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Stranger Things character | |
Eleven, played by Millie Bobby Brown
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First appearance | "Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers" |
Created by | The Duffer Brothers |
Portrayed by | Millie Bobby Brown |
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Full name | Jane Ives |
Aliases | Eleven ("El") Jane Hopper |
Gender | Female |
Family | Jim Hopper (adoptive father) Terry Ives (mother) Becky Ives (aunt) |
Jane Ives, also known as Eleven and Jane Hopper, is a fictional character from the Netflix series Stranger Things. Portrayed by Millie Bobby Brown, she is a girl with psychokinetic abilities and a limited vocabulary.
Eleven is the daughter of Teresa "Terry" Ives, a participant in the Project MKUltra experiments conducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Eleven was taken from her mother at birth by Dr. Martin Brenner and was raised in the Hawkins National Laboratory in Hawkins, Indiana as a test subject to develop her psychokinetic skills. When placed in a sensory deprivation tank she can engage in astral projection and access other dimensions, primarily for the purposes of international espionage. However, Eleven encountered a creature living in the Upside Down dimension, and on the evening of November 6, 1983, she finally made contact with it. Because of this, a gate opened up between the Hawkins Laboratory and the Upside Down dimension and the creature gained the ability to go between the human world and the Upside Down.
She then escaped from Hawkins Laboratory and attempted to steal food from a local restaurant. The owner proceeded to call social services. The responding social worker was actually a Hawkins Laboratory CIA agent who killed the owner of the restaurant, causing Eleven to flee. She was then found by Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair and Dustin Henderson, who were looking for their missing friend, Will Byers.
Eleven helps to locate Will using her supernatural abilities, and determines that he is trapped in the Upside Down. However, the use of her abilities temporarily weakens her and gives her nosebleeds. The group sets out to find Will using their compasses, but Eleven interferes with their search when she realizes that they are being led towards the laboratory. Lucas becomes angry at her, having distrusted her from the beginning, and she uses her abilities to violently throw him. She flees, steals boxes of frozen waffles from a store, and consumes them in a forest. When Mike and Dustin are threatened by bullies, Eleven returns and saves them.