| 1 | [[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lilo_and_stitch_logo_with_title_characters.png]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:300:Aloha, cousin!]] |
| 3 | ->''There's no place I'd rather be\ |
| 4 | Than on a surfboard out at sea\ |
| 5 | Lingering in the ocean blue\ |
| 6 | And if I had one wish come true\ |
| 7 | I'd surf till the sun sets\ |
| 8 | Beyond the horizon\ |
| 9 | ʻĀwikiwiki, mai lohilohi [[labelnote:(Translation)]]Hurry up, don't delay[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 10 | Lawe mai i ko papa heʻe nalu [[labelnote:(Translation)]]Bring along your surfboard[[/labelnote]]\ |
| 11 | Flyin' by on the Hawaiian roller coaster ride'' |
| 12 | -->-- [[https://youtu.be/eea7rGvoypQ "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride"]] by '''Mark Kealiʻi Hoʻomalu and the Kamehameha Schools Children's Chorus''', one of the franchise's two theme songs[[note]]The other theme is "Aloha, e Komo Mai" from ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries''[[/note]] |
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| 14 | ''Lilo & Stitch'' (also named ''Disney Stitch'' or just ''Stitch'', especially [[TheNewTwenties since 2021]]) 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. |
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| 16 | 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, 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. |
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| 18 | The original film was a surprise and much-needed critical and commercial success for Disney; in the era when the first film was released, their feature animation studio wasn't doing so well after the [[UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation Disney Renaissance]] ended in 1999. Upon the film becoming a hit--and ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', the studio's intended-to-be bigger film in 2002, [[BoxOfficeBomb bombing at the box office]]--Disney quickly went to work on making a whole bunch of sequel material and marketed the living hell out of Stitch, which resulted in him becoming Disney's first iconic animated character of the 21st century. |
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| 20 | 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 all 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}}). |
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| 22 | In addition, during the creation of ''The Series'', another direct-to-video film was made and released in 2005 called ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch''. Taking place shortly after the original film--effectively acting as a direct sequel--and before ''Stitch! The Movie'',[[note]][[WordOfGod per Disney's word]] on the original home release box art and some digital listings (along with the inclusion of bonus features that are actually tied closer to the show than this film), since Creator/DisneytoonStudios actually disregarded ''The Series''[='=] established mythology when producing their film, leading to a number of [[SeriesContinuityError continuity errors]][[/note]] ''Stitch Has a Glitch'' shows that Stitch was never fully charged during his creation and suffers fits that revert him to his original programming. Unless he is recharged, he will shut down permanently. Also included on the DVD was a short film, ''WesternAnimation/TheOriginOfStitch'', which also takes place before ''Stitch! The Movie'', acting as a bridge between the two films. |
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| 24 | After ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'' and the original parts of the franchise ended in 2006, ''Lilo & Stitch'' became a flash in the pan to North Americans (especially as computed-animated films became the norm), so Disney would go on to create various [[SpinOff spin-offs]] for East Asian markets, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff where the franchise achieved its greatest popularity]]. These spin-offs had Stitch ending up in the countries where those shows were produced, having him paired with other humans who replace Lilo as his new best friend. They also [[GenreShift completely shifted the franchise's tone]] from comic science fiction with a realistic, dramatic bent, to a LighterAndSofter (and [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]] DenserAndWackier) ScienceFantasy.[[note]]Although the shift was started by ''The Series'', and a couple tie-in games to the first film had science fantasy elements, but these works completed the tonal shift.[[/note]] |
