History Headscratchers / LiloAndStitch

* Why would Pleakley be prison bound.

** It's possible that the Councilwoman never actually met Bubbles personally. She simply, at some point, happened to see a picture of him from the Roswell incident, and either didn't bother or just didn't remember years later that he is a human from the planet Earth.

!!''Stitch Has a Glitch
* In ''Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch'', it seems that a lot of the problems are caused by everybody not knowing what is wrong with Stitch. Except Pleakley and Jumba know about the whole "molecules aren't charged" thing. So why didn't either of them [[JustEatGilligan tell Lilo or Nani about Stitch's issue]]? Seems like a plot hole to me.
** Because they didn't want to worry them with how serious the situation was, especially since they intended to fix it quick as possible. Besides, when one of the people is a MadScientist who probably spent a lot of time prior to the movies on his own and the other is... Pleakley, rational plans built on common sense sometimes don't come up.
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* Also in ''Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch'', around the end, Stitch's plane crashes on a random mountain and Lilo rides her hover car there. For no reason at all, the recovery pad to heal Stitch is already there when she arrives. Why?
** On Earth, Jumba's spaceship is his lab, so the fusion chamber was already on-board as it was built in there. When the ship crashed, the fusion chamber most likely got knocked loose and fell out, perching on the mountain. Of course, it is strange that the thing was upright and completely unscathed when it landed there.

!!"Friends"? Them ain't how friends work, Lilo
* In the Dupe episode Lilo complains that Mertle and her posse are her only friends outside of Stitch. She has more than 4 experiment friends outside of Stitch and some of them showed up to the party her "friends" missed. I can see her not noticing but nobody ever calls her on this type of logic which she maintains throughout the series.
** Maybe she meant her only "close" friend. She cares about the various experiments, but she isn't as close to most of them as she is with Stitch since most of their one true places aren't where she spends most of her time. She lives with Stitch and spends plenty of time in hula class with the others. Still, if she considers those girls as "close" friends, that is still kind of sad.
*** Perhaps, to her, those are the closest thing she has to friends (and kids tend to have ''really'' loose definitions of "friends"), as, on a good day, they put up with her and, in one episode of the series, when Mertle's not around, it's shown that they (or Yuki, rather) can be friendly to her. Basically, Mertle's the AlphaBitch (isasmuch as an elementary school girl can be), while the other girls are, what they say on the interwebs, "clout chasers", however, Lilo sees and interacts with them on a regular.

!!Why were these guys made?
* Why were experiments like Hunkahunka and Morpholomew created? How can either making everyone fall in love or shapeshifting take over a planet at all?
** Jumba was probably still figuring out how to get different abilities through genetic research. They are ''experiments'', after all.
*** I meant that they're useless for what Jumba was intending for them to do, i.e. Take over planets.
*** You're missing what I'm saying. They were ''experiments,'' not ''successful'' experiments.
** On top of that, falling in love and shapeshifting could actually be useful when it comes to taking over the world. If I'm remembering the episodes correctly Hunkahunka made the person who "Fell in love" follow the other person and do whatever they said in an attempt to please them, getting someone with a powerful position or a lot of money to do that for you could help. And morphing is obvious, you shape shift into someone in a powerful position (president, king, etc.) and use that power to take over.
*** Even assuming these experiments were released on their own, without Jumba or someone directing them, they could still cause untold damage. Hunkahunka can make people infatuated with each other... what happens when this infatuation isn't one-way, or mutual, but set up to be three-or-more way, and if it overrides normal morals and ethics? [[LoveMakesYouEvil Bad]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse things]] [[IfICantHaveYou can]] [[StalkerWithACrush happen.]] Now imagine this happening on a large scale, with seemingly no cause, and you have massive amounts of ParanoiaFuel. As for Morpholomew, shape-shifting gives him literally infinite applicability, especially if he decides to KillAndReplace or if it comes with a built-in HealingFactor.
** Jumba really isn't as evil as he likes to present himself as. Hamsterveil was sponsoring him to make world-conquering monsters, but his experiments, for the most part at least, are more mean-spirited pranksters than population-ending nutjobs. Really, considering everything we know about how Jumba behaves, he was probably more interested in the challenge of making his little monsters than actually using them to hurt people.
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* More importantly (same poster as above), how come no-one knows about the damn things? Sparky's little rampage in ''Stitch! The Movie'' was pretty public and some of the other experiments (Kixx, Yaarp, Richter) have caused some pretty conspicuous damage, and were seen by a great deal of people, some of whom would probably have video cameras. How come videos of them are not all over Website/YouTube? Are people just ''that'' unobservant?
** ''Lilo & Stitch'' shares a universe with several other animated series, and is one-sidedly canon to Disney comics.[[note]]That is to say, the ''Lilo & Stitch'' cast exist in the ComicBook/DisneyDucksAndMouseComicUniverse, but the reverse is not true.[[/note]] Bearing that in mind, there may be dozens of weirdos and mad scientists running around, and after a short fad the locals just got used to the Experiments, who are ''unusual'' but in this context nothing ground-breaking.
** It's probably a WeirdnessCensor at work - nobody looks twice at Jumba once he puts on a tourist outfit. As for [=YouTube=], check the publication date of the movie again.
*** Well, these days, such creatures would be all over social media.

