Line #69 Headscratchers/LiloAndStitch


1	!!Specific:
2	* Headscratchers/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch
3	* Headscratchers/LiloAndStitchTheSeries
4	* {{Headscratchers/Stitch}}
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6	!Everything else
7	!!The Numerological Naming Convention
8	* In the original film, Jumba lies to the Grand Councilwoman that he has created only one experiment in the hopes of getting a reduced sentence, and yet refers to the experiment as "Experiment 626" (which of course heavily implies that 625 others exist). This raises two questions: Why did Jumba contradict himself instead of calling Experiment 626 a different name (or not naming it at all), and why didn't the Grand Councilwoman question this extremely suspicious name?
9	** It's entirely plausible that 626 could be the 626th ''experiment'', but only the first one to advance to the stage of actually being engineered. Jumba argued his work was entirely theoretical, and that ''can'' be true for the first 625. This happens in RealLife quite frequently, particularly with experimental aircraft that never develop beyond the design phase, or at most static models.
10	*** The first 625 experiments are all actual creatures, though.
11	*** The fact that it is later revealed that they do exist doesn't make the above explanation that they are only theoretical experiments any less plausible though. In the context of the movie we have no reason to believe the other 625 experiments are living creatures either, it's not until [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries the TV series]] that it's shown that they actually do exist.
12	*** '''''Except''''' that there were already ''two'' prequel works--[[ComicStrip/ComicZoneLiloAndStitch a number of comic strips]] and a [[VideoGame/StitchExperiment626 PlayStation 2 game]]--released before the original film came out that already showed that Jumba already made genetic experiments before Experiment 626. Both those works make it very clear, however, that 626 was Jumba's first experiment that he considers a ''real'' success; he even berated his earlier experiments within earshot of them in the comics and the game (the latter of which showed that his words had negative repercussions). Not only that, it has been clearly established throughout the franchise that Jumba tends to be a BadLiar, hence his lame attempt to get a reduced sentence; bad liars contradict themselves quite easily. As for the Grand Councilwoman, she was likely so appalled by 626's presence and so focused on the current situation at hand once she sees him that her mind couldn't be bothered to question almost anything else because this ''thing'' actually exists and it's such a threat to society that they need to get rid of it as soon as possible.
13	** The Grand Councilwoman probably never knew much about Jumba's 625 previous experiments, and probably just assumed that even if he DID have 625, they were not in the field of genetic engineering. Jumba probably does chemistry and robotics too.
14	!!Big frog?
15	* Since Stitch is about the same size of Lilo, ie about 3 feet tall, how could the frog he meets at the start of the movie come up to his waist? Are 15 inch tall frogs (about the height of a cocker spaniel) common in Hawaii?
16	** That might've been an animation error.
17	** That seems to be the case, because the lorry that hits Stitch is presented as absolutely enormous in comparison to him. He was mistakenly animated much smaller than he is in that scene.
18	!!It's not what it looks like?
19	* Why doesn't Nani tell Bubbles the truth about where she was and what she was doing? I can understand being nervous, but her cover story of leaving Lilo all alone due to 'needing to go to the store' just makes her look bad. Nani isn't at fault here. Her instructor didn't keep an eye on her until Nani got there, and the reason she was rushing and kicked Bubbles car was because she was worried and had no idea where Lilo was. The truth certainly painted her in a better light than her made up story.
20	** The truth is less 'Nani is a bad caretaker' and more 'Lilo has issues'. If social services thought Lilo 'ran away' (we know she went home, but still) and locked her sister out of their house with NAILS AND A HAMMER, that raises all sorts of red flags.
21	** Because Nani is still a very young woman herself and she very much wants to look like she knows what she's doing. And she did leave the stove on when she went to pick Lilo up, and there is garbage that hasn't been taken out yet.
22	** In addition to the above, it's also explained on this page that Bubbles was likely the last of several social workers and that Nani was already on thin ice. She's panicking and afraid that any further mishaps are going to have her deemed unsuitable as Lilo's guardian.
23	!!Too dense to swim?
24	* Stitch is said to be too dense to swim. But he's also able to lift and throw a car, wouldn't he be strong enough to pull himself underwater?
25	** He's just too heavy; he'd sink like a rock.
26	*** But why? I'd understand if he was just too heavy but not super strong, so he wouldn't be able to propel himself upwards, but he is super strong. If he kick, won't he generate enough force downwards to kick him upwards?
27	*** Yes, but that force is a function of the size of his foot, how efficiently it displaces water, and how fast he can kick. The former two aren't that good compared to a human, and Stitch doesn't appear to be that much faster than normal earth animals. Essentially, Stitch can't swim for the same reason someone with SuperStrength can't just fly by flapping their arms. On the other hand, Stitch theoretically ''should'' be able to swim quite effectively if he wore sufficiently large and durable flippers.
28	*** Movement in a fluid is not just about the ability to exert force (kicking and pulling), it's about having the ability to exert force (kicking and pulling) efficiently enough to counteract the return movement (pulling one's legs up and pushing one's arms forward) quickly enough to counteract the resistance (Stitch's density pulling him down through the water).
29	*** Stronger things can't always swim better- chimpanzees can't swim, in fact, because they have too MUCH muscle and not enough body fat to float well.
