Lilo Pelekai and Stitch (Experiment 626) | Major Characters | Minor Characters | Stitch! anime | Stitch & Ai
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These are characters from Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise who made their debut in the Chinese animated series, Stitch & Ai. All of these characters are exclusive to this particular show.
Humans
A young Chinese girl who lives in the Huangshan mountains with her older sister. She is Stitch's newest best friend.
Ai's cherished life was seemingly ruined after her parents died, to the point where she didn't speak for two months and didn't smile or laugh (at least, in front of anyone) for a year. It got to the point where her aunt Daiyu was about to take her away from her beloved mountains and into the city to redevelop her into a proper lady. After meeting Stitch, her life turns around, doing things and going on adventures with him in the mountains. During the series, they work together to ward off Daiyu's attempts to move her to the city, prevent either the Jaboodies or the Woolagongs from taking Stitch for themselves, and try to find the shrine that Stitch is looking for.
- Deuteragonist: She's one of the title characters in this series after all.
- Dub Name Change: Inverted; her name is Ai Ling in English (which is the original produced version) but her name in Mandarin (which was the first aired version) is An Ling.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: She's the Foolish Sibling to Jiejie's Responsible Sibling. Ai is a rather impulsive free spirit (much like Lilo) and tends to go off on her own, going as far as skipping school with a girl she just met to see a valley where dreams come to life.
- Meaningful Name: "Ai" means "love" in Chinese, and she is a loving person.
- Nice Girl: She is a caring person who bonds with Stitch rather quickly.
- Parental Abandonment: Both of her and Jiejie's parents have been dead for at least a year by the events of the series.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Ai is much more similar to Lilo than the previous series's deuteragonist, as she is a quirky, impulsive, yet kind-hearted orphan who never forgets those she loves.
Ai's older sister and guardian. She works at a tea shop.
Jiejie has been trying her best to keep things together ever since the deaths of her and Ai's parents, but the tragedy has made things difficult for her and her little sister, which leads to their aunt Daiyu trying to take over responsibilities in raising Ai from her. Despite not wanting Ai out of her life, especially when Daiyu makes it clear that Jiejie won't even be allowed to see Ai ever again, Jiejie's lack of a spine has her mostly going along with her aunt's plans for Ai at first. But when she finds out about Stitch not too long after Ai befriends him and notices how much of a positive impact he's had on her sister, she begins to be more assertive to keep both Ai and Stitch in her life.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: She's the Responsible Sibling to Ai's Foolish Sibling. Jiejie works hard to maintain her and Ai's livelihoods and is concerned for the well-being of her sister, although she's a bit of a pushover.
- Grew a Spine: When we first meet her, she argues with Ai in seeming support of Daiyu's plans for the young girl, although Jiejie actually doesn't want to be without Ai in her life. The second episode has her trying to show her aunt that Ai's life is already good in the mountains, but a combination of this and the aftermath of Stitch's fight with Ai's possessed teacher doesn't convince Daiyu. After meeting Stitch and seeing Ai's friendship with him, however, she begins to be more assertive and stand up for her sister, stopping Jumba and Pleakley from taking Stitch away and putting more effort into preventing Daiyu from taking Ai away.
- Meaningful Name: "Jiejie" is Chinese for "sister", which fits her role as Ai's older sister.
- My Nayme Is: From an English speaker's perspective, her name is pronounced nearly the same as "JJ" ("Jay-Jay").
- Parental Abandonment: Both of her and Ai's parents have been dead for at least a year by the events of the series.
- Promoted to Parent: After her and Ai's parents' deaths, she became Ai's guardian. However, Daiyu was not convinced that she was capable of handling the role and originally intended to take Ai to live with her.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She serves as this series's version of Nani Pelekai.
Ai and Jiejie's aunt. She wants Ai to move out of the mountains and into the city to develop her young niece into a "proper lady", and she'll try anything to get Ai to do so.
- Neat Freak: She hates the dirt-filled mountains and believes them to be infested with germs. It's part of the reason why she wants to move Ai to the "cleaner" city away from the "dirty" mountains. (Like the polluted city air is any better, Daiyu?)
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Subverted. She believes herself to be this for Ai, as she believes that moving her niece to the city would be best for her personal development, much like how Cobra in the original film was doing what he believed was in Lilo's best interest. However, unlike Cobra, Daiyu does not care how much Ai loves living in the mountains, is not all that willing to give Jiejie a chance to show that she can take care of her sister, and is determined to get Ai to move out of the mountains into the city. And despite what she believes, a city is not cleaner than the mountains, since there are things like air pollution.
