Felix (Lilo & Stitch)

Felix, also known as Experiment 010 (and temporarily Oscar), is an illegal genetic experiment created by Jumba Jookiba and a character in the Lilo & Stitch franchise. He is designed to clean and sterilize everything in sight, but had a flaw in his programming that caused him to be unable to tell the difference between dirt and living things. Thus, he saw all living beings as giant, filthy germs needing to be sterilized until Jumba temporarily reprogrammed him into a dirt freak. He was captured by Gantu, but was rescued in "Snafu". Although his "one true place" was never depicted in Lilo & Stitch: The Series, he was eventually given one in the Stitch! anime, with him becoming a mobile recycling service.
==Background==
===Personality===
Felix was originally obsessed with cleanliness to the point that he considered even individuals germs that must be "sterilized" at all costs. It is also shown that Felix has a defect that kicks in when he is faced with anything aged or antique because he doesn't understand the concept of antiques, and as far as he knows, they only collect dust.
During Felix's reprogramming, he became obsessed with dirt. The only word that 010 can say is "Dirty!" However, as Felix, he says it disgustedly, while when reprogrammed to Oscar, he exclaims it happily. In the Stitch! anime, however, where he only appears in his Felix persona, it is generalized to being the only word he says without any tonal consistency; although in one episode of the anime, when he and Sparky inform Stitch about Jumba's dinosaur robot going on a rampage, Felix exclaims, "E. rex!" This remains the only instance to date that he says anything other than "dirty". 
Jumba appears to have found the right balance in Felix's programming. Felix is currently obsessed with cleanliness instead of only dirt, respecting antiques and recycling when appropriate. According to Jumba in the anime, Felix only sleeps when his stomach is full.
===Physical appearance===
Felix is a small, green-furred experiment resembling both an elephant and an anteater. He has a small body, a thin long tail with a brushy fuzz at the end, a large head with a long tubular elephant/vacuum-like trunk, large black eyes, small short ears, four fingers on each hand and three toes on each foot (all ending in black claws) and three dark-tipped antennae arranged in a crest-like structure.
===Powers and abilities===
Felix can suck up objects and dust using his anteater-like trunk/snout, sweep with his tail, and spin himself into a tornado to clean. He can also shoot lasers out of his snout, which is used to disintegrate germs and small creatures. After his reprogramming, he could release the sucked-up dirt in massive bursts.
==Appearances==
===Lilo & Stitch: The Series===
Experiment 010 was the tenth genetic experiment created by Jumba with Hämsterviel's funding. He was designed to keep Jumba's house clean and tidy, but due to a glitch in his program, he viewed all organisms (including individuals) as germs that must be "sterilized" at all costs, and threw away anything even remotely dirty. 010 and the other first 624 experiments were deactivated and smuggled to Earth by Jumba during his mission to capture Experiment 626.
All of the experiment pods were released and scattered across the island of Kauai.
Experiment 010 was activated off-screen and captured by Gantu at some point. Due to 010's tendency to throw out anything that was even remotely filthy (including prized belongings), Gantu sent 010 to Hämsterviel, but he found 010 annoying as well, and thus sent him back to Gantu, who abandoned 010.
Left with nothing else to do, 010 started cleaning up the beach until he was discovered by Lilo and Stitch, who captured him in a picnic basket and took him home. Later, Lilo brought 010, named Felix, to her hula school, where he tidied up the auditorium, but due to a mishap with Moses' oriental rug, Felix was taken back to the Pelekais' house.
Although Lilo and Stitch had become less impressed by the neat freak, Felix's cleanliness proved to be very useful at home, which fascinated Pleakley to the point that he befriended the cleaning experiment. However, he then started destroying and throwing out Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley's personal belongings.
Eventually, Felix decided to "antisepticize" Lilo's ʻohana as well and, locking them inside the house (save Pleakley, whom Felix locked outside), relentlessly pursued them until they were able to trap him in a container. Jumba then reprogrammed Felix to be less of a neat freak, but instead of just liking dirt, it caused Felix to begin making things incredibly dirty.
Lilo and Stitch later sent Felix (renamed Oscar) back to Gantu as a present, but due to the experiment's new programming, rather than help Gantu clean up his ship like the latter hoped, Felix made it even dirtier. It can be presumed that Gantu sent Felix back to Hämsterviel after this messy incident.
In "Remmy", Felix was one of the experiments in Lilo's dream.
In "Woops", Felix was sent back to Gantu along with all of Hämsterviel's other captive experiments after Experiment 600 caused chaos and nearly blew Hämsterviel's cover to the prison guards.
Felix reappeared in "Snafu", and was freed along with Gantu's other captive experiments by Lilo, Stitch, and several other experiments in a rescue mission.
===The Origin of Stitch===
Felix was one of the experiments that were gliding on the screen, but he is identified as 602 instead of 010.
===Leroy & Stitch===
The first 624 experiments, including Felix, were rounded up by Leroy and taken to a stadium to be destroyed. However, Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, Reuben, and Gantu arrived before the experiments could be destroyed.
It is unknown whether or not Felix participated in the following battle between the experiments and the Leroy clones.
The Leroys soon gained the upper hand in the battle, but were defeated when Lilo, Stitch, Reuben, and several other experiments performed the song "Aloha ʻOe", which caused the Leroy army to shut down due to the original Leroy's fail-safe.
===Stitch!===
Felix first appeared in his own episode in the Stitch! anime where Stitch summoned him so he could get out of cleaning the house. It is shown in this episode that Felix has a defect that kicks in when he is faced with anything aged or antique. However, Felix apparently doesn't understand the concept of antiques, and as far as he knows, they only collect dust. Thus, his programming causes him to terminate anything aged in order to prevent the buildup of dust. In the end, he is reprogrammed to collect things that can be renewed and recycles them. His one true place after this is as a mobile recycling service.
In the two-part Season 1 finale "Stitch vs. Hämsterviel", Hämsterviel puts Felix along with Sparky and Angel under his control. He also appeared in "Dracula Jr.".
==Disney Parks==
===Tokyo Disneyland===
Felix premiered at Tokyo Disneyland in 2006 during the "Find Stitch" event in "Lilo & Stitch's Huli Huli Ohana Bash". He also made an appearance in the 2009 show "Dreams Within".
===Disneyland Paris===
Felix appeared at Disneyland Paris in 2011 for Stitch's Hawaiian Paradise Party.
==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*Both of 010's names and personalities are references to the main characters of the 1970 ABC sitcom .
*Felix was activated off-screen.
*Felix, Phoon, Blowhard, and one unconfirmed experiment are the only known experiments that have trunks similar to elephants and tapirs.
*Felix appears, along with several other Lilo & Stitch characters, in a parody of the Disney Channel Original Movie High School Musical, which was broadcast as part of the High School Musical: Around the World one-year anniversary special.
*Felix's antennae appear in the online game Jumba's Lab.
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