Jumba Jookiba

Affiliation

Lilo and Stitch

Note

Dr. Jumba Jookiba is a Kweltikwan from the planet Quelte Quan and the creator of the 630 illegal genetic experiments, including Stitch, that appear in the franchise, along with countless technological inventions and new experiments based on Chinese mythology. He is a heavy-set, mostly purple-skinned alien with dark pink skin on his face, chest, stomach, and under his arms. He has a huge, mostly bald, ovular head with three black hairs, a wide mouth, a round nose, and four beady eyes. He speaks with a vague Russian accent, but also uses very poor grammar and refers to himself in the third person. He has been frequently called a mad/idiot scientist, but he prefers to be known as an evil genius, and is, in fact, surprisingly sociable and friendly outside of his work.

Personality

Jumba appears as being fairly good-humored, intelligent, and slightly insane. Originally, he appeared to be a little rough and crazy, but he is later revealed to be caring as evidenced by his actions towards Stitch and his decision to stay with Lilo and her family. Even after his supposed reformation, he still has a bit of a penchant for evil, creating new evil experiments and referring to himself as such, often bragging about it. He enjoys eating, to the extent of creating an experiment solely for making him meals, and he once won an eating contest on Earth. His grammar is rather poor, but it would seem that Jumba's species naturally has poor grammar with regards to English, according to Experiment 300's (Spooky's) impression of Jumba's ex-wife.

Appearance

Jumba is a large, obese sloth-like alien with dark purple skin on his back side and pale pink skin on his front side, tan undertones, dark pink skin on his chest, stomach and under his arms. His head is huge, mostly bald, rather bulbous and oval and he has a large, purple koala-like nose and wide mouth with hippo-like teeth. His relatively small, floppy ears with pink insides seem to be on the sides of his neck. He has four eyes, two large inner eyes and two small outer eyes, all four of which have pale yellow sclerae. He seems to have three short hairs on the top of his head, and he has large, hippo-like teeth, a round stomach, thick limbs and four-fingered hands. His feet apparently lack toes. Jumba wears a yellow (sometimes light blue) Hawaiian shirt, blue shorts with white linings, and gray boots with light gray soles. When in his lab, Dr. Jumba wears a lab coat (which barely fits his fat body) beneath it. Because Dr. Jumba was imprisoned in Lilo & Stitch, he wears a prison jumpsuit covered in horizontal dark and light blue stripes.

Note

Jumba wishes to see his experiments' success and be recognized by others as the evil genius he believes himself to be. He is otherwise angered when called a failure, and would rather tinker with objects around him than become physically active, hence the large exterior. Even though he claims to be evil, Jumba's actions during Lilo & Stitch contradict this. Jumba is, in fact, very sociable and friendly to nearly everyone on the island. He isn't truly evil at all, but appears to be a good guy who enjoys evil.

Abilities

Jumba also has above average strength and durability, as seen in his confrontation with Stitch towards the end of Lilo & Stitch, where he is able to fight Stitch one-on-one reasonably well (a feat even the 20-foot-tall Captain Gantu is unable to do). Jumba's above average lifting capacity is demonstrated when he uses a comb device as a penetrating projectile. His astounding durability is demonstrated when he is repeatedly hit with various heavy objects thrown by 626 (including a Volkswagen Beetle), and at one point hurled through a wall, and only comes up a little shaken. Also, he, along with 626, survives being at the center of a plasma explosion powerful enough to destroy Lilo's house. Jumba's greatest asset is his abnormally high IQ, hindered only by a few small and occasional lapses in memory. He has also stated that his intelligence is "greater than some galaxies." His penchant for creating numerous destructive, complex genetic experiments and machinery is nearly unrivaled, and his creation 626 is proof of his genius, being nearly unbeatable, as well as one of the most formidable fighters in the galaxy. He has also completely memorized the number and technical info on every one of his creations.

Note

Three years after Jumba's experiments were scattered across Kauai, Hawaii, Lilo and Stitch had rounded up and reformed 624 experiments. Jumba was given the opportunity to return to his old laboratory by the Grand Councilwoman. At first, he didn't want to hurt Lilo's feelings by leaving, but she agreed to let him go, giving him an Elvis record to remember her by. However, Hämsterviel escaped prison with the help of the former Captain Gantu, who had been retired from his position forcibly by the Grand Councilwoman three years prior to these events, and held Jumba hostage in his own lab, forcing him to create a new experiment, which ends up being named Leroy. However, Jumba used the record Lilo gave him to program a shut-off switch for Leroy: if he hears the song "Aloha ʻOe", he will glitch and switch off (but won't die like Stitch would have as shown at the end of Stitch Has a Glitch). When asked what he'd like as a reward, he decides to give up his laboratory and return to Earth to become part of Lilo's family once again.

Note

Jumba's sense of technology is also a hobby; he has made modifications to the house, such as a vacuum-tube elevator in the hallway leading to Lilo and Stitch's room, added when the house was rebuilt at the end of Lilo & Stitch. In one episode, he completely updated the house, only to have his technology turn against him, thanks to Experiment 223 (Glitch), who was captured in Lilo's handheld game. He has also made many modifications to Lilo and Stitch's dune buggy to perfect it for catching his other experiments which landed on Earth not long after Jumba's arrival. He has also had a mean ex-wife, whom he is terrified of. In one episode, he mentions that a particular fish, which resembles a lamprey eel, reminds him of her "before face-lift".

Accent

Jumba has a Russian accent.