30	*** He could (and I believe has) walked across the bottom, but it's a long ways to the nearest continent.
31	*** The problem was never so much that Stitch can't ''swim'' (he really can't, but that's beside the point), it's that if he fell into deep water--like the Pacific Ocean--then he'd drown long before he's be able to get to shore. One occasion where he was submerged in the animated series, he was still in relatively shallow water, and he was able to walk/climb his way out from the bottom of the pool.
32	*** FridgeBrilliance: Technically, almost ''everything's'' molecular density is greater than water; i.e. things tend to sink more often than they float, so it's not that Stitch's molecular density particularly imperils him; it's that water is rare almost everywhere in the galaxy, as pointed out when the alien commander has to ask what all that blue stuff is as Stitch's ship falls toward Earth. Boiled down, the joke is that aliens are so unfamiliar with water that they've never heard of ''swimming''.
33	** From what I got, he could paddle himself if the water isn't very deep, as there's less force needed to keep himself buoyant, but, otherwise, he'd be kinda screwed.
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35	!!Pleakely's Excuse
36	* I don't get the whole, "convinced an alien race that mosquitoes were an endangered species" thing. Do the aliens have a strange fondness for mosquitoes, and so didn't want to destroy Earth? Then why did they make the big deal about them being endangered, when they would all get destroyed with Earth, endangered or not?
37	** Perhaps [[WildMassGuessing mosquitoes are actually an alien race, and destroying them would be an act of genocide?]]
38	*** One of the tie-in games has there be sentient alien mosquitoes bigger than humans, so maybe they and Earth mosquitoes come from a common ancestor.
39	** My guess, Bubbles was finding any law that would spare the Earth and the human race. Might be that the only one that he could find in time to justify not attacking Earth.
40	** RuleOfFunny.
41	*** This. It's a sly slap at environmental regulations that prevent projects from going forward simply because the area chosen happens to be the mating spot of some obscure endangered species...the joke in this case being that the aliens have no way of knowing that mosquitoes breed like crazy and are considered pests. (It's also a matter of scale. When you're accustomed to taking the whole galaxy into consideration, a species that only exists on a single planet, no matter how abundant it is ''there,'' might be considered "endangered." May also be a case of MistookTheDominantLifeform: while mosquitoes are a protected species due to living on a single planet, ''humans'' (and arguably other intelligent creatures like dolphins) are simply considered valuable as the protected species' food source.)
42	*** The whole thing doesn't really make a lot of sense, since they are talking about "gassing" an entire planet just to take out Stitch. Considering that ''everything'' on a non-spacefaring planet could only be found there, ''anything'' on that planet qualifies as an endangered species in that situation.
43	** My guess was actually that if Cobra was gonna pick any species to call endangered, he might as well pick one that's considerably NOT endangered. The longer the species in question lasts, the longer Earth lasts.
44	** FridgeBrilliance. Pleakley was afraid of harming Lilo because she was part of the mosquito food chain. On Earth, almost everything is food for mosquitoes, so if he claimed mosquitoes as endangered species, then all of Earth is effectively protected.
45	** Aliens seem to be willing to follow the rules - they probably have a rule stating that some planets should not be attacked or enslaved because it would cause extinction.
46	** Which brings up another question: Cobra mentioned he saved our planet by doing this. What exactly is this saving our planet from? The United Galactic Federation doesn't seem like the kind to allow to genocide or enslavement. Even if HumansAreBastards we can't make it very far off our planet, so it's not as if we're a threat.
47	*** This is answered early in the film. When Stitch is discovered to have landed on Hawaii, the Grand Councilwoman says "[[ItsTheOnlyWayToBeSure We will have to gas the planet]]" then suggests bombing the island until Pleakley tells her otherwise, informing her that Earth is a protected wildlife preserve for endangered mosquitoes and their food of choice. It's not that they're a particularly violent alien federation... but these extreme policies ''do'' exist and presumably must have been necessary in the past.
48	*** As for what he saved the planet ''from,'' the implication seems to be that the Area51 incident (which Cobra was directly involved in) might have been another Stitch-like situation.
49	!!"Don't turn left."
50	* At the part in the movie where Lilo's house catches fire, then Nani sees the fire engine heading toward their house and she says: "Don't turn left." Is her house the only one on the left of the grocery store?
51	** It's Kauai, an extremely rural island-and she's clearly living in an extremely rural part of that. Could be.
52	** And even if that wasn't the case, you have to take parental fears 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.
53	*** I can attest to this - even if you aren't in a rural place where there's the possibility that the fire engine is headed to an emergency somewhere else (even a car accident or a heart attack victim), you can't help but fear something may have happened.
54	*** The fire engine turns on to a dirt road. No evidence of nearby houses in shots of the outside. Probably a long driveway?
55	** Even if it turns out that the truck could have been going to a different house and Nani's isn't the only one that could have caught fire, would you still assume that "oh it must be going somewhere else" since the fire could have ''spread''?
56	** I read this simply as Nani can see the truck from where she is, and it's coming to a fork in the road. If it goes right, she doesn't have to worry that it's her house. If it turns left, there is still a chance it's her house /and/ she won't be able to follow it because (I think, not sure) she's late for work.
