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| “ | I'm going to my friends. I'm going home. | „ |
| ~ Jane in season two. |
| “ | Friends don't lie. | „ |
| ~ Jane's mantra and her most famous quote. |
Jane Ives, (legally changed to Jane Ives-Hopper-Byers), better known as Eleven (011), or El, is one of the main protagonists of Stranger Things.
Eleven was kidnapped and raised in Hawkins National Laboratory, where she was experimented on for her inherited psychokinetic powers. After escaping the lab, she was found by Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair and Dustin Henderson. Upon discovering her powers, Mike believed that; she could help find their missing friend, Will Byers. During their time together, she and Mike formed a strong bond. It was ultimately revealed that; in a lab experiment, she made contact with a creature from another dimension, accidentally opening an inter-dimensional gateway. In an attempt to protect her friends, El eventually faced and destroyed this monster in a showdown at Hawkins Middle School, mysteriously vanishing in the process.
Eventually, El was found to be alive, secretly living; with Jim Hopper at his grandfather's old cabin. After she grew impatient from being separated from her friends, El went on a journey by herself, discovering her past in the process. Realizing that; she could not leave her friends behind, she returned to Hawkins, reuniting with them to help defeat yet another extra-dimensional threat. Jane was then taken in by Hopper as his adopted daughter. This also allowed her to attend the Snow Ball dance with Mike.
During the summer of 1985, El's romantic relationship; with Mike continued to blossom, much to Hopper's dismay; who took steps to complicate it. This; resulted in El forming an unlikely friendship; with Max Mayfield. Upon learning that; the Mind Flayer had reappeared to stop her and get revenge, taking over Billy Hargrove and other people in Hawkins in the process, she joined her friends to defeat it. Amidst the ensuing fight to stop the Mind Flayer, Jane lost her powers. Following Hopper's supposed apparent death, she was taken in by the Byers family. Three months later, before moving out of Hawkins with the Byers, El, and Mike made plans to visit each other at Thanksgiving while also professing her love for him.
After Hopper's apparent death, El was taken in; by the Byers family; who were all relocated to Lenora Hills, California under Sam Owens's supervision. She struggled to adjust to her new life, especially with living without her powers while being a target for bullies. In 1986, while spending spring break with Mike, Owens informed her of a new evil threatening Hawkins; she agreed to participate in "Nina", an experimental scheme Owens and Brenner created, designed to restore and even boost her abilities. During the process, El re-experienced her repressed memories; she learned One was responsible for the 1979 massacre. Later, the deranged Lt. Col Sullivan led a military effort to assassinate Eleven, though she escaped the Nina facility with the help of Mike, Will, Jonathan and Argyle. She attempted to assist her friends in Hawkins via psychic projection, but was unable to prevent Vecna's plan to further the Upside Down's incursion.
El is portrayed by Millie Bobby Brown, who also plays Madison Russell in the MonsterVerse, young Alice in Once Upon a Time in Wonderland, and Enola Holmes in the titular 2020 film of the same name and its 2022 sequel, whose performance has been widely acclaimed. Charlotte and Clara Ward played the character when she was younger, as Martie Blair played the character young.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Psionics: Jane was born with a vast array of preternatural abilities, acquired through a combination of inheritance and exposure to hallucinogenic drugs while in utero during her mother's time as an MKUltra test subject. These abilities were the reason she was abducted at birth and raised at Hawkins National Laboratory, where she was experimented on.
- Telekinesis: Her most recurrent power, she is able to manipulate objects, people and creatures with her mind. When amplified by her emotions, her telekinesis is strong enough to lift large and heavy objects; she flipped a Hawkins Power and Light van in the air in "The Bathtub", and in "The Lost Sister", she was able to channel her anger in order to pull a train car towards her. Moreover, in "The Mind Flayer", she was able to throw and kill a Demodog with her mind. Jane could also use this ability to attack and cause physical damage to people (primarily in self-defense), even being able to affect internal organs to some extent; she was able to squeeze Troy's bladder in order to make him urinate himself and later broke his arm. Additionally, she has thrown people against walls on several instances, broken the neck of an orderly at Hawkins Lab, and was even able to crush the brains of several agents at once. After deep diving into her most traumatic memories in 1986, Jane's powers not only have been brought back, but amplified to the point where she can levitate a 1,000 pound tank with absolute ease and telekinetically play around an entire helicopter, as if it was merely a toy helicopter.
- Levitation: Via telekinesis, Jane could suspend objects in the air, making them levitate. This was first displayed in "Holly, Jolly" where she made Mike’s model of the Millennium Falcon float. This ability is not restricted to objects, as shown in "The Monster" when she saved Mike by levitating him to safety after he had jumped off a cliff. In "The Gate", Jane herself levitated as she was closing the Gate, possibly as a side effect of her using so much power.
- Portal Manipulation: Jane can open and manipulate portals to the Upside Down. She was first revealed to have this power in "The Monster", where it was shown that she had accidentally opened the Gate upon making contact with the Demogorgon. Eleven later manages to close the Gate in "The Gate". In "Trick or Treat, Freak", she manipulated a portal that the Demogorgon had opened in order to make it large enough for her to pass through. This ability is rooted from the primary telekinetic power.
- Dimensional Travel: After the Gate was opened, it allowed Hawkins Lab scientists to go into the Upside Down. She herself entered the dimension after defeating the Demogorgon in "The Upside Down."
- Biokinesis: Jane could manipulate the bodies of living creatures to a certain extent, as shown when she disintegrated the Demogorgon. This ability is rooted from the primary telekinetic power.
- Resurrection: Jane can resurrect deceased characters. In "The Piggyback", Jane brings Max Mayfield back to life after she is killed by Vecna. Her injuries remained and she was put into a coma.
