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Wrong Juvenile Form

  • In "Baby-fier", how does Stitch have a baby form? Shouldn't he have been in pod form instead?

Bonnie and Clyde caught

  • Why were Bonnie (149) and Clyde (150) sent to prison? They might be fluent in English, making them seem more human-like than many of the other experiments, but they were still only following their programming. Many of the other experiments caused far more property damage and endangered more peoples' lives: by the same logic they could be charged with vandalism.
    • Prison might be their "ideal home" or whatever terms the series uses (I can't remember as it's been so long).
      • The term is “the one place each belongs”. As for why, because they’re specifically programmed to be criminals.

Fibber the Lie Detector

  • Wouldn't Fibber do as much harm as good in an interrogation room? Police frequently lie to suspects about what evidence they have, or accomplices snitching on them, to try to get them to confess, but Fibber would make this impossible. Perhaps a better place for him would be as a fact checker for debates since he can detect a false statement even when the one making it believes it to be true (e.g. beeping when Bonnie claimed to be too smart for Pleakley's E.A.R.W.A.X. therapy).
    • Fibber was not ever given a confirmed one true place; his supposedly working for the police was something that the fans back then made up.

Isn't that......?

  • The romance between Angel and Stitch. All the experiments are related, if not by DNA then just by being created by the same person, and call each other cousins so would Angel and Stitch call each other cousins? Wouldn't it be weird that they call each other cousins but also have a relationship-type thing?
    • I doubt that Jumba created all 626 experiments using the same batch of DNA, and if the "Ugly Duckling" scene from the first film is any indication, while he may know that Jumba created him, neither of the two seems to consider the other as his "father" or "son", necessarily. It's something like with the demigods in the Percy Jackson series - they're all related to each other technically, but it's in some convoluted way - and the gods don't have DNA, anyway - so when they do refer to this relation, they just call each other cousins while still having relationships.
    • The whole "cousins" thing is also based on Hawaiian slang, not having anything to do with blood relations. (Also, the experiments are not directly related considering they're all made with the DNA of various different species, even if Stitch and Angel look similar to one another and Reuben shares Stitch's powers. Leroy is the closest experiment Stitch has to a brother since he was made with the Experiment 626 template.) The slang is basically equivalent to the Australian or British "mate" over there. As Lilo tells Stitch in Stitch! The Movie:
      Lilo: In Hawaii, everyone calls each other 'cousin'.

"Friends"? Them ain't how friends work, Lilo

  • In the Dupe episode Lilo complains that Mertle and her posse are her only friends outside of Stitch. She has more than 4 experiment friends outside of Stitch and some of them showed up to the party her "friends" missed. I can see her not noticing but nobody ever calls her on this type of logic which she maintains throughout the series.
    • Maybe she meant her only "close" friend. She cares about the various experiments, but she isn't as close to most of them as she is with Stitch since most of their one true places aren't where she spends most of her time. She lives with Stitch and spends plenty of time in hula class with the others. Still, if she considers those girls as "close" friends, that is still kind of sad.
      • Perhaps, to her, those are the closest thing she has to "friends" (and kids tend to have really loose definitions of "friends"), as, on a good day, they put up with her and, in one episode of the series, when Mertle's not around, it's shown that they (or Yuki, rather) can be friendly to her. Basically, Mertle's the Alpha Bitch (inasmuch as an elementary school girl can be), while the other girls are, what they say on the interwebs, "clout chasers", however, Lilo sees and interacts with them on a regular, so they're, in a sense, "proximity friends", just not really great ones.

Why were these guys made?

  • Why were experiments like Hunkahunka and Morpholomew created? How can either making everyone fall in love or shapeshifting take over a planet at all?
    • Jumba was probably still figuring out how to get different abilities through genetic research. They are experiments, after all.
      • I meant that they're useless for what Jumba was intending for them to do, i.e. Take over planets.
      • You're missing what I'm saying. They were experiments, not successful experiments.
    • On top of that, falling in love and shapeshifting could actually be useful when it comes to taking over the world. If I'm remembering the episodes correctly Hunkahunka made the person who "Fell in love" follow the other person and do whatever they said in an attempt to please them, getting someone with a powerful position or a lot of money to do that for you could help. And morphing is obvious, you shapeshift into someone in a powerful position (president, king, etc.) and use that power to take over.
      • Even assuming these experiments were released on their own, without Jumba or someone directing them, they could still cause untold damage. Hunkahunka can make people infatuated with each other... what happens when this infatuation isn't one-way, or mutual, but set up to be three-or-more ways, and if it overrides normal morals and ethics? Bad things can happen. Now imagine this happening on a large scale, with seemingly no cause, and you have massive amounts of Paranoia Fuel. As for Morpholomew, shape-shifting gives him literally infinite applicability, especially if he decides to Kill and Replace or if it comes with a built-in Healing Factor.
    • Jumba really isn't as evil as he likes to present himself as. Hämsterviel was sponsoring him to make world-conquering monsters, but his experiments, for the most part at least, are more mean-spirited pranksters than population-ending nutjobs. Really, considering everything we know about how Jumba behaves, he was probably more interested in the challenge of making his little monsters than actually using them to hurt people.

  • More importantly (same poster as above), how come no one knows about the damn things? Sparky's little rampage in Stitch! The Movie was pretty public and some of the other experiments (Kixx, Yaarp, Richter) have caused some pretty conspicuous damage and were seen by a lot of people, some of whom would probably have video cameras. How come videos of them are not all over YouTube? Are people just that unobservant?
    • Lilo & Stitch shares a universe with several other animated series, and is one-sidedly canon to Disney comics.note  Bearing that in mind, there may be dozens of weirdos and mad scientists running around, and after a short fad the locals just got used to the Experiments, who are unusual but in this context nothing ground-breaking.
    • It's probably a Weirdness Censor at work - nobody looks twice at Jumba once he puts on a tourist outfit. As for YouTube, check the publication date of the movie again.
      • Well, these days, such creatures would be all over social media.

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