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Maxine "Max" Mayfield is a fictional character from the Netflix science fiction horror television series Stranger Things, portrayed by Sadie Sink. The character was introduced in…
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Investigate this subjectMaxine "Max" Mayfield is a fictional character from the Netflix science fiction horror television series Stranger Things, portrayed by Sadie Sink. The character was introduced in the second season and remained as part of the main cast through to the fifth and final season.
Maxine "Max" Mayfield is a fictional character from the Netflix science fiction horror television series Stranger Things, portrayed by Sadie Sink. The character was introduced in the second season and remained as part of the main cast through to the fifth and final season.
Max is a tomboy with interests of skateboarding, arcade games, and horror movies and is a tough and independent girl. Following her parents' divorce and her mother's re-marriage, Max moves to Hawkins in 1984 alongside her erratic step-brother Billy Hargrove and enrolls at Hawkins Middle School, where she joins the same class as Will Byers, Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, and Dustin Henderson. The boys later find out that Max, under her alias MADMAX, is responsible for beating Dustin's high score on Dig Dug at the local arcade, causing Dustin and Lucas to begin developing feelings for her. She is initially resistant to joining the friend group, but eventually joins them in trick-or-treating, where she witnesses Will have an "episode" and becomes suspicious when the boys trying to cover up the reasons why he is behaving so strangely.
Lucas ultimately reveals to her the existence of an alternate dimension known as the Upside Down, and how Will was hunted and taken there by a Demogorgon, how the scientists at Hawkins Lab are helping to cover it all up, and how the boys were aided by Eleven, a girl with superpowers. Though she does not believe him at first, saying the story had 'plot holes,' she realizes he is telling the truth when she, Lucas, Dustin, and Steve Harrington are attacked at the junkyard by several creatures from the Upside Down. Max and Billy have a contentious relationship, and clash frequently. When he suspects her of keeping secrets, he attacks Steve and Lucas, leading Max to sedate him and warn him to leave her and her friends alone. She then helps the others set the tentacles of the Mind Flayer alight in the tunnels under Hawkins, and distracts a pack of Demodogs to buy Eleven time to seal the rift to the Upside Down. Max attends the Snow Ball at Hawkins Middle School and agrees to dance with Lucas, where they share their first kiss.
By June 1985, Lucas and Max are in a relationship, and she has also developed a close friendship with Eleven. She has Eleven spy on Billy with her powers, and the two become concerned that he is involved in something sinister. Will later tells the group that he believes the Mind Flayer is still in their world, and Max concludes that it has possessed her step-brother. They trap Billy in the sauna, turning up the heat and confirming their theory, though Max is traumatised by the experience. Learning from Nancy and Jonathan that several other Hawkins residents have become "flayed", Max deduces that their behaviors differs from how Will acted when he was the Mind Flayer's host. The group continue investigating and confront several monsters from the Upside Down, eventually leading to a battle with the Mind Flayer at the Starcourt Mall. When Eleven is injured, Max helps dress her wound and everyone attempts to escape but are blocked from doing so by Billy, who begins pursuing them. Max attempts to break Billy out of the Mind Flayer's control, but she is knocked unconscious and wakes up to see Billy sacrificing himself to protect Eleven and ensure the Mind Flayer's demise. Before succumbing to his wounds, Billy apologizes to Max for how he treated her and she is devastated by his death.
By March 1986, Max's life is in complete disarray. Following Billy's death, his father divorced Max's mother and left Hawkins, causing Max and her mother, who has started to smoke and drink heavily, to move to a trailer park. Max begins seeing the school counselor and has withdrawn from her friends, breaking up with Lucas and resisting any attempts he made to reach out. Max sees Eddie Munson and a local cheerleader, Chrissy Cunningham enter one of the trailers, then hears a scream and sees Eddie leave alone. When Chrissy's dead body is found the next day, Max tells Dustin what she saw, but as one of Eddie's close friends, he refuses to believe her. The group learn that a being known as Vecna has been stalking and killing teenagers in Hawkins, and Max realizes that she is likely going to be his next victim when she begins having traumatic visions.
Fearing her imminent death, Max visits Billy's grave to say goodbye and is psychically tormented by Vecna, who initially appears disguised as Billy, as he prepares to sacrifice her as part of his dark ritual. Nancy and Robin discover that music may help to save Max's life, and Lucas, Dustin, and Steve play her favorite song as she begins levitating over Billy's headstone in a trance. In Vecna's mindscape, Max hears the song and is able to escape back to her body. The group explore the abandoned Creel House for clues to Vecna's whereabouts, and Max begins to recognize parts of the house from her time in her visions. Max and Lucas later deduce that Vecna chooses his victims based on their emotional scars, and Lucas apologizes to her for not supporting her more as she grieved for Billy. Max also apologizes for closing herself off, and he pledges to remain by her side moving forward.
The group discover that Vecna has been sacrificing teens in order to trigger an apocalypse by opening four gates to the Upside Down, and Max offers to act as bait to lure him to the Creel House so they can destroy him. She makes herself emotionally vulnerable, admitting that there were times she had wished Billy would die, and that she immediately felt guilt and shame when he was killed by the Mind Flayer, with these feelings also making her wish that she would die too. Vecna then attacks her in her mind disguised as Lucas, and begins stalking her through her memories while the real Lucas defends her body in the real world.
Jason Carver, Chrissy's boyfriend, intercepts their operation due to belief that they were involved in something Satanic and has a brawl with Lucas; during this, the
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