Angel

Angel, also known as Experiment 624, is a major character in the Lilo & Stitch franchise. She is an illegal genetic experiment created by Jumba Jookiba, Stitch's love interest/mate (or "boojiboo", as they call each other), and female counterpart. She is designed to turn people and experiments from good to evil by singing a siren song containing a special musical neuro-linguistic behavioral modification trigger to convert her victims' morality; the effects can be reversed by chanting the song backwards. She was captured by Gantu, but was rescued in "Snafu". After her rescue, she became an intergalactic singing sensation and Stitch's true love. Her demanding career requires her and Stitch to maintain a long-distance relationship.
==Background==
===Personality===
Angel is shown to be seductive and deeply enamored with Stitch. She is generally sweet and friendly, but sometimes she can be downright nasty. Since being reformed, her sweeter side shows a lot more. She has a very feminine voice and has been noticed flirting with the other experiments until Stitch eventually wins her heart.
Oddly enough, Reuben also has a crush on Angel, though she has shown extreme displeasure towards him. Angel was taught the meaning of love and ʻohana by Lilo and Stitch, and would do just about anything for them. She has even helped Stitch out of trouble on several occasions.
===Physical appearance===
Angel is a small, pink female koala-like experiment with a strong feminine resemblance to Stitch, with two long, tendril-like antennae. She has long eyelashes and large dark purple eyes that seem slightly larger than Stitch's eyes. She also has big ears, but they lack notches and have more rounded tips, unlike Stitch's big ears. Her nose is purple and smaller than Stitch's. She also has a slightly puffed-out chest and stands slightly shorter than Stitch.
Her color scheme mirrors Stitch's but with palette-swapped pinks instead of blues. For example, her ears are violet-tipped with light pink insides, her nails are purple, and she often possesses lavender markings behind her that are inconsistently drawn in her animated appearances. In her eponymous debut episode of Lilo & Stitch: The Series and in various Stitch! anime episodes, she has a marking that resembles an upside-down heart. In the series episode "Snafu" and in other anime episodes, her back marking became more abstract and she inexplicably gained a marking on her occiput (the back of her head), much like how Stitch has an occipital marking. In brief scenes of "Snafu" and in Leroy & Stitch, she lacks any markings on her back or her occiput. Various official Disney merchandise, promotional imagery, and crossover game appearances (such as Disney Magic Kingdoms) have established that the single upside-down heart-shaped back marking to be the canonical marking. There are lighter spots around her eyes and light fur from the bottom of her mouth to her stomach. In addition, she has a thin white V-shaped marking on her chest.
She once wore a collar with Hämsterviel's phone number on the tag.
===Powers and abilities===
Angel's song causes any formerly evil person who hears it (including rehabilitated experiments created before her) to revert back to evil. Also, when Angel's song is sung backwards, it will have the opposite effect (turning evil people and previous experiments to good). However, experiments that were created after her (namely Stitch, Reuben, 627, and Leroy) are immune to her song.
Angel's song goes as follows:
:Acoota, chi-meeto
:Ikata no moota
:Naga to nala
:Itume, te dooka
English translation: Heed me, you are in my power. Henceforth, nothing shall be too cruel or too abominable for you. You cannot escape.
The lyrics of Angel's song when sung backwards are as follows:
:Akood et emuti
:Alan ot agan
:Atoom on ataki
:Oteem-ich atooca
Like Stitch, Angel has pads on her hands and feet that produce a sticky substance which lets her scale walls and ceilings, a very flexible skeletal system, and retractable claws on her front and back paws, but unlike Stitch, she lacks an extra pair of retractable arms. She is strong enough to shatter the sealed glass containers that experiments had been captured in by headbutting them; however, the true extent of her strength is unknown. Additionally, she has acrobatic reflexes and is shown to be highly athletic and skilled with karate. She can use her antennae as prehensile limbs in order to reach distant objects or operate mechanisms (such as a button). She is naturally heat resistant to toxins and extremely durable. She is able to speak fluently (but only in the anime), as well as Tantalog, her native language (with a soft Scottish accent).
==Appearances==
===Lilo & Stitch: The Series===
Experiment 624 was the 624th genetic experiment created by Jumba with Hämsterviel's funding. She was designed to revert rehabilitated people and experiments to evil by singing her siren song. 624 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.
At an unknown point after this, Experiment 624 was activated and captured by Gantu.
