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Lilo Pelekai[]

A young Hawaiian girl who lives with her sister and is Stitch's owner.

  • Ambiguous Disorder: Has a mix of eccentricities, behavioral issues, social inappropriateness, and unusual interests (not many six-year-old girls these days are obsessed with Elvis)
  • Annoying Younger Sibling: Towards Nani, sometimes.
  • Badass Adorable: She might not have the powers that Stitch has, but as Gantu notes, she is very good at turning bad experiments to good.
  • Berserk Button: Never call her crazy, or say that she will never be like her mother.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Calling Gantu a big dummy probably isn't a good idea. Incidentally, he's Hamsterviel's dragon after Lilo and Stitch.
  • Catch Phrase: "Ohana means family, and family means No One Gets Left Behind... or forgotten."
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Elvis, peanut butter-sandwich-eating clownfish, mummies, vampires, werewolves, and aliens — they all appear in her world. Oh, and the last ones are real.
  • Creepy Child: Sometimes crosses over into this.
  • Demoted to Extra: In any subsequent material outside the movies or the series. Its usually always Stitch that is used of the duo. Funny as the title of the movie was Lilo & Stitch.
  • Fluffy Tamer: The entire point of the movie.
  • Foot Focus: Mostly seen in sandals or barefoot. Justified, given the movie takes place in Hawaii.
  • The Heart: Although she has to learn her lesson at times, too.
  • Hollywood Voodoo: She makes voodoo dolls of her "friends" out of spoons and dunks them in a pickle jar. As far as we know, it doesn't work.
  • Innocent Prodigy: Lilo can use the word "abomination" in the proper context, and reads books that not only contain atypical material for a child to read but are far above her grade level as well. Despite this, she seems to have very little idea of what the consequences of her and Stitch's actions actually are.
  • The Lancer: Well, insofar as a six-year-old girl can support a living weapon.
  • The Pollyana: Not always, but Lilo's the most consistently optimistic of the family. She will get sad if you take away her best friend, though.
  • Morality Pet: Acts as one to Stitch, before he learns how to behave himself.
    • Ironic, since technically he's her pet. Their relationship is more like siblings, however, and she sometimes seems almost like a mother to him.
  • Nice Girl: Usually. She's still liable to make some silly mistakes like most children.
  • The Nicknamer: She loves doing this to the experiments.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: "My friends need to be punished..."
  • The Other Darrin: Daveigh Chase was unavailable for Stitch has a Glitch, so Dakota Fanning was hired instead.
  • Parental Abandonment: They died in a car crash.
  • She's All Grown Up: In the episode "Skip" and in the Stitch! anime where she's now a mother with an identical child.
  • Strange Girl: To put it mildly.
  • Talking to Herself: With Victoria, in her first appearance only.
  • True Companions: Her most central belief is in "ohana", which is closely related to this trope.
  • There's No B in Movie: A major fan of them.

Stitch (Experiment 626)[]

An illegal genetic experiment created by Jumba Jookiba. He escapes from custody and crash-lands on Earth, where he is adopted by Lilo.

Nani Pelekai[]

Lilo's older sister and legal guardian.

Agent Wendy Pleakley[]

A one-eyed, two-tongued, three-legged Plorgonarian that works for the Galactic Federation as an Earth expert.

