History Franchise / LiloAndStitch

* NameAndName: The franchise itself, though people tend to forget that it's spelled with an ampersand (&), not with the word "and". This also applies to three of the four films and two of the three TV series (although the anime is titled ''Yuna & Stitch'' [[MarketBasedTitle in the German dub]]).

Most recently, throughout 2020, a manga set in an AlternateTimeline called ''Tono & Stitch'', retitled for the English market in 2021 as ''Manga/StitchAndTheSamurai'', had Stitch ending up in FeudalJapan and befriending an adult male samurai warlord. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Again, yes, this really does exist.]] The year of the manga's English release has also seen Disney quietly rebranding the franchise to ''Disney Stitch'', putting more emphasis on the popular mischievous alien.

It should be noted that all these spin-offs got some ''very'' [[BrokenBase polarizing]] reactions [[AmericansHateTingle from the franchise's non-Asian fans]], with several debates over whether they count as part of the franchise's canon (apart from the obviously non-canon ''Stitch & the Samurai'', save for one detail in a side story regarding a previously OneShotCharacter). But we'll leave that to the related YMMV pages.

Nevertheless, this oddball of a franchise remains beloved by Disney fans everywhere who relate to its themes finding love and belonging in each other when you have no one else to turn to. The mischievous yet cute and fluffy Stitch [[WolverinePublicity remains very popular and continues to receive regular global promotion by Disney to this day]], especially through a ''lot'' of {{crossover}}s.

* ''Lilo & Stitch'' (TBA): [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes A live-action/CGI remake]] of the film is in development. It will be produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich (''Film/{{Aladdin|2019}}'' [2019]), and directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp (''Film/{{Marcel the Shell with Shoes On|2021}}''). It is also expected that Sanders will reprise the voice role of Stitch.

* ''Agent Stitch'' (2022–): An upcoming children's book series set in an AlternateTimeline after the original film where Stitch is hired by the United Galactic Federation to investigate paranormal extraterrestrial mysteries around the world.

* RecurringRiff: "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_'Oe Aloha ʻOe]]" during the Lilo era, due to its Hawaiian setting. It's been in the first film, ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', and ''Leroy & Stitch''.

* RecurringRiff: '''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_%CA%BBOe Aloha ʻOe]]''' during the Lilo era, due to its Hawaiian setting. It's been in the first film, ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', and ''Leroy & Stitch''.

*** ''Leroy & Stitch'' uses the song extensively, going so far as to [[spoiler:turn it into a MacGuffin do defeat Leroy]]. It's played in a [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning Crowning Moment of Awesome]] towards the end of the film [[spoiler:where Lilo and the experiments use it to defeat the clone army of Leroys]]. Certain shots [[BreakingTheFourthWall make it seem as if the cast is singing a farewell to the audience]].

* RecurringRiff: "Aloha ʻOe" during the Lilo era, due to its Hawaiian setting. It's been in the first film, ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', and ''Leroy & Stitch''.

* RecurringRiff: "Aloha &#699Oe" during the Lilo era, due to its Hawaiian setting. It's been in the first film, ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', and ''Leroy & Stitch''.

* RecurringRiff: Aloha 'oe.

* RecurringRiff:
* Aloha 'oe

* {{Crossover}}: Stitch was already doing this ''before the first film was even released'' thanks to the "inter-STITCH-al" teaser trailers, and he hasn't stopped since. The first TV series even had four crossover episodes in its second season. This has gotten to the point that Disney is releasing a limited edition merchandise collection throughout 2021 [[ScheduleSlip (and early 2022)]] based on his crossovers called "Stitch Crashes Disney".

*** The first series can possibly even claim itself as canonical to the DAC, as thanks to Stitch's experiment "cousins", it received references in both a ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' game[[note]]Experiment 221/Sparky appearing as a mandatory boss battle in ''Birth by Sleep''.[[/note]] and especially in a later DAC film.[[note]]Experiment 619/Splodyhead appears in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' as an image on a pillow on Fred's bed, next to a Stitch pillow.[[/note]] No other Disney franchise that got a TV series, not even ''The Lion King'', can claim this. Disney seems to have no problem promoting [[BreakoutCharacter Angel]] alongside the original film's characters, and she didn't even exist back in 2002!

* ''Lilo & Stitch'' (TBA): [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes A live-action/CGI remake]] of the film is in development. It will be produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich (''Film/Aladdin2019''), and directed by Dean Fleischer-Camp (''Film/{{Marcel the Shell with Shoes On|2021}}). It is also expected that Sanders will reprise the voice role of Stitch.

