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* BizarreAlienBiology: Background dialogue from the doctors (see CastTheExpert) indicates that E.T.'s DNA uses six nucleotides instead of four. (This may help explain why he got sick: Earth's food doesn't provide him sufficient nourishment.)
* CuriousAsAMonkey: Goes to explores the house when left alone.
* FarOutForeignersFavoriteFood: Loves Reese's Pieces (M&Ms in the novelization).
* FourFingeredHands: Has four fingers on each hand.
* GadgeteerGenius: Surprisingly, considering he's a ''botanist'': He builds a wind-operated emergency beacon, transmitting in his own language, out of common household items (and a Speak and Spell). [[spoiler:What's more, his ship ''hears'' his transmission and comes back for him!]]
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* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Elliot's brother thinks E.T. may just be a worker, and isn't necessarily a great scientist or anything. E.T. is actually a botanist, but has more than enough engineering know-how to make a communication device. Then again, he ran away screaming when a can of pencils fell over and the kids did initially think he was a hairless monkey.
* InternalReveal: The kids obviously have to explain things to their mother when Elliot falls ill from E.T.'s PsychicLink. And this is moments before the government stepped in and placed their entire house under quarantine.
* LearntEnglishFromWatchingTelevision: Learns some basic words (y'know:"phone" and "home") from ''Series/SesameStreet'' in a fairly [[JustifiedTrope well justified way]]: the show had basic words sounded out next to a picture of what it was talking about. It is a show directed at preschoolers, after all.
* LongNeck: He is able to make his neck longer. Usually does this when he is frightened, but near the end when he has to say goodbye to Elliott's older brother he does this too.
* MessianicArchetype: Right down to the resurrection and the Michelangelo touching of fingers between man and the Divine. So blatant was the parable it was spoofed on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
-->'''Rev. Lovejoy''': I remember another gentle visitor from the heavens, he came in peace and then died, only to come back to life, and his name was... E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial. ''(cries)'' I loved that little guy.
** Spielberg himself has said he never intended the film to be interpreted as a religious fable, and has himself joked about it.
* 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.
* 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"]].)
* PlantAliens: WordOfGod states that E.T.'s species is plantlike in their anatomy and are asexual.
* CuriousAsAMonkey: Goes to explores the house when left alone.
* FarOutForeignersFavoriteFood: Loves Reese's Pieces (M&Ms in the novelization).
* FourFingeredHands: Has four fingers on each hand.
* GadgeteerGenius: Surprisingly, considering he's a ''botanist'': He builds a wind-operated emergency beacon, transmitting in his own language, out of common household items (and a Speak and Spell). [[spoiler:What's more, his ship ''hears'' his transmission and comes back for him!]]
* HealingHands: His famous finger.
* HeartLight: Probably the TropeCodifier. His species feature a huge heart that glows red under certain condition.
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* InsufficientlyAdvancedAlien: Elliot's brother thinks E.T. may just be a worker, and isn't necessarily a great scientist or anything. E.T. is actually a botanist, but has more than enough engineering know-how to make a communication device. Then again, he ran away screaming when a can of pencils fell over and the kids did initially think he was a hairless monkey.
* InternalReveal: The kids obviously have to explain things to their mother when Elliot falls ill from E.T.'s PsychicLink. And this is moments before the government stepped in and placed their entire house under quarantine.
* LearntEnglishFromWatchingTelevision: Learns some basic words (y'know:"phone" and "home") from ''Series/SesameStreet'' in a fairly [[JustifiedTrope well justified way]]: the show had basic words sounded out next to a picture of what it was talking about. It is a show directed at preschoolers, after all.
* LongNeck: He is able to make his neck longer. Usually does this when he is frightened, but near the end when he has to say goodbye to Elliott's older brother he does this too.
* MessianicArchetype: Right down to the resurrection and the Michelangelo touching of fingers between man and the Divine. So blatant was the parable it was spoofed on ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
-->'''Rev. Lovejoy''': I remember another gentle visitor from the heavens, he came in peace and then died, only to come back to life, and his name was... E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial. ''(cries)'' I loved that little guy.
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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.
* 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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* 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 E.T: The Book of the Green Planet.]]
* VerbalTic: In the film's novelization, E.T. is able to speak much more coherently (rather than only knowing a handful of words), but due to learning English from a Speak-'n-Spell, he usually starts sentences with the command to "Spell..."
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* DesignatedVillain: It's no crime for the Secret Service to investigate a possible alien invader who could be dangerous to humanity. While E.T. is entirely a peaceful creature, they had no way of knowing that from the beginning.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Something must have happened to Keys to get him interested in aliens, since he claims he's been waiting for something like E.T. to appear since he was 10. (While his claim that "[E.T.] came to me too" seems unlikely, he might be rationalizing this as being the truth FromACertainPointOfView.) He and the rest of the government investigation team are just given very quick (and sinister-looking) scenes where they investigate the remains of E.T.'s and Eliot's shenanigans up until they converge on the house.
* NoNameGiven: He begins the film as a nameless, faceless figure distinguished by the bunch of keys hanging from his belt; later in the film, when he becomes a more sympathetic figure, his face is shown, but his name is never revealed. He's even listed just as "Keys" in the ending credits.
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