  • Actor Allusion: Kevin McDonald as a tall, slender alien...where have we seen this before?
  • Ambiguously Camp Gay: He's really into his disguise as a female.
  • Bizarre Alien Biology: Three-legged, one-eyed, two-tongued, boneless, and at least one of his knees contains a heart.
  • Catch Phrase: "Fascinating."
  • Clark Kenting: As Jumba's wife and Lilo and Nani's aunt.
  • Cyclops
  • The Dandy
  • Gender Blender Name: Apparently, "Wendy" means 'brave warrior' on his home planet.
  • The Load: Subverted. Given that he is a pacifist who doesn't fight like Stitch does (or a scientist like Jumba), one could be forgiven for thinking that he isn't helpful to our heroes. But there are episodes where he manages to be surprisingly helpful to the heroes. For example, he not only manages to catch Yaarp (it turns out he is immune to his sonic attacks), but tame him as well, simply by being his caring self and rescuing him from a cave-in.
  • The Heart
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Kevin Mcdonald of Kids in the Hall fame and the voice of Almighty Tallest Purple.
  • Neat Freak: Obessively neat to the point where Lilo says Felix "Out Pleakleyed Pleakley"
  • No Biological Sex: According to the song he makes up while doing laundry in the third episode of the Stitch! English dub, Plorgonarians are genderless. Hence the reason why he's comfortable being Lilo's aunt and not her uncle.
  • Wholesome Crossdresser

Dr. Jumba Jookiba[]

A four-eyed Kweltikwan scientist and Stitch's creator.

David Kawena[]

Nani's on-again, off-again boyfriend.

  • Big Brother Instinct: He's very kind to Lilo and genuinely wants to help Nani with her little sister.
  • Dogged Nice Guy: In the first movie.
  • Fan Service: Almost never wears a shirt.
  • Mr. Fanservice: Nani apparently likes his butt and his "fancy hair".
  • Nice Guy: The only character in the movie who doesn't need to improve much as a person.
  • Walking Shirtless Scene: Well, he is a surfer who lives in Hawaii.
  • Will They or Won't They?: Likes Nani but is often awkward around her. Lilo's comments don't exactly help things.
    • Nani also doesn't seem to have time for a real boyfriend, since she's already struggling to keep a job and take care of her little sister. So while she seems to like David, she also knows she isn't emotionally available. They are, however, dating by the time of Stitch Has a Glitch.

Captain Gantu[]

Former Captain of the Galactic Armada and later hired as Hämsterviel's errand boy henchman.

  • Anti-Hero Antagonist --> Anti-Villain --> Anti-Hero
  • Cruel Mercy: He decides to let Lilo live in Stitch: The Movie...but plans to sell her to a zoo where she would be locked away for an extended period of time, if treated humanely.
  • Demoted to Dragon:: He was technically the right-hand of the Grand Councilwoman to begin with, but he was the biggest threat in the first movie. But as noted below, he ends up becoming the Dragon to Hamsterviel, with Hamsterviel ultimately ending up a bigger threat than he is.
  • The Dragon: To the Grand Councilwoman in the movie, to Hamsterviel afterward.
  • Evil Is Dumb: He's much more effective as a Knight Templar lawman than as a disgraced henchman.
  • Fantastic Racism: To the extent that can be used in a G-rated production.
  • Freudian Excuse: It's explained in Dupe that he had a distant father and did not have friends. And yes, Dupe makes him sympathetic to an extent, though 625 notes that he is being whiny.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Kevin Michael Richardson
  • Knight Templar: In the movie, he was really just trying to do his job. But took it a little too far.
  • Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: In Leroy & Stitch, he joins Lilo's side after being fired by Hämsterviel.
  • The Starscream: He takes opportunities to break away from Hamsterviel to collect the experiments on his own.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With 625.
  • Your Size May Vary: From about 10 to about 30 feet!
  • Villain Decay: He's noticeably more comedic than he was in Lilo and Stitch and Stitch: the Movie. Though this can be justified due to the fact that the writers decided to humanize him.
  • Would Hurt A Child: He was willing to let Stitch eat Lilo in the original movie, though he thankfully does not wish to eat her. However, in Leroy and Stitch, he goes from Would Hurt A Child to Would Help A Child when he decides to bust Lilo out of prison along with Reuben after he finds out that Reuben has decided to be friends with Lilo.

Reuben (Experiment 625)[]

Jumba's last experiment before Stitch and Gantu's sidekick. He has all the powers of Stitch (plus a much more advanced vocabulary) but is a lazy coward. He makes great sandwiches, though.

