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**Jane Hopper** (Born: **Jane Ives**), better known as **Eleven**, is the main protagonist of the Netflix series *Stranger Things*.

 Backstory

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.

During the summer of 1985, Eleven's romantic relationship with Mike continued to blossom, much to Hopper's dismay who took steps to complicate it. This resulted in Eleven forming an unlikely friendship with Max. Upon learning that the Mind Flayer had reappeared to stop her and get revenge, taking over Billy and other people in Hawkins in the process, she joined her friends to defeat it. Amidst the ensuing fight to stop the Mind Flayer, Eleven lost her powers. Following Hopper's apparent death, she was taken in by the Byers family. Three months later, before moving out of Hawkins with the Byers, Eleven and Mike made plans to visit each other at Thanksgiving while also professing her love for him.

## Powers and Abilities

### Psychic Abilities

Eleven was born with a vast array of preternatural abilities, acquired through a combination of inheritance and exposure to hallucinogenic drugs while in utero during her mother's time as an MKUltra test subject. These abilities were the reason she was abducted at birth and raised at Hawkins National Laboratory, where she was experimented on.

The effect of the subsequent direct experimentation on Eleven and her powers is unclear. It is possible that her powers laid dormant and could only be unearthed through further experimentation. However, it is also possible that Eleven had access to these powers at birth, but merely gained understanding and experience of them during her time in the laboratory. As her mother displays similar psychic powers, it is possible the experimentation on her mother during her pregnancy augmented her powers or she simply naturally developed stronger abilities.

Initially, exercising her abilities to accomplish small tasks was shown to be rather difficult for her. 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 somewhat linked to her emotional state, being at their strongest when influenced by her anger and fear. Being in distressing situations would occasionally cause Eleven to unleash her powers involuntarily. This was most likely how Eleven had opened the Gate: her fear of witnessing the Demogorgon possibly magnifying her powers to the point where she was able to open an interdimensional portal. This was also observed in "The Flea and the Acrobat" when she unintentionally flung Lucas across the junkyard during his fight with Mike. In "Will the Wise", following an intense argument with Hopper, Eleven had a "psychic tantrum", causing her to violently break all of the cabin’s windows. With help from Kali, Eleven learned to harness her anger at will, allowing better control over her powers. She would go on to use this knowledge to aid herself while closing the Gate.

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 occasionally even unconsciousness. 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, being 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 removing a piece of the Mind Flayer which had been lodged under her skin after being bitten by one of the entity's mouthed tentacles, Eleven's powers ostensibly vanished. While the exact cause of this is currently unclear, it is presumed to be an aftereffect of the Mind Flayer's bite. Three months following the incident, she was still unable to use her abilities. It remains to be seen if they will ever return.

* **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 in "The Bathtub", and in "The Lost Sister", she was able to channel her anger in order to pull a train car towards her. Moreover, in "The Mind Flayer", 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), even being able to affect internal organs to some extent; she was able to squeeze Troy's bladder in order to make him urinate himself and later broke his arm. 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.
	+ **Levitation:** Via telekinesis, Eleven could suspend objects in the air, making them levitate. This was first displayed in "Holly, Jolly" where she made Mike’s model of the Millennium Falcon float. This ability is not restricted to objects, as shown in "The Monster" when she saved Mike by levitating him to safety after he had jumped off a cliff. In "The Gate", Eleven herself levitated as she was closing the Gate, possibly as a side effect of her using so much power.

* **Extrasensory Perception (ESP):** 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.
	+ **Remote viewing:** Via ESP, she can seek out and find targets in different locations than her own. When amplified by sensory deprivation, this ability is powerful enough to find targets over vast distances, even as far as other dimensions.
	+ **Telepathy:** Often used in tandem with her RV abilities. When she has located her target, she can choose to communicate with them mentally.
	+ **Psychometry:** Or "token-object reading", Eleven can gain information about a person by touching objects associated with them. In "The Weirdo on Maple Street", 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.

* **Portal Manipulation:** Eleven can open and manipulate portals to the Upside Down. She was first revealed to have this power in "The Monster", where it was shown that she had accidentally opened the Gate upon making contact with the Demogorgon. Eleven later manages to close the Gate in "The Gate". In "Trick or Treat, Freak", she manipulated a portal that the Demogorgon had opened in order to make it large enough for her to pass through. This ability may be rooted from the primary telekinetic power.
	+ **Dimensional Travel:** After the Gate was opened, it allowed Hawkins Lab scientists to go into the Upside Down. She herself entered the dimension after defeating the Demogorgon in "The Upside Down."

