Barb fans are not going to like this 'Stranger Things' reveal

And other things we learned at the "Stranger Things" NYCC panel.
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NEW YORK -- There's good news and there's bad news for Stranger Things fans.

The good: Eleven will probably be back for Season 2.

The bad: Barb is dead.


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These were the two key tidbits that Millie Bobby Brown (Eleven) and David Harbour (Chief Hopper) revealed during the Stranger Things New York Comic Con panel on Friday morning.

Held in the Main Hall at the Javits Center, the panel for the buzzy Netflix sci-fi series was packed with attendees (some even sporting their best '80s garb).

The show, created by brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, takes place in a small town in Indiana in 1983, just after a 12-year-old boy named Will goes missing.

His friends and mom Joyce (played by Winona Ryder), spend much of the eight-episode series trying to find him. In the process, they encounter top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl named Eleven (Brown).

It became one of the biggest shows to binge watch this summer, and the Stranger Things ensemble quickly sparked a cult following.

Brown didn't exactly confirm her character's return. However, after she confessed she loves The Vampire Diaries -- which, like Stranger Things, shoots in Atlanta -- Harbour joked that he knows actor Paul Wesley (who plays the lead in the CW series).

"You know I know Paul, right? He's going to be back in Atlanta while we are shooting," Harbour said, joking he could introduce Brown to him.

"If I'm back in Atlanta," Brown quipped, prompting fans in the crowd to begin tweeting speculation about Eleven's return.

Later, when asked about Season Two, Harbour said they have received scripts.

"The story arc is insane," he said.

"I'm not saying anything [about whether Eleven is in season two]...but it's going to be amazing," Brown said.

Then one fan asked the most important question of them all: Will there be justice for Barb?

Answer: Kind of.

"I can assure you Barb is very much dead."

"We do know a little bit about Barb...but we're not going to tell you anything," Harbour said. "We will tell you that we do deal with the loose ends in Season Two, and we do deal with some of the internet rage over Barb's death. We will have justice for Barb in some sense. But those of you wishing Barb will somehow come back to the show, I can assure you Barb is very much dead."

Other fun things fans learned at the panel:

  • Brown does like Eggos, just not as much as Eleven. "I like them, I do," she said when a fan asked. "I do not like how many I eat...it's actually really hard to digest."

  • Brown mastered the "Eleven Face" by imagining she "kind of had to look like a child, but like scary." When it came to the nose bleeding part, she was the one who called action, not the Duffer Bros. "I’ll make the face [and think] 'it’s coming, it’s coming!' then it would just come, and I would be like ‘Yes, my timing is so good!”

  • Harbour said the upside down world on set was like "a bad haunted house."

  • Turns out the creature is played by a guy named Mark, who Brown described as "really tall" and "really nice."

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Saba Hamedy

Saba was a Los Angeles-based reporter who covers all things digital entertainment, including YouTube, streaming services and digital influencers. Prior to that, she spent two years at the Los Angeles Times covering entertainment for the Calendar and Company Town sections. Saba grew up in Santa Monica and graduated from Boston University with a B.S. in journalism and B.A. in political science. When not reporting, she is usually binge watching shows online or looking for new coffee shops to frequent.

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