Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
One of the many thing that makesStranger Thingssuch a great show is its love for and references to ‘ 80s pop culture , peculiarly that of the classic act gameDungeons & Dragons .
Not only does the show ’s plot forward motion about parallel that of a typicalD&Dgame ( in that it involves a chemical group of people with unlike talents and personality banding together to explore dark , dangerous puppet to struggle terrifying iniquity ) , but also the dreaded goliath of the series is named after one ofD&D ’s most ill-famed demons , Demogorgon , and shares its destructive way . And while our heroes shoot down the Demogorgon , we know now from the fresh released time of year two trailer that there ’s a raw animal in town , and it sure as shooting looks large and meaner . It also elevate the question : what the inferno is this new fauna ?
pass the Brobdingnagian zoological garden of teras inD&D , even back in 1983 , it ’s quite potential that the new creature inStranger Thingswill also share its name and intake from aD&Dcreature . Here are15 D & D Monsters That Could Be The Villain Of Season 2 .
15. Thessalhydra
The most obvious candidate for new large fauna is the dreaded Thessalhydra : a log monstrosity with a pair of pincers tail , yawn toothy maw , and a series of snake head on the fringe of that maw . sharp fans may remember that at the end of time of year one , once Will has rejoin his admirer and theirD&Dgame continues , the Thessalhydra is their newfangled foe . Luckily for our band of adventurers , Will honk the fireball piece and kill the beast .
However , after the boy celebrate their victory , Lucas and Dustin complain that the battle was too comfortable , and we as the audience ca n’t aid but think the same thing once we see Will is still connected to the Upside Down . Maybe the real Thessalhydra has been awoken , like Demogorgon before it , and now intend to carve a course of demolition .
The Thessalhydra ’s strong-arm description has some semblance to the monster in the season two lagger , given the two creature both have serpentine appendages . If the Thessalhydra really is the new creature , rent ’s hope that somehow our poor boy manage to summon a real life human dynamo to take it down .
14. Displacer Beast
One figure of speech plebeian amongstD&Dmonsters is induce a superfluous amount of limbs . inscribe the Displacer Beast , which would look like your typical painter if it were n’t for the two extra legs , as well as the two big tentacles protruding from its position . And while it traditionally is n’t as big as the monsterportrayed in the season two trailerappears to be , the extra tree branch as well as the overall creep factor seem to match .
Of greater significance is the Displacer Beast ’s signature power : to contrive false images of itself so as to mask its actual location . The ability to image images and contort its position seems reminiscent of what the Demogorgon could do in season one when it appear in the walls of the Byers home . The ability to perhaps blink back and off or exist on the leaflet of the Upside Down could make for an interesting nemesis for our heroes , especially now that Will himself seems to be able-bodied to go back and forth himself at random .
13. Asmodeus
InD&Dcanon , while Demogorgon is one of the most powerful fiend , Asmodeus is the ruler of devils . And yes , there is a difference between the two . Demons are of the disorderly evil alignment , which means they crave wanton destruction and hurting for the interest of creating destruction and pain , whereas Devils are licit immorality , which means they crave force , ascendency , and order … as well as death and pain .
So what does this intend forStranger Things ? Well , it could intend that time of year two is all about search a dissimilar facet of immorality . Demogorgon is a prince of madness , so it was fitting that a story arc with him was all about confusion , terror , and trying to explain the unexplainable . An bow about Asmodeus would entail deceptions and subterfuge , fighting against hierarchies that were built with the sole purpose of say-so and conquest . These composition are already present in the show with the bearing of Martin Brenner and his pernicious experiment over at Hawkins Laboratory .
A account where Hopper and Joyce Byers take on the all - potent dickens that is Brenner while the kids take on a gargantuan devil named Asmodeus ? Now that could make for a Hades of a season two .
12. Behir
Another big uncollectible beast lark a lot of leg , the Behir would be a terrific conniption for the season two demon . With the body of an inordinately large Hydra , a drumhead like a crocodile , and the power to scud lightning , this is a creature you ’d never desire to get hold yourself up against in a plot ofD&D , have alone in your real - mankind neighborhood .
If the new villain creature have after this beast , who love what variety of danger it could present to our favorite characters . mayhap instead of take a breath lightning , its electric powers attest themselves in various electromagnetic pulses and disabling or destruction of electronic devices .
One of the more iconic portion ofStranger Thingswas how Will Byers was able to commune via Christmas brightness level , so there is some case law for creatures from the Upside Down messing with the electrics . Maybe if anyone gets trapped in the Upside Down again , the Behir will pink out the power in the whole township , raising the stakes and completely cutting our submarine of from one another . Or maybe it ’ll just scud lightning all over the town of Hawkins from those cloud around it in the drone . That ’d be a more deliberate way of take aback the audience .
11. Tiamat
Here ’s a dreadful thinking : what if those prospicient limbs the monster in the preview has are heads , rather than arms ? More specifically , what if those are all heads from different variety of dragon ? If they are , then time of year two would surely be depicting Eleven and the relief against the horrid queen of chromatic flying dragon herself , Tiamat .
face off against any type of dragon inD&Dis a special kind of terrific trial by ordeal ( they would n’t be in the title of the game if it were any other mode ) . There are many colors of dragons , each with their own pestilent breath weapon ; red dragons breathe fire , white dragons suspire ice , etc . But then there ’s Tiamat , who rollick five heads , and thus has the ability of five dragons at once . Only the most brawny of heroes would be able to even stand a hazard against that .
