Here Are All The "Stranger Things 3" Details And Theories You May Have Missed In The Trailer

Steve Harrington must be protected.

Last week, we were finally blessed with the trailer for the third season of Stranger Things, which will premiere on Netflix in July.

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The trailer may be less than three minutes long, but this is Stranger Things we're talking about, so there's no way it didn't include a bunch of hidden details and scenes we can already start theorising about.

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Here are all the details and theories you may have missed when you first watched the trailer...

1. First of all, in every scene of the trailer, Eleven is wearing the hair tie Hopper gave her at the end of Season 2.

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You may remember the hair tie first appeared in Season 1. In a flashback we saw Hopper's daughter, Sara, wearing it in her hair. And after she got sick and lost her hair, he started wearing it as a bracelet, apparently never taking it off.

He gave it to Eleven at the end of Season 2 when he became her legal guardian. Mind if I cry?

2. In the beginning of the trailer, Dustin attacks Lucas with Farrah Fawcett hairspray — the same brand that Steve recommended he use last season.

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3. The people of Hawkins seem to be against the new mall, and one protester is carrying a sign that reads "the pretzels aren't even that good".

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4. It looks like Billy has a job at the local pool, where he meets another lifeguard, who (if it's the same person — kinda hard to tell) might find herself in a spot of trouble this season.

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There is an episode called "The Case of the Missing Lifeguard", after all.

5. Meanwhile, it looks like Nancy and Jonathan have found summer jobs at the local paper — or they're at least attempting to get their investigations from last season taken seriously by journalists.

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6. It's possible the Byers family may be looking to leave Hawkins after everything they've been through, since both Will and Joyce appear to be distancing themselves from their loved ones.

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We see Will very sadly looking at photos of himself and his friends from previous adventures while Mike says: "We're not kids anymore. What did you think? We were just going to sit in my basement all day, playing games for the rest of our lives?"

Meanwhile, Hopper says to Joyce: "It is important to me that you feel safe. I want you to feel like this can still be your home."

As much as I'd hate to see the gang broken up, I wouldn't really blame Joyce for wanting to get the hell out of Hawkins. TBH, I don't know why anyone is still living there after the events of the last two years.

7. The appearance of this Terminator-looking guy at the funfair and the person in the gas mask might mean we'll get some more insight into the government experiment that actually led to the gate to the Upside Down being opened in the first place.

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Of course, this has made way for many Russian spy theories. That would also explain why Murray — the guy Nancy and Jonathan met last season who's determined to uncover the truth about the whole conspiracy — appears at the funfair in the trailer.

8. One shot shows Billy the bully in the shower, screaming when he discovers a very creepy-looking infection taking over his arm.

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The second-to-last episode of the season is called "The Bite", so this may very well have something to do with that, and the ultimate "Battle of Starcourt".

There's also a shot of what appears to be Billy's eye being taken over by similarly blackened veins. All in all, it's not looking great for Billy.

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9. Remember Nancy's and Jonathan's summer jobs at the local paper? Well, this guy (Bruce, played by Jake Busey) is a journalist for that paper, and according to Netflix, has "questionable morals and a sick sense of humour".

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Now, hear me out: From the single shot we get of him, this dude looks pretty messed up, and he also appears to be walking down a hospital corridor. We can also assume he knows Nancy and Jonathan, since we saw them at the Hawkins post office earlier in the trailer.

Then we get a shot of Nancy and Jonathan standing at either end of what looks to be the same corridor, staring at a very Demogorgonesque monster writhing around between them.

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I'm just saying, the ceiling situations here are very similar. So could this season's monsters actually be ~people~ who have transformed?

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In which case, is that "The Bite"??? And is Billy going to be Demogorgon-ised too????? DO THE PRETZELS HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT??????

Sorry, I'll calm down.

10. Some fans have speculated that there won't be multiple monsters like last season — rather, the monster is actually several infected people all combined into one big nightmare.

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That would explain why we only see one monster in the trailer despite there being indications that more than one person is dealing with the mysterious infection.

There's also a Dungeons & Dragons monster called the Gibbering Mouther — which bites its victims and then absorbs them into its own body — and it looks a LOT like the monster from the trailer. I'm just saying.

11. And finally, something's happening to Steve.

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There's a shot of Steve screaming while receiving an injection to the neck, and he also has his trademark black eye. We literally only just learned to love Steve, and now Netflix is putting him in danger. Again.

PROTECT STEVE FOREVER.

Emily @emyfab97

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01:02 PM - 20 Mar 2019

𝙠𝙖𝙮𝙡𝙞𝙣. @HARDYSCVT

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12:54 PM - 20 Mar 2019

adrianna @wdwjusluv

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01:54 PM - 20 Mar 2019

Stranger Things 3 premieres on Netflix on July 4.