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Experiment 221, better known as Sparky, is a minor character in the Lilo & Stitch franchise.
He is an illegal genetic experiment created by Dr. Jumba Jookiba and is the first experiment to be activated and rehabilitated. He first appeared in Stitch! The Movie. Sparky is designed to create crippling power outages. His one true place is powering the Kilauea Lighthouse, which had been abandoned for years due to its high electricity demands.
Like his cousin Stitch, Sparky is highly mischievous, hyperactive, and fun-loving. He also shares Stitch's habit of picking his nose with his tongue. Sparky was once a bad experiment, as he was programmed by the alien mad scientist, Jumba Jookiba. His original purpose was to cause massive electrical surges that would disorient those caught in them, but he changed after being captured and rehabilitated shortly after his activation.
After his reformation, Sparky became a different kind of genetic experiment. Overall, he is very friendly, though he is quite cautious in new places. He still possesses a mischievous side, and despite turning good, he sometimes cannot help but tamper with electronics and machines.
Sparky holds his ʻohana— a word that another experiment (Stitch) and a little girl (Lilo) taught him— very dear. He will help his family and friends whenever they need assistance, and though he might occasionally argue with them, he is not one to ignore a cry for help.
Appearance[]
Sparky resembles a bi-pedal mutated cross between a koala, sloth, Chinese dragon, and gecko. He has light yellow fur with a pale yellow chin, belly, and mouth. He has a small body, small, short, hollow, round but triangular ears on the sides of a large, narrow, oval-shaped head, and big dark blue eyes. He has a round, brown nose, a large wide mouth, and two long forked antennae that protrude from the sides of his muzzle. His arms are skinny with a brown pad-mark in the center of each paw. His legs are stubby, and he has a long, bent, slightly twisted tail in a Z-shape with a pointed brown tip. He has a set of large flat jagged teeth, and the inside of his mouth is blue with a turquoise tongue.
When he turns himself into an electrical current, the lower half of his body becomes a streak of electricity, making him somewhat resemble an Asian dragon.
In his mutated form, he has a stronger electrical dragon-like appearance and closely resembles a dragon when flying as well, with a scratchy alien voice.
Biography[]
Background[]
Experiment 221 was the 221st genetic experiment created by Jumba with Hämsterviel's funding. He was designed to use his electrical abilities to create crippling electric power surges. 221 and the other first 624 experiments were deactivated and smuggled to Earth by Jumba during his mission to capture Experiment 626.
Stitch! The Movie[]
Lilo and Stitch activated 221's pod in the bathtub, using the faucet as a water source for him to recharge Jumba's ship so they could return to space and rescue Jumba, who had been kidnapped by Gantu. However, 221 had other plans, and after destroying the house's power supply, he escaped onto the island.
221 managed to evade capture while short-circuiting parts of Kokaua Town until he attacked the Birds of Paradise Hotel, where Lilo and Stitch managed to catch him by trapping him in a glass vase. Lilo and Stitch took 221 back to their home, where they discovered through their interaction that they had much in common and were truly ʻohana. Thus, Stitch refused to allow 221, later named Sparky, to be handed over to Hämsterviel as part of a ransom.
When Lilo, Stitch, and Sparky arrived at the ransom exchange location, Stitch saved Jumba while Lilo released Sparky to prevent his recapture by Hämsterviel. However, when Sparky saw the Grand Councilwoman preparing to destroy the remaining experiments along with Hämsterviel, he overloaded her ship's power grid, saving the experiments and unintentionally allowing Hämsterviel to escape with them. Realizing this, Sparky, along with Lilo and Stitch, stowed away on Gantu's departing ship.
Later aboard Hämsterviel's mothership, when Sparky discovered Stitch about to undergo a cloning process in which he would be vivisected by a laser, he freed his cousin by overloading the machine, and the two took revenge on Hämsterviel. When Lilo and Stitch later trapped Gantu and Experiment 625 aboard Gantu's ship, Sparky disabled the ship's navigation and ejected it from Hämsterviel's mothership. The three then used the mothership to return to Earth with Hämsterviel in tow.
Afterward, Lilo and Stitch found Sparky's true place powering the abandoned Kilauea Lighthouse, where he could make the giant beacon light work again, and since it was large enough, he would not short it out when he touched it.
Lilo & Stitch: The Series[]
After the film, Sparky became a supporting character in the series. Lilo and Stitch often visited him along with other experiments for various issues.
Sparky reappeared in "Elastico" as one of the audience members for Lilo's hula dance.
In "The Asteroid," Sparky was one of the six experiments that Stitch convinced to accompany him and Lilo to save Earth from an approaching asteroid. Sparky used his electric powers to jump-start the ship and, during the journey, teased Hammerface and shocked Pleakley when the latter touched him.
