In Stranger Things, Eleven calls her captor ‘Papa,’ taking every scrap of affection he bestows on her because she is so starved for love. They both have a scary white-haired ‘father figure’īehind every supernatural little girl is a creepy older fake dad, right? Whether Eleven’s number holds any significance remains to be seen, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we learned that there were 10 children with special abilities before her. The ‘X5’ indicates that she’s part of the fifth generation of genetically engineered kids: Some of the previous generations weren’t engineered quite right, while the ones that came after had most of their free will removed. Max’s moniker is X5-452 (why do I still remember this?), which was technically her ‘name’ (she was nicknamed Max by another kid in her group, similarly to how Eleven was nicknamed El). Where Eleven simply has ’11’ printed on her wrist, Max has a full barcode on the back of her neck, marking her as government property. Who knows how Eleven got her abilities - were they caused by the experiments the government conducted on her pregnant mother, or would she have been born with them anyway? Maybe Stranger Things season 2 will answer that question. Max is technically a human-animal hybrid, having been infused with feline DNA and designed to look and behave a certain way. (Some of Max’s fellow super-soldiers have skills more similar to Eleven’s, however.) Where Eleven has telekinesis, Max has super strength and other ‘perks’ like the ability to remember long sequences of numbers and hold her breath under water, and night vision. They prefer to observe and learn about ‘normal’ human behavior, being very self-conscious about their own lack of experience in this regard. They rarely speak, even when spoken to, and even when they can tell it aggravates the person speaking to them that they don’t get a reply. Once out of the government facility and in the real world, Max and Eleven’s speech patterns (or lack of same) are identical. Even when plot questions could easily be cleared up with a word from her, she holds silent, and she seems to be mentally struggling with herself every time she opens her mouth. They did speak, however, when the guards couldn’t hear, telling comforting stories and giving each other real names.Įleven, on the other hand, appears to have been scared out of speaking she clearly can speak, and has no problem enunciating, she simply doesn’t do it much or easily. This made sense for her character: The genetically engineered children were raised to be super-soldiers, meaning that they communicated mainly through hand signals and by reading each other’s body language. Although she’s a gabber as an adult, the teenaged Max Guevara didn’t speak much, to the point where it seemed like she was mute.
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