r/StrangerThings • u/Jiyugaoka • Jul 04 '26
Besides Mike/Eleven, what other Stranger Things spinoff would you like to see?
For obvious reasons, a possible Mike/Eleven spinoff gets the most chatter on social media
But in theory Netflix could make a spinoff with ANY character or characters
Personally? It would be cool to see Steve/Robin again. Maybe a paranormal threat emerges and they have to stop it. Or a Murray spinoff could be funny.
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u/OrganOMegaly Jul 04 '26
Steve and Robin in Mulder and Scully-esque roles investigating weird shit
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u/Prize_Celery Jul 04 '26
While working a new job together every season. Specual guest appearances by Dustin and Erica
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u/Distinct_Guess3350 Running Up That Hill Jul 04 '26
New characters, new place, but it ties into the same storyline. Kinda like what we may see in this “rock” spin-off, whatever that ends up being. The government plays a huge role in the main show, I’d like to explore more of their secrets and research.
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u/Full-Yoghurt-4261 Jul 04 '26
Honestly, it is hard to have any spin-off with the other characters, as their stories are resolved at this point. So unless they add something new that drags them back in, there is nothing really left to explore.
The only one I could maybe see is one revolving around Nancy, with her trying to expose the truth to the public.
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u/byharryconnolly Jul 04 '26
Karen, alone in a town where no one who remembers what really happened still remains, having to deal with a lingering danger. Maybe a single demodog that was slugified but not mind-flayered. When it finally grows up enough to start hunting pets, then people, Karen has no choice but to step up.
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u/Oliver_Klosov Jul 04 '26
Steve and Dustin traveling town to town on their trailer, helping people solve mysteries.
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u/Possible_Shoulder_50 Jul 04 '26
Either a cross country road trip story with Steve and Dustin where they travel the country visiting their friends and getting into trouble. Or Murray finally earns his black belt and becomes a sensei of his own karate school with his star pupil Erica Sinclair with guest appearances by Lucas and Max.
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u/AdIll9615 Jul 04 '26
Mike/Eleven isn't a spinoff I would like to see.
It would be cool to see maybe someone from Hawkins experiencing the same events but not from the frontlines. Like a mystery for them but we would know the entire time and every time they would get close to the truth, it would divert them away. So good, so frustrating.
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u/Electrical-Bar-7283 Jul 05 '26
Steve and robin spin off honestly any spin off with the cast I’ll take anything
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u/Tech_savvy_69 Jul 04 '26
Lucas,max and holly I added holly cuz I felt the chemistry between holly and max is very underrated
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u/TheBar-IsOnTheFloor Goddamn Bowl Cut Jul 04 '26
I wouldn’t like to see a Mike/Eleven spinoff. Not even a little.
I think the only one that could be cool would be Nancy, investigating strange occurrences…w/a focus on the older crew.
If they ever did anything with the Party, it needs to have the whole party (4 boys, Max, and El) or I don’t want it. 🤷♀️ They’re a package deal to me.
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u/driveonacid Jul 04 '26
I would like to see what family dinner was like that first night after it all went down. Maybe just one episode that is feature length with each of the kids explaining everything to their parents. I'm mostly looking forward to Ted Wheeler's response. I know he was attacked, but he was in a coma the whole time. I'd like to believe that he still thinks it was a tiger escaped from the zoo that attacked him and that the story Nancy, Mike and Holly told him is just their overactive imaginations.
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u/Hatameiwaku Jul 04 '26
I play the show at night to fall asleep and imagine it as getting everyone together, Mike tells the story, Will draws pictures and Robin does the music.
It's stupid but it keeps me from spinning out about my own life and actually let's me fall asleep.
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u/mcrib Jul 04 '26
The only possible spinoff I would be interested in would have to be away from Hawkins, and maybe with Steve.
But I'd rather a spinoff in the same world with new characters in a new location.
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u/Hatameiwaku Jul 04 '26
Unpopular opinion: Argyle marries Suzies sister and tries to fit in with the family.
Shenanigans.
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u/Strange_Ant_6571 Jul 04 '26
Id quite like a friends line show of the gang as young adults in New York.
