Revealing mistake: When Steve and Jonathan are climbing the radio tower, just before they reach the top, there is a wide shot, and if you look at Steve, you can see the far background around his body is swirling, revealing the shot to have been filmed in front of a green screen. (00:20:32)
Factual error: Holly is wearing Under Armour when she is escaping from the upside down. Under Armour was created a decade later.





Answer: Technically Steve was never intended to die in Stranger Things. The Duffer brothers wrote a pilot script for a miniseries called Montauk that would eventually become Stranger Things. In that version of the story Steve is a more overtly villainous character and is killed by a monster. The Steve character was reworked once Stranger Things was created due to Joe Keery's more likeable approach to the character.
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