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 Información biográfica
Estado
Desconocido [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

Nacido
7 de junio de 1971 [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] *

Fallecido
25 de marzo de 1986 (muerte clínica; revivido por médicos de NINA)
27 de marzo de 1986 (muerte clínica; revivido por médicos de NINA)

Edad
2-3 ( flashback de 1974
) 8 ( flashback de 1979
) 12 ( temporada uno )
13 ( temporada dos )
14 ( temporadas tres y cuatro )
16 ( temporada cinco )
17 ( epílogo; posible futuro )

Alias
Jane Ives (nombre de nacimiento)
Jane Hopper (nombre legal)
011 (nombre del sujeto)
El
The Weirdo
Eleanor
Shirley Temple
Mage

Residencia
Hawkins , Indiana
(1971-1985 , 1986- ) :

 Laboratorio Nacional Hawkins (1971 - noviembre de 1983 )

 Sótano de Wheeler (noviembre de 1983)
  Bosque de Hawkins (noviembre-diciembre de 1983)
 Cabina Hopper (diciembre de 1983 - noviembre de 1984, noviembre de 1984 - julio de 1985, marzo de 1986 -
noviembre de 1987)
 Casa Byers (julio-octubre de 1985)
Bloomington, Indiana
(noviembre de 1984) :

 Casa Ives
Chicago, Illinois
(noviembre de 1984) :

 El almacén de Kali Prasad

Lenora Hills, California
(octubre de 1985 - marzo de 1986) :

 Casa Byers
Estado civil
Dating Mike Wheeler (prior to her disappearance)

Family
Biological family:

 Andrew Rich † (biological father)

 Terry Ives (biological mother)
 Bill Ives † (maternal biological grandfather)
 Becky Ives (maternal biological aunt)
 Shirley (maternal biological grandaunt)

Adoptive family:

 Jim Hopper (adoptive father)

 Joyce Byers (guardian)
 Sara Hopper † (adoptive half-sister)
 James Hopper Sr † (adoptive grandfather)
Hawkins National Laboratory:

 Dr. Martin Brenner † (captor/father figure)

 One/Henry Creel † (fellow test subject)
 Eight/Kali Prasad † (fellow test subject/sister figure)
 Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Nine, Ten, Twelve, Thirteen, Fourteen, Fifteen,
Sixteen, Seventeen, and Eighteen † (fellow test subjects)
Other relations
Mike Wheeler (boyfriend)
Dustin Henderson (best friend)
Lucas Sinclair (best friend)
Max Mayfield (best friend)
Will Byers (best friend/brother figure)
Jonathan Byers (friend/brother figure)
Nancy Wheeler (friend)
Steve Harrington (friend)
Robin Buckley (friend)
Argyle (friend)
Benny Hammond † (friend)
Dr. Sam Owens (ally)
Billy Hargrove † (enemy)
Vecna † (enemy)
The Mind Flayer (enemy)
The Demogorgon † (enemy)

Affiliation
Ives family
Hawkins National Laboratory (formerly)
The Party
Hopper family
Byers family
Occupation
Test subject at Hawkins National Laboratory (1971-1983)
Student at Lenora Hills High School (1985-1986)
Test subject at the Nina Project (1986)

Physical information
Height
5'5" (165 cm)

Eye color
Brown

Hair color
Brown

Portrayal
Main actor
Millie Bobby Brown

Other actors
Charlotte and Clara Ward (2/3 year-old Eleven)
Martie Blair[6] (8 year-old Eleven)

Appears in
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8

9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17

18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25

26 | 27 | 28 | 29* | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34

35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42

* = material de archivo

Siempre estaré contigo . Te

“ amo.

—Once a Mike
"
6 de noviembre de 1987

Jane Hopper (nacida Jane Ives ), también conocida como Eleven o El , es un

personaje principal de STRANGER THINGS . Es interpretada por Millie Bobby Brown .
Jane nació con habilidades psicoquinéticas especiales; su madre, Terry , fue
sometida a experimentos en el controvertido programa gubernamental
conocido como "MKUltra" , el cual, por accidente o por diseño del Dr. Martin
Brenner , afectó a Jane en el útero. Tras su nacimiento, Jane fue secuestrada
inmediatamente por el Dr. Brenner y llevada al Laboratorio Nacional de
Hawkins . Jane fue designada "Once", como una de las muchas niñas de la
serie de sujetos de prueba de Brenner . Durante su infancia, Brenner puso a
prueba las habilidades de Once y las demás en el laboratorio, negándole al
mismo tiempo el acceso al mundo exterior.
En 1979 , Henry Creel , o Uno, el sujeto de pruebas psicoquinético original del
laboratorio, manipuló a Once, de ocho años, para que recuperara sus poderes
latentes y asesinó brutalmente a los demás sujetos. Aunque intentó convencer
a Once, esta se negó y lo dominó, enviándolo a través de una puerta
temporal a otra dimensión . Tras el incidente, Once sufrió un coma y una leve
amnesia, con sus poderes debilitados.
Four years later, on November 6, 1983, Brenner pushed Eleven to make
contact with a creature from the alternate dimension, accidentally opening
a second gateway at the lab. Amongst the chaos, Eleven escaped the lab
through a drain pipe; she was soon found by Mike, Lucas, and Dustin. Upon
discovering her abilities, Mike believed that she could help find Will, their
missing friend. During their time together, she and Mike formed a strong bond
and quickly grew to like each other. In an attempt to protect her friends, Eleven
eventually destroyed the monster she had unleashed in a showdown
at Hawkins Middle School, mysteriously vanishing in the process.
Despite her apparent demise, Eleven had survived, and secretly began living
with Jim Hopper at his grandfather's old cabin. Frustrated from being separated
from her friends, Eleven decided to defy Hopper's orders, and went on a
journey of self-discovery, uncovering her past. Realizing she could not leave her
friends behind, she returned to Hawkins, reuniting with her allies to help them
neutralize another supernatural threat dubbed "the Mind Flayer". Eleven was
then taken in by Hopper as his adopted daughter, her legal name now "Jane
Hopper". In December, she attended the Snow Ball school dance with Mike.
By the summer of 1985, Eleven had struck up a friendship with Max, with her
romantic relationship with Mike continuing to blossom. Upon learning that the
Mind Flayer had returned to wreak havoc in Hawkins, she and her friends
began efforts to defeat it. During their fight against the possessed Billy, "the
Flayed" and the Mind Flayer's various proxy forms, Eleven suffered a traumatic
injury and later lost access to her powers.
After Hopper's apparent death, Eleven was taken in by the Byers family, who
were all relocated to Lenora Hills, California under Dr. 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. As part of the process, Eleven
re-experienced her repressed memories; she learned Creel was responsible for
the 1979 massacre and had returned to wreak havoc in Hawkins in the present
day. Later, erratic military commander Lt. Col Sullivan led an effort to
assassinate Eleven, though she escaped the Nina facility with the help of Mike,
Will, Jonathan , and Argyle. El then psychically assisted her friends in Hawkins
and battled Creel once more; despite El's best efforts, she ultimately failed to
stop the Upside Down's invasion of Hawkins.

After finally vanquishing Vecna and the Mind Flayer, Eleven seemingly died in
the collapsing Upside Down to prevent the experiments that made her from
continuing. While parting ways with Mike, she promised she would always be
there to see him and his friends again. Eighteen months later, Mike would
theorize that the Eleven who died at the gate was an illusion made by Kali
before the latter succumbed to her wounds, theoretically allowing Eleven to run
away to a place with three waterfalls and live in peace.
 Contents
 1Historia
o 1.1Nacimiento y vida temprana
o 1.2década de 1970
 1.2.11974
 1.2.1.1El intento de rescate de Terry
 1.2.21979
 1.2.2.1El amable ordenanza
 1.2.2.2La masacre en el laboratorio de
Hawkins
o 1.31979 - 1983
 1.3.1Entrenamiento psicocinético
 1.3.2Apuntando a los soviéticos
o 1.41983
 1.4.1Estableciendo contacto
 1.4.2En fuga
o 1.51983 - 1984
 1.5.1Vivir en la cabaña de Hopper
o 1.61984
 1.6.1Octubre
 1.6.1.1Cada vez más impaciente
 1.6.2Noviembre
 1.6.2.1Descubriendo su pasado
 1.6.2.2Cerrando la puerta
 1.6.3Diciembre
o 1.71984-1985
o 1.81985
 1.8.1Junio
 1.8.1.1Romance con Mike
 1.8.1.2Amistad con Max
 1.8.2Julio
 1.8.2.1Investigando a Billy
 1.8.2.2Batalla con el monstruo araña
 1.8.3Julio - octubre
 1.8.3.1Despedida y mudanza de Hawkins
o 1.91985 - 1986
 1.9.1Adaptarse a una nueva vida
o 1.101986
 1.10.1Marzo
 1.10.1.1Pelea con Angela
 1.10.1.2Reclutado por el Dr. Owens
 1.10.1.3Recuerdos enterrados
 1.10.1.4Ataque a Nina
 1.10.1.5Luchando contra Vecna
 1.10.1.6Regreso a Hawkins
o 1.111987
 1.11.1Noviembre
 1.11.1.1Entrenamiento para el gateo
 1.11.1.2La búsqueda de Holly
  1.11.1.3Interrogando a Akers
 1.11.1.4La fuga de la prisión
 1.11.1.5Voluntad de rescate
 1.11.1.6Operación Tallo de Frijoles
 1.11.1.7La última resistencia de Vecna
 1.11.1.8El sacrificio de Once
o 1.121989
 1.12.1Puede
 1.12.1.1Las secuelas
 1.12.1.2La teoría de Mike
 2Personalidad y rasgos
 3Poderes y habilidades
o 3.1Descripción general
o 3.2Psiónica
o 3.3Manipulación de portales y viajes dimensionales
o 3.4Percepción extrasensorial y proyección psíquica
o 3.5Habilidades regulares
 4Debilidades
o 4.1Caminar mentalmente
o 4.2Tecnología antipsíquica
o 4.3Límites físicos
 5Relaciones
o 5.1Familiar
o 5.2No familiar
 6Apariciones
o 6.1Historietas
o 6.2Juegos de vídeo
o 6.3Otras apariciones
 7Árbol genealógico
o 7.1Biológico
o 7.2Adoptivo
 8Citas memorables
 9Entre bastidores
o 9.1Creación y desarrollo
o 9.2Fundición
 10Galerías
 11Trivialidades
o 11.1La edad de once
o 11.2General
 12Enlaces externos
 13Referencias
o 13.1Jerarquía del canon
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What are the special psychokinetic abilities that Eleven possesses in Stranger

Things?
Eleven from Stranger Things possesses a variety of psychokinetic abilities. Her most
recurrent power is telekinesis, which allows her to manipulate objects, people, and
creatures with her mind. This power is amplified by her emotions, enabling her to lift large
and heavy objects. For instance, she once flipped a Hawkins Power and Light van in the air
and pulled a train car towards her using her mind. Additionally, Eleven has the ability of
Extrasensory Perception (ESP), which allows her to gain information through the mind
rather than the physical senses. However, it's important to note that Eleven's powers are
still developing and she may not be fully aware of all her abilities.
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Who is Dr. Martin Brenner in relation to Eleven from Stranger Things?

Dr. Martin Brenner, portrayed by Matthew Modine, is a significant character in Stranger
Things, particularly in relation to Eleven. Brenner, who allegedly worked for the US
Department of Energy, was a government figure involved in controversial experiments. He
raised Jane, who he referred to as Eleven, along with several other child test subjects.
Brenner built himself up as a father figure to these children, making them refer to him as
'Papa'. Despite his seemingly caring demeanor, Brenner's actions were far from paternal,
subjecting the children to various inhumane tests and experiments.
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What is the significance of the name 'Jane Ives' in Stranger Things?

In Stranger Things, 'Jane Ives' is the birth name of the character known as Eleven,
portrayed by Millie Bobby Brown. Jane was born with special psychokinetic abilities due to
her mother, Terry, being experimented upon in the controversial government program
known as 'MKUltra'. This program affected Jane while she was still in the womb. After her
birth, Jane was kidnapped by Dr. Martin Brenner and brought to Hawkins National
Laboratory, where she was given the subject name '011', which eventually got shortened to
'El'.
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How did the MKUltra program affect Eleven in Stranger Things?

The MKUltra program had a significant impact on Eleven's life in Stranger Things. As a test
subject in the controversial government program, Eleven was subjected to experiments
involving psychedelic drugs and sensory deprivation. These experiments were designed to
exploit her innate telekinetic abilities. The program led to her being isolated and secluded
from the outside world, undergoing psychological tests that pushed her powers to the limit.
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 Shadow

Birth and early life

Terry and Brenner

Hoping to recreate Henry Creel's powers in other individuals, Dr. Martin

Brenner, a researcher for the controversial government program "MKUltra", took
what he had learned from Henry and adjusted his experimentations. [7][8]

Around 1970, a student named Terry Ives chose to participate in Brenner's

experiments. As a test subject, Terry would take psychedelic drugs and
[9]

be sensorily deprived, in the hopes of "expanding the boundaries of the mind";

Terry also apparently received a transfusion of Henry Creel's blood. [10]

Unbeknownst to Terry, she had become pregnant during this period. On June
7, 1971 , she gave birth to a girl, naming her Jane. Due to the
[3] [4][9]

experimentation on Terry, Jane was born with various extraordinary

psychokinetic abilities. Immediately after her birth, she was abducted by
[11]

Brenner; the incident was covered up as a miscarriage, meaning there were no

birth certificates or medical records of Eleven's existence. While Terry knew
[9]

she had seen her daughter alive upon giving birth, Terry's sister believed Jane
never survived. Terry filed a lawsuit against Brenner and his associates, but
was unsuccessful due to a lack of evidence.

"Oh my god,
none of this is
real."
This information
from Stranger
Things:
Suspicious
Minds is
of questionable
canonicity.[canon-rationale
1]
According to one source, Jane's biological father was Terry's then-boyfriend Andrew Rich. Terry gave
birth to Jane in June of 1970; Jane was named after famous zoologist Jane Goodall, who Terry learned
about by reading a National Geographic magazine.[12]

1970s

Three-year-old Eleven

Growing up in Hawkins Lab, and secluded from the outside world, Jane was not
referred to by her given name, instead being labeled "011", indicating her role
as a test subject. Brenner built himself up as a father figure in the mind of
Eleven, making her refer to him as "Papa".
Eleven was not the lab's only test subject: she had sixteen "brothers" and
"sisters", who were probably abducted from their birth mothers in a similar
fashion. In the early years of her life, she was allowed to play in the Rainbow
Room with the other test subjects, including Eight. Psychological tests were
conducted to exploit the telekinetic abilities the children were born with.
1974
Terry's rescue attempt
In 1974, Terry attempted to retrieve Jane, breaking into Hawkins Lab with a
gun; she briefly saw Eleven playing with Eight, but was apprehended. Brenner
then subjected Terry to electroshock therapy, which left her in a seemingly
permanent catatonic state for years after.
 "Oh my god,
none of this is
real."
This information
from Stranger
Things: SIX is
of questionable
canonicity.[canon-rationale
2]

According to one source, Eleven would also play with Jamie/9 and Marcy/9.5 in the Rainbow Room,
and Terry's rescue attempt actually occurred in 1978. The security breach and commotion caused by
Terry distracted the lab's staff, allowing Ricky/Three, Francine/Six and Marcy/9.5 to stage an escape.

1979
The friendly orderly
During Eleven's time at Hawkins Lab, she became acquainted with a friendly
orderly who took a particular liking to her. At an unknown date, the friendly
[13][14][8]

orderly greeted Eleven and cryptically informed her he had "something new" in
store for them. [10]

Since Eleven had no friends amongst the test subjects following Eight's escape,
she received words of encouragement from the friendly orderly before doing
training exercises with the other children. [14]

Brenner encourages Eleven (NINA memory)

On September 4, 1979 , Brenner took Eleven and the other subjects into the
[15]

main training room, where, one-by-one, the children would attempt to

psychically manipulate a series of lightbulbs. Eleven struggled with this task,
leading the oldest child, Two, to mock and belittle her. Despite this, Eleven
briefly powered one of the bulbs.
On September 7, the friendly orderly advised Eleven to use negative emotions,
such as anger and sadness, to better channel her abilities. Later that day,
Brenner pitted the children against each other in a combat-based test. Two
children at a time would stand on mats, with both trying to psychically push their
opponent off their mat, all the while resisting the other's attack. In this game,
Eleven ultimately defeated Two, humiliating him. Later, Two and his allies
- Three, Four and Five - ganged up on Eleven in the Rainbow Room, and
bullied her with their powers, even threatening to kill her. After being slammed
into a wall, she apparently suffered a concussion. Some time later, she was
taken to recover in the infirmary.
The massacre at Hawkins Lab

Henry tells Eleven to meet him in the boiler room (NINA memory)

On September 8, Brenner checked up on Eleven in the infirmary, before he

escorted her to the training room and summoned all the other test subjects. He
punished Two for attacking Eleven through use of an electroshock collar.

Later that day, Eleven and the friendly orderly played chess in the Rainbow
Room, during which the orderly quietly offered her a chance to escape the lab.
The orderly disclosed - or claimed - that the other children planned to kill her,
and that Brenner had been intending for this all along. He silently slid her a key
card under the table, and told her to meet him in the basement.

