Nancy Wheeler is a fictional character from the Netflix television show Stranger Things, portrayed by Natalia Dyer.
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18 Facts About Nancy Wheeler
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Nancy Wheeler is a playable character in the 2016 horror-themed video game Dead by Daylight.
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Nancy Wheeler has a younger brother, Mike, and younger sister, Holly.
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Nancy Wheeler is introduced as best friends with Barbara Holland, who doesn't agree with Nancy's new relationship with Steve Harrington.
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Nancy Wheeler is shown to have grown somewhat distant from her brother and his friends, and is unaware of Jonathan's secret feelings for her.
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Nancy Wheeler confronts Steve, which results in a fight between Jonathan and Steve, leading to Jonathan's arrest.
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Nancy Wheeler is still overcome with grief over Barbara's death and begins showing potential signs of post-traumatic stress disorder, believing she is seeing Barbara's ghost following her in the school's library.
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Steve encourages Nancy Wheeler to go with Jonathan and promises to look after Mike and the rest of the kids.
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Nancy Wheeler later attends the official funeral for Bob and Barbara after Hawkins Lab is exposed and shut down.
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One night while Nancy Wheeler is working late, she answers a call to about rats eating Doris Driscoll's fertilizer.
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Nancy Wheeler's colleagues reject the story calling Driscoll a "nut-job", leading to Nancy Wheeler returning to the house, only to find that Mrs Driscoll has become infected by the newly resurrected Mind Flayer, eating fertilizer and screaming that she "has to go back".
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Still undeterred and despite an argument with Jonathan, Nancy Wheeler still decides to pursue the story, noticing symptoms in Mrs Driscoll similar to that of Will's possession, Nancy Wheeler calls Jonathan and asks to meet up with Will.
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Nancy Wheeler recognizes from the drawings that Vecna's lair is composed of detached fragments of the Creel residence, leading the group to investigate the now-abandoned house.
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Nancy Wheeler is shown glimpses of his past that reveal him to be Henry Creel, Victor's son who killed his mother and sister using his telepathic powers, and was then placed in the care of Dr Brenner, who attempted to replicate his powers in other children.
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She, Lucas and Erica go to the Creel house to summon Vecna while Nancy Wheeler goes with Steve and Robin to the house's Upside Down counterpart to kill him.
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Nancy Wheeler's transition from an ordinary teenage girl to a brave and determined young woman was a character arc that many fans and critics responded positively to.
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Nancy Wheeler has been seen as The Duffer Brothers's commentary on final girls in horror franchises from the 1980s.
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In particular, Nancy Wheeler has been compared mostly to Nancy Wheeler Thompson from A Nightmare on Elm Street, the namesake for the character.
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