Mikes orange mohawk. If your in this tag you probably know that Max told Holly Mike almost got a 'hot orange mohawk' before Nancy talked him out of it in episode 4. Many have related Mikes desire for a orange mowhakw to his admiration for David Bowie, who also had a bright orange mohawk. Something else has been on my mind though.
This guy. Axel. From season 2 episode 7, he was apart of Kali's gang. In season 5 episode 5, the episode after the audience learns mike wanted a bright orange mohawk, we see Axel shot in the head by the military, his mohawk clearly in view.
I was trying to see if their was some sort of connection, because I feel like mentioning an orange mohawk, then having a guy with an orange mohawk appearing the next episode, is gonna automatically generate some questions. I rewatched the scenes Axel appears in, and in his introduction scene he threatens Jane (El) with a knife, before Kali makes visions of spiders appear on his arm.
He freaks out and dances around trying to get them off, before realizing they're an illusion from Kali. He yells at her to "stay out of my head!"
This brings me to my next point---the mind flayer looks a lot like a spider.
More than it ever has in previous seasons.
The mind and meat flayer always had spider elements, but the final season mind flayer fully pushed into the spider design, with pincers, thin spider legs, and a large spider body.
Maybe Mike is paralleled to Axel with the orange Mohawk line to also parallel the illusion of spiders? Axel has an orange mohawk and sees illusions of spiders. Mike wanted an orange mohawk and see illusions of a spider-like monster. Both spiders in these instances are not real. An illusion. "Stay out of my head!"
I know this is kind of a reach, and the David Bowie explanation makes more than enough sense, I just wonder why mention an orange mohawk---which is an entirely new piece of information regarding Mikes character, they did not have to use the orange mohawk line---then include a character with said mohawk the very next episode? Was it just coincidence?
If anybody has any other connections they think their might be between these two characters, let me know!