Some hours later, Eleven persuaded another orderly to escort her to the
infirmary, pretending to feel ill. Eleven used the distraction to reach a stairwell
and travel to the basement. There, she met with the friendly orderly, who
showed her an escape route through a drain pipe. He then convinced her to use
her powers to remove the “Soteria” suppressant chip from his neck. Shortly
after this, security guards stormed the basement; the two reached a corridor but
were surrounded by the guards. However, the orderly, telling Eleven she didn't
"have to be afraid of them" anymore, suddenly outreached his hand. Using his
own set of powers - restored from having the Soteria removed - the orderly
maimed most of the guards and killed one of them; he took Eleven to a storage
cupboard and told her to wait there, revealing his ‘001' tattoo before leaving.
One proceeded to go on a murderous rampage throughout the laboratory, killing
all the other test subjects and various Hawkins Lab personnel, and indirectly
knocked Dr. Brenner unconscious. Eleven entered the Rainbow Room and
watched in horror as One finished killing Two. One explained himself to Eleven,
telling her of his origins and philosophy, and of his former identity as Henry
Creel; Henry asked her to join him in his goal to eradicate humanity.
 A Gate unexpectedly opens in the Rainbow Room.

But Eleven refused. She used her powers to fling Henry into the wall; angered
and disappointed, Henry stood back up and outreached his hand, with Eleven
doing the same. The two test subjects engaged in a psychokinetic duel, with
One initially overwhelming and almost killing Eleven. However, Eleven, finding
strength in a distant memory of her mother, ultimately overpowered One,
pinning him against the wall of the Rainbow Room. She began disintegrating his
body, but somehow, she opened an interdimensional gate in the wall, through
which One was transported. [8]

The gate began to seal up, and just after the membrane separating the
worlds finished healing, Brenner entered the Rainbow Room. Though he initially
believed Eleven was responsible for the massacre, he later learned One was to
blame after reviewing surveillance footage. Brenner was amazed by Eleven's
feat of power, but by the time Eleven woke from her coma, Brenner learnt she
had no memory of the incident, and her powers had been somewhat reduced.
Brenner was bewildered by One's disappearance, and wondered if he was still
out there somewhere, "hiding in the darkness".
1979 - 1983
Psychokinetic training
For years, Brenner trained Eleven and developed her psychic abilities, knowing
she just needed "a spark" to restore her to her former level of ability. To punish
[16]

her for any failures, Eleven was sometimes locked in a solitary cell for great
periods of time; this experience severely traumatised her, leaving her with a fear
of confinement.

In one experiment, Eleven was presented with a soda can, which she then
crushed using telekinesis. Although her nose began bleeding soon afterwards,
Dr. Brenner seemed pleased nonetheless. Another experiment involved using
her powers to manipulate a living creature. Dr. Brenner presented Eleven with a
cat, but she could not bring herself to do anything to it. As punishment for her
refusal, she was dragged into the cell by two guards. Refusing to be locked in
again, an enraged Eleven used her powers to smash one guard into a wall and
to break the other's neck before they could close the door. While she sobbed at
her experiences, Brenner gently carried her away, pleased with Eleven's feat of
ability.

Targeting the Soviets

 Brenner talks Eleven through her next task

The Cold War was at a height in the early 1980s, with the United
States and Soviet Union in conflict; Brenner and his associates sought to use
Eleven's power to spy on their adversaries. Testing Eleven's ability to
eavesdrop over long distances, Eleven was ordered to repeat words stated by
an individual elsewhere in the laboratory. She did not repeat the words through
her voice, but instead transmitted the individual's words via a speaker.
Brenner later directed Eleven to spy on a Soviet agent. A room in the lab's
underground complex contained a sensory deprivation tank used to enhance
Eleven's psychic powers; when sensorily deprived, Eleven could become
immersed in an inner mental void, in which she could project her consciousness
and psychically reach out to other living creatures. On an unspecified date -
likely in 1983 - Eleven was lowered into the tank before entering her Void. She
succeeded in finding the agent, but she unwittingly encountered
a creature from another dimension, transmitting the creature's noises over the
loudspeakers in Brenner's control booth. Eleven panicked and the experiment
was aborted, but Brenner remained intrigued by the creature.
1983
Making contact
Dr. Brenner decided to repeat the experiment, ordering Eleven to make contact
with the creature. On November 6, 1983, Eleven entered the tank once again.
Immersed in the psychic state, Eleven reluctantly made contact with the
creature, while it fed off a large, yellow egg.

Eleven makes contact

 The Mothergate opens

In the moment contact was established, a second gate cracked open in the wall
of the tank room, invoking panic and confusion among the scientists. In the
ensuing chaos, Eleven escaped the lab through the basement's drain pipe and
fled into the surrounding woodlands of Hawkins.
On the run
Walking through the woods, Eleven came across Benny Hammond's diner and
attempted to steal food, but Benny caught her and prevented her escape. He
clothed, fed, and attempted to communicate with her. She was reserved and did
not say much, but eventually revealed her name was Eleven. Thinking she was
a victim of child abuse, Benny called social services; Hawkins Lab's monitoring
room listened in on the call, prompting Brenner to travel to the diner, flanked by
a group of agents. Agent Connie Frazier greeted Benny at the diner's front while
posing as a social worker, but quickly dropped the facade and shot Benny.
Eleven fled the diner, killing two other agents in the process.[17]

Eleven found in the forest by Mike, Dustin and Lucas

Later that night, Eleven crossed paths with Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair,
and Dustin Henderson as they searched for their missing friend Will Byers in the
forest. They brought her back to Mike's house and took her to her basement,
[17]

where they argued about what to do with her. Lucas and Dustin were cautious,
and wanted to call the police, but Mike disagreed. He insisted on a different
plan, to which the others reluctantly agreed: the next morning, the girl would
simply pretend to arrive at the house and ring the doorbell, and Mike's
mother, Karen, would sort out the rest. After building Eleven a pillow fort to
sleep in, Mike and Eleven introduced themselves to each other, with Mike giving
her the nickname "El."
The next morning, Mike sneaked some of his Eggo waffles away, giving them to
El as her breakfast. He tried to convince her to go along with his plan, but she
refused, telling him "bad" people were looking for her. After the Wheelers left for
school and work, Mike sneaked back home and gave Eleven a tour of the
house. He showed her his room, where she noticed a photo of Mike and his
friends. Seemingly to her own surprise, she somehow recognized Will in the
photo. However, before Mike could ask her any more questions, his mother
unexpectedly returned home. Terrified that Mike would tell Karen about her,
Mike calmed Eleven by promising he wouldn't. He hid her inside his closet,
closing the door fully and confining her, accidentally triggering her
claustrophobia. After talking to Karen and lying about being sick, Mike opened
the closet door to find Eleven in tears, though she assured him she was okay.
After school, Dustin and Lucas returned to Mike's house, where Mike shared his
theory that Eleven could help find Will. Lucas dismissed Mike, and decided to
tell Mike's parents; however, as Lucas tried to leave Mike's room, Eleven
telekinetically shut the door in front of Lucas's face while quietly uttering "no...",
stunning him and and the other boys.
Later that evening, the boys brought Eleven food, apologizing to her and
revealed that they were desperate to find their friend Will. While Eleven was
unfamiliar with the concept of "friend", Mike explained it to her. To demonstrate
where Will was hiding, she flipped over their Dungeons & Dragons board to
demonstrate that he was in an "upside down" dimension. She placed Will's
player piece on top and the Demogorgon piece next to it, which symbolized the
Monster. [18]

The next day, the boys decided to let Eleven guide them to Will after school.
Before leaving, Mike provided El his watch, telling her to meet them at 3:15pm,
near the powerlines near his school. While alone at Mike's house, Eleven
switched through channels on the Wheelers' TV before stopping momentarily at
seeing a Coca-Cola commercial, which triggered her memory of the cola can
test, during her time at the lab. Later, Eleven left the house and waited for Mike
and his friends to appear; she witnessed a house cat growling, which reminded
her of Brenner pressuring her to kill a cat. The boys appeared moments later,
snapping Eleven out of her memories.
The group commenced "Operation Mirkwood", where Eleven led them through
the woods to find evidence relating to Will. She led them to the Byers house, but
was unable to articulate that Will was there, but in the other dimension. Police
cars raced by, and the group followed them to the quarry, where they saw what
appeared to be Will's corpse being dragged out of the water. Feeling hurt and
betrayed, and believing Eleven to be a liar, Mike lashed out at her and raced
home on his bike. [7]
 El shows Mike that Will is alive

Returning to Mike's basement, with her powers, Eleven psychically tampered

with Mike's Supercom in an attempt to prove Will was still alive. After Mike
angrily berated Eleven and accused her of lying about Will, El channeled Will's
voice through the Supercom; Mike heard his friend faintly sing one of his
favorite songs, convincing him Will was still alive.
The following day, Mike had El repeat the process for Dustin and Lucas, who
wondered if Will had become a ghost. After further discussion, the boys decided
to take El to school so that she could use Mr. Clarke's Heathkit to make further
contact.

Eleven connects with Will

Mike polished Eleven's face and they disguised her in a blonde wig
and Nancy's old pink dress, which Mike commented that she looked pretty.
Gazing at nearby building while biking, they brought her to Hawkins Middle.
They crossed paths with Mr. Clarke in the hallway, who escorted them to attend
an assembly for Will. After the assembly, Mike confronted Troy for mocking Will
during the assembly. After Mike shoved him, Troy attempted to hit him back, but
Eleven froze him in place using her powers and made him urinate his pants in
front of the other students. Later, they used the Heathkit radio and heard Will
talking to his mother from the other dimension. Unfortunately, the radio
eventually caught fire. After they returned to Mike's basement, Mike theorized
that Will was stuck in the Vale of Shadows, a "dark echo" dimension of death
and decay, which Eleven labelled the Upside Down. [19]
 Lucas is knocked down

After talking to Mr. Clarke at Will's funeral the next day, the boys decided to
follow their compasses, believing they could be guided to a hypothetical gate to
the other dimension; this was assuming that the gate would affect the local
magnetic field. However, Eleven manipulated their compasses to direct them
away from Hawkins Lab as it wasn't safe. In an attempt to divert them, she
asked Mike if they could turn back, stating that she was tired. When the boys
realized this upon circling back to the junkyard, Lucas accused her of
sabotaging the mission, which Mike refused to believe. When he tried to defend
Eleven, a fight erupted between the two boys, and Eleven, in an outbreak of
emotion, flung Lucas into the air using her powers, knocking him out. Panicked,
Mike yelled at her, and she fled the scene, overwhelmed with emotion. [20]

In the woods the following day, Eleven took off her wig and despaired as she
looked at her reflection in a pool of water, angrily sending ripples across the
water with her powers while screaming. She later entered a supermarket to
steal some food as she was hungry. As Eleven walked through the store, some
people warily eyed her. When the store's manager tried talking to her, Eleven
called him a "mouthbreather" and proceeded to steal some boxes of Eggos,
which she had developed a great fondness for. The manager attempted to stop
her thievery, but she walked out and broke the sliding glass doors using her
powers, preventing the manager or anybody else from following her.

Eleven comes to Mike and Dustin's rescue

As Eleven sat alone in the forest, she faintly heard Mike and Dustin shouting
her name as they searched for her. The two boys were suddenly ambushed by
Troy and his friend, James, who were seeking revenge following Troy's
humiliation in the gym. They threatened Dustin with a knife and forced Mike into
taking a fatal plunge off a cliff into the water below. Eleven appeared just in
time, levitating Mike back to safety, pushing James to the ground and breaking
Troy's arm. Weak from her exertion, she apologized and claimed that she was
the monster for having opened the Gate. Mike comforted her saying that she
wasn't the monster because she saved him. Eleven, Mike and Dustin then
reconciled as they embraced each other, before returning to Mike's home. [9]

Mike and Eleven shared an intimate moment in his basement before Dustin
interrupted to alert them that Lucas was communicating via radio, warning them
that the "bad men are coming." The three escaped on bike while agents from
Hawkins Lab pursued them. Eleven used her powers to flip one of their vans
over, and they made a narrow escape. The kids went to a junkyard, where
Lucas and Eleven apologized to one another. After realizing that agents were
still searching for them, they shoved their bikes under an abandoned bus and
hid inside.

Eleven in the bathtub

Chief Hopper, who now knew of Eleven's existence, communicated with the
group through Will's radio and came to escort them to the Byers house, where
they met with Joyce, Jonathan, and Nancy. Eleven tried reaching Will
and Barbara Holland through one of the boys' radios to no avail, but she
suggested they could use a "bath" instead. The group broke into Hawkins
Middle School and set up a kiddie pool filled with saltwater to serve as a
makeshift sensory deprivation tank. Joyce commended Eleven for her bravery,
ensuring she would be there for her while she looked for Will and Barb. Floating
in the pool, Eleven entered her mental void. She first found Barbara's corpse,
and in response, Eleven panicked and repeatedly shouted, "Gone!". Joyce
comforted her, calming her down. Eleven eventually found Will alive but weak,
and hiding in Castle Byers. Eleven told him to stay strong and ensured him his
mother was coming for him. Will responded telling Eleven to hurry before she
suddenly lost contact.[21]

Mike reveals his feelings for her

The kids were left alone in the school while Joyce and Hopper went to the lab
and Nancy and Jonathan went to the Byers house. While sitting at a table, Mike
told Eleven that once Will was found and she was not hidden from the bad men,
she would live a normal life with the Wheelers and that his parents and siblings
would be like Eleven's. When she asked if Mike would be like her brother, he
said he wouldn't and attempted to communicate his feelings for her, where Mike
proposed that they could go to the Snow Ball school dance together. To show
her what he meant, he kissed her, revealing that he had feelings for her. In a
mix of surprise and happiness, Eleven accepted his proposal.
As part of an "agreement" he made with Hawkins Lab to save Will, Hopper
revealed Eleven's location. Hearing Brenner's agents arrive at the school,
Eleven and the boys attempted to flee but were eventually cornered by Connie
Frazier and others. Eleven, telekinetically causing the agents' eyes to bleed and
crushing their brains, killed many of them, an exhaustive process which drained
her energy and caused her to collapse.

Dr. Brenner and another team of agents found Eleven and the boys. The boys
attempted to defend her, but were quickly restrained by agents. Brenner held
Eleven, telling her that she would be returned to the lab. However, Eleven
resisted, weakly calling and reaching out for Mike.

Eleven's sacrifice

The Monster was attracted to the pools of blood from the dead agents, breaking
through the wall. The agents released the boys to open fire at the creature, who
began a rampage, attacking the Lead Agent and others before tackling Dr.
Brenner. This allowed the kids to escape, with Dustin carrying Eleven. For a
while, they evaded the creature, hiding in Mr. Clarke's classroom. Mike tried to
calm Eleven, who was exhausted after using her powers, and told her not to
worry as everything was going to be okay and promising that they would go to
the Snowball together. Eventually, the Monster found them, breaking into the
room and attacking them. The boys attempted to fight it with Lucas's wrist
rocket, but it had little effect on the monster. Though she was drained, Eleven
confronted the creature, telekinetically throwing it across the classroom and
pinning it against the blackboard with her mind while pushing Mike back to
protect him. After wishing goodbye to Mike, she disintegrated the creature's
body, vanishing in a cloud of black dust.
[22]

Eleven uses her powers to open the portal

When Eleven reawakened, she saw the classroom was suddenly inflected
with vines and spores, and soon realized she had been transported to the
Upside Down. She stumbled through the school corridors in fear, calling out for
Mike. Eventually, she found the gate the Demogorgon had left behind in the
corridor wall. Eleven, using her abilities, widened the portal just enough to let
her crawl through and return to the regular world. Carefully evading the scouring
agents of Hawkins Lab, Eleven made her way back to the Wheeler residence,
where she witnessed agents speaking to Mike through the window; she gazed
at him in sadness, accidentally catching Mike's attention for a split second,
confusing him. The agents, suspecting Eleven might be nearby, began combing
the immediate area, forcing Eleven to flee and hide under a log in the woods. [23]

1983 - 1984
Living in Hopper's cabin
For a month, Eleven hid in the woods, killing and cooking wild animals for
sustenance. Upon being discovered by a hunter while cooking a squirrel over a
flame, she telekinetically attacked the hunter; she knocked him unconscious by
using the flaming log, and stole the man's jacket for warmth.

Around December 25, Eleven took leftovers and Eggos from a box in the
woods. It remains unclear if Eleven already found the box, or previously used
the box to collect food.

Upon discovering Chief Hopper was the one leaving the food, Eleven cautiously
approached him. Hopper decided to take responsibility for her, and the two
travelled to an old cabin in the woods belonging to Hopper's grandfather; this
would serve as their new home, a safe place where Eleven could avoid the
forces of Hawkins Lab.

Upon entering, Hopper introduced Eleven to music, playing "You don't mess
around with Jim" by Jim Croce, dancing to its beat, surprising and confusing
her. Together, they cleaned and refurbished the cabin. They rigged nearby
trees with a tripwire to alert them of intruders. In order for them to communicate
covertly, Hopper taught Eleven how to use Morse code. He also gave her set of
rules, requiring Eleven to always have the curtains drawn and the door locked,
and to never leave the cabin alone, especially during day.

One night, while Hopper was reading Eleven "Anne of Green Gables", Eleven
asked him where her mother was, to which Hopper responded she "wasn't
around anymore".

1984
October
Growing impatient
When Hopper arrived at the cabin late on October 30, Eleven expressed
irritation that he had not signalled beforehand. The two then had dinner
together.
 Eleven trying to convince Hopper to let her go trick-or-treating

The next morning, Eleven wore a white sheet with holes for eyes, resembling a
ghost and tried to convince Hopper to let her go trick-or-treating for Halloween,
arguing that she wouldn't be seen by the "bad men" due to her ghost costume.
Hopper refused, but suggested a compromise: he would get off work early so
the two could watch a scary movie together. Eleven, though not entirely happy
with this compromise, agreed to Hopper's proposal.