While Lilo and Stitch were checking out a store in town, they suddenly came upon Gantu seemingly trying to capture 624. However, he was actually attempting to lead 624 to Lilo and Stitch so as to trick them into taking her in, which was part of his evil plan. Just then, 624 came out of nowhere and bumped into Lilo.
Lilo scolded 624 and told her to watch where she was going, but the latter just growled at Lilo and fled. Stitch quickly spotted 624 from a distance and chased after her. He soon found her in an alley and was instantly smitten with her. 624 then licked Stitch, who immediately fell in love with her. Lilo was already suspicious of her, though Stitch ultimately convinced Lilo to let 624 come home with them, after which he named her Angel.
During her stay, Angel seduced Stitch while the latter developed a crush. At one point, as they sat together in a hammock, Stitch started picking his nose with his tongue. This seemed to disturb Angel, so he stopped and excused himself. However, she smiled and then mimicked Stitch by picking her own nose with her tongue. Delighted by their seemingly common traits, Stitch hugged Angel while Pleakley filmed them, which made Stitch quite peeved. Lilo grew increasingly paranoid and restricted Angel to sleeping in a basket instead of with Stitch.
Sometime later, Lilo consulted Jumba to find out what Angel's primary function was. However, before Jumba could warn Lilo about Angel's powers, she sang into Jumba's ear, causing the latter to revert to evil and cover up for her. After Lilo and Stitch left Jumba alone, he allowed Angel access to his experiment database.
Unbeknownst to them, Angel was working for Gantu, who had sent her to successfully seduce Stitch and lure him into a trap. Ironically, Experiment 625 was similarly attracted to Angel (though she apparently had no romantic feelings for him whatsoever).
Angel woke up the next morning to see Stitch greeting her with a bouquet of flowers. She was flattered by this but then attempted to revert Stitch to evil as well. However, much to her confusion, this failed because Stitch had been created after her, thus making him immune to her song, although he complimented her singing.
Angel soon left the house with regret for Stitch and reported back to Gantu, but not before reverting several rehabilitated experiments to evil along the way. Confused but unalarmed, Stitch pursued Angel around the island while trying to woo her in various ways. She eventually lured Stitch to Gantu's hideout, where Gantu and the recaptured evil experiments lurked inside a concealed ship.
At the hideout, Angel revealed her true colors by trapping Stitch inside, but began to feel guilt over betraying him as the ship took off. When the now-evil experiments were about to finish Stitch off, Angel, realizing how much she did love him, turned the experiments to good again before Kixx could land the fatal blow. The experiments then disabled the ship's navigation and escaped the hideout while carrying Stitch triumphantly.
Lilo eventually had a change of heart about Angel after learning that she did save Stitch's life. However, when all seemed well, Gantu came for Angel and pointed a net cannon at her. Stitch tried to protect Angel, but he was blasted into a net, enabling Gantu to capture Angel in a container and flee with her. Regardless, Lilo promised Stitch that they would rescue Angel someday.
In "Remmy", Angel was one of the experiments in Lilo's dream.
Although Angel was unseen in "Woops", she is known to have been 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.
In "Snafu", Reuben cleverly tricked the captive Angel into singing her song backwards (to "turn him good") while it was being recorded by the former. Gantu then planned to play the tape recording backwards on the island to revert all of the rehabilitated experiments to evil, but the plan failed due to Experiment 120 stealing the tape recording.
Meanwhile, Lilo and Stitch launched a rescue mission on Gantu's ship to free Angel and the other captive experiments, but were foiled by Snafu. However, Stitch's love for Angel gave her the strength to break out of her containment orb and free Stitch and the others. Lilo, Stitch, Angel, and the freed experiments then narrowly escaped the ship, and Stitch and Angel left on a date shortly after.
===Leroy & Stitch===
The first 624 experiments, including Angel, 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.
Angel participated in the following battle between the experiments and the Leroy clones by using her martial art skills to defeat and knock the Leroys out, particularly when a group of Leroy clones attacked Stitch.
However, 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.
Angel was last seen outside the Pelekai residence, along with the other experiments, getting her picture taken for Lilo's photo album.
===Stitch!===
In the Stitch! anime, it is shown that Angel has become an international (and, later in the anime, intergalactic) singing sensation. Though she appears more periodically in the anime series than the original series, her general attitude has shifted to that of a spoiled celebrity, which is logical as she has undergone approximately a decade of fame. There is actual evidence to this in several episodes. Upon her first meeting with Yuna, they were on bad terms apparently but eventually put their differences aside. Stitch is madly in love with Angel and she shares the same feeling. However, she instantly left Stitch for 627 when he was disguised as a prince and Reuben when he was modified by Hämsterviel.
