- “I have spent an entire career trying to prove that aliens exists. Now he's my proof! Dead or alive, he's staying with me!”
- ―Dr. Coleye
Dr. Elliot Coleye is the main antagonist of the 1999 Disney film My Favorite Martian. He is a scientist and the head of SETI who tries to prove the existence of aliens to the rest of the world.
Role in the film[]
Dr. Coleye has been obsessed by the possible existence of aliens, that he'll do anything to prove that case, and within the movie itself, he tried to implement that by hunting down the titular Martian alien named Martin.
At the end of the film, Coleye attempts to shoot Martin with his gun, but a SETI official named Armitan, actually Martin's old friend, Neenert, in disguise, saves him by destroying Coleye's gun and tossing him wildly in the air. Eventually, he tries to stop Martin and Neenert from taking off, but it was too late because they fly back to Mars.
Eventually, Coleye consumes the piece of nerplex left by Neenert and he is turned into an alien too. While laughing at this, he accidentally swallows it, which presumably leaves him permanently in his transformation (at least for seven years if the myth about gum is to be believed). He then ends up getting caught by his own organization and gets tranquillized off screen.
Trivia[]
- His name is a pun on the bacteria E. coli, or Escherichia coli, a notorious bacteria that causes severe illness in the lower intestines.
- Coleye ignoring Tim about chewing the nerplex left behind by Neenert appears to be similar to Violet Beauregarde from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ignoring Willy Wonka's warning about his three-course dinner gum not being fully perfected.
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