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* PsychicLink: E.T. forms an empathetic one with him, which grows increasingly stronger over the film.
* RedIsHeroic: Wears a red hoodie as he, Michael and their friends attempt to get E.T. to his home ship.


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* ChildrenAreInnocent: While she's not so gullible to believe everything her brothers tell her, she doesn't quite understand their reasoning for keeping E.T.'s existence from their mother and so blithely chatters about him to Mary whilst letting him wander about in the open. She also is distraught when seeing doctors use a defibrillator on E.T., not realising they're trying to revive him, and excitedly tells Keys about E.T.'s family coming to collect him.


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* SayingTooMuch: Tells Keys about E.T.'s family coming for him. In a deleted scene she's the one who tells Mary Elliott's in the woods.
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* PlantAliens: The creators state that E.T.'s species is plantlike in their anatomy and are asexual.

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* PlantAliens: The creators state that E.T.'s species is plantlike in their anatomy and are asexual. His heart in particular is gourdlike in appearance.


* NoBiologicalSex: Gertie's not so sure whether E.T. is a boy or a girl, while Elliot insists he's a boy. While they all end up going along with Elliot on this, the obvious complete lack of any kind of genitals in all of E.T.'s people makes that a purely arbitrary designation. The books, of course, pretty much confirm this. while behind the scenes, E.T. was referred to, and conceived by his creator Creator/CarloRambaldi, as male.

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* NoBiologicalSex: Gertie's not so sure whether E.T. is a boy or a girl, while Elliot insists he's a boy. While they all end up going along with Elliot on this, the obvious complete lack of any kind of genitals in all of E.T.'s people makes that a purely arbitrary designation. The books, of course, pretty much confirm this. while While behind the scenes, E.T. was referred to, and conceived by his creator Creator/CarloRambaldi, as male.


* NoBiologicalSex: Gertie's not so sure whether E.T. is a boy or a girl, while Elliot insists he's a boy. While they all end up going along with Elliot on this, the obvious complete lack of any kind of genitals in all of E.T.'s people makes that a purely arbitrary designation. The books, of course, pretty much confirm this.

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* NoBiologicalSex: Gertie's not so sure whether E.T. is a boy or a girl, while Elliot insists he's a boy. While they all end up going along with Elliot on this, the obvious complete lack of any kind of genitals in all of E.T.'s people makes that a purely arbitrary designation. The books, of course, pretty much confirm this. while behind the scenes, E.T. was referred to, and conceived by his creator Creator/CarloRambaldi, as male.
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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Pat Welsh (English)

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!!!'''Voiced by:''' Pat Welsh (English)(English; film), Creator/AudreyWasilewski (English; current)
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* PlantAliens: WordOfGod states that E.T.'s species is plantlike in their anatomy and are asexual.

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* PlantAliens: WordOfGod states The creators state that E.T.'s species is plantlike in their anatomy and are asexual.
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** E.T.'s engineering ability becomes Justified, along with some HilariousInHindsight, by ''Film/TheMartian'', which also shows a botanist performing high-end engineering, with the justification that astronauts would by necessity be trained in multiple disciplines.

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->Played by: Creator/HenryThomas

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->Played by: Creator/HenryThomas!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/HenryThomas

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->Voiced by: Pat Welsh, Creator/PerrettePradier (French, 20th anniversary edition)

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->Voiced by: !!!'''Voiced by:''' Pat Welsh, Welsh (English)
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->Played by: Robert [=MacNaughton=]

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->Played by: !!!'''Played by:''' Robert [=MacNaughton=][=MacNaughton=]

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->Played by: Creator/DrewBarrymore

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->Played by: Creator/DrewBarrymore!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DrewBarrymore

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->Played by: Creator/DeeWallace

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->Played by: Creator/DeeWallace!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/DeeWallace

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!!!'''Played by:''' K.C. Martel (Greg), Sean Frye (Steve), Creator/CThomasHowell (Tyler)
!!!'''Dubbed by:''' Creator/KelyanBlanc (Greg, French, 20th anniversary edition)

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->Played by: Creator/PeterCoyote

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->Played by: Creator/PeterCoyote!!!'''Played by:''' Creator/PeterCoyote

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* ADogNamedDog: An extra-terrestrial named [[FunWithAcronyms E.T.]] (''[[TitleDrop The Extra-terrestrial]]'')
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* NoNameGiven: E.T. is the nickname Elliott gave him. Justified in the fact E.T. knows limited English and we never see him interact with any of his species. (In the sequel novel, ''The Book of the Green Planet,'' even after E.T. returns to his home planet the narration always calls him "E.T." His own people are only ever described referring to him as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "The Doctor of Botany"]].)

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* NoNameGiven: E.T. is the nickname Elliott gave him. Justified in the fact E.T. knows limited English and we never see him interact with any of his species. (In the sequel novel, ''The Book of the Green Planet,'' ''Literature/ETTheBookOfTheGreenPlanet,'' even after E.T. returns to his home planet the narration always calls him "E.T." His own people are only ever described referring to him as [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep "The Doctor of Botany"]].)



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%%* StarringSpecialEffects* StarringSpecialEffects: He's an animatronic puppet, doubled by a little person in a suit in long shots, who is the most prominent feature of this movie.



* VagueAge: According to the novelization of the film he's over 10 million years old. Other sources put him at about 800 years old, and he's shown to be a child in the book [[ExpandedUniverse E.T: The Book of the Green Planet.]]

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* VagueAge: According to the novelization of the film he's over 10 million years old. Other sources put him at about 800 years old, and he's shown to be a child in the ExpandedUniverse book [[ExpandedUniverse E.T: The Book of the Green Planet.]]''Literature/ETTheBookOfTheGreenPlanet''.



* YouNoTakeCandle: "ET Phone Home".

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* YouNoTakeCandle: "ET "E.T. Phone Home".

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