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Given the RealityContext as to the film's story, that Spielberg being a child of divorce, it's likely that Elliot's mom asked Elliot's dad for a divorce. Seeing that Spielberg was mad at his father because he left, he had no clue the reason behind it at the time and Elliot and his siblings thing their father chose to up and abandon them, unaware that their mom initiated a divorce and allowed the kids to believe it was their father's choice.
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Given the RealityContext as to real life context of the film's story, that Spielberg being a child of divorce, it's likely that Elliot's mom asked Elliot's dad for a divorce. Seeing that Spielberg was mad at his father because he left, he had no clue the reason behind it at the time and time. Elliot and his siblings thing think their father chose to up and abandon them, unaware that their mom initiated a divorce and allowed the kids to believe it was their father's choice.
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[[WMG: Elliot's Mom was the one who asked for the divorce.]]
Given the RealityContext as to the film's story, that Spielberg being a child of divorce, it's likely that Elliot's mom asked Elliot's dad for a divorce. Seeing that Spielberg was mad at his father because he left, he had no clue the reason behind it at the time and Elliot and his siblings thing their father chose to up and abandon them, unaware that their mom initiated a divorce and allowed the kids to believe it was their father's choice.
Given the RealityContext as to the film's story, that Spielberg being a child of divorce, it's likely that Elliot's mom asked Elliot's dad for a divorce. Seeing that Spielberg was mad at his father because he left, he had no clue the reason behind it at the time and Elliot and his siblings thing their father chose to up and abandon them, unaware that their mom initiated a divorce and allowed the kids to believe it was their father's choice.
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E.T. managed to earn the [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters ire of the government while appealing to the people]], resulting in him being arrested and deported, preventing him from earning martyr status but hopefully stopping his cause. Unfortunately for the government and fortunately for the people, his message reached his fellow rebels, who tracked him down (hence why they took so long to arrive) and now it's time for a RipRoaringRampageOfRevenge.
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E.T. managed to earn the [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters ire of the government while appealing to the people]], resulting in him being arrested and deported, preventing him from earning martyr status but hopefully stopping his cause. Unfortunately for the government and fortunately for the people, his message reached his fellow rebels, who tracked him down (hence why they took so long to arrive) and now it's time for a RipRoaringRampageOfRevenge.
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Okay, now we just need the mandatory guesses about LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya, Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion and [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lords]].
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Okay, now we just need the mandatory guesses about LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya, Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya, Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion and [[Series/DoctorWho Time Lords]].
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[[WMG: Why was there a corn field planted right next to Elliott's house?]]
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The Star Wars Saga explicitly takes place "''a long time ago'' in a galaxy far, far away," which means Yoda would've died...well, a long time ago. While we can't be sure exactly how long "a long time ago" is, even if E.T. knew Yoda due to being similarly long-lived, he likely would've known by then of the Grand Master's death. Perhaps instead, he mistook the kid in the costume for another member of Yoda's species: the one that was known, a long time ago, only as "[[Series/TheMandalorian the Child]]".
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The Star Wars Saga explicitly takes place "''a long time ago'' in a galaxy far, far away," which means Yoda would've died...well, a long time ago. While we can't be sure exactly how long "a long time ago" is, even if E.T. knew Yoda due to being similarly long-lived, he likely would've known by then of the Grand Master's death. Perhaps instead, he mistook the kid in the costume for another member of Yoda's species: the one that was known, namely, a long time ago, only as "[[Series/TheMandalorian the Child]]".
grown up [[Series/TheMandalorian Grogu]].
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WildMassGuessing for ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''.
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The Star Wars Saga explicitly takes places place "''a long time ago'' in a galaxy far, far away," which means Yoda would've died...well, a long time ago. While we can't be sure exactly how long "a long time ago" is, even if E.T. knew Yoda due to being similarly long-lived, he likely would've known by then of the Grand Master's death. Perhaps instead, he mistook the kid in the costume for another member of Yoda's species: the one that was known, a long time ago, only as "[[Series/TheMandalorian the Child]]".
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[[WMG: E.T. didn't actually mistake the kid dressed as Yoda for Yoda himself.]]
The Star Wars Saga explicitly takes places "''a long time ago'' in a galaxy far, far away," which means Yoda would've died...well, a long time ago. While we can't be sure exactly how long "a long time ago" is, even if E.T. knew Yoda due to being similarly long-lived, he likely would've known by then of the Grand Master's death. Perhaps instead, he mistook the kid in the costume for another member of Yoda's species: the one that was known, a long time ago, only as "[[Series/TheMandalorian the Child]]".
