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Originally Posted by cDnStealth

I suspect

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He's either the one in the jail or he's somewhere in the upside down. There is no way they killed him off without showing his body.

Yeah, and

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El losing her powers for a long time might make sense just for her own personal plot development, but it makes tonnes of sense as a way of having Hopper alive somewhere else without El being able to find him.