* ''Lilo & Stitch'' (TBA): [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes A live-action/CGI remake]] of the film [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lilo-stitch-live-action-disney-remake-works-1148811 is reported to be in development.]] It will be produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich (''Film/Aladdin2019''), and it is also expected that Sanders will reprise the voice role of Stitch.

* FreeRangeChildren: Lilo is five years old in the original film and seven to nine years old over the course of the sequel films and ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', yet she runs about Kokaua Town[[note]]her hometown on Kauaʻi, named in ''The Series'', which is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanapepe,_Hawaii Hanapepe]] on the same island[[/note]] with Stitch, and no adults. The same goes for ten/eleven-year-old Yuna on Izayoi and in Okinawa New Town in the ''Stitch!'' anime, and the young Ai on the Huangshan mountains in ''Stitch & Ai''.

* CoolStarship: Plenty throughout the franchise, including Jumba's ship, Gantu's ships, [[WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch the BRB-9000]], and of course, "The Red One".

* {{Crossover}}: Stitch was already doing this ''before the first film was even released'' thanks to the "inter-STITCH-al" teaser trailers, and he hasn't stopped since. The first TV series even had four crossover episodes in its second season. This has gotten to the point that Disney is releasing an entire limited edition merchandise collection throughout 2021 [[ScheduleSlip (and early 2022)]] based on his crossovers called "Stitch Crashes Disney".

* FreeRangeChildren: Lilo is six years old in the original film and seven to nine years old over the course of the sequel films and ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', yet she runs about Kokaua Town[[note]]her hometown on Kauaʻi, named in ''The Series'', which is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanapepe,_Hawaii Hanapepe]] on the same island[[/note]] with Stitch, and no adults. The same goes for ten/eleven-year-old Yuna on Izayoi and in Okinawa New Town in the ''Stitch!'' anime, and the young Ai on the Huangshan mountains in ''Stitch & Ai''.

* MonsSeries: In a way, thanks to the experiments. However, this really applies to the first two TV shows (''Stitch & Ai'' took a different route with its "experiments"), and even then, the number of seen, fully confirmed experiments out of the first 629 remain incredibly low to this day. (Notice how so many experiments lack descriptions on the lists in their [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments character sheets]]? That's how low it is.)

*** The first series can possibly even claim itself as canonical to the DAC, as thanks to Stitch's experiment "cousins", it received references in both a ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' game[[note]]Experiment 221/Sparky appearing as a mandatory boss battle in ''Birth by Sleep''.[[/note]] and especially in a later DAC film.[[note]]Experiment 619/Splodyhead appears in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' as an image on a pillow on Fred's bed, next to a Stitch pillow.[[/note]] No other Disney franchise that got a TV series, not even ''The Lion King'', can claim this. Not to mention, Disney seems to have no problem promoting [[BreakoutCharacter Angel]] alongside the original film's characters, and she didn't even exist back in 2002!

* ScienceFantasy: The franchise became more of this over the years instead of just being straight soft science fiction, primarily thanks to the East Asian spin-offs, although ''The Series'' had some fantasy elements here and there (and actually crossed over with an UrbanFantasy [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong series]] at one point), and even one of the early spin-off video games gave Lilo [[HollywoodVoodoo voodoo]] powers.

Most recently, throughout 2020, a manga set in an AlternateTimeline called ''Tono & Stitch'', retitled for the English market in 2021 as ''Manga/StitchAndTheSamurai'', had Stitch ending up in FeudalJapan and befriending [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent an adult male samurai warlord]]. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Again, yes, this really does exist.]] The year of the manga's English release has also seen Disney quietly rebranding the franchise to ''Disney Stitch'', putting more emphasis on the popular mischievous alien.

[[folder:List of works]]
!!Films and television
The films and TV series are franchise's main works.

!!Comics

!!Theme park attractions

!!Literature
* ''Agent Stitch'' (2022–): An upcoming children's book series set in an AlternateTimeline after the original film where Stitch is hired by the United Galactic Federation to investigate paranormal extraterrestrial mysteries around the world.
!!Video games

* ''Animation/StitchAndAi'' (2017): An English-language-produced Chinese animated series co-produced with American animators, including those from ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series''. Stitch gets kidnapped from Lilo by a warring alien faction who want to use him and a heretofore unrevealed "metamorphosis program" in their space war against another faction. Thanks to said other faction also wanting Stitch for themselves trying to take him, he escapes to Chinese mountains where he befriends a girl over there named Ai. She helps him try to find a mysterious shrine he's been seeing in his dreams and help deal with the alien factions still going after him, while he helps her stay at her mountainous home.