The Star Wars Saga explicitly takes places "''a long time ago'' in a galaxy far, far away," which means Yoda would've died...well, a long time ago. While we can't be sure exactly how long "a long time ago" is, even if E.T. knew Yoda due to being similarly long-lived, he likely would've known by then of the Grand Master's death. Perhaps instead, he mistook the kid in the costume for another member of Yoda's species: the one that was known, a long time ago, only as "[[Series/TheMandalorian the Child]]".
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Thousands of years later, with humanity dispersed to other planets in the galaxy, a distant descendant of his will briefly consider joining the space fleet of the central galactic military, until [[StarWars a certain moisture farmer from an obscure desert planet]] will convince him to take up the rebels' cause...
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Thousands of years later, with humanity dispersed to other planets in the galaxy, a distant descendant of his will briefly consider joining the space fleet of the central galactic military, until [[StarWars [[Franchise/StarWars a certain moisture farmer from an obscure desert planet]] will convince him to take up the rebels' cause...
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*** The thing about humans in ''StarWars'' is a bit debatable. [[WordOfGod Lucas and co.]] have always been [[ShrugOfGod deliberately vague]] about the origin of humans in the ''Star Wars'' universe, but it's been established that, while humans are the dominant species on many worlds in the galaxy (Alderaan, Corellia and Coruscant, to name a few), they aren't indigenous to any of those planets--they're colonists who arrived from some unknown planet thousands of years in the past. Theories abound, but it's natural to assume that said planet was Earth.
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*** The thing about humans in ''StarWars'' ''Franchise/StarWars'' is a bit debatable. [[WordOfGod Lucas and co.]] have always been [[ShrugOfGod deliberately vague]] about the origin of humans in the ''Star Wars'' universe, but it's been established that, while humans are the dominant species on many worlds in the galaxy (Alderaan, Corellia and Coruscant, to name a few), they aren't indigenous to any of those planets--they're colonists who arrived from some unknown planet thousands of years in the past. Theories abound, but it's natural to assume that said planet was Earth.
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** This is actually somewhat {{canon}}. In ''The Phantom Menace'', Creator/GeorgeLucas purposely included a shot of a group of aliens in the Galactic Senate that look like E.T. as a ShoutOut to Spielberg. It's since been [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Grebleips established]] that they come from a planet called "Brodo Asogi" (one of the names given to E.T.'s home planet in the spin-off novel ''E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet''), and that their ambassador to the Senate is named [[SdrawkcabName "Grebleips"]]. An entry on the ''StarWars'' website "[=HoloNet=] News" also mentions that Grebleips was involved in funding an exploratory expedition outside the Star Wars Galaxy, but the results of it are unknown...
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** This is actually somewhat {{canon}}. In ''The Phantom Menace'', Creator/GeorgeLucas purposely included a shot of a group of aliens in the Galactic Senate that look like E.T. as a ShoutOut to Spielberg. It's since been [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Grebleips established]] that they come from a planet called "Brodo Asogi" (one of the names given to E.T.'s home planet in the spin-off novel ''E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet''), and that their ambassador to the Senate is named [[SdrawkcabName "Grebleips"]]. An entry on the ''StarWars'' ''Franchise/StarWars'' website "[=HoloNet=] News" also mentions that Grebleips was involved in funding an exploratory expedition outside the Star Wars Galaxy, but the results of it are unknown...
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StarWars exists in the E.T. universe. Towards the end when the house is quarantined and blocked off we see a crowd of people, including a news van. The story of an alien being found more than likely made the news, and pictures of E.T. were published. George Lucas used it as a background detail when he made another movie down the road.
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* In alternative: within the universe of the movie, StarWars really was based by an alien chronicle called ''Journal of the Whills'', which showed pictures of many nonhuman alien species. When pictures of E.T. made the news, George Lucas was not surprised.
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* In alternative: within the universe of the movie, StarWars Franchise/StarWars really was based by an alien chronicle called ''Journal of the Whills'', which showed pictures of many nonhuman alien species. When pictures of E.T. made the news, George Lucas was not surprised.
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* Well, that certainly would explain his color...
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[[WMG: The aliens seen in ThePhantomMenace are based on a true story InUniverse.]]
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[[WMG: The aliens seen in ThePhantomMenace ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' are based on a true story InUniverse.]]