Later that day, Eleven was flipping through television channels when she heard
a sound coming from outside. Looking out the window, she saw a squirrel,
reminding her of when she had cooked a squirrel and her encounter with the
hunter in the woods.

Eleven attempts to reach out to Mike

That night, as Eleven watched a movie alone, Hopper signalled he was going to
be late again over radio, upsetting Eleven. When Hopper finally returned,
Eleven refused to leave her room. Using white noise from the television and a
blindfold, she entered the void to visit Mike, finding him inside her blanket fort in
the Wheeler basement. She sadly watched as he attempted to contact her over
his radio; she tried to make physical contact, but was too late, with Mike
growing frustrated and exiting the pillow fort. Crying, El removed the blindfold. [23]

November
Discovering her past
The following morning, Hopper convinced Eleven to come out of her room. At
breakfast, Eleven asked Hopper when she would be able to see Mike again.
Hopper tried to placate her by saying she'd be able to see him “soon,” but
Eleven's patience had reached its limit. She lashed out at Hopper and stormed
away to her room, slamming the door. After Hopper departed, an irritable
Eleven left the cabin to search for Mike, disobeying Hopper.

Eleven seeing Mike with another girl

Making her way to Hawkins Middle, Eleven began searching for Mike. She
eventually spotted him in the gymnasium, and peered at him through the door
window. Though initially overjoyed to see Mike in-person for the first time in
almost a year, Eleven's mood soured when she noticed he was in the presence
of another girl, skateboarding care-free around the gymnasium. Jealous of the
girl, and afraid what Mike's interactions with the girl could have meant, a bitter
Eleven exerted her abilities to push the skateboard, making the girl fall to the
floor. After witnessing Mike pull her back up, Eleven tearfully departed and
headed back to the cabin.
On her way out of Hawkins Middle, she was spotted by James and Troy, still
intent on getting revenge. As she reached the woods, Eleven heard their voices
and performed a telekinetic trick that scared the two. Looking out from behind a
tree, Eleven wiped her bleeding nose before continuing towards the cabin. [24]

Upon returning to the cabin, Eleven and Hopper quickly got into an argument,
with Hopper grounding her and revoking her television privileges. However,
Eleven held the television in place with her powers, prompting Hopper to rip out
the TV antenna. Furious, Eleven told Hopper that he was acting exactly like
"papa" and that she hated him and went to her room. As Hopper tried to
convince her to open the door, she emotionally lost control and broke all of the
cabin's windows, while letting out an ear-splitting scream, breaking down into
tears afterwards.
Before leaving for work the following morning, Hopper told Eleven he'd consider
fixing the television if she cleaned up the mess she had made the night before.
As she was sweeping, Eleven discovered a storage compartment hidden
beneath the floorboards. There, she found a cardboard box containing
documents from Hawkins Lab. Looking through the files, she discovered the
name of her mother: Terry Ives. Using the Void, Eleven located Terry, who was
able to recognize Eleven as her missing daughter, Jane. However, just as
Eleven tried to reach out, Terry's apparition faded away.

Eleven arrives at the Ives residence

Defying Hopper once again, Eleven hitchhiked to the Ives

residence in Bloomington, where she was initially dismissed by her aunt, Becky.
Eleven used her powers to unlock the door and demanded to see her mother,
stunning Becky, who then allowed her inside. Eleven tried to talking Terry, but
she received no response and realized something was "wrong with her". Terry
continued to stare blankly at the television, repeating a sequence of words and
phrases: Breathe, sunflower, rainbow, three to the right, four to the left, 450.

As Becky led Eleven to the room Terry had kept for her, the hallway light
flickered, and Eleven realized it was Terry using her own powers, attempting to
communicate. Using the Void while in Terry's presence, Eleven saw several of
her mother's memories; she saw the day Terry went into labor and had Jane
taken away from her. In another memory, Terry broke into the lab and
momentarily witnessed Jane in the Rainbow Room, but was soon captured.
Brenner then had his orderlies strap Terry down and subjected her to
electroshock therapy, directly leading to Terry's present-day catatonia. Terry's
memories played in what El dubbed a "dream circle", mirroring Terry's
sequence of words.

Since the dream circle kept focusing on a second girl in the Rainbow Room,
Eleven believed Terry was instructing her to find the girl. Looking through
Terry's files of missing children, she recognized the girl from Terry's memory as
"Kali Prasad", whose picture was displayed in a newspaper column. Eleven
once again used the Void to locate Kali, initially failing but succeeding on her
second attempt. Moments later, Eleven overheard Becky on the phone
with Florence from the Hawkins Police Department. After stealing money from
Becky's purse, El sneaked away and boarded a bus to Chicago.

Once in Chicago, Eleven managed to track Kali and her crew to an abandoned
warehouse; after showing each other their lab tattoos, the two recognized each
other as 'sisters'. The next day, Kali instructed Eleven on how to better control
her powers, asking her to move a railroad car. When Eleven was unsuccessful,
Kali suggested channelling her anger and pain to better exercise her will.
Following Kali's advice, Eleven succeeded in moving the railroad car.

Later, Kali brought Eleven to a wall covered with newspaper clippings and
photos related to Hawkins Lab. Asking if Eleven recognized any familiar faces,
she pointed to one: a now-retired orderly named Ray Carroll, the man who
performed electroshock therapy on her mother. After giving Eleven a radical
makeover, the gang set out to pursue Ray. Before heading to their destination,
the gang stopped at a convenience store for supplies. While Kali used her
illusion powers to distract the cashier, Eleven and the gang began stealing from
the store. The cashier soon found out, and threatened the gang with a gun.
When Kali was unsuccessful in convincing him to let them go, Eleven slammed
him against the wall, knocking him unconscious and allowing the gang to get
away.

Kali's illusionary Brenner appears before Eleven

Arriving at Ray's residence, Eleven, Kali and the gang broke in and threatened
him. Ray tried to barter for his life, saying he could bring them to Brenner. Not
believing him, Eleven began to strangle him with her powers. As he was being
dragged across the floor, Eleven noticed a portrait of Ray and his children.
Realizing that she had become no better than her mother's tormentor, Eleven
could no longer go through with killing Ray and spared his life. Kali pulled out
her gun and attempted to kill Ray herself, but Eleven disarmed her with her
powers, throwing it through the window. Moments later, the police arrived, and
the group fled the residence.

Back at the warehouse, Kali told Eleven that she had a choice to make: to either
go back into hiding, or to fight and face Brenner again. When Eleven insisted
that Brenner was dead, Kali made one of her illusions appear before her in the
form of Brenner. The illusionary Brenner urged her to confront her pain, warning
that, if unaddressed, it would spread, "fester", and ultimately kill her.

Eleven sees Hopper and Mike in the Void

As police descended on the warehouse, a melancholic Eleven reminisced about

Mike and Hopper. Using a blindfold to enter the Void, she observed Hopper at
the lab, overseeing an expedition into the subterranean tunnel system beneath
Hawkins. Mike suddenly appeared, desperate to warn Hopper of the Mind
Flayer's trap. Eleven tried to make contact, but was snapped out of the Void by
the sound of a banging thud. As the police broke through to the warehouse, Kali
and the gang escaped and prepared to flee in their van, but Eleven refused to
go with them. Resolute on saving her friends in Hawkins, Eleven departed and
boarded a bus back to Indiana. When a kind woman asked if she could sit next
to her and where she would be going, Eleven said she was going to save her
friends.
Closing the Gate

Eleven arrives at the Byers house

As the Party and their allies came under attack from a pack of Demodogs,
Eleven arrived and tossed one of the creatures through the Byers' house front
window, while either eradicating the others, or scaring them away. Psychically
unlocking and walking through the front door, El was overjoyed to reunite with
Mike, Lucas and Dustin; however, she had a frosty response to Max Mayfield's
attempt to introduce herself, the same girl she had witnessed interacting with
Mike. Together, the group made a plan to defeat the Mind Flayer: Joyce,
[25]

Jonathan and Nancy would attempt to exorcise the Mind Flayer from Will, while
El and Hopper would travel to Hawkins Lab and seal the Gate. Before leaving,
El promised Mike he wouldn't lose her again.
While Eleven and Hopper drove to the lab, El admitted that she had gone to
visit Terry, and said she shouldn't have left. In return, Hopper apologized to
Eleven, blaming himself for the breakdown of their relationship, while explaining
he feared losing Eleven just like he'd lost Sara. They both forgave each other as
they held hands.

Eleven and Hopper at the lab

Eleven and Hopper went back to the lab, coming across the remains of the
massacred technicians. They eventually found Dr. Owens seriously wounded in
the stairwell, seemingly the only survivor of the Demodogs' attack. After a brief
interaction, where Owens agreed to keep Eleven secret from the wider
government as Hopper patched up his wounds, Hopper and Eleven continued
to the rift lab. Finally arriving at the Gate's original entrance, they were surprised
to see Demodogs fleeing from the area. Moments later, Hopper received the
signal from Jonathan to destroy the Gate via Supercom, after Will and the Mind
Flayer had become disconnected.

Eleven closing the Mothergate

After the two took the elevator to the tunnels' entrance, and came face to face
with the massive outgrowth of the Gate beneath the lab, Eleven began to
channel her power; slowly, but surely, the edges of the portal began to retreat.
The Mind Flayer and the hive mind, becoming aware of Eleven's actions, sent a
horde of Demodogs their way to stop her; the creatures crawled up the
cavernous wall and lunged at the elevator, but Hopper fought them off with his
shotgun and rifle. As Eleven focused on sealing the breach, the enormous
silhoutte of the Mind Flayer appeared beyond the luminous membrane, but it
was too late. Eleven, drawing on all her anger and pain, as Kali had taught her,
finished closing the Gate. As the Gate closed, the remaining Demodogs,
deprived of their connection to the hive mind, dropped dead and fell from the
cavern walls. Hopper embraced an exhausted Eleven, and commended her for
her bravery.[25]

December
A month later, Dr. Owens allowed Hopper to officially adopt Eleven, providing
him with a forged birth certificate displaying the name "Jane Hopper". Though
Owens advised Eleven should lie low for another year to ensure her safety,
Hopper convinced Owens that El could be allowed a single night out, to let her
attend the Snow Ball with her friends at Hawkins Middle.

Eleven and Mike share a tender moment at the Snow Ball

On December 15, Eleven attended the Snow Ball along with Mike and her
friends. After they reunited again, Mike stated that she looked beautiful and
asked if she wanted to dance. She agreed and they danced together to the
song, "Every Breath You Take", and shared a kiss. However, in the Upside
Down, a raging Mind Flayer loomed above the school, sensing Eleven on the
other side.
On Christmas Day, Eleven and Hopper travelled to the Byers house to
celebrate Christmas, and was gifted a Supercom from Radio Shack. After
venturing out into the snow to rescue a rabbit caught in a trap, Eleven, Will and
Jonathan watched various video cassettes of old Christmas specials. [26]
1984 - 1985
Eleven and Mike grew closer in the months that followed. Hopper also gradually
granted Eleven greater and greater freedom when publicly venturing in the
outside world.

"Oh my god,
none of this is
real."
This information
from Teenage
Mutant Ninja
Turtles X
Stranger
Things is non-
canon.

According to one source, Eleven and her friends had an adventure in New York City in early 1985,
where they encountered cyborg versions of Demodogs, the maniacial scientist Dr. Baxter
Stockman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

1985
June
Romance with Mike

On June 28, El and Mike spent time together at Hopper's cabin, making out with
one another in El's room - much to Hopper's discomfort. Hopper's patience with
the pair eventually snapped when El used her powers to shut the door.
Annoyed, Hopper entered the room; the pair acted innocuously, though Hopper
remained unconvinced. Mike soon departed to meet the rest of the
Party at Starcourt Mall. While riding away on his bike, Mike and El
communicated via Supercom, telling her he'd see her first thing the next day.
At the Henderson house, El played a key role in the Party's welcome back
surprise for Dustin, psychically manipulating his electronic toys; however, the
surprise ended in catastrophe when Dustin sprayed Farrah Fawcett Hairspray in
Lucas's face. Dustin presented various inventions he'd brought back
from summer camp, including Cerebro, a powerful ham radio he created to
contact his girlfriend, Suzie. However, for Cerebro to work, it needed to be
placed somewhere with high elevation, and the group decided to assemble it
atop a hill nicknamed "Weathertop". However, on their way up the hill, El and
Mike made an excuse to leave so they could spend time together.

That night, the couple were having another make-out session when Hopper
interrupted them, intending to have a "heart-to-heart" with Mike about
boundaries. Despite his best intentions, Hopper failed; he came up with a lie
about Mike's grandmother being sick, and told him to repeat it to Eleven. As
Hopper drove Mike home, he told him to spend less time with El, or otherwise,
he'd stop them from dating completely.

Friendship with Max

When Mike was late the following morning, El called him asking why, unaware
of Hopper's threat. Mike told her he couldn't see her that day, repeating the lie
about his sick grandmother.

El poses with Max

Suspecting him of lying, El sought out Max for advice, who confirmed her
suspicions and advised her to break up with Mike should he not explain his
reason for lying. Max then took El to Starcourt Mall, where the pair had a fun-
filled shopping spree. As they were leaving, they unexpectedly crossed paths
with Mike, Lucas, and Will. El confronted Mike about his lie, and when he failed
to explain himself, she broke up with him.

In the Void

That evening, at Hopper's cabin, the girls decided to spy on the boys via the
Void. While eavesdropping, El overheard the boys' frustrations with
understanding the girls, calling them a "different species". Moments later, they
decided to play a spin the bottle-esque game to decide who to spy on next,
landing on Billy as their target. However, when El found Billy, she saw him
sitting on the ground while a disembodied voice desperately screamed for help.
Sensing El's presence, Billy suddenly turned to face her, before disappearing.
July
Investigating Billy

Finding the bloodied whistle

Believing something was wrong with Billy, El and Max traveled to the Hargrove
house the next day to see if they could find any evidence of sinister activities.
While searching Billy's bathroom, they found a bathtub full of melted ice water,
a fanny pack from the pool, and a lifeguard whistle covered in blood. The pair
then went to Hawkins Community Pool, where they were informed that the
fanny pack belonged to Billy's co-worker Heather Holloway, who hadn't shown
up for lifeguard duty that day. Using a photograph she had acquired from a
bulletin board, El sought out Heather in the Void; she found her in a tub full of
ice, pleading for help. El then watched helplessly as the tub dissipated and
Heather fell through the bottom of the Void, into an endless abyss.

A confused El and Max

When the girls arrived at the Holloway house, they found Billy and a seemingly
normal Heather dining with her parents. When they inquired about Heather
being absent from work, Billy responded that she had simply felt sick and
decided to stay home, with Heather assuring them that she "felt so much
better". Confused, El and Max departed from the residence and returned to the
Hargrove house. While El was still wary that something was wrong, Max
assured her that everything was fine.
El and Max awoke the next morning to Mike, Lucas, and Will calling them about
a code red situation. At the Wheeler basement, Will posited the part of the Mind
Flayer that had possessed him the year prior "never left" and was still in
Hawkins. When El relayed all that she had seen, they began to suspect Billy
could be the Mind Flayer's new host. The group travelled to Hawkins
Community Pool, where they spied on Billy from a distance. While there, they
observed Billy had developed a peculiar avoidance to the sun; a clear sign he
shared the hive mind's aversion to heat. The group devised a plan to trap Billy
in the facility's sauna, to confirm his status as a host.

While El took out a mannequin needed for the plan from the pool's supply
closet, Mike followed and attempted to talk to her. El rebuked him, saying she
preferred to spend time with her “own species”.

The group confronts Billy

After the pool closed and Billy was alone, the group enacted their plan, luring
him into the sauna. Once he was trapped, the group looked on as Billy became
more and more erratic due to the increasing heat and the Mind Flayer's
influence. Billy, demonstrating superhuman strength, eventually busted through
the sauna's door and began attacking; El held him at bay, though he eventually
got the upper hand, grabbing her by the neck and strangling her. She was
saved by Mike, who struck Billy in the head with a weighted barbell. When Billy
tried to go after Mike, she retaliated by throwing him through the wall, which
resulted in Billy's escape. The Party then returned to the Wheeler house.

The others watch as Eleven locates Hopper

Using her abilities, El sought out Hopper and discovered that he and Joyce
were headed to Illinois. When Nancy and Jonathan arrived, Nancy disclosed
what she had witnessed at the hospital the night prior: an old woman
named Doris Driscoll had exhibited behavior identical to Will's when he was
possessed by the Mind Flayer. After noting her behavior happened at the same
time as the sauna test, they concluded that Doris had also become "flayed" - a
host to the Mind Flayer -and suspected there were potentially several more. In
turn, the group deduced the Holloways had also become hosts.
Returning to the Holloway residence, El had to use her powers to open the front
door upon seeing no one was responding to the doorbell. Once El and her
friends entered the house, they found that the inhabitants had consumed
several household chemicals, which Will noted was not something he did when
he was under the Mind Flayer's control, causing Mike to theorize the Flayed
could be making a substance in their bodies with the chemical they have eaten.
When they investigated further, they surmised that Heather's parents had been
attacked, tied up, and taken to an unknown location where they were flayed, a
place El speculated the Flayed did not want her to find when Billy had sensed
her presence within the Void. Will then proposed that they use Driscoll to find
the source--the location where the flaying was taking place.