She seems to have a weakness for cliché love interest archetypes as demonstrated when 627 approached Angel in the guise of a human duke (in a manner and dress typical for a cliché Disney prince) and succeeded in charming her. Reuben also won Angel over when his self-confidence was boosted by Hämsterviel, and he dressed and acted like a cliché rebel without a cause and composed a song and poem of questionable quality that was (somehow) successful. She even briefly fell for Kijimunaa in "Son of Sprout" when he won a fight against Stitch (purely by accident, of course).
Despite these cases, 627 eventually revealed his true intention to capture Stitch and caught Angel in a net, presumably ending any possibility of a relationship between the two. She also fell out of love with Reuben when he proved to be less interested in saving her from Gantu than in fighting Stitch, and from that point forward, she recommitted herself to Stitch. This shows in the final Valentine's Day special of the anime, wherein she doesn't act poorly towards Stitch in any way, shape, or form.
According to Spooky, Stitch's worst fear, by the time of the anime, was for Angel to be mad at him; fear that apparently overthrew his original fear of water. This is shown when Spooky took Angel's form to discourage Stitch. Likewise, she has also become a weakness for Stitch, as Reuben disguises himself as Angel in "Stitch Ahoy!" to trick Stitch aboard Hämsterviel's cruise ship. This succeeds until Reuben falls overboard and Stitch, trying to rescue whom he believed was Angel, ends up accidentally tearing the Angel costume Reuben wore, exposing the sandwich-loving experiment as he falls into the sea.
In the two-part Season 1 finale "Stitch vs. Hämsterviel", Hämsterviel puts Angel along with Sparky and Felix under his control, and in the final episode of Season 3 of the anime, she makes a brief appearance to help Stitch thwart Dark End's attack. She also appeared in the special Stitch and the Planet of Sand.
===UniBEARsity===
Angel, alongside Stitch and Scrump, appears in the UniBEARsity story OhanaBEARsity. After seeing Stitch reading the UniBEARsity storybook, she and Stitch start making their own teddy bears. Her teddy bear, named Berry, is based on her likeness.
===Monsters at Work===
Angel appears in plush form in the episode "The Damaged Room". The design of the plush itself is based on a previously-released real-life plush toy of her.
==Video games==
===Lilo & Stitch 2: Hämsterviel Havoc===
Angel is an unplayable character in the game for Game Boy Advance. In said game, Dr. Hämsterviel has "re-evilled" her and uses her to turn the other experiments back to evil. It is unknown if Hämsterviel forced her to sing or if she took the job by choice, since she turns back to good after she sees Stitch. It is implied that Angel is rescued at the end of her part in the story, so unless she was later recaptured by Gantu, the game isn't canon to the animated series.
===Disney Heroes: Battle Mode===
Angel appears as an unlockable and playable hero that is unlocked with thirty tokens. She is Control Role Hero. Her basic attack is to jump on enemies and bounce back. Her skills are mainly using her singing to silence and charm enemies. She is also able to revive a KO'd ally once per wave.
Angel's friendship campaigns are with Stitch and Miguel Rivera. Her other friendship campaign is with Lilo Pelekai.
==Disney Parks==
Angel has appeared occasionally in the Disney Parks around the world, most frequently at Tokyo Disney Resort and Disneyland Paris. She has also received Walt Disney World and Disneyland-branded merchandise, but she didn't start making costumed appearances in the United States until the late 2010s, first appearing with other Lilo & Stitch characters other than the titular duo at cast member-exclusive events at the Walt Disney World Reservation Center circa 2018. She made her proper American debut in 2019 at a Disney Vacation Club member-exclusive event at Epcot, appearing alongside the Experiment 626 version of Stitch (his full alien form with spacesuit) during said event. On February 14, 2021, she began appearing at Aulani, making her first regular appearances at any American Disney resort.
She also was featured in the New Generation Festival at Disneyland Paris.
Angel previously made a brief cameo appearance in Stitch's Great Escape! at the Magic Kingdom when Gantu showcased the galaxy's criminals to the guests.
===Stitch's Hawaiian Paradise Party===
Angel and some of the other experiments join Stitch and their foes for meet and greets at Disney Village in Disneyland Paris.