  • Adaptation Dye Job: He's teal-colored in Comic Zone but was changed to golden-colored for the movies and TV series.
  • Big Eater: Mostly of sandwiches.
  • Canon Immigrant: He originally appeared (exactly the same aside from the Adaptation Dye Job) in a series of Comic Zone Prequels to the first movie.
  • Deadpan Snarker: One of his main functions.
  • The Dragon: He acts as the Dragon to Gantu...who himself is the Dragon to Gantu. So he's third-in-command, basically.
  • Foil: He has all the powers of Stitch, but unlike Stitch, he never wished to destroy anything that he touched. He in fact intended to make things instead. Specifically, sandwiches. Jumba most likely decided to create Stitch for this reason, because while he succeeded in giving Reuben the powers that Stitch had, he wanted an experiment that was more destructive.
  • Satiating Sandwich: To the point that he was named after one.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Rob Paulsen
  • The Imp: Whoo boy.
  • Informed Ability: A justified version: it has been stated that he has all the same powers as Stitch, but he is never seen using them because, from the start, Jumba explains that he's also a lazy coward. Finally ended in Leroy & Stitch, when Lilo finally convinces him to get off his lazy patookie and do something for himself.
  • Neutral No Longer: Lilo persuades him to help the galaxy.
  • Lovable Coward: He's absolutely useless as a sidekick.
  • Sixth Ranger
  • Took a Level In Badass: In Leroy & Stitch.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Sandwiches, duh.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: With Gantu. They're full-fledged friends at the end of Leroy and Stitch.
  • You Are Number 625: At least until Leroy & Stitch, when he is given the name "Reuben" by Lilo.

Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel[]

Hamster-Wheel Hämsterviel is a gerbil-like hamster-like alien with rabbit-like ears, and Jumba's former partner. Hired Gantu to track down and capture all the other experiments.

Cobra Bubbles[]

A Social Worker and former CIA agent.

Mertle Edmonds[]

A spoiled rich girl and Lilo's rival. She eventually adopts Gigi (007) as a pet.

  • Alpha Bitch: Despite this, Lilo still considers her a "friend". Mertle doesn't seem to return the feelings.
  • Designated Villain: At various points.
  • Disappeared Dad: He left sometime during the series.
  • Evil Redhead: Of the bratty type.
  • Flanderization: While she was the Alpha Bitch in the movie and it's DTV sequel, she's more spoiled and snobbish than mean-spirited and her initial viewing Lilo as "weird" was not unfounded due to Lilo's inappropriate and downright crazy behavior. She's even shown to get along with Lilo a little better in the sequel. In the TV series and it's movies, she's more of a bratty Jerkass than ever for no real reason.
  • Jerkass: Oddly it comes more from being spoiled than from her upbringing. Her mom is actually very nice.
    • Surprisingly, this might relate to the Hawai'ian concept of the ha'ole — That is, a mainlander who acts like a stereotypical Hawai'ian tourist, considering she's, well, in a minority.
  • Meganekko: Subverted in that she looks like one, but is actually the Alpha Bitch.
  • Never My Fault: In one episode, she gets a charm bracelet with an experiment pod on it. Lilo tells her not to get it wet because it contained Holio (#606), who has the power to transform into a black hole. Not believing her, she purposely activates it and has her house eaten by it, and she blames Lilo for the whole fiasco.
  • The Other Darrin: She was voiced Miranda Paige Walls in the original film and Liliana Mumy in all other appearances.
  • People Puppets: Was used as one by Hamsterveil in one episode via a mind control device. Oddly it couldn't override her disdain for Lilo, which Lilo managed to use to incapacitate her.
  • Rich Bitch: Supposedly, she certainly acts like it and her mom throws some rather lavish parties for her.
  • Too Dumb to Live: See Never My Fault.

Yuki, Elena and Teresa[]

Mertle's three lackeys that follow her everywhere. Weren't named until the TV series.

