike and Lucas didn't take it seriously.

Will became upset and left, and Mike and Lucas followed him and apologized.

The Mind Flayer Returns

Will reported that the Mind Flayer had returned.

Mike and El suspected that Billy had become its host.

Mike lured Billy into a trap in the sauna, but he escaped.

Saving El

Mike saved El from Billy by hitting him with a pipe.

El threw Billy through a wall, and he escaped.

Investigation and New Carriers

Mike and his friends learned that Doris and Heather had become carriers of the Mind Eater.

They assumed that Heather's parents had been kidnapped and skinned.

The Mind Flayer at the Hospital

Mike and his friends discovered the Mind Flayer at the hospital.

El used her powers to save Nancy.

The Battle at the Cabin

El discovered the Mind Flayer's lair and allowed it to know their location.

The group fought off the spider monster and escaped.

Rescue at the Mall

Mike and his friends rescued a girl from Russian soldiers.

El pulled a Mind Flayer shard out of her skin.

The Plan and the Battle

Hopper and his team infiltrated the Russian bunker to close the gate.

Mike, El, and Max were intercepted by Billy and the Mind Eater.

Billy's Death and Reunion

Billy sacrificed himself to protect El.

Mike and El were reunited, and Mike watched as El comforted Max.

Preparations for Moving to California

Mike and his friends help Eleven and the Byers move in.

Mike and Eleven confess their love for each other before breaking up.

High School

Mike enters high school and joins the Dungeons & Dragons club.

Dart escaped, Mike blamed Max for it.

Searching for Will and Dart

Mike and his friends split up to find Dart and Will.

Mike found Will in gym class, possessed by a shadow monster.

Helping Will and saving Hopper

Mike found out that Will can see what the shadow monster sees.

Will saw that Hopper was trapped under Hawkins.

Bob helped locate Hopper, and Joyce and Bob rescued him.

Search and Rescue of Hopper

Hopper is found in the vines, and the soldiers set fire to the tunnels.

Will loses consciousness and begins to convulse.

Treatment and Discovery of the Virus

Will is taken to the lab, where he is treated.

Will does not remember anyone except Mike.

The vine test reveals Will is infected with a virus linking him to other carriers.

Trap and escape

Will leads the scientists into a trap, where they are killed by demodogs.

Demodogs invade the lab, Mike sedates Will.

Bob restores power, the group escapes.

A plan to destroy the Mind Eater

Mike and his friends compare the Mind Eater to a monster from "Dungeons and Dragons."

They decide to take Will to an unfamiliar location and interrogate him.

Will sends a Morse code signal, indicating a way to close the Gate.

Eleven's return and a plan of action

Eleven returns and promises to close the Gate.

Joyce, Jonathan, and Nancy banish the Mind Flayer from Will.

Mike and friends distract the Demodogs by setting the tunnels on fire.

Success and Reunion

The tunnels are on fire, and the Demodogs are gone.

Eleven closes the Gate, and Mike and friends return home.

Snowball and Christmas

Mike and Eleven dance on the Snowball.

Mike and Lucas spend Christmas at the Byers' house with Eleven.

Mike and his friends find a rabbit in the woods and help it.

1985

Mike and El kiss, Hopper tries to intervene.

Mike and friends watch a movie at the Starcourt Mall.

Relationship problems

Mike and friends surprise Dustin.

Mike and El spend time together, but Hopper interrupts

Fighting Troy

Mike and Dustin are ambushed, but El saves them.

El reveals that she opened the gate.

Escape from the agents

Mike, Dustin, and El escape the agents with Lucas' help.

They hide in a bus and then in the Byers' house.

Fighting the Demogorgon

Hopper and Joyce infiltrate the lab, Nancy and Jonathan set a trap for the Demogorgon.

El and the boys stay at the school, Mike asks El out on a date.

Arrest and escape The agents capture El and the boys, but El kills most of them.

The Demogorgon breaks into the school, Al destroys it, but disappears.

Will's return

Mike and his friends visit Will at the hospital.

Mike continues to search for El, but to no avail.

Life after El's disappearance

Mike spends a lot of time in the basement, trying to contact El.

In December, the boys play Dungeons and Dragons again, and Mike misses El.

Continued search

Mike continues to call El every night, but receives no answers.

In October 1984, Dustin contacts Mike to inquire about the money for the game automation.

