Eleven

**Jane "El" Hopper**, better known as **Eleven**, is one of the main protagonists of *Stranger Things*.

Eleven was kidnapped and raised in Hawkins National Laboratory, where she was experimented on for her inherited psychokinetic abilities. After escaping the lab, she was 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. It was ultimately revealed that, in a lab experiment, she made contact with a creature from another dimension, accidentally opening an inter-dimensional gateway. In an attempt to protect her friends, Eleven eventually faced and destroyed this monster in a showdown at Hawkins Middle School, mysteriously vanishing in the process.

Eventually, she was found to be alive, secretly living with Jim Hopper at his grandfather's old cabin. After she grew impatient from being separated from her friends, Eleven went on a journey by herself, discovering her past in the process. Realizing that she could not leave her friends behind, she returned to Hawkins, reuniting with them, to help defeat yet another extra-dimensional threat. Eleven was then taken in by Hopper as his adopted daughter. This also allowed her to attend the Snow Ball 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 stroke and lost access to her powers.

Following Hopper's apparent death, Eleven was taken in by the Byers family, and were all relocated to Lenora Hills, California under the supervision of Dr. Sam Owens. By the spring of 1986, Eleven was still struggling to adapt to her new life and new school in Lenora, being viciously bullied by classmates. She planned to spend spring break with Mike, who was travelling to California to be with her, but these plans were disrupted when Dr. Owens regretfully informed her of a new evil threatening Hawkins.

ollowing Hopper's apparent death, Eleven was taken in by the Byers family, and were all relocated to Lenora Hills, California under the supervision of Dr. Sam Owens. By the spring of 1986, Eleven was still struggling to adapt to her new life and new school in Lenora, being viciously bullied by classmates. She planned to spend spring break with Mike, who was travelling to California to be with her, but these plans were disrupted when Dr. Owens regretfully informed her of a new evil threatening Hawkins.

Eleven was persuaded by both Dr. Owens and Dr. Brenner to partake in an experimental scheme to restore and even boost her abilities. As part of the process, Eleven “re-experienced” her repressed memories as a seven-year-old at Hawkins Lab; she remembered Henry Creel was responsible for the massacre of her fellow test subjects on September 8, 1979, and that she had fought and banished Henry to the Upside Down on that same day.

The scheme was a success in restoring El’s abilities, but was interrupted by an attack by the US Military orchestrated by the distrustful Colonel Sullivan. Despite the military's best efforts to assassinate Eleven, she quickly overpowered them and escaped with the aid of Mike, Will, Jonathan, and Argyle. Eleven then attempted to assist her old friends in Hawkins via psychic projection, but could not prevent Vecna's plan to further the Upside Down’s incursion.