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Created something? Hah! But that would be irresponsible and unethical. I would never, ever...make...more than one.
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~ Jumba.
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Of course! Experiment 375! Designed to take possession of inanimate objects and create utter chaos!
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~ Jumba when he, Lilo and Plankton found out Phantasmo.
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No! 120 is havoc wreaker of all havoc wreakers. Designed for to foil enemy plans by any possible means. Is worst experiment to activate when making a complex rescue mission.
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~ Jumba explained to Lilo about Snafu.
Dr. Jumba Jookiba, better known as Dr. Jookiba, simply known as Jookiba is one of the two deuteragonists (alongside Pleakley) of the Lilo & Stitch franchise. He is a self-proclaimed evil genius, responsible for the creation of the infamous Experiment 626, better known as Stitch and 628 other experiments.
He was voiced by the late David Ogden Stiers during the main 2002 to 2006 run of the franchise, as well as the English version of the 2010 video game Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. In the English versions of the Stitch! anime and Stitch & Ai, both of which are Asian-produced spin-offs of the franchise, he is currently voiced by Lilo & Stitch: The Series executive producer and screenwriter Jess Winfield. In Japanese dub from the movie, he is voiced by the late Shōzō Iizuka, who also voiced Carl Fredricksen in Up.
Jumba Jookiba: No. No. Those idiot police! I thought this day would never come. Pleakley: What are you talking about? What is wrong with Stitch? Jumba Jookiba: During his creation, Stitch was never fully charged.
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~ Jumba when discovered of Stitch's glitch.
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Jumba Jookiba: Now his... circuits are going haywire! Pleakley: That's why he was freaking out! Jumba Jookiba: He can't control it! If it continues, his circuits will burn themselves out like supernova! Pleakley: Can ya, Can ya fix him? Jumba Jookiba: I must, or my little Stitch will shut down... for good.
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~ Jumba revealed to Pleakley of Stitch's condition.
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Since Jumba is the creator of Stitch and the other experiments, he is often cited as their father.
He appeared in a limited amount of Disney Villains related material prior to the original film's release.
Jumba 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.
Jumba enjoys hearing Elvis Presley's song "Hound Dog" when the phonograph record starts playing in the original movie.
Prior to creating Experiment 177 (Clip), Jumba had long, flowing locks of curly black hair. Since then, he has been bald with the exception of three long hairs which grow from the top of his head. He managed to get a full Afro of hair but later decided to go back to being bald, finding it more suitable for himself.
Jumba likes to dance, and he is not afraid to bust a move every now and then.
Jumba has a habit of referring to himself in the third person. This habit was probably passed down to Stitch, since he has a tendency to refer to himself in third person as well.
During early development of the film, Stitch was conceived as an intergalactic gangster with a gang of three rather than a recently-created genetic monster. In that early version, Jumba was a former fourth member of Stitch's gang who was left behind during a bank heist and had been stewing in prison for years. Upon Stitch's escape, the Grand Councilwoman would then make the deal to release Jumba if he would go to Earth to capture his former boss. This characterization as a galactic crime lord would later be used for Hämsterviel, who is often seen imprisoned during most of the run of the TV series (althought the circumstances behind his arrest are different).
In a deleted scene, Jumba is shown to have an insane side when he attacks Stitch at Lilo's house.
To be specific, the scene where Jumba attacks Stitch which results in the Pelekai residence accidentally being burned down was actually going to have more violent scenes like Stitch using a chainsaw to attack Jumba, as well as Stitch setting the house on fire by biting apart a gas pipe and tricking Jumba into shooting it with his blaster. The final version of the same scene has everything violent edited out and replaced in favor of making the scene more slapstick-oriented (Jumba knocking the ceiling down with dishes instead of laser blasts, Jumba's "shuriken" being made of hairbrushes and a tube of toothpaste instead of knives and a pizza cutter, the entire chainsaw scene shortened), having more comedic scenes added in (exploding Scrump, Stitch catching Jumba's laser, Stitch yelling, "Blue Punch Buggy! No punch back!" when hitting Jumba with Nani's VW, the Elvis Presley song "Hound Dog" playing in the background), and the house being destroyed by having Stitch stop up Jumba's blaster with a carrot and then having them both play "hot potato" with it until the blaster overloads and explodes.
A similar treatment was done to the climax, where Jumba, Pleakley, Stitch, and Nani fly through the sky to pursue Gantu after he accidentally captures Lilo as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
The alien species and even the spaceships in Lilo & Stitch were inspired by Hawaiian wildlife and marine creatures as well. In Jumba's case, he seems to be inspired by sea lions and their relatives.
In Lilo & Stitch, Jumba mentioned that Stitch was "irresistibly drawn to large cities, where he will flood sewers, reverse street signs, and steal everyone's left shoe." In storyboards/concepts during Jumba's trial, there were video feeds of Stitch attacking a peaceful alien planet called "Lytwoc", in which he flooded sewers, reversed street signs, and stole left shoes from several citizens of the planet.
Also in Lilo & Stitch, when Jumba attacks Stitch on the ceiling using plates like shurikens in that film's climax, he claims that he wants to reprogram Stitch to be "taller" and "not so fluffy", hence foreshadowing the creations of both Experiment 627 and 629/Leroy in Lilo & Stitch: The Series and Leroy & Stitch, respectively; coincidentally, both of them are improved versions of Stitch that are more evil and destructive and less fluffy than Stitch himself.
In Stitch! The Movie and certain episodes of Lilo & Stitch: The Series, it is revealed that Jumba's bare feet exactly resemble Gantu's.
In "Spooky", Jumba's worst fear is his ex-wife.
Jumba states in "The Asteroid" that he finds chewing food rather annoying because on his home planet, nutrients are sucked in through the skin. However, at the end of the same episode, he admits that he enjoys pizza, and in "Holio", he mentions that he likes eating pastrami.
We learn in "The Asteroid" that Jumba had been banished from his home planet for evil genius research, but in "Sinker", he mentions about having given presents to his evil genius family back home (hinting that he may come from a family of evil geniuses), implying while he cannot go back to his home planet, he is allowed to send gifts there.
Jumba was David Ogden Stiers' last character in the Disney Animated Canon, 16 years before his death in 2018.