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| 26 | The first of these two shows, a Japanese {{anime}} series called ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'', aired from 2008 to 2011 for 83 episodes over three seasons (plus five additional specials; one post-season special for each of the three seasons, and another two post-series TV specials broadcasted in 2012 and 2015). Taking place on a fictional Okinawan island in the first two seasons, which were produced by Creator/{{Madhouse}}, it featured an Okinawan girl named Yuna Kamihara instead of Lilo. Yuna and Stitch (and some of Stitch's cousins) interact and befriend magical creatures on the island, most notably {{youkai}}, and he tries to do good deeds to get a wish for "ultimate power" granted by a magical stone, again while fending off Gantu and Hämsterviel. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Yes, really.]] The Creator/ShinEiAnimation-produced third season, however, drops the magical elements by having the two move to a big city, where they mainly did SliceOfLife antics while Hämsterviel works with a big-eared humanoid alien woman named Delia in trying to get a power cell embedded in Stitch so she can make a powerful experiment of her own. This series also established itself as a TimeSkip sequel to the original franchise in a heavily-revised international version (which included the show's 2009-debuted English dub) and later in a third-season episode of the Japanese original, when Lilo herself finally appears again. |
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| 28 | The second spin-off show, an English-language-produced Chinese animated series co-produced with American animators--including those who worked on the first series--called ''Animation/StitchAndAi'', aired in China for one thirteen-episode season in 2017.[[note]]With a Mandarin Chinese dub; the original English production did not see release until the following year.[[/note]] In it, Stitch gets separated from Lilo when he gets kidnapped by an alien faction called the Jaboodies, who are in a space war with their rivals the Woolagongs and want to use Stitch and a previously-unrevealed ability of his to win this war. But when the Woolagongs attack their ship wanting Stitch for themselves, he escapes to another region of Earth; the Huangshan mountain range of China's Anhui Province. Upon ending up there, he meets and quickly gets taken in by an orphaned Chinese girl living there named Wang Ai Ling. Stitch helps her and her older sister Jiejie in preventing Ai from being forcibly moved by their aunt Daiyu from the sisters' rural mountain home to a big city, while she helps him look for a shrine he's been seeing in visions and ward off the warring factions still determined to get him. Although there were plans by the production staff to continue the story through a second season, Disney never greenlit one, making this the shortest-lived entry to date. |
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| 30 | Throughout 2020, another spin-off came in the form of a manga set in an AlternateTimeline called ''Tono & Stitch'', retitled for the English market in 2021 as ''Manga/StitchAndTheSamurai''. This tale 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. In 2022, a children's book series called ''Agent Stitch'', in which Stitch becomes a globe-trotting, alien mystery-solving investigator for the United Galactic Federation, began with the publishing of its first story. Unlike the past three spin-offs, however, Stitch is finally with the Pelekais again in a Western-made work for the first time since 2006. In 2023, a new comic series was announced to be published by Creator/DynamiteComics. The new comics will be a direct sequel to the original film, though its writer Greg Pak has stated that while it follows only the first film, he would try not to contradict the events of the already-established first TV series. |
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| 32 | It should be noted that the two Asian-animated TV 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. |
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| 34 | Disney is also working on [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes a live-action/photorealistic CGI adaptation of the original film]]. The film, which began production in 2023, is being directed by Dean Fleischer Camp, the co-creator of the ''WebVideo/MarcelTheShellWithShoesOn'' web shorts and its [[Film/MarcelTheShellWithShoesOn2021 2021 feature film adaptation]], and produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich of ''Film/{{Aladdin|2019}}'' (2019). |
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| 36 | No matter where Stitch has gone, this oddball of a franchise remains beloved by Disney fans everywhere who relate to its themes of 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. |
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| 38 | !!List of works |
| 39 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 40 | |
| 41 | [[folder:Films and Television]] |
| 42 | The films and TV series are the franchise's main works, hence why this folder is listed first. |
| 43 | !!!Original era |