The group witness the creature's escape

At the hospital, Mike and El finally reconciled. Meanwhile, Nancy and Jonathan
had gone to see Doris. They were instead met by Tom and Bruce Lowe who
brutally attacked them. While they were able to defeat their respective
assailants, the battle was not over; Tom's and Bruce's bodies melted and fused
to create a gruesome creature. When the creature cornered Nancy in a room, El
burst in using her abilities and threw the creature out the window. Outside, the
group witnessed the creature escape through a grate into the sewers.

Eleven has a vision of Brimborn Steel Works

After scouring the Void extensively in search of the Flayed, El eventually found
Billy, sitting in his room. While everyone agreed it was a trap, El made the
decision to return to Billy in the Void in hopes that she could view his memories
to find the source. She succeeded, viewing a memory from Billy's childhood of
him spending a day at the beach with his mother in California. After searching
through several other memories of his abusive childhood, El finally located the
source: Brimborn Steel Works. When she tried to leave the Void, she was
instead trapped in a hallucination induced by the Mind Flayer. There, she was
met with the mental projection of a possessed Billy who warned her the Flayed
now know her location and that they would eradicate her, her friends, and then
"everyone". Meanwhile, the Flayed were congregating at the mill under the Mind
Flayer's influence, to form a gigantic entity, the Spider Monster.
Battle with the Spider Monster

Eleven fights the Spider Monster

Seeing that the Spider Monster was headed toward the cabin, the group
prepared for battle. The Spider Monster infiltrated the cabin using several of his
mouthed tentacles, all of which were successfully stopped by El. Suddenly, the
monster burst through the ceiling and grabbed El by the leg with a tentacle
protruding from his mouth. After being freed from the creature's grasp thanks to
Lucas cutting off the tendril with an ax, El severed the Spider Monster's head in
half, temporarily incapacitating him and allowing the group to escape.

The group went to Bradley's Big Buy to fix El's wounds and gather supplies.
When they were alone together, Mike confided in El about his feelings for her.
Just as he was going to tell her how he felt, he was interrupted by Dustin calling
on via the Supercom. However, the signal kept cutting out due to Dustin's
Supercom having a low battery; the group were surprised to learn Dustin,
Steve, Robin and Erica - aka, the Scoops Troop - had discovered and
infiltrated a secret Soviet-controlled facility located beneath Starcourt Mall. They
ten headed to the mall, arriving just in time to save the Scoops Troop, with
Eleven telekinetically throwing a car at a group of covert Soviet soldiers.

Aftermath of the flesh thrall's removal

Shortly after reuniting, El collapsed due to her leg; the group realized a piece of
the Spider Monster was still lodged under her skin. After Jonathan attempted to
cut it out with a knife, El opted to do it herself. Using a tremendous amount of
power and force, she was able to remove the piece from her leg and throw it
across the room. The piece was subsequently stepped on by Hopper, who had
just arrived with Joyce and Murray.
 Eleven and Hopper share one last hug

Once everyone was briefed on the situation, the group came up with a plan:
Hopper, Murray, and Joyce would infiltrate the Soviets' base and shut down
their gate-creator machine, while being assisted by Dustin
and Erica via Cerebro. Nancy, Jonathan and the Party members would seek
shelter at Murray's warehouse in Illinois, and El said goodbye to Hopper before
leaving.

In the Starcourt parking lot, Nancy discovered that the car wouldn't start due to
the car missing its ignition cable. With Billy blockading the mall's parking lot, the
group was forced to retreat back into the mall. While trying to get in touch with
the Scoops Troop for emergency transportation, they realized they could use
the ignition cable from the car El had thrown before. When El tried to move the
vehicle so they could retrieve the component, she found she was unable to do
so. Instead, they were able to retrieve the cable with a plan Mike came up with
involving physics.

Hiding from the Mind Flayer

Shortly after, the Spider Monster crashed through the glass roof into the mall.
After successfully evading the creature, El, Mike, and Max managed to escape
through the back doors located in The Gap, while the remaining group managed
to escape through the front out to the car, distracting the Spider Monster in the
process. When the trio made it to the front, they were intercepted by Billy,
making them turn back the way they came and alerting the Spider Monster of
their presence. Billy eventually caught up to them and knocked all three
unconscious. He then kidnapped El and brought her to the Spider Monster,
which had returned to the mall, so that the Spider Monster could kill her.

Moments before he could do so, he was stopped by the group pelting him with
fireworks. Meanwhile, El tried to escape, only to be prevented from doing so by
Billy. Once the fireworks had run out, the Spider Monster tried again to possess
El, only to be stopped by Billy, who was able to free himself from the creature's
control due to El reminding him of his time with his mother. However, the Spider
Monster stabbed and brutally wounded Billy with his tentacles. At the same
time, in the Russian base, Joyce activated the key which destroyed the Gate
machine, resulting in the Gate being closed and Hopper apparently
disintegrated. As a result of that, the Spider Monster's link with the Mind Flayer
severed and the monster ultimately meet his demise. El and Mike shared an
embrace before comforting Max who mourned the loss of her stepbrother.

El learns of Hopper's demise

Following the arrival of the US military, El as well as her friends were treated
and escorted to the mall's parking lot. Outside the mall, El noticed Joyce
returning back but without Hopper. As she looked at Joyce, she realized that
Hopper didn't make it back, and was devastated.

July - October
Farewell & moving out of Hawkins
Following Hopper's death, El was taken in by the Byers family.

Eleven reading Hopper's heart-to-heart speech

Three months later, in October, El and the Byers began preparing to move out
Hawkins. Although she was still unable to use her powers, Mike consoled her,
telling that they will return. El and Mike then shared plans to visit each other at
Thanksgiving and also at Christmas, since it would be fun opening their
presents together on Christmas Day. El then recalled how Mike confessed his
feelings for her back at the cabin, and kissed him, telling him that she also loves
him.
While packing their belongings, Joyce gave El the heart-to-heart speech written
by Hopper. As she began reading the letter, she came to tears upon learning
how deeply Hopper cared for her. Outside the Byers house, El shared tearful
hugs with her friends, Mike, Max, Dustin, Lucas and bid farewell before heading
out of Hawkins along with the Byers.
1985 - 1986
Adapting to a new life
After moving out of Hawkins, El and the Byers were helped by Dr. Owens in
relocating to Lenora Hills, California so they could stay safe. Once they settled
into their new home, Eleven was starting to be considered by the Byers to be a
member of their family. Going by her birth name "Jane", El enrolled in at school
for the first time, becoming a freshman at Lenora Hills High School along with
Will while Jonathan became a senior. Though Jonathan made a new friend
named Argyle while living in California, Eleven and Will had trouble making new
friends where Eleven started getting bullied by a popular girl named Angela and
her circle of friends, leaving Will to try and support her. In addition, El's powers
still did not return, but she kept in touch with Mike by sending him letters though
she never informed him about her struggles and she continued to mourn for
Hopper's supposed death, missing her adoptive father greatly.
1986
March
Feud with Angela

El's presentation

On March 21 – the last day before spring break - El finished creating a diorama
of Hopper's cabin for her history class. She left for school with Will and
Jonathan, with the three hitching a ride in Arygle's Pizzamobile. At school, El
presented and explained her diorama at Mrs. Gracey's request, which was
inevitably mocked by Angela and her cronies. Later that day, Angela and her
posse tripped up Eleven and caused her to drop her project. As the group
walked off laughing, Jake kicked the diaroma to Chad, who stomped on it,
destroying the miniature cabin and figurine of Hopper. Furious, Eleven called
out to her and unsuccessfully attempted to use her powers in a fit of rage,
screaming; nothing happened, further embarrassing Eleven. A larger crowd of
students gathered around and started laughing at El, catching the attention of
both Will and Mrs. Gracey, noticing something was wrong. The laughter died
down when Mrs. Gracey made her way through the crowd, pulling Angela aside
and leading her to the principal's office.
The next day, El, Will, Jonathan, and Argyle went to the airport to pick up Mike,
who gifted El a bouquet of flowers he handpicked from Hawkins before he left.
They all left the airport and went to Rink-O-Mania, a roller rink in Lenora Hills,
where El lied to Mike about her frequent visits. When Mike asked El if any of her
"friends" she mentioned in her letters would be joining them, she stated her
"friends" with Stacy and Angela would not be joining them and promised Mike
he can meet them later.

Will, Mike and El at Rink-O-Mania

Later, Will confronted El about her lies, warning her Mike would eventually find
out the truth. Soon after, El was pranked by Angela and her friends, causing El
to skate away in tears and hide in a storage closet. Some time later, El angrily
confronted Angela and ended up striking her with a roller blade in a fit of rage,
causing a split in her nose and face. As Angela cried with blood gushing down
from her face, El experienced a fractured recollection of the 1979 massacre at
Hawkins Lab.

Upon arriving back home, they saw Murray cooking risotto. While eating dinner
with Murray, Argyle, Mike, and the Byers family, El listened to Murray explain he
arrived in California on a business trip and decided to stop by the Byers's house
to spend the night. El was then surprised to hear Joyce announce she was
leaving tomorrow to go to Alaska for a business trip, leaving Jonathan in charge
of El, Mike, and Will in the meantime. El then watched the high Jonathan
express confusion over what his mom told as Argyle filled him in on what was
happening before they mentioned the incident at the roller rink. When Argyle
stated he believed Angela was going to be fine, Mike, still mad and upset over
being lied to by El, made an offhand comment on Angela not looking fine. This
caused El to abruptly excuse herself from the table where she laid down on her
bed and thought about her attack on Angela, and further struggled to recall the
massacre at Hawkins Lab.

Recruited by Dr. Owens

The following day, Jane was arrested, falling into the custody of California
police. It was decided she would be transferred to a juvenile detention center
against her will, with Jonathan and Will unsuccessfully appealing to get the
charges against her dropped. Mike remained adamant he'd find a way to "fix"
things as a distraught Eleven was driven away from her home.

However, Dr. Owens, flanked by various agents, soon intervened and assumed
custody of Jane; he interrupted her transferral to the juvenile detention center
and made it so the charges against Jane would be dismissed. Owens took
Eleven to a nearby diner, where he revealed he had figured out a way to
rejuvenate her powers, and that a "war" with the Upside Down was fast
approaching. Eleven agreed to join Owens and travel to the Nina facility.

Buried memories

Owens and Eleven arrived at the Nina facility the next day. Eleven remained
willing and enthusiastic to participate, until, to her horror, she discovered Dr.
Brenner was alive and also working on the project. Eleven fearfully attempted to
flee the base, but Brenner ordered Eleven to be forcefully sedated. The
unconscious Eleven was then injected with experimental drugs and placed
inside the Nina sensory deprivation tank. While inside, she was exposed to
audiovisual stimuli from Hawkins National Laboratory, in 1979, via the form of
old CCTV tapes playing on various screens.
 El's powers beginning to resurface

Eleven awoke to find herself "re-experiencing" her memories from 1979. In this
first episode of 're-experience', Eleven relived an exercise where she and the
other test subjects manipulated light bulbs using their powers; in this exercise,
Eleven struggled to illuminate a single bulb. Shortly after, she had a momentary
vision of the September 8 massacre, before finally waking up back at the Nina
Project. In a fit of rage, Eleven attacked Brenner and attempted once more to
escape. Guards tried to restrain her, but as she let out an outburst of anger, the
guards were sent flying and knocked unconscious; Eleven's powers were
beginning to resurface, due to Nina's influence. Brenner gave Eleven the option
to leave the facility if she so desired, but she agreed to stay and continue the
experiments.

The next day, El was given a tour and clarification by Brenner on what the Nina
Project was capable for; reawakening an individual's memories by using video
footage that Brenner took from the lab. He also explained to El that when she
was bitten last year, her brain suffered a stroke which caused her incapable of
using her powers. When El asked why she did not remember her time with the
lab's other test subjects, she heard Brenner explain it was because her brain
was protecting herself from traumatic memories she had in 1979. She was then
advised by Brenner to re-experience each memory carefully or she and the
entire Nina facility would suffer terrible consequences if she was not careful.

After entering the Nina sensory deprivation tank again, Eleven re-experienced a
moment where she was playing a game called "math disk" in the Rainbow
Room. She encountered the orderly, Henry, again who told her that she
reminded him of the lab's first test subject, One, despite Brenner insisting he did
not exist. El listened to Henry describe One, saying he was able to strengthen
his powers using negative emotions before he revealed to her that her mother
was indeed alive and that the lab was actually a prison. Confused, El proceeded
to go along with the memory by following the other test subjects out of the
Rainbow Room after Brenner announced he had an assignment for them.

Finally, she fully re-experienced what happened on September 8, 1979; Eleven

remembered that One was responsible for the September 8, 1979 massacre of
her fellow test subjects. She relived her battle with One, in which she ultimately
overpowered him and banished him to the other dimension. After reliving this
final memory, Eleven's powers were seemingly restored to her previous limit.
Attack on Nina
 El spying on her friends

After exiting the tank, Eleven was debriefed by Brenner and Owens. They
explained what happened in the years after Henry was banished to the Upside
Down, before revealing he had returned to wreak havoc in Hawkins. Henry had
committed a series of murders; El was shown photos of Vecna's previous
victims, Chrissy Cunningham, Fred Benson, and Patrick McKinney, and she
became concerned for her friends in Hawkins. Owens tried to reassure Eleven,
but after Brenner revealed that Henry was using the psychic connections with
his victims to open new gates, a nervous El excused herself and retreated to
her chambers.
Still feeling concerned for her friends, El made impromptu use of the Void to spy
on her friends in Hawkins. She found Max, Dustin, Lucas, Nancy,
Steve, Robin, Erica, and Eddie Munson in a trailer. Learning her friends had
already encountered Henry, or "Vecna", she listened in as they devised a plan
of attack. Dustin pointed out that Henry's physical body, like Eleven's, was
vulnerable when he used his own form of psychic projection to attack his
victims. Max, mentioning how Vecna had already targeted her, offered to use
herself as bait to draw Vecna's attention, while the others attempted to attack
and kill Vecna in his vulnerable state. This caused El to grow even more worried
for her friends' safety.

Eleven exited the Void and told Owens of her friends' plan, and informed him
she sought to aid in their fight against Vecna. However, Brenner sought to
continue the Nina experiments, wanting to push Eleven's abilities beyond their
previous limit. Brenner and Owens began to argue when Eleven insisted on
returning to Hawkins, which provoked Brenner to forcefully incapacitate both
Eleven and Owens. Guards loyal to Brenner chained Dr. Owens to a rail inside
the observation room, while Brenner personally sedated Eleven; he strapped
Eleven down and put an electroshock collar on her, claiming it was "for [her]
own good."
 Eleven destabilises the helicopter

Shortly after Brenner executed his coup, Lt. Colonel Sullivan launched a full-
scale military attack on the facility, deploying soldiers, various vehicles and a
helicopter. The soldiers burst down the door to the facility with a bomb and
charged inside, killing the guards. Most, if not all, of the scientists evacuated
through a hidden escape hatch, but were all apparently shot and killed by the
helicopter's sniper. Brenner, while carrying the weakened Eleven, reached the
desert surface through the escape hatch, and was shocked to discover the
deaths of his colleagues. The sniper aboard the military helicopter then turned
his attention to Brenner and opened fire, gravely wounding him. Meanwhile,
Colonel Sullivan located Owens, still chained up in the observation room.
Ignoring Owens's plea to spare Eleven, Sullivan ordered the sniper to take the
shot on Eleven. However, Eleven used her telekinetic powers to destabilize and
ultimately crash the helicopter.
Moments later, Mike, Will, Jonathan and Argyle, who had independently
discovered Eleven's location, arrived at the scene in Argyle's Pizzamobile.
Eleven, still recovering from having exerted her powers, was pleasantly
surprised to reunite with her friends. Before departing, Eleven granted a dying
Dr. Brenner one last conversation, though denied him the complete forgiveness
he asked for. After the group of five escaped what remained of Sullivan's forces,
Eleven informed the others they needed to travel to Hawkins immediately, if she
were to have any hope of stopping Vecna.
Fighting Vecna

Eleven watches Max's memory becoming corrupted

Realizing that returning to Hawkins in time to help was impossible, Eleven

instead decided she would attempt to "piggyback"; it was possible she could
enter Max's mind while Vecna attacked her, meaning she could fight him
without having to physically be in Hawkins. The group made a makeshift
sensory deprivation tank in the back of a nearby Surfer Boy Pizza restaurant,
which Eleven used to project her consciousness. Mentally travelling to the Creel
House, Eleven entered Max's mind, and began navigating her memories.

Eleven fights Vecna inside Max's memory

At the Creel House, Max made herself vulnerable to Vecna's influence, turning
off her cassette player. With Lucas watching over her, she began hallucinating
again, and Vecna stalked her through her mind once more. For a moment, Max
escaped into her memory of the 1984 Snow Ball at Hawkins Middle, but before
long, the memory of the Snow Ball started to buckle under Vecna's influence;
balloons suddenly exploded in a bloody mess, the Upside Down's
spores flooded the school gymnasium, and the record playing in the
background abruptly transitioned into a completely different song. Moments
later, Vecna arrived in the memory and cornered Max. Vecna started the gate-
death ritual, only to be interrupted by Eleven, who had found her way inside the
same memory. Eleven and Vecna became engaged in conflict, using their
powers to throw objects at each other. Though Eleven was able to buy Max
some time, Vecna was ultimately victorious, incapacitating both Eleven and
Max. He pulled the two girls into his mindscape, using vines to bind them to the
fractured house.

