A young Hawaiian girl who lives with her sister and is Stitch's owner.
Ambiguous Disorder: Has a mix of eccentricities, behavioral issues, social inappropriateness, and unusual interests (not many six-year-old girls these days are obsessed with Elvis)
Demoted to Extra: In any subsequent material outside the movies or the series. Its usually always Stitch that is used of the duo. Funny as the title of the movie was Lilo and Stitch.
Innocent Prodigy: Lilo can use the word "abomination" in the proper context, and reads books that not only contain atypical material for a child to read, but are far above her grade level as well. Despite this, she seems to have very little idea of what the consequences of her and Stitch's actions actually are.
The Lancer: Well, insofar as a six-year old girl can support a living weapon.
The Pollyana: Not always, but Lilo's the most consistently optimistic of the family. She will get sad if you take away her best friend, though.
Morality Pet: Acts as one to Stitch, before he learns how to behave himself.
Ironic, since technically he's her pet. Their relationship is more like siblings, however, and she sometimes seems almost like a mother to him.
Nice Girl: Usually. She's still liable to make some silly mistakes like most children.
The Nicknamer: She loves doing this to the Experiments.
Fluffy the Terrible: He's pretty cute looking. Then you may notice his shark teeth...
Genius Bruiser: Along with his super strength he's said to be smarter than a supercomputer.
Green Eyes: Stitch's eyes are actually ebony, but his part-synthetic constitution allows him to see in infra-green. They will change colour to show he's evil or malfunctioning.
Big Sister Instinct: She may not always get things right and is obviously overwhelmed by her recent Promotion to Parent, but she will do everything in her power to protect Lilo.
Butt Monkey: This character is one of the biggest losers throughout the franchise, constantly losing jobs and suffering humiliations.
The Chew Toy: More like the above, but it's pretty tough when you've lost your parents.
Anti-Hero: Type IV or type V on a bad day. He's put away the most dangerous stuff but still likes causing mischief.
Card-Carrying Villain: Nowhere near as evil as he claims, however - more or less it applies to his love of twisting the laws of nature so far they fall apart, then putting the pieces back together in his image. But a really Nice Guy, besides that.
Clark Kenting: As Pleakley's husband and Lilo and Nani's uncle.
Evil Genius: Genius definitely but not really evil.
Villain Decay: He is the villain in the first part of the movie. Then he teams up with Stitch to save Lilo and mellows into the girl's eccentric uncle.
David Kawena
Nani's on-again, off-again boyfriend.
Big Brother Instinct: He's very kind to Lilo and genuinely wants to help Nani with her little sister.
Will They or Won't They?: Likes Nani but is often awkward around her. Lilo's comments don't exactly help things.
Nani also doesn't seem to have time for a real boyfriend, since she's already struggling to keep a job and take care of her little sister. So while she seems to like David, she also knows she isn't emotionally available. They are, however, dating by the time of Stitch Has A Glitch.
Captain Gantu
Former Captain of the Galactic Armada and later hired as Hämsterviel's errand boy henchman.
Jumba's last experiment before Stitch and Gantu's sidekick. He has all the powers of Stitch (plus a much more advanced vocabulary), but is a lazy coward. He makes great sandwiches, though.
Adaptation Dye Job: He's teal-colored in Comic Zone but was changed to golden-colored for the movies and TV series.
Informed Ability: A justified version: it has been stated that he has all the same powers as Stitch, but he is never seen using them because, from the start, Jumba explains that he's also a lazy coward. Finally ended in Leroy and Stitch, when Lilo finally convinces him to get off his lazy patookie and do something for himself.
You Are Number 625: At least until Leroy and Stitch, when he is given the name "Reuben" by Lilo.
Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel
Hamster-Wheel Hämsterviel is a gerbil-like hamster-like alien with rabbit-like ears, and Jumba's former partner. Hired Gantu to track down and capture all the other experiments.
Berserk Button: Don't call him Hamster-Wheel or compare him to a gerbil or other rodent.
Cardboard Prison: Apparently he's in prison, but can freely contact Gantu via video with no consequenses.
He escapes at least once in the series and then in the finale, but at the end of that he's moved to a special, higher-security prison along with all his Leroys.
Early-Bird Cameo: He can be seen, silhouetted, in a cell during the prison scene in Lilo & Stitch, just right of the elevator.
Embarrassing First Name: In the episode "Nosey", it is revealed his first name is actually Rupert.
Harmless Villain: Spends more time bossing more capable people around than actually doing anything himself. One has to wonder why Gantu even bothered to work for him.
Flanderization: While she was the Alpha Bitch in the movie and it's DTV sequel, she's more spoiled and snobbish than mean spirited and her initial viewing Lilo as "weird" was not unfounded due to Lilo's inappropirate behaviour. She's even shown to get along with Lilo a little better in the sequel. In the TV series and it's movies, she's more of a bratty Jerkass than ever for no real reason.
Jerkass: Oddly it comes more from being spoiled than from her upbringing. Her mom is actually very nice.
Surprisingly, this might relate to the Hawai'ian concept of the ha'ole — That is, a mainlander who acts like a stereotypical Hawai'ian tourist, considering she's, well, in a minority.
Meganekko: Subverted in that she looks like one, but is actually the Alpha Bitch.
