Franchise / Disney Channel Animated Universe

The Disney Channel Animated Universe is the Shared Universe that most of the earliest animated Disney Channel Original series resided in, as well as certain shows from One Saturday Morning and ABC Kids. Six series were established through various Crossovers (mostly episodes of Lilo & Stitch: The Series where characters from another show visit Kauai) to exist in the same universe. Although each of the shows take place in generally the same time period, they each have very different premises. With the end of the Western parts of the Lilo & Stitch franchise (it continued with the East Asian spin-offs Stitch! and Stitch & Ai, both of which removed Lilo Pelekai as a main character), the universe seems to have been put to rest, as its first series was the main place characters from the other shows crossed over to. However, since the 2022 release of a Disney+ continuation of The Proud Family—one of the shows that crossed over with Lilo & Stitch: The Series—called The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, there is hope that the DCAU universe would be revived.

See also the Disney Channel Live-Action Universe for the live-action shows' equivalent.

Not to be confused with the DC Animated Universe.

Series confirmed to be in the Disney Channel Animated Universe include:

• Fillmore!^note Ashley Spinelli and Kim Possible cameoed in "Codename: Electric Haircut".
• Lilo & Stitch franchise
  • Stitch! The Movie
  • Lilo & Stitch: The Series^note Had crossover episodes with each of the four below non-Lilo & Stitch shows.
  • Leroy & Stitch
• Kim Possible
  • Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama
• American Dragon: Jake Long^note Ingrid cameoed in "The Halloween Bash" alongside cheerleader outfits from Kim Possible.
• The Proud Family^note Kim Possible is name dropped as a powerful female in "The Legend Of Johnny Lovely". and The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder
  • The Proud Family Movie
• Recess
  • Recess: School's Out
  • Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade

Series unconfirmed to be in the Disney Channel Animated Universe include:

• Teamo Supremo
• The Weekenders
• Stitch! and Stitch & Ai: Yes, both shows are part of the Lilo & Stitch franchise and both continue from Leroy & Stitch, albeit in separate timelines. Apparently, the "Boo Goo" and "A Stinky Episode" episodes of Stitch! even reference American Dragon: Jake Long. However, while the former anime had Stitch's "cousins" return, and the latter Chinese series had people who worked on Lilo & Stitch: The Series as part of its production crew, neither show directly referenced the franchise's first TV series and none of the other previously-seen experiments besides Stitch himself appeared in the Chinese series. Combined with the fact that Disney in the United States hardly acknowledges the existence of either series due to their controversial nature with the fans, and it's hard to say whether or not they count.
• Any Disney Channel/XD cartoon produced after Lilo & Stitch's conclusion that isn't excluded below, and any shows they happen to cross with including Marvel Universe shows^note The fact that Howard the Duck has appeared on these shows would tend against the Marvel shows counting, but given his status as "Trapped in a World He Never Made"....

Series that are confirmed to not be in the Disney Channel Animated Universe include:

• Shows set in a different time period
  • Dave the Barbarian
  • The Emperor's New School
  • Lloyd in Space
• Shows that include talking animals or Funny Animals^note Although Owl and Timon & Pumbaa have had cameos in Recess and Leroy & Stitch respectively, and the Doc McStuffins: Toy Hospital episode "Into The Hundred Acre Wood" confirms that Winnie The Pooh and Doc McStuffins exist in the same universe.
  • The Disney Afternoon
  • Brandy & Mr. Whiskers
  • The Buzz on Maggie
  • House of Mouse
  • Teacher's Pet
  • DuckTales (2017) (which essentially creates an Ultimate Universe of all the old Disney Afternoon shows)
• Gargoyles (very much its' own universe; a crossover with Atlantis: The Lost Empire was planned, but got scrapped when the planned Team Atlantis show was canned during production)
• Playhouse Disney/Disney Junior series (though Special Agent Oso and Handy Manny are confirmed to be in the same universe as each other, as they had a Crossover, as well as Doc McStuffins: Toy Hospital and Winnie the Pooh.)
• Disney's Doug, as it was previously on Nickelodeon.
• Nightmare Ned (only because Disney refuses to acknowledge its existence).
• Pepper Ann, which did cross over with House of Mouse.
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, which is a TV show in the Toy Story universe and presumably occurs in another galaxy.
• TRON: Uprising, which takes place in the TRON universe.
• Star Wars Rebels and Resistance, which, similar to TRON: Uprising, exist in the Star Wars canon.
• The Descendants animated shorts, which again exists in the canon of that particular DCOM.
• Any Disney Channel/XD cartoons post-Lilo & Stitch that have any of the above.
  • Separate from the above shared setting, it's strongly implied that Gravity Falls, The Owl House, and Amphibia take place in the same universe, or at least the same multiverse.^note While the latter two primarily take place in Another Dimension (not the same one) the human-inhabited Earth of all three is implied to be the same. "If You Give A Frog A Cookie" and "King's Tide" confirms the Amphibia and The Owl House connection, first with a blurry picture of the owl house itself taken through a flawed dimensional portal, and then with a news article about Anne Boonchuy open on Camila Noceda's tablet.

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