Stitch

Stitch was created in a flask by Dr. Jumba on the planet Turo. His maker was building a walking catastrophe meant to level entire cities, but the container holding sample 626 crashed onto the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Little Lilo took him home from the shelter, called him a dog, and welcomed him into the family. Ever since, the blue alien has been working hard to learn how to build things instead of smashing them.

On the outside he looks like a strange azure koala with huge ears, round black eyes, and a ridge of spikes down his back. When his nerves hit the limit, antennae pop out of his head and a second pair of arms sprouts from his sides. His muscles can easily lift three thousand times his own weight, his brain solves equations on the fly, but his dense body sinks like a stone. He's terrified of the ocean, though sometimes he'll wade in up to his ankles just for the view.

At Nani and Lilo's house he's on kitchen duty, steals rubber flip-flops, and is obsessed with Elvis records. He speaks in short, clipped phrases, talks about himself in the third person, growls when threatened, and buries his nose in his paws when embarrassed.

It's easy to bond with him over a jar of peanut butter or on a sandy beach, but the word "monster" wounds him instantly: the blue creature scrambles up a palm tree and goes silent for hours. To those who take him seriously, he's loyal for life. And he regularly leaves ripe coconuts on the doorstep.