Never My Fault: In one episode, she gets a charm bracelet with an experiment pod on it. Lilo tells her not to get it wet because it contained Holio (#606), who has the power to transform into a black hole. Not believing her, she purposely activates it and has her house eaten by it, and she blames Lilo for the whole fiasco.
The Other Darrin: She was voiced Miranda Paige Walls in the original film and Liliana Mumy in all other appearences.
People Puppets: Was used as one by Hamsterveil in one episode via a mind control device. Oddly it couldn't override her disdain for Lilo, which Lilo managed to use to incapacitate her.
Rich Bitch: Supposedly, she certainly acts like it and her mom throws some rather lavish parties for her.
Girl Posse: Blindly follow Mertle's words and actions. They probably would get along with Lilo if they actually got to know her.
Hidden Depths: Yuki is often shown to be rather fond of hockey.
Those Three Girls: Have a few episodes focused on them otherwise they're just there for the background.
Victoria
A character from the TV series, prominent in only two episodes while a background character in others. Accepted Lilo for who she is and became a friend of hers.
The Other Darrin: In her first appearance, Victoria is voiced by Daviegh Chase, which lead to Talking To Herself with Lilo, and in her second appearance, Alyson Stoner voiced her.
Van Helsing Hate Crime: "Snooty" had her doing this since she didn't know about the experiments and Snooty was constantly flying at her. Turns out its a "Snot Vampire" and was attracted by her sinuses. Once Victoria realized it was harmless, she changed her tune.
Mrs. Edmonds
Mertle's mother, only appears in the TV series. Quite the opposite of her daughter, as she sweet and kind to Lilo.
Doting Parent: Which is unfortunately why Mertle is such a brat.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite not being tolerant of repeated failure, she's only trying to do what's best. However, she can and will use loopholes to go against what the council has decided if it's the right thing to do.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: She proposed that Earth be gassed when Stitch landed there, but was stopped by Pleakley, who claimed that Earth was a protected wildlife reserve for mosquitoes.
You Have Failed Me: The Galactic Federation has an extremely low tolerance for failure - when she has to show up and take care of things herself, pretty much the whole scene is her firing and prosecuting everyone who failed with extreme prejudice.
Brother-Sister Incest: Although the Experiments are referred to as Stitch's "cousins", if one were to actually think about it in technical terms, since Jumba is their creator, it makes him their father.
Cute Monster Girl: Not that the other experiments aren't cute themselves, but we see very few females.
Distaff Counterpart: The only real differences are her colour, her antennas and her, um, V-crest.
Manipulative Editing: Due to her being reformed, Reuben had to trick her into singing to him (he and Stitch are the only experiments unaffected by her singing) so that he could record her voice and play it backwards, turning the experiments tamed by Lilo evil again.
Shallow Love Interest: To an extent, the main reason she was introduced was to give Stitch a love interest. Funnily enough, while Stitch was sad and miserable about leaving Lilo behind in Leroy & Stitch, he didn't once think about Angel until he saw her at the end of the film.
Needless to say, the Lilo/Stitch shippers had a field day with that one.
Mrs. Hasagawa
An old Japanese lady that runs a fruit stand and owns a large number of experiments as pets.
Crazy Cat Lady: A far more sympathetic example than most.
Running Gag: Something making him drop his ice cream before he gets to eat it.
The Voiceless: He's only spoken twice: once in the Comic Zone comic "Sue-Whatsi?!?" ("I don't see any giant wave"), and once in the Lilo & Stitch: The Series episode "Babyfier" (yelling when he trips over Babyfier's pod and crying after Babyfier turns him into a baby).
Leroy
An evil version of Stitch created by Jumba, under orders of Hämsterviel.
Flat Character: Being Stitch's Evil Counterpart, all there is to Leroy, as despite the fact that he is one of the main antagonists of Leroy & Stitch, he does not get any character development. You could almost take him out of the movie and replace him with Stitch clones, he doesn't contribute much despite sharing the title with Stitch.
Balloon Belly: Frenchfry (#062) can make delectable meals from almost any foodstuffs, but the resulting meals have absolutely zero nutrition, making the consumer feel like they are never full. They eat and eat until they have swelled up to massive size, then Frenchfry cooks and eats the enlarged individual.
Canon Foreigner: The experiments from Comic Zone. The only ones with known names and/or numbers are Slobber (#347), Hisee (#531) and Tippy.
Evil Counterpart: Experiment 627 (has all of Stitch's strenghts but none of his weaknesses).
Expy: Babyfier is pretty much a fairy version of Mew with a baby theme and the cuteness turned Up to Eleven, down to sharing the index number 151. Even its whole concept draws a parallel with Mew's representation of an animal fetus.
Muck Monster: Ploot (#505) is a variation, he's not an actual blob of pollution, but he instead absorbs trash to grow larger and can flood entire cities by transforming his collected garbage into black sludge.
Mundane Utility: Lilo tries to find a place where an experiment can use its ability for good.
In fact, the 0-Series was created for testing and/or household purposes.
Neat Freak: Felix (#010), to the point that he considers anything to be trash, and any living thing to be a germ.
Sailor Earth: Because of the massive numbers of experiments that have not appeared, there are lots of fanfics about Lilo and Stitch capturing fanmade experiments.