57	** Not the last one. As she's leaving the store, she says she'll be there first thing in the morning. As for the original question, yes she was panicking - her house was left. And she assumed the worst.
58	** Living with Lilo leads one to assume that if a disaster is occurring, Lilo is responsible.
59	!!Aliens and Rules
60	* "Aliens are all about rules"? Really, Bubbles? Even disregarding that that's a very dangerous generalization to make, the whole plot of the movie exists because ''an alien broke the rules!''
61	** Maybe not rogues like Jumba, but it appears that the Galactic Council follows any rules to the letter. The head wanted to take Stitch away for no other reason than the Council decided it, and they wouldn't even break the most petty of laws like stealing a dog some kid bought from the pound for two bucks.
62	** Sure, Cobra is generalizing. He knows Lilo's plan will work and is reassuring her in terms she'll understand. He could have said "These aliens represent the Galactic Federation, and are here as law enforcement officials, and will obey local laws and regulations in the absence of an emergency; therefore these specific aliens will follow this specific rule." But that would have flown over Lilo's head even if the audience could follow it.
63	** He didn't seem to be reassuring Lilo so much as making a witty comment on the situation towards the councilwoman, after she was already clearly persuaded to let Stitch stay with Lilo. The point still stands, though, that he didn't need to go into the specifics of why Lilo's claim to Stitch would work.
64	!!Lilo's Photography
65	* Why did Lilo have a fetish for taking pictures of fat people? It always struck me as kind of creepy.
66	** I don't think it's a fetish, more like an obsession. She's a little girl and she probably thinks fat people are weird looking and wants to photograph them. Don't ask me why, because I don't know what goes on in the head of a little girl.
67	*** I think both 'fetish' and 'obsession' are mighty strong words. She's got a hobby. Some people build ships in bottles, some post on Website/TVTropes, and she takes snapshots of haole.
68	** There is also the fact that most of the people she photographed were tourists - outsiders. Perhaps she relates to the fact that they are different?
69	** They weren't all fat, they were all tourists. She found them strange and different, and thought they were beautiful in an exotic sort of way. Her sister thought it was weird because, obviously, fat, pale tourists aren't conventionally "beautiful".
70	** Actually, I think that there is some form of subtle Fridge here, because before Stitch came along, Lilo spends her time taking pictures of tourists... and when Stitch is ready to leave Lilo, she tells him she remembers everyone who leaves. I think photography was just Lilo's way of coping with everything.
71	** The creators address this in a deleted scene; she takes pictures of them because the tourists treat her like she's some sort of attraction that's there for their amusement. But taking the photos she turns it around of them and makes these intruders ''her'' source of amusement. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7L2ZY9UFj60 See here]].
72	** In Hawaii, the tourists and the white people are called Haole and they are usually not well liked as native Hawaiians consider them invaders. However, most Hawaiians make their money off the tourism and therefore have to put up with them even though they don't want to. For Lilo to be obsessed with the Haole shows her inability to fit in with the society she lives in. In a way she identifies with them because she almost feels like a tourist or invader in the society she lives in. She is different.
73	** A deleted scene shows the tourists treating Lilo like an attraction ("Oh, look, a real native!") rather than an actual person. She's keenly aware of this and simply treating them the way they treat her.
74	!!Dead Dogs in the pound
75	* Why would you put a "dog" you think is ''dead'' in a pound with live dogs? Seriously...
76	** Possibly they knew it wasn't technically ''dead'' at that moment, but figured he was almost dead and likely to reach that state at any moment. He was run over by multiple trucks, after all. Someone just felt that it would be kinder to let him get euthanized inside the shelter and not to be exposed to the elements during his final moments. The person probably thought it was better to put it in one of the cages and, if it somehow miraculously clung onto life, it would be somewhere safe. They didn't expect the dying or dead "dog" to wander into the front room with the kid as if nothing happened.
77	*** You still wouldn't put a dog that you believed was dying with the other dogs that are live and apparently healthy. He would've either been in an isolated cage, or simply euthanized to be put out of his misery.
78	** I think the pound worker only says "it was dead this morning" - which could mean Stitch only appeared dead when they found him. He might have shown signs of life when they started to move him. It's a fairly small town and maybe they just wanted to put him somewhere before they figured out what to do with him.
79	** This. For all we know there isn't a vet on the island and the pound was the nearest place they could take an injured animal.
80	*** Stitch landed on Kauai, and the town (Kokaua Town, as named in the ''[[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries The Series]]'') is somewhat based on Kapa'a,[[note]]although it's actually primarily based on Hanapepe[[/note]] which has its own Animal Clinic. However, this is not Kapa'a and a lot of the smaller towns get visited by traveling veterinarians which could fit this situation in that they could have called for a vet and were keeping Stitch at the pound until they arrived.
81	!!Hula Skirts over Swimsuits
82	* Minor one, but during the movie's opening sequence, Lilo is tying her Hula skirt on ''top'' of her bathing suit. But she'd have had to take it off to put her Hula top on, so tying the skirt on top of it only served to delay her even more.
83	** Maybe it was so she could pull off the bathing suit from under her, while the skirt would keep her from being naked in the process.
84	*** She was running late and didn't have time to go home and change.