| 44 | The original era, lasting from 2002 to 2006, form the definitive canon of the franchise.[[labelnote:*]]FanonDiscontinuity towards any of the sequels notwithstanding.[[/labelnote]] This is where the franchise was actually focused on Lilo Pelekai and Stitch living their lives on Kauaʻi. It's also known as either the Lilo continuity (for the aforementioned reason) or the Western continuity (since they were made primarily in the Western world). |
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| 46 | All four feature-length films, ''The Origin of Stitch'', and all sixty-five episodes of ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'' are available to watch on Creator/DisneyPlus.[[index]] |
| 47 | * ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' (2002): The film that started it all. The titular duo meet when he escapes custody and crash lands on Earth, where he lets himself get adopted by her to avoid capture. Over the course of a couple days, they develop a close bond which causes him to reconsider and then defy his original purpose. |
| 48 | * ''WesternAnimation/StitchTheMovie'' (2003): The DirectToVideo PilotMovie of the TV series mentioned directly below. Jumba's former partner-in-crime Dr. Hämsterviel has him kidnapped in order to get the other 625 experiments that Jumba created. Lilo and Stitch activate one of them in order to both save "Uncle" Jumba and free Stitch's "cousins". |
| 49 | * ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' (2003–2006): A SixtyFiveEpisodeCartoon that continues from ''Stitch! The Movie'' where the titular duo set out to hunt down and rehabilitate the remaining experiments. This show is also the first and only Disney animated sequel TV series to be given a ShoutOut in a later DAC film. (See OddballInTheSeries below.) |
| 50 | * ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch'' (2005): A DirectToVideo {{interquel}} set between the first and second (released) films that serves as the former's direct sequel. When Lilo prepares for an upcoming hula competition, Stitch starts reverting to his destructive programming, causing serious strains in their friendship. |
| 51 | ** ''WesternAnimation/TheOriginOfStitch'' (2005): A ShortFilm included with ''Lilo & Stitch 2'', also set before ''Stitch! The Movie''. Stitch discovers what kinds of beasts Jumba used to create him, gets hints about the other 625 experiments, and is also reminded of his original purpose, much to his horror. However, Jumba comes by to remind Stitch about what he has truly become. |
| 52 | * ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'' (2006): The GrandFinale of the first TV series and the original Western parts of the franchise. After completing their mission to rehabilitate the experiments, Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley go their separate ways. However, Hämsterviel gets broken out of prison and forces Jumba to create and clone a new experiment for him in order to take over the galaxy and kill off Stitch's "cousins".[[/index]] |
| 53 | !!!Post-Lilo era |
| 54 | 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-offs 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.[[index]] |
| 55 | * "Anime/StitchMeetsHighSchoolMusical" (2007): ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; Stitch (and friends) play a friendly basketball game in a short anime [[AffectionateParody parody]] of ''Film/HighSchoolMusical''. It's complete {{filler}} to the franchise and has no bearing on the canon whatsoever. |
| 56 | * ''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]]. |
| 57 | * ''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 China's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huangshan Huangshan]] 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.[[/index]] |
| 58 | !!!LiveActionAdaptation |
| 59 | * ''Lilo & Stitch'' (TBA): [[Film/DisneyLiveActionRemakes A live-action/CGI remake]] of the film is in development. It is being 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}}''). |
| 60 | [[/folder]] |
| 61 | |
| 62 | [[folder:Comics]] |
| 63 | [[index]] |
| 64 | * ''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). |
| 65 | * ''Manga/StitchAndTheSamurai'' (2020): A manga by Hiroto Wada where Stitch crash lands in [[JidaiGeki feudal Japan]] and befriends a Japanese warlord named Meison Yamato. |
| 66 | * ''Lilo & Stitch'' (2024): A Creator/DynamiteComics series written by Creator/GregPak and art by Giulia Giacomino that will be a separate direct sequel to the first film. |
| 67 | [[/index]] |
| 68 | [[/folder]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 71 | * ''Literature/AgentStitch'' (2022–): A 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. |
| 72 | [[/folder]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[folder:Theme Park Attractions]] |
| 75 | [[index]] |
| 76 | * ''Ride/StitchsGreatEscape'' (2004–2018): A "theater-in-the-round" attraction 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]] |