- Teleportation: Tentative. She appears to possess this ability as shown when she was somehow transported to the Upside Down upon defeating the Demogorgon, though the exact specifics of how this happened are unclear. It's highly possible the Demogorgon could have played a part, considering it appeared to have abilities similar to Jane's. Another possibility is that the teleportation was an unintended side effect from Jane exerting so much power. In any case, if she does possess this ability, she most likely has no knowledge of it. In the Stranger Things collaboration event in The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross, Jane, after finding Mike's conscience at The Void, managed to teleport herself to the world of Britannia. This ability may be rooted from the primary telekinetic power.
- Extrasensory Perception (ESP): Jane can gain information through the mind rather than the physical senses. She could recognize people taken into the Upside Down from photos, though she had presumably never met them before, and could sense Will's corresponding location in the other dimension.
- Remote Viewing: Via ESP, she can seek out and find targets in different locations than her own. When amplified by sensory deprivation, this ability is powerful enough to find targets over vast distances, even as far as other dimensions.
- Telepathy: Often used in tandem with her RV abilities. When she has located her target, she can choose to communicate with them mentally.
- Mind Walking: Jane can enter the minds of others via contacting them through the Void. This was mainly seen in "The Piggyback", where she enters the mind of Max Mayfield in order to save her from Vecna's curse.
- Memory Reading: Jane is able to view the memories of others via contacting them through the Void. This ability was first displayed in "Dig Dug" where she was able to see several of Terry's memories. She later used this ability in "E Pluribus Unum", viewing the memories of Billy Hargrove's abusive childhood in order to find the Mind Flayer's lair.
- Evocation: Jane can seemingly communicate with deceased characters. This is seen in "The Piggyback", when she talks with Max Mayfield whilst in ESP.
- Psychometry: Or "token-object reading", Jane can gain information about a person by touching objects associated with them. In "The Weirdo on Maple Street", she was able to correctly identify which game piece was Will's when demonstrating with the D&D board.
- Technopathy: To some extent and with varying results, she can transmit the voices of people and other sounds in other locations over electronic speakers.
Abilities[]
- Survival Skills: While living in the woods for a month, Jane learned crucial survival skills, even in her youth with the aid of her psychic abilities to hunt and her wits for tactical and strategic planning.
- Intellect: Jane has shown to be smart enough in strategizing clever ideas and tactics during life-threatening moments. Jane demonstrated her intellect in "E Pluribus Unum" when the group was aware that going after Flayed Billy was a risk of endangering themselves, El remembers how she communicated with her mother over her schizophrenia, by using powers to figure out what she was saying in her mind and decides to do the same over his. This allowed her to enter Billy's memories to find the exact location of where the Mind Flayer began the spreading of the Flayed. In "The Piggyback" when the group was 2,000 miles from Hawkins, she illustrates a plan to protect Max while being far away by fighting Vecna in her mind with her Remote viewing knowing it would link them together which was a success.
- Stealth: In "The Vanishing of Will Byers", Jane was able to sneak inside Benny's Burgers without giving notice and eats spotted french fries until she got caught. Later that night when MKUltra kills Benny, Jane quickly sprints out the back door only to be held at gunpoint by two agents but quietly kills them before escaping. Then after entering a doorway out of the Upside Down during "Trick or Treat, Freak," when attempting to meet up with Mike at his house the government was present for questioning about her whereabouts as she looks at Mike through the window but hides in the woods so they couldn’t get her, 353 days later Eleven also tried to find Mike at Hawkins middle school only to see him with Max causing her to trip her off her skateboard and leaves without her presence being trace. In "The Battle of Starcourt" when the Mind Flayer breaks into the mall, her and the group separately hides in different areas and she heads in the store "Gap" with both Mike and Max while remaining silent from the creature's tentacles until Lucas distracts it with his wrist-rocket giving them the chance to make it out the back way of the building.
- Fighting Adaptation: After Jane had lost her powers, she had to rely on instincts to help her in combat such as using a roller skate to attack a bully which split her nose and face resulting with a grade 2 concussion. She waits for the police officer to unlock the back of the transport truck door, slamming it at his face briefly dazed and also managed to grab the handle of a defibrillator to swing it at Dr. Brenner which scars his mouth.
- Morse Code: Jane was taught how to read and signal Morse code by Hopper as a means for them to safely communicate.
Quotes[]
| “ | The Gate... I opened it. I'm the monster. | „ |
| ~ Eleven to Mike. |
| “ | I dump your ass. | „ |
| ~ Eleven to Mike, breaking up with him. |
| “ | Mike... I love you too. | „ |
| ~ Eleven to Mike. |
| “ | I piggybacked from a pizza dough freezer. | „ |
| ~ Eleven to Max. |
| “ | If you touch her again, I will kill you again. | „ |
| ~ Eleven threatening Vecna. |
| “ | You will not die. | „ |
| ~ Eleven to Max. |
| “ | I kept it open. I kept the door open three inches. | „ |
| ~ Eleven reuniting with Hopper. |
Trivia[]
- 246 actresses were seen to be offered for the role of Jane, make her to have a record of having the most cast offers.
- In a 2021 crossover event, Jane appeared as a character and playable hero in the mobile game The Seven Deadly Sins: Grand Cross, where she teamed up with the Seven Deadly Sins to defeat the Mind Flayer.
- El was originally suppose to die at the end of the first season, but due to her popularity and the fact that the show would have more seasons, the Duffer brothers scrapped the idea.
- In season 2 of Amazon TV show The Boys had a character that was inspired by her called Cindy.
External Links[]
- Eleven on the Stranger Things Wiki
- Eleven on the Pure Good Wiki
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