85	!!Glass is his weakness
86	* Here is one that been bothering me. Stitch is obviously super-strong, considering he can lift trucks and spaceships with ease. But it's shown throughout the movies and TV series that he can be contained... by some sort of glass container Gantu has...Seriously? How strong are those glass containers? They are more effective at containing Stitch than any other prison.
87	** The fact that they can hold Stitch should make it pretty obvious that they aren't glass.
88	** [[Franchise/StarWars Transparisteel?]]
89	** If it helps, assume the 'glass' containers are force fields (or force fields between two layers of glass). Experiment 626 was, very clearly, not their first experience with Nigh-Unstoppable Abominations of Science.
90	** A running joke in the TV show is that while Stitch can bench-press 3000 times above his weight, he cannot do so to any amount of weight beyond it, no matter how slight. In the pilot movie, Hamsterviel has a set of restraints set to 3001 times his weight; in a later episode, Gantu sabotages Stitch's show of strength act at a show by placing a feather that manages to tip the 3000 times rule by an ounce. It's fair to assume that the glass was set to the same parameters.
91	!!The Swimming thing, again.
92	* The reason Stitch is afraid of water is that 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?
93	** Phobias aren't always rational.
94	*** It's not a random phobia, it's explicitly stated in the movie that he can't survive in water, and the reason he's afraid of water is implied to be because of that.
95	** Here are three possible explanations: 1. Stitch needs to absorb radiation if he's not using normal respiration - tons of free radiation in space, surprisingly little under the sea. 2. Stitch can handle zero pressure, but extremely high pressures might either do real damage or just hurt fantastically. 3. Immersion in water opens pores that would be sealed tight against vacuum, so he's airtight in space but not watertight in water.
96	** Stitch definitely needs to breath, he almost drowned in the movie and was coughing up water when dragged back to shore. It could be that he can simply hold his breath for a very long time, if not caught off guard like in the circumstances in the movie. As to why he's afraid of water in general, because being submerged in deep water is pretty much the one thing he's absolutely helpless against, he might just feel a sense of helplessness around any area of water large enough to submerge him in, even if it's just a bathtub.
97	*** As answered above, this might have to do with the depth of the water. He could be buoyant in water that's below X-amount feet deep because he'd have to use less force asserted against the water to keep himself afloat, while in deeper water that's more X-amount feet deep, he'd be screwed.
98	!!Too big for stealth
99	* Why did the Council give Jumba and Pleakley such a big ship? They were there on a stealth based search-and-retrieve type mission and they give them such a huge ass spaceship that's sure to draw human eyes. Why?
100	** It might have just been Jumba's ship before he was arrested, so they weren't giving him anything from their own navy with the risk he might steal it. Plus, it may have had cloaking abilities. They seemed to have arrived shortly after Stitch and there wasn't any hubbub about a second "falling star".
101	** Well, it worked. They got onto the planet without arousing too much attention. They only attracted attention when chasing Gantu when all pretense of stealth was abandoned. Plus, I think Pleakley cares about stealth more than anyone else. Gantu clearly didn't care about being spotted despite working for the council, and the councilwoman landed in clear view on a beach in Hawaii.
102	** A more meta reasoning, in the original storyline, Stitch and crew hijacked a jet from the local airport to go after Gantu, but after 9/11, they changed it to the spaceship. The size might be so they wouldn't have to edit too much on the frames.
103	*** This seems pretty likely - the deleted scene uses the exact same shot of the ship emerging from the clouds, just with an airliner instead of the red spaceship. According to the trivia page, all they did was replace the plane with the spaceship and the buildings it flew past with mountains for the final film.
104	** Stitch seems to recognize the ship when they're uncovering it to go and rescue Lilo, so I'm assuming it was probably Jumba's.
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106	!!Taking Lilo with her
107	* In the first movie, when Nani gets an interview for the store, why doesn't she take Lilo with her? Especially since she's on thin ice already?
108	** The last few job interviews she brought Lilo (and Stitch) along for ended in pure and utter chaos. She ''needs'' this job if she's going to have a chance of convincing Cobra to let her keep her sister and she was just going down the street. She made the best decision she could manage at the time.
109	** All in all, bringing Lilo with her wouldn't have accomplished much, of anything at all, because Lilo wasn't the major problem. Stitch was. Even if she'd taken Lilo with her, Stitch still would've led Jumba to the house, which would've probably still resulted in it blowing up, which would've probably resulted in Bubbles taking Lilo away anyway after assuming that Nani left the stove on again and knowing that they wouldn't have a place to live.
110	** I think the better question is why Nani didn't ask David to stay with Lilo while ''she'' ran down to the store by herself.
111	** David was the one who got her the interview so he probably needed to be there to introduce Nani - as well as tell her about what she was interviewing for on the way to the store. As for leaving Lilo alone, don't forget that Nani is still a very young woman who makes bad decisions. And maybe in her mind, it's giving Lilo some responsibility. If she's going to work a job in a store, she'll probably be gone for most of the day. So there's a good chance Lilo will have to be at home on her own - meaning that this is an experiment to see if Lilo can be trusted to stay in the house and behave when she's asked to. Nani's not expecting aliens to blow up the house is she?
112	!!Dead Dogs in the pound, again
113	* If they thought Stitch was dead, why'd the truck drivers bring him to a dog pound?
