Eli Shane is the main protagonist of the Canadian animated show, SlugTerra.
He is voiced by Samuel Vincent, ho also voiced Edd in Ed, Edd n Eddy, Krypto in Krypto the Superdog, Lloyd Garmadon in LEGO Ninjago, and provided Sonic the Hedgehog's singing voice in Sonic Underground. Later, since Slugterra: Ascension, he was voiced by Julian Dos Santos.
Description[]
Born into poverty, Eli Shane is determined to be the greatest Slugslinger, just like his father. But in order to achieve his goal, he journeys down to Slugterra to follow in his father's footsteps and become the protector of Slugterra. Eli quickly makes friends to help him in protecting Slugterra: Pronto, Trixie, and Kord.
Personality[]
Eli Shane is generally an affable yet arrogant individual. As a teenager, he tends to act goofy as well as enjoying to taunt his opponents. Despite this trait, Eli has a strong sense of justice, as he has a tendency to go help anyone in need when possible. Additionally, Eli cares for the inhabitants of everyone in the caverns, no matter who they are, and has a fondness for all his slugs he uses in battle. Eli also cares a lot for his teammates whom he considers his family.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Eli Shane was born and raised up in the surface by his father Will Shane, who told him stories about Slugterra. Being fed this stories everyday, Eli yearned for the day that his father would take him to Slugterra and teach him everything he needed to know. However, disaster struck when his father suddenly went missing when he was 10 years old, leaving him devastated by his loss. Sometime after his father's disappearance, his mother was apparently forced to leave him (according to Eli, his mother had to go somewhere, and never came back), much to Eli's dismay. After the loss of both his parents.
Five years later, Eli manages to get to Slugterra with Burpy, along with the help from the letter from his father. He picked up his first Blaster, as well as his first Mecha-Beast, Lucky when he found where his father had lived in Slugeterra. When checking out his Mecha-Beast, he found Pronto going around for scraps. After a short conversation, Eli recruits Pronto to help him track where to go. Pronto then leads him to a Slugslinging tournament. Along the way, a burglar is seen robbing an innocent man and Eli attempts to help him, but the robber punches him and when he was about to go in for the finishing blow, a girl, named Trixie, helps him. Before Eli could properly thank her, she takes off. Pronto then takes Eli, where they met Trixie again and Kord, who help train him. For the qualifiers, he meets and defeats Shock Wire. In doing so, he gains Joules. Eli then goes to the first cavern for the tournament with Pronto, promising to meet Trixie and Kord there.
Eli and Pronto meet up with Trixie and Kord Zane at the first cavern for the tournament. Eli soon gains a good arsenal of Slugs in the process, due to his winning streak. This attracts the attention of a nefarious villain named Dr. Blakk. As Eli keeps winning his battles, Dr. Blakk decides to attempt to recruit him to work for Blakk Industries, but seeing the ghouled slug, Eli declines and tells him that he would get in the way if Blakk ever did anything wrong. Later during the final match, the opponent, John Bull was given ghouls, by Blakk so he could defeat Eli without much trouble. During the battle, Eli quickly gets the upper hand and John Bull hesitates to use the ghoul slug. Eli sends out Burpy and Bull decides to shoot out his Ghoul Slug, which easily takes down Burpy. This also takes down Eli, who is knocked away from the blast. Eli then realizes it was a ghoul slug, but John Bull declines taking one of Eli's Slugs as he wants more Ghoul Slugs.
After the battle, Eli reminisces about the time he wanted to go Slugslinging with his father as he will be the one who will mentor him to be the next Shane and laments on the fact that he had to do it alone now. Pronto, along with Kord and Trixie, tell him that he's not alone and they finally form a team, the Shane Gang.
In "The Trade", Eli was forced to trade Joules to buy new gear and furniture after their hideout was damaged by Blakk's Henchman. They later find out that Joules and a whole shipment of slugs was actually being sold to Blakk and was being taken care of by Blakk's Enforcer El Diablos Nacho. They attempt to free the slugs by hiding in to the room but were confronted by Nacho which resulted in to a fierce battle. Nacho eventually defeated them but later after they headed to Dr. Blakk's Citadel. Eli went to meet with Dr. Blakk personally while Kord, Trixie and Pronto dug a hole in to Blakk's Fortress. At the Meeting Blakk tried to negotiate with Eli for him serving him in exchange for Joules but Joules shocked Blakk giving Eli time to grab him and then Eli engaged in a battle. While Eli fell out of the window, he used Suds so that he was not hurt. Then Blakk also jumped and landed and was backed up by his henchman. Kord, Trixie and Pronto then also jumped out and assisted Eli. Eli then used Burpy to escape.
