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Stranger Things character
First appearance	"The Hellfire Club" (2022)
Created by	The Duffer Brothers
Portrayed by	Jamie Campbell Bower Raphael Luce (child)
In-universe information
Nicknames	One
Family	Virginia Creel (mother) Victor Creel (father) Alice Creel (older sister)
Home	Creel House, Hawkins, Indiana (1959) Hawkins National Laboratory, Hawkins, Indiana (1959-1979) The Upside Down (1979-) Vecna's Mindscape (??-1986)

Vecna, also known as 001 and born Henry Creel, is a fictional character from the Netflix television show Stranger Things, portrayed by Jamie Campbell Bower. Vecna serves as the main antagonist for the show's fourth season. Throughout the course of the season, three characters (Henry Creel, One, and Vecna) are introduced seperately from one another, but are revealed to be the same individual. Vecna takes his name from the Dungeons and Dragons character; although while the Stranger Things interpretation is not based on the former, main characters in the series named him based on some similarities.

Bower has received critical acclaim for his portrayal of the character, with many regarding him as the series' best villain yet.

Reception

Bower's performance as the villain was widely praised by critics. Patrick Caoile of Collider said "For the first time, Stranger Things gives us a villain with layers. Through Vecna, Bower explores a compelling, more complicated villain than the monsters that came before. From his traumatic childhood as Henry Creel to the abusive experiments he went through as One and finally to his role as the Mind Flayer’s top general, Vecna is the perfect villain to pit against Eleven. While Vulture's Devon Ivie wrote, "[Bower] has the distinction of embodying three characters, each more unsettling than the last, as the episodes unfurl: a friendly Hawkins Laboratory orderly; Henry Creel, aka "One"; and the most significant villain of the series thus far, Vecna."