114	** Probably so a record of the 'killed' 'dog' could be created, so that the pound can inform the owner if he/she contacts them. Drivers ''should'' do this but rarely do - so chalk it up to unusually neighborly truck drivers.
115	** And maybe they wanted to know what species he was so they could put up a notice or something for whoever his owner was. They just hoped someone at the pound would know.
116	*** As someone above noted, he probably showed signs of life, however, it's possible that they thought he was too far gone in whatever injuries he got and brought him there to send him over rainbow bridge.
117	!!The Beach Scene
118	* In the movie, why is it the beach scene that makes Cobra Bubbles decide to take Lilo away from Nani? Yeah, she fell off a surfboard and got dragged off because her foot got caught, but she was retrieved before any serious damage was done and among coastal communities, it's understood that while there is occasionally accidents, but adventures like that is mostly ok.
119	** Because instead of getting a job, he sees her seemingly procrastinating and not putting in real effort in providing for her sister.
120	** Because Cobra isn't a member of the coastal community: Child Services ''unquestionably'' has a much stricter view of... 'adventures.'
121	** He's clearly regretful over what he has to say...In short, it's not really because Nani's gone too far without success - it's that he was watching her at every interview she went to, each one ended fruitlessly, and now, even when she and her sister have almost managed to bond with each other as a family, the moment ends abruptly with Lilo almost drowning. He wants to put a stop to it now before the two sister have to go through even more disappointment before facing the inevitable end that he thinks it's all leading to.
122	** It just occurred to me, that he'd been on the beach watching them since Nani's terrible lifeguard performance. He'd already made his decision long before the surfing accident, he was just trying to be kind by letting the sisters have one last afternoon of fun together.
123	!!The weird indifference of these two
124	* I can understand Nani being upset at Lilo's kidnapping, but why would Jumba and Pleakley give her the impression that there's no hope and that she's never going to see her again? Surely, the Grand Councilwoman wouldn't do anything to seriously hurt Lilo when she found out that Gantu nabbed her as well - couldn't she just as easily be sent back to Earth?
125	** Well, there are a few different reasons: first, Nani is talking to a known criminal (who has no reason to trust the Grand Council) and near the beginning of the movie, the grand council woman threatens to gas Earth in order to eliminate Stitch, so I doubt they would be much more merciful to Lilo. Secondly, the problem isn't that Lilo wont be safe, its that Jumba and Pleakley would have to ''chase down Gantu'' in order to rescue Lilo (which is at best being shot down from the sky by Gantu and at worst being arrested and jailed or executed).
126	** What I'm asking is, what was going to happen to Lilo after Gantu returned to base? The councilwoman realizes Stitch escaped from him, sees that Lilo was brought along...and what would she do about her? Gassing a planet to kill a condemned LivingWeapon is one thing, but killing a single child just because she got roped in by accident? I can't see even the councilwoman being so cruel.
127	** When Gantu put Lilo in with Stitch, he made a remark about how "I even got you a little snack." Clearly he was under the impression that Stitch was going to kill Lilo at some point in the journey. Jumba and Pleakley were only beginning to consider that Stitch might not be what both of them, Gantu, the Councilwoman, and basically everybody else thought he was.
128	** The council doesn't have to be murderous for there to be a good chance Nani is never seeing her sister again. Even if she ''does'' survive the trip with a cruel alien captain who doesn't know of or care about human needs (for one thing, the canister Lilo was trapped in wasn't airtight and was just strapped to the back of the ship, so she definitely would have died from oxygen deprivation,) the galactic federation is a bureaucracy obsessed with rules--there might be so much red tape involved in dealing with a situation like this that Lilo would never have been sent back to earth.
129	** It could be chalked up to a misunderstanding. Jumba never said that Lilo wouldn't be returned, only that he himself doesn't have the authority or the resources to help her. The decision of what to be done about Lilo is out of his hands, and he can't tell her what will happen because he doesn't know.
130	!!CallARabbitASmeerp
131	* I'm still a little confused as to why any of the three truckers or the people at the pound would've thought Stitch was a dog. When they pulled him out from under the truck, he should've still been wearing his alien-suit, had six arms, antenna, and those spike-things protruding from his back - he didn't conceal the added appendages and extremeties until he decided to start faking it so Lilo would adopt him. I know it's still a leap to go from "weird, blue, dog-looking thing" to "deadly alien bioweapon", but still.
132	** If you watch the scene where he's being run over, you don't actually see him in his clothes when the truckers find him under the truck, just a silhouette of his arm dangling out and twitching. My conclusion? ''His space clothes were shredded when he was pulled under the wheels.'' What was left is a strange, dog-like/koala-like creature. It's established that the Hawaiians in the Lilo and Stitch series have a strong WeirdnessCensor, and the truckers who brought Stitch in were probably tired and were probably more concerned about rushing him to the nearest veterinarian they could think of to save his life than trying to figure out what he was.
133	** See an above discussion for more.
134	!!Didn't these two meet?
135	* How come the Grand Councilwoman doesn't know anything about Earth or the creatures that live there when the ending reveals she met Cobra Bubbles during the Roswell incident?
136	** She probably wasn't on Earth for very long. She only stayed for like 5 minutes when they were picking up Stitch after all.