In "Angel," Sparky was one of the experiments that Angel reverted to evil using her song. Later, Sparky and the other corrupted experiments attacked Stitch aboard a ship, but Angel turned them back to good before they could finish Stitch off. Working together, the experiments successfully escaped the ship with Stitch.
In "Skip," Sparky was one of the wanted fugitives already captured in an alternate future where Hämsterviel ruled Earth.
Sparky was one of the experiments in "Checkers" that joined Stitch in a rebellion against Gantu. He even used his electrical powers on Reuben when the latter lazed about instead of rowing the boat they were on.
In "Ploot," Lilo tried to convince Sparky to help her defeat Ploot, but he was unable to because an off-screen spectator complained about them tampering with the lighthouse.
In "Remmy," Sparky was one of the experiments in Lilo's dream.
In "Snafu," Sparky was one of the experiments that joined Lilo and Stitch on a mission to rescue Gantu's captive experiments (in reality, Lilo lured Sparky away from the lighthouse with a trail of batteries, which he ate). Sparky helped break into the ship, and after the rescue team successfully freed the captive experiments, he was seen playing with them in Lilo's obstacle course.
Leroy & Stitch[]
In the film's opening, Sparky can be seen waving hello to Lilo from the lighthouse. Later, the first 624 experiments, including Sparky, were rounded up by Leroy and taken to a stadium to be destroyed. However, Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, Pleakley, Reuben, and Gantu arrived before the experiments could be destroyed.
Sparky participated in the battle between the experiments and the Leroy clones by attacking the Leroys with electric shocks. However, the Leroys soon gained the upper hand in the battle but were defeated when Lilo, Stitch, Reuben, and several other experiments performed the song "Aloha ʻOe," which caused the Leroy army to shut down due to the original Leroy's fail-safe.
Stitch![]
Sparky has appeared multiple times in the Stitch! anime. He premiered in "An Electrifying Experience," where he is kidnapped by Hämsterviel and placed under mind control in an attempt to steal Stitch's Good Deed Counter. Sparky is sent to Izayoi Island, where he causes chaos, prompting Stitch and Yuna to search the town for him. They hear stories of a yellow ghost roaming about and finally catch up to him. Stitch was very excited to see his "cousin," but this changed after Sparky shocked Stitch and ran off.
Later, Jumba notices the head cap on Sparky's head, recognizing it as a mind-controlling device. Suddenly, Gantu and Sparky arrive at Yuna's house, but after a confrontation with Yuna's grandmother, Sparky runs away. In the woods, Sparky takes Stitch's Good Deed Counter, but lightning (courtesy of the Spiritual Stone) causes Sparky's head cap to come apart, freeing him from mind control. Sparky and Stitch reconcile and reunite. Sparky would later make other cameo appearances and have a recurring role as one of Stitch's closest friends.
In the two-part Season 1 finale "Stitch vs. Hämsterviel," Hämsterviel puts Sparky along with Felix and Angel under his control. He later appeared in the special Stitch and the Planet of Sand.
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep[]
Sparky, known by his original name, Experiment 221, appears in the prequel game to the Kingdom Hearts series in Deep Space, Stitch's homeworld in this incarnation. During this time, Sparky was still in his pod form under Jumba's watch, while the rest of the experiments were presumably also in pod form. However, Jumba took Sparky's pod with him when he was arrested and brought it onto the Galactic Federation's ship when Experiment 626 (Stitch) was discovered and captured. After feeling insulted by Terra when the latter believes there is good within 626, Jumba decides to demonstrate the evilness within his experiments by activating Experiment 221's pod, causing Experiment 221 to emerge and attack Terra. When Terra defeats Experiment 221, it reverts to its pod form, though Jumba then tries to console it by saying everything will be all right.
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Trivia[]
Sparky and Zap are the only known experiments whose primary functions are directly related to electricity, and both of their names also reference electricity.
Sparky is one of the few experiments that do not have black eyes, as most experiments do, instead having dark blue eyes.
Sparky is the first experiment to transition from bad to good in Stitch! The Movie, which serves as the pilot for Lilo & Stitch: The Series that premiered shortly afterward.
As of now, Sparky is the first (and so far only) Disney character from Disney Television Animation to appear in the Kingdom Hearts series.
Additionally, Sparky is the only experiment, besides Stitch and Angel, to achieve significant popularity, such as being featured as a costumed character at the Disney Parks.
Video games Disney's Stitch: Experiment 626 (2002): Dr. Habbitrale | Chopsuey Disney's Lilo & Stitch (GBA; 2002): Dr. Pestus Disney Infinity 2.0 Edition (Wii U, PC, Xbox One, PS4, PS3; 2014): Collection Robots
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