Stranger Things Season 5: Who Is 'Dipsh*t' Derek Turnbow - New Potential Victim Of Vecna?

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Things Season 5 brought back its main cast, including actors Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, David Harbour, Winona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton and more. However, while the central character led the core plot one more time, some new faces joined in. And one such is a character named Derek Turnbow.ALSO READ: Stranger Things Season 5 Vol 1 Review: Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown Starrer Has Slow Start Yet Ups Emotion And Action

Who is Derek Turnbow?

Derek Turnbow appears in the latest season's episode 1. He's Holly Wheeler's classmate and also a bully who she names "Dipsh*t" Derek. In his first scene, he's seen torturing Holly at the playground when she's riding a rotating carousel. While he initially makes a passing reference, his prominence is revealed only later in the season.Derek's name has been referred to by his sister Tina (Erica Sincair's classmate) in Season 3, though this is the first time he makes an appearance.

Who plays Derek?

Derek is played by 13-year-old Jake Connelly. He's a 2012-born actor. His past work includes a short film titled Between the Silence.

What happens with Derek in Stranger Things 5?

After bullying Holly Wheeler (Mike and Nancy's younger sister), Derek appears in the vision of Will Byers when he's trying to decode what he sees through the spying eyes of Vecna about his victims. That's when he also sees Derek's point of view at his school.Later, when the group gets to know that Derek is Vecna's next target, they plan to kidnap the child. Their main motive is to save Derek and track Demogorgon back to Vecna's hideout in Upside Down when the creature comes to pick him. As the plan goes awry, and Derek finds himself becoming part of the group of heroes, soon turning into "Delightful Derek."

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Does Vecna kill Derek?

By the end of Stranger Things Season 5 Vol. 1, the elementary school bully "Dipsh*t" Derek Turnbow turns into "Delightful' Derek, an unlikely hero. Whether or not he will still be tracked down by Vecna or would he manage to escape and survive will be uncovered in its Vol 2, which releases on Christmas, while Part 3 concludes on New Year's Eve.