“You see... humans... are a unique type of pest; multiplying... and poisoning our world, all while enforcing a structure of their own: a deeply... unnatural structure. Where others saw order, I saw a straitjacket: a cruel, oppressive world dictated by made-up rules. Seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades! Each life, a faded, lesser copy of the one before! WAKE UP, EAT, WORK, SLEEP, REPRODUCE, AND DIE! Everyone... is just... waiting. Waiting... for it all... to be... over. All while performing in a silly, terrible play, day after day, but I could not do that. I could not close off my mind and join in the madness; I could not... pretend. Then I realized... I didn't have to.”
―Vecna
Henry Creel, also known as One under Hawkins Labs' experiments, infamously known Vecna, is the secondary antagonist of the horror/sci-fi web series Stranger Things. He is from Hawkins laboratories who seeks to destroy the Human race after tricking Eleven into helping him escape.
“Well well, look who decided to join us. Someone's a sleepyhead.”
―Henry on Eleven.
“Don't cry, Chrissy. It's time... for your suffering to end.”
―Vecna to Chrissy before killing her.
“Who knew something so small could cause so much trouble.”
―Henry after his restraining chip is removed by Eleven.
“The truth is just the opposite. You are better than they are. Superior. It is why you frighten them.”
―Henry to Eleven.
“At first, I believed you had sent me to my death, to Purgatory. But I was wrong, I was somewhere new. I became an explorer. An explorer of a realm unspoiled by mankind. I saw so many things. And one day, I found the most extraordinary thing of all. Something that would change everything. I saw a means to realize my potential, to transcend my human form, to become the predator I was always born to be.”
―Vecna explaining his years in the Upside Down while revealing to Eleven that he is the Mind Flayer’s Servant.
“All I needed was someone to open the door. And you did that for me… without even realizing it… didn’t you? And when you did realized, you chose to resist. So I sought a means to open my own doors. I sought… your power (Billy: All this time we’ve been building it… for you.). So don’t you see? Once again… you have freed me.”
―Vecna explaining his involvement in the last 7 years since his banishment in the Upside Down.
“I want you to join me.”
―Vecna to Fred Benson.
“Nothing will happen to you... Nothing that you don't deserve!”
―Vecna to Max.
“They can't help you Max. There's a reason you hide from them.”
―Vecna to Max on her friends trying to save her.
“You think I don't see what you're doing? You think I don't see everything? You thought you could trick me? You thought your friends could stop me? I see them.”
―Vecna to Max, revealing he knows about the Party's plans.
“You are brave, Maxine, much braver than your brother, but in the end, you are weak and fragile, just like him, like all the rest of them, and you... will... break.”
―Vecna to Max before he attempts to kill her again, right before being thwarted by Eleven.
“You and your friends believe you have won... don't you? But this is only the beginning: the beginning... of the end. You have already lost.”
―Vecna's last words to Eleven before she corrects him and he evaporates from his mindscape and faces his second defeat at the hands of Nancy.
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Vecna was thought to be the main villain of the series. However The First Shadow revealed that Vecna was merely the Mind Flayer's harbinger.
