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=== The original film provides examples of: ===
* [[Adult Fear]]:
** Cobra Bubbles has this for most of the movie. He says that he was brought in to assess if Nani is a competent guardian for her little sister because other social workers apparently raised concern about the sisters following their parents' fatal accident. What he sees, which you can assess in his gaze and body language, terrifies him: Lilo locked herself inside the house using nails on the front door, Nani left the stove on, and the house is a mess. Despite this, all he does is order Nani to make some changes, and promises to check up on them regularly.
** With hours to spare until Cobra comes to pick up Lilo and place her in a foster family, David finds Nani a job near the house. She orders Lilo to stay put, ''not'' do anything rash, and runs for the interview. Just as Nani secures the job, she sees a firetruck on the road. Her first words are, "Don't turn left." It does, causing her to go [[Oh Crap]] and run back home in the same direction, shouting for her sister.
** When {{spoiler|Lilo is taken away by Cobra Bubbles - it's gutwrenching. Even worse is she manages to run away into the wilderness, as Cobra is calling for her to stop}}.
* [[A Boy and His X|A Girl And Her Alien Bioweapon]]
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: Part of Stitch's escape from the prison transport ship. [[Justified Trope|Justified]], because Stitch is small enough to fit into them and he can squeeze into impossibly tight places.
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* [[Clark Kenting]]: Stitch, who is believed to be a dog (although a lot of people are incredulous, and Nani notes that he looks more like "an evil koala"), and more notably Jumba and Pleakley masquerading as humans. Could be related to [[Weirdness Censor]].
** It could also be related to people being too polite to bring up the fact that Jumba and Pleakley look like deformed people. When Nani worries about how "swollen" Pleakley's head is and Jumba casually says "Actually, she's just ugly", Nani looks rather uncomfortable.
* [[Come Back, My Pet]]: Lilo tells Stitch to go away after she discovers that he's an alien, and that he's the reason that they were being pursued by Jumba and Pleakley. Right after, however, she gets captured by Gantu, and Stitch rescues her. During this whole time, Lilo is more worried about Stitch than herself, screaming out his name as Gantu tosses him off his ship and shoots him at point-blank range.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: Stitch lands on a small island in the middle of the ocean with no large cities; this renders about 90% of his destructive programming moot. Lilo gives it an unwitting [[Lampshade Hanging]].
** It's lampshaded even earlier by the [[Genre Savvy]] Grand Councilwoman with a very deadpanned "of course".
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** During the fight with Jumba Stitch says something in the alien language and Jumba tells him to leave his mother out of it.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]: As usual, for a Disney movie; they died in a car crash before the story began.
*[[Papa Wolf]]: It doesn't end well, and he arrives too late to deal with the ''actual'' alien threat, but Cobra Bubbles arrives to the Pelekai household in a flash when Lilo calls him and says that there's a home invasion with aliens attacking her "dog". You can't blame him for {{spoiler|attempting to take Lilo into foster care while she's trying to explain to the firemen about what caused the blaze}} and yelling at Nani. Later, {{spoiler|the Grand Councilwoman takes Stitch into custody and Cobra tells Lilo not to fight the guards handcuffing him, but find Stitch's adoption papers}}.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: {{spoiler|When the Grand Councilwoman announces Stitch's sentence to permanent exile, she says it shall be "a sentence that shall henceforth be served on Earth" when Lilo proves that Stitch belongs to her. To seal the deal, she has the Grand Council sponsor the "caretakers," which solves the whole social services problem. Bonus points for Stitch being mistaken for a dog early in the film.}}
** A moment which {{spoiler|Cobra Bubbles and Pleakley join in on - Pleakley is the first to ask if Stitch ''really'' couldn't just be left with them after cursing Stitch and the planet for causing him so many problems, while Cobra Bubbles is the first to realize the ownership loophole and helps Nani and Lilo get back on their feet during the credits}}.
* [[Photo Montage]]: The ending credits.
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* [[Promotion to Parent]]: Nani, who struggles to balance out her job, social workers, the loss of her parents, Lilo's strange coping methods, and Stitch. Lilo admits that she likes her more as a sister than a mom (done realistically. Nani is young, she has an [[Annoying Younger Sibling]] and is trying to balance it all out.)
