If he is then it’s just as messed up as the video game that he’s experimenting on his own child, and it also presents the question of whether her mother’s impregnation was voluntary. Eleven calls Brenner “Papa,” though it is uncertain whether or not he’s her actual father. Brenner is eerily similar to the one between Sephiroth and his scientist father Hojo. Sephiroth’s real mother is told that he’s dead, as well (out of a kindness instead of coverup by Vincent during a side quest), and Lucrecia’s state could also be seen as catatonic (she’s certainly in a type of stasis) in waiting for her son to come back _ Similar as well is the fact that Eleven’s mother believes her child’s dead and is catatonic in waiting for her return. Something in the experiment augmented her child in utero, which is exactly how Sephiroth obtained his enhancements. Forced tattoos are also reminiscent of something else horrible in our world’s history…įrom Hopper and Joyce’s meeting with Eleven’s mother, she’d been taking part in an experiment at the government site, but didn’t know she was pregnant at the time. There’s some debate that the 1 you’re following isn’t Sephiroth either, but that’s another story). Sephiroth has the number 1 tattooed on his hand since he was the first successful experiment (…possibly. In FFVII there are test subjects with numbers tattooed on their hands that were involuntarily exposed to Jenova’s cells in order to attempt to make someone like Sephiroth. I started to get that tingly VII Sense the instant I saw Eleven step out of the woods, and when I saw her 011 tattoo, it was set. Mike invokes Yoda when he shows her the ship, and then later we see her holding it in the air just as easily as the Jedi master could do.įinal Fantasy VII – Okay buckle up. Eleven’s telekinetic powers are reminiscent of the Force, and to make it even better she literally moves a scale replica of the Millennium Falcon with her mind. The aesthetic is nearly identical, but the similarities aren’t merely surface. We’re all geeks here) – Look at the cover up there. Star Wars (I’m not putting a link to Star Wars.
Unleashing it allowed her to escape but at terrible costs. They are obviously tied together, and I’ve read some theories that suggest she created it in her subconscious in order to exert control over the horrible situation she was literally born into. This is further supported by her final act in giving up her life (or physical form) in order to dissolve the alien creature as well. El tells Mike at one point that “she’s the monster,” which can either mean she feels monstrous because of her powers or she and the Demogorgon are one.
It may also explain Eleven and the Demogorgon.
Harry Potter – “Neither can live while the other survives” is the prophecy of Professor Sybill Trelawney, speaking of Harry and Voldemort. The instant I saw the normal looking but enhanced life form and the horrifying one, I thought of Koontz’s novel. The connection between the two is hatred whereas El and the Demogorgon have a different type and potentially much deep bond. The dog was the perfected form whereas with the monster, they were attempting to increase intelligence without worrying about aesthetics. One is a dog enhanced to beyond human brilliance, and the other is a hybrid monster that’s just as intelligent, but brutally violent. Two genetically altered life forms escape from a top secret government lab. Watchers – This is a horror novel by Dean Koontz, the first book of his I read years ago in high school, but it stuck with me. We’ll talk more about aliens and special children’s connections to them in a later entry. Now El’s not an alien…or so it might seem, but the Demogorgon certainly is. Anyway, that was a definite visual reference to E.T., but just the idea of government officials hunting down a special entity set in the 80s, and the children the entity befriended trying to keep them safe has E.T. If I knew exactly where it was (and I wasn’t being lazy), I’d screenshot it from my Netflix app, though…maybe it’s better I don’t since I don’t want to get in trouble. I can’t find it right now, but I recall the scene from one of the latter episodes.
– There’s a picture of all of the kids on their bikes with Eleven in a hoodie with the hood up. Also, oddly enough, in looking up the Wikipedia links for both movies, I discovered they both take place in small towns in Oregon.Į.T. Stand by Me – We’ll get this one and The Gooniesout of the way since Stranger Things was heralded as being reminiscent of the adaptation of Stephen King’s novel The Body and that classic 80s treasure hunt/coming of age tale, though ST was quite a bit darker and more horrifying than them both. ***Spoilers for Stranger Things and every single narrative in bold.***
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