Back in tangible reality, the teens' plans were derailed when Jason Carver
arrived at the Creel house to investigate what their activities. Upon seeing Max
in her trance, he assumed Lucas was committing a ritualistic sacrifice to Satan,
and refused to listen when Lucas attempted to explain. Jason threatened Lucas
with his gun, and the two ultimately ended up in a fistfight. Jason accidentally
crushed Max's cassette player during the scuffle, leaving Max's fate solely in
Eleven's hands.
 Vecna taunts Eleven

Vecna prepared to kill Max, attaching her unconscious mental avatar to a pillar
with his vines. Eleven spoke up in a last-ditch attempt to save Max; she tried to
empathise with Henry, telling him about Dr. Brenner's death, saying Brenner
was at fault for Henry becoming "a monster". Vecna turned to face Eleven, and
told her she was wrong; not only he had chose this path for himself, but it was
actually Eleven who had made his transformation possible. Vecna elaborated,
explaining that while exploring Dimension X, he found the mists of the proto-
Mind Flayer and transformed it into its current incarnation as a giant, spider-like
beast; a shocked Eleven realized the Mind Flayer had been Vecna's puppet this
whole time, with Vecna and the Mind Flayer's will being one and the same.
Vecna then turned his attention back to Max, leaving Eleven in a state of
despair. Moments later, she heard the voice of her boyfriend Mike break
through from the real world. Mike, standing at Eleven's side as she floated in
the makeshift isolation tank, encouraged her to keep fighting. Inspired to re-
kindle her concentration, Eleven used her powers to slowly make the vines
restraining her unravel.

Eleven pushes Vecna away

Back in the Creel attic, Lucas had ended up restrained and choked by Jason;
unable to move, he watched in fear as Max started to rise above the floor. In a
fit of rage, Lucas took Jason by surprise and smashed his face into a window,
knocking him unconscious. Lucas turned back to face Max, but was horrified to
watch as Vecna broke her limbs, one by one. Upon finally being released from
the vines, Eleven unleashed her full power, pushing Vecna up against a pillar
before he could finish killing Max.

Meanwhile, Steve, Nancy and Robin had made their way to the Upside Down's
version of the Creel House, and found themselves face-to-face with Vecna in a
meditative trance and connected to vines. Steve threw a Molotov cocktail,
setting Vecna ablaze; instantly after being set on fire, the vines disconnected
from his back, breaking Vecna's concentration and causing the mindscape to
dissolve around Eleven. Robin inflicted more damage by throwing another
Molotov before witnessing Nancy shooting the creature numerous times with a
shotgun, leaving Vecna with no chance to gather his bearings and fight back;
Nancy's last gunshot sent Vecna flying through the boarded window, with his
body crashing to the hard ground below. The trio rushed outside to make sure
of his death, but found he had disappeared.
Following Nancy, Steve and Robin's attacks, Eleven's consciousness returned
to the mental void through which she entered Max's memories, and for a
moment, Max's consciousness returned to her body in the attic. Although
Vecna's attack on Max had not gone to plan, she nevertheless succumbed to
her injuries, and her heart stopped. Nancy, Steve and Robin heard the
grandfather clock chime eerily from within the house; moments later, a fourth
and final gate ripped open in the attic, bisecting and killing Jason in the process.
All four curse gates then rapidly expanded, creating the cataclysm Nancy saw in
her vision; the gates converged upon the Hawkins town square, creating an
earthquake-like effect killing dozens of residents. Eleven used her abilities from
afar to restart Max's heart, reviving her, albeit in a comatose state.
Return to Hawkins
Two days later, Eleven, Will and the others arrived in Hawkins, and were
shocked to discover the scale of destruction that Vecna had inflicted on the
town. While visiting Max in hospital, Eleven reached into her mind, but could not
find her consciousness. Meanwhile, Will, who possessed a lingering psychic
connection to the Upside Down, sensed Vecna was alive upon returning to
Hawkins, and insisted to Mike that Vecna must be killed. Not long after, the
Upside Down's spores began to fall from the sky. Walking to a nearby hill,
Eleven, Will and their allies watched in fear as plumes of smoke and spores
emerged from the four gates; Vecna's plan was coming to fruition after all.

The curse gates become active

1987
November
Training for the crawl
Since her return from California, Eleven is still wanted by Jack Sullivan, his
superior Major General Dr. Kay, and their men. Shortly after the opening of
Vecna's gates, the military had come to Hawkins to place the town under
quarantine and sea the gates with hundreds of steel plates. However, they also
established the Military Access Control Zone in Hawkins Public Library, the
gates' convergence point, so Dr. Kay could infiltrate the Upside Down and study
the beings within the dimension. Meanwhile, Sullivan and his men continued to
search for Eleven by distributing missing person posters throughout Hawkins
and creating gadgets that could detect her powers, forcing Hopper to hide
himself and El again in his grandfather's cabin. Though the military continued to
search for Eleven for the last nineteen months, Hopper prepared and trained El
for her rematch against Vecna with a series of exercises and obstacles courses.
After using her amplified telekinesis to jump over an abandoned bus, she
managed to achieve a new record, leaving Hopper and Joyce delighted. Not yet
satisfied, El instructed Hopper to reset his timer and prepared to start over, only
for Hopper and Joyce to plead with her that she shouldn't push herself to the
point of exhaustion. In response to this, Eleven guaranteed that Vecna would
not be going easy on any of them. After drinking water from her bottle, El had
Joyce and Hopper rebuild the obstacle course for another round.
The search for Holly
to be added
Interrogating Akers
to be added
The prison break
to be added
Rescuing Will
to be added
Operation Beanstalk
to be added
Vecna's last stand
to be added
Eleven's sacrifice

Eleven speaking to Mike

to be added
1989
May
The aftermath
Over a year after the death of Vecna and the destruction of the Upside Down,
everyone has come to terms with the loss of Eleven and moved on whereas
Mike continues to grieve for her supposed death. As Mike mourns for Eleven
once again, Hopper approaches Mike and consoles him, encouraging him to
accept the decision she chose in sacrificing herself in order for her loved ones
to live peaceful lives.

Mike's theory
However, during his graduation with his friends, Mike comes to realize that
Eleven could have faked her death, with help from Kali's abilities, and escaped
before the Upside Down was destroyed, given how she was able to speak to
him in the void despite the Hedgehog being activated. Sharing his theory with
his friends, Mike hopes that Eleven is alive elsewhere and exploring the outer
world, living freely without her past tormenting her ever again.
 Mike's theory regarding Eleven's disappearance, imagined near a waterfall

Personality and traits

Unlike many typical children, Eleven was primarily groomed as a psychic
weapon with extremely limited social interactions with other people in Hawkins
National Laboratory. In the start of the series, Eleven is timid and wary of
others, primarily due to severe abuse and the inability to express herself due to
lack of vocabulary and social cues. Her powers often reflect her state of
emotional distress, capable of causing damage to her surroundings and to
others as a way to release inner stress. Both negative and positive emotions
increase her powers, such as recalling the abuse she endured or hearing Mike's
declaration of love to her. Despite how powerful her abilities are however,
Eleven is not inherently malicious or violent, often using her powers in self
defense situations.
Through her friendship with the Party and a romantic relationship with Mike
Wheeler, Eleven demonstrates a capacity to quickly grasp the concepts of
empathy and loyalty, demonstrating more positive facets to her personality. As
the series continues, her resolve to protect those aware of her past and identity
only grows, using her powers to defend people not directly affiliated to her but
rather those powerless against supernatural threats, such as to rescue Will
Byers and help Billy Hargrove break the Mind Flayer's hold on him.

Eleven eventually develops a sense of humor through them, able to use them
for non-lethal pranks and surprises.

Through a combination of meeting her "sister" Kali and a friendship with Max
Mayfield, Eleven begins to rebel against being told how to behave, putting her
at odds with Hopper and Mike. Both girls push her to question the world and
what she desires, making her more confident with herself and her powers. Her
communication skills also expand through Hopper's lessons. However, she is
still extremely limited and becomes the subject of high school bullying when she
moves to California in Season 4, her self-esteem damaged due to the loss of
her abilities. After realizing her friends were still in danger in Hawkins, Eleven
allowed herself to be placed under experimentation to regain her powers to
prepare her against Vecna, a powerful psychic in league with the Mind Flayer.
By Season 5, Eleven becomes highly driven to kill Vecna, angered from past
manipulation and from the deaths he was responsible for. Upon returning to
Hawkins and reuniting with Hopper, Eleven trains physically and psychically to
eventually confront him. However, she becomes heavily conflicted upon
learning the abuse she endured may continue, independent of the threat of
Vecna, by the military. Despite winning in her final confrontation with Vecna and
under the persuasion of Kali. Eleven selflessly sacrifices herself and remains in
the Upside Down during it's destruction, preventing the experiments that stole
her childhood from being recreated.
Mike would later come to imagine that Eleven survived as part of a ploy to live
her life freely, postulating that she would eventually reach a far off village with
waterfalls to settle down in and find true peace.

Powers and abilities

Overview

Being tested at Hawkins Lab

Designated under codename "Eleven", her namesake is indictive of her status

as one of several numbered children that were part of a government experiment
to create psychic soldiers. Within the series, Chief Hopper's initial research
suggested Eleven's powers came from hallucinogenic drugs taken by her birth
mother in utero. Eventually, Dr. Brenner, the leading scientist of the program,
revealed that in addition to subjecting pregnant women with drugs, they were all
given the blood of Henry Creel, as his altered blood and genetics granted him
psychic abilities. This combination of genetic manipulation and drug use can
likely be attributed to how Eleven gained her abilities. Upon reuniting with her
mother, she would also show minor psychic abilities: whether this means she
gained the abilities through experimentation or otherwise is unknown. [27] [28]

In Hawkins Laboratory, Eleven, like many other test subjects, were trained to
use their abilities. They were encouraged to use the toys in the Rainbow Room
to practice their abilities. According to one source, Eleven and all her
fellow child test subjects possessed some form of telekinesis, but each test
subject possessed an "extra" unique power; in Eleven's case, this would be
her remote viewing ability.[29]

Initially, exercising her abilities to accomplish small tasks was shown to be

rather difficult. However, with practice, Eleven was able to accomplish greater
and greater feats. Nearly a year after the events of November 1983, Eleven
became able to use her telekinetic and telepathic powers far more easily and
without as much effort and concentration, easily closing doors, lifting objects,
and entering her mental void by simply placing a blindfold on and using the
white noise from a television.
Her abilities are directly linked to her emotional state, generally being at their
strongest when influenced by her anger and fear. However, they are also fueled
by positive emotions related to an innate protective nature. Raw emotion could
prove dangerous with Eleven, as her powers would manifest uncontrollably.
This was a possible factor at play when Eleven had opened the Gate; her fear
of witnessing the Demogorgon may have inadvertently magnified her powers. In
a similar case, she unintentionally flung Lucas across the junkyard during his
fight with Mike. Following an heated fight with Hopper, Eleven had a meltdown,
causing her to accidentally break all of the surrounding windows out of emotion.
After receiving advice from Kali, Eleven learned to harness her anger at will,
gaining more precise control over her powers. She went on to employ this tactic
while closing the Gate, even causing her to levitate as she fended off the Mind
Flayer. She is able to control her anger enough to use her powers without lethal
force, such as to slam doors shut in arguments.

Using her powers takes a physical toll on her body. When using her powers to
perform more menial tasks, Eleven usually only suffers from nosebleeds. Based
on how her powers are executed, it is likely the source of this blood is actually
her brain. When accomplishing more daunting tasks, however, she would
become physically exhausted, often to the point where she'd be unable to walk.
Her most extreme acts caused bruising on her face, her eyes to become
bloodshot, her ears to bleed, and fainting. However, if Eleven was sufficiently
satiated, this physical toll could be alleviated. Eventually, Eleven's body had
grown accustomed to the recurrent use of her powers, able to go longer
durations without succumbing to complete exhaustion.

Eleven's powers would occasionally affect the nearby electricity; when

attempting psychic communication, nearby lights would sometimes flicker or
even go out entirely. The Demogorgon, while traveling between dimensions,
had remarkably similar effects on nearby electricity, suggesting her abilities may
also cause distortion of the electromagnetic field.

After the battle against the Mind Flayer, Eleven experienced a long lasting
"power outage", unable to use her abilities even after food and rest. According
to Dr. Brenner, extreme power overuse led to a blood vessel in her brain to
burst, causing a stroke. While strokes in ordinary people can cause cognitive
and paralysis issues, for Eleven, the stroke caused the "signals" in her brain to
become too scrambled for her psychic abilities to work. Through intensive
immersion therapy, which also unearthed repressed memories, Eleven regained
her former powers to seemingly full strength and was able to match Henry Creel
in their final confrontation.

Psionics
 Eleven flinging a large van in the air
 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, and later channelled
her anger in order to pull a train car towards her. Moreover, she was able
to throw and kill a Demodog with her mind. Eleven could also use this
ability to attack and cause physical damage to people (primarily in self-
defense). She could affect internal organs to some extent; she mentally
squeezed Troy Walsh's bladder to make him urinate against his will,
embarrassing him in front of a crowd; later, she broke his arm when he
threatened Mike and Dustin. 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. In 1986,
Eleven could levitate NINA, a 10,000-pound sensory deprivation tank, with
relative ease and telekinetically manipulate a military helicopter mid-flight.

Destroying the Monster

 Levitating Mike's toy Millenium Falcon

 Levitation - Via telekinesis, Eleven could suspend objects in

the air, making them levitate. She first demonstrated this
when she made Mike's model of the Millennium Falcon float.
This ability is not restricted to objects, as shown when she
levitated Mike to safety after he had jumped off a cliff. Later,
Eleven herself levitated as she was closing the Gate,
seemingly as an unintended side effect.
 Telekinetic Leap - Via the advancements of her
telekinesis, Eleven can channel the psionic
energy to allow her body to leap upward the sky
as shown when she levitates over a bus in the
junkyard and even high above a military base
fence. In the final battle, she leaps high above
the Upside Down's Hawkins lab rooftop to enter
the portal to Vecna's lair as well as channels her
psionic field with her agility to roll up and enter
close into the mobile Mind Flayer's chest to
confront him. And during her fight, Jane
maneuvers around each of the latter's attacks
with good coordination he barely manages to
touch her.
 Force Field Generation - Eleven could condense her
telekinetic force to protect herself from projectiles. This was
shown as she was able to shield herself, Hopper,
and Kali from flying debris.
 Binding - Via telekinesis, Eleven can stop her enemies and
targets from physically moving, as shown with the Mind
Flayer's tendrils as she held them at bay with her powers in
1985.
 Biokinesis - Eleven could manipulate the bodies of living
creatures to a certain extent, as shown when she
disintegrated the Demogorgon.
 Resurrection - Under some circumstances,
Eleven can even resurrect the deceased.
Eleven was able to restart Max Mayfield's heart
to life after momentarily dying at Vecna's hand,
though Max's injuries remained.
Portal Manipulation & Dimensional Travel

Widening a gate

Eleven can open and manipulate gates to the Upside Down. In 1979, she
somehow created the first known gate during her fight with Henry
Creel at Hawkins Lab, and later, opened the Mothergate upon making psychic
contact with the Demogorgon. It's unclear whether Eleven intentionally or
accidentally opened the 1979 gate; similarly, the creation of the Mothergate
occurred against Eleven's will. One year after the Mothergate opened, Eleven
returned to Hawkins Lab and successfully used her powers to close it.

After getting trapped in the Upside Down, she manipulated a temporary gate
that the Demogorgon had opened, widening it enough for her to crawl through.

After the Gate was opened, it allowed Hawkins Lab scientists to access the
Upside Down. She herself entered the dimension after disintegrating the
Demogorgon, seemingly by accident.

Extrasensory Perception & Psychic Projection

Eleven in her Void

Eleven 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.

While sensorily deprived, Eleven can enter a heightened psychic state and
visualize herself in an inner mental void, through which she can seek out targets
in different locations than her own. This ability is powerful enough to find targets
over vast distances, even as far as other dimensions.
 Telepathy - Often used in tandem with her remote viewing abilities. When
she has located her target, she can choose to communicate with them
mentally.
 Mind Walking- Eleven can enter the minds of others via
contacting them through the Void, such as when she entered
the mind of Max Mayfield to save her from Vecna's curse or
when she entered the mind of Robert Akers to get answers
about the military's role in the Upside Down.
 Memory Reading - Eleven can view the memories of others
via contacting them through the Void. She was able to see
several of Terry's memories, and later used this ability to
view memories of Billy Hargrove's abusive childhood.
 Psychometry - Or "token-object reading", Eleven can gain
information about a person by touching objects associated
with them; 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.
Regular abilities
 Survival skills: While living in the woods for a month, Eleven learned
crucial survival skills, such as hunting (by using her powers) and how to
make a fire.
 Intellect: Despite her upbringing severely limiting her, Eleven
demonstrates high intellect by learning and applying concepts both simple
and complex concepts to every day life.
 She acknowledged the risks to herself and her friends when
investigating Billy Hargrove's strange behavior. Later, Eleven
realized that by viewing Billy's memories, she could also
learn the Spider Monster's location.
 When miles away from Hawkins and unable to fight Vecna in-
person, Eleven made a plan to 'piggyback' onto Max's mind,
allowing her to psychically fight Vecna in the process.
 Situational adaptation: In situations where her powers are
limited or otherwise, Eleven is able to use trickery and
improvised weaponry to match her opponents and situations,
using objects such as roller skates, defibrillators and scissors
for harm. When she is able to use her powers, Eleven is able
to manipulate her environments when straight forward
attacks do not work, such as high ground and even loose
sand.
 Stealth: Eleven sneaked inside Benny's Burgers without making a noise,
and ate french fries until getting caught. Later, she evaded the forces of
Hawkins Lab as they scoured the woods near the Wheeler house. In the
clash of the Military catching the party, Eleven's ultimate goal was thanks
to her sister’s illusion casting allowed the antagonist and her loved ones to
buy it as the reality was her true position was covered up long enough to
enter the tunnels and start her new life in a remote location unnoticeable.
 Morse code: She was taught how to read and signal Morse code by
Hopper as a means for them to safely communicate.
 First-aid knowledge: Due to the experiences in summer 1985 with the
Mind Flayer's proxy form, Eleven had learned from her best friend Max
Mayfield, who has wounded herself numerous times while skateboarding,
in how to treat her flesh wounds and those of others. This knowledge
came in handy when treating Hopper of a gash on the left side of his waist
in their search in the Upside Down for Holly Wheeler.
Weaknesses
Mind Walking
In addition to being one of her powers, as Dustin explained, like Vecna,
whenever Eleven enters the Void to "mind walk", her body outside of her mind
would be in a trance-like state, making her vulnerable to physical attacks.