!!Isn't that......?
* The romance between Angel and Stitch. All the experiments are related, if not by DNA then just by being created by the same person, and call each other cousins so would Angel and Stitch call each other cousins? Wouldn't it be weird that they call each other cousins but also have a relationship-type thing?
** I doubt that Jumba created all 626 experiments using the same batch of DNA, and if the "Ugly Duckling" scene from the first film is any indication, while he may know that Jumba ''created'' him, neither of the two seem to consider the other as his "father" or "son", necessarily. It's something like with the demigods in the ''Percy Jackson'' series - they're all related to each other technically, but it's in some convoluted way - and the gods don't have DNA, anyway - so when they do refer to this relation, they just call each other cousins while still having relationships.

!!Trycicle theft

!!CallsARabbitASmeerp

** That was changed up for "liability reasons". Some hiding places aren't safe.

*** IDK about Hawaiian laws to do with social services but I can tell you that, more often than not, when it comes to removal (or reunification), there's an established pattern and Bubbles already let a lot slide.

** Stitch is intelligent and capable of learning, yes, however, he doesn't know enough English (or Hawaiian) to speak it. The other aliens is likely Translation Convention but the aliens have a universal language that they use if push comes to shove.

* Having seen just the movie: AliensSpeakingEnglish. At least Stitch gets the excuse that he's learning English from Lilo... (And the beginning could have been set up as TranslationConvention, but that might have slightly gone over the target audience's head.) But the rest of it?

** It's not clear how long he was there. He could've shown up just as Nani was taking Lilo back to shore, and wouldn't have seen anything prior. He also seemed to be watching from a distance and wouldn't really be able to make out Jumba and Pleakly bouncing away. As for why he didn't run into the sea to rescue Lilo; he's not a trained lifeguard, and it's unknown if he can even swim. Without having the proper training, it's generally a bad idea to go into rough seas to help a drowning person.

** They had just been fired from the task of retrieving Stitch. Pleakly was likely exiled in that firing and Jumba's back to being a wanted criminal. If they tried to hail Gantu, he'd likely just open fire on them. And considering how little he cared about Lilo when he first caught her, he might just be petty enough to drop her from high altitude to "return" her.

*** I think both 'fetish' and 'obsession' are mighty strong words. She's got a hobby. Some people build ships in bottles, some post on Wiki/TVTropes, and she takes snapshots of haole.

* Why does Nani bring Lilo and Stitch to her job interviews if all what they did was to cause problems? It was Stitch the one who got her fired from her previous job! Okay, maybe she didn't think that they would cause trouble, but after her first failed interview, why didn't she just tell them to go away for a while as she struggled to find employment? She could have gotten that job as lifeguard!

* Why do the fire fighters hold Nani as she yells at Cobra Bubbles for trying to take Lilo away? It's not their job and they should keep their focus on putting out the fire.
** If I remember correctly, there were several fire fighters who came to the house, so I feel like it's safe to say they had enough men to tend to the fire. As for them pulling Nani away, I think it may have been them trying to prevent an escalation, and maybe eventually a fight between her and Cobra.

* Why didn't Jumba and Pleakley just try to flag down Gantu to have them return Lilo to Nani, even offering to exhcange Stitch for her? It seems more reasonable to do this than instigate a dogfight with Gantu, which could have gotten Lilo killed.
* Having seen just the movie: AliensSpeakingEnglish. At least Stich gets the excuse that he's learning English from Lilo... (And the beginning could have been set up as TranslationConvention, but that might have slightly gone over the target audience's head.) But the rest of it?

* Why didn't Jumba and Pleakley just try to flag down Gantu to have them return Lilo to Nani, even offering to exhcange Stitch for her? It seems more reasonable to do this than instigate a dogfight with Gantu, which could have gotten Lilo killed.

** To be fair, David didn't really know Stitch at the time (that he was a lost creature trying to find his purpose) and how important he was to Lilo, not to mention the only encounters he had with the alien were when the latter caused trouble and chaos. He knew the sisters for much longer, and thus understood more of their own shortcomings, and while he was definitely aware of their predicament, he probably didn't know just how serious their situation was before Stitch, so from his point of view, it seemed like the sisters would've been better off without him.

** And even if that wasn't the case, you have to take AdultFear into account. Most parents/guardians who are just easing into the concept of leaving their children home alone will flip out over the smallest thing indicating something may have gone wrong. That, and/or Nani's just knew that Murphy's Law - anything that can go wrong WILL go wrong - is in effect.

** Perhaps they did end up having to have a talk with Myrtle and her parents about the incident some time after the film, or offscreen, but it’s obviously not an integral part of the story, so why waste screen time with it. And it's not like they committed a serious offense; kids steal things from other kids all the time, and no one got (physically) hurt in the process.

* The reason Stitch is afraid of water is because he can't swim... yet in one episode of the series it was shown that he can survive in the vacuum of space... which means he doesn't need to breathe...so why is he afraid of water?

** Nani is trying to be a responsible parent; leaving a child alone with a wild animal who causes destruction isn't being responsible, and can be seen as neglectful. She does leave them alone once, but, at the time, she didn't know how destructive Stitch was, and she had to go to work, which she needs to retain custody of Lilo. Taking them with her may not have been the best decision, but she could at least keep an eye on them.

* So after the disaster while surfing, when Cobra tells Nani he'll have to take Lilo away, David tells Stitch "I really thought they had a chance, then you came along". While I understand that Stitch was responsible for several mishaps for Nani and Lilo, including Nani losing her job, I don't understand how things would have been better for them even if Stitch hadn't entered the picture. The first time Cobra visited was just one bad impression after another from Nani and Lilo, and Cobra even made a point on how his first meeting didn't bode well at all for them, so what made David think Stitch was solely responsible for their state of affairs?