Then, would you believe it? Just when your meat monster is poised to destroy the girl and her firework-throwing friends in a mall, everything goes to shit. The plan goes well, and your drippy spider-looking meat monster even manages to injure the girl and take away her super powers (result!). You’re keen to expand your tendril-y operation into this non-apocalypse world, but just on the brink of success, that same super-powered kid (in eyeliner?) shows up and cruelly uses her psychic powers to close the interdimensional gate, killing your Demodog army and forcing you to stay put. That slug evolves into a hive-mind army of Demodogs, while Will’s mind becomes a radio station you can tune into to spy on his world. Luckily, Will Byers, one of the human ‘socks’ stolen by the Demogorgon, was rescued and took one of your guys – a little slug-like passenger – back to his home dimension.

Eventually, that super-powered child explodes your Demogorgon with her mind, which should be an end to it, but you just can’t shake the idea of that other world… Demo gets a taste for the residents, some of which it drags back home and squirrels away like a dog burying socks. The Demogorgon passes through this tear to a world just like yours but with a less after-the-bomb vibe and more in the way of stonewash denim. It was made in terror by a super-powered child from another world after she stumbled upon one of your grossest monster minions – the Demogorgon – while on a state-sponsored spy mission through the psychic realm in search of Russian secrets (what’s Russia, you think?, stroking a tendril against the place where your chin might be). You’re commanding your gross monster minions this way and that, when one day a tear appears in your reality. Picture the scene: you’re a Mind Flayer, hanging out in your hell dimension, all tendrils and tornados. Warning: contains spoilers for Stranger Things seasons 1-3.

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