What happened to Vickie in Stranger Things 5? Fans spot Robin clue revealing truth

1 January 2026, 18:50 | Updated: 3 January 2026, 14:58

By Katie Louise Smith

Are Robin and Vickie still together? Stranger Things 5 epilogue includes a clue about the status of their relationship and now the Duffers have confirmed what happened to them.

Stranger Things 5 brings Robin's girlfriend Vickie into the fold a bit more in the final season but as the credits roll on the last ever episode, everyone is now wondering the same thing: What actually happened to Vickie?

The final episode (episode 8, 'The Rightside Up') ends with an epilogue showing exactly what happened to everyone in Hawkins after the final gate was closed. Set on graduation day, the celebration brings all the main characters back together including those who had moved away.

But Vickie is not present in those scenes and she isn't mentioned by anyone either, not by name at least. But there might be one clue in something Robin says that hints at where she is and whether they're still together.

WARNING: Spoilers ahead for the Stranger Things 5 finale!

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What happened to Vickie at the end of Stranger Things?

In the final episode, Vickie stays behind with Max at WSQK as Max guides Eleven and Kali through Henry's memories from afar. When Dr. Kay pulls up with her soldiers, Vickie successfully hides Max behind the secret door but they're soon discovered when El is thrown out of the Void and Henry's mind.

Presumably, Vickie and Max are then taken for questioning, but after that, we don't see Vickie again at all except for a brief glimpse of her standing nearby when everyone gets back to the MAC-Z... And we don't even know if her and Robin ever made it to their date at Enzo's.

However, there might be a clue in the epilogue that could hint that she and Robin are still together. Although perhaps not all is happy in their relationship.

Are Robin and Vickie still together in the Stranger Things 5 ending?

18 months later, when Robin, Steve, Nancy and Jonathan meet up on their return to Hawkins to watch their younger siblings and friends graduate, they make a promise to meet up every month to keep their friendship alive.

Steve is still in Hawkins, Robin is at Smith College in Massachusetts, Jonathan is studying filmmaking at NYU and Nancy just got a job at the Boston Herald newspaper.

"To nothing ever keeping us apart," Steve says, to which Robin then replies: "Including overbearing significant others." 

With no Vickie in sight, fans are taking this to mean that Robin may still be in a relationship with her, but Vickie may have been holding her back from visiting Hawkins and her friends after what happened because she worries about Robin so much.

Following on from speculation about what happened to Vickie, the Duffers have now teased her ending.

"We do that flash-forward in Mike's story and we bring them up to a certain point, and then we want to leave it a little bit up to fans in terms of where these characters end up ultimately," Ross Duffer told Entertainment Weekly. "Do Robin and Vickie stay together? Maybe, maybe not."

Sadly, it sounds like it's probably the latter as Matt Duffer added: "From my point of view and from everyone I knew in high school, what percentage of couples remain together after they leave for college? Extremely low."

"Max and Lucas survive because their love is that deep, but very few others do. But, you never know.”

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