Theft of money and visit to the Palace

Nancy stole money from the piggy bank, and the boys went to the Palace.

Dustin lost in Dragon's Lair, but his scores on other games were beaten by MADMAX.

Will started the episode, Mike brought him out of his thoughts.

Suspicions about Max

A new student, Max, appeared at school, the boys suspected that she was MADMAX.

Mike tried to contact Eleven, but heard a voice he thought was hers.

Mike and his friends saw Max with Billy Hargrove in the car.

Will's episode and the vision

Mike and his friends were playing hide-and-seek, and Max scared them.

Will had the episode again, and Mike took him out of it.

Will told Mike about the vision of the shadow-like creature.

The strange creature and its origins

Dustin found the strange creature D'Artagnan, who turned out to be from the Upside Down.

Mike and Will realized that Dart was dangerous, but Dustin didn't want to believe it.

He described scientific ideas and concepts, utilizing the metaphor of the flea and the acrobat. He mentioned that a gate between dimensions would have adverse effects on the electromagnetic field in their dimension. Later that day, Dustin experimented with a compass, noticing that the needle did not point towards true north. The boys guessed that there must be a gate nearby influencing the electromagnetic field, like Mr. Clarke had said. The group followed their compasses believing it would lead to the Gate. However, Eleven manipulated the compasses to lead the boys away from the Gate because she considered it too dangerous. When the boys realized that El had been leading them away, they argued about her motives. Mike was more sympathetic and trusted her, while Lucas was critical of her manipulation. The two boys fought. Eleven used her powers to throw Lucas off Mike and into the air, knocking him out. This angered Mike and made El upset. She left while Mike and the other boys were not looking.

As El tampered with his radio, Mike angrily berated her and accused her of lying to him about Will being alive, even saying that Lucas was right about her. Suddenly, Mike heard the sound of Will's voice over the radio, quietly singing Should I Stay or Should I Go as El used the Supercom and her powers to contact Will. Mike realized Will was still alive, which El confirmed was true.[4][5]

The next day, Mike told Dustin and Lucas that he had heard Will's voice on the radio. The other boys were skeptical. The boys decided to take El to their school so she could use the Heathkit to communicate with Will, which was much more powerful than the Supercom. After dressing Eleven in a pink dress and blonde wig to help her blend in, a dazzled Mike complimented Eleven's new look, calling her pretty, with Lucas and Dustin noticing his reaction. The boys then took her to Hawkins Middle School. They met Mr. Clarke in the hall near the AV Club room, pretending to be sad. Mr. Clarke told the group that they must attend a memorial assembly for Will, after which, they could use the radio and tossed Mike the keys. During the assembly, the bully Troy made cruel jokes about Will, which enraged Mike. After the assembly, Mike shoved Troy, causing Troy to fall. When Troy attempted to retaliate, Eleven froze Troy in place and made him urinate on himself, much to the amusement of the boys and onlookers. The boys and El then went to the AV room and used the Heathkit. With El using her powers to contact Will, they overheard Will talking to his mother through a temporary portal to the other dimension. The radio overheated and caught fire. After returning to Mike's basement, the boys theorized that Will was stuck in the Vale of Shadows, a "dark echo" of their world, but of death and decay, which El labeled the Upside Down. After Will's funeral, the boys discussed the possibility of alternate dimensions with Mr. Clarke.

However, Mike did not criticize her for having the tattoo and instead asked what the tattoo "011" meant, causing the girl to point to herself, revealing her name to be Eleven. Mike suggested that he can call her El for short, which El nodded to, before introducing himself as Michael "Mike" and wished her goodnight before covering the fort with a bedsheet and going to bed. Mike skipped school the next day to take care of El, providing her breakfast as well as showing her around his house. El recognized Will from a photograph and told Mike that bad people were looking for her. After school, Dustin and Lucas came to Mike's house. They discussed Eleven and what could have happened to Will. Lucas said that they should tell Karen about Eleven. El used her powers to prevent Lucas from opening the door to leave. Later that evening, El attempted to explain Will's situation; she flipped their Dungeons & Dragons board upside down and then placed Will's player piece on top followed by the Demogorgon piece. This gave Mike, Lucas, and Dustin a vital clue about what happened to Will. The following morning, Mike, Lucas and Dustin decided to meet El after school and commence "Operation Mirkwood". They would use El to lead them through the woods to find Will. Before leaving, Mike gave his watch to El and asked her to meet them at 3:15 pm. After school, the boys met El and then the group looked for Will. They eventually arrived outside the Byers house, where El said Will was hiding. This statement confused the three boys because, logically, Will could not be there. After seeing police cars race by, they followed on their bikes. They saw Will's corpse being dragged out of the local quarry. This caused the boys to feel distraught. Mike thought Eleven had misled them to believe Will was alive. Mike rode home in tears and was comforted by his mother. Later, in the basement, Mike grieved Will's death as he looked at Will's drawings.

