

The rest of the season's episode titles have since been revealed, too: they're titled Vecna’s Curse, The Monster and The Superhero, Dear Billy, The Nina Project, The Dive, The Massacre At Hawkins Lab, Papa, and The Piggyback. Could the telepathic teenager be about to break bad? Well, perhaps not. Numerous commentators have drawn comparisons between Eleven and Jean Grey. At one stage, Jean Grey, overtaken by Phoenix, joins the club.

Of course, the Stranger Things kids will not have seen that movie, but they will have read the comics. The Hellfire Club, filled with wealthy and influential individuals looking to manipulate world events for their own benefit, debuted in the 1980 comic Uncanny X-Men #129. In that movie, the Hellfire Club is led by Sebastian Shaw, played by Kevin Bacon. The Hellfire Club is a group of villains who have faced off against the X-Men numerous times, including on the big screen in X-Men: First Class. The episode is titled "The Hellfire Club," and alongside the image, a message reads: "Looking for new members. Yes, we've had confirmation on the name of the Stranger Things season 4 premiere, all thanks to the show's official writers' Twitter account. More interesting is the title of episode one. Natalie Dyer, who plays Nancy, has since confirmed this, saying that the delay to filming has allowed the scriptwriters to finish everything before filming – something that does not normally happen. In a tweet, the nine scripts were shown all piled on top of one another. However, the Stranger Things scriptwriters have since revealed that they've written nine episodes worth of scripts. Reports have circulated that Stranger Things season 4 will be eight episodes long, which would be consistent with seasons 1 and 3, though one episode behind season 2.