* ''Lilo & Stitch'' (TBA): [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes A live-action/CGI remake]] of the film [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lilo-stitch-live-action-disney-remake-works-1148811 is reported to be in development.]] It will be produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich (''Film/Aladdin2019'') and will be based on a script written by Mike Van Waes (''[[Film/TheConjuringUniverse The Crooked Man]]''). It is also expected that Sanders will reprise the voice role of Stitch.

* ''ComicStrip/ComicZoneLiloAndStitch'': ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' ran a series of prequel comic strips before the release of the original film that detailed what the titular duo's lives were like beforehand. More non-prequel comics were made later on as a tie-in to ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', and a few more comics were made as tie-ins to ''Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch'' and then ''Leroy & Stitch''. Most of the strips were later compiled together in a Match 2006 book release titled ''Comic Zone Vol. 1: Lilo & Stitch''. Although the prequel comics were made non-canonical after ''Lilo & Stitch 2'', they are notable for introducing not only the idea of experiments other than Stitch, but even later major character Experiment 625 (Reuben).

It mainly features the adventures and antics of [[Characters/LiloAndStitchTheTitularDuo the eccentric and mischievous titular duo]] of Lilo Pelekai, an orphaned UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}an human girl who loves hula, surfing, horror and sci-fi B-movies, photography of tourists (especially the overweight), and Music/ElvisPresley; [[AGirlAndHerX and her "dog"]] Stitch, an illegally-made, genetically-engineered, [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue-furred]], koala-like alien creature originally called Experiment 626 who was initially made to cause intergalactic chaos and destruction before he met her. They live together in Kokaua Town, a small Hawaiian town on the island of Kauaʻi, with their equally quirky ''[[TrueCompanions ʻohana]]'', a Hawaiian term for [[FamilyOfChoice a concept of the extended family]]. Their unique family primarily includes Lilo's overstressed but understanding older sister and legal guardian Nani, Stitch's four-eyed MadScientist/"EvilGenius" creator Dr. Jumba Jookiba, a one-eyed, three-legged, Earth-loving, effeminate alien called [[GenderBlenderName Wendy]] Pleakley, and Stitch's many [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments genetic experiment "cousins"]] who were also created by Jumba.

''Lilo & Stitch'' (or just ''Stitch'') is a Creator/{{Disney}} [[SeriesFranchise franchise]] that began in [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2002]] with the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch film of the same name]] written and directed by Creator/ChrisSanders and Creator/DeanDeBlois.

Most recently, throughout 2020, a manga set in an AlternateTimeline called ''Tono & Stitch'', retitled for the English market in 2021 as ''Manga/StitchAndTheSamurai'', had Stitch ending up in FeudalJapan and befriending [[SomethingCompletelyDifferent an adult male samurai warlord]]. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Again, yes, this really does exist.]] The year of the manga's English release has also seen Disney quietly rebranding the franchise to "''Disney Stitch''", putting more emphasis on the popular alien and his (and Jumba and Pleakley's) wacky yet heartwarming adventures.

Now about said sequel material, Disney had [[Creator/DisneyTelevisionAnimation their TV animation studio]] begin work on a TV SequelSeries shortly before the first film was released in theaters. Said series, ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries''--which is [[BookEnds bookended]] by direct-to-video pilot ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie'' and television finale film ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch''--aired on Creator/DisneyChannel and the [[Creator/OneSaturdayMorningAndABCKids ABC Kids]] SaturdayMorningCartoon block from 2003 to 2006 [[SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon for 65 episodes]] over two seasons. ''The Series'' had the titular duo find Jumba's other genetic experiments around Kauaʻi. The idea of genetic experiments made before Stitch was actually previously shown in [[ComicStrip/ComicZoneLiloAndStitch prequel comics that were printed in]] ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' magazine and in [[VideoGame/StitchExperiment626 a prequel spin-off game]] for [=PlayStation=] 2 released a couple days before the original film, but this show was the first to truly take on the idea in earnest. The duo's goal in this show is to find and capture any of Stitch's "cousins", reform them, name them, and put them into "one true places" where they are able to use their abilities for more productive purposes. They also fight off the twenty-foot-tall ex-captain Gantu from the first film, as he and his reluctant sandwich-loving sidekick Experiment 625, known nowadays as "Reuben", are going after Stitch's "cousins" on behalf of Jumba's ex-partner in crime, the tyrannical gerbil-like[[labelnote:*]][[BerserkButton "HAMSTER-like!"]][[/labelnote]] alien Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel. Having previously funded the experiments' creation, Hämsterviel wants them back for himself so he can [[TakeOverTheWorld take over the galaxy]]. Notably, the show's second season featured {{crossover}}s [[Franchise/DisneyChannelAnimatedUniverse with four other Disney animated shows]]: ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'', and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' (all fellow Disney Channel Original Series), and ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' (originally from ABC Kids' predecessor, Creator/{{One Saturday Morning|AndABCKids}}).