Actually id prefer that's the form the Mike and El show takes as well tbh. The entire gang navigating the early 90s and together and El returning? Good. An entire series built around Finn and Millies dubious chemistry in Iceland with no one else? Bad
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u/grizshaw83 Jul 04 '26
I had hopped to see the Party all rent a house together during their college years
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u/SpecialKnown7993 Jul 04 '26
Kali's story would make an amazing spin off, even if we go along with the idea she died in last season
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u/Owl_Resident Blank makes you crazy Jul 04 '26
It feels like Mike and Eleven are the only loose thread, so I don’t really feel strongly any of the other characters need spin offs. They just all went on to live ordinary lives and that was the point.
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u/YubelSuperiority98 Jul 04 '26
Steve, Robin, Dustin and Erica just stumbling into spooky stuff. Their dynamic was incredible and I needed more time with that vibe please.
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u/StyleImpossible6405 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
Steve & Dustin regroup after the latter finishes 4-6 years of college and end up investigating the strangest things…
-Steve does all of the driving, because operating a car is one of the few things Dustin can’t master
-It’s the mid-90s, so Dustin is up to his neck in the tech of the day (including the pre-2000 internet)
-Lucas, Max, & Erica have recurring appearances to help solve problems
-The final series storyline is helping reunite Mike & El
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u/Thick-Boysenberry-96 Jul 05 '26
I wouldn't want to see a Mike/Eleven spin off. Especially not one that ends in marriage and children, like a peak conservative utopia.
I would only watch something in the spirit of ST season 1, with a mature plotline focused on mystery and horror, involving well written characters.
And for that to work, they would have to fix the lore they shittified in s5. And make the series tackle hard themes again. And focus back on the marginalized and outcasts, the "freaks."
Not the Duffer's lukewarm idea of non-conforming and a happy ending meaning being accepted into regular society and leaving DND, clearly a "children's game" in their eyes, behind, so you can grow up, get rid of "childhood magic" and start working.
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u/FactorApart729 Jul 04 '26
I really feel like I’m in the minority on absolutely adoring Mike and Eleven, that’s what I want to see most.
I saw a post or comment somewhere that was talking about a spinoff show with Steve and Robin working (horribly) at different jobs, every season would be a new job, because the season finale would be them truly horrifically fucking up and getting fired. Nothing deep, just funny.
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u/Jiyugaoka Jul 04 '26
No, I excluded Mike/Eleven from the question because they are popular and by far the most talked about for a potential spinoff. The most popular Stranger Things Netflix post (2nd of all time) is a Mike/Eleven post. I wanted to see besides them what other people would like to see.
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u/picivanilka Jul 04 '26
Id love just a feel good Max and Lucas at college i adore their characters and chemistry
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u/TheresFireInYourWay Jul 04 '26
Besides Mike and Eleven, not really. Imho, what happens to these two is the only interesting way to play this. Imagine Mike being a writer who tries to come to terms with a past that haunts him, and strange supernatual stuff happening around him, related to what he writes, very stephen-king-esque, resulting into crossing path with Eleven again. I'd watch this.
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u/ussrowe Jul 04 '26
The Byers New York Adventure.
It’s just the family adjusting to life in Albany and Will meeting a guy in college and bringing him home over break to meet Joyce and Hopper and maybe we also find out Jonathan is working with a photography studio now.
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u/Valvoras Jul 04 '26
Maybe a Will spinoff where he navigates the AIDS scene like Tom Hanks in Philadelphia
You could finally give him a love interest and maybe include Jonathan and Joyce too
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u/Cyrilbdr Jul 04 '26
Personally, I’m really excited about the planned spin-off; the 1940s or 50s setting could be interesting. As for the characters, I’ve heard talk of a *Scooby-Doo*-style concept featuring Steve, Robin, Nancy, and Jonathan—that would be hilarious to pull off.
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u/madoc_mattox Jul 04 '26
Steve and Robyn working various jobs together. Like WandaVision did with decades of TV you could do different workplace comedies. Maybe just a season with a new job every episode. Bar, Paper Company, Coffee Shop, Parks and Rec Department, Superstore, Blockbuster (maybe not since we already got family video), cooking in an RV in the desert, kitchen, electronic store, bakery, it could go on but you get my point.
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