| 77 | * ''Stitch Encounter''[[note]]''[[MarketBasedTitle Stitch Live!]]'' in Disneyland Paris[[/note]] (2006–present): A fifteen-minute digital puppetry show[[note]]similar to [[Franchise/FindingNemo Turtle Talk with Crush]] and Franchise/MonstersInc Laugh Floor[[/note]] in [[NoExportForYou non-American]] Disney resorts where Stitch playfully interacts with park guests.[[index]] |
| 78 | * ''Ride/TheEnchantedTikiRoom: Stitch Presents Aloha e Komo Mai!'' (2008–present): An incarnation of the classic attraction found [[NoExportForYou exclusively in Tokyo Disneyland]] where Stitch messes with the birds and plants of the show. It features the songs "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" from the original film and the titular "Aloha, E Komo Mai" from ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series''. |
| 79 | [[/index]] |
| 80 | [[/folder]] |
| 81 | |
| 82 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 83 | !!!Non-crossover |
| 84 | [[index]] |
| 85 | * ''Disney's [[VideoGame/LiloAndStitchGameBoyAdvance Lilo & Stitch]]'' (GBA; 2002): A side-scrolling ShootEmUp PlatformGame. Lilo gets kidnapped by an intergalactic bounty hunter working for a mad scientist who wants to use her as food for his genetically-modified mosquito army, and Stitch must go out to save her. [[SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames A hidden gem]] among Platform/GameBoyAdvance games. |
| 86 | * ''Disney's VideoGame/LiloAndStitchTroubleInParadise'' (2002): A ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot''-style PlatformGame for Platform/PlayStation[[note]]the American release of this platform's version lacked the subtitle[[/note]] and Platform/MicrosoftWindows where players play as Stitch and a Lilo with [[HollywoodVoodoo voodoo powers]] to defeat enemies around Kauaʻi. |
| 87 | * ''Disney's VideoGame/StitchExperiment626'' (2002): A Platform/PlayStation2 3D PlatformGame. Set up as a prequel to the first film,[[note]]although ''Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch'' has {{retcon}}ned it out of the canon[[/note]] 626 must collect alien DNA for Jumba's illegal genetic experimentations. Notably, this is one of the first spin-off material to introduce an experiment other than Stitch (Experiment 621, [[WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch later named]] Chopsuey, who only appears in this game). |
| 88 | * ''VideoGame/SixTwoFiveSandwichStacker'' (c. 2003): A Flash game where players control Reuben to make as many sandwiches, especially [[DagwoodSandwich tall ones]], as possible. |
| 89 | * ''Disney's VideoGame/LiloAndStitch2HamstervielHavoc'' (2004): An action-platform game for Game Boy Advance that is based on ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', but is the standalone sequel to the previous ''Lilo & Stitch'' GBA game. Players can receive help from and even play as some of Stitch's "cousins" in this game. |
| 90 | * ''Disney VideoGame/StitchJam'' (2009 in Japan, 2010 in North America and Europe): A RhythmGame for Platform/NintendoDS that is based on the ''Stitch!'' anime. Gantu and Hämsterviel kidnap Stitch's LoveInterest Angel and he has to rescue her. Along with Stitch, players can play as Angel, Reuben, and Felix upon unlocking those experiments. The United States actually [[AdaptationFirst received this game over a year before the anime's brief run over there]].[[/index]] |
| 91 | * ''Motto! Stitch! DS: Rhythm de Rakugaki Daisakusen ♪''[[note]]''More! Stitch! DS: Great Mission to Doodle in Rhythm ♪'', also known as ''Disney Stitch Jam 2''[[/note]] (2010): The [[NoExportForYou Japanese-exclusive]] sequel to ''Stitch Jam'', containing more features, characters, and experiments. This entry also involves drawing pictures on the Nintendo DS's touchscreen for gameplay. |
| 92 | !!!Crossover |
| 93 | [[index]] |
| 94 | * ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' (2002–present): The Disney and Creator/SquareEnix video game series feature this franchise's characters and settings. |
| 95 | ** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' (2005): Stitch is one of Sora's summons in the game. |
| 96 | ** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' (2010): The game features a world called "Deep Space" where the events that happen in there serve as a spiritual prequel to the events of the original ''Lilo & Stitch'' film. |
| 97 | ** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' (2019): Stitch returns as one of Sora's summons again. |
| 98 | * ''VideoGame/DisneyFriends'' (2007): Stitch is one of the main interactive friends, with Lilo, Jumba, and Pleakley appearing as [=NPCs=]. |
| 99 | * ''VideoGame/DisneyUniverse'' (2011): A Stitch costume is available in the game. |
| 100 | * ''VideoGame/KinectDisneylandAdventures'' (2011): Players can meet Stitch in Ride/{{Disneyland}}'s Tomorrowland, and he will also give quests to players. |
| 101 | * ''VideoGame/DisneyInfinity'' (2013–2016): The first game (2013) had a couple ''Lilo & Stitch'' power discs. Stitch became a playable character starting with the second game (2014) and a Toy Box Expansion Game themed after the franchise was made for that game with Pleakley making an appearance. Some ''L&S''-themed toys were also added in that game. |
