Eleven

Jane "El" Hopper (born Jane Ives) and better known as just Eleven, is a main character in *Stranger Things.* She is portrayed by **Millie Bobby Brown**.

Eleven was kidnapped as a newborn by **Dr. Martin Brenner** 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 interdimensional 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.

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 neutralise yet 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 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 meet 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 scheme, 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 partial 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.