* [[Putting a Hand Over His Mouth]]: Nani does this to Lilo near the beginning, and shortly after wraps her entire arm around her mouth as well.
*[[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: There are three in the movie, and it's revealed {{spoiler|two know each other}}.
* [[Retractable Appendages]]: Stitch's antennae, back spikes and extra arms.▼
**The Grand Councilwoman; while technically Experiment 626 is illegal, she gives the being a chance to speak for itself at Jumba's trial. Later, while she cannot change his sentence after 626 reveals that his name is Stitch and he has a family, she accepts a loophole in his exile that makes it a fair compromise for everyone involved.
**Cobra Bubbles. While he is hard on Nani during the visit to the sisters' house, all of his points are legitimate that the current status quo isn't healthy for either her or Lilo. She can't leave the house with the stove on, and Lilo nailing the front door shut and making voodoo of classmates is a huge red flag of her lashing out of grief. All he asks is for Nani to make changes to improve the situation, and for Lilo to call him if she ever gets in trouble or is left home alone again. Even Nani admits that while the visit went terribly, Cobra was completely right to judge them both and they need to work together. It's only when Nani loses her job that Cobra gives her an ultimatum, and he follows the sisters around to make sure she is keeping to her word. He's apologetic when Nani's last attempt falls through, and Lilo nearly drowns with Stitch when they attempt to get their minds off while surfing, saying that he doesn't want to break them apart but will if it's better for Lilo. {{spoiler|When he finds a loophole to keep Stitch on Earth, Cobra merely remarks he'll have to cover up for the family at headquarters after they become wards of the Grand Council}}.
**Lilo's dance instructor doesn't ''want'' to play the bad guy to a little girl that has just lost her parents. He asks Lilo matter-of-factly why she arrived to hula class late and sopping wet to boot, and hears out her explanation that she was feeding a fish a peanut butter sandwich. It's only when Lilo attacks Mertle for calling her "weird" that he breaks them up, calls Nani, and tells Lilo she can't behave like that.
▲* [[Retractable Appendages]]: Stitch's antennae, back spikes, and extra arms.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Stitch is absolutely adorable.
* [[Road Sign Reversal]]: One of the things Stitch is programmed to do.
* [[Rule of Three]]: After a failed social counseling inspection, Cobra Bubbles gives Nami three days for a second one to prove herself a competent guardian to Lilo.
* [[Running Gag]]: The guy whose ice cream always falls off its cone before he can eat it.
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Cobra Bubbles, who is voiced by none other than [[Pulp Fiction|Ving Rhames]]. Nani is certainly intimidated, and Lilo asks if he killed anyone. He says she's getting off the topic.
** Played with. At first, he looks ''very'' imposing and acts rather uncaring. However later on, he shows himself to be a lot more than that. He does indeed want Lilo to be safe, but he doesn't want to split Lilo and Nani up because they're all they have in the world, mentioning he'll take Lilo away only because he ''has'' to if Nani cannot make sure the house is clean and she has a job. {{spoiler|The end credits show him hanging out with them, watching movies and having Thanksgiving dinner}}.
* [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]]: It's said that Stitch can't survive in water since "his molecular density is too great". This would mean simply that he has a higher density than water--I.E, even if he were, for example, to hold his breath, he would not be able to displace enough water to increase his buoyancy enough and he'd still be too dense to ''swim''. In layman's terms: he sinks like a rock and can't swim.
* [[Shout-Out]]: When Stitch rips up a drawing of Lilo's, she exclaims, [[Pablo Picasso|"No! That's from my blue period!"]]
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* [[Superior Species]]: The aliens compared to "primitive humanoid life forms".
** Kinda justified though, from the point of view of a galactic-spanning alien empire, Humans are primitive.
* [[Suspiciously Specific Denial]]: When Lilo meets Cobra, she says that he doesn't look like a social worker, and asks if he ever killed anyone. Cobra says they're getting off-topic and he wants to hear about her.
* [[There's No B in Movie]]: Stitch sees an actual [[B-Movie]] on TV, ''Earth vs. The Spider''.
* [[Trailer Spoof]]: Nearly all the trailers appeared to be a trailer for some other Disney movie at first, only to be interrupted by Stitch, partly to make it clear it was a lighter, wackier film than the company's usual output.
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