Stranger Things Characters - Representations

 Joyce Byers:

• Masc/fem role - absent father
• Mother
• Darkness follows
• Single
• Scared

Will Byers:

• Vulnerable, innocent - high angle shot
• Nerd
• Feminine traits - gender performed

Mike Wheeler:

• Leader of the group
• Nerd
• Middle child - neglected

Nancy Wheeler:

• Innocent nerdy girl - taken advantage of (as the secretive society (adults) would use those younger and innocent)
• Shows her power/strength - not so innocent

Karen Wheeler:

• Like Pernille
• Mother
• Feminine
• Binary opposite to Joyce - Levi Strauss

Tim Wheeler:

• Absent father - always in the background

Jim Hopper:

• Butch/masculine - alcohol, cigarettes, dark house
• Police - authority, in the hands of the irresponsible

Eleven:

• Mistaken for boy - not asigned a gender - hasn't been in society to be judged - gives her power in being both genders (Sarah Lund)
• Supernatural - literally and also her being 'the other'

Steve Harrington:

• Jock/bad boy - scared inside
• Oliver equivilent

Lucas Sinclair:

• Nerd
• Bullied 
• Lives in another world (games and films)

Dustin Henderson: 

• Nerd
• Bullied
• Swears - replicating parents (older) - Bandura

Brenner:

• Scientist
• Evil
• Secrecy - MK Ultra
• Has (despite his title) no clue - naive and ignorant
• Only speaks to 11 - she can't talk back
• Low angle shots - power - or just believed to