| 102 | * ''VideoGame/DisneyMagicalWorld'' (2013 in Japan, 2014 in North America and Europe) and ''Disney Magical World 2'' (2015 in Japan, 2016 in North America, Europe, and Australia): Lilo and Stitch appear in Castleton in the first game. They return in the second game with a world based on their universe added along with Jumba and Pleakley. |
| 103 | * ''VideoGame/DisneyTsumTsum'' (2014): Several ''Lilo & Stitch'' characters are rendered in Tsum Tsum form, including Scrump, Angel, Lilo, Jumba, Pleakley, Gantu, Leroy, Dr. Hämsterviel and several variants of Stitch. ''Lilo & Stitch''-related events have also been held in the game. |
| 104 | * ''VideoGame/DisneyMagicKingdoms'' (2016): ''Lilo & Stitch'' franchise characters,[[note]]the characters in question being Lilo, Stitch, Nani, Jumba, Pleakley, Cobra Bubbles, and Angel[[/note]] attractions,[[note]]including one based on Stitch's Great Escape![[/note]] and quests were added in an April 2018 update. All ''Lilo & Stitch'' characters and attractions in the game are limited-time content. |
| 105 | * ''Disney VideoGame/CrossyRoad'' (2016): A ''Lilo & Stitch'' world and characters were added in a 2017 update. This was also the last update for the Windows version of the game. |
| 106 | * ''VideoGame/DisneyEmojiBlitz'' (2016): Stitch has been a part of the game since its debut as one of the Gold Box emojis. He is one of the few emojis that makes a vocal sound when his ability is used.[[note]]It's actually Stitch's laugh that he makes when he completes his melee combo in ''Disney Infinity''.[[/note]] Lilo was added to the game in an April 2018 update. A few ''Lilo & Stitch''-themed items are also unlockable emojis. Jumba, Scrump, and Angel were all added together in 2021, with Mertle Edmonds appearing in Scrump's ability, and Reuben, Sparky, and Cannonball appearing in Angel's ability. Gantu has also appeared during a ''Lilo & Stitch''-themed event but he's currently not available. |
| 107 | * ''VideoGame/DisneyHeroesBattleMode'' (2018): Stitch was added to the game in a summer 2018 update, Jumba and Pleakley were added in a July 2020 update, Angel was added in an August 2020 update, and Lilo was added in an August 2021 update. |
| 108 | * ''VideoGame/DisneySorcerersArena'' (2020): Stitch, Captain Gantu, and Cobra Bubbles appear as playable characters, and Zap (Experiment 603) appears as a spell. |
| 109 | * ''VideoGame/DisneyMirrorverse'' (beta launch 2020; global launch 2022): Stitch was added to the game as a playable character at the end of 2021 during its beta period. As this game's version of him is explicitly an AlternateUniverse version empowered by Stellar Magic, he's relatively more feral compared to the canonical animated version and has the ability to shift his molecules between states of matter; able to become metallic, superheated, or molten. |
| 110 | * ''VideoGame/DisneyDreamlightValley'' (2023): Stitch was added to this life simulator game in its second content update on December 6, 2022, during early access; various ''Lilo & Stitch''-themed content are also in the game. |
| 111 | * ''VideoGame/DisneySpeedstorm'' (2023): Season 3 of this game, titled "''ʻOhana''" and released in August 2023, added a ''Lilo & Stitch''-themed track environment based on Kauaʻi and five characters from the franchise (Stitch, Lilo, Jumba, Captain Gantu, Angel) as racers, along with several others as crew members. |
| 112 | [[/index]] |
| 113 | [[/folder]] |
| 114 | ---- |
| 115 | !!Tropes found throughout the franchise include: |
| 116 | * AGirlAndHerX: No matter if the girl is Lilo, Yuna, or Ai, the franchise is ([[Manga/StitchAndTheSamurai almost]]) always about a human girl and her alien "dog" who looks more like a blue mutant koala and is ''much'' more sapient 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. |
| 117 | * AliensInCardiff: Aliens land on a small island in Hawaii/[[Anime/{{Stitch}} a small island in Okinawa]]/[[Animation/StitchAndAi in the middle of Chinese mountains]]/[[Manga/StitchAndTheSamurai on Japan during its Sengoku era]]. |
| 118 | * AliensSpeakingEnglish: Nearly all the aliens in the franchise can inexplicably speak and understand English. However, the experiments (including Stitch) either have to learn it or be programmed with "Advanced Language Programming" (like Reuben is) in order to do so, and Stitch's own grasp of English is very flawed (but he oddly completely understands English). In addition, two of the experiments can speak non-English Earth languages--Frenchfry (062) can speak French and Carmen (123) can speak Spanish--and Reuben has implied he knows languages other than English and [[{{Fictionary}} Tantalog]]. |
| 119 | * AmusingAlien: This franchise is ''loaded'' with them, especially the [[ComedicSociopath comedic sociopathic]] Stitch, the [[WholesomeCrossdresser crossdressing]] KnowNothingKnowItAll Pleakley, and [[DeadpanSnarker snarky]] "[[SatiatingSandwich Sandwich Boy]]" Reuben. |
