Stranger Things Season 2 Original Ending Was Way More Disturbing

Stranger Things remains one of Netflix 's most popular shows, and it's also one of the platform's darkest.

It's hard to count how many times the show's high points have left fans scratching their heads or pulling out their own hair in horror.

Fans may think that the writers did the best they could and created the most horrific endings to the storylines.

But as it turned out, it was the other way around, and their initial ideas were much more sinister than what we ended up seeing on screen.

The writers of the show confirmed that they had something else in mind to end the story between Eleven and her mother. In the official twitter they posted the shocking plot twist that could have been used.

"In season 2, Eleven was going to mercy kill her mother." What?!

Eleven actually meets her birth mother, Terry, in the same second season, and learns that she tried to save the teen from government experiments, but was captured and tortured herself.

Which leads to her being in that disabled condition we find her in the show.

Although it's still unclear how the "mercy killing" would have happened, there's some room for speculation.

It could have happened after the fifth episode of the season, or after Terry's story was revisited in the polarizing episode The Lost Sister.

In that episode, Eleven, with the help of her friend Kali, found the man who tortured her mother, but instead of revenge, she chose to spare his life.

Only because she discovered that he had a family of his own. After that, she never comes back to see her mother. But maybe that could have been changed in the alternate scenario...

Still, fans seem happy that this ending never happened. "Mercy killing" is quite a controversial idea.

And taking her own mother's life would definitely be the worst thing for Eleven to do, as it would only confirm her monstrous side.