- Terrified of Germs: She really doesn't like germs, wearing gloves all time (in double layers, no less), spraying sanitizer in several places, telling Stitch-disguised-as-Ai to cough away from her, and freaking out after fainting when she breathes in the mountain air.
Ai's friend and classmate. She's a pampered girl who actually enjoys being around Ai (to an extent), but her family and friends don't really like Ai and prefer that Meiying stay away from her as much as possible, leading to her acting like a rival around her.
- Foil: Unlike Mertle, who is a jerkass that dominates over her three friends, has a sweet mother, and genuinely hated Lilo, Meiying actually likes being friends with Ai but is pressured by three of her peers as well as her own snobbish mother (and grandmother and aunt) to distance herself from Ai.
- No Full Name Given: Her family name is never revealed.
- Unnamed Parent: Her mother, grandmother, and aunt; we see them but we never learn their names (or much about them, to be honest).
- Spoiled Brat: She gets pampered heavily by her mother, grandmother, and aunt, though her mother also has her do a lot of studying.
- Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She serves as this show's version of Mertle Edmonds, although she is not as mean as Mertle is and is somewhat friendlier towards Ai than Mertle was with Lilo.
Jiejie's boyfriend, as well as Ai's drum instructor.
- Composite Character: He's basically a Chinese combination of David Kawena (a young, attractive guy who is the boyfriend of the deuteragonist/human protagonist's older sister) and Moses Puloki (the deuteragonist/human protagonist's teacher of a traditional practice in their local region, with Chinese drums taking the place of hula).
He's a wise yet mysterious sage who sometimes appears to Stitch and Ai in their adventures. He also gives them and Jumba ancient scrolls detail various mythological Chinese creatures, which the latter uses to make such.
- No Name Given: He's just known as a sage who tends to speak in a cryptic manner, and whatever his name is, it's likely that he might not tell anyone.
Jiejie's employer who runs a tea shop.
- No Full Name Given: Only his surname is known.
Ai's cousin from the city. Daiyu brings him in hopes that he would convince Ai how much better the city is. He is introduced in "The Phoenix" and also appears in "Nuo Opera".
- No Full Name Given: While he is Ai's cousin, we don't know for sure if he has the same surname as her.
Aliens
A warring faction of reptilian-like aliens who want to use Stitch for their evil deeds. They are at war with the Woolagongs and were the ones who hacked the data that revealed Stitch's metamorphosis program and initially captured him.
- Aliens Speaking English: Being an alien race in the Lilo & Stitch universe, this trope applies to them.
- Big Bad Ensemble: They share this role with the Woolagongs, although they seem to be the greater threat considering that they hacked into the files that revealed Stitch's metamorphosis program, captured Stitch first, and trigger Stitch's metamorphosis program, nearly getting him to fight for them when they invade Earth in the final episode.
- Evil vs. Evil: They are in a deadlocked space war with the Woolagongs for intergalactic domination.
A warring faction of platypus-like aliens who also want to use Stitch for their nefarious purposes. They are at war with the Jaboodies and were the ones who stole the stolen data from the Jaboodies and accidentally broke the captive Stitch out trying to get him for themselves.
- Aliens Speaking English: Also being an alien race in the Lilo & Stitch universe, this trope also applies to them.
- Big Bad Ensemble: They share this role with the Jaboodies, although they seem to be the lesser threat as Stitch is slightly more concerned with the Jaboodies. It doesn't help that they stole the stolen data from the Jaboodies rather than directly from the United Galactic Federation's or Jumba's servers, ended up being the ones to free Stitch from his capture by attacking the Jaboodies, and that they don't even show up for most of the last six episodes, not even during the final battle in the last episode.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: The Woolagongs lose a lot of focus by the second half of the show. After "Dragon Parade", they don't appear again until "Dream On", where they just send an incompetent agent to try to capture Stitch and then vanish for the rest of the series. It makes one wonder why they were even a threat in the first place.
- Evil vs. Evil: They are in a deadlocked space war with the Jaboodies for intergalactic domination.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: When they attempted to steal the captive Stitch from the Jaboodies, they ended up freeing him. This enabled him to fight back against both factions and escape back to Earth, kickstarting the show.
