85 Facts About Jumba Jookiba

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Jumba Jookiba then gives Stitch his tiki necklace back before leaving.

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Jumba Jookiba carries the burden of supporting herself and her younger sister both financially and parentally.

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Jumba Jookiba's age is not made clear, but the fact that she was made her sister's guardian suggests that she is at least eighteen years old by the time of the first movie.

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Jumba Jookiba loves Lilo devotedly but does not always understand her.

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Jumba Jookiba frequently has to cope with and clean up after the various crises which involve Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley.

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Jumba Jookiba is renowned among her household for her bad cooking.

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Jumba Jookiba has been called an "idiot scientist", but he prefers to be known as an evil genius and is in fact surprisingly sociable and friendly outside of his work.

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8.

Jumba Jookiba has completely memorized the number and technical info on every one of Stitch's "cousins" he created.

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9.

Jumba Jookiba graduated from Evil Genius University with Dr Jacques von Hamsterviel, his lab partner.

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10.

When Jumba Jookiba became the Lead Scientist of Galaxy Defense Industries, the two began work on Jumba Jookiba's experiments, 001 becoming known as Shrink.

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The team-up went like this: Jumba Jookiba created the experiments and Hamsterviel funded them with his shady business deals.

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12.

Jumba Jookiba was incarcerated because of his forbidden genetic experiments, but later released and sent off to Earth with Pleakley in order to recapture one of his creations, Experiment 626.

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13.

Jumba Jookiba was later quietly left on Earth and has become a part of Lilo's extended family.

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14.

Jumba Jookiba has made many modifications to Lilo and Stitch's dune buggy to perfect it for catching his other experiments which landed on Earth not long after Jumba's arrival.

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Three years after Jumba Jookiba's experiments were scattered across Kauai, Hawaii, Lilo and Stitch had rounded up and reformed 624 experiments.

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16.

Jumba Jookiba was given the opportunity to return to his old laboratory by the Grand Councilwoman.

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17.

However, Jumba Jookiba used the record Lilo gave him to program a shut-off switch for Leroy: if he hears the song "Aloha ?Oe", he will glitch and switch off.

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18.

Jumba Jookiba appears in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep along with his homeworld Deep Space.

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19.

Jumba Jookiba reluctantly becomes Dr Jumba Jookiba's partner when forced to assist the scientist in capturing the escaped Experiment 626, and later becomes his best friend and roommate when the two are stranded on Earth.

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20.

Jumba Jookiba has no skeletal system and has an extremely small brain.

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21.

Jumba Jookiba gets an assistant, a new wardrobe, and the keys to the college's carpool van but is only a supervising professor and is dissatisfied with not being able to spread his knowledge of Earth and starts to miss Jumba and the rest of Lilo's family.

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22.

Jumba Jookiba goes to visit Jumba in the GACC van but gets caught by Dr Hamsterviel and nearly sent into a black hole which Stitch manages to save him, Pleakley and Jumba from.

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23.

Jumba Jookiba resembles a bipedal whale with gray skin, sky blue eyes and pillar-like legs, wearing black battle shirt and black shorts and stands 20 feet tall.

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24.

Jumba Jookiba is depicted in the movie being a very capable spaceship pilot, having marksman-like shooting skills and having competent leadership abilities.

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Jumba Jookiba has invented a "trog" call to capture experiments more easily.

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26.

Jumba Jookiba's plans are generally simple but reasonably solid, and his overwhelmingly consistent defeats are generally due to arrogance, incredibly bad luck, and the abilities of 626 rather than personal stupidity.

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27.

Jumba Jookiba tends to say "Blitznak" whenever something goes wrong.

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28.

Jumba Jookiba holds the creature upside-down in a spaceship prison cell for transport to a desert asteroid, but 626 manages to escape.

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Jumba Jookiba even tries to backstab Hamsterviel in a few episodes, most notably in "Finder" when Gantu gains an opportunity to be rehired to the Galactic Armada when Hamsterviel escapes to Earth, but in a reflection of how he was fired in the first film, he does not get his old job back after failing to capture Hamsterviel and accidentally kidnapping another innocent person in the process.

