Will Byers

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Heroic Benchmark
Full Name	William Jacob Byers
Alias	Will the Wise Zombie Boy The Boy who came back to life The Spy The Cleric
Origin	Stranger Things
Family	Joyce Byers (mother) Lonnie Byers (father) Jonathan Byers (brother)
Allies	Mike Wheeler (best friend) Lucas Sinclair (best friend) Dustin Henderson (best friend) Eleven (best friend) Max Mayfield (best friend) Nancy Wheeler Jim Hopper Robin Buckley (close friend, mentor and sister figure) Bob Newby † Argyle
Enemies	The Mind Flayer The Demogorgon Troy Walsh Vecna Billy Hargrove † Angela Jake Lt. Colonel Sullivan
Powers / Skills	Intelligence Evasion Expert artistic Morse code Gunmanship Psychic Abilities: True Sight Now Memories Superhuman Strength Electrical Manipulation (all formerly) Neck-Sense
Goals	Escape from the Upside Down. Get the Mind Flayer out of him. Stop the Mind Flayer and the Flayed. Save Eleven from Lt. Colonel Sullivan. Return to Hawkins and save his friends (all succeeded). Stop Vecna (ongoing).
Goodness Zone	Assisting the heroes in defeating the Mind Flayer and its monsters from the Upside Down. Saving Mike, Lucas and Robin from the Demogorgons, by killing them.
Type of Hero	Selfless Dimension Traveler

“	The Demogorgon… it got me.	„
	~ Will in Season 1.

“	Sometimes the bad guys are smart too.	„
	~ Will to his mother Joyce.

William Jacob "Will" Byers is one of the main protagonists of Netflix's Stranger Things franchise.

He is portrayed by Noah Schnapp.

His Good Ranking

His Heroic Deeds

In General

• He cares for his family and friends, and is very protective of them:
  • He is very kind towards his mother Joyce and has a strong bond with his brother Jonathan Byers.
• He is the kindest member of his friend group, with even Lucas Sinclair and Eleven, who are Pure Goods themselves having a few more heating-up moments.
• Despite having an abusive father, he never turned into a bully like Billy Hargrove, who had a similar situation.
• He consistently assists in saving the world from the Mind Flayer and its monsters.

Background

• He befriended a lonely Mike Wheeler in Kindergarten.
• He gave a crying girl his Tonka Truck in a sandbox, despite knowing his mother couldn't afford another one for him.

Season 1

• He got a shotgun and tried to stop the Demogorgon.
• He tried to warn Joyce about the Demogorgon attacking and potentially killing her, endangering himself.
• He was genuinely grateful when his mother and Hopper managed to rescue him from the Upside Down.

Season 2

• He helped draw a map of the Upside Down so his allies could find it and stop the Dimensional Rift plaguing his town.
• He helped the other boys search for D'Artagan, to protect his friends from it.
• While brainwashed by the Mind Flayer, he managed to take control of his hand and told the party to close the gate using Morse Code, which helped them stop the Mind Flayer along with the Demodogs and save Hawkins.
• He made a drawing of Bob Newby in a superhero costumes, and hung it in order to honor his memory for sacrificing himself to protect his family and friends.
• Although reluctantly, he accepted to dance with a girl at the school prom, who has invited him to dance with her.

Stranger Things Winter Special One-Shot

• Him and Jonathan gave Eleven a present from all of the boys which was a walkie-talkie from Radio Shack that the gang had all saved their money for.
• Him and Jonathan revealed that they had collected several Christmas specials in VCR form to help make Eleven's first Christmas celebration extra-special.
• He told Eleven about Christmas Carol.
• After freeing the rabbit from the trap, he and his friends decided to take it back to his house so they can help tend to his injuries.

Season 3

• He attended a special surprise alongside his friends to celebrate Dustin Henderson's return from summer camp.
• He tried to cheer up Lucas and Mike when they were broken up with by their girlfriends, by playing Dungeons & Dragons, hoping to keep their friendship going.
• He warned his friends that the Mind Flayer is making contact with the real world then traveled to the Hawkins Pool and helped trap Billy in an attempt to detach him from the Mind Flayer.
• He proposed that the group go to the Driscoll residence with the others to investigate about the Flayed.
• Him and Lucas decided to take some fireworks in order to fight the creature, despite Max Mayfield disagreeing with the idea.
• Alongside his friends, he helped stop the Mind Flayer at the Starcourt Mall, by throwing the fireworks he bought earlier towards the Mind Flayer.
  • By doing this, he helped in saving Hawkins, and eventually the world.

Season 4

• He helped Eleven clean up her diorama when Angela broke it, which is more admirable due to Eleven being an outcast who nobody at school likes.
• He and Mike helped get the wounded Harmon into Argyle's car.
• Alongside Mike, Argyle and Jonathan, he searched for Eleven when she was taken by Hawkins officials.
• Alongside Mike, Argyle and Jonathan, he helped Eleven create a bathtub sensory deprivation tank by using a pizza dough freezer, in order to stop Vecna from California.
  • By doing this, he helped in reviving Max from being killed by Vecna and greatly injuring him, saving most of Hawkins from him.
• He and the others took Eleven out of the bathtub sensory deprivation tank when noticing she has trouble breathing.
• He informed his group that Vecna is still alive after defeating him.

Season 5

• He and Robin risked their lives in order to find out more about Vecna's plans, resulting in Will finding out that Vecna intended to kidnap dozens of children for his plans and telling his mother about it.
• While he was slightly rude towards his mother, this was only to convince her to let him contribute more and help defeat Vecna, and he also apologized for this later on.
• He helped rescue children from the military in order to not be kidnapped by Vecna, although they failed to.
• He saved Mike, Lucas and Robin Buckley from the Demogorgons, by using his psychic powers to twist their limbs and kill them.
• At the suggestion of Joyce, he willingly tapped back into the hive mind using a resuscitated Demogorgon in order to find Vecna and do to him was his did to the Demogorgons, even though this put him in a lot of danger. He successfully found Vecna, took control of him, broke his legs, and told Max (and by extension Holly) to run, saving both of their lives.
• He traveled into the Abyss with his friends to save the children kidnapped by Vecna.
• After discovering the hidden truth about Vecna's past, he tried to get Vecna to turn against the Mind Flayer, but Vecna proves to be too irrevocably corrupted by the Mind Flayer.
• Having let go of his fears, he restrained Vecna for Eleven to land a fatal blow, saving her life in the process.

Why Doesn't He Stand Out?

• While consistently assisting the heroes in stopping the threats from Upside Down who endanger the entire world, allows him to pass the baseline and has no corrupting factors, he fails the admirable standards too much to other heroes such as the rest of the Party, Jonathan, Nancy or Steve who directly endanger themselves to stop monsters multiple times or make a noble sacrifice, not helping that he has higher resources than the most due to his psychic abilities.

External Links

• Will Byers on the Heroes Wiki
• Will Byers on the Stranger Things Wiki