'Stranger Things': Mike Wheeler might just grow up to the boyfriend we all want. Here's why

Mike has an equal amount of compassion for those who are unable to help themselves but he never looks down upon anyone.

The best part about Netlfix' 'Stranger Things' is its group of protagonists who are not only adorable characters with pleasant faces, but have some extremely strong character traits, such as loyalty. There is, however, no other character on the show as loyal as Finn Wolfhard's Mike Wheeler. Mike serves as the binding point of the group and his subsequent bond with Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) becomes a key subplot on the show. When in Season 2 the evil from the Upside Down world infests Will's body, it is Mike who first identifies the evil and chases it away. 

Among all the boys that we come across on the show, Mike is perhaps the only sane minded one. He more than often acts out of his age, in the sense, that in spite of being barely 12-year-old, he takes up charge of an entire group and tries his best to put things in perfect order. He rescues Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) when she is first seen loitering in the woods, and then hides her from his entire family by keeping her in a shelter inside his house's basement. Their bond quickly remind us of the 10-year-old, Elliott, and his secret alien friend, ET, from Steven Spielberg's 1982 movie 'E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial', in the sense that just like Elliott, Mike is ready to risk everything to save the friend he holds dear. 

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