Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not watched Episodes 8 and 9 of “Stranger Things 4,” now streaming on Netflix.

“Stranger Things 4” put Sadie Sink’s Max Mayfield through hell. The fan-favorite character ended the season in a coma with her bones broken and eyes blinded at the hands of Vecna. Max technically died for one whole minute before Eleven revived her friend, but Eleven’s powers weren’t enough to bring Max fully back to life. Series creators Matt and Ross Duffer recently confirmed on the “Stranger Things” after show that Max’s ambiguous fate was originally going to be more clear, and it wasn’t going to be good for fans.

“It was discussed as a possibility,” Ross Duffer recently said about killing Max permanently. “For a while that is what was going to happen. But we ended up in this… we wanted to end it with a little...