83 Facts About Lilo Pelekai

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Lilo Pelekai is one of the two title characters of the franchise.

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Lilo Pelekai is a young girl with long, straight black hair and brown eyes.

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Lilo Pelekai's mother is depicted as kind and loving, as well as an excellent hula dancer.

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Lilo Pelekai loves and misses her parents very much; she keeps a picture of them under her pillow and initially would not allow Stitch to touch it.

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5.

Lilo Pelekai had gone to college and they planned to meet on the beach when she returned, but when that day came, Nani was heavily pregnant and caused Lilo Pelekai to be late.

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Stitch, for unknown reasons, was never aware of Nani's condition, and since Lilo Pelekai didn't arrive at the time they planned, he thought she had forgotten about him.

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Lilo Pelekai discovers this when she finds his necklace on the beach and cries.

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Lilo Pelekai then gives Stitch his tiki necklace back before leaving.

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9.

Lilo Pelekai carries the burden of supporting herself and her younger sister both financially and parentally.

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Lilo Pelekai'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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11.

Lilo Pelekai loves Lilo devotedly but does not always understand her.

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12.

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

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13.

Lilo Pelekai is renowned among her household for her bad cooking.

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14.

Lilo Pelekai 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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15.

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

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16.

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

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18.

Lilo Pelekai 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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19.

However, Jumba used the record Lilo Pelekai 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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20.

Lilo Pelekai 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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21.

Lilo Pelekai has no skeletal system and has an extremely small brain.

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22.

Lilo Pelekai 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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23.

Lilo Pelekai 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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24.

Lilo Pelekai 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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25.

When he is seen by humans on Hawaii, he typically attempts to pass himself off as Samoan, though Lilo Pelekai once told Mertle he was a dog-catcher from Nairobi, which the other girl believed.

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26.

Lilo Pelekai 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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27.

Lilo Pelekai has invented a "trog" call to capture experiments more easily.

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28.

Lilo Pelekai'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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29.

Lilo Pelekai tends to say "Blitznak" whenever something goes wrong.

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30.

Lilo Pelekai 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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31.

Lilo Pelekai 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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32.

Lilo Pelekai 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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33.

Lilo Pelekai tries to be friends with Mertle in several episodes, but this usually just results in even more social rejection.

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34.

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

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35.

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

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36.

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

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37.

Lilo Pelekai 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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38.

Lilo Pelekai 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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39.

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

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40.

Lilo Pelekai 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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41.

Lilo Pelekai 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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42.

Lilo Pelekai 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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43.

Lilo Pelekai 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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44.

Lilo Pelekai 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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45.

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

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46.

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

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47.

Lilo Pelekai 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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48.

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

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50.

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

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51.

Lilo Pelekai'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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52.

Lilo Pelekai 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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53.

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

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54.

Lilo Pelekai's sandwiches are apparently very tasty as even Gantu asks for some.

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55.

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

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56.

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

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57.

Lilo Pelekai 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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58.

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

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59.

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

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60.

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

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61.

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

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62.

Lilo Pelekai appears in the video game Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep.

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

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

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Lilo Pelekai 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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When she and Lilo Pelekai were becoming friends, Mertle tried to befriend her so that she would not be Lilo Pelekai's friend, claiming that she was weird.

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Lilo Pelekai 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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Lilo Pelekai 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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Lilo Pelekai 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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Lilo Pelekai 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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Lilo Pelekai'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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Lilo Pelekai'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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Lilo Pelekai 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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Lilo Pelekai is voiced by Colleen O'Shaughnessey in the dubbed version.

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

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Lilo Pelekai is voiced by Keith Silverstein in the dubbed version.

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

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Lilo Pelekai is voiced by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn in the dubbed version.

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Lilo Pelekai helps him ward off the space criminals that want him.

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82.

Lilo Pelekai 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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83.

Lilo Pelekai serves as this series's counterpart to Nani Pelekai.

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