| 120 | * AppropriatedTitle: A strange case of this; after the Asian spin-offs were made and released, several fans began calling the franchise simply the ''Stitch'' franchise since Lilo became less important and Stitch will always be the franchise's breadwinner. By [[TheNewTwenties 2021]], Disney themselves has more or less rebranded the franchise as ''Stitch'' after several previous aborted attempts to do so with the spin-offs, beginning with marketing from third-party licensees such as Toys/{{Funko|Pop}}, Hot Topic, and Scentsy, along with the English release of the Lilo-free ''Stitch & the Samurai''. In fact, most merchandise now use a modified version of the franchise's logo that only says ''[[InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt Disney]] Stitch'', removing Lilo and the ampersand from it. That being said, since "Stitch" is a bit too generic of a word and "Disney" isn't quite enough of a differentiator, most third parties licensees stores will still use the ''Lilo & Stitch'' brand for such merch's entries on the licensees' websites. |
| 121 | * ArcWords: Primarily in the Western parts of the franchise: "''ʻOhana'' means family. Family means nobody gets left behind -- or forgotten." |
| 122 | * ArtifactTitle: Half of it at least, since the franchise has moved away from Lilo in favor of focusing more on Stitch, who from 2008 to 2022 was constantly separated from her and Hawaii. |
| 123 | * BadassAdorable: Both Lilo and Stitch are possibly two of the cutest ever Disney characters and they are true heroes. Many of Stitch's "cousins" are also cute badasses in their own right. |
| 124 | * BlackAndWhiteMorality: The three TV shows go with a simple "good vs. evil" route, in contrast to the movies' WhiteAndGrayMorality. |
| 125 | * CentralTheme: Family and belonging. ''ʻOhana'', along with the "one true place" thing in the first series, is used throughout the franchise to say that ''everyone'' belongs somewhere and with people to care for. |
| 126 | * CoolStarship: Plenty throughout the franchise, including Jumba's ship, Gantu's ships, [[WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch the BRB-9000]], and "The Red One". |
| 127 | * ClarkKenting: Stitch pretends to be a dog on Earth, while Jumba and Pleakley pretend to be humans. In ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', Gantu pretends to be Samoan as a means to pass off his large size. |
| 128 | * {{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 got to the point that Disney released a limited edition merchandise collection during 2021 [[ScheduleSlip (and early 2022)]] based on his crossovers called "Stitch Crashes Disney". |
| 129 | * {{Deuteragonist}}: Stitch is TheProtagonist, but he is always paired up with a human who helps him out while dealing with their own problems. |
| 130 | * TheDogIsAnAlien: Stitch pretends to be a dog all throughout the franchise despite looking more like a mutant koala, as Nani notes in the original film. Several experiments are also mistaken to be other animals by other humans in ''The Series''. |
| 131 | * EarlyBirdCameo: |
| 132 | ** Reuben (625) shows up in a ''Disney Adventures'' comic about the origin of Stitch, even though his first chronological appearance in the film and TV continuity is ''Stitch! The Movie''. |
| 133 | ** Dr. Hämsterviel first appeared in silhouette in the first film before his official debut in the second. |
| 134 | * 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 seen at the end of ''The Series'' episode "[[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS2E16WishyWashy Wishy-Washy]]" is the trope illustrator. |
| 135 | * TheFederation: United Galactic Federation or [[TheAlliance Alliance]] depending on the movie/episode. Given that they would have destroyed Earth if not for mosquitoes supposedly being an endangered species, they have at least some traits of TheEmpire as well. |
| 136 | * {{Fictionary}}: While the whole franchise contains plenty of AliensSpeakingEnglish, it also has a fairly well-developed language of its own called Tantalog. Though only a few phrases were fully translated on ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series''[='=] website--which now no longer exists--there have been a few rather detailed online dictionaries made based on its usage in that show. |
| 137 | * 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''. |
| 138 | * GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Jumba gave Experiment 626 an instinctive genetic drive to destroy everything he came in contact with, and never gave him a "higher purpose", as he puts it, but over the course of the movie Stitch learns the concepts of family and empathy. He's a much more developed character by the end. He and Lilo also do their best to do this with the other experiments, and considering how many of them enjoy time with each other after their reformation, they've mostly succeeded. |
