Hopper’s fate is revealed in the new Stranger Things Season 4 teaser
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Stranger Things Season 3.
If you were devastated about Jim Hopper’s fate in Stranger Things Season 3, we have some big news. It turns out that Hopper’s final episode wasn’t so final after all. In a new teaser trailer for Netflix’s Stranger Things Season 4, David Harbour’s Hopper is very much alive. However, he’s seemingly in some deep ish.
Netflix’s Instagram account posted a teaser from the upcoming season of the ’80s-set series with the caption, “from Russia with love.” It opens on what looks like a Russian camp. Laborers lay railroad track while being closely watched by Russian military personnel armed with giant guns. As the trailer progresses, one laborer removes his cap to wipe sweat from his shaved head—and you get one guess at who this laborer may be.
Yup, it’s our Hopper.
And better yet, Hopper isn’t trapped in the Upside Down—right now, anyway. That final, final post-credits scene of Season 3 is all starting to make more sense now.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B8jMAnJn5FE
You may still be recovering from the way Hopper was taken out of Season 3. He sacrificed himself to the Upside Down in order to save Joyce and kill the Mind Flayer. His death, along with all the other bad stuff that happened—including Billy’s death and the death of basically half of Hawkins’ population—caused Joyce to pack up her kids and move away from Hawkins for the foreseeable future.
But now that Hopper is clearly alive—even after actor David Harbour, who portrays Hopper, hinted he wouldn’t be back for Season 4—it looks as though Joyce will have no choice but to return to rescue him.
Me seeing hopper and knowing El still has her dad:
pic.twitter.com/ZXuRFxyvGR— Eggo🥞 (@miss_rights) February 14, 2020
me: *knows Hopper was alive all along and that he was the American*
also me when Hopper appears in Russia and he’s alive: pic.twitter.com/FqYnjoVK1s
— egg-wan kenobi (@pechupops) February 14, 2020
Despite the glorious news that our favorite Hawkins police chief is okay, people are already predicting the horrors that could unfold in the next season.
what if hopper was brainwashed and now he doesn’t even remember about hawkins and who he was so when el and the others find him he doesn’t recognise them https://t.co/aevlYACzjf
— rue (@enbymickey) February 14, 2020
Somebody said it’s unrealistic for Hopper to be alive in the Stranger Things trailer lmao SIR
https://t.co/xUMbFS0jqz— A²💫 (@aluminummedal) February 14, 2020
so if they’re already revealing hopper is alive. what’s gonna be a bigger reveal than that in season 4 https://t.co/8NQMWvcpyD
— issy (@twiIivia) February 14, 2020
This one…this one hurts. (LOL.)
https://twitter.com/udfredirect/status/1228327316566269954
A release date for Stranger Things Season 4 has yet to be revealed, but even so—that day cannot come soon enough. Give us Hopper or give us death!