- Delightful Dragon: An Eastern dragon-like experiment who is small, cute, friendly, and is no threat to anyone.
- Flawed Prototype: He was designed to be a beta test of the use of qi for flight so that Jumba could use it in future experiments. Downplayed in that he is a success, since he does the one thing he was designed to do, but he is a bit clumsy in his flying.
- No Name Given: Inverted; out of all of Jumba's Chinese experiments, he is the only one to be given a proper name. Makes sense considering he's also the only one who is not meant to be a recreation of a specific mythical Chinese creature, only being based on Chinese dragons in general.
- Satellite Character: Much like with BooGoo from Stitch!, he's really just there to serve as a cute pet for the main cast. He does play a minor role in "Dragon Parade", though, but that's about it.
Two alien bounty hunters who appear to try to capture the Fenghuang to sell to creature collectors in episode 9 ("The Phoenix"). Noo-Bing is a small, grey, four-armed, legless alien and the brains of the duo, while Zi is a large, tan, muscular, orcish alien who is the brawn. Noo-Bing resides in a special shoulder strap compartment on Zi's chest plate.
- Big Guy, Little Guy: Zi is the big guy who carries the little guy Nubing in a compartment on his chest plate.
- Brains and Brawn: Noo-Bing is the brains guiding the brawn Zi to capture rare creatures to sell.
- One-Shot Character: They only appear in "The Phoenix" and are inconsequential to the overall plot of the series.
- The Unintelligible: Zi can only communicate with growling noises.
An alien spy for the Woolagongs who appears in episode 10 ("Dream On"). He has designed a "dream beam" that was meant to incapacitate Stitch by having his bad dreams come to life, making him easier to capture, but he ends up zapping Ai instead.
- Heel–Face Turn: After he was captured by Stitch and helped him, Jumba, Pleakley, and Jumba's mo find Ai, Skippity joins the mo to enter Jumba's parallel dimension where his recreated mythological creatures live. (As it turns out, Skippity loves animals.)
- Minion with an F in Evil: He's clumsy and not very sly. In fact, he misses his shot on Stitch, later gets caught by Stitch, and is easily convinced to be on Stitch's side afterward.
- Rhymes on a Dime: He rhymes when he brags about himself.
- One-Shot Character: He only appears in "Dream On", which ends with him entering and staying in Jumba's parallel world of mythological creatures, never to be seen again.
An evil alien scientist working for the Jaboodies. He appears in the final two episodes of the show.
- Always Second Best: Jumba claims that Kolliba was an underachiever at the science academy they went to and he used Jumba's tests to cheat, even failing his final exams.
- Evil Genius: While second-rate compared to Jumba, he's still smart enough to make a program that helped to trick Stitch into triggering his metamorphosis program.
- Mad Scientist: He's the Jaboodies' scientist and does evil on their behalf.
- Remember the New Guy?: Turns out in "Monstrosity" that he and Jumba were classmates at a science academy (presumably Evil Genius University).
- Aliens Speaking English: Averted, despite coming from the English-speaking Jaboodies. He only ever grunts, growls, hisses, roars, and laughs.
- Black Eyes of Evil: He has black eyes like actual genetic experiments do and is working on behalf of the Jaboodies to manipulate Stitch.
- The Corrupter: He is deliberately manipulating Stitch in order to trick him into triggering his metamorphosis program that unleashes his giant destructive form. He does so by showing Stitch how much "fun" destroying things like buildings is. His manipulation of Stitch succeeds until Ai breaks through to the real, kind-hearted Stitch.
- Ear Notch: He has six, three each on the outer rims of his ears, reflecting how more radical he is compared to Stitch.
- Evil Counterpart: To Stitch in the same vein as Experiment 627 in Lilo & Stitch: The Series and the Stitch! anime, and Leroy in Leroy & Stitch.
- Evil Doppelgänger: Sort of as he looks like a radicalized version of Stitch. This isn't his true form, however.
- Meaningful Name: His name is the opposite of Stitch's name. Whereas a "stitch" brings things together, a "scratch" tears things apart.
- Ret-Gone: After the Jaboodies are defeated, Pleakley throws the Tetra-Tab on the ground and Jumba's nian crushes it. Its destruction seemingly causes Scratch to glitch out of existence.
- Shapeshifting: He is not a genetic experiment; he is a morph creature who is among the Jaboodies and can change his appearance at will.