  • Catch Phrase: "Yeeeah!"
  • Girl Posse: Blindly follow Mertle's words and actions. They probably would get along with Lilo if they actually got to know her.
  • Hidden Depths: Yuki is often shown to be rather fond of hockey.
  • Those Three Girls: Have a few episodes focused on them otherwise they're just there for the background.

Victoria[]

A character from the second season of Lilo & Stitch: The Series, prominent in only two episodes while a background character in others. Accepted Lilo for who she is and became a friend of hers.

  • Demoted to Extra: Only got two episodes centered around her.
  • Heroes Want Redheads: Friend version.
  • The Other Darrin: In her first appearance, Victoria is voiced by Daviegh Chase, which lead to Talking to Herself with Lilo, and in her second appearance, Alyson Stoner voiced her.
  • Van Helsing Hate Crime: "Snooty" had her doing this since she didn't know about the experiments and Snooty was constantly flying at her. Turns out it's a "Snot Vampire" and was attracted by her sinuses. Once Victoria realized it was harmless, she changed her tune.

Mrs. Edmonds[]

Mertle's mother who only appears in the TV series. Quite the opposite of her daughter, as she sweet and kind to Lilo.

Moses Puloki[]

Lilo's hula instructor. He is sometimes called Kumu (which is Hawaiian for teacher).

  • Big Brother Mentor: Sure, he's the girl's teacher, but Hawaiian culture is based on familial bonding.
  • Nice Guy: Not easy when you have someone like Lilo as a student.

Keoni Jameson[]

Lilo's crush and son of Nami's employer.

Grand Councilwoman[]

The leader of the United Galactic Federation.

  • Badass Cape: When presiding over Jumba's trial.
  • Bald Women
  • Big Bad: Played this role in the original movie, but it's subverted since she's not evil, and is truly...
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite not being tolerant of repeated failure, she's only trying to do what's best. However, she can and will use loopholes to go against what the council has decided if it's the right thing to do.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: She proposed that Earth be gassed when Stitch landed there, but was stopped by Pleakley, who claimed that Earth was a protected wildlife reserve for mosquitoes.
  • You Have Failed Me: The Galactic Federation has an extremely low tolerance for failure — when she has to show up and take care of things herself, pretty much the whole scene is her firing and prosecuting everyone who failed with extreme prejudice.

Angel (Experiment 624)[]

A female experiment and Stitch's Love Interest.

  • Brother-Sister Incest: Although the experiments are referred to as Stitch's "cousins", if one were to actually think about it in technical terms since Jumba is their creator, it makes him their father.
  • The Chick
  • Cute Monster Girl: Not that the other experiments aren't cute themselves, but we see very few females.
  • Distaff Counterpart: The only real differences are her color, her antennas and the V-shaped marking on her chest.
  • Distressed Damsel: Became one after she was captured at the end of her episode.
  • Dude Magnet: She utilizes this to attract reformed Experiments so she can revert them with her singing.
  • Evil Diva: Her song itself has evil repercussions.
  • Hey, It's That Voice!: Tara Strong.
  • Heel Face Turn: Used to work for Hämsterviel but changed sides after realizing her feelings for Stitch.
  • Manipulative Editing: Due to her being reformed, Reuben had to trick her into singing to him (he and Stitch are the only experiments unaffected by her singing) so that he could record her voice and play it backward, turning the experiments tamed by Lilo evil again.
  • Pink Girl, Blue Boy: Textbook example.
  • Shallow Love Interest: To an extent, the main reason she was introduced was to give Stitch a love interest.

Mrs. Hasagawa[]

An old Japanese lady that runs a fruit stand and owns a large number of experiments as pets.

Ice Cream Man[]

A recurring, fat tourist who is always seen eating ice cream

Leroy[]

An evil version of Stitch created by Jumba, under orders of Hämsterviel.

Stitch's "Cousins"[]

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