| 139 | * IconicSequelCharacter: Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, who is the franchise's primary villain but only gets an EarlyBirdCameo in the first film, and [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments the experiments besides Stitch]], especially his two immediate predecessors [[SatiatingSandwich Reu]][[TheImp ben]] [[DeadpanSnarker (625)]] and [[LoveInterest Angel]] [[DistaffCounterpart (624)]].[[note]]The experiments, including Reuben, did first appear in early spin-off material released around the time of the first film. The original film itself also briefly alluded to their existence in the prologue.[[/note]] |
| 140 | * InterspeciesFriendship: The whole franchise has a strong emphasis on humans befriending aliens. |
| 141 | * LivingWeapon: Stitch and many of the other experiments. |
| 142 | * LogoJoke: Each of the films do this. |
| 143 | ** The first film has the logo appear on a black background, with the shooting star beeping and pulsating as it shoots through the arc, before the logo gets taken away by a spaceship using a TractorBeam. |
| 144 | ** ''Stitch! The Movie'' uses the standard variant (save for the seventh flag and "PICTURES" fading in earlier), though it dissolves into space as the film begins with Hämsterviel's ship coming into frame a few seconds later. |
| 145 | ** ''Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch'' is arguably the most unique one. Each segment of the castle loads up like [[{{Foreshadowing}} the meter tracking Stitch's energy]], then the top flag shines to mark that the meter's "full". Then the Walt Disney logo shines in and "PICTURES" fades in as normal, and the shooting star goes through the arc using a similar beeping and pulsating effect as with the first film. Then after a couple seconds, the logo glitches a couple times with the background flashing green before the logo glitches out of frame. [[MusicalisInterruptus The background music also skips]] when the glitches happen. |
| 146 | ** ''Leroy & Stitch'' starts with the standard logo like with ''Stitch! The Movie'', but the blue background fades to the space while the logo stays in place, then the logo flies out into space as it uses hyperjump. |
| 147 | * 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 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.) |
| 148 | * NameAndName: The franchise itself, though 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]]). |
| 149 | * NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Exactly the message of the whole franchise. Granted, it's actually "no''body''" in the ''ʻohana'' motto, not "no ''one''", but still. |
| 150 | * NeverSayDie: The franchise follows this trope to a T and tends to avoid using the word, always using euphemisms when alluding to death. The one time Lilo actually says "die" in the original film, it's spoken in a deadpan manner during a relatively humorous (at first) scene where she's lying on the floor listening to Music/{{Elvis|Presley}}'s "Heartbreak Hotel" after having returned home without Nani, much to her literally shut out older sister's frustration. |
| 151 | * OddballInTheSeries: This is truly a unique [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon DAC-based]] franchise. |
| 152 | ** The original film's art style is based on just [[Creator/ChrisSanders one man's]] own, instead of the Disney house style. |
| 153 | ** The franchise has a unique modern-day setting that mixes realism with soft science fiction, something that Disney doesn't do that often. |
| 154 | ** The first film's narrative heeds closer to Creator/{{Pixar}}'s films in terms of its themes and lack of musical numbers, and this is before Creator/JohnLasseter took over Walt Disney Feature Animation/Walt Disney Animation Studios. Amusingly, the movie is also ''un''-Pixar like as the story was made around the characters (in other words, "character-driven"), not the other way around like Pixar does when they write stories ("plot/story-driven"). |
| 155 | ** Speaking of music, the films make heavy use of licensed music from [[Music/ElvisPresley one iconic artist]] and tie said artist into both the characters and the plot. |
| 156 | ** The lead characters were and are still ''very'' unconventional for Disney, being considered weird even InUniverse. |
| 157 | ** The marketing for the original film used crossovers heavily in its marketing to emphasize its oddness. |
| 158 | ** Better yet, all of the above was CrazyEnoughToWork; the original film was released during a time when CGI films were on the rise and Disney Feature Animation wasn't doing so great, yet it became the only combined critical ''and'' commercial success of the post-Renaissance Experimental Era, thus spawning this franchise. |
