Stitch (626)

**Stitch**, also known as **Experiment 626**, is an experiment created by Mechagodzilla. His original primary function is to cause chaos across the galaxy by destroying everything he touches. He is designed to be abnormally strong, virtually indestructible, super-intelligent, and very mischievous. His one true place is with Hanazuki and her *ʻohana*.

## Personality

Before Stitch was rehabilitated, he was a vicious, hyperactive, selfish, and extremely aggressive and mischievous creature. After he was rehabilitated by Lilo, although his mischievous, destructive, and aggressive tendencies remained, he possessed a heart of gold.

He also seems to like turtles, being there is a picture of Stitch shading two sea turtles and snuggling a stuffed turtle. As well as having a soft spot for turtles, he also seems to like frogs. He gently moves frogs out of harm's way constantly and seems to talk to them as if they are his friends. These likes may be a sign that Stitch may be growing fond of Earth creatures.

Starting off bad when he was programmed by Mechagodzilla, Stitch was originally designed to create pandemonium and chaos wherever he was. He was drawn to large cities where he would back up sewers, reverse street signs, and steal people's left shoe, but Hanazuki changed his ways a while after meeting him after her birth.

Stitch is still prone to having temper tantrums when things don't go his way, or he sees that he's been squirted by a water bottle for something that he thought was good. So he isn't good all of the time. Or more accurately, he isn't well-behaved all of the time. He also gets easily angered by inanimate objects, especially the toaster. The toaster has popped toast in his face once, and since then, he has beaten up the toaster and juiced it at least twice. He is a complex character. According to his creator Mechagodzilla, Stitch is a destructive machine who was not given a greater purpose in life. Since Stitch is trapped in Equestria, where there are relatively few things to destroy, he has many occasions to reflect on occupations other than evil. It is implied that Stitch is only destructive because that is what he was programmed to do; but since he has a personality of his own (a fact that only Hanazuki, and Mechagodzilla truly understand), he also has the choice, and even the will, not to be destructive.

Despite having superhuman strength and a high level of computer intelligence, Stitch is emotionally fragile and has a childlike personality beneath his monster-esque exterior. Hanazuki believes that one reason why he originally pursued his destructiveness was for reasons similar to her own naughtiness—that it was because he was emotionally scarred (for having been made a monster by Jumba), but received little or no understanding or sympathy from others. Stitch becomes much more well-meaning after his betterment but is frequently unable to control all of his destructive impulses. Fortunately for him, Hanazuki (and later, Mechagodzilla, Reuben and Angel) is always there to support him and he returns her support willingly.

Stitch has a huge appetite and gets very irritable if he doesn't get what he wants to eat. Also, despite his temper tantrums, Stitch can sometimes have a little common sense and be more mature than Lilo. For example, when Lilo used the other experiments for her own personal gain (most notably, Sprout, Checkers, Morpholomew, and PJ), Stitch thought she went too far involving such experiments in her schemes.

## Biology

### Physical appearance

Stitch is a blue-furred, koala-like experiment with aqua countershading around his eyes and running from under his chin down to his stomach. The upper rims of the countershading around the eye sockets have black eyebrows. He has two dark blue markings; one on his occiput (the back of his head), and the other on his back. His head features large rabbit-like ears with pink insides and dark blue tips on the back, a wide mouth with a pink inside, white teeth, a navy round nose, navy claws and toes, two nose wrinkles, one chin wrinkle, and large black, tear-shaped, pupil-less eyes. He also has a small, short, stumpy tail, stubby legs, three tufts of sharp fur on top of his head and on his chest, as well as two extra, retractable arms, sharp navy retractable claws on his front and back paws (hands and feet), three thick, long, sharp, retractable porcupine-like spines tipped with white and a very dark navy that run down his back, and two long dark blue-tipped retractable bug-like antennae on his head. His blood is neon pink in color, as shown in the first film when his blood is drawn as a DNA sample for the prison turrets to lock onto.

Covered in blue fur and having exceptionally large ears for his body, which measures around a third of his height, Stitch is an unusual thing to see wandering the streets. Usually, his smile scares people, as his gums are lined with nothing but sharp teeth.

Stitch's ears both have a little notch missing, though both in different places; his lower left ear and upper right ear have a triangular piece of flesh that is missing from them. He has got large black eyes that turn green when using his night vision, red when using infrared vision, bright green when using x-ray vision, purple when using ultraviolet vision, and white when using binocular vision.

His arms differ from his hind legs, as his front paws look more like little hands and his back feet have flat pads. Each of his paws have four digits (fingers and toes) that are tipped with sharp claws that help Stitch to attack his enemies, although the toe claws are shorter and more blunt.