Tiamat is so potent and so evilness that she rules over her own plane of the Nine Hells in theD&Duniverse . perchance Tiamat ’s aeroplane isthe next place Eleven visitsand our favorite Eggo - lover accidentally awakens the queen of the flying dragon . Or maybe Will is able to travel to other position with his Modern slug problem and he stumbles upon an transcendental dragon cache . Either room , if Tiamat is roll into town , it ’s gon na take a lot more than Steve swing a baseball game bat to put the detriment on her .
10. Otyugh
As we saw from Hopper and Joyce ’s excursion into the Upside Down , the fiend in Stranger Things come from a really disgusting place . Ooze and muck everywhere you turn , ash tree and spores linger in the tune , slimy seedpod used to contain human captives . Entering it , you ’d probably have to try your utmost every second not to vomit .
However , it sound like just the kind of office you would chance an Otyugh ! These abominations comprise principally of two thorny tentacles which sprout from a big toothy mouth akin to the head of season one ’s Demogorgon . Otyughs are reasonably much eating machines that are always eager to dine on the refreshed meat of adventurers to affix their common dieting of carrion and dung .
Having a gargantuan Otyugh in Hawkins would make for a gross thing , as our heroes travel to even gross corners of the Upside Down to try on and resist off a creature that expend all of its fourth dimension in excrement and rot . Nothing like discompose a few tummy to up the ante .
9. Lolth
For many the great unwashed , there ’s just nothing scarey than spiders . So naturally , one thing that could utterly terrify a lot ofStranger Thingsfans is a demon queen of the Abyss who takes a gigantic spider as her deadly course .
Lolth has been one of the most dreaded entities inD&Dthanks to her arachnid affinities and command of the Drow , a race of subterranean elves with a nasty disposition . She ’s such a foul enemy that there was even an early escapade mental faculty calledQueen of the Demonweb Pitsentirely base on bump off her . Maybe this module is what Mike is position Lucas , Dustin , and Will through when we pick up for season two , akin to their previous game with Demogorgon happening powerful before Will ’s fade . Only instead of face off against a unbalanced creature , this clip they have to untangle the web of evil and intrigue that surround a wanderer queen .
Also , the new monster surelooks like it has eight legs . Maybe a giant wanderer is n’t too far - fetched an idea for the Modern repulsion in Hawkins .
8. Glabrezu
Do n’t be befool by the silly name , a Glabrezu is a dread devil that you do n’t want to mess with . A towering wolf of brawniness and spike , a Glabrezu can easily crush most antagonist in its route . It has two pair of arm , a set of muscular human arms coming out of its chest , and its primary munition , which have sharp pincers at their ends alternatively of hands . And if that is n’t enough to fuel your nightmares , a Glabrezu can summon a ten metrical unit spoke of pure darkness around it whenever it wants , mean it can make pant - soiling entering as well as perfect leakage .
The creature in the season two trailer certainly has a Glabrezu vibration to it , with multiple arms that then separate out not unlike a solidifying of pincers . And while Will is staring at its coming , the animate being seems to also be mobilize or divide morose cloud all around it . Come next Halloween , we might just see Hawkins have to deal with a Glabrezu .
7. Beholder
Ahh , Beholders . The donjon overlord ’s dream and the player ’s nightmare . The Beholder is a classicD&Dmonster made up of a floating ball of form consisting of a toothy maw , an ever - gazing orb , and a multitude of center stalks that all shoot a different mortal beam .
The appearance of the new creature is long and lanky as opposed to a Beholder ’s bulbous course , but the tentacle outgrowth could be standardized to a Beholder ’s eyestalks , with each of them having their own ability . And the main eye of a Beholder is able to rap out all wizard abilities , so maybe our new creature ’s dreadful regard is enough to interrupt Eleven ’s abilities , thus draw the gang to come up with new ways to ruin the savage .
A puppet bedeck with many eyes would also be a divergence from the Demogorgon of season one , which was entirely devoid of eyes . Thematically , the transition of a blind creature to an ever - gaze one would be a meet way to show how the character were formerly stumbling unreasoning in the Upside Down , but can now see the true threats in our world . And the threat can see them too . And perhaps shoot rays of disintegration at them .
6. Slaad
Slaad are nefarious and helter-skelter toad - like animate being from the out aeroplane of Limbo . And queerly enough , with its sickly grey skin and hunched posture , season one ’s Demogorgon resembles some Slaadi more so than it does the monster of its own namesake . Perhaps Demogorgon was a misnomer the entire time , and it is really the Slaad enrol Hawkins from Limbo instead of Demogorgon crawling out of the Vale of Shadow .
Why would this be a terrific reveal ? Because the Slaad are n’t just roaming only brute ; they have a whole society and power structure of bigger and stronger Slaadi ruling over weaker ones . Maybe the death of one of their menial brother convinces the other Slaadi to declare war on the urban center of Hawkins , and they broadcast one of the bigger Death Slaadi as retaliation . It would certainly lend itself well to a continuing series , with the race of toad monsters and the remainder of Brenner ’s shadowy organization studying and combating one another , with our heroes caught up in the crossfire .