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Or instead of being related to Indy,he was actually recruited to be an agent with [[Film/MenInBlack a government agency dedicated to protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe]]. "Going to Mexico with Sally" was actually the cover for how Elliot's dad's previous identity was erased.
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** This is actually somewhat {{canon}}. In ''The Phantom Menace'', GeorgeLucas purposely included a shot of a group of aliens in the Galactic Senate that look like E.T. as a ShoutOut to Spielberg. It's since been [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Grebleips established]] that they come from a planet called "Brodo Asogi" (one of the names given to E.T.'s home planet in the spin-off novel ''E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet''), and that their ambassador to the Senate is named [[SdrawkcabName "Grebleips"]]. An entry on the ''StarWars'' website "[=HoloNet=] News" also mentions that Grebleips was involved in funding an exploratory expedition outside the Star Wars Galaxy, but the results of it are unknown...
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** This is actually somewhat {{canon}}. In ''The Phantom Menace'', GeorgeLucas Creator/GeorgeLucas purposely included a shot of a group of aliens in the Galactic Senate that look like E.T. as a ShoutOut to Spielberg. It's since been [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Grebleips established]] that they come from a planet called "Brodo Asogi" (one of the names given to E.T.'s home planet in the spin-off novel ''E.T.: The Book of the Green Planet''), and that their ambassador to the Senate is named [[SdrawkcabName "Grebleips"]]. An entry on the ''StarWars'' website "[=HoloNet=] News" also mentions that Grebleips was involved in funding an exploratory expedition outside the Star Wars Galaxy, but the results of it are unknown...
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PS: Elliot's DisappearedDad was a [[IndianaJones somewhat libertine archaeologist]] who loved treasure-hunting a bit more than a quiet suburban life.
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PS: Elliot's DisappearedDad was a [[IndianaJones [[Franchise/IndianaJones somewhat libertine archaeologist]] who loved treasure-hunting a bit more than a quiet suburban life.
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Instead of [[IndianaJones a certain archeologist]] suggested in the WMG above, Elliot's father is actually Mutt Williams aka Henry Jones III.
* This is actually much more likely. If he's 10 years old, Elliot would have been born around 1972, at which point Indy would be 73 years old (he was canonically born in 1899) and pushing 80 when Gertie came around. Even for IndianaJones that's a bit hard to believe. Mutt, assuming he was conceived during or shortly after the events of Raiders, would likely have been born in early 1937, which would make him a much more reasonable 35 for Elliot's birth.
* This is actually much more likely. If he's 10 years old, Elliot would have been born around 1972, at which point Indy would be 73 years old (he was canonically born in 1899) and pushing 80 when Gertie came around. Even for IndianaJones that's a bit hard to believe. Mutt, assuming he was conceived during or shortly after the events of Raiders, would likely have been born in early 1937, which would make him a much more reasonable 35 for Elliot's birth.
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Instead of [[IndianaJones [[Franchise/IndianaJones a certain archeologist]] suggested in the WMG above, Elliot's father is actually Mutt Williams aka Henry Jones III.
* This is actually much more likely. If he's 10 years old, Elliot would have been born around 1972, at which point Indy would be 73 years old (he was canonically born in 1899) and pushing 80 when Gertie came around. Even forIndianaJones Franchise/IndianaJones that's a bit hard to believe. Mutt, assuming he was conceived during or shortly after the events of Raiders, would likely have been born in early 1937, which would make him a much more reasonable 35 for Elliot's birth.
* This is actually much more likely. If he's 10 years old, Elliot would have been born around 1972, at which point Indy would be 73 years old (he was canonically born in 1899) and pushing 80 when Gertie came around. Even for
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** So he basically had alien scurvy? That could explain his very rapid recovery. It's possible for a human to die of scurvy if we don't get any Vitamin C, but even a small amount will cure it fairly rapidly.
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** The Force somewhat screwed up and waves of pictures of the past somehow wound up in earthling George Lucas's dreams one night. He made a movie out of it. (Not the real George Lucas: his counterpart in the E.T. universe that made the movie the toys are based on.)
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** RobotChicken seems to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhxUinBnxo support this theory]]
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** RobotChicken ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' seems to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLhxUinBnxo support this theory]]
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* Yeah, but let's not forget Elliot shows E.T his collection of Star Wars toys.
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*** And when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1SLrPXLc0 E.T. sees a kid in a Yoda costume]], he makes a beeline for him, saying "Home! Home! Home!" He thinks it actually IS the esteemed Jedi Master!
