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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.]]
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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 book [[ExpandedUniverse book E.T: The Book of the Green Planet.]]
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-->'''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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-->'''Rev. Lovejoy''': 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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* 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.
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* 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 10 (while his claim that "[E.T.] came to me too" seems unlikely, he might be rationalizing this as being the truth FromACertainPointOfView.) 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.
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* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: He has a job to do that conflicts with the protagonists and is part of a group that comes across as very scary, but he is a good man at heart who has been wanting to meet an alien since he was 10, wants to save E.T., sympathizes with Elliot ("I'm glad he met you first."), and when he sees E.T. is going home, he just watches alongside Mary, and doesn't do anything to prevent it.
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* BizarreAlienBiology: Background dialogue from the doctors 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.)
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* CharacterDevelopment: Despite the flat characterization cited below, they, like Michael, go from being a bunch of jerks to enthusiastically pitching in to help Michael and Elliot escape with ET and being just as moved and awestruck as everyone else at seeing his spaceship take off.
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* OutnumberedSibling: She's the only girl with two older brothers.
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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.)
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