* **Biokinesis:** Eleven could manipulate the bodies of living creatures to a certain extent, as shown when she disintegrated the Demogorgon.

* **Teleportation:**Tentative. She appears to possess this ability as shown when she was somehow transported to the Upside Down upon defeating the Demogorgon, though the exact specifics of how this happened are unclear. It's highly possible the Demogorgon could have played a part, considering it appeared to have abilities similar to Eleven's. Another possibility is that the teleportation was an unintended side effect from Eleven exerting so much power. In any case, if she does possess this ability, she most likely has no knowledge of it.
* **Memory Reading:**Eleven is able to view the memories of others via contacting them through the Void. This ability was first displayed in "Dig Dug" where she was able to see several of Terry's memories. She later used this ability in "E Pluribus Unum", viewing the memories of Billy Hargrove's abusive childhood in order to find the Mind Flayer's lair.

### 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.
* **Morse code:** She was taught how to read and signal Morse code by Hopper as a means for them to safely communicate.

## Feats

### Strength

* Average feats are around wall level, while at her max power she is potentially city-block level via shutting down the Gate.

* While she herself is just an average girl all of her feats are through her psionic powers.

* Snapped the necks of two guards.

* Knocked Lucas out accidentally.

* Caught and lifted up Mike after he fell from a cliff.

* Broke Troy's arm.

* Pinned down the Demogorgon to a wall.

* Killed the Demogorgon.
	+ The Demogorgon was strong enough to break through solid walls and could withstand massive amounts of gunfire.

* Was able to open a small portal into the Upside Down.

* Tossed a dead squirrel hard enough to knock out a hunter or at the very least give him a concussion.

* Moved a TV stand with presumably her own strength.

* In a fit of rage shattered every barricaded window in the cabinet.

* Moved a train car to her.
	+ Average train cars can weigh around 70 tons.

* Threw a Demodog through a window killing it.

* Knocked a possessed Billy through a wall.
	+ Possessed Billy’s strength was increased.

* Knocked a large Fusion monster out of the hospital.

* Temporary held back the large Flayed.

* Hurled a car towards several Russian soldiers.

### Speed/Reflexes

* Ran away from several Hawkins agents.

* Caught Troy before he could punch Mike.

* Saved Mike before he fell off the cliff.

* Reacted to a speeding truck.

* Ran away from the Demogorgon.

* Fled the scene before cops could catch her.

* Intercepted a squirrel.

* Fled her home before her aunt knew she left.

* Intercepted a Demodog.

* Ran away from the Flayed Monster.

* Intercepted a part of the Flayed.

### Durability

* Survived being the subject of several experiments.

* Survived multiple overexertions of her powers which took a toll on her body.

* Was pushed down.

* Was in the woods for a month surviving on a limited supply of food.

* Had a part of the Flayer dig into her leg like a parasite and then had her leg cut open with a knife and then pulled it out herself.

### Skill

* Through the experiments performed on her mother when she was pregnant, Eleven was born with latent psychic powers.
	+ Even before she was born her psychic powers were able to give her mother a vision of the future.

* Was kidnapped by Martin Brenner in order to observe and experiment on her for the government.

* Was implied to be the most powerful psychic test subject.

* Was trained by the government in Hawkins National Laboratory to further enhance her psychic abilities.

* Survived being the subject of at least four experiments.

* Gained control of her telekinetic powers being able to use them at will.
* In a burst of fear of being put in solitary confinement again, she unleashed a biokinesis blast killing two guards dragging her.
	+ This greatly impressed Martin Brenner to the point where they started to train her to eavesdrop with her psychic powers.

* Managed to enter The Void a sensory deprivation tank and spy on Russian agents.
	+ She also managed to accidentally contact the Demogorgon.

* In an experiment with contacting the Demogorgon, she managed to create a small dimensional gate between the two planes.
	+ This allowed her to escape from Hawkins labs.

* Escaped several government agents.

* Was found by Mike and the party and was successfully hidden from other family members and government agents.

* Knew where Will was hiding.

* Projected Wills voice revealing that he was still alive.

* Humiliated Mike’s bully Troy, making him wet his pants in front of the school.