The next day, Will did not show up to school, which perplexed Mike, Lucas, and Dustin. After class, Mike asked Mr. Clarke if the ham radio had arrived, to which he told him it came, and showed it to them. As they played with Mr. Clarke's Heathkit Ham Shack, they were summoned by Principal Coleman to talk with Chief Hopper who told the boys that Will was missing. He asked the boys about Will's route home, and they told him Will took the road where Cornwallis and Kerley met. The boys casually referred to this road and the surrounding forest as Mirkwood. The boys investigated their friend's disappearance that evening. Despite heavy rain, they searched Mirkwood. They encountered a wet, shivering and scared young girl wearing a big Benny's Burgers t-shirt. The boys brought the girl to Mike's basement where Mike asked her if there was a number that they could call for her parents and if she was in trouble, while Lucas and Dustin asked more personal and inappropriate questions. Mike told them to stop scaring the girl and that she was just cold and scared before, he provided the girl with clean clothes. When she was about to change clothes in front of the boys, and told that she can change in the bathroom with privacy and, when he was about to close the door, she told him, "no" and realized that she could talk and told her that, he was going to leave the door a few inches open. After arguing among themselves on what they should do about the girl, Mike reached a compromise with the boys that, if they tell their parents about her, they would not be able to find Will and that she would pretend to arrive at their doorstep, which would prompt Karen to manage her. After the boys, who were suspicious and doubtful of the girl, went home, Mike allowed her to stay in his basement. Mike made a pillow fort for the girl to sleep in and asked her name, causing her to reveal the tattoo on her left forearm.

During the encounter, Mike accidentally let go of the wagon, causing it to slide down and cover the books in mud. As a result, the three had to work hard to convince the shop owner to give them a basic starter set for D&D while agreeing to take away the books from the shop. That night, the three played the game at one of their houses, becoming obsessed with it. 1983 The campaign On the evening of November 6, Mike, Lucas, Dustin and Will played Dungeons & Dragons in Mike's basement. Mike, acting as Dungeon Master, summoned a Demogorgon, which ultimately defeated Will's character, although Will did not reveal this to Mike yet. Mike saw Dustin and Lucas bickering on whether Will should fireball or cast protection, and when Will fireballed, the dice went missing, and the campaign was interrupted by Karen, who told him to go to bed as it was 15 after. When Mike argued for 20 more minutes, Karen reminded him that it was a school night and could finish on the next weekend. When Mike told her, that would ruin "the flow" and that he had to plan his campaign for two weeks and that he had been playing for 10 hours, Karen expressed shock to this, and when he attempted to negotiate with his dad, he reached no avail, causing his friends to go home. After Lucas and Dustin left, he revealed that his roll was a 7 and that the Demogorgon got him, and told him he'd see him tomorrow, before biking home.

Born April 7, 1971, Michael "Mike" Wheeler was the second child and the only son of Ted and Karen Wheeler. His older sister was Nancy Wheeler, born in 1967. The family lived in a cul-de-sac in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana.

On the first day of kindergarten, around 1976, a lonely Mike saw a boy named Will Byers on the swing-set. Mike asked if he wanted to be his friend, and Will happily agreed. Soon after, Mike's neighbor Lucas Sinclair joined his friend group. At some point the boys began playing Dungeons & Dragons, referring to their games as "campaigns". Nancy participated in their campaigns, dressing up as an elf for their Elder Tree campaign, though this stopped by 1979, most likely due to Nancy getting older. In 1980, Nancy and Mike got a baby sister named Holly. That same year, the boys befriended Dustin Henderson, who had recently moved to town. The four boys would often gather to play Dungeons & Dragons in Mike's basement. They had a great relationship with their science teacher, Mr. Clarke, and were members of the AV Club which he ran. The boys participated in the annual science fair and won almost every year except 1982. Mr. Clarke said their loss that year was "totally political". 1980 On September 1, Mike and Lucas were being chased by bullies, using their bikes to outrun their pursuers. They eventually ended up hiding in a book shop where the owner was displaying miniatures from the battle of Waterloo and a new game called Dungeons & Dragons. Mike and Lucas became excited about the game, quickly telling Will Byers about it when they got to his house. They quickly took several books out of Will's house and piled it onto their wagon, intending to exchange it as trade for the D&D books that would allow them to play the game. On their way to the shop, the three were chased down by the bullies which forced Lucas to start hurling romance books at them as Mike continued to pull the wagon.

