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The first half of the series finale features the final showdown with Vecna, and those who have seen the finale know that it ends with Joyce Byers mauling an impaled Vecna with an ax until she decapitates him. In an interview with The Tonight Show, Vecna actor Jamie Campbell Bower reveals the final words of Vecna were going to be “please don’t”, but it ultimately didn’t work and was scrapped from the Final Cut.
Stranger Things’ Scrapped Vecna Line Held a Key Connection to The First Shadow
During the interview, Bower revealed that there was actually a changed line for Vecna in season 4, and season 5 almost had a changed line as well, and it would have been another key connection to the stage play Stranger Things: The First Shadow.
“I wanted to try and convey the words ‘please don’t’. I don’t know if anybody here has seen The First Shadow, which is the play they’ve done of Stranger Things and the sort of Henry Creel backstory, and obviously Henry and Joyce, within that, have met each other. So when she kind of walks up to him, I felt like in that moment, that the humanity could come through a little bit more, and that we could just reintroduce that level of sort of potential maybe he could be saved at that point,” Bower said.
