| “ | You want her? You'll have to kill us first! | „ |
| ~ Mike to Brenner's men |
| “ | Do you remember the first day that we met? It was... it was the first day of kindergarten. I knew nobody. I had no friends... and I just felt so alone and so scared but I saw you on the swings and you were alone too. You were just swinging by yourself and I just walked up to you and I asked... I asked if you wanted to be my friend. And you said yes. You said yes. It was the best thing I've ever done. | „ |
| ~ Mike reflecting on the start of his friendship with Will |
Michael "Mike" Wheeler is one of the main protagonists of the 2016 TV series Stranger Things.
He is also Eleven's love interest, and eventual boyfriend.
He is portrayed by Finn Wolfhard.
His Good Ranking[]
What makes him Admirable?[]
Background[]
- He asked Will to be friends upon noticing him sitting alone on their first day of kindergarten.
Season 1[]
- He was perplexed and concerned when Will didn't show up to school. Hence, he gives Hopper info on Will's possible whereabouts and out of the three boys is the one that wants to help the most. He is the one that proposed to Lucas and Dustin to go out and search for Will themselves, despite the heavy rain.
- Upon finding Eleven in the woods, he brings her to his house and provides her with clean clothes and a "room" of sorts.
- He treats Eleven nicely unlike Lucas who is mistrustful of her.
- He stays home from school to take care of Eleven without his mother's knowledge.
- He promises to Eleven not to tell Karen about her.
- He is worried when finding Eleven in tears in the closet.
- He brings leftovers from dinner to Eleven so she can eat.
- He and the other boys make a plan to find Will with Eleven's help.
- He is heartbroken when seeing Will's "body" being pulled out of the quarry.
- When he hears Will's voice in the radio, he immediately starts thinking of more ways to find him.
- He confronts and pushes Troy when he hears him make rude remarks at Will's memorial.
- He takes Eleven to the school's Heathkit so he can communicate with Will.
- He attends the funeral for Will.
- He follows Dustin's compass theory to try and find Will again, despite being aware that he might stumble across a gate to the Upside Down.
- He is sympathetic when finding out Eleven is misleading them by scrambling the compasses.
- He and Dustin go to search for Eleven after she leaves.
- He tries to protect himself and Dustin from Troy and James.
- He jumps off a cliff knowing fully well he would die, in order to keep Troy from hurting Dustin, even if Eleven saved him, he did not know this would happen, meaning he was ready to die for his friend's sake.
- He comforts Eleven and assures her she is not the monster.
- He goes on the run with his friends to protect Eleven from Brenner and Hawkins Lab.
- He reconciles with Lucas.
- He breaks into his school alongside his friends, sister, Hopper and Joyce to create a sensory deprivation tank so that Eleven can find Will and Barb.
- He is hesitant about staying behind in the school instead of helping Will and insists on going with Joyce and Hopper.
- He offers for Eleven to come live with him.
- He tries to protect Eleven from the Demogorgon and tries to run to Eleven to keep her from sacrificing herself.
- He is overjoyed to have Will back.
- He refuses to give any information about El to the government agents that interrogated his family.
Season 2[]
- He spent many days at the tent he made for Eleven trying to contact her.
- When Will has an episode at the arcade, he goes out to get him and asks if everything is okay.
- He is worried when Joyce calls Will for some medical tests.
- During Halloween, he finds Will in another episode and snaps him out of it and takes him back to his house.
- He listens to Will talk about how he felt and promises not to tell anyone.
- He keeps Dustin from showing Dart to Mr. Clarke after Will tells him it's from the Upside Down.
- He and Lucas agree to take Dart to Hopper.
- He helps Max up and upon hearing her explanation, immediately tries to find Eleven in the school.
- He was extremely concerned when finding Will in the field and tries to snap him out of his episode
- He is worried about Will's absence.
- He goes to Will's house to acquire more knowledge about his friend's condition.
- He helps Joyce and Will figure out Hopper is in trouble in the tunnels.
- He goes to the tunnels with Will, Joyce and Bob to help Hopper.
- He goes to Hawkins Lab to stay with Will.
- He tries to warn the scientists that Will was forced to set a trap.
- He urges Joyce to sedate Will so that the Mind Flayer can't know their location.
- He is unwilling to sit in the Byers House waiting and speculates with his friends about the shadow monster's weakness.