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*** And when [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1SLrPXLc0 E.T. sees a kid in a Yoda costume]], he makes a beeline for him, saying "Home! Home! Home!" He thinks it actually IS the esteemed Jedi Master!Master! (Or at least a member of his species.)
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Oh, yeah - he can eat earth food, but it's a chemical he usually gets in his normal food he's lacking. One of the injections they tried when trying to bring ET back was the stuff or close enough to give him and extra boost.
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Oh, yeah - he can eat earth food, but it's a chemical he usually gets in his normal food he's lacking. One of the injections they tried when trying to bring ET back was the stuff or close enough to give him and an extra boost.
** This is supported by the scientists' background dialogue -- they say that E.T.'s DNA is encoded with six bases instead of the four that terrestrial life has.
** This is supported by the scientists' background dialogue -- they say that E.T.'s DNA is encoded with six bases instead of the four that terrestrial life has.
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[[WMG: E.T. is related to [[{{Pokemon}} Bulbasaur]]]]
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[[WMG: E.T. is related to [[{{Pokemon}} [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Bulbasaur]]]]
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Massive outlandish resources from nowhere, hiding as much as they possibly can ect ect.
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[[WMG: ET is starving.]]
Oh, yeah - he can eat earth food, but it's a chemical he usually gets in his normal food he's lacking. One of the injections they tried when trying to bring ET back was the stuff or close enough to give him and extra boost.
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[[WMG: This movie really is set in the Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind universe.]]
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[[WMG: This movie really is set in the Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind universe.]]
Spielberg has said this was kind of a sequel, but it could stand there as one on its own merit. See, after first contact in the 1970's in the first movie, the government has been watching the skies. They detected ET's ship landing and sent a group to invstigate, this being the first time aliens have landed since the 1970's. ET, of course, is a completely different race from the other aliens and they may or may not know about each other. This explains why the humans were aware of the landing and why they already had devices to scan for alien traces, and all the stuff all ready to roll to close off a house with plastic for study. Keys said he's been dreaming about this since he was a kid - that's because he wasn't at the 1970's landing himself, so he's still never seen a real space alien. Humans want to study an alien because the 1970's crew didn't drop off a body of theirs for us to study.
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[[Earth is like a penal colony.]]
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[[WMG: E.T. was the captain of the ship that left him behind.]]
Related to the above theory about being left behind deliberately.
Even if the crew basically decided to say "sod that guy", there would still be questions about just how they managed to sustain casualties on a scouting mission, and judging by how they did it privately they wouldn't want to leave behind a body, meaning simply saying "a native animal mauled him" and any attack by a human would surely lead to war.
Therefore, I propose that E.T. was the captain of a ship that decided to mutiny against him, leaving him behind on a backwater planet where he wouldn't be able to arrange rescue, giving the renegade ship time to escape. E.T. getting rescued means that things just got a lot worse for that crew now he's been rescued, and judging by the level of competence E.T. shows, they may not have been wholly unjustified in mutinying.
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[[Earth is like a penal colony.]]
E.T. managed to earn the [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters ire of the government while appealing to the people]], resulting in him being arrested and deported, preventing him from earning martyr status but hopefully stopping his cause. Unfortunately for the government and fortunately for the people, his message reached his fellow rebels, who tracked him down (hence why they took so long to arrive) and now it's time for a RipRoaringRampageOfRevenge.
Related to the above theory about being left behind deliberately.
Even if the crew basically decided to say "sod that guy", there would still be questions about just how they managed to sustain casualties on a scouting mission, and judging by how they did it privately they wouldn't want to leave behind a body, meaning simply saying "a native animal mauled him" and any attack by a human would surely lead to war.
Therefore, I propose that E.T. was the captain of a ship that decided to mutiny against him, leaving him behind on a backwater planet where he wouldn't be able to arrange rescue, giving the renegade ship time to escape. E.T. getting rescued means that things just got a lot worse for that crew now he's been rescued, and judging by the level of competence E.T. shows, they may not have been wholly unjustified in mutinying.
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[[Earth is like a penal colony.]]
E.T. managed to earn the [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighters ire of the government while appealing to the people]], resulting in him being arrested and deported, preventing him from earning martyr status but hopefully stopping his cause. Unfortunately for the government and fortunately for the people, his message reached his fellow rebels, who tracked him down (hence why they took so long to arrive) and now it's time for a RipRoaringRampageOfRevenge.