Anti-Psychic Technology
Sonic weapons are powerful anti-psychic technology, comparable to the effects
of kryptonite on Superman. While normal humans are unaffected, psychics like
Eleven are inundated with high frequencies that disrupt the use of their powers
and also cause debilitating mental distress that cause difficulty to even move. In
such cases, destroying the weapons are the only solutions, after which the
affected recover in seconds. As seen in Vecna, implants such as
the Soteria would also likely fall in the category of technology capable to limiting
her powers.
Physical Limits
While extremely powerful, Eleven's psychic abilities cause a level of physical
stress in her body that can be lethal if not managed. In most situations, Eleven
merely bleeds from her nose and needs to recharge after overuse of her
powers. If pushed too far, she risks fatigue and even mental strokes that leave
her completely powerless.

Relationships
Familial
Terry Ives
While Terry is her biological mother, Eleven originally had no knowledge of her
or even the fact that Brenner had kidnapped her at birth. However, Terry tried
desperately to get her daughter back and still believed she would one day
return. After learning that her mother was alive through the Void, Eleven defied
Hopper's rules to meet her. However, when Eleven finally met her mother, she
was heartbroken to see her mother catatonic and learned that Hawkins Lab was
responsible for causing her mother to be mentally unstable. Despite this, Eleven
harbored some love towards her mother, even though she knew that Terry
could not raise her as a result of being mentally broken. Although Eleven was
saddened and horrified of her mother's tragic fate, she still loved her mother.
Becky Ives
Becky is Eleven's aunt. Like Terry, Eleven had no knowledge of her due to not
knowing the circumstances of her birth. Becky believed Terry really miscarried
and in extension believed that Jane did not exist. Becky helped Eleven (Jane)
look for her "sister" Kali. Eleven stayed the night at Becky's house, but ran away
due to her calling the police in regards to her being found.
Jim Hopper
My dad is famous. He ... He saved lots of lives. In a mall fire. He was a hero for

“ people. And he was my hero, too.

— El defending her father as her hero, "The Hellfire Club"

”
Chief Hopper was an ally of Eleven and later became her adoptive father. He
rescued her and her friends from government agents, safely bringing them to
the Byers house to meet with the others. Their relationship likely had little
opportunity to develop at this time as they were preoccupied with saving Will.
Hopper ultimately had to reveal Eleven's location to Hawkins Lab in order to
save Will, a decision he did not take lightly. Hopper appeared to have some
awareness of Eleven's status following her self-sacrifice, providing her with
Eggo waffles on Christmas Eve. Eleven's disappearance reminded Hopper of
the loss of his daughter, and he became determined to find her.

Hopper eventually found Eleven in the woods and began taking care of her,
relocating her to his grandfather's old cabin. The two developed a complicated
father-daughter dynamic as they lived together for almost a year. For her safety,
Hopper neither permitted her leaving the cabin, nor did he permit her to
communicate with Mike or her friends.

After the shutdown of Hawkins Lab, Hopper officially took Eleven in as his
adopted daughter and allowed her to attend the Snow Ball.

In 1985, after living with Hopper for over a year, Eleven had come to see
Hopper as her father. She remained close with him, even though he did not
enjoy her spending so much time with Mike. After learning Hopper forced Mike
to lie to her so they can start being distant, Eleven showed no anger towards
Hopper, believing her adopted father was right as she had spied on Mike and
his friends making comments on girls. When reunited with Hopper at Starcourt
Mall, Eleven and Hopper had an emotional talk as they prepared to shut down
the key and close the gate with their allies. Though Eleven wanted to help fight,
she eventually agreed with Hopper to get safety as she now knew his
protectiveness over her was out of love and concern while sharing an embrace
with him. However, the defeat of the Mind Flayer's avatar, Eleven was
saddened to discover Hopper was supposedly killed in the attempt to close the
gate, resulting her to be taken in by the Byers family and move out of Hawkins.
A year later, in 1986, Eleven continued to mourn for Hopper and still loved him.
She would even do a history project on Hopper in order to honor his memory
where even describing his supposed death brought her to tears.
When Angela mocked Hopper, Eleven was provoked to attack Angela in a fit of
rage in order to defend her adopted father and his memory. After temporarily
defeating Vecna, Eleven was tearfully reunited with Hopper who was revealed
to be alive due to having been captured by the Russians after closing the gate
last year. Overjoyed to see Hopper alive, Eleven shared a warm embrace with
him as he comforted her.
Joyce Byers
I'm happy you went to your ... conference.

“ — El expressing gratitude to Joyce for rescuing Hopper in "The Piggyback"

”
In 1983, when her son went missing, Joyce asked Eleven for assistance in
locating Will in the Upside Down. However, unlike Brenner, Joyce was
extremely patient and kind to Eleven. When helping her put on duct-taped
goggles, Joyce praised El for her bravery and thanked her for helping her
family, something El was visibly confused about but appreciative of. While in the
pool, El began having a panic attack upon discovering Barb's corpse, but Joyce
held her arm and comforted her. El does eventually locate Will, and Joyce hugs
her and praises her after El exited the Void.

In 1984, El tearfully reunited with Joyce following a year in hiding. The two hug
tightly while Joyce affectionately calls her "sweetheart". Eleven doesn't hesitate
in once again rescuing Will and assisting Joyce.

In 1985, Eleven maintained a good relationship with Joyce, who was supportive
of her relationship with Mike. After getting a piece of the Mind
Flayer's avatar out of her leg, El reunited with Joyce and they, along with their
friends came up with a plan to close the Gate in order to kill the Mind Flayer's
avatar. After successfully closing the Gate, El made eye contact with Joyce who
simply stared at her in tears as El slowly broke down crying as she realized
from Joyce's expression that Hopper presumably did not survive. Three months
later, El was taken in by Joyce and joined her family in moving out of Hawkins.
On moving day, Joyce discovered Hopper's letter to Mike and El when folding
his clothes. In turn, she gave it to a curious Eleven to read. El broke down as
she read it, sobbing over the crinkled page, and Joyce comforted her afterward.
In 1986, El came to regard Joyce as her mother figure while living with her
in Lenora Hills, California. However, it was likely El did not tell Joyce she was
being bullied at her new school due to Joyce being busy with her new job as a
telemarketer. During spring break, El was surprised to hear Joyce announced
she had to go to a "conference" in Alaska, but did not say anything about it as
she was upset over her alteration with Angela. On March 29, after temporarily
defeating Vecna, El reunited with Joyce in Hawkins and learned she had
actually gone to Russia to rescue Hopper who had actually been kidnapped by
the Russian government. Upon reuniting with Joyce, El shared an embrace with
her and jokingly expressed how happy she was that she went to her
"conference".
Jonathan Byers
In the fall of 1983, Jonathan first met Eleven when she helped assist his family
locate Will in the Upside Down using her telekinetic abilities.

In the fall of 1984, Jonathan was shocked upon Eleven's return after saving him
and the others from rampant Demodogs.

In the summer of 1985, Jonathan and Eleven worked together alongside Mike,
Lucas, Will, Max, and Nancy in taking down the Mind Flayer and Billy. El
assisted Jonathan in saving Nancy from the Hospital Monster. When El was
bitten by the Mind Flayer, leaving her ankle punctured, Jonathan assisted in
treating her wound in the best way he could, and later assisted the others in
ambushing the Mind Flayer with Lucas' fireworks to save El. Three months later,
following Hopper's "death", El had begun living with the Byers, and moved out
of Hawkins alongside them.
In the spring of 1986, Jonathan and El begun to address themselves as siblings
or step-siblings. Both struggled to adjust to their new lives in Lenora Hills,
California. El mentioned to Mike in her letter how she discovered Jonathan and
his new best friend Argyle smoking "smelly plants" together; Jonathan told her
that they were safe since they came from the earth, but made her promise not
to tell Joyce. Jonathan would later help Mike, Will and Argyle track Eleven
down, driving the group to Nevada in Argyle's Pizzamobile, and also assisted
Eleven by creating a makeshift sensory deprivation tank for her battle
against Vecna.
Will Byers
In 1983, when asked by Mike to help him look for Will, Eleven agreed to help. El
located Will in the Void inside the Upside Down's version of Castle Byers, telling
him to hold on a little longer, and that his mother was coming to rescue him.
After Eleven disappeared and Will was rescued, Mike, Dustin, and Lucas
shared stories about Eleven with a bewildered Will in hospital.
 Upon Eleven's return in 1984, she helped to disrupt the Mind Flayer's
possession of Will, while also closing the Gate.

By 1985, Will grew upset that his friends' preoccupations with romantic
relationships, especially in regard to Mike and El. When the two lied about El's
curfew to sneak away from the Party, Will commented that their relationship is
"gross". After witnessing El and Max break up, Will seized the opportunity to
play Dungeons & Dragons with his old friends, but quickly grew angry after
noticing their apparent disinterest. After storming out, Will yelled at Mike that he
was ruining the Party because of him "swapping spit with some stupid girl".
However, when Will discovered the return of the Mind Flayer, he put his anger
aside and helped defeat the monster. Three months after the destruction of
Starcourt Mall, El became Will's adopted sister, joining the Byers as they moved
out of Hawkins.

In 1986, Eleven and Will grew closer after moving to Lenora Hills, California,
where they started high school as freshmen. El was frequently bullied by their
peers, but Will supported her, especially on the last day of school before spring
break when El presented her diorama. Despite the teasing from Angela and her
cronies, El did her best to ignore them until she broke down in tears and
stormed out of the class. Will tried to comfort her, but El yelled that friends don't
lie. At the end of the day, El's project was destroyed by Angela and her cronies,
leaving both El and Will upset. When Mike arrived in Lenora the following day
for spring break, he noticed El lying about being "friends" with Angela and going
to parties at Rink-O-Mania. Will confronted El about her lies, warning her that
Mike would not be happy when he found out. Will's prediction later came true
when Angela and her cronies humiliated her in front of everyone at the rink.
Later, El retaliated by striking Angela in the face with a roller skate, and when
the police arrived to arrest her, Will tried to cover for her, but to no avail. Will
eventually assisted Eleven in enhancing her abilities to fight off the evil
threatening their hometown, Vecna. Days later, Will revealed that his
connection to the Upside Down enabled him to sense that Vecna was still alive
and recovering his strength, though Will seemed confident that Eleven would be
able to take him down in their next battle. Both Will and Eleven, along with their
friends and family, witnessed the Upside Down beginning its invasion upon the
world.
Non-familial
Martin Brenner
I came here to try and understand who I was. To see if ... I was the monster. And I know the truth.
It is not me. It is you. You are the monster.

— Eleven confronting Dr. Brenner, "Papa"

Dr. Martin Brenner had experimented on Terry Ives, who volunteered as

a MKUltra test subject. While undergoing these tests, Terry mysteriously
became pregnant. After discovering the pregnancy, Brenner took the child away
directly from birth, raising her at Hawkins Lab under the name Eleven.
Throughout childhood, Eleven was treated harshly and severely. Brenner
appeared to be Eleven's only source of social engagement, and thus she grew
to be dependent on his attention. Brenner built himself up as a father figure,
establishing a somewhat tender demeanor when in her presence. However, an
unstated threat was present in even the most affectionate words he uttered,
lurking just beneath the surface.

When Eleven performed well, Brenner would "reward" her with affection. When
Eleven disobeyed him, she would instead be subjected to cruel psychological
torture. Even when Eleven was on her best behavior, she spent much of her
time in solitary confinement, locked in a "bedroom" cell. Brenner's only true
interest in the girl was her extraordinary power; her physical or mental health
was merely of tangential importance to his goal. When Eleven performed
extraordinary feats, Brenner appeared proud of her accomplishments.

After Eleven escaped from the lab and experienced genuinely loving
relationships for the first time, she could finally see through Brenner's façade.
When he eventually found her and promised to take her home, she rejected his
offer, instead crying and reaching out to her new friends. Before Brenner could
take her back to the lab, he was attacked by the Demogorgon, which allowed
Eleven to escape from his grasp and be rescued by her friends. After destroying
the Demogorgon, Eleven had become convinced that Brenner had been killed
by the monster.

In 1986, Brenner revealed himself to be alive, albeit with scars from his
encounter with the Demogorgon. He and Sam Owens created the NINA
Project with the goal of restoring Eleven's psychic abilities and amplify them to a
stronger level. Though she initially refused, she ultimately relented, knowing
that her friends and the rest of Hawkins and the world depended on her.
Though the project successfully restored Eleven's powers, Brenner
incapacitated her and Owens, stubbornly insisting that she was not ready to
battle Henry Creel/Vecna, who was revealed to be Brenner's first test subject
and the evil terrorizing Hawkins. Eleven finally had enough bravery to stand up
against the man who raised her for most of her life and reminded that his
constant attempts to locate Vecna in the Upside Down led to the opening of the
"Mothergate," before blaming him for all of Hawkins' misery and destruction
ever since then. She tried to rescue Owens, only to be sedated by Brenner. Lt.
Colonel Sullivan led his forces towards Brenner's base of operations and his
men managed to fatally wound Brenner as he tried to carry Eleven to safety.
After Eleven destroyed an helicopter and killed some of Sullivan's men in self-
defense, Brenner unlocked her collar and pleaded with his "daughter" that all he
had done was for her own good before begging for her forgiveness. However,
Eleven merely replied, "Goodbye, Papa," and departed with her adoptive family,
leaving Brenner to die alone in the desert.
Mike Wheeler
Mike, I love you too.

— Eleven to Mike after recalling Mike's feelings for her, "The Battle of Starcourt"
Eleven and Mike developed a close relationship in the brief time they knew
each other in 1983. Mike grew the closest to Eleven out of the three boys, partly
due to her staying at his house. Although Dustin and Lucas eventually grew to
trust her, Mike was the first to do so, welcoming her into his home and keeping
her a secret from his parents. Eleven, in turn, was clearly most relaxed while
alone with Mike. Unlike Dustin and Lucas, Mike immediately understood that,
despite her powers and strange appearance, she was ultimately just another kid
who didn't want to trouble him or his friends. His respect and admiration for her
deepened when she aided and defended him and the others in their search
for Will.
Mike even invited her to be his date to the Snow Ball, an offer she happily
accepted. Out of love for Mike and her friends, Eleven used her powers to
disintegrate the Demogorgon, vanishing in the process. Mike was devastated by
her disappearance; Mike called El on his Supercom for 353 days in a row, while
keeping her pillow fort in perfect condition; on many occasions, Eleven
attempted to reach Mike through the Void, but found herself unable to. After
almost a year of separation, the two were finally reunited and shared a long-
awaited hug, though their reunion was cut short due to the on-going crisis at
Hawkins Lab. Before Eleven headed off to seal the Gate, Mike told Eleven he
"[couldn't] lose her again", to which El promised he would not. Afterwards,
Eleven and Mike attended the Snow Ball where they shared their second kiss,
and danced to "Every Breath You Take".
Hopper was able to adopt Eleven through a forged birth certificate given to him
by Dr. Owens. This allowed Eleven to enter mainstream society without fear,
which led to her pursuing a relationship with Mike that continued and prospered
into the summer of 1985. Hopper, however, grew increasingly irritated with the
relationship, threatening Mike and forcing him to stop seeing Eleven. This
caused Eleven to break up with Mike, but they later reconciled after Mike
explained the situation. During the battle against the Spider Monster, Mike
saved Eleven's life various times; when her leg was seriously injured, he helped
her walk and took care of her. After Hopper's apparent death, Eleven and the
Byers moved to Lenora Hills under Sam Owens' supervision. Before leaving, El
and Mike made plans to see each other at Thanksgiving and Christmas and
Eleven said to him that she loved him and kissed him, but sadly had to say
goodbye as the Byers departed.
In the spring of 1986, Eleven and Mike kept in touch through letters, but faced
communication problems, with Eleven hiding the fact that she was being bullied
and Mike struggling to say "I love you". After an incident at the Rink-O-Mania,
Eleven was arrested, before later crossing paths with Dr. Owens. Before
departing to regain her powers, she sent a note to Mike via Owens's
agent, Ellen Stinson. Nearly a week later,
Mike, Will, Argyle and Jonathan tracked down Eleven to the Nina Project facility
in Nevada. They worked together to fight a new evil terrorizing Hawkins; during
the final battle against Vecna, Mike gave a passionate speech to motivate
Eleven to fight back, in which he reaffirmed his love for her and called her his
"superhero”. Upon their return to Hawkins, they leaned on each other as they
visited a comatose Max and witnessed the early stages of the Upside Down's
invasion planned by Vecna.
Lucas Sinclair
Friends don't lie. I'm sorry too.
 — Eleven apologizing to Lucas, "The Bathtub"

Lucas was initially suspicious of Eleven, dismissing her as a "psycho". Although

Dustin and Mike made efforts to become friendlier, Lucas kept some distance
from her, viewing her as a distraction from the search for Will. Eleven, lacking
social skills and confidence, was unable to convince him that she was truly on
their side. When Eleven was discovered to be manipulating the compass to
keep the boys from finding the Gate, Lucas grew angry, accusing her of being
traitorous. After Eleven ran away, Lucas had little interest in finding her.
However, after Lucas realized that she was only protecting the boys from
the dangerous forces at Hawkins Lab, his opinion of her changed. Following the
kids' reunion, Eleven and Lucas apologized to one another and remained
friendly.