* AGirlAndHerX: No matter if the girl is Lilo, Yuna, or Ai, the franchise is always about a human girl and her alien "dog" who looks more like a blue mutant koala and is ''much'' more sentient than a regular dog. The lives of each of these girls and their families improve with Stitch around, while in return, he becomes a better, happier, more caring person thanks to them.

* ArtifactTitle: Half of it at least, since the franchise has moved away from Lilo in favor of focusing more on Stitch, who since 2008 has been constantly separated from her and Hawaii. However, this will probably be reversed when the LiveActionAdaptation gets released, and even then, considering the lack of American success for both the anime and the Chinese series (to the point that neither are on non-Japanese versions of Creator/DisneyPlus as of August 2020[[note]]the anime ''is'' on the Japanese Disney+, but only for that version of the service[[/note]]), this doesn't really apply in the franchise's home country.

* FamilyOfChoice: The franchise's whole mantra of ''ʻohana'' is based on this trope, with Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, and the experiments bonding with humans who take care of them on Earth. The picture of the Pelekai ''ʻohana'' that's taken at the end of ''The Series'' episode "[[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS2E16WishyWashy Wishy-Washy]]" is the trope illustrator.

* MonsSeries: In a way, thanks to the experiments. However, this really applies to the first two TV shows (''Stitch & Ai'' took a different route with its experiments), and even then, the number of seen, fully confirmed experiments out of the first 629 remain incredibly low to this day. (Notice how so many experiments lack descriptions on the lists in their [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments character sheets]]? That's how low it is.)
* NameAndName: The franchise itself, which--as many people tend to forget--is spelled with an ampersand (&), not with the word "and". This also applies to three of the four films and two of the three TV series (although the anime is titled ''Yuna & Stitch'' [[MarketBasedTitle in the German dub]]).
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Exactly the message of the whole franchise. Granted, it's actually "no''body''", not "no ''one''", but still the ''ʻohana'' motto is the page quote for a reason.

* TurnOfTheMillennium: The original parts of this franchise took place in the early-to-mid 2000s, which was also the time frame when it was actively promoted in the United States where the franchise today has gone dormant, especially in terms of Disney's current marketing.

* PardonMyKlingon: Gantu's {{catchphrase}} "Oh, blitznak!", which easily passes off as "OhCrap", and Stitch and the experiments' "Meega, nala kweesta!", which literally means, "I want to destroy!" Now that phrase may be tame to us humans, but to alien society, it's so vulgar that it makes a robot vomit.

* ''Ride/StitchsGreatEscape'' (2004–2018): A ''very'' infamous "theater-in-the-round" ride in Ride/WaltDisneyWorld's [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Magic Kingdom]] that was set before the events of the first film, detailing Stitch's first run-in with the United Galactic Federation.[[/index]]

** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' (2010): The game features a world called "Deep Space" where the events that happen in there serves as a spiritual prequel to the events of the original ''Lilo & Stitch'' film.

It mainly features the adventures and antics of [[Characters/LiloAndStitchTheTitularDuo the eccentric and mischievous titular duo]] of Lilo Pelekai, an orphaned UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}an human girl who loves hula, surfing, horror and sci-fi B-movies, photography of tourists (especially the overweight), and Music/ElvisPresley; [[AGirlAndHerX and her "dog"]] Stitch, an illegally-made, genetically-engineered, [[YouGottaHaveBlueHair blue-furred]], koala-like alien creature originally called Experiment 626 who was initially made to cause intergalactic chaos and destruction before he met her. They live together in Kokaua Town, a small Hawaiian town on the island of Kauaʻi, with their equally quirky ''[[TrueCompanions ʻohana]]'', a Hawaiian term for a concept of extended family. Their unique family primarily includes Lilo's overstressed but understanding older sister and legal guardian Nani, Stitch's four-eyed MadScientist/"EvilGenius" creator Dr. Jumba Jookiba, a one-eyed, three-legged, Earth-loving, effeminate alien called [[GenderBlenderName Wendy]] Pleakley, and Stitch's many [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments genetic experiment "cousins"]] who were also created by Jumba.