- He proposes the plan to get Will to give them a message without giving away their location to the Mind Flayer.
- He is extremely happy to see Eleven again.
- He refuses to sit and do nothing and proposes going to the tunnels, trying to convince Steve to drive them there. He goes to the tunnels and tries to lead before Steve takes over.
- He asks Will if he's okay when noticing him acting weird at the cinema.
Season 3[]
- He hosts a special surprise alongside his friend to celebrate Dustin's return from summer camp.
- He tries to follow Hopper's order of not spending too much time with El.
- He goes to Starcourt to try to find a gift for Eleven to make it up to her.
- He and Lucas follow Will to Castle Byers to apologize.
- He comes up with a plan to trap Billy to determine if he's the Mind Flayer's new host.
- He strikes Billy in the head with a barbell to protect Eleven.
- He goes to the Holloway residence with the others to investigate about the Flayed.
- He confesses he does love El.
- He tries to protect El from the Spider Monster when he attacks the cabin.
- He tries to protect El from Billy once again but gets knocked unconscious. After waking up, he rushes to help Eleven and witnesses Billy's sacrifice.
- He was very upset about Eleven and Will leaving Hawkins and sought comfort from his mother Karen, who gave him a hug.
Season 4[]
- He kept in touch with El after she moved and wrote her almost every day.
- He tries to convince Eddie to move the campaign so he can go to Lucas' game.
- He acts friendly towards Angela, unaware she is Eleven's bully.
- He demands for the music in the rink to be stopped when Eleven was humiliated and tries to get to her but was blocked by the groups of people looking on.
- He tries to run after the vehicle carrying El.
- He protests against Stinson that he is not in danger and that they should be protecting his friends in Hawkins. He objects against the agent's orders of staying in the Byers house in Lenora Hills.
- He feels guilty about his argument with Eleven.
- He apologizes to Will for being distant.
- He and Will help the wounded Harmon into Argyle's car. He discovers that the pen given to them by Harmon contains a number and subsequently tries to call it.
- He gives Suzie a cover story to get her to help them track the phone number.
- He successfully finds Eleven on Suzie's coordinates and happily embraces her.
- He and the others take Eleven out of the bathtub sensory deprivation tank when noticing she has trouble breathing.
- He restores El's confidence by finally telling her he loves her, allowing her to defeat the Mind Flayer and injure his proxy form.
- He happily greets Hopper, abandoning the tension between them.
What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- He is too jerkish for NPG.
- He unfairly accuses Eleven of lying when he thinks Will is dead, and continues to berate her when she tries to find Will on the radio, even telling her that Lucas was right about her. He also doesn't apologize when he learns Will is in fact alive.
- He acts very rude and jerkish to Max during the whole of season 2, irrationally believing she is trying to take Eleven's spot. He becomes upset at Max's presence in Halloween despite Will not having a problem with it and Lucas and Dustin having fun, childishly claiming she's ruining the best night of their lives. He continues to act rudely to Max, and blames her for Dart's escape. Even on Season 3 after Eleven is back in the party, he still acts rudely to Max, though to be fair, Mike and Max were both guilty of treating each other terribly in season 3.
- Upon discovering Hopper had been hiding El, he angrily blames him and berates him by venting his rage on him trying to push him, though it is somewhat justifiable as he'd been trying to find her for months and feared she was dead.
- He acts bored and does not take Will's Dungeons & Dragons campaign seriously leading him to leave. He gets in a fight with Will and rudely states it's not his fault Will doesn't like girls, leading Will to leave and destroy Castle Byers, though he attempts to apologize afterwards. He acts distant to Will after he leaves Hawkins only calling him a few times. Then he gets in another argument with Will at rink-o-mania regarding how distant they've been.
- He makes an offhand comment about Eleven's actions.
- He has a side of brutality to him, which is showcased when he gets in a physical fight with Lucas after finding out El was scrambling the compasses. He yells at El and angrily asks what is wrong with her after she uses her powers on Lucas. Furthermore, he initially refuses to make amends with Lucas.
- He can be dishonest as he continues to lie to El when he stumbles upon her in the Starcourt Mall.
Trivia[]
- He is the only one of the main protagonists to be Inconsistently Admirable. However, this may change after the release of the fifth and final season of the show.
External Links[]
- Mike Wheeler on the Heroes Wiki
- Mike Wheeler on the Stranger Things Wiki
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