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30.

Jumba Jookiba destroys Stitch's bond charm, enraging Stitch greatly, but loses him when he and Ventus team up to destroy an Unversed which has boarded the ship.

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31.

Jumba Jookiba is rejected by her friends in "Tank" and teams up with Stitch to capture the experiment.

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32.

Jumba Jookiba initially tries to tell her friends about it, but stops and becomes friends with them again.

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33.

Jumba Jookiba has an Aunt Stacy who is a Hollywood producer and cannot remember Mertle's name.

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34.

Jumba Jookiba is called to Nani's house to determine the fate of her guardianship over her sister Lilo, only to find Lilo home by herself, the front door nailed shut, and Nani trying to get in via the dog door.

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35.

Jumba Jookiba mentions that he saved the earth from an alien race by convincing them that the mosquito was an endangered species, and that Earth should be turned into a wildlife preserve.

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36.

Jumba Jookiba is seen attending one of Lilo's birthday parties and appears in two of Lilo's photographs.

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37.

Jumba Jookiba seems to still work for the government in an underground almost men in black way, though he claims just to be a social worker, such as in an episode of the show where he gathers "essential" members of the populace for transport to safety shelters when an asteroid is on a collision course with the planet.

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38.

Jumba Jookiba appears again in the eleventh episode where he radios the Galactic Alliance to apprehend Stitch having witnessed his misbehavior, only to then call it off after seeing him remedy his mistake.

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39.

Jumba Jookiba is of an unknown species by name, but she seems to be reminiscent of a grey alien, with hoof-shaped feet, big eyes, and a big head.

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40.

Jumba Jookiba is reluctantly about to take Stitch to serve out his sentence, when she learns that Lilo and Nani paid money for Stitch and therefore legally own him, giving the Councilwoman a legal loophole she could use.

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41.

Jumba Jookiba happily allows him to stay with the Pelekais in exile on Earth and announces that the family is under the protection of the Galactic Alliance, saying they will be checking in on them every now and then.

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42.

Jumba Jookiba revealed that she had previously met Cobra Bubbles during the Roswell case, commenting that he used to have hair.

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43.

Jumba Jookiba is only one of four humans aside from Lilo's family who is aware of the aliens and experiments.

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44.

Jumba Jookiba is two feet tall with a rodent-like appearance with white fur, red eyes, a hamster-like body, a gerbil-like lower body, a rabbit-like face, rabbit-like ears, and wears a red cape with a golden 'H' brooch on the front.

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45.

Jumba Jookiba has a highly inflated ego and is rude to everyone he sees, usually yelling at others with often poorly-constructed and redundant insults.

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46.

Jumba Jookiba is often mistaken for a gerbil-like creature, despite his insistence that he is hamster-like.

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47.

Jumba Jookiba now goes out in the open more often to fight against Stitch and his new friend Yuna.

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48.

Jumba Jookiba's cameo implies that the series takes place on a different post-Leroy timeline from the anime, since Gantu remains in his returned position as Captain of the Galactic Armada in this series.

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49.

Jumba Jookiba appeared in a 2014 Disney Villains-themed event at Walt Disney World called "Villains Unleashed" alongside Gantu, marking the first time that either character physically appear in an American Disney park.

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50.

Jumba Jookiba can be considered somewhat of a coward, especially when Gantu forces him to battle Stitch on occasions.

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51.

Jumba Jookiba's sandwiches are apparently very tasty as even Gantu asks for some.

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52.

Jumba Jookiba was designed for Stitch's purpose but was considered a failed experiment due to his lazy nature.

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53.

When Stitch first gets loose on Turo, Reuben comes with Jumba Jookiba to help him track the creature down, but eventually, the arrest would come and Reuben would be podded.

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54.

When Jumba Jookiba refused to reveal the location of the other experiment pods, Gantu and Hamsterviel, unaware of 625's lazy nature, decided to activate Experiment 625 and use him to torture Jumba Jookiba.

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55.

Jumba Jookiba is portrayed as Gantu's wise-cracking sidekick and often tags along during experiment hunting.