* Manipulate the party's compasses so they couldn’t get to Hawkins lab.

* Accidentally knocked out Lucas in a fit of emotion.

* Stole a bunch of Eggos.

* Saved Mike from falling to his death and broke Troy's arm.

* Reconciled with the party.

* Flipped a speeding van operated by the Hawkins agents.

* Contacted Will reassuring him that he was going to be rescued.

* Evaded the Demogorgon.

* Despite being drained of energy she managed to pin Mike away as she confronted the Demogorgon killing it while vanishing into the Upside Down.

* While in the Upside Down she managed to create a small wormhole letting her get back to her reality.

* Escaped the cops who were looking for her fleeing to the woods.

* Survived in the woods on her own for a month.

* With Hopper created a system in a cabinet that would protect her.

* Found and spied on Mike.

* In a psychic tantrum shattered all the windows in the cabinet.

* Located her aunt Terry.

* Hitchhiked to the Ives's residence and found her mother.

* Saw her mother's memories and discovered her past.

* Found and tracked down Kali another child who was experimented on.

* Learned how to control her powers more, moving a railroad car.

* With Kali and her gang tracked down Ray Caroll the man who killed her mother.

* In an emotional state found out what was happening at Hawkins.

* Reunited with the party at Hawkins killing a pack of Demodogs.

* Managed to close the Gate using all her power.

* Started to live a more normal life with Hopper.

* Went to the Snow Ball with Mike.

* Found out that Billy was up to something.

* Found out that Billy was now part of the Mind Flayer.

* Helped catch a possessed Billy in a sauna.

* Saved Mike from a possessed Billy.

* Found out Hopper and Joyce were heading to Illinois.

* Saved the Party from a fused monster.

* Found out Billy’s past.

* Found the collection of the Mindflayer.

* Survived the Mindflayer trying to absorb her long enough for her friends to save her.

* Saved the Scoops Troop by throwing a car at the Russian soldiers.

* After a part of the Mind Flayer dug into her leg she managed to pull it out despite the tremendous pain.

* Her compassion led to Billy snap out of the possession and fight against the Mind Flayer.

**Telekinisis**

* Originally could only affect small objects though over time her power greatly increased.
* Can lift and hurl objects with her mind, crush objects and levitate herself and others.
* Has enough power to hurl a van into the air, kill several Demo-creatures, pull a rail car, and close the Gate.
	+ Her power is able to even disintegrate flesh.

* Has enough power to hurl a van into the air, kill several Demo-creatures, pull a rail car, and close the Gate.
* While powerful she has enough control to open and close locks, switch the channels on a tv, open doors and pull a Demo-Slug out of her leg without doing any major harm to herself.
* To some extent can even affect people's organs.
	+ Crushed the brains of several agents and made Troy piss himself.

**Telepathy**

* Can enter people's mind, observe their memories, and can even communicate with people.
* Can also be used to track and spy on people.
* While she can use telepathy whenever she wants mind-reading calls for her to enter the Void in which makes her completely unconscious in the real world.
	+ Mind reading works better if amplified by sensory deprivation and has an object who belongs to the person she is trying to read.
* Can use this across Dimensions.
	+ Located Will while he was in Upside Down.

**Technopathy**

* Eleven has some limited control of technology.
* Can switch the channels on TV and transmit the voices of people and other sounds in other locations over electronic speakers.

**Portal Creation/Sealing**

* Eleven is capable of creating dimensional gateways that let her travel dimensions.

* Escaped to and from the Upside Down.
* She is also able to close dimensional gateways as well.
	+ Closed the Gate.

## Weaknesses

* Eleven herself is still an average girl physically wise and without her powers is pretty much defenseless.

* The greater the amount of power she uses at the moment it takes a greater toll on her body and while this has gotten better she can still seriously injure herself if she goes too far.

* Certain supernatural beings like the Flayed are able to tell if Eleven is telepathically spying on them.

* She is defenseless physically if she enters the Void.

* While her intelligence has increased since Season one she still has a very limited education and relies more on her friends for plans.

* She is capable of losing her psychic powers.

## Fun Facts

* 246 actresses were seen for the role of Eleven.
* She is similar to Alessa Gillespie from *Silent Hill*.
* She was originally suppose to die at the end of season one, but due to her popularity and since the show was going to have more seasons, the Duffer brothers scraped the idea.