137	** Also, say you live in the USA and then you go to Japan for a little bit. You won't know much about the people that live there just because you were there.
138	*** She has to ask an "expert" if humans are intelligent. And then we find out she's met humans in person. It doesn't add up, and may be evidence that Cobra having met aliens before was pretty much thrown in last minute.
139	** Perhaps she just forgot that Earth was that same planet, and she didn't remember until she was physically there. The galaxy is pretty big, and she's bound to have a lot of planets to keep track of.
140	*** This would make some sense. When calculating where Stitch's pod will land, the person running the numbers actually mispronounces Earth's name as "Eee-arth," and she isn't corrected by anyone. Maybe the Councilwoman didn't realize based on that that it was the same planet.
141	** It's possible that the Councilwoman never actually met Bubbles personally. She simply looked at a file during the entire 626 debacle and saw his picture back before he was bald, and was trying to recall where she's seen him when they meet in person.
142	!!Emergency Hyperdrive
143	* Why does the [[SubspaceOrHyperspace Hyperdrive]] of Stitch's police cruiser require the user to punch through glass to pull it like a fire alarm? It would seem like you would want the ability to jump into hyperspace at a moment's notice more readily available if you were pursuing fleeing suspects.
144	** It may not actually require the glass to break, just be a safety cover like over important buttons that you can open with a key. Stitch just smashed through it.
145	** I always read the scene as Stitch smashing the glass to skip a step (opening the panel) which may actually require external clearance from the designated carrier vessel or even just may require that the nav system be fully engaged (it says it isn't and warns against engaging the drive).
146	** I saw it as something similar to the glass covering over a fire alarm. You don't want to accidentally jump into hyperdrive under most ordinary circumstances - having to bypass the glass means you aren't likely to do so unless you have to.
147	!!Aliens singing Elvis
148	* In the first film, the record gets knocked and starts playing Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog." Jumba then says, "I love this song." Jumba is an alien. On Earth, that would mean that you know the song and you love it, but that wouldn't make sense in this case. By alien slang does it mean that Jumba has experienced similar music in his own society in the past or something else?
149	** It's possible that sometime off-screen during his stakeout, Jumba happened upon the song and took a shine to it.
150	*** Or, since Jumba had to get the genetic material for his experiments pre-movie, he spent a lot of time visiting different planets and Earth was one of them?
151	** Wasn't Jumba there throughout most of the montage of Lilo trying to teach Stitch to be a "model citizen", during which she played a whole bunch of Elvis's songs? Maybe he heard it then.
152	** It's a joke. They're implying Elvis is so ubiquitous even aliens know his songs.
153	!!Changing the scene
154	* During the scene after Bubbles leaves and Nani is chasing Lilo throughout the house, at one point she loses her, is shown frowning and leaning against the doorframe, and then the screen fades to black. When it comes back, Nani has inexplicably bundled Lilo in a blanket, leading to their argument. Why was there a cut there? Why didn't the movie show where Lilo was hiding?
155	** You've probably watched a made-for-TV cut of the film, [[http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4868 most likely one made for the UK.]] In the original release of the film, after Nani leaned against the doorframe, she heard a metallic sound, and Nani knew exactly where Lilo was hiding. She went into the laundry room, spread out a blanket in front of the dryer, climbed on top of the appliance, and then opened and closed the door to make Lilo think that her older sister was starting to look for her outside. Lilo came out of the dryer and looked side-to-side to see if the coast was clear. Once Lilo got out of the dryer and stood on the blanket, Nani sneaked off the dryer and wrapped Lilo with the blanket. The BBFC didn't like that scene as they believed that this would lead to children trying to hide in dryers, and demanded that the scene be changed for the U rating. The dryer was changed to an odd cupboard with a pizza box for a door for the UK version. TV edits for the film would later remove the scene outright, hence why the odd transition in the edit you saw.
156	** That was changed up for "liability reasons". Some hiding places aren't safe and some kids get dangerous ideas.
157	!!Why didn't she just tell them?
158	* I am not a parent, so maybe I am just not getting something, but why didn't Nani just tell Lilo that if she and Stitch are going to misbehave, they are going to take her away? Or is that simply something you don't want to tell kids?
159	** Nani does mention it at one point in the beginning - odds are Lilo is just a little too young to really understand the weight of their situation. Although she never did ''intentionally'' misbehave after the initial argument the two had, so maybe she did understand a bit more than I'm giving her credit for.
160	** Maybe Nani doesn't want to traumatise her sister even more. They've lost their parents and Lilo is already acting out - getting into fights, barricading herself in the house etc. Nani does seem to want to shield Lilo from some of the nasty realities of the world - making up a story for why she's not working the job at the luau anymore. And perhaps telling Lilo about the risk makes it all too real for Nani herself? She believes she can keep custody if she just gets a job and keeps things under control - so maybe she just doesn't want to face the possibility that Lilo could get taken off her.