Now about said sequel material, Disney had [[Creator/DisneyTelevisionAnimation their TV animation studio]] begin work on a TV SequelSeries shortly before the first film was released in theaters. Said series, ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries''--which is [[BookEnds bookended]] by direct-to-video pilot ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie'' and television finale film ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch''--aired on Creator/DisneyChannel and the [[Creator/OneSaturdayMorningAndABCKids ABC Kids]] SaturdayMorningCartoon block from 2003 to 2006 [[SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon for 65 episodes]] over two seasons. ''The Series'' had the titular duo find Jumba's other genetic experiments around Kauaʻi. The idea of genetic experiments made before Stitch was actually previously shown in [[ComicStrip/ComicZoneLiloAndStitch prequel comics that were printed in]] ''Magazine/DisneyAdventures'' magazine and in [[VideoGame/StitchExperiment626 a prequel spin-off game]] for [=PlayStation=] 2 released a couple days before the original film, but this show was the first to truly take on the idea in earnest. The duo's goal in this show are to find and capture any of Stitch's "cousins", reform them, name them, and put them into "one true places" where they are able to use their abilities for more productive purposes. They also fight off the twenty-foot-tall ex-captain Gantu from the first film, as he and his reluctant sandwich-loving sidekick Experiment 625, known nowadays as "Reuben", are going after Stitch's "cousins" on behalf of Jumba's ex-partner in crime, the tyrannical gerbil-like[[labelnote:*]][[BerserkButton "HAMSTER-like!"]][[/labelnote]] alien Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel. Having previously funded the experiments' creation, Hämsterviel wants them back for himself so he can [[TakeOverTheWorld take over the galaxy]]. Notably, the show's second season featured {{crossover}}s [[Franchise/DisneyChannelAnimatedUniverse with four other Disney animated shows]]: ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', ''WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily'', and ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' (all fellow Disney Channel Original Series), and ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' (originally from ABC Kids' predecessor, Creator/{{One Saturday Morning|AndABCKids}}).

* FamilyOfChoice: The franchise's whole mantra of ''ʻohana'' is based on this trope, with Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, and the experiments bonding with humans who take care of them on Earth.

* ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' (2008–2011; additional specials aired in 2012 and 2015): An anime produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}} and later Creator/ShinEiAnimation. Stitch separates from Lilo over a misunderstanding, ending up on a fictional Okinawan island where he becomes best friends with a spirited local girl named Yuna and goes on ScienceFantasy adventures with her. Set approximately two decades after ''Leroy & Stitch'', as seen by Lilo's reappearance in this series [[spoiler:as an adult who had gone to college and since had a daughter]]. Its run in the U.S. was ''very'' brief.[[note]]Only the first five episodes of the 2009-introduced English dub aired on Creator/DisneyXD within less than a week in October 2011 before it was taken off the air.[[/note]]
* ''Animation/StitchAndAi'' (2017): A Chinese animated series co-produced with American animators, including those from ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series''. Stitch gets kidnapped from Lilo by a warring alien faction who want to use him and a heretofore unrevealed "metamorphosis program" in their space war against another faction. Thanks to said other faction also wanting Stitch for themselves trying to take him, he escapes to Chinese mountains where he befriends a girl over there named Ai. She helps him try to find a mysterious shrine he's been seeing in his dreams and help deal with the alien factions still going after him, while he helps her stay at her mountainous home. Originally produced in English, its Mandarin dub was released first in March 2017. The show made its English debut in February 2018. Set circa 2016 on an AlternateTimeline differing from the anime. The show received a free, near-complete digital streaming release in the U.S.[[note]]the ninth episode was not released there[[/note]] via TV Everywhere service and app [=DisneyNow=] on December 1, 2018, running on the service until June 2019.[[/index]]

* ''Lilo & Stitch'' (TBA): [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes A live-action/CGI remake]] of the film [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/lilo-stitch-live-action-disney-remake-works-1148811 is reported to be in development.]] [[https://thedisinsider.com/2020/02/04/exclusive-lilo-stitch-disney/ Planned for a direct-to-streaming release on]] Creator/DisneyPlus, it will be produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich (''Film/Aladdin2019''), and written by Mike Van Waes (''[[Film/TheConjuringUniverse The Crooked Man]]''), with Sanders reprising the voice role of Stitch.