===Fantasmic!===
Angel appears in the Tokyo DisneySea version of the show, driving a speed boat with a laser pistol in the Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride sequence while Stitch conducts the fountains.
===Midsummer's Night Panic===
At Tokyo Disneyland, Angel joins Stitch and other characters in the show and she accompanies Stitch when he battles Gantu and Hämsterviel.
==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*Angel is a parody of , as her song is an evil in the guise of beauty, much like the Sirens of ancient myth.
*Angel is a reference to the Elvis Presley song "(You're the) Devil in Disguise", as she is considered by Stitch to be beautiful while she is (or was) evil on the inside.
*Angel is one of the rare experiments to not have black eyes like most experiments, having dark purple eyes instead. However, her eyes are often depicted as black in animation and certain other depictions.
*Angel was activated off-screen.
*Angel is the only experiment created by Jumba to not be regarded as one of Stitch's "cousins".
*Angel is regarded to be the breakout character for the sequel material of the franchise. Despite being a minor character in the original series, her popularity led to her recurring appearances in the later Stitch! anime, her numerous merchandise (to the point that she arguably gets more Lilo & Stitch merchandise than Lilo does), her costumed character at the Disney Parks, and a few video game (mostly mobile game) appearances.
**In addition, despite never having made a costumed appearance in either of the American Disney Parks resorts until the late 2010s (and only in a few restricted and exclusive events so far), a couple Walt Disney World-themed merchandise and a Disneyland-themed pin featuring imagery of her were produced. She began making regular appearances at an American Disney resort on February 14 (Valentine's Day), 2021, albeit socially distanced from guests due to the ongoing .
**To date, she is also the only experiment other than Stitch to have merchandise sold in the United States on a regular basis. With the original series having ended over a decade ago, and the Stitch! anime (which she appears in more) being pulled off the air in the U.S. before her first major appearance in that show, this says a lot about her popularity. She even has a dedicated character page on shopDisney, making her one of the few characters from a Disney animated sequel series to have one (alongside characters from The Lion Guard), as well as the only such character whose original series has long since ended.
*Angel 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.
*Angel is the second experiment shown to share Stitch's habit of picking his nose with his tongue, the first being Sparky and the third being Leroy. 
*Angel's fur was a deeper shade of pink in her debut episode, compared to all her later appearances.
*In some promotional imagery, Angel's bluish or light purplish mouth and tongue are changed to pink like Stitch's.
*On some merchandise of Angel, such as her Funko POP! vinyl figures, she is portrayed to have notches on her ears similar to Stitch's, most likely due to the manufacturers not wanting to spend extra money to make new molds of her ears since they already had molds of Stitch's ears. A later key chain version of said figure corrected this error, but a 2021 winter-themed version of the full figure not only did not follow through with the correction, but even incorrectly shifted her ear tip markings from the inside of her ears to the outside (which is accurate for Stitch).
*Angel has an asymmetry in her design (like Stitch with his asymmetrically notched ears); the white V-shaped marking on her chest is slightly more jagged on her right-hand side.
**In addition, said chest marking seems to resemble an angel's wings, which is befitting, considering her name.
*Angel's body and antennae appear in the online game Jumba's Lab.
*In the anime episode "Nosy Meets Tigerlily", it is revealed that Angel gets huge cravings for cheese-stuffed baked potatoes.
*A plush toy of her, based on one of the real-life plush toys sold by Disney, made a cameo in the Monsters at Work episode "The Broken Room".
*Angel is also the first Disney character by Disney Television Animation to appear in Gameloft's Disney Magic Kingdoms, Disney Getaway Blast, and Disney Speedstorm.
**In Disney Magic Kingdoms, after completing the quest "Water You Doing?", Angel says, "Dunga haga blabla..." (Tantalog for "I don't like water..."), tries to get Nani to search Lahui Beach for something, then later says in the "Metal Detector" quest, "Dunga haga blabla! Akare asaid..." ("I don't like water! It looks scary...") This indicates that Angel shares Stitch's dislike and fear of water, although the Disney crossover game is not canonical to the Lilo & Stitch franchise.
*In Disney Emoji Blitz, Reuben (along with Sparky and Cannonball) appears in the first part of Angel's Power, being converted to evil by her siren song. However, in the actual canon, she cannot hypnotize Reuben, as he (along with Stitch, 627, and Leroy) was made after her.
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