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I'm trying to get abducted... by aliens! These are signs I'm supposed to be up there! This mole is the exact shape of the Orion Nebula!
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~ Elio in the second teaser trailer
Elio Solis is the titular main protagonist of Pixar's 29th full-length animated feature film Elio.
He is an 11-year-old boy, who wished to get abducted by aliens across the galaxy and is mistaken for the intergalactic ambassador of planet Earth. He lives with his aunt, Olga Solis.
Elio often doesn’t feel like he fits in on Earth. He loves his Aunt Olga, and he knows she loves him, too, but she doesn’t really get him. “Elio’s parents passed away when he was younger,” says producer Mary Alice Drumm. “He’s lonely. He sees this magnificence in space—the promise of life—and he puts all his energy into that. He really believes that’s where he’ll find true connection.”
After the death of his parents, Elio Solis is orphaned and lives with his aunt Olga Solis, an Air Force major who gave up her dreams of becoming an astronaut to raise her nephew. Elio enters a closed exhibit of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, where he is amazed by the idea of discovering other life in space.
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Years later, Elio wishes he could be abducted by aliens. He lies on the beach every day and waits, but to no avail. One night, two bullies, Bryce and Caleb, tamper with his walkie-talkie, leading to a fight that injures his left eye. When the walkie-talkie breaks, Elio becomes enraged and attacks Caleb, biting his leg. The police then arrive on the beach and the fight ends. Olga brings Elio to the military base where she works. Elio's eye is injured and he has to wear a patch over it for two weeks. At Olga's workplace, Elio sneaks into an emergency meeting where conspiracy theorist Gunther Melmac claims to have found evidence of aliens responding to Voyager and offers to send them a message, but is rejected by Olga and her colleagues. Elio uses Melmac's device to send his message, causing a power outage at the military base and nearly costing Olga her job. Angered by Elio's actions, Olga decides to send Elio to a youth camp since Bryce and Caleb are there, but she is afraid of it.
At the camp, Elio escapes from Bryce, Caleb, and two other bullies who try to scare him one night. At the military base, Olga receives strange space messages in response to Elio. While Elio is being bullied, a spaceship arrives and kidnaps him. Inside the spaceship, he meets a liquid supercomputer named OOOOO and is accepted into the Communiverse, where aliens share information from their worlds. The other ambassadors mistakenly declare him as an ambassador to Earth, thinking he created the Voyager spacecraft. Before Elio can explain, they attend an emergency meeting with Lord Grigon, a disowned warlord who threatens to take over the Communiverse by force. The ambassadors plan to return Elio to Earth, but Elio chooses to negotiate with Grigon for his immediate appointment as ambassador. OOOOO creates a clone of Elio to take his place on Earth. Olga brings Other Elio home from camp after hearing about the previous fight.
Meanwhile, Elio attempts to negotiate with Grigon, but ends up imprisoning him after unintentionally angering him. While trying to escape prison, he encounters Grigon's son Glordon, and decides to use him as a bargaining chip to ensure Grigon leaves the Communiverse alone. They return to the Communiverse, and Grigon agrees to leave them alone in exchange for Glordon's safe return.
Elio and Glordon trust each other; Elio feels lonely and misunderstood by his aunt, while Glordon resists becoming a war machine like his father. Elio devises a cloning plan to keep them together. He puts the real Glordon in an escape shuttle and gives the fake one to Grigon. Grigon notices the change immediately and uses Questa's mind-reading powers to find them. While Grigon sends soldiers to find his son, Questa, upset by Elio's deception, sends him back home to escape Grigon. In the meantime, Glordon accidentally activates the shuttle and heads towards Earth.
When he returns home, Elio is devastated, but soon sees his aunt on the beach with Other Elio, who has been searching for her, suspecting that Other Elio is not his real nephew. After making up, they sneak to the military base where Elio's shuttle is being taken under control. While Other Elio sacrifices himself to distract the soldiers, Elio and Olga sneak into the base and find Glordon dying in the shuttle. They seek out Bryce and Melmac to take him back to the Communiverse to avoid space debris.
When they return to the Communiverse, they take Glordon to his father, who tears his clothes to swaddle him, saving his life. Grigon apologizes to his son and the ambassadors, while Elio returns to the Communiverse. Elio declines, telling him that Earth is his home and bidding him farewell. Questa reminds him that he is never alone before sending him and Olga home. Elio and Bryce then continue to communicate with Glordon via a radio.
Appearance[]
Elio is a short and young, preteen boy with lightly tanned skin, brown eyes, dark brown wavy hair, and light freckles across his nose and cheeks. He wears a scouts uniform consisting of an indigo button up short sleeved shirt, gray cargo shorts, dark green socks, black shoes with brown soles on them, and a tan sash.
He additionally wears a helmet that's a modified metal pot, a light green T-Shirt with a green alien head on it, dark green shorts, a green bracelet, white socks with a green line, dark blue shoes with white laces and brown soles on them, and a large violet cape with decorations (such as colorful plastic spoons, forks, and knives) and green on the back of the cape. For the majority of the film he wears a blue eye patch on his left eye after being hit with a radio during the fight with his bullies until the end of the movie. He also has a mole in the shape of the Orion Nebula on his stomach.
Personality[]
In the beginning, Elio starts off as a depressed and lonely boy, deeply affected by his parents' deaths. When he developed a fascination with aliens and outer space, Elio used these interests to escape from reality and his grief over his parents' death. His interest in aliens and grief also caused him to isolate himself from his aunt Olga and anyone who tried to befriend him as he felt nobody would understand and accept him like his parents did before they died. And because of this belief, Elio selfishly did not consider Olga his family, thinking she only saw him as a burden and that if he were meet aliens of different species, they would accept him for his weirdness and nonconformity unlike anyone on Earth.
He is a rambunctious young boy with a powerful passion for space, or more specifically, extraterrestrial life. He is prone to hyperactive habits to pursue this passion. Beneath his enthusiasm and energy is a lonely boy whose struggle with losing his parents and feelings of being rejected, and despite his tendency to self-aggrandise, he is ultimately a kind-hearted child that desperately wants connection.
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Elio - Official Trailer
Elio - Final Trailer - In Theaters June 20
Trivia[]
Elio Solis is Pixar's first child protagonist to have lost both parents. Coincidentally, Olga Solis was originally going to be his mother, but after America Ferrera dropped her role due to scheduling conflicts, the role was given to Zoe Saldaña, and Olga was now changed to Elio's aunt.
His name, Elio, and his surname, Solis, could based to the words "Helios" and "Sol", which in Greek and Latin mean "Sun", so his complete name in English is, literally, "Sun Sun".
His behavior shown through the film, particularly his obsession with astronomy, space life and ufology, may imply that he is autistic.
Elio is Pixar’s first canonically queer protagonist.
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