161	** No, Nani ''did'' tell Lilo that she could get taken away, and it worked. At the very start of the film she asks Lilo "do you want to get taken away?" after the disastrous meeting with Cobra Bubbles which Lilo resentfully contributed to. After that argument is resolved, Lilo tries to be good in her own eccentric way, and, per Cobra Bubbles' request, tries to reform Stitch into a "model citizen." Stitch was the problem. Stitch did not understand (until David unintentionally guilt-tripped him) that he was screwing Lilo and Nani over by constantly destroying things and getting Lilo in trouble, and Nani sure isn't going to try explaining Social Services to something she thinks is a dog (a dog she can't even get rid of after the Ohana speech, mind.) Nani then telling Lilo that it's going to be her fault she's being taken away in that context would have been ''cruel'', not productive.
162	** Also, Lilo is probably only around 6 at the most and already clearly dealing very badly with her parents' deaths - which also seems to have been a fairly recent tragedy given that both she and Nani look to be roughly the same age in her photograph with their parents. Look at what occurs early in the film: her "friends" reject her so she barricades herself in the house with a hammer and nails and outright states that she wants to die. In that situation, no you do '''not''' want to tell that kid that they're about to be separated from their only living relative to be placed into the care of complete strangers. Cobra doesn't even tell her what's going on ''even as he's preparing to take her away''. It's clear that she really doesn't understand the full implication of Cobra's purpose as her social worker (she looks confused when Cobra puts her in the car after their house is destroyed and then positively horrified when she hears Nani yell that he can't take her); it's likely that she merely assumed Nani's comment about her being taken away was a threat made in the heat of an argument which is why ''she'' then shoots back with her comment about Nani selling her and buying a rabbit, rather than an actual and very real possibility. Lilo is established early on as a strange and troubled but fundamentally good and well-meaning child who doesn't really want to get into trouble and doesn't want to be separated from her sister: even if Nani had sat her down and explained the situation to her so that she absolutely understood, the issues Lilo was already dealing with plus her age would have likely meant that the information would only scare her.
163	** Lilo ''wasn't'' misbehaving. She was trying to teach Stitch how to be a model citizen, exactly as Bubbles told her. Lilo's also a six year old girl, and thought the best way to do that was to teach Stitch how to act like Elvis. Which, in and of itself, was harmless. It was Stitch's penchant for destruction (and one faux pas on Lilo's part that's understandable for such a young child) that ruined everything.
164	!!Stitch can talk, right?
165	* Why did Stitch never talk to Lilo, or why didn't Lilo try getting Stitch to say something after leaving the pet store? Wasn't that the whole point of why she chose Stitch, she specifically and excitedly said he could talk.
166	** First, that's an animal shelter, not a pet store. Second, the reason he didn't talk much to her after that first "Hi!" was that he is supposed to be a dog. Dogs cannot intelligibly speak to humans. He was going to talk in front of Nani and the rescue lady to prove Lilo right, but he stopped himself before doing so when the rescue lady said that dogs don't talk, and he didn't want to blow his cover and cause the two human adults to completely freak out. It was not until after his cover was blown to Nani when he decided to drop the act and speak (at least to her, David, and Cobra, alongside Lilo; he still has to put up the act in front the general public, however).
167	!!Nigh-Invulnerable
168	* Stitch is pretty durable. Being trapped inside a burning spaceship as it slams into the ground at hundreds of miles per hour in a giant explosion, being shot with a plasma blaster, standing next to a plasma blaster when it explodes with enough force to blow a house to bits, being blasted with rocket exhaust, and being launched thousands of feet into the air by an oil tanker exploding directly underneath him don't injure him whatsoever, and all falling thousands of feet or being repeatedly run over by semi trucks does is knock him out briefly. But the security staff on the prison transport ship manage to take a blood sample from him with... a needle on a stick (and the stick is only to keep him from biting the poor alien taking the sample). Just what is that needle made of?
169	** Stitch may be resistant to blunt force and heat, but needles are different from both of these. For one thing, needles have much less surface area, so the pressure that a needle exerts is higher because the force behind it is more concentrated. Also, if Stitch couldn't be stabbed by needles, Jumba would have a harder time performing necessary medical procedures on Stitch, like giving him medicine or getting a sample of blood to study.
170	!!Kaua'ian chickens?
171	* Where are all the chickens?
172	** ...What chickens?
173	*** Kaua'i is known for having a high amount of chickens that roam around its landscape, so it's unusual for this movie to not feature chickens roaming the island. (Oddly enough, ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch2StitchHasAGlitch'' actually does feature one chicken that shows up in front of Lilo and Stitch in one scene.)
174	*** Interesting. If I had to guess, I'd say they probably worried that having a bunch of chickens wandering around would seem random and out-of-place to general audiences who aren't familiar with this fact. They didn't want them to be distracted by something completely impertinent to any given scene, even if it ''is'' appropriate to the location in which the story is set.
175	*** ^ Not to mention it would mean considerably more work for the animators, adding a bunch of chickens in half the shots and making them react to whatever's going on at the time.
176	*** In the Series, they do have a few chickens roaming around in the market scenes.
177	!!Cobra's Requirements
178	* So Cobra Bubbles tells Nani that if she wants to keep Lilo, she has to find a job and turn Stitch into a model citizen. Finding a job makes perfect sense. But why does having what Cobra believes is a badly-behaved dog automatically mean that Nani is an unsuitable parent? And if it does, why doesn't he give a more reasonable ultimatum, such as "either train that dog properly or find it a new home?"