* ''Animation/StitchAndAi'' (2017): A Chinese animated series co-produced with American animators, including those from ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series''. Stitch gets kidnapped from Lilo by a warring alien faction who want to use him and a heretofore unrevealed "metamorphosis program" in their space war against another faction. Thanks to said other faction also wanting Stitch for themselves trying to take him, he escapes to Chinese mountains where he befriends a girl over there named Ai. She helps him deal with the alien factions, as well as to find a mysterious shrine he's been seeing in his dreams, still going after him while he helps her stay at her mountainous home. Originally produced in English, its Mandarin dub was released first in March 2017. The show made its English debut in February 2018. Set circa 2016 on an AlternateTimeline differing from the anime. The show received a free, near-complete digital streaming release in the U.S.[[note]]the ninth episode was not released there[[/note]] via TV Everywhere service and app [=DisneyNow=] on December 1, 2018, running on the service until June 2019.[[/index]]

As mentioned in the introduction, the franchise has been focusing primarily on Stitch [[PutOnABus without]] [[DemotedToExtra Lilo]] since the main continuity ended in 2006, hence "Post-Lilo". As previously stated, the East Asian-produced spin-off series have been [[BrokenBase very controversial]] within the franchise's fanbase outside of those shows' countries, disputing whether or not these are in the same continuity as the 2002 to 2006 films and TV series.

* ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' (2008–2011; additional specials aired in 2012 and 2015): An anime produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}} and later Creator/ShinEiAnimation. Stitch separates from Lilo over a misunderstanding, ending up on a fictional Okinawan island where he becomes best friends with a spirited local girl named Yuna and goes on ScienceFantasy adventures with her. Chronologically the last entry of the franchise[[note]]as seen by Lilo's reappearance in this series as an adult who had gone to college and since had a daughter, establishing this show as taking place approximately two decades after ''Leroy & Stitch''[[/note]] if this series is seen as canonical. Its run in the U.S. was ''very'' brief.[[note]]Only the first five episodes of the 2009-introduced English dub aired on Creator/DisneyXD within less than a week in October 2011 before it was taken off the air.[[/note]]
* ''Animation/StitchAndAi'' (2017): A Chinese animated series co-produced with American animators. Stitch gets kidnapped from Lilo by space criminals and escapes to Chinese mountains where he befriends a girl over there named Ai, who helps him deal with the alien criminals going after him while he helps her stay at her mountainous home. However, a DarkSecret about Stitch that only Jumba knows about is ready to be unleashed, threatening to ruin the Earth. Originally produced in English, its Mandarin dub was released first in March 2017. The show made its English debut in February 2018. Chronologically the penultimate entry in the franchise[[note]]although Lilo does not appear outside of vague (to Stitch) flashbacks, Captain Gantu's presence in the Galactic Council again (he was fired from his post at the end of the first film, rehired at the end of the fourth film, but was fired again (or more specifically, dishonorably discharged) prior to the beginning of the anime) establishes this series as being an {{interquel}} between ''Leroy & Stitch'' and the ''Stitch!'' anime[[/note]] if this series is seen as canonical, although it was produced without any real consideration towards the anime and thus may be set on an AlternateTimeline differing from that show. The show received a free, near-complete digital streaming release in the U.S.[[note]]the ninth episode was not released there[[/note]] via TV Everywhere service and app [=DisneyNow=] on December 1, 2018, running on the service until June 2019.[[/index]]

* ''Manga/StitchAndTheSamurai'' (2020): A manga by Hiroto Wada where Stitch crash lands in [[JidaiGeki feudal Japan]] and befriends a Japanese warlord named Yamato Meison.

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: A straight-up 1 on the scale, although there are ''some'' realistic elements, such as Stitch being [[SuperDrowningSkills too dense to swim]] as a result of all that condensed muscle in him (although his much stronger immediate successor 627 can float according to Jumba). The later sequel material added some fantasy elements, further reinforcing this.

* {{Crossover}}: Stitch was already doing this ''before the first film was even released'' thanks to the "inter-STITCH-al" teaser trailers, and he hasn't stopped since. The first TV series even had four crossover episodes in its second season. This has gotten to the point that Disney is releasing an entire limited edition merchandise collection throughout 2021 based on his crossovers called "Stitch Crashes Disney".