Mike and Eleven made plans to visit each other at Thanksgiving and reaffirmed their love for one another. By the spring of 1986, Mike was a dedicated member of the Hellfire Club, along with Dustin and Lucas. He headed to Lenora Hills, California to spend spring break with Eleven. She had sent Mike letters, telling him that she had adapted well to California; however, upon his arrival, Mike realized that Eleven was struggling more than she let on. When Dr. Owens whisked El away to work on regaining her powers, Mike joined Will, Jonathan, and Argyle in searching for her, all the while evading Lt. Colonel Jack Sullivan and his forces, who held Eleven responsible for a murder spree in Hawkins. With help from Dustin's girlfriend, Suzie Bingham, they tracked down Eleven at a secret facility in Nevada, narrowly escaping Colonel Sullivan's forces. Later, Mike and the others helped Eleven fight Vecna from afar by creating a makeshift sensory deprivation tank, allowing her to psychically project her consciousness to Hawkins. During El's mind-battle with the enemy, Mike made it clear to her that he loved her, giving her the strength to momentarily overpower and defeat Vecna.

Two days later, the group travelled to Hawkins, and were shocked by the scale of destruction inflicted by a recent "earthquake". Upon their return, Will realized his psychic connection created back in 1984 was not to the Mind Flayer, but Vecna. He worriedly told Mike that he still sensed Vecna's presence, and that for the horrors of the Upside Down to end, Vecna needed to die. After assuring Will that they would kill Vecna once and for all, Mike reunited with a very-much alive Hopper and witnessed the Upside Down beginning to merge into Hawkins.

In 1983, when Mike's best friend, Will, mysteriously went missing, he and his other friends, Lucas and Dustin, made it their mission to find him. However, while searching for Will, they stumbled upon an escaped girl named Eleven instead. Mike soon discovered that she knew something about Will's disappearance and enlisted her help in finding him. During their time together, Mike and Eleven formed a strong bond and quickly grew to like each other. Once Will was found, Mike was happy that he had returned home safely; however, he was greatly devastated by Eleven's sacrifice to defeat the Demogorgon. Still devastated by Eleven's disappearance one year later, Mike called for her every night while also assisting Will with a new supernatural issue. Eventually, he reunited with Eleven. He, along with his friends and Steve, then worked on burning the sprawling network of another inter-dimensional threat, using it as a distraction for Eleven to close the Gate for good. Mike later attended the Snow Ball dance with Eleven, which he previously promised her. Mike and El were seemingly inseparable until the summer of 1985, when their relationship faced new trials and tribulations. In an attempt to establish boundaries, El's disgruntled adoptive father, Chief Hopper, scared off Mike and jeopardized the teens' relationship; Will also expressed his frustrations with how Mike and Lucas' relationships had disrupted the dynamic in the friend group. Their attention would turn to more pressing concerns, however, when Will alerted them to the presence of the Mind Flayer. After Max's stepbrother Billy Hargrove was noted to be acting unusually, they learned Billy and various Hawkins residents had become possessed by the Mind Flayer, and began efforts to defeat it. Three months later, Mike and his friends had to bid farewell to Eleven, and the Byers who were moving out of Hawkins.

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Eleven (best friend) Will Byers (boyfriend) Lucas Sinclair (best friend) Dustin Henderson (best friend) Max Mayfield (former rival/best friend) Steve Harrington † (friend) Jonathan Byers (friend) Joyce Byers (friend) Jim Hopper (friend) Bob Newby † (friend) Robin Buckley (friend) Erica Sinclair (friend) Argyle (friend) Eddie Munson † (friend) Sam Owens (ally) Agent Harmon † (former protector) Agent Wallace (protector)

Ted Wheeler (father) Karen Wheeler (mother) Nancy Wheeler (older sister) Holly Wheeler (younger sister) Joanna (cousin)

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