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* BatmanGambit: Hopper lets Alexi have the keys to his cuffs and the car, risking him escaping unscathed... but reasons that, should he actually go back to his allies in that state, there will be grievous consequences for him. Bauman and Joyce start to panic once they hear the car start up, but Hopper's gambit comes through when they see Alexi having stopped at the fence before backing up and getting out.
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* BullyingTheDragon: The Mayor learns you don't shame and disparage a uber-human Soviet with strong fists.
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* BullyingTheDragon: BullyingADragon: The Mayor learns you don't shame and disparage a uber-human Soviet with strong fists.
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* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Billy's childhood memory of himself and his mother on the beach is detailed and coherent when probed by Eleven.
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* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Billy's childhood memory of himself and his mother on the beach is detailed and coherent when probed by Eleven. Later, she happens upon more of his memories, which become a little less coherent due to being in the midst of the wind storm made by the Mind Flayer.
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* DeadlyRotaryFan: Erika and Dustin encounter one as you pass through the AirVentPassageway. Dustin deactivates it by ripping out the wires from its control box.
* DestinationDefenestration: El kicks the mini-Mindflayer's ass with her PsychicPowers before hurling it out a window. This still isn't enough to properly kill it.
* DestinationDefenestration: El kicks the mini-Mindflayer's ass with her PsychicPowers before hurling it out a window. This still isn't enough to properly kill it.
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* DeadlyRotaryFan: Erika and Dustin encounter one as you they pass through the AirVentPassageway. Dustin deactivates it by ripping out the wires from its control box.
* DestinationDefenestration: El kicks the mini-Mindflayer's ass with her PsychicPowers before hurling it out a window. This still isn't enough to properly killit.it, and it manages to escape by using a grate in the ground to retreat to the sewers.
* DestinationDefenestration: El kicks the mini-Mindflayer's ass with her PsychicPowers before hurling it out a window. This still isn't enough to properly kill
* FinGore: Narrowly subverted. Steven nearly gets a fingernail ripped off before Robin taunts the Soviet General about how they cracked their code, which distracts them long enough for an alarm to sound and for Dustin and Erica to rescue them.
* MushroomSamba: The Soviets' TruthSerum doen't have the intended affect, instead making Steven and Robin loopy and giggly.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Mind Flayer, speaking through Billy, tells Eleven that she made a mistake going after it, because now it knows she and the others exist, and it can use this fact to properly manifest in reality with all the Flayed it has accumulated.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Mind Flayer, speaking through Billy, tells Eleven that she made a mistake going after it, because now it knows she and the others exist, and it can use this fact to properly manifest in reality with all the Flayed it has accumulated.
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** Both played straight and subverted with Max and Mike. Max calls Mike out for being overprotective of El, accusing him of not trusting her and being controlling. Mike points out his concern is about El using her powers, which Max and the gang have been encouraging her to do despite the physical toll it takes on El and her penchant to prioritize the mission over her own safety. In the end, Max's speech is subverted because Mike was right: not only does El delve so deeply into Billy's mind that she briefly gets ''stuck'' there, she ends up letting the Mind Flayer know she's there, who then sets its sights on her.
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** Both played straight and subverted Zigzagged with Max and Mike. Max calls Mike out for being overprotective of El, accusing him of not trusting her and being controlling. Mike points out his concern is about El using her powers, which Max and the gang have been encouraging her to do despite the physical toll it takes on El and her penchant to prioritize the mission over her own safety. In the end, Max's speech is subverted because Mike was right: not only does El delve so deeply into Billy's mind that she briefly gets ''stuck'' there, she ends up letting the Mind Flayer know she's there, who then sets its sights on her.
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* ShoutOut: Alexei refers to Hopper as a fat Franchise/{{Rambo}}.
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* ShoutOut: Alexei refers to Hopper as a fat Franchise/{{Rambo}}. Hopper seems a ltitle offended by the comparison.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: Billy's mom is implied to be this, either she started seeing another man to escape the abuse of her relationship to his father.
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* SympatheticAdulterer: Billy's mom is implied to be this, either as she started seeing another man to escape the abuse of her relationship to his father.father.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Averted in a way that highlights how cruel the Soviets are. No matter what they do to try and force information out of them, to the point of a TruthSerum, Steve and Robin don't give them anything... because they honestly don't have anything to offer. They're not American spies, they're just average American teenagers that happened upon a Soviet base.
* TortureAlwaysWorks: Averted in a way that highlights how cruel the Soviets are. No matter what they do to try and force information out of them, to the point of a TruthSerum, Steve and Robin don't give them anything... because they honestly don't have anything to offer. They're not American spies, they're just average American teenagers that happened upon a Soviet base.
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* UpCloseWithTheMonster: At the hospital, the mini-Mindflayer has Nancy at its mercy on the floor and roars into her face from inches away.
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* UpCloseWithTheMonster: At the hospital, the mini-Mindflayer has Nancy at its mercy on the floor and roars into her face from inches away. Eleven saves her from death by psychically throwing the monster around, then out the window.
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* ShockStick: Dustin uses a cattle prod to stun the Soviet TortureTechnician.
