Jonathan Byers is protagonist in Stranger Things
Biography[]
Season 1[]
After Will Byers goes missing, Jonathan tries to look for him in the woods, only to find that Steve Harrington is throwing a party. He sees Barb and Nancy at the party, Jonathan for some reason take pictures of Nancy and Barb. Jonathan leaves but Barb gets taken by The Demogorgon. The next day, Jonathan is printing the pictures from Steve’s party, but a girl sees him and tells Steve. Steve meets up with Jonathan, Steve breaks his camera but after Nancy sees The Demogorgon in a picture and tells Jonathan to help her find Barb. So, after they go to the woods, Nancy sees a hole in a tree and goes inside of it. After Nancy sees the Demogorgon and yells for Jonathan, Jonathan hears her and pulls her out of the tree.
Nancy is still in shook because of what she saw, so she tells Jonathan to sleep with her for the night. Steve is also outside of Nancy's house. But when he sees Jonathan threw a window, he storms off. The next day after school Steve and Jonathan get into a fight but the cops show up and take Jonathan to the station, while Steve runs away. Joyce finds out that Jonathan went to the station, so Joyce and Hopper go to the station and free Jonathan from jail time.
Nancy and Jonathan want to go back and find The Demogorgon. So they go to the store and buy some hunting equipment and later use it when The Demogorgon comes to Jonathan's house. Jonathan and Nancy let Steve help them kill The Demogorgon. After the trap they made for The Demogorgon works they light him up with flames but he ran away. Jim and Joyce find Will but Jim has flashbacks of his daughter Sara. Jonathan comes visit Will in the hospital along with his friends Lucas, Mike, and Dustin.