Stitch was created via genetic engineering by alien mad scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba to cause chaos and destruction across the galaxy but was rehabilitated by Lilo thanks to ʻohana, the Hawaiian concept of extended family.

Most of the sequel and spin-off material of the franchise also involves many genetic experiments similar to Stitch, whom he treats as his "cousins", Captain Gantu, a giant militaristic alien from the original film who becomes an antagonist to the main ʻohana in later works, and Dr. Jacques von Hämsterviel, Jumba's diminutive former partner-in-crime who desires the experiments he funded the creation of to use them for intergalactic domination.

An extraterrestrial mad scientist named Dr. Jumba Jookiba (voiced by David Ogden Stiers) is put on trial for illegally creating creatures to cause chaos and destruction.

Jumba gets sent on a mission to retrieve his creation along with a partner on board, self-proclaimed Earth expert Agent Pleakley (Kevin McDonald), who is forced to go along to keep an eye on him.

Masquerading as a dog, 626 is adopted by a little girl named Lilo Pelekai (Daveigh Chase) who is living with her 19-year-old sister Nani (Tia Carrere).

Ex-Captain Gantu (Kevin Michael Richardson) is hired by the evil Dr. Hämsterviel (Jeff Bennett) to retrieve the remaining 625 experiments.

Meanwhile, on Earth, Stitch is still not fitting in, but when trouble comes calling through the form of Experiment 221 (Frank Welker), he and Lilo must band together to stop his electrical rampage.

Meanwhile, Gantu ends up with a new ally, Experiment 625 (Rob Paulsen), but is displeased by his lazy behavior and love of sandwiches.

The Movie left off, Lilo and Stitch are given the task of collecting the rest of Jumba's missing experiments, changing them from bad to good, and finding the one place where they truly belong.

The Movie, Lilo (voiced by Dakota Fanning in this film) and her classmates are preparing for a hula competition where the winner gets to perform at the local May Day festival.

After three years, their mission to capture all 624 experiments and repurpose them on Earth has been completed, so Lilo and her family are honored as heroes by the Galactic Alliance.

Lilo and Stitch must reunite and unite every single experiment they have to fight Leroy and his army of duplicated clones.

This anime short aired on Disney Channel Japan on June 18, 2007[citation needed] and was later released internationally on September 23, 2008 on the High School Musical 2: Deluxe Dance Edition 2-disc DVD set.

[2][3][4][5] The anime series features a Japanese girl named Yuna Kamihara (voiced by Eden Riegel in the English dub) in place of Lilo and is set on a fictional island off the shore of Okinawa instead of Hawaii.

He ends up on the fictitious Izayoi Island where he meets Yuna, a tomboyish girl who lives with her grandmother (Gwendoline Yeo) and practices karate.

Meanwhile, Hämsterviel (Kirk Thornton), who is at large along with Gantu (Keith Silverstein) and Experiment 625/Reuben (Dave Wittenberg), wants to defeat Stitch and take his good deeds to gain ultimate power.

The first season sees Stitch doing good deeds while enjoying his new life with Yuna on Izayoi, with them befriending various yōkai.

~The Mischievous Alien's Great Adventure~, sees Stitch continuing to live his life with Yuna and completing his goal of doing good deeds for his wish to be granted.

More characters join the cast during this season, including BooGoo (Blum), a purple insect-like alien who becomes the aliens' new pet, Sasha (Melissa Fahn), a transfer student who becomes Yuna's newest friend, and Tigerlily Sakai (Laura Bailey), Yuna's beautiful but mean cousin who bullies her and Stitch.

Additionally, more experiments, both originating from Lilo & Stitch: The Series and newly introduced to the franchise, appear from this season onward, with most of them now inexplicably under Hämsterviel's possession.

By the end of this season, however, Stitch loses his motivation to have his wish granted, deciding that living with Yuna is better than being the strongest in the universe.

~Best Friends Forever~, Yuna, Stitch, Tigerlily, Jumba, Pleakley, and BooGoo move to a city called Okinawa New Town.

[38][36] On October 9, 2023, Dynamite announced that a spinoff comic written by Greg Pak with art by Giulia Giacomino would be released in stores starting January 2024.

[39] The comics' first arc has the title duo going on a world tour to escape giant alien robots who are going after Stitch for his DNA.

Agent Stitch is a children's book series written by American author Steve Behling and illustrated by Italian artist Arianna Rea.

The book series takes place on an alternate timeline after the original film, with Stitch becoming a detective for the United Galactic Federation as part of the Galactic Detective Agency to investigate extraterrestrial-related mysteries happening in various Earth cities, such as Paris, New York City, and Seoul.

Disney's Lilo & Stitch: Trouble in Paradise (titled simply Disney's Lilo & Stitch on the American release of the PlayStation version)[41] is a platform video game developed by Blitz Games for PlayStation and Microsoft Windows that was released on June 14, 2002.

In the game's story, Angel (X-624) gets kidnapped by Gantu and Hämsterviel, and Stitch has to rescue her by traveling into ten worlds.

was a "theatre in the round" show that opened on November 16, 2004, in Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort as a replacement for the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter.

Stitch's Supersonic Celebration was a short-lived stage show that ran from May 6, 2009, to June 27, 2009, at Magic Kingdom at the Walt Disney World Resort.