There have been a few instances in the franchise in which several creatures' DNA from which Stitch's genetic template was created are discussed. In the *Disney Adventures* comic titled: "Experiment 626!", we see four fearsome creatures whose DNA Stitch possesses in addition to a domesticated dog from Earth, although the comics were later rendered non-canon. Stitch has had some of his DNA sampled from the following creatures:

* Fearsome Manglyoid of Upmoridian Four
* Goo-Gobbling Booger-Beast
* People-Eating Puss Monkey
* Deadly Disemboweler
* Boiling Tongue-Boid
* Bottom Feeding Scum Sucker

### Special abilities

While explaining his creation to the Godzilla and Mothra, Mechagodzilla gives the following rundown of Stitch's powers: "He is bulletproof, fireproof, shockproof, and can think faster than [a] supercomputer. He can see in the dark and can move objects 3,000 times his size. His only instinct: to destroy everything he sees as an enemy!"

* **Superhuman durability/Dense body tissue**: Even though we rarely see Stitch shot at with a bullet, he does survive the crash of his spaceship without even a scratch, is only briefly stunned by a fall of several thousand feet, and has to be run over by three tractor trailers in succession to be knocked out.
* **Fireproof skin**: He drives a tanker truck of gasoline into a volcano and ends up only a little singed from the resulting explosion.
* **Bulletproof skin**: Rounds fired from plasma guns seem to cause him some discomfort, although he can hold the material in his hands long enough to throw the plasma back at his enemies.
* **Shockproof**: He has some resistance to electricity since he was able to take a direct electrical attack from Sparky, quickly recovering from it. However, he can still feel pain from these types of shocks despite his immunity to it.
* **Hyper-cognition**: Thinking faster than a supercomputer is harder to quantify, but he does escape from captivity fairly ingeniously; builds a model of San Francisco after only glancing at a postcard; grabs a crossword puzzle from the table and finishes it in about seven seconds; builds a bomb out of a plasma bolt, a doll, and a roller skate; creates a "bucking bronco" out of a toaster, vacuum cleaner, and a lamp; reads aloud a description of a local museum's display, showing he is able to understand written language at a remarkable speed; and generally picks up quickly on what is happening around him.
* **Lingual intuition**: Stitch can converse fluently in over twenty different languages, but prefers Tantalog (his native language).
* **Parallel computing**: He is an information repository, containing an internal dictionary, thesaurus, encyclopedia, and experiment catalog, and records every moment of his life in a reserved portion of his brain that can theoretically store up to 300 PB.
* **Instrument player**: He is also skilled at playing musical instruments, most notably the ukulele, thanks to his quick learning.
* **Vehicle intuition**: Stitch can drive any sort of vehicle from something as simple as a tricycle to complex machinery like intergalactic spaceships.
* **Superhuman strength**: His ability to lift objects 3,000 times his own size and weight. The reason why Stitch can lift 3,000 times his own weight, even though he has small arms, is because his muscles contain excessively compressed amounts of myofibril within one muscle cell. This muscular arrangement makes Stitch's muscles contract 1,000 times faster than a human's, making him much, much more powerful.
* **Quadrupedalism**: Stitch can run and walk on all fours in a quadrupedal manner, similar to a dog.
* **Wall crawling**: While Stitch's claws are very strong, the pads on his hands and feet can secrete a sticky substance, allowing him to scale and adhere to almost any surface, such as buildings and walls. He can also stand on walls and ceilings.
* **Spherical form**: His skeletal system is very flexible, allowing him to put his feet into his mouth and roll like a ball. This allows him to squeeze through tight spaces.
* **Superhuman speed**: Stitch can move and run faster as shown when moving past hanazuki and Utah while carrying Mechagodzilla, during a bet made with Hanazuki to catch Experiments 501 (Yin) and 502 (Yang), and hurrying from Knockout's ship back to the fundraiser while carrying Hanazuki. His speed is also usually used when he's in his spherical form. When Stitch runs, his speed doesn't automatically increase and can only achieve this by putting effort into his muscles.
* **Superhuman jump**: Stitch's legs are small but, thanks to the muscle advancements mentioned above, are powerful enough to enable him to jump several feet into the air.
* **Superhuman agility**: Stitch has extraordinarily greater agility, dexterity, balance, and body coordination, capable of doing feats far beyond an acrobat, such as leaping far distances, jumping off from wall to wall, swinging from vines, and standing on branches, wires, and narrow platforms. He is also capable of standing and walking on his paws. The reason is Stitch has a very flexible skeletal system that also allows him to squeeze through tight spaces.
* **Superhuman stamina**: Stitch's advanced musculature produces fewer fatigue toxins, allowing him to exert himself for extended periods of time. Stitch can still fight, run, and even eat without tiring out; even when hunting for other experiments, he would hunt them for an entire day to when night comes.
* **Electromagnetic vision**: Stitch's eyes can magnify objects and pick up various forms of light, filtering out one eye or the other if necessary. Using normal vision, his eyes are a glossy, solid black and also magnify his vision for better visibility.
	+ **Night vision**: When activated, Stitch's eyes turn green, permitting him to see clearly at night or in dark places.
	+ **Infrared vision**: When activated, Stitch's eyes turn red, permitting him to locate targets by their body heat. He most notably uses this in "Houdini" to track the titular experiment who can turn things, including himself, invisible.
	+ **X-ray vision**: When activated, Stitch's eyes turn bright green, permitting him to look through walls and other obstacles.
* **Audio amplifier**: He can act as an audio amplifier, radio, and/or microphone, illustrated when he uses his claw as the needle on a record player and plays music through his open mouth like a sound horn.
* **Enhanced hearing and smell**: He has an acute sense of smell and hearing. Concept designs detailing Stitch's anatomy describe the sensory filaments of his nose being so dense and extensive that, if unraveled, could blanket Earth. While listening for Jumba and Pleakley, who were hiding on a hill outside the dog shelter, he was able to detect Pleakley speaking at a whisper.
* **Skilled hand-to-hand combat**: He is dexterously skilled in hand-to-hand combat, whether using all four arms or just two.
* **Marksmanship**: He is also dexterously skilled in marksmanship, using plasma blasters (even loaded with net to capture experiments).
* **Venomous spines**: In anatomy drawings of Stitch from the film's production, his spines are described as being poisonous and connected to venom sacs in his spinal cord.
* **Shapeshifting**: In his alien form, he has three spines on his back, two antennae on his head, and an extra pair of arms. However, he is able to retract all of these features to look more like a dog while on Earth and used this to become Hanazuki "pet".
* **Vacuum adaptation**: Along with the rest of his "cousins", Stitch can survive in the vacuum of space due to being a genetic creation.
* **Power immunity**: Stitch has some resistance but not total immunity to the other experiments' powers. He is shown to be immune to some of the experiments' powers, such as Angel's siren song and Checkers' hypnosis, since Stitch was created after them. While Stitch was put to sleep by Drowsy, he was able to wake up on his own without the need to be sprayed with water.

