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and quickly learned Henry not only had an appetite for murder, but possessed remarkable psychokinetic abilities. However, Brenner got involved in the situation.

After Virginia and Henry's sibling Alice were found dead at the house, Henry's father Victor was presumed to be the murderer. In 1959, Brenner was contacted by a woman named Virginia Creel, who believed her son Henry was responsible for a number of inexplicable happenings at her household. Brenner was involved in the controversial Project MKUltra, a CIA-sanctioned research program designed to develop mind-control techniques in which the subject suffered extreme conditions at the hands of the researchers, including use of psychedelic drugs, physical and mental abuse, sleep deprivation, and malnourishment. Brenner and Eleven exchanged some final words, and after she departed with her friends, Brenner finally succumbed to his wounds, dying alone in the Nevada desert.ĭr. Brenner was fatally wounded in the attack, but Eleven managed to escape unscathed, destroying a military helicopter in the process. Colonel Sullivan believed Eleven to be the root of the issues plaguing Hawkins, and sought to eliminate her. Shortly after this, the US Military arrived and commenced a full-scale attack on the facility Lt. Brenner and Owens began to argue when Eleven insisted on returning to Hawkins, which provoked Brenner to forcefully incapacitate both Eleven and Owens. After some initial hesitation, Eleven participated and ultimately regained her abilities.īrenner sought to continue the experiments, wanting to push Eleven's abilities beyond their previous limit. Brenner and Owens wished to use Eleven's abilities to stave off the continued existential threat posed by the Upside Down. The project was conceived in response to Eleven losing access to her psychokinetic abilities, and was designed to reactivate her powers via an experimental procedure. Sam Owens had established the Nina Project, situated at a top secret facility in the Nevada desert. Hawkins Lab was shut down in 1984, and Brenner was falsely presumed deceased. Brenner survived the monster's attack and sustained only minor injuries, but was unable to return Eleven to the lab. This culminated in an unsuccessful attempt to capture Eleven at Hawkins Middle School, which drew the attention of the monster. In the following week, Brenner and his team searched for Eleven while investigating the newly opened gateway to the other dimension (informally known as the Upside Down). In one such experiment, Brenner indirectly unleashed a monster from another dimension into Hawkins, allowing Eleven to escape the lab. Following MKUltra, Brenner raised a number of test subjects at Hawkins Lab, including Eleven, who possessed psychokinetic abilities.īrenner tested the limits of Eleven's abilities through various experiments. He had a major role in various controversial experiments, including Project MKUltra. He was a senior research scientist and director of Hawkins National Laboratory. Brenner also makes a cameo appearance in the show's second season, and is the main antagonist of the novel Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds and the comic Stranger Things: SIX.īrenner, who allegedly worked for the US Department of Energy, was a government figure steeped in mystery and controversy. Brenner starts out as one of the show’s main antagonists, but returns in a more morally ambiguous role in the fourth season. Martin Brenner, portrayed by Matthew Modine, is a major character in Stranger Things, appearing in the first and fourth seasons.