In 1984, when Eleven revealed herself to be alive, she embraced Lucas and
Dustin. Lucas said they've missed her, with Eleven saying she missed them too.

In 1985, Lucas and Eleven remained close friends and worked together to fight
the Mind Flayer. Lucas showed his care and concern for Eleven when she was
attacked by Billy. Although Lucas was upset after learning Eleven had spied on
him and Mike, he quickly forgave her. During the fight at Hopper's cabin, Lucas
saved Eleven's life by chopping off one of the Mind Flayer's tentacles with an
axe. After retreating to Bradley's Big Buy, Lucas stole fireworks to help Eleven
in the final fight against the Mind Flayer's proxy. Three months later, as Eleven
left Hawkins with the Byers family, she said goodbye to Lucas and the others.
After regaining her powers in March 1986, Eleven entered the Void to check on
her friends in Hawkins, including Lucas. She grew fearful for their safety when
she overheard their plan to kill Vecna. She helped Lucas protect Max
via psychic projection, but Max eventually succumbed to her injuries, with
Eleven and Lucas grieving the seeming loss of their friend, though Eleven
would later restart Max's heart. Eleven later reunited with Lucas two days later,
looking over Max at the hospital, Eleven asked if Max would wake up, to which
Lucas replied that the doctors didn't know, calling Max's survival a miracle.
Dustin Henderson
Teeth. You have teeth.

— Eleven reuniting with Dustin, "The Gate"

Dustin's initial attitude toward Eleven lay somewhere between Mike's open-
mindedness and Lucas's skepticism. He became considerably kinder to her
after discovering she had "superpowers", although he retained a degree of
indifference towards her. After an incident with Lucas, he was quick to call her
out on a questionable use of her power, though he later admitted that it was
“awesome.” While it is unclear if he saw her as a member of their "party" at that
point, he did assist Mike in looking for Eleven after she had ran away. After
Eleven saved him and Mike from bullies, he proudly declared that she was their
friend and thoroughly cared about her from that point on.
In 1984, when Eleven revealed herself to be alive, she embraced Dustin and
Lucas. Dustin revealed to her that they've reminisced her and talked about her
almost everyday. Eleven was even surprised that Dustin had teeth which Dustin
proudly showed them off to her.

In 1985, Eleven used her powers to make Dustin's toys move to lure Dustin to a
spot where she and the others welcome him back from Camp Know Where.
When Dustin revealed he got a girlfriend, El was shocked and went with him to
help build Cerebro so he can contact his girlfriend Suzie. However, Eleven
decided to leave on the journey to the top of Weathertop so she can spend
romantic time with Mike, leaving Dustin upset. Later, after Dustin managed to
get a short transmission to Mike, El used her powers to locate him at Starcourt
Mall and comes to his rescue by stopping some Russians from killing him. After
she saved Dustin, she happily shared a hug with him. When Eleven's leg wound
began pulsating, El was helped by Dustin. After the fight against the Mind
Flayer, Eleven said good-bye to Dustin before leaving Hawkins with the Byers
family.
In 1986, when learning from Dr. Sam Owens of a new evil threatening Hawkins,
Eleven became concerned about Dustin and decided to go to the Nina
Project to regain her powers and save him. Once she successfully regained her
powers, El entered the Void to check on Dustin and the rest of her friends to
see how they were doing. When hearing Dustin and her friends planning to
kill Vecna, Eleven grew fearful of their safety and decided to return to Hawkins
to save Dustin and the others. After temporarily defeating Vecna by battling him
in Max's mind, El returned to Hawkins and reunited with Dustin, sharing a warm
embrace with him.
Max Mayfield
If you touch her again, I will kill you again.

— Eleven to Vecna after saving Max, "The Piggyback"

In 1984, Mike told Max that El was a girl who'd once been in the Party, but had
"moved away" (though Lucas later divulged the full story to Max).

Eleven had an overwhelmingly negative first impression of Max. While looking

for Mike at Hawkins Middle, she watched Max and Mike chatting and laughing
from afar; a deeply lonely Eleven, overwhelmed with jealousy and feelings of
abandonment, psychokinetically knocked Max off her skateboard. A few days
later, Max was shocked to learn Eleven was real, eagerly introducing herself.
Eleven coldly brushed her aside, much to Max's confusion.
Despite Eleven's initial animosity towards Max, the two grew to become close
friends. The pair were on more neutral terms by June 1985, with both being
formal members of the Party. Unlike Will, Max defended Mike and El's
relationship as "romantic", but after Mike started acting unusually towards El,
Max took El to the brand-new Starcourt Mall to cheer her up. The girls soon
grew close to one another throughout the day, trying on clothes, taking photos,
pranking bullies, and getting ice cream. Max encouraged El to find herself
without her father or Mike's approval, and El began to copy Max, repeating
many of her sayings. That night, Max slept over at El's cabin and introduced her
to teen magazines, while also comforting her over her breakup with Mike. The
two grew to deeply trust and care for one another, with both girls relating to
each other's frustrations interacting with Dustin, Lucas, Mike and Will.
Later, the girls investigated the strange activity of Max's stepbrother Billy,
concluding he had fallen under the possession of the Mind Flayer. Letting
bygones be bygones, the girls reunited with the boys to defeat the latest threat
from the Upside Down. When arguing with Mike, Max told him that El was fully
capable of making her own decisions. After witnessing Billy's gruesome death,
a grief-stricken Max sobbed in El's arms as she comforted her. Three months
later, Max and El tearfully hugged one another as El left with the Byers, moving
to California.
In March 1986, after having her powers restored, Eleven observed her friends
from afar via the Void. She grew concerned for Max's safety, who planned to
use herself as bait draw Vecna's attention, prompting El to beg Dr. Owens to
send agents who could protect Max. Later, El decided she would fight Vecna by
"piggybacking" onto Max's mind via the Void, protecting Max in the process.
Unfortunately, Vecna incapacitated both girls and transported them to his
mindscape. Moments later, El found the strength to interrupt Vecna's attack on
Max, but it was too late. After Vecna was injured and left Max's mind, El stood
by her best friend and cried as she witnessed her final moments. After the
opening of the gates, Eleven employed her abilities to restart Max's heart,
saving her life. Two days later, El returned to Hawkins and visited Max in the
hospital, who had fallen into a coma. Sitting by Max's side, Eleven failed to
locate her friend's consciousness in the Void, fearing she might've not been
able to save her.
Kali Prasad
If you wanted to show mercy, that is your choice. But don't you ever take away mine. Ever.

— Kali showing her true personality to Eleven, "The Lost Sister"

Kali, or Eight, was Eleven's fellow test subject at Hawkins National Laboratory.
When they were young, the two were depicted as friends, playing in
the Rainbow Room when Eleven's mother Terry Ives came to pick her up in
1978. The two were separated when Eight escaped the lab without Eleven.
In 1984, when Eleven visited her mother, her aunt Becky Ives told her about
Kali. Eleven used her mind to track down Kali in Chicago, Illinois. There, Kali
embraced Eleven warmly upon discovering that she was her sister. Kali had her
gang give Eleven a makeover, and then explained how they hunted down the
former lab workers and killed them, urging Eleven to join them. They
reached Ray Carroll's residence, but Eleven refused to kill him, stopping Kali
from doing so either. Kali was slightly angered at this, forbidding Eleven from
stopping her from killing anyone. Later, when the gang was chased by police,
Eleven chose to run away to help her friends. Kali was left devastated and in
tears.

Overall, Eleven and Kali had a very warm and intimate sisterly relationship, but
their personal morals clashed, leading to their eventual separation. However,
they would eventually reunite in November 1987, when Eleven and her adoptive
father Jim Hopper infiltrated a base of operations in the Upside Down,
discovering Kali and her abilities being used by Dr. Kay and her subordinates to
develop sonic frequencies that could weaken Eleven or another test
psychokinetic test subject like her. El held her 'sister''s hand for the first time in
three years and she and Hopper began to free her from captivity.

Benny Hammond
Benny was the first person Eleven encountered after escaping the lab. During
their short time together, Benny treated her kindly and cared about her well
being, a stark contrast to her treatment at the lab. Fearing that she was a victim
of abuse, he called Social Services hoping to help her. Unfortunately, this good
deed would lead to his death at the hands of DOE agent Connie Frazier. Eleven
later killed Connie and other agents in order to defend herself and her friends;
whether intentional or not, she avenged Benny with this action.
Nancy Wheeler
In 1983, Eleven was residing in Nancy's home, with her younger brother Mike
sheltering the girl in their basement. When giving a tour of his home, El saw a
picture of Nancy on the mantle, calling her pretty. When El was left alone, she
explored the house on her own, finding her way into Nancy's room. She
examined Nancy's trinkets along with photographs of her childhood and her
best friend Barbara Holland, showing El what a normal life she could've had. El
later officially met Nancy when Chief Jim Hopper rescued her and the boys from
the Department of Energy agents. Nancy asked if El was wearing her old dress.
After explaining her ability to locate people in the Upside Down with her
telekinetic abilities, Nancy assisted in making a homemade sensory deprivation
tank, hopeful El could find Barb, who had been snatched by the monster. In the
bath, El had discovered Barb's rotting corpse, causing her to fearfully repeat the
word "gone", devastating Nancy.

In 1984, a year later, Eleven met up with Nancy again after she saved her and
the group from Demodogs. By 1985, eight months later, El and Nancy reunited
upon the discovery that the Mind Flayer was growing an army through Hawkins
residents, dubbed the Flayed. When arriving at Hawkins Memorial Hospital to
have Doris Driscoll lead them to the Flayed, El rescued Nancy from being killed
by a monster form from the possessed remains of Bruce Lowe and Tom
Holloway. Afterward, when Mike and Max argued on whether El should decide
her limits, Nancy was shocked to discover that El had dumped Mike, and initially
took Max's side that El was her own person and knew what was best for herself.
However, she backed down upon Mike professing that he loved El and didn't
want to risk losing her again. That evening, when the Mind Flayer's avatar
attacked Hopper's cabin, El once again saved Nancy by stopping the monster
from killing Nancy as she ran out of ammo. Nancy later saved El from being
killed by shooting the monster in the mouth. The group later raided Bradley's
Big Buy to help clean El's wounded leg, and Nancy soon attempted to remove
the piece of Mind Flayer infecting El's wound, growing concerned of El's pain.
Nancy would later save El's life again when she joined the others pelting
fireworks at the Mind Flayer. Three months later, Nancy assisted helping El and
the Byers move out of Hawkins.
In 1986, six months later, Nancy was put into a trance by Vecna, who used her
as a messenger to Eleven what the future entailed of him destroying the world.
Later, after El regained her powers, she went into the Void and discovered that
the group was taking it upon themselves to travel into the Upside Down and kill
Vecna themselves, leading El to grow desperate to rescue her friends. Two
days later, El reunited with Nancy, leading the two to rebuild Hopper's cabin
before witnessing the Upside Down beginning to infect Hawkins.

Argyle
After moving to Lenora Hills, California, Eleven met Argyle after he struck a
friendship with her adoptive brother, Jonathan. Eleven referred to Argyle in her
letters to Mike as "Jonathan's funny friend" whose hair was longer than hers,
but she was cordial to him. When picking up Mike, El, and Will from Rink-O-
Mania after El had struck Angela in the face with a roller skate, Argyle and
Jonathan (while high from smoking weed) attempted to comfort her, saying
Angela would be fine, but they only made it worse by joking about it. After
regaining her powers, Eleven met with Argyle again as he had arrived with
Mike, Will, and Jonathan to come to her rescue. After escaping from Lt.
Colonel Jack Sullivan, Eleven was aided by Argyle in building a sensory
deprivation tank for her to use so she could battle Vecna and save her friends in
Hawkins. Argyle also provided pizza for Eleven and Mike, which she enjoyed.
As Eleven fought Vecna, she was watched over by Argyle and after she
temporarily defeated Vecna, they traveled back to Hawkins together.
Troy Walsh and James Dante
Go.

— Eleven frightening Troy and James away from her friends, "The Monster"

When Eleven saw Troy and James bullying her friends, she instantly disliked
them. After Mike stood up to Troy for insulting Will, she used her powers to
make Troy urinate in front of his classmates, humiliating him. When Troy sought
revenge and threatened to hurt Mike and Dustin, she used her abilities once
again to push James to the ground and breaks Troy's right arm. The two boys
fled in terror. Although they clearly did not like Eleven, they had gained a
newfound respect for - and fear of - her and her friends.
Angela
After moving to California with the Byers family, Eleven attended school
at Lenora Hills High School where Angela, her boyfriend Jake, and their friends
began to bully her. Though Eleven did her best to ignore Angela and her
friends, she was often hurt by their cruelty. When Angela and her friends
destroyed her history project that she based on Hopper, Eleven, having lost a
moment of clarity, tried to use her powers against Angela, only to remember
she still didn't have them as she ended embarrassing herself. When Ms.
Gracey comforted her and asked if someone destroyed her project, Eleven lied
and did not tell on Angela, but Ms. Gracey was able to see what really
happened and escorted Angela to the principal's office as punishment for
bullying Eleven and destroying her project.
When Mike came to California for spring break, Eleven lied to him, saying she
was friends with Angela. Unfortunately, while at Rink-O-Mania, Eleven was
confronted by Angela, who wanted revenge as she wrongfully blamed her for
getting her in trouble. After Eleven was humiliated in front of the entire rink by
Angela and her friends, Eleven angrily confronted Angela and asked her to
apologize while confirming to Mike that they were truly friends. When Angela
refused to apologize and instead mocked her of Hopper's supposed death,
Eleven lost control of her rage and struck Angela in the face with a roller skate.
However, upon seeing how badly she injured Angela, Eleven felt incredibly
guilty.
Vecna
During her time as a test subject, Eleven was bullied by her most of her peers
after Eight escaped from the lab, but a mysterious orderly comforted her and
gave her words of encouragement and advice. The orderly, who was actually
the first psychokinetic test subject, One, saw himself in Eleven, relating to how
the other test subjects had ostracized her.

One later tricked Eleven into removing the power suppressant chip in his neck,
allowing him to commit a massacre at the lab. He tried to persuade Eleven to
join him in his quest to eradicate humanity. When she refused, they engaged in
a telekinetic battle, with Eleven sending him to a parallel dimension. Moments
later, Eleven fell into a coma; upon awakening, she had no memory of the
traumatic events.

Years later, One exerted influence over Hawkins via the otherworldly entity
known as the "Mind Flayer", which Eleven and her allies fought in both 1984
and 1985. In 1986, One resurfaced as the being known as "Vecna". He began
to murder teenagers; through the "powerful psychic connection" with his victims,
he could create gates to Hawkins from within the Upside Down. Following
Eleven regaining her powers and repressed memories, she used psychic
projection to confront Vecna from within Max's mind, though he initially
overpowered her. However, she managed to save Max, attacking and
suspending Vecna against a pillar within his mindscape before he could deliver
the final blow. Despite restarting Max's heart moments later, she was unable to
prevent Vecna's final gate from being created, which wreaked havoc across
Hawkins.

Two days later, Eleven and her allies witnessed plumes of smoke and the
Upside Down's spores emerge from the four gates. Eleven stared out defiantly
at the chaos, ready to fight and defeat Vecna once and for all.