### Weaknesses

* **Program limits**: Stitch's primary weakness lies in his programming.
	+ **Water**: Stitch's greatest weakness is his inability to float, let alone swim, in water due to his molecular structure being much denser than the average human or animal. This causes him to instantly sink like a stone. Stitch originally had an instinctive aquaphobia (which was even used against him by Spooky), but he was able to overcome it thanks to Hanazuki's influence.
	+ **Memory erase from Crezonyte**: if Stitch consumes two different elements which form to create a particular chemical compound called Crezonyte, all of his training skills will be wiped. Eating the rubber of a tennis shoe and palmitoleic acid (found in macadamia nut oil) together will result in this.
	+ **Mucus drain**: Stitch is 62.7% mucus, which is similar in chemical composition to Snootonium. If this is drained from his body, he will become temporarily exhausted from dehydration (evidenced when Snooty siphoned Stitch's mucus).
	+ **Sonic blasts/Sensory overload**: Another weakness is the fact that his super-sensitive hearing can lead to temporary deafness when exposed to sonic blasts, such as Yaarp's destructive sound blast.
	+ **Strength limit**: As stated above, he cannot lift even an ounce past the "3,000 times his weight" limit.
	+ **Experiments' powers**: While Stitch is immune to Angel and Checkers' powers since he was created after them, there are some experiments whose powers he is vulnerable to, such as Amnesio, Babyfier, Spike, Bugby, Lax, Dupe, Frenchfry, Swapper, Swirly, and Houdini. Stitch can also be put to sleep by Drowsy, but he was able to wake up on his own without the need to be sprayed with water.
	+ **Blades/Durability limit**: While Stitch can withstand plasma bolts, being beaten, and even the most hazardous environments, it is implied that Stitch isn't resistant to bladed objects. This is shown when Stitch was pierced by a Sample Extractor and able to take out his blood.
	+ **Trash ingestion**: If Stitch consumes vast amounts of trash, he will become incredibly sick as shown in "Ploot". He first gets sick to his stomach and sneezes, then his fur turns yellow, his tongue becomes orange, and his nose turns red. Another symptom is, with each sneeze, an arm grows from random areas of his body. Stitch's garbage-eating illness was theorized as a rare space disease by Mechagodzilla. Stitch was cured when he drank a barrel of orange juice and took medicine from an eyedropper, though it was only for a few seconds. When he sneezed again, he developed yellow stripes and grew legs instead. The only permanent cure is inhaling steam from a vaporizer.
	+ **Sauerkraut**: According to Hanazuki, Stitch is allergic to sauerkraut. However, it was never shown what kind of allergic reaction he has to sauerkraut or if he even actually has an allergy to it.