Overview
Character Profile
| Creator | Chris Sanders |
|---|---|
| First Appearance | Lilo & Stitch (2002) |
| Age | 6 (original film), 7 (birthday scene at end of the original film, Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, Stitch! The Movie!, various episodes of Lilo & Stitch: The Series), 9 (later episodes of The Series, Leroy & Stitch) |
| Hometown | Kokaua Town, Hawaii, United States |
| Voiced by | Daveigh Chase; see below for others |
Lilo Pelekai is a young Hawaiian girl who lives with her older sister and legal guardian Nani on the island of Kauai. A highly eccentric individual, she has various interests ranging from traditions of her local culture, such as hula and surfing, to those atypical for girls her age, including horror and sci-fi B-movies, photography of tourists, and Elvis Presley.
Lilo lost her and her sister's parents prior to the events of the first film. Treated as an outcast by her peers, she didn't have any real friends until she met Stitch, who she adopted as her "dog" without realizing about his alien nature at the time. Noticing his aggression, she used her love of 'ohana, a Hawaiian term for extended family, to tame him. By the end of the film, her and Nani's family would be revived by the alien additions of Stitch, his creator Jumba Jookiba (who became the girls' "uncle"), and Jumba's partner Pleakley (who became the girls' cross-dressing "aunt"). In the subsequent television series Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Lilo and Stitch would work together to tame Jumba's other 625 experiments made before Stitch, with Lilo giving Stitch's "cousins" names along with occupations (referring to them as "one true places") where they could use their abilities for productive purposes.
Lilo was removed as a principal character in the later spin-off series Stitch! and Stitch & Ai, where different take her place as Stitch's best friend. In the former series, she and Stitch had separated prior to the events of the show when she grew up and went to college. They planned to reunite one time, but Lilo missed their meeting when she heard that Nani was expecting and decided to see her sister first. This caused Stitch (who wasn't aware of Nani's pregnancy) to wait for too long at the beach they were going to meet at, leading him to falsely assume that Lilo abandoned him and deciding to leave her and Hawaii for good. They would reunite years later during the anime's third season at his new home in Japan. The anime episode she appears in also revealed that she since had a daughter of her owned named Ani, who looks identical to her mother back in her youth. In the Chinese series Stitch & Ai, however, which was produced without any consideration of the anime, Lilo only appears in flashbacks in which Stitch (who was kidnapped from her before he escaped to China) vaguely remembers his time with her.
Work Appearances
- Lilo & Stitch
- Stitch! The Movie
- Lilo & Stitch: The Series
- Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
- The Origin of Stitch (short film; cameo)
- Leroy & Stitch
- Stitch! ~Best Friends Forever~ (anime series; one-episode appearance)
- Stitch & Ai (Chinese animated series; flashbacks only)
Other Information
Character Voice (CV)
Lilo was primarily voiced by American actress Daveigh Chase, who voiced the character in the first, second, and fourth (released) films and first TV series. Chase was unable to reprise the role in Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch. Instead, a friend of Chase's, famed American actress Dakota Fanning, took over the role for that film. Canadian-American voice actress Tara Strong voiced an adult version of the character in The Series episode "Skip". In the English dub of the anime Stitch!, where the character reappears as an adult, Gwendoline Yeo voiced the character, with the young version of her in flashback scenes voiced by Melissa Fahn (who also voiced Lilo's daughter Ani in the same series). Lilo is not voiced in the Chinese animated series Stitch & Ai, which only features her in flashbacks.
In Japanese, Lilo was voiced by Natsuki Yamashita in Lilo & Stitch, Stitch! The Movie, and the first season of Lilo & Stitch: The Series. Yume Miyamoto took over the role for the second season of The Series and in Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch. Sumire Morohoshi voiced Lilo in Leroy & Stitch and Stitch!, with Tomoe Hanba voicing the adult Lilo in the anime.
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