Lilo Pelekai

### Animators

Andreas Deja, Gregg Azzopardi, Darko Cesar, Caroline Clifford, Ron Cohee, Amy Drobeck, James W. Elston, Trey Finney, Daniel A. Gracey, John E. Hailey, Seung Beom Kim, Merritt F. Andrews, Branko Mihanovic, Phil Morris, Steve Quentin, Peter Raymundo, Danny R. Santos, Carol Seidl, Rusty Stoll, Chad Thompson, John Webber, Ron Zeitler and Kevin Peaty

### Voiced By

Daveigh Chase
 Dakota Fanning (Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch)
 Tara Strong
 Melissa Fahn (Stitch!)
 Gwendoline Yeo (Stitch!)

### Siblings

Nani Pelekai

**Lilo Pelekai** is one of the main characters in the Lilo & Stitch Franchise.

## Background

Lilo is a seven-year-old girl living on the island of Kauai with her older sister, Nani. On a rainy night, Lilo and Nani's parents were killed in a car accident, leaving the two sisters orphaned. With Nani being of age by the time of the tragedy, she was dubbed Lilo's legal guardian.

### Personality

Lilo's spirited and highly eccentric personality, especially in light of her parents' death, has alienated her from her fellow children (whom she oddly still considers her friends despite them mistreating her and openly admitting that they hate her and don't want her around), yet Lilo makes the perfect best friend for Stitch, an alien experiment whom she adopts, initially believing he is a "dog" (although he actually bears more of a resemblance to a koala, which is pointed out several times). She is also extremely disobedient. Lilo is emotionally sensitive and usually cries whenever she's really hurt or if something bad happens to someone she loves and cares for (mainly Nani or Stitch), having been emotionally scarred by losing her parents at such a young age. Lilo was patient and faithful towards Stitch throughout the film, even after he causes Nani to lose her jobs and nearly drowns her but when the Pelekai's house got destroyed, Lilo was about to be taken to foster care and her family photo got ruined, Lilo became so bitter towards Stitch that she wanted him to get out of her life, showing that she was breaking points as well.

She attends hula school and her hobbies include the photography of obese tourists, talking about creatures from horror/sci-fi movies, and capturing and rehabilitating Jumba's evil genetic experiments. She also idolises Elvis Presley and often does not seem to understand that her eccentricities cause her to be an outcast from most of the other children.

In addition to her naughtiness, she enjoys being messy and having fun, though her recklessness sometimes causes her to make a mess of her surroundings, much to the disapproval of others around her. She does have a tendency to act selfish and irresponsible, however, especially when an experiment is around that she can use for her own personal benefit, which usually causes huge trouble and brings out the worst in her. It is hinted once in the film through Nani that Lilo might have chased away a bunch of social workers before Cobra. She is very adventurous, brave and clever, easily coming up with strategies to capture the experiments and never showing fear in the face of the many life-threatening dangers to her life that she faces while capturing the experiments. In fact, she views the experiments as part of her 'ohana and as a result, devotes so much time to capturing them that it sometimes interferes with her life but sometimes she abandons them and leaves them free for Gantu to capture (which Nosy calls her out for in the last episode).

Nonetheless, she is sweet and believes in the good of everyone as shown through her interactions with Gantu and the experiments, especially Stitch.

Despite their kindness and generosity, Lilo can sometimes be a selfish hypocrie. In the first film, when Lilo attempted to push Nani out the door after calling out on a fallen star, Nani pretended gravity is increasing on her, prompting Lilo to call her weird. In "Fibber", while Lilo acknowledges about valuing honesty, there are some instances in some episodes that Lilo lies in order to gain what she wants, usually out of good intentions but sometimes for herself. In "Tank", when Lilo wins tickets to the Elizabethan Fair and invites Elena, Teresa and Yuki, she got caught up with having human friends to where she neglected Stitch and even outright called him weird. In "Angel", Lilo acknowledges about believing in love but when she saw Angel she didn't trust her, she even prevented Stitch from hanging out with her out of jealousy despite his affection towards her. Lilo was right to assume when she discovered Angel was working for Dr. Hämsterviel but was proven wrong when Angel sided with Stitch out of love. In regards to this, Lilo can learn from her mistakes and admits when she is wrong about something.

### Physical Appearance

Lilo is a seven-year-old Hawaiian girl with long, straight black hair and brown eyes. She's most often seen wearing a red or green muumuu with white leaf designs, white or red panties and blue or black sandals but also wears other warm-weather clothing as well as traditional hula costumes. In hula class, she, like the rest of the hula girls, all wear red bandeau tube tops, grass skirts, grass headdress, grass wristbands and legbands.

Throughout the franchise, she can be seen wearing a number of outfits. Getting ready for bed time, she wears a light blue nightgown. Some episodes of the TV series had Lilo wearing a t-shirt and shorts, which vary in either light green and dark blue or light purple and green respectively. When swimming, she wears a red and orange striped swimsuit.

In Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, her reflection in a mirror is compared to a picture of her mother when she was her age, suggesting that they look similar. In the episode "Skip", where an experiment is used to skip time. It's mentioned that the older Lilo resembles Nani. By the end of Leroy & Stitch, she is almost ten-years-old.

## Appearances

### Film

* Lilo & Stitch
* Stitch! The Movie
* Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch
* Leroy & Stitch

### Television

* Lilo & Stitch: The Series
* Stitch
* Stitch & Ai

### Other Appearances

* It's a Small World: The Animated Series: Lilo makes a few brief, non-speaking cameos in the episode "Tropical Hideaway", seen among the children during the island get-together.
* Ralph Breaks the Internet: A screenshot depicting Lilo and Nani can be seen on a banner in the background of Oh My Disney.
* At Home With Olaf: A short clip of Lilo & Stitch featuring Lilo and Nani appears during a montage of heartwarming moments from Disney films playing in Olaf's song "I Am With You".

## Printed Material

### Kingdom Keepers

Lilo has yet to appear in the books, though she is mentioned in the fifth book. Here, when Finn is at Typhoon Lagoon, a female cast member gives him a surfboard and tells him Lilo told her to give it to him.

## Disney Parks

Lilo appears along with Stitch at the Disney theme parks around the world, as a meetable character.

### Disneyland

Lilo appears with Stitch on a surfboard in the islands section of It's a Small World.

Lilo also appears briefly with Stitch and Nani during the original finale of World of Color. She plays a prominent role in World of Color: Season of Light, which has a segment featuring Lilo and her extended family celebrating the holidays with a Hawaiian flair.

### Walt Disney World Resort

In the Disney's Hollywood Studios version of Fantasmic!, Lilo is occasionally seen in the finale onboard the Steamboat Willie steamboat.

### Disneyland Paris

Lilo was featured in Disneyland Paris' Disney's Stars 'n' Cars parade and Merlin and the Witch Academy during Halloween.

Lilo makes a brief vocal appearance in the attraction Stitch Live!. When she hears reports of Gantu's space cruiser being stolen by Stitch, she gives him a call on his cell phone to make sure. However, with the help of the audience, Stitch is able to trick her.

### Shanghai Disneyland

Lilo appears in the seasonal castle show Summer Blast, where she and Stitch star in a segment to the song "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride".

### Disney Cruise Line

Lilo is also present on the Disney Fantasy cruise ship where she and Stitch hula to "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride" in the show Disney's Wishes.