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Jimmo Shane - Great Uncle
- Will Shane - Father
Friends[]
- Shane Gang
- Will Shane
- Trixie
- Kord Zane
- Pronto
- Junjie
- Shadow Clan:
- Shadow Clan Leader
- Shadow Clan Chieftain
- Shadow Clan Guardian
- The Giver
- Slugs
- Burpy
- Joules
- Rookie
- Bluster
- Bludgeon
- Stinky
- Mo
- Chiller
- Loki - formerly
- Elemental and Guardian Slugs:
- Doc
- Fire Elemental
- Earth Elemental
- Water Elemental
- Air Elemental
- Other guardians
- TBA...
- The Unbeatable Master
- Redhook
- Twist - formerly
- Eastern Caverns
- Junjie
- Master Lian
- The Outlaws
- Hamengku
- Flower
- Swick
- Underlord Sleade
- The Pyritor
- Drucilla
- Tad Blakk - formerly
Enemies[]
- Blakk Industries
- Dr. Blakk - archnemesis
- Locke and Lode
- C.C.
- Twist
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Eli is similar to Ash Ketchum from Pokémon.
- Both share the same appearance of having black hair.
- Both have a elemental creature as their first partner and best friend: Burpy for Eli Shane and Pikachu for Ash Ketchum.
- lthough Eli's birth date is unknown, in The Slug Run, he states that he has started riding a Mecha-Beast sometime in January, so it is possible that his birthday is in January because he left the Surface a day after his birthday (as said in The World Beneath Our Feet Part 1)
- Eli is one of the only few Slugslingers in the show to name their Slugs.
- LK-E (Lucky) is his first and favourite Mecha-Beast.
- Eli has owned two blasters so far. His previous blaster broke because his Slugs were getting too powerful and he currently uses Defender Slipstream XVL, which is his favourite Blaster. But as seen in Slugterra: Eastern Caverns, he occasionally uses a Wrist Blaster like Junjie.
- Eli is the only other person other than Shanai that can perform a Fusion Shot. He is the owner of the only Double Barrel upgrade in existence, so his blaster is the only one that is currently operating and can do a Fusion Shot. (Shanai's was broken by Eli accidentally, and could only do Fusion Shots when broken into 2 separate blasters)
- He had a great uncle who was succeeded by his father before him.
- It was revealed in The Return that Eli owns an unnamed Geoshard. He also has an unnamed Flaringo that was seen in a few Slugisodes and an unnamed Rammstone which some people thought was Bludgeon.
- He and the Shane Gang were the first to use Megamorphs. Eli was the first person to shoot a Slug that can Mega Morph and use an Accelerator that didn't Mega Morph ghoul slugs. (Burpy was the first normal slug to be shot out of a blaster and Mega Morph with and without an accelerator)
- Eli is one of the two Shane Gang members to have their exact age stated, the second is Tad.
- On the website, it is stated that Eli's favorite Slugs are Burpy, Joules and Doc, although in the TV show, Eli treats all his Slugs equally and fairly, regardless of their skill and abilities.
- Eli's name has been often mistaken as a nickname for "Elijah" and "Elliot", but Nerd Corps had confirmed that Eli isn't a nickname.
- It is possible that Eli knew about the Deep Caverns and the Darkbane before the episode What Lies Beneath, from the episode A Distant Shore when he was telling his friends about The Drop.
- In Slug It Out, Eli has black eyes instead of blue eyes.
- Young Eli has the guitar shirt from the concept art.
- It is revealed in Slugterra: Into the Shadows, Eli's mother had to leave him for reasons unknown when he was 10 and he went to live with his uncle, Jimmo Shane.
- This is unlike the answer given by the Slugterra official Facebook page a long time ago, which once said that Eli had departed from the surface on good terms with his mother, knowing what he had to do.
- Also in the same page, was said that his mother probably threw an amazing 15th birthday party for him.
- At the end of Slugterra: Into the Shadows, Eli officially turns 16. Will left him a hologram that he pre-recorded for his son as a 16th birthday present.