| 159 | ** Even the sequels are this. Not only did this franchise's sequel material introduce [[IconicSequelCharacter its own set of iconic characters]], something that only a [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh few other]] [[Franchise/TheLionKing DAC-based franchises]] can claim, but the franchise also has a whopping ''three'' SequelSeries, all of which have their own animation styles and were produced and aired within only one-and-a-half decades[[note]]fifteen years[[/note]] from the franchise's debut. |
| 160 | *** 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. Additionally, Disney seems to have no problem promoting [[BreakoutCharacter Angel]] alongside the original film's characters, and she didn't even exist back in 2002! |
| 161 | * PaperThinDisguise: |
| 162 | ** Jumba and Pleakley only put on some light clothes and fake hair when they're out in public, yet they completely fool the unaware humans. Gets worse with Stitch who is ''blue'' and all he has to do is [[RetractableAppendages retract some body parts]]. |
| 163 | ** In the first series, Gantu just claims to be Samoan to pass off his impossibly-large-for-a-human-being size. |
| 164 | * PardonMyKlingon: Gantu's CharacterCatchphrase "Oh, blitznak!", which easily passes off as "OhCrap", and Stitch and the experiments' "Meega, nala kweesta!", a Tantalog phrase so vulgar that it makes a robot vomit. |
| 165 | * PlasmaCannon: Plasma blasters are the most common weapon seen throughout the franchise. From a human perspective, the handheld ones oddly look like toys. |
| 166 | * PracticallyDifferentGenerations: Each of Stitch's first three companions are young girls who have a significantly older sister (or cousin) as their caretaker or legal guardian. Lilo has her older sister Nani, Yuna has her older cousin Tigerlily (from partway through the second season of the anime onward), and Ai has her older sister Jiejie. This trope is to help emphasize the franchise's focus on non-traditional families. |
| 167 | * PuniPlush: Straight lines and sharp angles don't appear often in the franchise, although the anime subverts this by featuring a main character with spiky pigtails. |
| 168 | * RecurringRiff: "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_%27Oe 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''. |
| 169 | ** Aloha ʻOe can be translated as [[BilingualBonus Farewell to Thee]] and is often used to invoke the bittersweetness of goodbyes. |
| 170 | *** The scene in the first film [[spoiler:where Nani tells Lilo that [[ButNowIMustGo she will taken away]]]]. |
| 171 | *** ''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 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]]. |
| 172 | ** In ''The Series'' episode [[Recap/LiloAndStitchTheSeriesS1E5Spooky "Spooky"]], Lilo tells Stitch that the song is her coping mechanism, which he later uses to get over his fear of water. |
| 173 | * {{Retraux}}: The alien spacecraft and weaponry invoke the RaygunGothic style (the plasma blasters even have fins), but they're simplified and given modern design touches to avoid looking dated and give the sci-fi aspects of the franchise's universe a distinctive identity. |
| 174 | * RousseauWasRight: This franchise likes to emphasize the point of seeing the good in others, what with Lilo's reformation of Stitch in the original film and his "cousins" reforming throughout the first TV series. Even the strict leader of an intergalactic equivalent of the United Nations believes in second chances for criminals, including illegally made lifeforms. |
| 175 | * 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 one of the early spin-off video games gave Lilo [[HollywoodVoodoo voodoo]] powers. |
| 176 | * SliceOfLife: When the franchise is not dealing with an evil alien conflict, it's essentially showing Stitch's life with whatever family he's with. |
| 177 | * SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: With no real villain in the first movie and its strong theme of love and family (''ʻohana''), it's very much on the idealistic end of the scale. |
| 178 | * SurrealHumor: Downplayed in that there are some realistic elements to keep everything grounded, but with the aliens' interactions with Earth culture and sometimes even fantastical beings (e.g. [[WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong Jake Long]] in "Morpholomew", the yokai in ''Stitch!''), the abilities of some of the experiments, and Lilo's... ''[[CloudCuckoolander unique]]'' take on life, the franchise indulges with a bit of surrealism to keep things interesting. |
| 179 | * TrueCompanions: This franchise is famous for its focus on extended families, with ''ʻohana'' being a key theme as humans bond with aliens. |
| 180 | * TurnOfTheMillennium: The original parts of this franchise took place in the early-to-mid 2000s, which was also the time frame when it was most actively promoted in the United States. |
| 181 | * WhiteAndGreyMorality: There are several characters who could be seen as the antagonists, but turn out to really either just doing what they are doing for their freedom or are just people who are just doing their job. |
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