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56.

Jumba Jookiba goes over to Gantu's now junkyard ship to ask 625 to use the video phone, and even makes a sandwich as a peace offering.

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57.

Jumba Jookiba initially denies being that he's too busy turning the ship into a sandwich shop.

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58.

Jumba Jookiba asks Reuben for help in saving Stitch, but he claims it's not their problem.

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59.

Jumba Jookiba is voiced by Frank Welker, while he is voiced by Steven Blum in the anime's dubbed version.

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60.

Jumba Jookiba's "one true place" is a disused lighthouse on Kauai, which he can power up for full operation.

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61.

Jumba Jookiba appears in the video game Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.

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62.

Jumba Jookiba has made costumed character appearances in Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Paris, usually with other experiments.

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63.

Genetic experiments are genetically engineered alien creatures created by Dr Jumba Jookiba who are featured throughout the franchise, of which Stitch is among them.

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Jumba Jookiba was designed by Jose Zelaya, an El Salvador-born character designer working at Disney Television Animation.

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Jumba Jookiba has appeared in various video and mobile games, including Line Corporation's Disney Tsum Tsum, Bandai Namco's Disney Tsum Tsum Festival, Gameloft's Disney Magic Kingdoms and Disney Getaway Blast, and PerBlue's Disney Heroes: Battle Mode, while a plush toy of the character appears in the third episode of Monsters at Work.

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Jumba Jookiba then appears briefly in the episode "Slick" where she, Lilo and the other girls compete against each other to sell the most candy bars for their halau hula.

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Jumba Jookiba then makes a very short appearance at the end of "Wishy-Washy" where she, Lilo and the other girls all graduate to intermediate hula.

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Jumba Jookiba has red fur, frilly ears, yellow teeth, bent antennae, three bent spines on his back, a fluffy tail, and a slightly deeper voice as well as two extra, retractable arms and retractable claws on his front paws.

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Jumba Jookiba started creating him from a template similar to Stitch, until Dr Hamsterviel captured him and forced him to make a "new version" of 626.

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Jumba Jookiba is designed to have all of Stitch's powers, but he has the ability to disguise himself as Stitch by changing his fur color from red to blue and instantly regrow his fur.

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Fortunately, Jumba Jookiba secretly programmed a failsafe into Leroy before he was charged: If Leroy hears the song "Aloha ?Oe", his nervous system will shut down.

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Jumba Jookiba tries to call him "627", but Gantu reminds him that he's already made Experiment 627.

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73.

Jumba Jookiba's grandpa did the honor of giving her a special type of moonsand as a good luck charm in her study of karate before he left.

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Jumba Jookiba's life remained normal yet happy until one day, after a varied coincidence, she meets Stitch, who crash-landed on her island after he got caught in a wormhole that sent him to Earth.

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Jumba Jookiba is kind of a coward, but with the help of his friends, he can find the courage to best whatever he can.

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Jumba Jookiba is voiced by Colleen O'Shaughnessey in the dubbed version.

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77.

Jumba Jookiba makes sporadic appearances in photographs during the first season, but finally makes his first physical appearance in the second season.

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Jumba Jookiba is voiced by Keith Silverstein in the dubbed version.

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Jumba Jookiba is considered cute and is beloved by everyone except for Stitch, who finds her to be a nuisance, especially since she tends to eat food off of him, often by tricking him to look away while he's eating or about to eat.

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Jumba Jookiba was found by Pleakley, who mistakes her to be a kind of fruit fly, and was discovered by Jumba to have been enslaved by Hamsterviel using a controlling device, which Jumba then removes, freeing her.

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Jumba Jookiba is in a partnership with Dr Hamsterviel to get the Neo-PowerChip that is inside of Stitch.

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82.

Jumba Jookiba is voiced by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn in the dubbed version.

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83.

Jumba Jookiba helps him ward off the space criminals that want him.

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84.

Jumba Jookiba tries to take care of her younger sister after their parents' death, but their aunt doesn't believe that Jiejie would be able to raise Ai well.

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85.

Jumba Jookiba serves as this series's counterpart to Nani Pelekai.

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