179	** Considering Cobra's unconvinced tone when Lilo tells him that Stitch is her dog, and his ties with the Galactic Federation, I think the movie implies that he knows that Stitch is an extraterrestrial of some kind, or at the very least not a dog as Lilo and Nani think. With this in mind, Cobra's order to make Stitch a model citizen may not have been his way to ensure that Nani is a responsible parent (note that he addresses Lilo when he gives this order) so much as it was to make sure Stitch is a good influence on Lilo and the people around her, and not a destructive conflict in an already severe situation.
180	** Bubbles wasn't speaking to Nani regarding Stitch being a model citizen, he was talking to Lilo. It had nothing (or very little) to do with Nani's guardianship, he was just telling Lilo that if she's going to have a dog, she has to be responsible for it and train it to behave.
181	!!Organic? Wut?!
182	* Stitch is supposed to be an organic creature, right? But when Jumba uses terms like "glitch and "circuits" on him, It's really hard to believe he's not a robot.
183	** It's advanced alien technology. They can probably blend organic matter and A.I. more seamlessly.
184	*** He's "organic" in extraterrestrial terms.
185	!!Tricycle theft
186	* Shouldn't Lilo and Stitch have gotten into trouble for knocking Mertle Edmonds off of her tricycle and stealing it? Even if Mertle deserved it and Stitch did so to escape from Jumba, they still assaulted Mertle and she has two friends of hers as witnesses...
187	** Perhaps they did end up having to have a talk with Mertle 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.
188	!!Why didn't she leave them at home?
189	* 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 a lifeguard!
190	** 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 child endangerment, which is not good for someone already on thin ice with child services. 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.
191	!!Cobra's Watch
192	* If Cobra Bubbles was on the beach watching from afar the scene Stitch caused by nearly drowning Lilo when Jumba and Pleakley tried to arrest him, why didn't he see Jumba and Pleakley bouncing away? Nani and David understandably didn't spot them because their focus was on saving Lilo, but Cobra was there the whole time, so why didn't he assume that those two guys who came out from the sea had something to do with it? Besides, why didn't he run into the sea to rescue Lilo if his goal was to keep her safe?
193	** 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 Pleakley 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.
194	** Realistically, there's nothing he could have done. Lilo was out in the ocean, and Nani and David were already working to get her back up to the surface. A trained rescue swimmer might have been able to get out there to help in time, but not a social worker in a full suit.
195	!!Holding Nani back
196	* Why do the firefighters 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.
197	** If I remember correctly, there were several firefighters 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.
198	** It's a small town and Nani probably knows those firefighters on a personal basis. The first one we see holding her back looks very concerned for her, and when it zooms back out the housefire has already been handled.
199	!!The day she was supposed to leave
200	* Why does Nani go with David to the job interview he arranged for her at that store if Cobra Bubbles had already stated that he was going to take Lilo away that same morning? He wasn't going to change his mind, and it would not have been appropriate for Nani to be there when Cobra arrived for Lilo?
201	** He was going to take Lilo away because Nani wasn't able to find a job. He specifically said that he could forgive some of her shortcomings (and Lilo being home alone ''was'' one of them), but a job was the one thing she ''could not'' go without. Nani was just hoping that he would relent if she could show that she was employed.
202	*** He probably told her that she had to have a employment before x-date or something like that.
203	!!Surfing Disaster Aftermath
204	* 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?
205	** 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.
206	*** 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. Eventually, it got to the point where he couldn't let it slide.
207	!!Asking Gantu
208	* Why didn't Jumba and Pleakley just try to flag down Gantu to have them return Lilo to Nani, even offering to exchange Stitch for her? It seems more reasonable to do this than instigate a dogfight with Gantu, which could have gotten Lilo killed.
209	** They had just been fired from the task of retrieving Stitch. Pleakley 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.
210	!!Stitch knowing English
211	* 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?
212	** 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 (as by the Grand Galactic Council or some noise)
213	!! Bricks in a pillowcase
214	* Did Cobra Bubbles believe Lilo when she lied (through misunderstanding) that her sister hits her multiple times a day with a pillowcase full of bricks? Bubbles didn't question Nani about this (which implies that he didn't believe it) but she also didn't immediately say "That's not true, and you know it!" (although she does claim Lilo has had too much sugar and is just exaggerating, which can easily come across as "You've said too much!").
215	** My guess is that Cobra's been working with Nani for a while and knows that, for all her faults as a guardian, she never hit Lilo and that there isn't any evidence (We all know hitting your kid with a pillowcase full of bricks would be leaving all kinds of injuries).
216	!!What did Pleakley do?
217	* Why would Pleakley be prison bound along with Jumba after being fired from the mission? His job was mainly to accompany Jumba to make sure he doesn’t go rogue on what is, in his words, "a delicate planet", so why would he be held partially accountable for failing to detain the experiment that Jumba created, especially considering how it was mostly Jumba who had to capture Stitch?
218	** She probably was only referring to Jumba being prison bound. (He was, and successfully capturing Stitch was his only way to redeem himself) But they were BOTH fired from the mission. Pleakley may have still had a chance to kept his job at the UGF if everything else didn't get out of hand afterwards.
219	!!Mosquitoes are more important than humans

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