Appearances
Stranger Things appearances

Season The The Weirdo

1 Vanishing of on Maple Holly, Jolly The Body
Will Byers Street

The Flea and The Monster The Bathtub The Upside

 the Acrobat Down

Trick or Treat,
MADMAX The Pollywog
Freak
Season
2 Will the Wise Dig Dug The Spy

The Lost Sister The Mind Flayer* The Gate

The Case of
Suzie, Do The Mall The Sauna
the Missing
You Copy? Rats Test
Season Lifeguard
3
E Pluribus The Battle of
The Flayed The Bite
Unum Starcourt

The Monster and

The Hellfire Club Vecna's Curse
the Superhero

Season
Dear Billy* The Nina Project The Dive
4

The Massacre at
Papa The Piggyback
Hawkins Lab

The
The
Vanishing of
The Crawl Turnbow Sorcerer
Holly
Season Trap
Wheeler
5

Escape From The

Shock Jock The Bridge
Camazotz Rightside Up

* = Eleven appears with no dialogue in "The Mind Flayer" and appears in archive footage in "Dear Billy"

Comics
The Other Side appearances

Issue 1 Issue 2 Issue 3 Issue 4

SIX appearances

Issue 1 Issue 2 Issue 3 Issue 4

Video games
 Video game appearances

Stranger Things: Stranger Things Stranger Things:

The Game 3: The Game Puzzle Tales
Dedicated
games Stranger Things:
Stranger Things
The VR
VR
Experience

Dead by
Fortnite Smite
Daylight
Crossovers/DLC

Roblox The Vanishing

See also: Eleven (Fortnite), Eleven (Smite)

Other appearances
 Stranger Things: The First Shadow
 Stranger Things: Starcourt Mall Escape
Family tree
note: family trees are only visible on desktop.
Biological

Becky
Andrew Rich † Teresa Ives
Ives

Jane
Hopper

Adoptive
 James Unknown

Bil Di
l ane Jim Hopper

Jane Hopper
Diane's second
Sara Hopper †
child Jim's Adopted
Daughter

Lonnie Byers Joyce Byers

 Jane Hopper
Jonathan Byers Will Byers
Joyce's Adopted
Daughter

Memorable Quotes
 "Bad."
 "Mouthbreather."
 "Friends don't lie."
 "Pretty."
 "Still pretty?"
 "Mike, I am sorry. The Gate ... I opened it. I'm the monster."
 "Goodbye, Mike."
 "No more."
 "It's eight-one-five. You are late."
 "Ghost. Halloween."
 "C-Compromise?"
 "You are like Papa!"
 "Bitchin'."
 "Do you lie?"
 "I dump your ass."
 "Mike. I love you, too."
 "Angela!"
 "Goodbye, Papa."
 "Mike? I... missed you."
 "I piggybacked from a pizza dough freezer."
 "And not emotion. Instinct."
 "Karen with her wine."
 "I will always be with you."
 "Goodbye Mike."
Behind the scenes
Creation and development

The initial basis for Eleven's character was formed when the Duffers imagined
an escaped MKUltra test subject heavily influenced by E.T. However, they
[30]
also wanted to keep an underlying sense of danger and instability, saying that
"Eleven isn't a normal girl, and she's no gentle plant-collecting alien either. She
has unpredictable supernatural powers that will most definitely put our boys in
jeopardy." As a result, they also incorporated elements from the anime, Elfen
Lied, as well as the 1988 anime film, Akira, into her character, though with "less
bloodshed." It's also highly likely Eleven was inspired by characters from the
[31]

works of Stephen King, such as Carrie White from Carrie and Charlie McGee
from Firestarter, although these have not been cited as specific influences.
In an interview, the Duffers revealed that the show was originally going to be
more "R-rated", especially concerning Eleven's powers. Ross said, "The Eleven
character, the kind of powers she has and to have a young protagonist that's
violent — it's not E.T. It's not a happy situation. She's killing people, and brutally
murdering them." [32]

In a featurette later released by Netflix, the Duffer brothers revealed that Eleven
was basically a blank slate of a character during production of the premiere
season. It was Brown's charisma and instinctive performance that invented
Eleven's iconic gestures, with the Duffers stating, "What she does with her
eyes, what she does with her face, what she does with a certain glance – all of
Eleven's power stuff, which now is kind of famous, the hands, the turn of the
neck – this was all designed by an 11-year-old girl." [33]

Casting
Out of all the roles, Eleven was the most difficult to cast due to her having to
convey various emotions with little dialogue. The role also required staying in
character even while not talking. The Duffers feared they would not be able to
find someone who could stay focused throughout an entire scene. 246 young
actresses were seen for the role of Eleven. However, when they met Millie
[34]

Bobby Brown those fears vanished, and the Duffers even stated she has a
"preternatural talent". To help ease her worries about shaving her head, the
[31]

Duffers showed Millie pictures of Charlize Theron in Mad Max: Fury Road. [35]

The younger version of Eleven shown in "Dig Dug" and "The Lost Sister" was
portrayed by a set of twin toddlers, Charlotte and Clara Ward, however, they
[36]

were never credited for the role.

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Trivia
Eleven's age
 Eleven's exact age and date of birth is a point of contention:
 Multiple sources suggest Eleven was born in 1971:
 The teleplay for "The Vanishing of Will
Byers" describes Eleven as 12 years old
on November 7, 1983, suggesting she was born
in 1971.
 In "The Monster" (which takes place
on November 12, 1983), Becky Ives says
 Terry's "miscarriage" (Eleven's birth) occurred
twelve years ago, which is 1971.
 An Instagram post by lead makeup artist Amy L.
Forsythe lists 1971 as Jane's year of birth.
 A "missing teen" poster, posted by the
official Stranger Things social media accounts
on January 30, 2025 and later seen in "The
Crawl", revealed Eleven's date of birth as June
7, 1971.
 Some sources suggest Eleven was born on a different year:
 The teleplay for "The Massacre at Hawkins
Lab" describes Eleven as 7 years old
on September 8, 1979, which would suggest
Eleven was born in 1972.
 In an interview published on June 2, 2022,
the Duffer Brothers claimed Eleven was 11
years old during Season 1, suggesting she was
born in 1972.[37]

 In the 2019 novel Suspicious Minds, Jane's birth

occurs in June 1970, which would make her 13
in Season 1.
Due to the wiki's rules surrounding canonicity, Eleven's year of birth is assumed
to be June 7, 1971 - see the canon hierarchy ruling for more information.

General
 Eleven is extremely fond of Eggos, seen eating or standing near them
throughout the series:
 Originally given to her by Mike the first morning she stayed at
the Wheelers, she became instantly hooked. She
raided Bradley's Big Buy's stock and destroyed the sliding
doors when an employee told her she had to pay for them.
 She is seen enjoying Eggos with Hopper for breakfast and
dessert. In "The Lost Sister", when Kali's crew raid the
convenience store, El tosses some fruit aside when sees
Eggos in the freezer.
 When trying to locate Dustin in "The Bite", she opens up the
freezer doors inside Bradley's Big Buy, sitting behind shelves
of Eggos.
 In "The Monster and the Superhero", Mike makes El Eggos
for breakfast in an attempt to cheer her up. When eating
with Sam Owens at the County Line Diner, she asks the
waitress for waffles.
 Contrary to popular belief, Millie, El's actress, isn't obsessed
with Eggos unlike her character, stating that they make her
feel "sick" due to the large amounts eaten during filming.
 Many of El's clothing throughout the series are hand-me-downs from other
characters:
 In the first season, the first night El stayed at the Wheeler
house, Mike gave her his sweater and sweatpants he wore
the night before. The pink dress she wears throughout the
rest of the season originally belonged to Nancy.
 In the second season, most of El's attire - oversized plaid
button shirts - originally belong to Hopper.
 In the third season, El initially continues to wear Hopper's old
flannels, but this changes when Max takes her to the mall
 and buys her more trendy outfits to wear. By the end,
however, she reverts back to wear plaid flannels.
 In the fourth season, El's attire is derived of button-down
flannels and graphic T-Shirts due to inheriting plaid shirts and
T-shirts from Will and Jonathan. The main exception is her
dress in "Vecna's Curse" that's ultimately ruined.
 In Hawkins Lab and Nina Project experiments, Eleven's scalp is fitted with
an electrode cap. These caps affix electrodes to the scalp, allowing for
measurement of bio-electrical activity within the brain.
 Eleven only speaks 246 words in the entirety of the first season. [38]

 Eleven has a lot in common with Alessa Gillespie, a character from

the Silent Hill series, which was one of the inspirations for Stranger
Things. Both have supernatural powers and have lived abusive
childhoods.
 El, her nickname, is also a Northwest Semitic word meaning God, as well
as the name of a Canaanite god. While this is most likely just a
[39]

coincidence, it could be alluding to Eleven's role in defeating the Monster;

in mythology, Demogorgon is a god or demon associated with the
underworld, and was even adopted by Christian writers as a Hell-dwelling
demon.
 The Void, the mental space Eleven can access, is visually inspired by the
2013 film, Under the Skin. [40]

 Eleven's relationship with Dr. Brenner mirrors the relationship

between Elfen Lied's Diclonius Nana and Doctor Kurama, who both call
their father figures "papa".
 During a panel at Phoenix Fanfest, Millie revealed she filmed a scene
in "Holly, Jolly" where Eleven read Nancy's diary, but it was cut for
unknown reasons. [41]

 The blonde wig she wore throughout the first season originally belonged
to Mike's grandmother, who died of cancer. The wig was actually one of
the most expensive pieces to buy since many of the basic/cheap wigs the
crew bought either didn't look realistic enough or caused Millie Bobby
Brown's scalp to itch profusely. [42]

 Eleven was originally supposed to die at the end of the first season, but
the Duffer Brothers eventually scrapped the idea. [43]

 Concept artist Michael Maher, Jr. explored alternative concepts for Eleven
being transported to the Upside Down in "Trick or Treat, Freak". In the art,
Eleven is sent flying through a glowing blue portal, and arrives in the
Upside Down's woods rather than Mr. Clarke's classroom. [44]

Art by Michael Maher, Jr.[44]

 Art by Michael Maher, Jr.[44]

 Eleven is the Party's designated 'mage'. [45]

 Revealed by the writers, El was originally going to mercy-kill her

mother, Terry, in the second season. [46]

 Eleven has only been absent from two episodes from the whole
series; "The Spy" and "Dear Billy", though she appears via archival
footage in Max's memories in the latter episode.
 She's also absent for the majority of "MADMAX" and "The
Mind Flayer", only appearing in the last half minute before
the credits.
 During the Snow Ball, Eleven was given the blue hair tie that originally
belonged to Hopper's late daughter, Sara. She continues to wear the hair
tie from the second season onward. [47]

 In "The Battle of Starcourt", Eleven mentions that she enjoys

watching Miami Vice, tuning in every Friday at 10pm.
 In "Vecna's Curse", Eleven's favorite colors are revealed to be yellow and
purple, as Mike presents her with flowers of both colors he hand-picked in
Hawkins, while also dressing in yellow and purple himself.
 In "The Piggyback", El is shown to love pineapple pizza, which disturbs
Mike (until he tries it himself).
 Despite being known for being able to kill enemies very easily, "The
Piggyback" shows El reviving a life for the first time by restarting Max's
heart.
 Out of all the members of the Party, El has cried the most, crying in
twenty-one episodes as of the fourth season.
 The ring Eleven wears in the fourth season was a gift given to her by Mike
sometime in between 1985-86. [48]

 El's bedroom both in the third and fourth season feature many Easter
eggs:
 In the third season, she is given a poster of a dinosaur egg
given by Mike that originally hung in his basement.
 El has drawings done by Will hung by her bed.
 The baby mask Kali gave her in "The Lost Sister" hangs on
her wall, and is seen on the corkboard in the fourth season.
 According to the show's hair-department head, Sarah Hindsgaul, El's
similar appearance to Joyce in the fourth season comes from Joyce
cutting her children's hair to save money. Fans have noted how similar
Millie Bobby Brown looks to Winona Ryder in her youth. [49]

 As of August 2023, Eleven and Dustin have the most variants in Stranger
Things: Puzzle Tales, each having four.
 It is currently unknown if Eleven is alive post-Season 5.
 According to the Duffer Brothers, it's necessary for Eleven to
part ways from her friends so they could truly move forward
with their lives, explaining that, "There was never a version of
the story where Eleven was hanging out with the gang at the
end. For our characters to move on and for the story of
Hawkins and the Upside Down to come to a close, Eleven
had to go away." [50]

 According to Mike's Theory, there is various evidence

indicating her survival:
 When the Military surrounded the group, they
were using sonic devices meant to suppress her
powers. However, Eleven was still able to use
 her powers to bring Mike into her mind, implying
that she was not near the group when she did
so.
 Eleven was in the truck prior to being
surrounded, yet after the group was captured,
she managed to escape past the guards back
into the gate, despite the sonic devices
suppressing her powers.
 The Eleven shown in the gate does not have
"011" tattooed on her arm.
 When the Upside Down collapses and
everything begins to vacuum out into space,
Eleven is not shown to be blown away by the
vacuum and instead simply vanishes.
 While the prospect of Eleven faked her sacrifice with Kali's
help was too certain as Mike suspected, it's ultimately too
risky for her to reunite with her friends by that point. In
addition of putting an end to the cycle of abuse and torment
started by Dr. Martin Brenner's experiments on young
psychics, they did it to prevent humanity from repeating the
same mistake which facilitated Vecna and The Mind Flayer's
reign of terror in the first place.
 In Strange Things's event in Brawl Stars, Lumi has a skin of
Eleven. Her weapon is a waffle and a can of Coca-Cola,

which are her mallets.

Lumi as eleven

fortnite skin
In 2025, they released a Cheer Bear plushie as Eleven in
the Care Bears x Stranger Things collection.
  In the 2023 fortnite collab there was an season 3
inspired eleven skin.
External Links
 Eleven at TMNTPedia
References
1. [Link]
duffer-brothers-interview
2. [Link]
ending-explained
3. "Who’s *really* looking for Jane Hopper? You’re not ready for what’s to
come in Stranger Things 5 #NextOnNetflix" - official Stranger
Things Twitter post
4. An Instagram post by Amy L. Forsythe
5. "The Crawl"
6. Twitter post by Netflix Geeked
7. "Holly, Jolly"
8. "The Massacre at Hawkins Lab"
9. "The Monster"
10. Stranger Things: The First Shadow
11. "‘Stranger Things' Finale: Duffer Brothers Talk Cliffhangers, Death and
Season 2" Variety. July 18, 2016.
12. Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds
13. "The Nina Project"
14. "The Dive"
15. The live video feed from "The Nina Project" reveals the date 08/04/79.
16. "Papa"
17. "The Vanishing of Will Byers"
18. "The Weirdo on Maple Street"
19. "The Body"
20. "The Flea and the Acrobat"
21. "The Bathtub"
22. "The Upside Down"
23. "Trick or Treat, Freak"
24. Stranger Things: The Bully
25. "The Gate"
26. Stranger Things Winter Special One-Shot
27. Montauk Pitch Book
28. "Dig Dug"
29. Sparrow Nicole's TikTok
30. "‘Stranger Things' creators explain it all about season 1" UPROXX. July
26, 2016.
31. "Stranger Things episode 2: The Duffer Brothers on finding their
Eleven" Entertainment Weekly. July 16, 2016.
32. "Stranger Things Was Originally Going to Be More R-rated" Vulture.
January 9, 2017.
33. "‘Stranger Things': How Millie Bobby Brown Invented Eleven's
Gestures" Slashfilm. June 15, 2018.
34. Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down
35. "Watch Stranger Things' actress Millie Bobby Brown shave her head to
become Eleven" Geek. August 22, 2016.
36. "MAJOR Netflix Series Casting Call for a Flashback Scene" Project
Casting. February 2, 2018.
 37. "‘Stranger Things' Creators Answer Burning Questions About Eleven's
Origins, Will's Sexuality (and Birthday!) and More Ahead of Volume
2" Variety. June 2, 2022.
38. "How many words does Eleven say in Stranger Things? One fan broke
it down" RadioTimes. September 24, 2016.
39. "El (deity)" Wikipedia.
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43. "Millie Bobby Brown was one of THREE characters supposed to be
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50. [Link]
Canon hierarchy
1. Information from Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds, a Tier 3 source,
conflicts with the timeline the series presents (Tier 1 info), and with
behind-the-scenes materials (Tier 2 info).

"Missing Teen" poster released to promote Season 5

 In the novel Suspicious Minds, Jane's birth occurs in June
1970. This conflicts with dialogue from "The Monster",
which refers to Terry's 'miscarriage' occuring "twelve years
ago" from 1983, which is 1971. A "Missing Teen" poster
released to promote Season 5 revealed her specific date of
birth as June 7, 1971; in addition, the teleplay for "The
Vanishing of Will Byers" further indicates she was born in
1971, as does an Instagram post by lead makeup
artist Amy L. Forsythe.
 2. Information from Stranger Things: SIX, a Tier 3 source, conflicts with
what's presented in the main series.

Instagram post by Amy L. Forsythe (relevant to both section 1 and 2)

 The comic versions of the test subjects are at odds with
what the fourth season depicts. Additionally, the dating of
Terry's rescue attempt differs between Stranger Things:
SIX and what behind-the-scenes material suggests (an
Instagram post by lead makeup artist Amy L. Forsythe)
Characters in STRANGER THINGS

Director Martin Brenner • Sam Owens

Dr. Ellis • Connie Frazier • Shepard • Elevator Scientist • Lead Scientist • Lead Agent • Nerdy
Staff
Tech • Agent Repairman • Hawkins Head of Security

One • Two • Three • Four • Five • Six • Eight • Ten • Eleven • Test Subjects
Test
Terry Ives • Alice Johnson • Gloria Flowers • Ken
Subjects
Francine • Jamie • Marcy • Ricky

Locations Rainbow Room • Mothergate

Objects &
Sensory deprivation tank • Soteria • Electroshock collar
Items

Other Department of Energy • Project MKUltra • The Nina Project

The Upside Down • Creel House • Curse gates • Gable Ridge Road
Base • Gates • Hawkins • Hawkins National Laboratory • Lover's Lake • Hawkins Public
Locations
Library • Hawkins Middle School • Hawkins Tunnel System • Mothergate • Forest Hills Trailer
Park • Wall

D'Artagnan • Demobats • The Demogorgon • Demogorgon (species) • The Flayed • Flesh

Entities Thralls • Hospital Monster • The Mind Flayer • Russian Demogorgon • The Spider
Monster • Hawkins Tunnel System • Vecna • Vines

The Flayed Billy Hargrove • Heather Holloway • Bruce Lowe • Tom Holloway • Janet Holloway • Doris Driscoll
 Robert Akers • Robin Buckley • Joyce Byers • Will Byers • Eleven • Steve Harrington • Dustin
Visitors Henderson • Barbara Holland • Jim Hopper • Max Mayfield • Eddie Munson • Bob
Newby• Eight/Kali Prasad • Shepard • Lucas Sinclair • Mike Wheeler • Nancy Wheeler

The Abyss • Camazotz • Cyborg Demodogs • Dungeons & Dragons • Exotic matter • Fabric of space-
Miscellaneous time • Hellscape • MAC-Z • Mind Lair • Pain Tree • The Keys • The Void • Upside Down Egg • The
Upside Down (episode) • The Upside Down (track) • Vecna's curse

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